CrowdStrike still striking airlines; experts baffled by hole in the ground; Reuter's truth bombs the Proxy War; bipartisan roasting of Secret Service Director sparks bureaucratic outrage; and more.
Thank you for that in depth segment about the Ukraine debacle.
And yes, despite their desire to prove otherwise, archeology has consistently found evidence confirming the historical accuracy of the Bible. Places, people, times, have continuously been corroborated.
I don't like Donald Rumsfeld, I think he was a snake, and showed signs of psychopathy for pushing aspartame through, for profit, regardless of its harms. Among other travesties. But I love the truth of that quote, its stark reality guaranteed it would be attacked, and it was.
I think it just speaks an obvious truth, no need to read between any lines. It does have many serious implications you could write a book about. But, the sentence itself is pure unvarnished reality. I'm a big fan of that.
Wouldn't THAT be a wondrous "first" for 45 to undertake - destroy the NEOCON citadel!!!
After reading J. C. 's blog for today...all I can say is..... "God's GRACE is magnificently shed on the once "United" States of America.
We have a SURPLUS OF FOOLS at the helms of so many CRUCIAL departments within the Federal government that one wonders how we EVER lasted as long as we have..... 09/11 was a precursor, friends...our ENEMIES know how feckless our leadership is - for now...they probably consider us "useful idiots"....we are indebted to China for floating bonds to subsidize our MASSIVE Federal deficit (that will NEVER go away)...and we are indebted to Russia for NOT attacking us from the Aleutian Islands - using TNT resources that are CHEAP and EFFECTIVE and that we apparently DO NOT POSSESS anymore.
As I've written too many times in the past 4 1/2 years...
And also, scientific discoveries keep agreeing with the Bible, not debunking it. Remember how God said the Israelites should circumcise their infant sons on the 8th day? Guess what day infants have the highest blood clotting factor?
I had an archeologist walk through the Jericho ruins, reviewing the notes from the original excavation when I was visiting Israel several years ago. All notes lined up with the Biblical account, but the conclusion was exactly the opposite. It was a fascinating visit and just one of many things confirming the Bible
The Bible is a fascinating and often reliable source of history. The human “choice” to settle down and build settlements meant the earth was no longer a garden, but needed constant tending. Life expectancy plummeted due to war and disease. All well documented and defensible based on other available evidence.
As for the magic wizards, I try to skip those parts.
I absolutely think it was a test for what’s to come. We all need to flag this event. I keep trying to tell everyone I know that life is going to be very difficult in the next few months into next year.
I think the opposite. I’m so sure Trump has everything done for us and as soon as the country is told who is the President and who has been president since 2016, he will be able to show exactly what he’s been doing. This coming week is another big week. I’m thinking money in our accounts that wasn’t there the previous day. That Balance will be big, especially if you’re over 61. We will get everything back that they stole from us for their Nefarious reasons. We will have one flat tax. So much will change pretty instantly. So not to argue or be mean, I have just kept my excitement level high, my vibrations high, staying away from social media and very close to Nature.
Niki: my suspicions were immediately in this direction. And maybe a warning something like ... 'we are watching you' and 'don't think you don't have vulnerabilities'. (Like being run out of business ... maybe.)
Some people here at C & C know things. And so, I am happy to listen to them and see what they say.
Strange, but I haven't been affected in the least and according to one map, my area was part of the target zone. I use Linux so maybe that made a difference.
My sister-in-law and brother-in-law were flying back to CA from a wedding in NY State yesterday and got stuck in Detroit overnight due to Delta cancelling their flight. They will eventually get back home....I think.
crowdstrike does sell software for Linux and managed to crash a couple flavors like debian a little while back with their crapware... it's just on the quiet because most industry is dumb enough to use window$ almost exclusively instead so when they crash that OS it is too big an event not to make the Nooz
you (or corporate IT if a business device) have to pay for crowdstrike "security" software to be affected. window$ itself is hot garbage but it was a kernel level access vulnerability triggered by bogus crowdstrike driver files which caused the issue.
it's hard to completely disable automatic updates on win 10 or 11. you can half ass disable them for a while in settings, but to actually turn them off requires registry edits and few people are comfy typing in things that could potentially brick your system if you enter any syntax errors or typos
SomeDude: my guess based on what you are saying is that this CrowdStrike thing was a targeted attack. And just purely guessing, quite possibly part of something larger ... maybe as to send some kind of message or warning. And maybe Selection Season connected ... as in something to do with voting and/or vote counting?
But what do I know? It just that the look of it stinks.
Just a guess. You were not targeted, but the servers (whichever ones) were. I think this is a totally good assumption. SomeDude below explains this very well.
Everyone downstream of what happened, especially medical facilities, 911 and airlines better be looking to switch to Linux or Apple asap. Honestly, they are just as much at fault for not having better backup strategies.
Same here. This was a Windows-specific version flaw. Mac & Linux were unaffected. It was an invalid bit of C++ code that accessed an off-limits memory address, causing windows to crash as a result. I have fixed dozens of them since Friday. No biggie.
I am typing this reply on Mint. That said, I have rolled out a few PCs using Pop!_OS (also debian.Ubuntu-based) and I like it very much. *We have options*. Just refrain from installing Microsoft Edge. Brave is great, and you can sync profiles between machines (even Windows).
Watch out! You could turn into a Super-Hero, at least in my book!
I use Mint and Mint has been my long time favorite. I have used Pops a good bit ... and Fedora somewhat, plus a quite a few other OSs most of which I switched out shortly after the install. I also notice that Mint has shot up in DistroWatches ranking list ... and battling it out with MXlinux. I can't figure it out, but MXlinus must hold some attraction for some people.
I use Cinnamon, and I like Mint Cinnamon better than having to load Cinnamon over Gnome in Pops!_OS. I like Mint's customizing features, and I think Mint's software store is better. And so hard to guess ... right. I'm writing on Mint too.
I have five browsers which I use. My favorite and most used is Yandex (the Google of Russia). I do use Brave and I also very much like Falkon. And all now working well on my System76 Oryx since it tested the memory, found it corrupted and replaced the old memory with an upgrade to 32 GB Crucial. the corrupted memory was, according to the terminal readout, something called Gold Star. I bet you never heard of them. And I bet System76 never used that brand again after the failure complaints began to roll in. Just a guess.
Well, thanks for the heads up. I never use Edge ... nothing MSFT at all. And I guess you can tell I always get excited over anything having to with Linux.
Yes, it only hit Windows operating system, not Linux or Apple so also most cell phones were fine because they don't typically run Windows. My computer was find because I don't have automatic updates available and it's old as the hills.
Close, but not true. The only ones affected were computers and servers running Windows, with Crowdstrike installed, and that were *running* when the update was released. People who shut down nightly and boot up in the morning were unaffected because they got the fixed update as soon as they connected to the internet.
Yes, but by bigger, it was a test to short a stock, hobble the product, and make a crap-ton of money when the stock plummets. That's all this was, kinda like how CNN suddenly started to broadcast Trump rallies on J13.
More cheating via the election machines?! I would venture to say. I dont want to be pessimistic but it feels impossible to win. So many people love Trump. Many have changed. But we all thought Trump would and did win in 2020
I agree - have you seen that creepy speech by the repellent Herr Schwab threatening humanity with a "cyber pandemic" that will bring almost the end of the world?!
These mafia goons have hijacked global power. And they're using it to commit evil.
Do you watch Yahweh's Restoration Ministry (YRM MINISTRY) on YouTube? They (and House of Yahweh) are the only church that I found that doesn't purposely falsify the Father's name.
I disagree with the statement things have calmed down a bit, no one has seen the president in six or seven days Kamala Harris apparently raised $81, million and 24 hours and it’s caught on tape saying we still have Joe on the rec…phone.. and Biden apparently or someone acting as Biden is delegating his presidential authority, this is a major shit show!
