Neither a borrower nor a lender be...

Today's news headlines show that the creeping deflation is being seen by the marginal players - the small conservative towns - first and eventually worst.  Eventually it will hit everywhere and many of the smallest towns without critical skills mass will consolidate or just dry up and blow away.  There will be no easy fix for the reversal of decades of easy credit.  Smart people will see this and will work to avoid the impacts by eschewing credit in their lives.  It used to be that your credit score was everything and in many cases it still is.  But this is changing and people are going to let go of the credit crutch going forward.  They will increasingly learn to live without credit.  In some case the credit will be offered but people like me will say "no thank you, I prefer not to voluntarily enter your bondage".  In most cases, however, people won't be able to afford the debt service or they won't be offered the smaller and smaller pot of credit that remains.

I know it sounds crazy to say, but you can see the clear signs nipping around the edges and if you monitor the marginal players you can see that credit driven things like land prices are slipping.  Soon it will be corporate shares that hit a brick wall and then home prices.  The revenge of the conservative saver is coming and his rise will be met with a fall from grace of the liberal debtor.

Expect to be hearing a lot more credible alien/UFO stuff going forward.

When a government has the confidence of its people it has power.  That power invariably corrupts in all ways and eventually absolutely.  A government that has the confidence of its people keeps secrets because it is allowed by the people to do so.  The US government has a lot of secrets.   Some of them we will probably never know.  But many of them that were once closely held will be revealed.  I'm on record saying that this will include the truth (or most of it) behind 911 but I also believe that this will include many other secrets.

WHY??  Why do I think this will happen?  And why now?  What's so special about now that was not true 10, 20, 40 or even 50 years ago?  Why do I think "it will be different this time"?  Well, it's all related to peak liberalism and the new swing toward conservatism.  Control freak-ism is a liberal trait.  The entire concept of nanny state is a liberal construct which includes the holding back of information for use by the elite few "for the good of people that can't handle the truth" and in the name of "national security".  What they really mean is for their personal security and wealth acquisition.  Conservatives don't really care if you can handle the truth or not but they believe most people are sentient beings who deserve what information is available so that they can choose their own destiny.  Manipulation of others is a liberal trait that both dem and RINO GOP have practiced big time for many decades now.

But with the recent arrival of peak liberalism things are changing.  People who harmed and intimidated and abused others 5, 10, 20+ years ago are now being wrecked in real time.  The conservative wrecking ball has been absolutely awesome and entertaining to watch.  And I am not alone in understanding its meaning.  The elite now realize that the sheeple are waking up from their cyclic slumber and that they are looking a lot more like a herd of angry water buffalo or mighty bison who are to be feared than hapless sheep who can be easily sheared.

Factions within big government is now in an all out public battle to gain the confidence of the people.  It is literally a political running gun battle the likes of which have not been seen in well over 60 years.  Why now?  Because as I have said all along, the elite were never really in charge even though it seemed like they were and they themselves had even come to believe it.  The truth is that as long as people were docile and sleepy and did not protect themselves, the elite would be as lions, working as a pack, picking off the herd one by one as needed in order to stay well fed and in the appearance of control.  But, like the battle at Kruger video which I have referenced many times in these pages over the past several years, sometimes the herd just decides to wake up and assert itself as the real authority of humanity and when it does, the elite are forced to abandon many of their corrupt ways.  In fact, the smart ones pull back and begin to side with the people calling for more transparency, more truth, etc.  

They are not doing this for our good but rather for their own.  It is a tactical retreat that must be done lest they try to hold their ground and take the very big risk that they will be trampled to dust. It  is part of the tactical fall back plan to release information.  The most marginal (i.e. least useful, least insightful to the big picture) is always released first.  Those who release hope it will help the herd trust and follow them.  In other words, it is done to build confidence in a collapsing con game.

And there should be no doubt that the con is in serious trouble right now.  The big stinky political battles are historically fought behind closed doors but Trump's actually tweaking his every thought, his every insult in real time.  Again, the showman knows that he needs to gain the confidence of the people and while this level of transparency shows what a whiffle-waffle moron Trump actually is, at least it comes off as real and genuine and not as a control mechanism.  That is the intended effect and its clear that despite all of the turbulence we are seeing in the adminisphere, Trump is slowly winning.

