I was surprised to not see a forum dedicated to investing (or maybe I missed it).   Would this be something others would take interest in?  I am an avid personal investor and while not very good heh (buy high/sell low is my pattern....)  I would love to interact with others who are most definitely more saavy than myself.

I don't touch crypto but mainly deal in tech stocks.  I was lucky to get in on NVIDIA before the split when it was high but not anywhere near it's peak.

anywho....

One morning, maybe 5 years ago, I was walking with the dog, and as as we reached a more remote area, I noticed a local news truck, with a reporter getting ready for a live feed. He was doing a story about terrorists targeting internet communications. I explained that it was actually metal thieves that had pulled down the fiber optic line, thinking it was copper. Their metal processing camp was 100 feet away, littered with scrap, human feces and hypodermic needles. The old dirty rope that was used to pull down the line had lain in that field for years. It became a huge national news story about terrorism, and the local interagency terrorism task force along with the FBI were investigating. Pundits in the national press pontificated about the unknown group responsible. I did casually explain my knowledge of the event to a local sheriffs deputy, but there was no interest, and I never got a response.

Santa Catalina Channel.

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The Santa Catalina Channel has been a rather infamous UFO/USO hotspot over the decades and (although it's the History Channel) there's a short segment about the area in the vid below.

Apparently people have been spotting them there for decades and back in the sixties families were even going down there to see them with a packed lunch.








See 3:10

Quote:Writes Ann Druffel,


“This body of water lies between the coastlines of Southern California and Santa Catalina Island, 20 miles offshore to the southwest. The area has for at least thirty years been the scene of UFO reports of all kinds: surface sightings of hazy craft which cruise leisurely in full view of military installations, aerial spheres bobbing in oscillating flight, gigantic cloud-cigars, and at least one report of an underwater UFO with uniformed occupants.”


Another researcher, Robert Stanley, editor of the now defunct magazine Unicus, writes,


“Even in the sixties, families were going down to the beach and waiting for a UFO to pass by…. By the 1970s, whole families were going down to the beach at Point Dume at night to watch the multi-colored UFOs [that] would sink under the water at times.”


MUFON field investigator Bill Hamilton writes,


“For years witnesses have seen many types of UFO cruising off the Palos Verdes Peninsula in Southern California. UFOs have actually been seen to come out of the water in the San Pedro Channel.”


I had already uncovered several firsthand cases myself. My next step was to put together a comprehensive list of all the recorded ocean-going encounters in the area.

I came up with more than 50 sightings..



Article: Fate Magazine, February 2006

Quote:The first California underwater UFO was on July 7, 1947 when two San Raphael teen-agers saw a "flat glistening object" emerge from the water, fly around and then dive back into the water 400 yards from shore. Throughout this same year, numerous steamers reported a mysterious 'undersea mountain' or a 'large mass underwater' which kept appearing and disappearing in various locations in the San Francisco Bay and down the coast.
Following this, the sightings came regularly, in 1951, 1954, 1955, 1957, 1962, 1964, 1970, 1980, 1990, 1991, 1993, 2004 the list goes on, most from the Santa Catalina channel. The sightings involve many highly credible witnesses including lifeguards, security guards, law enforcement officials, military officers and countless citizens.


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Quote:One of the first such reports to make it into the local paper, was the supposedly widely-viewed account of several “flying discs” over Avalon in 1947, just about the same time as the infamous Roswell incident...

Not as widely reported at the same time, however, were a number of other “disc” sightings both before and after the Roswell incident.

On the evening of June 26, 1947, U.S. Army Major George Wilcox of Warren, Arizona, reported a series of “eight or nine” disc-shaped objects traveling near his home and at an altitude of about 1,000 feet above the nearby mountains.

That same evening, a Captain E.B. Detchmendy reported seeing a “white disc glowing like an electric light bulb” passing over Pope, New Mexico, a sighting echoed by several local townspeople.

Dozens of other sightings—many by military officers—were reported in the region in the coming days and weeks.

But the Southwest wasn’t the only venue. Similar sightings were reported throughout much of the western United States as far north as Washington State and as far west as California—including Catalina Island.