We have just witnessed the Left pull a soft coup on one of their own right in front of our eyes. They set up Biden to fail at the debate, tried to take out his opponent, and then forced Biden out to install the Cackler. And all in less than four weeks. Anyone who honestly thinks we are going to have a legitimate election in November isn't paying attention.
Looks like that. But what comes next? We will have to just tune into the Dem National Convention. Either it will be smooth sailing or upset apple carts. ???
While I agree with the first part of that statement, I think your forgetting that this DJT has his eyes wide open and knows more about the corrupt deep state then they could ever imagine. I think we’re watching the playing field be leveled and crowdstrike was a part of that.
I wonder how much of that $81 million was just reconfirming the 90 million that had been pulled when it looked like Buyden wasn't going to step down - if it's the same then they haven't raised any new money and in fact are still 9 million short
I agree. And someone on some video made the point that 'the announcement' of Dropout Joe was made on social network platform, not out of the White House. That is, a coup by a preemptive strike. Somehow, Someway ... another orchestrated show. Or so I am thinking for the moment.
Jeff, just an update on the crowdstrike crash... I did some digging
First, I'll note that the actual driver was not updated at the time of the crash, and has not been updated since the crash. The issue looks to be corrupt data files that are loaded into the driver. Drivers like the one they develop require a very non-trivial certification process, which made me suspect that it was bad code that got released. That aside, it was updated previously (for me anyway) on the 9th.
On my laptop, the update included 17 files, 4 or which were corrupt.
As I had reported the other day, the crash was not a simple null pointer (meaning an unchecked/uninitialized value of zero), but a rogue pointer, which is usually due to memory corruption or memory overrun.
Internally, the data files look (to a nerd ha) to have a fairly typical binary layout. However, the files in question contain corrupt binary values, values that represent offsets into the file, and values that are well beyond the length of the actual file. How this generally works is: the file gets read into memory, the program (in this case the driver) uses values in the memory block as addresses to jump around to other positions in the memory block, and so on, and so on, until the whole thing is processed. If one of those values is wrong then the program will read outside the bounds of the memory and then things blow up. Does this all sound fragile and unreliable, sure, and not to sound glib, but welcome to your computer.
Could (or should) the driver have done better checking to prevent this? Most likely. In this case they probably (and incorrectly) assumed it was a closed system (their driver, their files that they create, and all locked out of reach of most users), so there would be no issues. Unfortunately, somehow their release pipeline spit out a turd (which is still unacceptable btw).
"While initial reports focused on a dodgy update, a user named Brody, who is director of CrowdStrike Overwatch, posted on X (formerly Twitter) that it is 'a faulty channel file, so not quite an update.' "
Side note: given the likely audience of this stack, I think we should know enough by now to be skeptical of any post that begins with "and I have all these credentials" or "and I work at this important company" <cough zack cough>
Since we know Crowdstrike is deep state, and was involved in the coverup of the Seth Rich "hack" of the DNC emails, I tend to think they are war gaming for a total shutdown prior to the election. Yes, a conspiracy theory, but......
I understand very little about this but could it have been timed for the assassination which almost happened? Somehow tied into that to create even greater chaos? Then Trump lived. Now they need a cover up
I too am woefully ignorant, but the shorting of Trump's stock right before the assassination attempt seems like a smoking gun. Someone please explain where I am wrong here.
Can’t we just call them theories? Because they tend to always lead to facts. So conspiracy in front of it makes one think of secret people getting together to hatch a plot, and then executing it until it becomes fact. Kinda like the whole federal bureaucracy. All of it. They conspire, behind closed doors, daily, to create the news, leak it to their favored outlet of the day, then hold up their hands saying “melts in your mouth not in your hands. “ no,the conspiracies happen around us hourly. We should refer to our suspicions as theories.
So, does this point to 'just accidental bad input' coding, or 'too stupid to just be accidental' ... or alternatively 'nobody can say, but has the smell of rotten fish'?
I don't know enough about coding to form a conclusion, and yet I am thinking in the direction of 'smells of rotten fish'.
Linux people are always telling that Linux hard to attack because of the kernel is isolated (well, maybe comparted to MSFT Windows and registries. I however, believe anything can be made by Man can penetrated and I am guessing that the cyber-genius in 'intelligence' have figure this all out long ago. But yet I have to put this all on the 'hunch rack' .... because of 'what do I know' and 'a little knowledge is dangerous'. And so my rubric is 'never assume based on whatever you merely think or suspect, but don't know or can't know'.
I was trying to just report the facts. The initial report by the google "expert" was claiming that it was a trivial coding error in an "unsafe" programming language. The "unsafe" part is just nonsense since that is the only language that drivers can be programmed in. The trivial coding error also turns out to be false.
R.e. accidental or not: it's anyone's guess but I'm just telling you what happened. Also, again, this wasn't a "coding" error so much as a borked data file error.
R.e. Linux... the windows/linux debate is a theological discussion as much as anything with tech (or wanna be) tech people. Yes windows has had more than it's share of problems, but also, until recently it had something like 90% of the desktop market, so MUCH bigger attack surface. Again, not a windows fan-boy, just stating facts. Also, note that Linux has a similar "big brother" type system like this crowdstrike driver called eBPF. It is claimed that it can't crash the operating system, but it can definitely do similar things like intercept (and change) data returned by low level system calls. The Linux version though is completely wild west and programs can can be installed by anyone with administrative access, vs the microsoft version that requires a physical security dongle to digitally sign (i.e. verify the validity of) the driver.
For those who are interested, I got a random solicitation in the mail for a magazine called 'Biblical Archeology Review' - it was only about $25 so I subscribed. There is a whole discipline out there of people who study ancient sites and provide context to the passages/places in the bible, it's interesting reading.
I've subscribed to that mag for over 5 years. The publisher organizes group archaeological tours of digs usually in Israel (as the surrounding nations are not overly friendly) that provide students of archaeology a chance to work a primary-level resource site.
There’s also an Archaeological Bible. I want to read though this Bible with it’s additional archaeological articles lending supporting evidence to Biblical texts. Plus, I like pictures when I read 😆
All you have to is believe that Moses received the Torah from HaShem on mt Sinai. With that belief you are relieved from worrying about the truth of the Bible. It’s all true. Faith.
Yes, but the context is interesting - the stories of the bible take on more life when you understand more about how everything from the geography to the politics of the era played into the stories.
Well I know next to nothing about archeology, but always found it interesting. My son went through a hard core dinosaur phase in pre-school and early elementary and we did take him to a lot of natural history museums and even went to a couple of active paleontology dig sites while on vacations. There was one site in the Badlands of SD where the diggers let him down into the pit and explained what they were doing - he talked about that for months. So I learned stuff through him and also found that the discipline also has an 'expert' problem, where people with out PhD's are often marginalized and not taken seriously.
Yes, my daughter was obsessed with the Little House on the Prairie series, I read them the entire series when they were too young for chapter books, which then led to other books, and 'field trips' to museums and such. We even went to "Little House Days" in Mansfield MO. Definitely gained a lot of perspective for how tough life was for the early pioneers. Those people would laugh at how soft we have become today, myself included, lol.
We did our best. They are both independent adults with spouses and good jobs, but neither go to church and my daughter is a full on leftist. Of course I still love them fiercely and pray for them every day.
Interesting, of course another reason to question what we thought we knew as truth. Whether dinos were 'real' or not, the Sternberg museum in Hays KS does have a big collection of underwater creatures that swam through western KS when it was underwater, first specimens collected in the 1860's.
Thank you for sharing. Have you ever read any of Institute for Creation Research’s publications? They are also an excellent resource, not just for Creation issues, but well beyond in other Biblical areas as well. Highly recommend.
No, I have only gotten 2 issues of the magazine so far. I am old and still like reading on paper, but also have bandwidth issues. Had cut back on the number of subscriptions due to not being able to keep up but then added this one.....so many interesting subjects, and not enough hours in the day!
Jeff, you missed the highlight of the Cheatle hearings, when TX Rep. Pat Fallon admonished her to "go back to guarding Cheetos", referencing her former job as head of security for PepsiCo. BOOM.
