Huge Trend Changes Point To Something Big In The Gold Market
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The Coming Catastrophic Collapse Of The American Middle Class – B.B.
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U.S. debt dump deepens in 2016 – B.B.
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A third of cash is held by 5 U.S. companies
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Sent in by G.G. – Judge orders ethics classes for ‘deceptive’ DOJ attorneys Excerpt: The facts of the deception are not in doubt, Hanen emphasized. “[DOJ] has now admitted making statements that clearly did not match the facts,” he said in the May 19 opinion, first noted by the National Law Journal. “It has admitted that the lawyers who made these statements had knowledge of the truth when they made these misstatements … This court would be remiss if it left such unseemly and unprofessional conduct unaddressed.”
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This Man Saved A Girl’s Life, Now Target Is Suing Him – B.B.
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Microsoft has become far more aggressive in pushing their free Windows 10 upgrade for users of Windows 7 and Windows 8. For those who do not want it (and some of the potential security issues it brings) it is important to realize that it can automatically download onto your machine and run the update without your approval. There exists various ways to stop this from happening AND freeing up potentially 6GB+ of space that it uses in pre-downloading its files. You can learn more here – B.M.
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“And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean. And in controversy they shall stand in judgment; and they shall judge it according to my judgments: and they shall keep my laws and my statutes in all mine assemblies; and they shall hallow my sabbaths.” – Ezekiel 44:23-24 (KJV)
May 20th, 1942 is the birthday of Carlos Hathcock; he died February 23, 1999. He was a United States Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeant sniper with a service record of 93 confirmed kills.
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We are coming up on the end of Round 64 of the SurvivalBlog Writing Contest. If you have an article you would like to submit to the contest, finish it up and email it to SurvivalBlog. If you haven’t read the list of prizes that are going to the top winners, you should take the time to read them below. Sometimes I look at these prizes and wish I could enter the contest! Remember, if you have won the contest before and it has been longer than a year, you can enter and be eligible again. Past winners of the Honorable Mention prizes can enter the contest any time.
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Today, we present another entry for Round 64 of the SurvivalBlog non-fiction writing contest. The nearly $12,000 worth of prizes for this round include:
First Prize:
Second Prize:
Third Prize:
Round 64 ends on May 31st, so get busy writing and e-mail us your entry. Remember that there is a 1,500-word minimum, and that articles on practical “how to” skills for survival have an advantage in the judging.
Look, our friends over at Wall Street were losing their wealth. We (the elite) couldn’t allow that to happen. They needed more dollars to pay their debts because the stupid middle class had lost their jobs, filed bankruptcy, and were not buying anything. What could we do? Well, we decided to print more dollars and give those dollars to them. Then, they could pay off their bonuses and buy more of their own stocks. They keep up their perceived value, and we will all look rich! We will take advantage of the inflated values of Wall St. We will inflate the Wall St values and increase the media stories and programs to the middle class so that they invest more into the inflated values. Then, when we decide it is time, we (the elite) will pull out all of our investments at the same time. This will leave the middle class holding the bag!
Sorry for the change to 1st person, the Great Recession is new and still painful for so many. I felt I needed to lighten up the true horror of financial destruction of the middle class. Hindsight is always—20/20! Now, I’m back to talking for myself instead of as a member of the elite.
Man, I hope this scenario, described above, doesn’t happen! That is why I educate my friends and family about the dangers of owning Wall St rather than any tangible asset.
The next financial issue the elite didn’t see coming was a drop in the GDP! Why? Recently the facade is showing its ugly truth in the financial markets. The charade is up! Remember where we are in the population control and demise of the western middle class theory. Have you figured out “the why”? The reason is greed!
Greed of the wealthy elite is the reason for population control, Marxism, and Communistic theory and agendas. The elite’s greed is why we have lost our family unit. It’s responsible for the attack on our Constitution, the emasculation of our men, the push to increase feminism, and the career woman. The result would be fewer kids born to conservative, Christian parents of the successful middle class. They couldn’t allow the middle class (MC) to multiply their efforts in obtaining generational wealth. They needed to deconstruct the MC western culture, because of the elite’s greed. Plus, to change the MC culture, the end result was to create a two-class system similar to a feudal system of “rulers and serfs”. That is why we have seen such an increase of the wealth of the Top 10% in the USA and a huge drop off of the middle class with an increase of poverty. This is the creation of a feudal system. I am sorry to be the bearer of bad news!
An unforeseen drop in the GDP is a real issue for the wealth of the elite ruling class. So, they need to solve this real issue and quickly! But how? They can’t afford to adjust the plan of ridding the MC, and they can’t make the MC any poorer without causing a revolt. What could be the answer?
If the MC did have the guts to revolt, the elite needed start the attack on our ownership of guns and ammo. Why? Well, because an unarmed population is not a threat to creating a feudal system, unless it is the peasant revolt in the French Revolution. However, I don’t think “pitchforks” would be very successful versus our current military and police state complex.
The answer is immigration reform! What better may to solve the GDP than by bringing in a completely new class of consumer. These new consumers wouldn’t request any new Constitution rights. This new consumer won’t have a problem with loss of those rights, since they never had those rights before in their lives.