On July 8, 1947, the very same day that Roswell’s Daily Record was reporting the initial “flying disc” story, a remarkable incident reportedly occurred in the skies above Avalon. An article on the front page of the week’s issue of the Catalina Islander details an alleged sighting by three visiting Army veterans of six “flying discs” traveling at high speed from the northeast and passing directly over Avalon before disappearing over East Peak.

According to the story, the six discs appeared at about 1 p.m. and flew in a formation of two sets of three and were witnessed not only by the veterans, but by “hundreds” of others as well.

Alvio Russo, one of the reported witnesses and an Army Air Corps veteran who had flown 35 bombing missions over Germany with the Eighth Air Force, estimated the velocity of the discs at “850 miles an hour,” according to the story.

Bob Jung, listed as a “former aerial photographer” agreed with this estimate and said they were flying roughly as fast as the U.S. Navy’s “Tiny Tim” rocket, which he had photographed numerous times for the Navy.


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Some of you may remember me from ATS if that's where many are coming from. I had many tens of thousands of posts back there, even if it was usually just my failing to take anything seriously that drove me to leave most comments and contribute just a little with a lot of sarcasm and stupidity; that's just who I am. I am a Greek-American guy who was schooled in Greece, France, Spain, and the US and then I returned to Greece for college where I got multiple degrees and advanced degrees, something I wouldn't even recommend young people do any longer, college these days is just a waste of a whole lot of money and you will be brainwashed and receive an education that people my age were getting at 10 and 12 years old.

I am an expert pianist and harpist and have played since I was 3 1/2 and have played in bars and cruise ships all over the world.

By both hobby and profession, I am an avid linguist, philologist, translator, etymologist, and polyglot. I adore language, I love grammar, and I speak Greek, English and French fluently as well as Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic, Italian, and Ancient Greek. I can understand almost everything in Catalan, Aragonese, Galicia, Aranese, Asturian, Occitan, Provençal, Savoyard, Griko, Calabria Greek, Lombard, Piedmontese, Limousine, Venetan, Tuscan, Romanian, Friulian, Corsican, Pontic, Tsakonian, Cretan, Thrakian, and a few others. I can't speak them or write them, but I know enough to understand these languages when I read them.

My aunt was a well known expert in medieval dialects of several languages, their middle versions and literature, and she was perfectly fluent in their modern tongues, speaking about 15 when she died and working on her 16th. Her work has been published many times.

On the other side of my family, our claim to fame is having the famous BETZ family who are known for finding the alien like Betz sphere in the forests around their property, the Betz Castle.

Another claim to fame, my family lives in Patmos castle in Greece and cares for the cave in which St. John the Theologian wrote Revelations, the last book of the Bible.

My final claim to fame is that a 23 And Me test that was taken in my family led us to the discovery that much of my family isn't really my family. Just three years ago, we learned that in reality, I come from my great-grandfather, the murderer, and my grandfather, the serial killer. He was executed some time back and nothing interesting or "neat" has come from it as I imagined it would have, were I ever in such a situation. Just heartache, probably because of who his favorite victims were.

Something interesting about me is that I have loved ghost stories my whole life, as well as tales of aliens or paranormal mysteries. I would always come back to the conclusion, upon contemplation though, that everything was certainly a case of mistaken identity or people simply having a need for attention. That is until one night outside of my home in Phoenix, I walked outside and was met by about 30 or 40 brilliant glowing orbs of every color imaginable. They danced around like a fairy would and even circled me in seeming interest. After about two minutes, they stopped flitting back and forth and just froze for a second before they all went perfectly straight up into the sky and disappeared amongst the stars. We don't even have FIREFLIES here so I know it wasn't mistaken identity and anyways, I had never seen such brilliant colors or lights. I obviously had the same experience that many people in the past have had who called the phenomenon the Willow'th'Wisps. I don't know if they were alien, or magic, or interdimensional, but they were there with my naked eye and they were not normal. I never thought I would have a paranormal experience of my own, but it took that experience for my entire way of thinking to change and the possibilities that actually experiencing something like that myself brought a perspective into my world that would not have been possible without seeing it myself. And of course, I had one of the experiences that are IMPOSSIBLE to communicate and that nobody believes. That is a really crappy fact about experiencing such a rare and seldom experienced phenomenon, but it was an incredibly unmistakeable phenomenon too without anything even close to a natural explanation. So it was great for me, and depressingly impossible to convince others of for me. But it has opened my mind to things that were strictly science-fiction before that night; a night when everything changed.