My understanding is testimony gets it on the record which can then be used in a court case. It also sets a historical record for things that gets lost in the history books:
What pisses me off is these people get SUBPEONA'd and STILL SIT THERE AND LIE UNDER OATH AND DEFLECT QUESTIONS.
Sorry for yelling but this is just more waste of our tax dollars, and with every second of testimony I watched yesterday, it just seemed more and more fruitless, frustrating, and devoid of fact.
Why do people like Cheatle get away with such B.S. testimony? Someone needs to start using a really big gavel on these liars and cheats.
You sure seem easy to impress. Until people are arrest and tried for dereliction of duty and several other serious charges, the entire thing is meaningless.
My point was that before questioning she still had a job and after questioning she did not. I did not say that any other progress had been made. But your interpretation that it is all meaningless - I won't be able to counter that.
“Behold, bless the Lord, All you servants of the Lord, Who by night stand in the house of the Lord! Lift up your hands in the sanctuary, And bless the Lord. The Lord who made heaven and earth Bless you from Zion!”
I will agree with the "these things do happen sometimes for Crowdstrike, but ... these things also have consequences like companies being sued out of existence for loss of revenue and breaches of contract. I fully expect that CrowdStrike will no longer exist within the year (probably sooner) just because of the lawsuits coming. If they do exist, it will be as a shell of its former self, begging customers to stay. Even now there's a lot of "we don't have a better option" talk but that is followed by the "but we're looking" hints.
No idea how Cheatle still has a job. Someone has to be protecting her. The gross incompetence and stonewalling and lying really can only go so far and you'd think that _every_ congress critter would be up in arms about this. If the directory of the SS can be political to allow assassination attempts against a person they don't like or were given orders to let it go, where does that stop? It definitely doesn't stop with Trump. If anything, it escalates. :(
Thankfully, The unfortunate thing about being protected is that she can and will be unprotected at any time. Not it really matter with respect to what is going on. I’m just thinking out loud .
It seems that 'if you are in the club', you can do no wrong. And that's the problem, nobody gets bounced (seldom, if ever). And no rule of law anywhere.
I think this country and our government is in a deep spiral. I trust nothing I hear or read ( except C and C ). It is very depressing actually. Enjoy your life. Live each day as if it’s your last for surely one of these days you will be right. And pray. 🙏
I feel you Cathy. I feel the exact same. And many agree - God has given his country over to their debased minds. If you listen to any solid preacher this literally means they cannot think. They cannot make sense. They are not rational. This is what we are dealing with. Once given over they do not come back.
Charlie Kirk reported that Biden had a Medical Emergency in Las Vegas last week. Covid these days is not an emergency, unless you’ve had one too many drug cocktails. Bobert was demanding proof that Biden is still alive. Kamala flew to Delaware yesterday to visit Biden. What’s going on?
Jordan Schachtel also did an in-depth piece using sources from the LVPD and local reports. His piece was posted late last night. Sounds like Biden had some sort of stroke that was probably treated on Air Force One. If they had taken Biden to the hospital, what happened would have become public, so the decision was made to high tail it back to Delaware in order to cover it up is my guess.
Get an MRI fast enough and the typical TIA white spots will show up on a brain scan if done within an hour or so of the obvious stroke symptoms clearing up.
Schactel's report of racing to a Las Vegas hospital with police clearing the roads and then suddenly diverting to Air Force 1 for a super fast flight to the east sounds to me like a TIA which began clearing up within about an hour of the 1st stroke symptoms.
I've a relative who had a TIA. I got her to an ER within 30 minutes of witnessing first symptoms. After 15-20 minutes in the ER her stroke symptoms of getting words out and some balance issues started to clear up. Got her into an MRI after less than 1 hour of arriving at the ER. The next morning the entire hospital neuro team was at her bedside slack jawed because most had never seen a live TIA patient with an MIR showing the TIA tiny white spots on any scans.
That's my thought especially since Biden walked off Air Force One by himself. Meds he would have been mostly ok to walk with some difficulty. And that might explain why he may be well enough to return to the White House.
I read the Snopes fact check but it's dated 2020. It's true he did not have a TIA as part of his health record, but at his age now, a TIA would explain why there was an emergency but yet also explain why he could leave Air Force One under his own steam, albeit gingerly.
Let us know if you "see" Dirty Joe at all today as he's supposed to meet with P.M. Netanyahu from Israel who is visiting to "give me more funds" solicit from our U. S. Congress for the "Gaza War".
Or perhaps the press will just totally "blindside" us and give us the AI version of the "State get together"!!! I hardly believe ANYTHING I see in still photos anymore!
I wonder if enough Americans have learned that DEI is giving us some of the most incompetent decision makers since so many of those women and minorities have been publicly exposed (Harvard and Penn presidents, Kim Cheatle, etc.) that it will help defeat Harris. Of course, Dems will never be able to come to grips with reality, so there's that.....
It is for the elderly. My FIL in dementia care couldn't get himself out of bed & 2 others went to the hospital. So far only 1 came back. I quietly brought him the FLCCC protocol and the next day, he got himself up & a few days later he wanted to leave his room.
I was listening to Mark Levin in the car last night and he played a clip where AOC, of all people were grilling Cheatle! Wow upside down world for sure, and AOC actually sounded somewhat lucid in her rant.
Also saw where Lauren Boebert was tweeting that she wanted 'proof of life' by 5 PM. Don't think she got her request. A second secret service failure?
I think the angle is that she gets lots of threats herself (there are plenty of loons on the right) and she suddenly realized the people tasked to protect her are morons.
Yes that makes sense. But I still can’t help but wonder if there’s more. Because I don’t think they’re just morons, I think there was something more deliberate about it. But maybe she’s worried about the same people wanting her gone too.
It is all bizarro world. The worst part of it is that I am super busy at work right now and my phone will not stop blowing up with people texting stuff, and it is so distracting. My productivity has sucked ever since the 13th, as have my hours of sleep due to late night scrolling on X.
When covid hit, though I had been a traditional church goer all my life, my church closed for 3 months. Nothing. I rediscovered God when I started attending a charismatic church that reopened after only a month’s closure. They reopened maskless, full praise band in attendance. I kept attending because the pastor was Biblical based in all his teaching and asks us every week if we have our Bibles with us. As I have gone along now, nearly four years, in, there are things that don’t mesh with my traditional church upbringing, so I have returned at times to my old church. My husband would never leave our old church. I had to forgive a lot of covid excesses at the old church, but I have come to appreciate that people were frightened and just needed to be told what to do. They were the sheep, so to speak, but the shepherd was not the Good Shepherd but the Prince of Lies. Many now realize that they were gaslit and lied to. They may not say it aloud, but they know. We’ll see where the rubber meets the road.
I find myself, too often scrolling through this substack reading through comments. This is the only substack I follow, though I often read, other commenters suggestions. I am not on X and most social media, but I can still too often find myself going down online rabbit holes. I have to stop and ask myself if this is what Jesus really wants me doing? Is this my God given purpose? The answer is No. so, I pull back and start over again to find my gift from God and use it.
I don't think there is a single person on this page that has not had changes in their lives since 2020, and have had to deal with the feeling of loss in one way or another. Including changing churches, friend groups, jobs and so on. While most of us have not met in person we are a kind of 'family', and have learned a lot and gotten a lot of encouragement here.
I agree that balance is key, life in rabbit holes is not a great life, although it's hard for me. I do (business) research for a living and have for over 25 years now and digging into stuff is in my blood. But am also really into my flower beds which is my opportunity to unplug, reflect and pray.
Then we really do have something else in common, one of my many loves is flowers and my Michigan flowers keep expanding against my best efforts to throttle down. Being outside is a great calming influence. This is a place where many of us have so much in common.
I ADORE growing beautiful flowers, Donna - and looking at them always REAFFIRMS my belief in the CREATOR OF ALL LIFE!!! Thank you for posting this about what you do to offset the stressful 'aura' of today's world.