It is under these circumstances that we are now getting credible UFO evidence from the US government that is recent and which is backed up by that all-important communications tool, video.  This video and the story behind it happened back in 2004.  If government was going to release it ever, why did it not happen back in 2004?  Why did it happen just recently?  Well, I just explained why.  Back in 2004 things were under control and the herd was not pissed at government.  But today the herd is widely discontent.  Something was needed to capture the attention.  Something was needed to show that government is trying to be more transparent.  And in fact you can bet that some within government are ranting up and down negatively about this release.  Not because the release is harming the public but rather because it was their secret, their little claim on power.

The NY Times also needs to capture the interest of the public and to gain credibility.  If you read the story above you will see how they grandstand about how the public was very interested in their Sunday front page cover UFO story and how it took them a long time to vet the story blah blah blah.  None of this background is news, so thinking people have to wonder why the NY Times thinks that this part of it is worth reporting.  My view is that they want credit and credibility for the deed of actually telling the truth about anything given that it has become so common for news media to simply report propaganda instead of news.  They are now in confidence rebuilding mode and the positive feedback they got for telling the truth will feed on itself and lead to more truth telling until we finally see the engine of investigative reporting, which has been in cold storage for decades, again fire to life.

Not because they want to, but simply because there is no other choice except to fade in relevance until they go bankrupt from lack of subscribers.  That statement is true for news, for politicians, for the entire military industrial complex.  It's not obvious to most people today but it will be in just 3-5 years.  Its on rails now and coming at us like a freight train.

Even more evidence about the coming demise of ad based revenue model.

Mish discusses Google's coming intention to kill autoplay ads and other crapware in Google Chrome. As Mish indicated, Autoplay ads are just pure crap.  Nobody wants a fucking video or audio track to pop up just for going to a web page.  Not only could it be embarrassing if, for example, you are surfing the web while attending a business Skype call but it also makes the page take way longer to load while opening you up to ad borne viruses.

Once this is widespread in Chrome it will have to be put into Firefox, Edge and MSIE as well or those competitors will risk share loss. This is kind of a big deal IMO.  It is the industry self regulating what happens on their products instead of the free for all that open standards enabled.  It is basically a shot across the bow of the ad providers telling them that they have gone too far and need to rein it in. 

This is the beginning of the end IMO.  WHY??  Why will toned down ads not work?  Well, look at the facts.  We had toned down ads for a long time but people became adept at ignoring them.  This reduced the value of the money spent on ads by advertisers.  It is in response to these user behaviors that we saw ads go from just plain text in a side bar to the use of pop ups that could be X'd to close to animated graphics in a side bar that you could not close and finally to pop up videos with sound that begin as soon as the page is opened.   There is clearly an escalation here.  Each time the ads upped the game, the users worked around it, sometimes with help from plugins, etc.  But now Google is making it a built in feature and so I expect it to not only "just work" but to work very effectively.  As a result, the effectiveness of ad dollars is going to tank and when the advertizers see this they are going to reduce their spend.

It becomes a self reinforcing negative spiral.

More evidence that the ad based revenue model is ending

Many websites are now implementing ad block checkers which either stop you from accessing the content or beg pitifully for you to unblock the ads:



These sites are trying to convince people to waste their time and risk computer infection by allowing ads to play through.  Ads slow down the pages loads and just pretty much ruin the experience.  That is why I have never had them on my site and that is why I refuse to put up with them on other sites.  I am certainly not alone in being very tired of ad-supported content.  And I will also say that currently there are 30 different options for reading a particular story.  No news site has an exclusive on news.  So if someone blocks me I just go elsewhere. 

None of this is new but what is new is that with the detection of ad blockers we can expect that those trying to distribute their news will now know for sure just how useless ads have become and those who pay for these ads will also figure it out.  So these messages we are seeing are not just for our benefit because along with them comes statistical data collection.  And when they run the numbers they are going to figure out that blocking people today because they won't pay a fee for parroted / non value added news and also that people will not turn off their ad blockers for any reason at all.  When all of this is understood, changes will occur.  Why?  Because someone is going to figure out how to actually make money in news again while most of the useless current fake news providers go by the wayside.  That is my thesis.

Until those who want to make a living at providing news begin to add value other than parroting the same content, nobody is going to unblock their ads and nobody is going to pay them. This is why I predict the rebirth of investigative reporting.  Companies will invest in digging up real news that people actually care about. When that happens I will be glad to pay a reasonable monthly fee for it, perhaps up to $15 per month.  It certainly should not cost more than it used to cost to take the newspaper daily and in fact should be much cheaper since electronic distribution of information is inherently cheaper than physical distribution.