I guess that is all! I doubt there was anything much in this introduction anyone gives a rats bottom about. But here I am again, just so you know.

I can not speak for everyone but I swore I would never be captured. All the rounds in whatever weapon I had I would use yet the last round was for me.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Kknp1p0PS...ture=share

Hello everyone, this may be fun.

A special shoutout to Nugget!

Always tried to keep an open mind on UFO origin and for folks who haven't heard of the 'cryptoterrestrial' hypothesis before then author Mac Tonnies breaks it down in the short vid below.

Quote:This theory by late American author and blogger Mac Tonnies asserts that if we accept that UFOs are vehicles created by an advanced civilization and apply Occam’s razor, we can conclude that it is most likely the civilization originates from the Earth itself rather than a distant planet.

Tonnies suggests that we share our planet with a humanoid race much older than humanity but related to us (explaining their physical form) and more technologically advanced. He dubbed these entities the “cryptoterrestrials,” rejecting “ultraterrestrial” as too linked to theories of humanoid visitors from other dimensions and “cryptohominid” as too suggestive of Bigfoot.

Tonnies suggests the entities may be a dying civilization given to subterfuge by hiding underwater or underground. These entities promote and encourage the idea that UFOs are of extraterrestrial origin as a cover story to throw investigators off from the truth. Reports from abductees of aliens warning humanity to care for the Earth make more sense if they are fellow Earth residents rather than visitors from thousands of light-years away..

The US Air Force isn’t trying to cover up a threat from above, but the existence of another, slightly more advanced civilization below us. Tonnies admits that some alien encounters could very well be of extraterrestrial or interdimensional origin, but he believed the majority are the result of a deception campaign by a desperate, Earth-based military force of subterraneans hoping to keep our eyes fixed firmly on the skies.

UFOs are from a Cryptoterrestrial origin

Quote:What if the "aliens" are not from other planets? In this book, Mac Tonnies proposes that at least some accounts of alien visitation can be attributed to a humanoid species indigenous to the Earth, a sister race that has adapted to our numerical superiority by developing a surprisingly robust technology.

At the same time, this groundbreaking work attempts to reconcile the mythological and contemporary accounts of "little people" into a coherent picture. "For too long, we've called them 'aliens,' assuming that we represent our planet's best and brightest," writes Tonnies. "Maybe that's exactly what they want us to think."

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Personally, I have never relied upon "apps" or the internet to find and secure a place to live.

But nowadays, it seems the younger generations do it constantly.  Amidst all the apps is one that apparently helped landlords to "take the guess work out of determining what to charge for rent."

The algorithms used by the app (the "service") accumulates the 'proprietary' data of all their subscribers, and issues forth a suggested rate which guarantees they are charging as much as  the other members.

From ArsTechnica: US sues RealPage, claims rental-pricing algorithm used by landlords is illegal
 

Pretty expensive to get your hands on a hardback copy these days but Bertrand Russell's 1953 work 'The Impact Of Science On Society' is apparently quite a popular playbook with globalist, technocratic eugenicists like Gates, Kissenger, Brzezinski etc.. and it really does contain some pretty shocking sociopathic (and psychopathic) musings.

Quite a number of his outrageously insane statements found in the book (including purposefully releasing bubonic plague) but for thread purposes here he is discussing how a dictatorship can best mass brainwash, condition and indoctrinate young children into believing 'snow is black'.





'Snow IS Black'

Quote:• "I think the subject which will be of most importance politically is mass psychology … Its importance has been enormously increased by the growth of modern methods of propaganda. Of these the most influential is what is called ‘education.’

Religion plays a part, though a diminishing one; the press, the cinema, and the radio play an increasing part … It may be hoped that in time anybody will be able to persuade anybody of anything if he can catch the patient young and is provided by the State with money and equipment.