About half of our yard is flower beds. This time of year it's 30 min to an hour a day most days, more on the weekend. I have been transitioning to more perennials in the past few years but you can't beat annuals for continuous color. Of course the MO season is roughly March - Oct/Nov with some random clean up days in the winter. But I also have a lot of house plants. Have a few pepper plants on my deck but have mostly given up on vegetables as we have too much shade and too many squirrels/rabbits/raccoons.
Donna, today is the first day in a week I have felt productive on the job, so you are not alone.
I learned a long time ago to turn off my phone during working hours. Honestly, I'd never get any work done if my phone was always blowing up with "breaking news," texts from friends/family, app notifications, etc. I know this is very 70's behavior, but the information overload is a killer for me, and I was a lot less stressed in the 70's!
I didn't even know until 7+ hours after the fact that Cheatle resigned, and I'm no worse off for not knowing. :)
Well I am in the middle of a project where I am making a lot of phone calls. So I am stuck with leaving my phone on in case I get a call back. But yeah if I am in a research/report writing mode I do tune out. And the only notification I have turned on is for severe weather on my weather app. Actually have very few apps on my phone, I do most things on a laptop. But 3 emails and they are all out of control.
Some people think she’s a plant. I couldn’t see it but in hindsight she has definitely had situations that have moved us forward in this … show. Yesterday was a 🤔 for sure. We may never know but it’s interesting.
Quick correction, with all due respect, from a native Marylander, Rehobeth is a town in Maryland on the bay side of the eastern shore (where the first Presbyterian church was planted in 1683). Rehoboth (with two o’s rather than two e’s is the name of a beach town in Delaware. ☺️
Thank you for that in depth segment about the Ukraine debacle.
And yes, despite their desire to prove otherwise, archeology has consistently found evidence confirming the historical accuracy of the Bible. Places, people, times, have continuously been corroborated.
Not only is this a Ukraine debacle…it’s a defense debacle. Maybe Trump can scrape together enough TNT to blow up the Pentagon and start over.
We go to war with the army that we have.
Donald Rumsfeld
I don't like Donald Rumsfeld, I think he was a snake, and showed signs of psychopathy for pushing aspartame through, for profit, regardless of its harms. Among other travesties. But I love the truth of that quote, its stark reality guaranteed it would be attacked, and it was.
It shows how money comes before strategy.
I think it just speaks an obvious truth, no need to read between any lines. It does have many serious implications you could write a book about. But, the sentence itself is pure unvarnished reality. I'm a big fan of that.
We go to war with the aspartame we have. A toxic tactical alternative.
And deadlier than our star wars high tech boondoggles
The ammunition will come later on.
Ammunition is here now. The Czech initiative came through.
Wouldn't THAT be a wondrous "first" for 45 to undertake - destroy the NEOCON citadel!!!
After reading J. C. 's blog for today...all I can say is..... "God's GRACE is magnificently shed on the once "United" States of America.
We have a SURPLUS OF FOOLS at the helms of so many CRUCIAL departments within the Federal government that one wonders how we EVER lasted as long as we have..... 09/11 was a precursor, friends...our ENEMIES know how feckless our leadership is - for now...they probably consider us "useful idiots"....we are indebted to China for floating bonds to subsidize our MASSIVE Federal deficit (that will NEVER go away)...and we are indebted to Russia for NOT attacking us from the Aleutian Islands - using TNT resources that are CHEAP and EFFECTIVE and that we apparently DO NOT POSSESS anymore.
As I've written too many times in the past 4 1/2 years...
ALMIGHTY GOD...SAVE US FROM OUR 'LEADERS'!!
Shalom! I yearn for the day when "their swords will be beaten into plowshares" (paraphrased) https://biblehub.com/isaiah/2-4.htm
I think you’re onto something!
BEST IDEA YET
And the UE parliamentary building looks like the Tower of Babel, they always say it’s all in plain sight for those with eyes to see....
And also, scientific discoveries keep agreeing with the Bible, not debunking it. Remember how God said the Israelites should circumcise their infant sons on the 8th day? Guess what day infants have the highest blood clotting factor?
You guessed it---
Good thing I was only 8 days old. I wouldn’t want to remember that.
I had an archeologist walk through the Jericho ruins, reviewing the notes from the original excavation when I was visiting Israel several years ago. All notes lined up with the Biblical account, but the conclusion was exactly the opposite. It was a fascinating visit and just one of many things confirming the Bible
Yes. See Immanuel Velikovsky. http://www.varchive.org/
Those books were so great!
The. Bible 👌 you idiots still believe in the cloud wizard. HAHA!!
If that’s your take on God, this won’t be an echo chamber for you. I sincerely hope your eyes are opened and you choose to see.
The Bible is a fascinating and often reliable source of history. The human “choice” to settle down and build settlements meant the earth was no longer a garden, but needed constant tending. Life expectancy plummeted due to war and disease. All well documented and defensible based on other available evidence.
As for the magic wizards, I try to skip those parts.
Our Bible says that it was written by men inspired by God. Who wrote what you believe, Scott?
Explain all that to Jesus when your face to face with him
I hate to break the news to you, but he’s dead. Big hole in his side where he bled out. He’s been a corpse for thousands of years.
You forgot about Easter!
Makes you wonder if the CrowdStrike mess was a planned test run for something bigger. Feels like we are living in a movie.
I absolutely think it was a test for what’s to come. We all need to flag this event. I keep trying to tell everyone I know that life is going to be very difficult in the next few months into next year.
I think the opposite. I’m so sure Trump has everything done for us and as soon as the country is told who is the President and who has been president since 2016, he will be able to show exactly what he’s been doing. This coming week is another big week. I’m thinking money in our accounts that wasn’t there the previous day. That Balance will be big, especially if you’re over 61. We will get everything back that they stole from us for their Nefarious reasons. We will have one flat tax. So much will change pretty instantly. So not to argue or be mean, I have just kept my excitement level high, my vibrations high, staying away from social media and very close to Nature.
AGREE Sweettea. November 2024
Oh it was, I can see Crowdstrike happening during the so called elections. All computerized voting booths down forever.
Only if infiltrated with red votes. Blue votes get counted twice so problem. And if it’s an obvious minority voting, they get ten times the value.
So no problem
Niki: my suspicions were immediately in this direction. And maybe a warning something like ... 'we are watching you' and 'don't think you don't have vulnerabilities'. (Like being run out of business ... maybe.)
Some people here at C & C know things. And so, I am happy to listen to them and see what they say.
Strange, but I haven't been affected in the least and according to one map, my area was part of the target zone. I use Linux so maybe that made a difference.
I had to order my coffee in person on Friday! My App didn’t work. The horror, the horror..
As Dire Straits puts it
"Maybe get a blister on your little finger
Maybe get a blister on your thumb"
😂
My sister-in-law and brother-in-law were flying back to CA from a wedding in NY State yesterday and got stuck in Detroit overnight due to Delta cancelling their flight. They will eventually get back home....I think.
Ahhh good’ol Romulus airport.
crowdstrike does sell software for Linux and managed to crash a couple flavors like debian a little while back with their crapware... it's just on the quiet because most industry is dumb enough to use window$ almost exclusively instead so when they crash that OS it is too big an event not to make the Nooz
I do use Microsoft on my desktop, and I wasn't affected. But then I try to avoid updates, so maybe my computer wasn't updated with the bug.
you (or corporate IT if a business device) have to pay for crowdstrike "security" software to be affected. window$ itself is hot garbage but it was a kernel level access vulnerability triggered by bogus crowdstrike driver files which caused the issue.
it's hard to completely disable automatic updates on win 10 or 11. you can half ass disable them for a while in settings, but to actually turn them off requires registry edits and few people are comfy typing in things that could potentially brick your system if you enter any syntax errors or typos
SomeDude: my guess based on what you are saying is that this CrowdStrike thing was a targeted attack. And just purely guessing, quite possibly part of something larger ... maybe as to send some kind of message or warning. And maybe Selection Season connected ... as in something to do with voting and/or vote counting?
