Hey everyone,
  I just passed thru the portal and I think I made it in one piece!

Glad to be here, looking forward to watching this site grow

With the new year approaching, though I'd ask everyone, do you make resolutions for the new year?

I have tried in the past, never kept them. Not sure If I'll try again this year.

So, what are yours for 2024?

when one posts there's a white background with black print.

I made a post and I got a dark ground with black print.  doesn't show well.

unfortunate new trend is 'swatting'
calling 911 and reporting emergencies at addresses of people they don't like

https://www.newsweek.com/republicans-swa...ry-1855406

Quote:Federal law enforcement is facing backlash after two Republican Congress members said that their houses were "swatted" on Christmas Day.

Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene said that her house in Rome, Georgia, was swatted Monday morning while she and her family members were celebrating the holiday. New York Congressman Brandon Williams also said in a post to X, formerly Twitter, that his house in Cayuga County, New York, was swatted Monday afternoon

"Thanks to the Deputies and Troopers who contacted me before arriving," Williams wrote on X. "They left with homemade cookies and spiced nuts! Merry Christmas everyone!"

Swatting is the act of making a false report of a crime to another person's address, which prompts law enforcement to show up at the individual's home. Greene said on X that Monday marks the eighth time that her house has been targeted by swatting calls.

Just joined after the place was recommended by a fellow traveler.

Coming from ATS so anybody who frequents that site might recognise my name.

Looking forward to some heart-filled debates and discussions.

Hope the site takes off and does well over the coming months.

Merry Christmas everyone and a happy New Year when it materialises.

Just a heads up , We just got a letter from State Farm saying they are canceling our home owners policy They say we have had to many claims - Well we have had 1 claim in the 4 years we have had them at $350 per month we had 1 claim of $10,000 for the once in the life time storm that hit last year our pipes froze and took out our kitchen ceiling , Was a nightmare dealing with them also plus we have a $2500 deductible .  So after just one claim we are being dumped we have our house cars and just incase policies with them also so over a $10,000 claim they are willing to lose a $350 per month customer .

If anyone has them I would cancel now They don't want to pay they don't want your business if you file a claim . You would think thats Illegal .

Could this be the master plan , the ultimate control grip system for peasants ....Investigative journalist Corey Lynn says she’s “100% convinced” that globalists are building out the central operation for the control grid in space.


Space: The New Frontier For The Central Control Grid


Rumble video Corey Lynn


This huge article , but interesting read .

Quote:What if you had the ability to construct the central operation center for the entire control grid from a location with no real jurisdiction and no accessibility or oversight? What if the massive power source you need to run this operation could be harnessed under the guise of “climate change” in an expedited manner? And, what if you could have full surveillance and weaponry at your disposal with an entire financial infrastructure in place whose data sits in the palm of your hand while you control the levers?

Quote:

Quote:“Satellites store and move data, blockchain is making its way into this data, the digital financial system is accelerating, space fence is surveilling, space-based solar and data systems are being constructed, and the laws (or lawlessness) of running this full operation in space is on their side, which coincides perfectly with the many immunities and privileges that central banks and numerous organizations already enjoy.

Imagine running a control grid from space, complete with global surveillance, the ability to generate 24/7 power, to hold and store all data, to manipulate the weather and atmosphere, to have weapons that can pulse frequencies to alter behaviors or incinerate blocks instantly with directed energy weapons. Just imagine. It’s all out on the table and the competition is palpable.”

Quote:Taking into account all of the information in this report, and much that didn’t even make it into the report, it is my opinion that they are building the main central operations for the control grid in Space, equipped with full blown surveillance, nodes throughout every city, data centers, the internet, solar systems to power satellites and data centers, a suite of weaponry, a blockchain-based financial infrastructure, and likely equipping cell phones with additional hardware and software that has biometrics and integrates better with their satellite surveillance system. It’s all very clever.”

Yoohoo and merry Christmas folks.

It is I Rodinus coming back after many a years hiatus or however you spell that from what used to be a great forum.

I am normally now over at RN3 but for the instant our dear site is down (No doubt up and available after the busy xmas family period for the modération staff.)

Just thought I would pop in and hug you all for Crimbo.

Kindest respects.

Rodinus

PS : @DTOM : I promise I will behave myself. ?

Where am I,  What is this place, How did I get here?


Seriously,  good to be here. Good to see so many familiar names.