The subject will make great strides when it is taken up by scientists under a scientific dictatorship … The social psychologists of the future will have a number of classes of school children on whom they will try different methods of producing an unshakable conviction that snow is black. Various results will soon be arrived at. First, that the influence of home is obstructive.

Second, that not much can be done unless indoctrination begins before the age of ten.

Third, that verses set to music and repeatedly intoned are very effective.

Fourth, that the opinion that snow is white must be held to show a morbid taste for eccentricity. But I anticipate. It is for future scientists to make these maxims precise and discover exactly how much it costs per head to make children believe that snow is black, and how much less it would cost to make them believe it is dark gray.

Although this science will be diligently studied, it will be rigidly confined to the governing class. The populace will not be allowed to know how its convictions were generated. When the technique has been perfected, every government that has been in charge of education for a generation will be able to control its subjects securely without the need of armies or policemen".

Bertrand Russell.

Quote:• "Diet, injections, and injunctions will combine, from a very early age, to produce the sort of character and the sort of beliefs that the authorities consider desirable, and any serious criticism of the powers that be will become psychologically impossible. Even if all are miserable, all will believe themselves happy, because the government will tell them that they are so."

Bertrand Russell.

Quote:• "I do not pretend that birth control is the only way in which population can be kept from increasing. There are others, which, one must suppose, opponents of birth control would prefer. War, as I remarked a moment ago, has hitherto been disappointing in this respect, but perhaps bacteriological war may prove more effective.

If a Black Death could be spread throughout the world once in every generation survivors could procreate freely without making the world too full. There would be nothing in this to offend the consciences of the devout or to restrain the ambitions of nationalists"

Bertrand Russell.

Lots of speculation over the years about 'black budget' funding of clandestine subterranean government infrastructure, secret underground cities, DUMBs, immense tunnel systems, vacuum 'mag lev' trains etc. and do find the whole subject pretty fascinating.

Personally don't find the concept of 'parallel societies' (or 'breakaway civilizations') too outlandish either and there's some intriguing government documentation being discussed in the vid below on Deep Underground Military Bases (buried up to one mile down) that really makes one wonder.















If a person really wants to go down the (literal) rabbit hole then Richard Sauder has also conducted some extensive research and has uncovered some pretty revealing info in his books on the subject.

Apparently it's no secret that for decades now the technological drilling expertise exists (as do the immense tunnel boring machines) and the presentation and books linked below delve pretty deep into the whole topic.

Richard also describes some relevant reports from Stanford Research Institute (and China Lake NWS) reporting on the feasibility of manned 'undersea' bases as far back as the 1960's.

He also brings up one potential undersea candidate off the US coast near Catalina Island (see 37:30) which I found interesting as for decades the area has been a major UFO/USO hotspot.








• DUMBS & Black Budget - HIDDEN EMPIRE: UNDERGROUND BASES and TUNNEL SYSTEMS

Quote:One of the most mysterious and secretive developments of the 20th Century was the coming together of the Cold War, the national security infrastructure and advances in digging and tunneling technology. The author of Underground Bases and Tunnels: What is the Government Trying to Hide? will present a packed lecture on the extraordinary proliferation of underground military, intelligence and agency facilities and the relationship to the black budget. Dr. Sauder may be the world's leading researcher in this particular area of study.




Free E-Books:


• Underground Bases and Tunnels: What is the Government Trying to Hide?

• HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT

From Epoch Times: Nearly Half of Dementia Cases Could Be Prevented or Delayed: Lancet Commission

Based on The Lancet: Dementia prevention, intervention, and care: 2024 report of the Lancet standing Commission

The thrust of the 'news' aspect of this is that we had identified 12 risk factors allowing us at least a chance to proactively deal with dementia cases... but now with the addition of two newly identified factors, we could hope for less severe consequence to as much as nearly half of them.
 

A recent study of Shroud has reportedly found evidence that the object has elements of clay and limestone which are particular to the Jerusalem region.  Also, miniscule blood samples are said to be signs of physical wounds...

I wanted to do more research on the shroud and this new study..., 

From Fox: Researchers make new finding on Turin Shroud that many believe was Christ's burial cloth: 'Mysteries of God'

I went to this article, but was thwarted by the old "sign up" or you can't read it...  (like you have to have my name to sell or I can't be told 'the news.')
I went to Google and found links to articles from 1986 to 2002... no help...