But what do I know? It just that the look of it stinks.
Avoid updates and malware protection. I believe thats a big part
Just a guess. You were not targeted, but the servers (whichever ones) were. I think this is a totally good assumption. SomeDude below explains this very well.
Maybe....JUST MAYBE, this will FINALLY be the year of the Linux desktop.
Everyone downstream of what happened, especially medical facilities, 911 and airlines better be looking to switch to Linux or Apple asap. Honestly, they are just as much at fault for not having better backup strategies.
It's hard to find good Linux knowledgeable staff.
Looks like my marketability just went up.
SomeDude, Some Interesting Info. Thanks. I understand a lot of servers run on Linux because it is faster.
I read that Linux and Mac were not affected.
Same here. This was a Windows-specific version flaw. Mac & Linux were unaffected. It was an invalid bit of C++ code that accessed an off-limits memory address, causing windows to crash as a result. I have fixed dozens of them since Friday. No biggie.
Thanks. I a Linux Mint user and only know enough to keep my machines up and running. I always appreciate your kind of info.
I am typing this reply on Mint. That said, I have rolled out a few PCs using Pop!_OS (also debian.Ubuntu-based) and I like it very much. *We have options*. Just refrain from installing Microsoft Edge. Brave is great, and you can sync profiles between machines (even Windows).
Watch out! You could turn into a Super-Hero, at least in my book!
I use Mint and Mint has been my long time favorite. I have used Pops a good bit ... and Fedora somewhat, plus a quite a few other OSs most of which I switched out shortly after the install. I also notice that Mint has shot up in DistroWatches ranking list ... and battling it out with MXlinux. I can't figure it out, but MXlinus must hold some attraction for some people.
I use Cinnamon, and I like Mint Cinnamon better than having to load Cinnamon over Gnome in Pops!_OS. I like Mint's customizing features, and I think Mint's software store is better. And so hard to guess ... right. I'm writing on Mint too.
I have five browsers which I use. My favorite and most used is Yandex (the Google of Russia). I do use Brave and I also very much like Falkon. And all now working well on my System76 Oryx since it tested the memory, found it corrupted and replaced the old memory with an upgrade to 32 GB Crucial. the corrupted memory was, according to the terminal readout, something called Gold Star. I bet you never heard of them. And I bet System76 never used that brand again after the failure complaints began to roll in. Just a guess.
Well, thanks for the heads up. I never use Edge ... nothing MSFT at all. And I guess you can tell I always get excited over anything having to with Linux.
Nice to know about Brave. Thanks!
Same here, only I’m a Mac.
My vaccum cleaner store was still down Monday. Cash or check only. Florida.
Yes, it only hit Windows operating system, not Linux or Apple so also most cell phones were fine because they don't typically run Windows. My computer was find because I don't have automatic updates available and it's old as the hills.
Linux wasn't affected.
Close, but not true. The only ones affected were computers and servers running Windows, with Crowdstrike installed, and that were *running* when the update was released. People who shut down nightly and boot up in the morning were unaffected because they got the fixed update as soon as they connected to the internet.
Yes, but by bigger, it was a test to short a stock, hobble the product, and make a crap-ton of money when the stock plummets. That's all this was, kinda like how CNN suddenly started to broadcast Trump rallies on J13.
Could be...or they could be making up by shorting Crowdstrike as the short on the DJT stock didn't work when the assasination failed.
And yes, a movie, but when I see the weird clots, heart attacks, turbo cancers, etc., it's more like a nightmare.
Someone made a crap load of money shorting them
Yep, just like shorting Trump's stock just before trying to kill him. There are no coincidences, only undiscovered truths.
Like 911 ... and if making a boat load of money, then connected.
More cheating via the election machines?! I would venture to say. I dont want to be pessimistic but it feels impossible to win. So many people love Trump. Many have changed. But we all thought Trump would and did win in 2020
also. So.
I agree - have you seen that creepy speech by the repellent Herr Schwab threatening humanity with a "cyber pandemic" that will bring almost the end of the world?!
These mafia goons have hijacked global power. And they're using it to commit evil.
Much bigger! I’m thinking around election time.
You can "Put-Bet" your last dollar on that. Wait, that might be backwards. Nevermind.
I'm not scared of anything these people attempt. There are billions of us and a few thousand of them.
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Yahweh is righteous in all His ways
And holy in all His works.
Yahweh is near to all who call upon Him,
To all who call upon Him in truth.
He will work out the desire of those who fear Him;
He will hear their cry for help and He will save them.
— Psalm 145:17-19 LSB
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“For I have no pleasure in the death of anyone, declares the Lord God; so turn, and live.”
Ezekiel 18:32 ESV
Thank you for bringing light each day!
Amen, thanks again Janice.
Do you watch Yahweh's Restoration Ministry (YRM MINISTRY) on YouTube? They (and House of Yahweh) are the only church that I found that doesn't purposely falsify the Father's name.
I have not.
I disagree with the statement things have calmed down a bit, no one has seen the president in six or seven days Kamala Harris apparently raised $81, million and 24 hours and it’s caught on tape saying we still have Joe on the rec…phone.. and Biden apparently or someone acting as Biden is delegating his presidential authority, this is a major shit show!
We have just witnessed the Left pull a soft coup on one of their own right in front of our eyes. They set up Biden to fail at the debate, tried to take out his opponent, and then forced Biden out to install the Cackler. And all in less than four weeks. Anyone who honestly thinks we are going to have a legitimate election in November isn't paying attention.
Looks like that. But what comes next? We will have to just tune into the Dem National Convention. Either it will be smooth sailing or upset apple carts. ???
Only The Shadow knows. Or maybe Obama?
Truth bomb!
Agree
While I agree with the first part of that statement, I think your forgetting that this DJT has his eyes wide open and knows more about the corrupt deep state then they could ever imagine. I think we’re watching the playing field be leveled and crowdstrike was a part of that.
What is SO frustrating is we see it, but the dems just keep on their rat-free rosy glasses as IF all is okay
Exactly my feeling!!!!!!!
I wonder how much of that $81 million was just reconfirming the 90 million that had been pulled when it looked like Buyden wasn't going to step down - if it's the same then they haven't raised any new money and in fact are still 9 million short
Well, there was the threat from a mega donor that they wouldn't get the 90 million until Biden was off the ballot.
Well son of a b*itch, what do you know, they fired him.
Ironic words to go out on.
He reaped what he sowed.
So will she...
awesome - comment of the year
Good one Justin!
That sounds more likely. The big money folks stopped giving when Biden wouldn't leave.
She meant to say record player yeah not recording. Joe is talking on the record player...
🤣🤣🤣
lol, like
Hopefully they will not be able to steal this election too, and things will calm down on January 20th . Before then, God help us and God SAVE THE USA
We may be about to learn just how good AI really is.
I agree. And someone on some video made the point that 'the announcement' of Dropout Joe was made on social network platform, not out of the White House. That is, a coup by a preemptive strike. Somehow, Someway ... another orchestrated show. Or so I am thinking for the moment.
Money laundering!
A coup happened right before our eyes and the MSM is perfectly happy with it. We're fecked
Trump may have to change his hats to "48"
harris did not raise any money and biden has been dead for years.
Jeff, just an update on the crowdstrike crash... I did some digging
First, I'll note that the actual driver was not updated at the time of the crash, and has not been updated since the crash. The issue looks to be corrupt data files that are loaded into the driver. Drivers like the one they develop require a very non-trivial certification process, which made me suspect that it was bad code that got released. That aside, it was updated previously (for me anyway) on the 9th.
On my laptop, the update included 17 files, 4 or which were corrupt.
As I had reported the other day, the crash was not a simple null pointer (meaning an unchecked/uninitialized value of zero), but a rogue pointer, which is usually due to memory corruption or memory overrun.
