In the war movie "Enemy at the Gates" about dueling Snipers in Stalingrad, the fate of the world comes down to two men. In the real world, the fate of the WHOLE FREAKING WORLD comes down to two senatorial elections.
Now is not the time to sit on your ass.
In the latest line of abuses against REAL artists, musicians and writers; Disney, the most VORACIOUS copyright baron of them all is screwing over a popular writer for royalties JUST because it can. It's gross and its high time to strip these giant zaibatsus of their copyright holdings since they have CLEARLY proven they cannot be responsible citizens.
Join Harry Potter and Kreacher as they confront She Who Must Not Be Named, the true threat to the characters of the Wizarding World. What will happen to Harry, and will you help him?
After a successful struggle, the very international institutions we built to stabilize the world (and exploit it) will make it harder for a legitimate government to create a new constitution to meet the needs of the people since currently we recognize non democratic actors like Russia and China as 'stabilizers' as well as the habit of the 'peace industry' to give all factions including the American Taliban a seat at the table.
Organizing in the United States of America after a coup is no easy task. Knowing which organization to trust is a matter of understanding who is leading the movement and what their plan is, and whether or not you want to risk association with them.
After a coup happens in the United States, the desire of every ethical and courageous person to resist. But how much do you resist? What lines will you cross? What price will you pay? What price are you willing to risk others paying for your efforts?
You need to know ALL of these things.
It's real folks. "Stand By" is as much of a signal as you would ever need to take the threat to our freedom seriously. But are you PREPARED for what might be coming? And even if it isn't in the next few months, the desire to take our freedom is a threat in the 2022 and 2024 cycles at least.
This is the first of four sessions on preparing yourself for a coup.
-Survival
-Resistance
-Organization
-Rebuilding
The end of Part 1 of the series. I wrap up my conclusions on the toxic culture of Silicon Valley and some of the steps we need to take to avoid science fiction cultures that restrict technology and put it in the hands of a few.
The Dark Lords of Silicon Valley effectively control speech if you are not a millionare and they dont do it with Neutrality. They may not be monopolies, but they are, collectively, effectively monopolies and we should not allow them to decide how our content viewing is prioritized. Its one thing to put ads in, its another to say 'a private platform' controls what see and hear.
Recollections from Caspar, Wyoming including kids getting lost near Dead Horse, Cowboy Ed, The Loss of Moonboots, Hodgie the Piece of Crap Abuser and the Very Very Very Interesting Family Reunion Why I Smashed My Face To Bits
The root of Silicon Valley Culture stems from Wall Street Culture, which is ultimately the root of all evil. I agree, that 'lack of money' often causes evil, but more so 'lack of accountability' makes evil and Wall Street has learned that it has no master but itself except in the most dire of circumstances or random arbitrary examples. Silicon Valley Tech Chuud culture can't be fixed until you take the $$$$$ out of the equation or at least mute it.
Nothing else we do to stop Trump matters if we can't vote, and if we don't fund the USPS, we will NOT be able to vote.
Is there anything a Silicon Valley wouldnt try to sell for a buck? Nothing is off the table for them; whether its our jobs, our culture, our friendships or families. For all the good done with their magical boxes, they dont ever compensate for the damage they do except with a few token donations or solophistic platitudes.
Facebook and Twitter know EXACTLY what they are doing when they let the russian bots run rampant on their toxic networks. It needs to be stopped.
Why are we going to let a guy who says a virus doesnt exist so he can risk lives to sell more electric cars be in charge of a colony a hundred million miles away? What is wrong with a system that allows such a sociopath such unchecked power?
Even a virtue assigned to the tech world has all kinds of holes in it. While an individual might have protection inside of the companies that actually bother to care about it. When a secure company shares their data with an insecure company (facebook) or government (China) then it doesn't matter how secure they are INTERNALLY, they are absolutely insecure out of their narrow walled garden.
At what point does a party's brand become so toxic that you are evil simply being involved with them any more?
The Republican Party crossed that line a LONG time ago and its time to stop celebrating "the good republicans"
More time in Houston in the mid seventies. Driving, digestion problems, a 4th pregnancy, a city in transition and fun with Anesthesia.