Bern Switzerland introduces cocaine for recreational use

Sounds like madness to me, and the 80s part of me thinks this sounds like a subversion plot initiated by the KGB or drug cartels. Absolutely, positively, crazy cocaine is addictive as hell in my limited experience in my youth it doesn't enhance people's lives in any way. Makes my jaws hurt just thinking about it

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/swi...023-12-20/
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Quote:ZURICH, Dec 20 (Reuters) - Switzerland's capital is examining a pilot scheme to allow the sale of cocaine for recreational use - a radical approach to the war on drugs that is not thought to have been tried elsewhere.

Parliament in Bern has supported the idea, which still needs to overcome opposition from the city government and will also require a change in national law.

Drugs policy around the world is evolving, with the U.S. state of Oregon, for example, decriminalising possession of small amounts of cocaine in 2021 in favour of drug treatment.

Many European countries, including Spain, Italy and Portugal, no longer have prison sentences for possession of drugs including cocaine, although nowhere has gone as far as the proposal under discussion in Bern.[url=https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/swiss-capital-bern-considers-legal-cocaine-project-2023-12-20/]

Listening to some Trans-Siberian Orchestra Christmas songs.
Really brings out the warm, Christmas thoughts for me.
No matter where you are or how you celebrate, have the Merriest of Christmases.

[Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJXQYx7j_3I]

Just sayin' hi to all of the fellow nomads- old and new.

Looking forward to the great reads and interaction.

ETA: Scrolling through the members list...so awesome to see so many familiar names- especially the ones from way back! Very comforting.

Hello and Hola to all. I’m Tecate, a a traveler from the frozen north who also lives in Mexico part time. Semi-retired medic, longtime ATS lurker who tries to see all sides. Trying to stay apolitical… Always intrigued and hoping to bring something positive to the community!
Stay safe!

I posted this at ATS but thought I'd use it as practice to try posting here ... still figuring out how to post links and quotes etc etc here ....

According to a recent poll - One third of married couples sleep in separate bedrooms.  There is a stigma attached to that so I'm surprised people admitted to it.  My parents and in-laws both did this and it worked well.  They were both married over 50 years.   GOTTA get a good nights sleep!

One Third of Married Couples Sleep in Separate Bedrooms

Quote:More than one-third of Americans have filed for a sleep divorce, according to a survey from the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) of more than 2,000 adults.

Many couples struggle to get a good night’s sleep together fumbling with earplugs, eye masks, silent alarms and different bedtimes, before eventually opting for separate bedrooms.

“We know that poor sleep can worsen your mood, and those who are sleep deprived are more likely to argue with their partners,” Dr. Seema Khosla, a pulmonologist and spokesperson for the AASM, said in a statement.

“Getting a good night’s sleep is important for both health and happiness, so it’s no surprise that some couples choose to sleep apart for their overall well-being,” she added.

So, we get this neat discovery off the coast of Australia. 
From: New York Post

Quote:Scientists stumbled upon a massive forgotten colony off the coast of Australia that was once home to hundreds of thousands of people.

Various artifacts and signs of human life were discovered on the northwest shelf of Sahul, located off the coast of the northern region of Kimberley on a landmass that connects to New Guinea, according to a study in Quaternary Science Reviews.

The drowned piece of land was likely a thriving ecosystem during the Late Pleistocene period, which dates back as far as 2.5 million years.
The now-submerged landmass was nearly 250,000 square miles — more than 1.6 times the size of the United Kingdom.

Quote:The shelf — once thought to be a desert — was filled with habitable fresh and saltwater lakes, rivers and streams, as well as a large inland sea, that could have supported between 50,000 and 500,000 people.
It may have also served as a bridge for people to walk onto Australia before it became the massive island it is known as today.

Everyday we hear new Brave New World kind of headlines.  Multi-front bubble to burst.  Digital currency to replace all cash.  15 minute cities.  EV cars will replace ICE cars....and with it the freedom to go large distances in a short time privately.  One World Government.  The USA Uniparty.

Here's a new one for me.
Brace yourself for 'Q-Day,' a global cybersecurity event that could expose our most important secrets

I hope that date 2025 is wrong.  Put it out 50 years and most of us will miss the horror of loss of encryption on our computers....and end privacy in our lives.

Quote:When the technology gets there, though, it's "likely to be as transformational in the 21st century as harnessing electricity as a resource was in the 19th century," Michael Biercuk, the founder and CEO of quantum tech company Q-CTRL, told Reuters. 
So global superpowers like the United States and China are pouring tons of money into quantum research ahead of Q-Day. With companies like IBM, Amazon, Intel, Google, and more building quantum processors, North America is widely seen as the leader in quantum computing development. In 2022, the United States invested $1.8 billion into quantum research, while Canada committed an additional $100 million, according to estimates from consulting firm McKinsey & Company.