Internally, the data files look (to a nerd ha) to have a fairly typical binary layout. However, the files in question contain corrupt binary values, values that represent offsets into the file, and values that are well beyond the length of the actual file. How this generally works is: the file gets read into memory, the program (in this case the driver) uses values in the memory block as addresses to jump around to other positions in the memory block, and so on, and so on, until the whole thing is processed. If one of those values is wrong then the program will read outside the bounds of the memory and then things blow up. Does this all sound fragile and unreliable, sure, and not to sound glib, but welcome to your computer.
Could (or should) the driver have done better checking to prevent this? Most likely. In this case they probably (and incorrectly) assumed it was a closed system (their driver, their files that they create, and all locked out of reach of most users), so there would be no issues. Unfortunately, somehow their release pipeline spit out a turd (which is still unacceptable btw).
This article in Forbes looks to confirm: https://www.forbes.com/sites/kateoflahertyuk/2024/07/19/crowdstrike-windows-outage-what-happened-and-what-to-do-next/
"While initial reports focused on a dodgy update, a user named Brody, who is director of CrowdStrike Overwatch, posted on X (formerly Twitter) that it is 'a faulty channel file, so not quite an update.' "
Side note: given the likely audience of this stack, I think we should know enough by now to be skeptical of any post that begins with "and I have all these credentials" or "and I work at this important company" <cough zack cough>
Since we know Crowdstrike is deep state, and was involved in the coverup of the Seth Rich "hack" of the DNC emails, I tend to think they are war gaming for a total shutdown prior to the election. Yes, a conspiracy theory, but......
Or scrubbing every bit of damaging evidence against the Clinton-Obama-Biden cartel.
Don’t forget the Bush’s!
Agree.
I understand very little about this but could it have been timed for the assassination which almost happened? Somehow tied into that to create even greater chaos? Then Trump lived. Now they need a cover up
I too am woefully ignorant, but the shorting of Trump's stock right before the assassination attempt seems like a smoking gun. Someone please explain where I am wrong here.
Yep... a lot of short purchases on Crowdstrike before the outage too
There were many hands in this card game. All linked together.
The rabbit hole on this is a deep and dark.
Just FYI, the huge short was placed on or about 6/28. It was simply reported shortly before.
Interesting. Thanks.
Or perhaps a major distraction?
YES!!
I seem to remember that it affected Dominion machines (in AZ , who were in a primary) which aren’t supposed to be connected?
Yep, voting sites in Maricopa County were affected. Officials posted info on which sites were not impacted. Makes you go, hmmm…
True the Vote put out great info for "on the day voters".
Keep your "mail-in ballot", fill it out, deposit it in your local voting center box on election day. No machine intereference.
That is right up there in the 10 most important reveals of the strike!
what if. it’s a whitehat probe at deep state vulnerability with turds like dominion machines floating to the top of the punch bowl?
Can’t we just call them theories? Because they tend to always lead to facts. So conspiracy in front of it makes one think of secret people getting together to hatch a plot, and then executing it until it becomes fact. Kinda like the whole federal bureaucracy. All of it. They conspire, behind closed doors, daily, to create the news, leak it to their favored outlet of the day, then hold up their hands saying “melts in your mouth not in your hands. “ no,the conspiracies happen around us hourly. We should refer to our suspicions as theories.
YEPPIR!!! SPOT ON, Dave!
The only part of your explanation I really understood was that "their release pipeline spit out a turd".....but I get the gist🤣.
So, does this point to 'just accidental bad input' coding, or 'too stupid to just be accidental' ... or alternatively 'nobody can say, but has the smell of rotten fish'?
I don't know enough about coding to form a conclusion, and yet I am thinking in the direction of 'smells of rotten fish'.
Linux people are always telling that Linux hard to attack because of the kernel is isolated (well, maybe comparted to MSFT Windows and registries. I however, believe anything can be made by Man can penetrated and I am guessing that the cyber-genius in 'intelligence' have figure this all out long ago. But yet I have to put this all on the 'hunch rack' .... because of 'what do I know' and 'a little knowledge is dangerous'. And so my rubric is 'never assume based on whatever you merely think or suspect, but don't know or can't know'.
I was trying to just report the facts. The initial report by the google "expert" was claiming that it was a trivial coding error in an "unsafe" programming language. The "unsafe" part is just nonsense since that is the only language that drivers can be programmed in. The trivial coding error also turns out to be false.
R.e. accidental or not: it's anyone's guess but I'm just telling you what happened. Also, again, this wasn't a "coding" error so much as a borked data file error.
R.e. Linux... the windows/linux debate is a theological discussion as much as anything with tech (or wanna be) tech people. Yes windows has had more than it's share of problems, but also, until recently it had something like 90% of the desktop market, so MUCH bigger attack surface. Again, not a windows fan-boy, just stating facts. Also, note that Linux has a similar "big brother" type system like this crowdstrike driver called eBPF. It is claimed that it can't crash the operating system, but it can definitely do similar things like intercept (and change) data returned by low level system calls. The Linux version though is completely wild west and programs can can be installed by anyone with administrative access, vs the microsoft version that requires a physical security dongle to digitally sign (i.e. verify the validity of) the driver.
For those who are interested, I got a random solicitation in the mail for a magazine called 'Biblical Archeology Review' - it was only about $25 so I subscribed. There is a whole discipline out there of people who study ancient sites and provide context to the passages/places in the bible, it's interesting reading.
I've subscribed to that mag for over 5 years. The publisher organizes group archaeological tours of digs usually in Israel (as the surrounding nations are not overly friendly) that provide students of archaeology a chance to work a primary-level resource site.
There’s also an Archaeological Bible. I want to read though this Bible with it’s additional archaeological articles lending supporting evidence to Biblical texts. Plus, I like pictures when I read 😆
All you have to is believe that Moses received the Torah from HaShem on mt Sinai. With that belief you are relieved from worrying about the truth of the Bible. It’s all true. Faith.
Yes, but the context is interesting - the stories of the bible take on more life when you understand more about how everything from the geography to the politics of the era played into the stories.
It’s a great magazine for keeping current on what’s being dug up from the past. Somewhat critical in tone, but lots of good info as well.
Well I know next to nothing about archeology, but always found it interesting. My son went through a hard core dinosaur phase in pre-school and early elementary and we did take him to a lot of natural history museums and even went to a couple of active paleontology dig sites while on vacations. There was one site in the Badlands of SD where the diggers let him down into the pit and explained what they were doing - he talked about that for months. So I learned stuff through him and also found that the discipline also has an 'expert' problem, where people with out PhD's are often marginalized and not taken seriously.
I love when our children can be our greatest teachers! It is all fascinating !
Yes, my daughter was obsessed with the Little House on the Prairie series, I read them the entire series when they were too young for chapter books, which then led to other books, and 'field trips' to museums and such. We even went to "Little House Days" in Mansfield MO. Definitely gained a lot of perspective for how tough life was for the early pioneers. Those people would laugh at how soft we have become today, myself included, lol.
You exemplify a great parent Donna!
We did our best. They are both independent adults with spouses and good jobs, but neither go to church and my daughter is a full on leftist. Of course I still love them fiercely and pray for them every day.
all "dinosaurs "are FAKE...
https://open.substack.com/pub/chemtrails/p/history-hoax-bone-fraud-are-dinosaur?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=b7m4j you may find this series fascinating. Food for thought
Interesting, of course another reason to question what we thought we knew as truth. Whether dinos were 'real' or not, the Sternberg museum in Hays KS does have a big collection of underwater creatures that swam through western KS when it was underwater, first specimens collected in the 1860's.
Museum displays are "replicas" according to Agent.
Thank you for sharing. Have you ever read any of Institute for Creation Research’s publications? They are also an excellent resource, not just for Creation issues, but well beyond in other Biblical areas as well. Highly recommend.
No, I have only gotten 2 issues of the magazine so far. I am old and still like reading on paper, but also have bandwidth issues. Had cut back on the number of subscriptions due to not being able to keep up but then added this one.....so many interesting subjects, and not enough hours in the day!
My husband loves this magazine!
Some more interesting resources for those interested.
https://www.christianbook.com/apps/easyfind?Ntk=author&Ntt=Titus%20Kennedy
Very cool!