Digital Immortality is a question of When, not If. Do we really want the Dark Lords of the Valley having watch over our future Digital souls?
Houston is an interesting place and it is even more interesting when your house is near a swamp. The perils of nature and nuture revealed.
Digilital Intelligence (ie AI) is going to happen. But if it must happen why are we allowing the Dark Lords of Silicon Valley to be the ones to make it so?
The problem isn't technology, it's culture and the people who control it. This is an introduction to my newest series exposing the dangers these bad gatekeepers and those who own and fund them pose to society and our future.
Robot 1 Reads Paradise Lost with key words replaced by the sound of a space goat.
EP Blingermeyer puts on a benefit for Earth. Short 5 minute podcast of questionable taste.
Your filthy animal torture market causes you shame from a world outbreak? Golly. Lesson Learned? Nope. Just take over the World Health Organization and shut their mouth so another virus breaks out.
If I went on national television and told people to kill someone else I would be arrested. If I said that someone was an alien, even if I believed it, and that person was killed, I would still be killed. Murder or manslaughter; I am responsible for the persons death no matter my intent.
We have now moved past whether or not Fox news is "Press" and beyond "Free Speech" or concerns about becoming a banana republic. Fox is a threat to the public good and must be shut down. Here is my case as to why.
Robot 1 and Robot 2 are back with the latest news from Earth AND Terra about what happens when bored humans write really bad erotic fan fic.
Recent news has forced me to break from my comedic break to share my thoughts on those who are, quite literally, allies to Viruses and helping to spread them and the only appropriate response thereof.
Desperate Times Call for Desperate Measures and EP Blingermeyer is now selling an episode to the Reformed Church of Lord Potato. Thankfully, 35 minutes of this hour will only be broadcast in Terra but here are 25 minutes of your life you will never get back.
Run.
You have been warned.
The REAL TGAW Podcast, not that political drivel TC dishes out but Robot 1 and Robot 2 with hard hitting commentary on FOUR worlds. Did they uncover the real source of the Corona Virus outbreak?
It isnt enough to fight to fix the world one time; you have to make it better in ways that last and that means creating institutions to meet the needs of people. We not only need to do this but the demand is so large that we need to actually study this, teach it and distribute the knowledge of how to do so at a high school level.
Fake News isnt just some abstract problem that makes elections harder. Honor and Truth are the things that let us live and get through every day.
If it isn't being enforced, it shouldn't be a law. We need special prosecutors outside the regular chain of command in the justice department for laws people dont enforce OR we need to get rid of the laws that even orphan courts dont want to make happen.
There will always be Milo Mindbenders in the world. Wealth Taxes and Income Taxes solve some of the problem but they find ways around it. The only long term sustainable solution (besides changing the fundamental nature of humanity) is making sure that Milo works for US rather than just himself to get what he wants.
State governments bully local governments and it is high time the Federal Government sided with them against regressive policies meant to enslave the majority of the country to lies.
Want total cultural collapse? Because this is how you get total system collapse.
One psychopath hidden as a leader in your organization is bad. A HEIRARCHY of them as they protect and recruit their own causes your institution to fail.
How do you stop it?
Out them.
This is a review of "Anchor" by Scott Gurney, "High Midnight" by Rob Mosca, "The Shadow Path" by William Maxwell and a plug for "The Bed Springs Guy" at the end bumper by Gary C McAuley.
There is no graphic for this podcast BECAUSE LIBSYN CHANGED THEIR REQUIREMENTS WITH NO NOTICE WHATSOEVER. As a result, I will be finding a new podcast hoster and CANNOT post a graphic. Thanks Libsyn.
My friend Jay Weilin has recently begun working on his "Green Winter" project about a futuristic version of his Sentinel Chronicle's universe branded as 'Game of Thrones meets Firefly' which is a lot to live up to by the sound of it but we're off to a kick ass start.
The most popular tweet I ever made went "Centrists, Civility Democrats and Semantics Democrats were responsible for Hitler's Rise to Power" and the hackneyed and hysterical responses I got to that taught me a lot about how our dialog is controlled and how we can take it back. This podcast focuses on the tools of legitimacy and engagement as tools to shift back the Overton Window.