Suddenly it seems WaPo is moving toward the center on gun control reporting

During the rise and peak of global liberalism, news media outlets turned into nothing more than propaganda outlets designed to keep their readers going down a certain way.  But even the biggest liberal fool, be they dem or GOP, will only stay hypnotized so long.  It's like the Thai crocodile handlers who know what the crocs usually do and then leverage it into a control mechanism so that the handler can make money from tourists.  It seems to work over and over again and just about the time that the handler thinks they actually control the wild beast, this happens.  It doesn't happen often but it does happen with significant regularity such that you would think that crocodile handlers would choose other work but the pay is good while the play is good and so off they go.   Just like liberals.  Off they go taking advantage of the situation until the arm gets snapped in half and then they run for cover.

We are now clearly in the run for cover phase of the game.  Peak liberalism has piled up a huge number of skeletons and the herd is all of a sudden not quite so stupid as it once appeared to the elite.  In fact, all it now takes is just one no-name nobody from the herd with some vocalized grievance (whether it is true or not) to stand up and say "me too" and the rest of the herd pounces on the accused without any hesitation.

The liberal elite see this and those with any brains, be they dem or GOP hypsters, figure out that this is not the time to be a lying piece of shit.  So they start to repair their game and begin to act more conservatively.  Keep in mind that conservative behavior has NOTHING to do with whether you are registered dem or GOP politically.  It is part of the big lie that these political lines have anything to do whatsoever with the concepts of liberal behavior vs conservative behavior.  As I have explained in the past, everyone has liberal and conservative traits regardless of their political leanings.  Being loose with the truth is clearly a liberal trait.  Sticking to the truth and only the truth is clearly a conservative trait.  With the number of lying a-holes in government, Trump included, you can see how I do not call our current big government spend fest a conservative thing.

Today's evidence point that conservatism is being required by more and more of the herd is found in this story about liberal propaganda rag Washington Post.   It it, the NRA states that WaPo's track record for telling the truth about gun control is very poor.  However, it also clearly states that for about 1 year now WaPo has been doing a much better job of telling the truth on this political hot button.  In summary, the NRA concluded that, "Pelosi’s dishonest tweet [about the concealed carry reciprocity bill] earned her a well-deserved three out of four Pinocchios from the Post.".  So the NRA essentially said that they thought that WaPo's coverage of the matter was fair and balanced.

And so we will continue to see things happen.   And not because WaPo is any less corrupt today than it was a year ago!  NO NO NO!  The corruption simply has to be placed on the back burner until the next cycle because the WaPo (and other liberal establishment icons) trust bank is very low on equity and the truth must actually be told for a while in order to regain confidence of its readers.  Without this obvious shift in policy, WaPo would find itself bleeding readership on its way to insolvency very quickly.  WaPo has essentially been forced by its awakening readership to do the right thing, just like I predicted would be the case several years ago.  This is not going to be a short term thing.  It will become self reinforcing over the coming years, just like the slide into all out liberalism over the past 50+ years was a self reinforcing move within the human herd.

Sexual harrassment witch hunts.

It is absolutely comical the way that liberals in both the GOP and DEM parties as well as liberal factions of society like Hollywood have come crashing to Earth in the wake of a massive wave of sheeple coming forward with their sexual harassment claims of 5, 10, 20 or more years ago.   In some cases the accusers were real victims.  In other cases they were just people who decided to whore themselves out at the time in order to achieve their life goals and now live in remorse about it.  I recently read an article where the woman said the guy "used his power" to get what he wanted.  By that of course she simply meant that he gave her terms: "Whore yourself out to me and I will help you get ahead.  But if you don't then I won't help you.  You will be on your own.".  That lack of special treatment in absence of sexual payment is what they are calling harassment these days.  In most cases I read about, the accused did not go after the accuser in a negative way; instead they just withheld special treatment.  There are exceptions as in this story where the woman was accused of firing the guy in a past job for his failure to sleep with her  but most of the time there is no negative backlash for not complying; there is simply no positive benefit which could have been exchanged for the favor of sex.




Again, I have no sorrow for people who, when presented with the option to disgrace themselves in order to further their careers, take said option and then decide to complain later because the eventual rewards did not crack up to expectations.  While I was working for AMD I was a stand out fighter of the good old boy system.  I was told that I needed to go along to get along.  The exact words used on me by my useless crony boy manager when trying to get me to side with the useless political crowd were, "there be dragons out there" (I still feel like punching his lights out when I recall that meeting...).  I knew he was right but cronyism is just not in my DNA.  I could simply not whore myself out like that and so during the big collapse of 2008 they got rid of me and my whole team calling me "too strategic".  That was just a few months after having gotten the prestigious AMD President's Award for the work I was doing.  