Jeff, you missed the highlight of the Cheatle hearings, when TX Rep. Pat Fallon admonished her to "go back to guarding Cheetos", referencing her former job as head of security for PepsiCo. BOOM.
He said "Doritos."
Don't eat either.
Since they both contain aborted fetal cells, I don't either.
No-I'm not going to give you links. Do your own work, like I did.
Yep - remember Glenn Beck rubbing his face in a bowl of crushed Cheetos to get that "Orange Man" look.
Glenn Beck did have a "come to Jesus moment" and is now supporting Trump.
Yep, that “come to Jesus moment” occurred when he lost about three quarters of his audience.
Lol
The Cheetos part is kind of ironic considering the Democrats’ nickname for Trump 😑
Having politicians question bureaucrats is a waste of time; a dog and pony show for the rubes.
Theater
Kabuki
Yes!!
My understanding is testimony gets it on the record which can then be used in a court case. It also sets a historical record for things that gets lost in the history books:
https://www.military.com/video/guns/pistols/cias-secret-heart-attack-gun/2555371072001
Great share, thank you, CHop!
Suzanne Sommers was taken out the day after publically mentioning it.
What pisses me off is these people get SUBPEONA'd and STILL SIT THERE AND LIE UNDER OATH AND DEFLECT QUESTIONS.
Sorry for yelling but this is just more waste of our tax dollars, and with every second of testimony I watched yesterday, it just seemed more and more fruitless, frustrating, and devoid of fact.
Why do people like Cheatle get away with such B.S. testimony? Someone needs to start using a really big gavel on these liars and cheats.
We obviously get the government we deserve, which speaks volumes .....
Sigh... I heard Sky News call all of this "American political spectacle." They nailed it.
Bingo!!!
Well she wasn't going to resign before the questioning by the bureaucrats. She has now resigned (after questioning by the bureaucrats.)
You sure seem easy to impress. Until people are arrest and tried for dereliction of duty and several other serious charges, the entire thing is meaningless.
My point was that before questioning she still had a job and after questioning she did not. I did not say that any other progress had been made. But your interpretation that it is all meaningless - I won't be able to counter that.
Just wish they’d back it up with actual actions.
The only power they have is to request charges be brought against a person THROUGH the DOJ. Mayorkas (sp) has made them powerless. Period.
Like the old British shows "Yes Minister" and later "Yes Prime Minister" where the bureaucrats led the politician by the nose
“Behold, bless the Lord, All you servants of the Lord, Who by night stand in the house of the Lord! Lift up your hands in the sanctuary, And bless the Lord. The Lord who made heaven and earth Bless you from Zion!”
Psalms 134:1-3 NKJV
https://bible.com/bible/114/psa.134.1-3.NKJV
I will agree with the "these things do happen sometimes for Crowdstrike, but ... these things also have consequences like companies being sued out of existence for loss of revenue and breaches of contract. I fully expect that CrowdStrike will no longer exist within the year (probably sooner) just because of the lawsuits coming. If they do exist, it will be as a shell of its former self, begging customers to stay. Even now there's a lot of "we don't have a better option" talk but that is followed by the "but we're looking" hints.
No idea how Cheatle still has a job. Someone has to be protecting her. The gross incompetence and stonewalling and lying really can only go so far and you'd think that _every_ congress critter would be up in arms about this. If the directory of the SS can be political to allow assassination attempts against a person they don't like or were given orders to let it go, where does that stop? It definitely doesn't stop with Trump. If anything, it escalates. :(
Agreed on both thoughts.
Thankfully, The unfortunate thing about being protected is that she can and will be unprotected at any time. Not it really matter with respect to what is going on. I’m just thinking out loud .
And she’ll end up with a seven figures cushion on MSNBC. Or dead
I had been wondering if she will turn up at Raytheon or a Blackrock company.
Or Epsteined
She knows to much, I highly doubt there is a seven figure consulting job in her short future.
CrowdStrike is CIA.
So is Palantir (Peter Thiel = JD Vance)
https://sonsoflibertymedia.com/the-man-behind-trumps-vp-pick-its-worse-than-you-think/
Oh yes, been passing that around as well!! Webb is a treasure.
Agee
His funder Peter Thiel is the epitome of deep state CIA goon squad, which is concerning to say the least.
Always has been, just like Facebook.
News flash. I just heard that Cheeto resigned. Surprise, surprise.
Dorito
Mayorkas and Garland are protecting her for others. Just my opinion.
She’s gonna have an accident.
Obama will insist.
It seems that 'if you are in the club', you can do no wrong. And that's the problem, nobody gets bounced (seldom, if ever). And no rule of law anywhere.
I think this country and our government is in a deep spiral. I trust nothing I hear or read ( except C and C ). It is very depressing actually. Enjoy your life. Live each day as if it’s your last for surely one of these days you will be right. And pray. 🙏
I agree with you, Cathy. If I didn’t have my faith in God, I’d be in that deep spiral too.
Hard to watch your own country disintegrate.
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👆🏻🙌🎯🎯🎯🎯😞😓😣….. 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏…. And according to whistleblower Marc Palasciano… we are already destroyed…
https://www.marcpalasciano.com/p/why-exposing-t-mobile-is-important
AMEN
I feel you Cathy. I feel the exact same. And many agree - God has given his country over to their debased minds. If you listen to any solid preacher this literally means they cannot think. They cannot make sense. They are not rational. This is what we are dealing with. Once given over they do not come back.
Amen, Cathy!
Hard to focus on issues abroad when we literally have no idea who’s running our country.
The Kenyan is running things.
At this point I just want to know if Biden’s even alive.
You're not allowed to know that.
or rather "YOU CAN'T HANDLE" that
WH updated his schedule. He is due back at the WH this afternoon.
A <insert vegetable of your choice> sighting. Seems he survived another bout of covid <cough.>
https://x.com/RNCResearch/status/1815806148810838264
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I’ve never believed that. He’s a doper. Someone is running him. Some group groomed him and continues unseen to pull the strings
Of course someone is running him. He was groomed for this time, and so was the public. I've always found him revolting.
I’m pretty sure the Iranian is running things locally, as in dc. The shiny idiot isn’t any brighter than Joey.
Obamanation is just a "higher functioning" puppet of the REAL 'powers behind the throne' that WE THE PEOPLE know NOTHING about!
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We're going to end up w/ some 30 yr old flying nukes and we won't know who or why.
Shit's gonna get real and us guys won't have a clue.
Charlie Kirk reported that Biden had a Medical Emergency in Las Vegas last week. Covid these days is not an emergency, unless you’ve had one too many drug cocktails. Bobert was demanding proof that Biden is still alive. Kamala flew to Delaware yesterday to visit Biden. What’s going on?
Jordan Schachtel also did an in-depth piece using sources from the LVPD and local reports. His piece was posted late last night. Sounds like Biden had some sort of stroke that was probably treated on Air Force One. If they had taken Biden to the hospital, what happened would have become public, so the decision was made to high tail it back to Delaware in order to cover it up is my guess.
Laura Loomer has posted that Joe had a TIA.
It uncommon to see evidence of TIA…
Get an MRI fast enough and the typical TIA white spots will show up on a brain scan if done within an hour or so of the obvious stroke symptoms clearing up.
Schactel's report of racing to a Las Vegas hospital with police clearing the roads and then suddenly diverting to Air Force 1 for a super fast flight to the east sounds to me like a TIA which began clearing up within about an hour of the 1st stroke symptoms.
I've a relative who had a TIA. I got her to an ER within 30 minutes of witnessing first symptoms. After 15-20 minutes in the ER her stroke symptoms of getting words out and some balance issues started to clear up. Got her into an MRI after less than 1 hour of arriving at the ER. The next morning the entire hospital neuro team was at her bedside slack jawed because most had never seen a live TIA patient with an MIR showing the TIA tiny white spots on any scans.
