Monday, September 1, 2025

STEPHANIE SENEFF: This is the first time I've seen somebody else besides me say that glyphosate may be a causal factor in the increase in forest fires we've been witnessing in the past decade. Glyphosate is a desiccant.

Thank you to Wejolyn

SAMA HOOLE: Why Beef Destroys Chicken Nutritionally Speaking

MATT SMITH: Don't ask a young man what he wants to be when he grows up. The question should be, "What kind of man do you want to become?" and that their efforts should be devoted to becoming that man first

FYI: Caution: this is an ad, but boy does it make some good points about entrepreneurship versus the traditional message we give young people exiting school.  It's a book that I haven't read, called The Preparation, 2025, by Doug Casey and Matt Smith.

2:52. It's not the only answer but that certainly part of it. Doug and I, our view ultimately is that you should be an entrepreneur.  You really shouldn't be a cubicle dweller, that's for sure.  But I think that the thing is related to the question.  Often people ask young man what they want to be when they grow up and what they mean is what kind of job you're going to get to be responsible to get income, and kind of the premise of the book is that is entirely the wrong question.  We should not ask young men this question.  The question should be what kind of man do you want to become and that their efforts should be devoted to becoming that man first and foremost not to going through a series of motions that allow you to get some certificate that allows you to get enough income hopefully to be able to survive maybe a little extra for a vacation or two it's to become the man that you want to become.  That's the first goal.  And you're right that everybody else is following this traditional path, and I can tell you because my son has been the two-year beta tester for this, Doug's been wanting to write this book, he's been asking me to write a way with him for a dozen years, and I've always said no because it didn't make sense

What's possible with Maxim doing this for 2 years we've actually learned the realities of it that we've been able to actually create structure that actually works and we've been able to field tested and know how to make it work properly and one of the big challenges that Max encountered especially early on was that to everyone else in the world what he was doing look like he was failing because he wasn't going to college it looked like he was on the road to nowhere so it wasn't even about a ultimately looking at him and judging him by what he had done but it was by entire by his entire peer group they're like what are you doing this doesn't make any sense so this thing when you step outside of the box and you're doing something totally different than what everyone else does it looks like failure.  And I can say as an entrepreneur in the businesses I built and I built many over the last 30 years it always look like a failure until it was a success I mean that's actually everyone thought I was screwing up until I became rich I mean that's how it worked.

5:43.  Well I'm telling when we get to some of the specifics I think people will see I hope what I saw when I went through this I mean I was enjoying reading it but then we got to part two with the specifics and when I looked at the kinds of of things that you're contemplating having young men do and we should say a word a word about young men versus young women and that you know there will be another book and let's just clarify that this is kind of intended for young men for the time being but when I looked at exactly what it is you had in mind for that they would you know they'll instead of sitting in a Sociology Lecture Hall, every morning they would do this and then this and then this and then this.  I thought to myself if I had it to do over and I could be that guy, I would.  I absolutely would even though I have the most elite academic credentials you could possibly ask for I would trade those away to be the man that this book trains you to be no absolutely no doubt in my mind no hesitation whatsoever.

Business always looks like a failure until it's a success.

The Preparation: How to Become Competent, Confident, and Dangerous, Doug Casey and Matt Smith, 2025.

GHEE GURU: A major university really did spend 3 years and millions of dollars of NIH funding to tell us Lucky Charms and Cheerios are health foods

Rap was weaponized to destroy a generation from inside. You think it's art? It's artillery? You think it's success? It's sabotage dressed in chains.

[Examples of Conscious Rap don't] exactly elevate one's awareness in society, or in history, the way you'd get from reading Thomas Sowell or Walter Williams.  --MW
You ever wonder why every major rapper sounds like a broken record about death, drugs, and fake flexing?

Because that's what's cool, right?  

Nah, fella, it's conditioning.  It's engineered destruction.

Here we go, conspiracy alert!
Fact alert, you dirty mutt.  In 1991, a private meeting happened.  Executives from record labels, investors in private prisons, and silent government liaisons.  One goal: make chaos profitable. 

Yeah, who was at that meeting?

Wait, what?  

They realized the more you glorify crime, drugs, self-destruction through music, the more broken kids you create, and broken kids fill up the private prison system.  More prisoners, more dollars.

That's just business, not brainwashing.

Is it?  Then why did Conscious Rap, the stuff that empowered people, get blacklisted?  Why did gangsta rap suddenly explode in the 90s with full corporate sponsorship?  [So Conscious Rap was still political rap.  I don't know how the politics "empowered" people.]

Okay, this doesn't make sense to me.  This article cites the group, A Tribe Called Quest, as an example of Conscious Rap.  But listen and read the lyrics of this song, "Electric Relaxation."  It doesn't exactly elevate one's awareness in society, or in history, the way you'd get from reading Thomas Sowell or Walter Williams.

Another example offered by this article is the group called De La Soul.  Their song, "Eye Know," with the phrase from Steely Dan interspersed, "I know I love you better," is cute, but I don't get the higher consciousness promised by "Conscious Rap."      

Maybe it just sold better?

It sold better because they fed it non-stop.  Every radio station, every award show, every top chart designed to sell a vision of life that's short, violent, and hopeless.

But some artists are independent, right?  

Very few. And most of them get buried by the algorithm.  You won't hear the ones telling the truth, because truth doesn't sell chains or fill [jail] cells.

So what about all the self-made rappers flexing?

Flexing debt, flexing leased cars, flexing record deals that own their masters and their future.  They sell Rebellion but only Rebellion that leads to profit for the same system they claim to hate.

That's depressing.

It's beyond depressing, Mutt.  It's deliberate.  Rap was weaponized to destroy a generation from inside.  You think it's art?  It's artillery?  You think it's success?  It's sabotage dressed in chains.  

Then what can we even trust anymore?

Trust the ones they silence.  Trust the ones who lose deals.  [Or, trust no one.]

Then why does it only affect black kids though? 

This may be a better version.


Break the minds of a generation.
Then profit off the fallout.
But here’s the truth they don’t want you to know:
If they could program you to self-destruct…
You can reprogram yourself to rise.
We’re done vibing to poison.
It’s time to rewire the mind.

DR. LAWRENCE SELLIN: The Chinese Fifth Column is a clear and present danger to U.S. national security. Remember when Elon Musk said he would “go to war” to protect his Chinese and Indian H1B visas?

TOM LUONGO: The Russian “GPS attack” on Von der Satan’s plane is a shaping operation to remove her or someone equally dirty over COVID, the Bio-Labs in Ukraine, or the stolen US elections

The Russian “GPS attack” on Von der Satan’s plane is a shaping operation to remove her or someone equally dirty over COVID, the Bio-Labs in Ukraine, or the stolen US elections (or all of the above). We’re in the killing heads of “state” moment to justify the breakout of WWIII. They failed multiple times to kill Trump and Putin. Now they will kill their own to justify war.

They need Trump to go to war with Putin before the market pulls the plug on their evil or they go broke papering over the bankruptcy.

VALERIE ANNE SMITH:Toxic Playgrounds...Cancer Increases 10 Times When Grass Is Replaced With 'Rubber Tire Crumb.'

When our dads used to say, "Why don't you go play on the freeway," I think we stood a better chance at survival doing that than kids today do playing on today's playgrounds and football fields.