I broke down ad asked Brave's search "AI" which apparently can access more than a mere human and found these offered as facts....
 

Since we don’t have a conspiracy theorist sub forum on here like ATS does…

Does anyone know what happened to him?

I used to enjoy reading his site, even as it jumped from URL to URL. I have been checking the most recent one up until a month or two ago. I decided to check it today and it’s down.

I realize he is controversial and I’m not saying I agree with everything he presented, but it was rather thought-provoking. And as someone who retired from the intelligence field, I could see he occasionally dropped little tidbits that nobody could possibly know unless they were on the inside. In my eyes that lent him some credibility above many others who are out there.

Once again, the proof is in the pudding...

A PBS anchor pushed the story that Donald Trump had spoken to Benjamin Netanyahu and urged him to delay any hostage negotiations until it was politically beneficial for his campaign.

Of course, the media didn't 'fact check' it, instead they ran with the story, inserting it into the public discourse...

From Fox: PBS host apologizes for reporting Trump pressed Netanyahu to abandon hostage deal: 'This was a mistake'
Subtitled: Netanyahu's office called report a 'complete lie'
 

Mobile In Maine


So back around 2018 when I got my first Dodge Charger I started driving a lot more. I would go on these excursions a few times a week, and travel to all these rural areas pretty much anywhere within a one hundred mile radius of my house.

I started doing a little photography and whenever I saw something that I thought was cool or interesting in some way I would snap a picture of it – ultimately ending up with hundreds.

Initially I had a pretty decent camera but it got damaged and I replaced it with some low-end waterproof thing from Staples; it still did take some fairly decent pictures though.


Hobbit Land



Me and a friend took a trip to Hobbit Land – about five minutes away.

Just a heads up in case anyone has run into this message...

From ARS Technica: “Something has gone seriously wrong,” dual-boot systems warn after Microsoft update
Subtitled: Microsoft said its update wouldn't install on Linux devices. It did anyway.
 

In another of nearly countless "corrections" after the fact, and after being used for political claims... the UD Department of Labor once again issues a "corrected" report ... this time indicating making a colossal adjustment downward... the largest since 2009...

From Fox Business: US economy created 818,000 fewer jobs than previously reported
 

So, my wife and I inherited my In-laws house (long story that I’ve told before), and before my MIL passed I was going to have her teach me how to cook Mexican dishes (she was a phenomenal cook).

But she had and now we have her six burner stove. I’m having trouble figuring out how to get the small burners turned down low enough for a slow simmer. Perhaps there’s some device to raise the pot further above that I can’t find in her huge cupboard of cookware? My wife really doesn’t cook often and is no help.

I’m looking at you Augustas and FCD, as I know that you both have big gas stoves and would know…

Anyone else that knows, please chip in.

ETA, I was brought up with electric appliances so it’s pretty new to me.

Tecate

Just curious as to what the 'ignore' button does. We had a similar thing on ATS yonks ago. I never did use it though. Does it prevent someone seeing one's post and vice versa?

It turns out that we have reportedly experienced a "summer surge" of COVID... and thus the FDA is anticipating approval of a new round of what they still refer to as "vaccines."

From CNN: FDA may greenlight updated Covid-19 vaccines as soon as this week, sources say
From ARS Technica: This year’s summer COVID wave is big; FDA may green-light COVID shots early

The backstory is attributed to 'unnamed sources who know these things'... I can't imagine why they would propagate hearsay, but hey, this is America.
 

Did this guy really die in the boat sinking, or did he use this as a way to go on the lam?
How did the superyacht carrying tech tycoon Mike Lynch sink off Sicily? | Shipping News | Al Jazeera

Quote: One person has died and six are missing after a superyacht capsized off the Sicilian coast in the Mediterranean on Monday at about 5am (03:00 GMT) after it was hit by stormy weather caused by a “waterspout” – or mini tornado – according to Italian authorities.
 
The cruise had reportedly been undertaken to celebrate the acquittal of British tech tycoon Mike Lynch, who has been missing, in a fraud trial in the United States in June.