That's my thought especially since Biden walked off Air Force One by himself. Meds he would have been mostly ok to walk with some difficulty. And that might explain why he may be well enough to return to the White House.
I just found this "fact check" on SNOPES putting in this search term "did Joe Biden have a TIA"?
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/biden-two-brain-aneurysms/
I read the Snopes fact check but it's dated 2020. It's true he did not have a TIA as part of his health record, but at his age now, a TIA would explain why there was an emergency but yet also explain why he could leave Air Force One under his own steam, albeit gingerly.
Let us know if you "see" Dirty Joe at all today as he's supposed to meet with P.M. Netanyahu from Israel who is visiting to "give me more funds" solicit from our U. S. Congress for the "Gaza War".
If we see him at all it might just be only a photo op of the two men and the real talk will be between Netanyahu and Blinken.
Or perhaps the press will just totally "blindside" us and give us the AI version of the "State get together"!!! I hardly believe ANYTHING I see in still photos anymore!
Kamala had the Scalia pillow with her.
Kamala would like to run as an incumbent and first woman President. The ultimate DEI achievement.
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But that's make Kamalama's Term #47 (if RE-elected) her SECOND as POTUS.
Two and done.
I wonder if enough Americans have learned that DEI is giving us some of the most incompetent decision makers since so many of those women and minorities have been publicly exposed (Harvard and Penn presidents, Kim Cheatle, etc.) that it will help defeat Harris. Of course, Dems will never be able to come to grips with reality, so there's that.....
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Yep
https://open.substack.com/pub/dossier/p/exclusive-president-biden-suffered?r=pll17&utm_medium=ios
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Incontinence episode 😩
Rhymes with incompetence
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It is for the elderly. My FIL in dementia care couldn't get himself out of bed & 2 others went to the hospital. So far only 1 came back. I quietly brought him the FLCCC protocol and the next day, he got himself up & a few days later he wanted to leave his room.
Brain fog lasted a while though.
I wonder if they've withdrawn his drug cocktail and now the real Biden is exposed.
I had no idea TNT was in short supply. Oh, I'd heard of the shortages, but assumed it was being blown out of proportion. "For want of a nail . . . ."
"blown out of proportion"
I saw what you did there..
Subtlety, around this crowd, isn't.
Right? 😆
Hmm… I wonder if Mike Lindell would open a TNT factory - “My TNT” factory. I bet we would be glad he did! 😃
I think Mike would "sleep on it" if you asked him to.
Time for the Sisterhood of the Truro synagogue in Rhode Island to cook up more saltpeter for gunpowder as they did in 1776.
https://www.allmusicals.com/lyrics/1776/compliments.htm
I was listening to Mark Levin in the car last night and he played a clip where AOC, of all people were grilling Cheatle! Wow upside down world for sure, and AOC actually sounded somewhat lucid in her rant.
Also saw where Lauren Boebert was tweeting that she wanted 'proof of life' by 5 PM. Don't think she got her request. A second secret service failure?
I saw AOC’s comments too and couldn’t help but think what her angle might be. I don’t trust her at all.
Yes still no proof of life, it’s very bizarre 🤨
I think the angle is that she gets lots of threats herself (there are plenty of loons on the right) and she suddenly realized the people tasked to protect her are morons.
Yes that makes sense. But I still can’t help but wonder if there’s more. Because I don’t think they’re just morons, I think there was something more deliberate about it. But maybe she’s worried about the same people wanting her gone too.
I think all the Dems are using the incident as a backdoor way of getting at guns.
Yes it’s true that at least some of them brought up gun control at the hearings 😕
They never waste any opportunity to do so.
Never let a crisis go to waste. James Carville
Of course they are. At least only two of them really grandstanded on the topic of gun control yesterday.
But where is the gun? How come we haven't seen the gun yet? The Dems should be using that to their "gun control" advantage.
I had the same thoughts as I watched her speak yesterday.
It is all bizarro world. The worst part of it is that I am super busy at work right now and my phone will not stop blowing up with people texting stuff, and it is so distracting. My productivity has sucked ever since the 13th, as have my hours of sleep due to late night scrolling on X.
When covid hit, though I had been a traditional church goer all my life, my church closed for 3 months. Nothing. I rediscovered God when I started attending a charismatic church that reopened after only a month’s closure. They reopened maskless, full praise band in attendance. I kept attending because the pastor was Biblical based in all his teaching and asks us every week if we have our Bibles with us. As I have gone along now, nearly four years, in, there are things that don’t mesh with my traditional church upbringing, so I have returned at times to my old church. My husband would never leave our old church. I had to forgive a lot of covid excesses at the old church, but I have come to appreciate that people were frightened and just needed to be told what to do. They were the sheep, so to speak, but the shepherd was not the Good Shepherd but the Prince of Lies. Many now realize that they were gaslit and lied to. They may not say it aloud, but they know. We’ll see where the rubber meets the road.
I find myself, too often scrolling through this substack reading through comments. This is the only substack I follow, though I often read, other commenters suggestions. I am not on X and most social media, but I can still too often find myself going down online rabbit holes. I have to stop and ask myself if this is what Jesus really wants me doing? Is this my God given purpose? The answer is No. so, I pull back and start over again to find my gift from God and use it.
I don't think there is a single person on this page that has not had changes in their lives since 2020, and have had to deal with the feeling of loss in one way or another. Including changing churches, friend groups, jobs and so on. While most of us have not met in person we are a kind of 'family', and have learned a lot and gotten a lot of encouragement here.
I agree that balance is key, life in rabbit holes is not a great life, although it's hard for me. I do (business) research for a living and have for over 25 years now and digging into stuff is in my blood. But am also really into my flower beds which is my opportunity to unplug, reflect and pray.
Then we really do have something else in common, one of my many loves is flowers and my Michigan flowers keep expanding against my best efforts to throttle down. Being outside is a great calming influence. This is a place where many of us have so much in common.
I ADORE growing beautiful flowers, Donna - and looking at them always REAFFIRMS my belief in the CREATOR OF ALL LIFE!!! Thank you for posting this about what you do to offset the stressful 'aura' of today's world.
About half of our yard is flower beds. This time of year it's 30 min to an hour a day most days, more on the weekend. I have been transitioning to more perennials in the past few years but you can't beat annuals for continuous color. Of course the MO season is roughly March - Oct/Nov with some random clean up days in the winter. But I also have a lot of house plants. Have a few pepper plants on my deck but have mostly given up on vegetables as we have too much shade and too many squirrels/rabbits/raccoons.
Donna, today is the first day in a week I have felt productive on the job, so you are not alone.
I learned a long time ago to turn off my phone during working hours. Honestly, I'd never get any work done if my phone was always blowing up with "breaking news," texts from friends/family, app notifications, etc. I know this is very 70's behavior, but the information overload is a killer for me, and I was a lot less stressed in the 70's!
I didn't even know until 7+ hours after the fact that Cheatle resigned, and I'm no worse off for not knowing. :)
Well I am in the middle of a project where I am making a lot of phone calls. So I am stuck with leaving my phone on in case I get a call back. But yeah if I am in a research/report writing mode I do tune out. And the only notification I have turned on is for severe weather on my weather app. Actually have very few apps on my phone, I do most things on a laptop. But 3 emails and they are all out of control.
Some people think she’s a plant. I couldn’t see it but in hindsight she has definitely had situations that have moved us forward in this … show. Yesterday was a 🤔 for sure. We may never know but it’s interesting.
Her angle is the Demoncrats don't want to be left "holding the bag" on this colossal failure of an assassination attempt.
Yeah I had to look twice it was AOC. I guess she wants to keep Harris safe
Same here!!
AOC for President?
Don't give the Dems any more bad ideas.
Quick correction, with all due respect, from a native Marylander, Rehobeth is a town in Maryland on the bay side of the eastern shore (where the first Presbyterian church was planted in 1683). Rehoboth (with two o’s rather than two e’s is the name of a beach town in Delaware. ☺️
Just Delaware as far as I know, though I've never been to Rehobeth (hope to this August).