Shiny new user here, an unknown enigma to everyone already here.
I'm burdman... a mild mannered liberal progressive gentleman who believes in the value of gentle, loving words absent profanities, controversy, and above all thing issued with earnest respect for anyone conversing with me.

Hi everyone. Just popping my head in to say hello!

This photo and Sagan's quote resonate so hard with me. If only we could all think in the context of humanity as a whole, maybe we could prevent our demise. Imagine what humanity could actually accomplish if we had worked together for the common good.

Quote:From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of any particular interest. But for us, it's different. Consider again that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.

It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.

— Carl Sagan

Some will probably know me from ATS. Glad to be aboard and hopefully i can contribute to the discusssions on this new site.

Hope to catch up with some friends both new and old. I know i can be controversial but that's what discussion is about at times.

Glad to be here.

I saw this movie last Saturday with my wife and sons.  

Holy Moses this was a great flick! There are so many reasons to like it. 

***This is in Japanese so you will be reading subtitles, but it did not
distract me one bit. 

The film actually makes you give a damn what happens to the characters. Unlike so 
much of the trash movies and TV shows that were released this year.
 
The actors and actresses are top notch and the post WW2 Japan setting is wonderful and realistic. 
There are actual relatable character emotions and REASONS for the these emotions presented 
in this film proficiently by the script writers. What a refreshing surprise! 

And then you have the 500 ton lizard in the room. Godzilla. 

Godzilla is truly scary in this instalment. He is no one's friend and just doesn't give
a fuck about you or your family. He is pure destruction created by atomic weapons
experimentation. This harkens back to the original 1954 movie concept and it is 
that original concept amplified like they could never have done it back then. Godzilla
represents the hazards of nuclear war and what happened to Japan. That is how I see it
anyway. 

The movie was released in limited theaters in the United States as it is a foreign movie but has since expanded to more theaters due to it's success but I read somewhere that due to some legal restrictions it may be forced out of American cinemas on Jan 1st. Not sure if that is true. 

I also read that they will be releasing a black and white version in Japan in the future (I suppose
to honor the original film). Not sure if this will come to American movie houses.

All in all if I gave this film a rating I would give it a 10 out of 10. And that is something I 
almost never do. I asked the people I saw it with and they agreed as well. Wow. 

And this movie only cost around 15 mil to make while other garbage costs 300 mil. Go figure. 

For me, best movie of 2023 hands down. 

Would love to hear your thoughts and highly recommend this film. 

Cheers and Merry Christmas!

I was always curious on what WW3 was supposed to be. CME, Hackers, Invasion, Civil War, Blue Beam, Aliens, What ever the f*ck is in the Ocean, and so on and so on. We've been conditioned to think that this was going to be something so noticeable that there would be no denying it was happening.

Well, what if we didn't realize that we are in WW10, what if all the myth's, biblical stories, from all religions were World Wars, Including the Adam and Eve story. You know the 2 major f*ck ups. BTW I am agnostic, just trying to add some stuff up :)

We have had the rise and fall of Empires, Colonization that changed World History, Worldwide slavery, destruction all over the world, our air, water, land. Why would these things not be considered World Wars? If there is a war in the Middle East (as usual) and it affects oil around the world in a bad way, is that not a World War.

"What is the full meaning of war?

a conflict carried on by force of arms, as between nations or between parties within a nation; warfare, as by land, sea, or air. a state or period of armed hostility or active military operations: The two nations were at war with each other. "


"What is the full meaning of worlds?


everything that exists; the universe; the macrocosm. any complex whole conceived as resembling the universe: the world of the microcosm. one of the three general groupings of physical nature: animal world; mineral world; vegetable world. any period, state, or sphere of existence: this world; the world to come. "

So, my point is that if we were to come to the realization that this isn't our first rodeo, we would pay better attention to those who are trying to make us think that the worst hasn't even happened yet, when in fact they know it never stopped.

Peace, NRE.

Hello people .

Hi, I've just joined so it will be a while till I get my son (the computer tech) to put an avatar on as all of you who know me I am not tech savvy. Probably take a while to get used to the new format and it's workings. Look forward to some interesting interactions without the trolls and idiots. Thanks.