His co-defendant in the trial, Steve Chamberlain, who was also acquitted in June, was killed after being hit by a car on Saturday.

Quote: 

• Mike Lynch, 59, a British-Irish technology businessman who co-founded British tech company Autonomy in 1996 and was once likened to Microsoft founder Bill Gates; he earned a PhD from Cambridge University
  
• Hannah Lynch, 18, Mike’s daughter, who had just completed her final school exams and was due to begin a degree in English at the University of Oxford this September
  
• Jonathan Bloomer, the 70-year-old British chairman of Morgan Stanley bank and the Hiscox insurance company, was confirmed as missing by Hiscox CEO Aki Hussain
  
• Judy Bloomer, Jonathan’s wife, was also confirmed as missing by Hussain
  
• Chris Morvillo, from British international law firm Clifford Chance, was confirmed to be missing by Salvatore Cocina, head of the Civil Protection in Sicily
  

Quote:Autonomy founder Mike Lynch was acquitted of fraud Thursday by a jury in San Francisco, a major win for the software entrepreneur who has been dogged by legal problems since the disastrous sale of his company to Hewlett-Packard (HP) for $11 billion in 2011.
Representatives for Lynch and US prosecutors said Lynch was acquitted on all 15 charges — one count of conspiracy and 14 counts of wire fraud.
Former Autonomy finance executive Stephen Chamberlain, who faced the same charges at trial alongside Lynch, was also acquitted on all counts, the Lynch representative said.

Quote: Nancy Pelosi. She and her husband Paul reported losses of between $400,000 and $4 million from the sale of high profile tech company stock holdings:

• Cisco: sold 100%. Capital loss of $100,000-$1 million
  
• Ebay: sold 100%. Capital loss of $100,000-$1 million
  
• Yahoo: sold 100%. Capital loss of $100,000-$1 million
  
• Motorola: sold 100%. Capital loss of $100,000-$1 million
  

Only Motorola isn't based in Pelosi's Silicon Valley backyard. (For the record, she doesn't represent Silicon Valley, but rather San Francisco, 30 miles north.)That might be a big headache if the Pelosis relied on her $230,000 earned income to make ends meet. But that's not an issue. It looks like those tech stock losses were in fact a smart tactical move to help the couple offset a massive capital gain they also booked in 2010, courtesy of Silicon Valley's cash machine: Apple. The Pelosis sold a chunk of their Apple holdings and reported a capital gain of between $1 million and $5 million. For the record, the stock has gained another 40 percent since the Pelosis sold last spring. And hey, they still report owning between $500,000 and $1 million of Apple stock.

Quote: His co-defendant in the trial, Steve Chamberlain, who was also acquitted in June, was killed after being hit by a car on Saturday.

Good day folks!!

I’m down south with wife and family for a couple of weeks before heading back north to work, so I thought that would show you how the weather can get here in Guadalajara during the rainy season.

I’ll post a couple of photos of 2018’s hail storm.         . Hopefully they show!

So for some reason I have never been here at this time of year, usually in December when it’s cold (-4°C overnight to 24°C during the day) or early spring April/May when it’s freaking hot and dry.

Now it’s about 15°C in the morning and 25°C in the afternoon/evening, and humid, very humid as it rains almost every evening and overnight.

For those unaware, Guadalajara is essentially a mile high city situated in a large valley/high desert area.

We haven’t had any heavy hail thankfully, as I don’t relish going up onto the roof to cover the solar panels!

It’s amazing to see the difference between the seasons here and the northern Alberta seasons that I am used to.

Mods, we don’t have a weather forum, and I don’t see any conspiracy or other forum to post it in.

Tecate

It has recently come to our attention that there's been discussion of excessive trackers on DI being blocked by users browsers. I ask you to take a look for yourself. There are only two, not including the font awesome icons, which are pretty much an internet standard. It's just Cloudflare and Impact, the latter of which is our small ad provider. The single block ad you may have seen on the index page, for NordVPN I might add, which has a stellar reputation for user privacy. 

Our Privacy Report & Our Privacy Policy (not yet amended to include that we no longer use Google Analytics) 
 

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Privacy Badger blocked 4 potential trackers on denyignorance.com:

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