So yeah, I got fucked for sticking to my principles but at least I didn't have to lower my standards and live life like the greasy, shitty politicians which thrive in many large corporate environments.  It was definitely a financial hit though.


Quoting the article linked above, "Meredith Kelly, the communications director of the D.C.C.C., said in an emailed statement: “Members and candidates must all be held to the highest standard. If anyone is guilty of sexual harassment or sexual assault, that person should not hold public office.”"  You know, I have to agree with her.  And I think it should hold true for both GOP and dem.   So I hereby claim that by being completely corrupt and thus fucking the American people, all current politicians should be required to step down from their positions and give up their lifetime pensions paid for by the victims, namely, we the people.

Jail time over shark dragging is shark jumping.

In the news recently is the prospect of jail time for some yay-hoos who caught a shark and then dragged it to death behind their boat.  The social media calls it animal abuse, shocking, disturbing, EIEIO M-O-U-S-E.  Here is the vid.  It clearly shows some guys laughing at the shark being bounced around behind the boat.  For this grand offense against the planet, they are being investigated for criminal charges that could land them in jail.

First let me say that male children often have a sadistic streak that can pop out every now and again.  Some do mean things to their pets, some take it too far and cause harm to the animals.  But most of the time the abuse is something mean but essentially without physical harm like throwing ice water on a dog or tying a fire cracker on a string to his tail.  I don't advocate any of this kind of childish crap but this is not something that you can legislate out of a population.  These young men were acting like children, no doubt.  But jailing them is going to do far greater harm than good.  Liberals always want to make an example out of someone else while they themselves are secretly doing worse things.

We live in a society where men and women with briefcases and titles happily work in government where they send drones to kill entire wedding or funeral parties in order to kill one guy (whose crime might simply be that he knows too much about the rife internal corruption of our government).  Where is the outcry over the slaughter of these humans?  Liberals don't seem to care.  But when some fools drag a stupid shark along the water for some stupid idea of excitement, all the liberals are up in arms and wanting "social justice".  For a fucking shark!

I personally have done a lot of fishing.  I want to admit my crimes that I have indeed killed, and, gulp, eaten fish many many times.  When I had them on the hook I also admit that I sometimes high fived with my friends for having made the catch.  Those fish I caught must have felt some pain.  And of course, all of them ended up dead!  What a rotten criminal I must be for having done this!!  I will also admit that more than once while fishing for game fish my line has been taken by fish that I do not eat, like barracuda.  While I try to live-release them I will admit that sometimes the fight will kill a high performance fish like a barracuda.  And while I have not been known to waste gasoline dragging the dead fish behind my boat, neither do I feel much of any remorse for the death of the fish.  Probably because its just a fish!  I guess the fact that I don't break down to my knees and sob for the forgiveness of Mother Gaia that makes me a monster and criminal charges should apply according to fake do-gooder liberals.

In this short vid we see some tuna fishermen dragging a massive bluefin tuna beside their boat.  The once majestic tuna is either dead (with a gaff through the head or a flying gaff through the body) or rapidly dying.  In my book 100 sharks are not worth that one beautiful massive tuna.  But you can clearly hear the glee and laughter from those participating in this epic crime. Why aren't these guys going to jail for this shocking, despicable, horrendous act?  Is the fact that they killed it to sell its meat and keep parts of its body as a trophy somehow a defense?  They are dragging this tuna!!  This tuna is for sure dying!  They are laughing!  How is this combination of death, destruction, torture and disrespect for the animal all that different from the dragged shark?

In other words, if you found yourself brainwashed by the media trying to vilify the shark draggers then you need to wake the Fuck up and start living in the real world.  The sooner the better.

By the way, anything you post online can and will be used against you by a system which wants desperately to distract an awakening public from all the dirty shit that has been going on in liberal Hollywood, liberal government, liberal business and liberal military adventurists for the past 50 years.  Try not to be a tool of the manipulators without being afraid to tell the truth.

Trump un-invites LBGTQ

It should come as no surprise to my readers that the new conservatism is taking real form in the Trump administration.  Not that Trump is conservative, he's not.  But he is a showman and he does know how to play for the crowd.  So if his peeps don't care about LBGTQEIEIOMOUSE then neither does he have to.  And so he has uninvited them from his Christmas party which will, incidentally, not feature creep rainbow lights across the white house.


These things seems small and individually they are small.  But over time they add up.  It's like having a favorite son who you praise and follow and attend his sporting events and give him the better presents on birthdays, etc.  They all seem petty small things but then you find out at the end that he has become the sole inheritor of the big will.  It's the same with government favoritism.  Not long ago the IRS got busted for stacking the deck against conservatives.  Sometime in the future we are going to see just the opposite happening.


I personally wish government had no power to pick winners and losers but as long as everyone keeps accepting their fake money in exchange for their goods and labor the government is going to stay in charge and it will retain the ability to corruptly and purposefully tilt the playing field one way or the other.  Right now things are still so kiltered to the liberal side that I do not mind seeing some force applied to reverse this trend.  But I would like to see that force stop when there is a fair balance again and I'm quite sure that this is not going to happen.  When liberals had the upper hand they played it too damned hard in the face of conservatives and so to think there will not be any overshoot the other way is to not understanding anything at all.

Fake political correctness is gone.

Watch this entertaining video as Chairman of the Pa. House State Government Committee Rep. Daryl Metcalfe politely and respectfully but firmly tells obvious flamer Democratic Chairman Matt Bradford to stop touching him.  Metcalfe goes so far as to call obviously gay Matt Bradford gay and tells him to keep his gay touches to his side of the aisle where they might be more welcome.  Gay Bradford acts all shocked and surprised that real men do not like to be gay touched like that and that they would have the balls to clearly but respectfully call his gay ass out on the matter.

Some people will look at this video and say "homophobe overreacted". Metcalfe obviously knew this was going to be played on him so he immediately created another vid to explain that this was not the first time that Bradford had been touching him.  So the facts are that Bradford had actually showed a good deal of tolerance leading up to the point where it just had to be made to stop once and for all.
 
Many people are brainwashed by the last 40-50 years of rising liberalism such that they have forgotten the concept of respecting other people's personal space.  Liberals believe they are entitled to do whatever they want and that questioning them for it is some kind of social sin.  But when someone touches you like that it is an attempt to disarm you and show fake comradeship.  That kind of gentle clasping and holding move is what a man might do to a boy or a woman who is speaking out when they should be silent.  Real men do not accept that kind of move being put on them by other men. 

While I think that gay people have the right to be gay and to live their life their way free of people like me telling them what to do and how to live, this freedom ends when it steps on the rights of another.  My personal space is mine and I do not like it when people stand in my face, put their hand in my face or touch me like Metcalfe was being touched.  Call it an overreaction if that is the only excuse you can come up with but I could just as easily characterize it as unwanted sexual advances.  Those moves are EXACTLY the kind of thing you see in corporate training vids that teach people about the subtle ways that people can be feel sexually harassed.  Check out this link that discusses inappropriate touching in the workplace:

EXAMPLES OF UNWELCOME PHYSICAL CONTACT

Other than overt grabbing or pinching of breasts, groin, or buttocks (which most would agree constitute sexual harassment), there are other forms of physical contact should be avoided at work, including:

• Hugging
• Kissing (even on the cheek)
• Stroking
• Massaging
• Back-patting
• Hair-ruffling
• Handshakes held too long
• Linking arms
• Light (or otherwise) slapping of the buttocks
• Hip bumping
• Putting an arm around someone’s shoulders or a hand on their arm
• Holding someone’s hand
• Poking or pointing with a finger

Note that this list applies regardless of gender.

In the past when liberalism was running things, people would have put up with the abuse but those days are over.  Fake political correctness is gone now.

Will Michael Flynn take a fall for the gipper?

Ex-Trump National Security Advisor Michael Flynn has just plead guilty to the FBI for making false statements.  These are very serious charges which carry big penalties.  If there is one thing that the elite hate more than anything, it's wasting their lives in prison.  So the FBI now has a songbird that it can squeeze to get it to sing.

The recent news suggests that he has also accepted a deal from the FBI in exchange for his plea.  A deal, that is, to tell the truth, the full truth and nothing but the truth about where the skeletons are buried.  These skeletons might have nothing to do with the Russia scandal.  That is probably what the FBI is working at here: start pulling on a thread to see if the whole sweater comes unraveled.

Again, this is how all organized crime syndicates eventually come tumbling down.  Will Flynn be the one to start the avalanche?  That remains to be seen.  But someone will and when it happens it will come as a major shock to most people.

Don't be surprised if Flynn winds up dead while in custody.