These new immigrant citizens will have almost 0 financial education, so they won’t threaten the elite’s wealth and power. Plus, when the Progressive politicians give those second and third rates citizens free stuff: home, welfare, cell phone, et cetera, these new citizens will vote Progressive with no questions or qualms. Never heard that technique work? Look back to 2012 and Obama’s vote-buying with government cell phones. SMH! Wow! It’s surreal.
Looking to the under 30 year old group, they have pushed for more “equality”. Man, we didn’t see that coming. Have you heard of “Occupy Wall St”? Do you remember “1% Rich and 99% Poor” signs? Well, that was a precursor of things to come! I think the Democrats and the Progressives found a way to quench the thirst for equality. They will make everyone the same. Using the techniques of communism, they will place everyone on an even playing surface, that being below the poverty line! That way we will all feel– equal, and there will no longer be any envy, desire, and will to bring a even greater loss of hope. How much equality do we need to have? The next generation has been brain-washed for so long that I feel sorrow for the Millennial generation. They are seeing a real punch to the gut in becoming adults, and they’re demanding the likes of Bernie and equality; they will be surprised. Be careful for what you wish for! With the use of TV, social media, Hollywood stars, and the music industry, these celebrities are all playing for a spot among the elite ruling class. They have been promised their place and the future of greater fortunes. Do your research and you can wonder why Leonardo DiCaprio gets invited to Davos Switzerland for a World Economic Summit!?! Then he comes back from Davos and wins the Best Actor award; during his acceptance speech, he rants about global warming. Does it seems curious or scripted? But the attack on the MC is not over. It has now become an elimination! Stay tuned! Reflect, and ask yourself “Why?”.
In the last four years and over the next six years, our western middle culture is under its final attack. I believe our culture will be eliminated in the next ten years. Since the election of BHO, I have never seen such a movement to unravel our Constitution and our culture. The purposeful unraveling seems so comedic that it seems surreal. Why are there 0 checks and balances in Washington D.C.? Aren’t these checks and balances laid out in the framework of our government? So, it seems beyond me. Unless, all those politicians all are part of the same game? What a real shame. I feel duped and upset with their greed. In history, all of the most powerful empires had a great middle class. However, it seems that the Progressive Movement is now entering the final mode. It is really amazing to see how a liberal person behaves and acts around non-liberals. They get violent, aggressive, unable to communicate, narcissistic, unfounded and lost. It seems that the liberal mind has now become a mental illness. I guess, it’s brain washing? But, back to the matter, the progressive agenda is now becoming a movement. This movement is ready for the final stage– the elimination of the middle class.
Why? Let’s go back to looking at it from the elite’s point of view. The threat of the middle class needs to be eliminated, because having a middle class does not work with our goal of creating a two-class system of rulers and serfs. An educated, financially funded middle class, with a Constitution that was designed against tyranny, needs to be eliminated. Because those powerful MC will not go quietly, they could revolt and over-throw our positions of wealth and power. We need to eliminate the Second Amendment and take away any other parts of the Constitution that the Middle Class could use against us. Then we will create a major event that would destroy their finances, their basic needs, and thus make the Middle Class come running to us with their hands out, like it was back in 1933.
If we, the middle clas, would fall to ours knees and beg for help, the elite can then eliminate the middle class. Then, they (the elite) would have an entire population of American serfs. However, this is where I was confused. How can you have 200 million Americans on welfare! How does a Communist state work, financially?
It goes against all sound financial advice and against history. How about the teaching of Ayn Rand, the collapse of USSR, et cetera. Why in the world would a ruling party want a bunch of poor people asking for hand outs? Man, I didn’t get the Progressive agenda! I didn’t, until now.
What do all of those Serfs need? They need food, water, housing, utilities, and Chinese junk. You know, those are merely Serf essentials, and the elite will need to charge taxes on all those items. Still, I don’t think that would be enough wealth to cover all of the welfare handouts, would it? Then I thought, who owns all the factories, resources, water, and power plants that are needed by a large population? And if one group of rulers owned all of those resources and income generators, then those owners would be the only group that could profit from the sale of those products. By owning all of the necessities, charging a profit, controlling taxes, and eliminating all competition (small business owners), a wealthy elite would control national and global economies and populations. This is a grandiose dream of the wealthy elite. For we should remember the “Golden Rule”: he who owns the gold makes the rules!
Now all of this could be a nightmare or a conspiracy theory. It will depend on your perspective and what the future will reveal to us. I know many of my friends and family could not or would not digest this foundation writing. So, I quote Plato:
“Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture, will never be understood, let alone believed by the masses.”
After I revealed this foundation theory to a family member, I was asked, “Now what?” There was panic and despair in their voice. I explained that I am going to keep doing what I am doing. I am going to keep raising my children and their children and doing it right. I am going to keep my culture alive, keep my religion in front, prepare for judgment day here on Earth and in Heaven, and prepare to keep my household healthy and happy. Yet, I am going to keep my prospects open to finding a new like-minded community. I am prepared to relocate to my next Redoubt, if needed. I plan on keeping in contact with like-minded people and to get more involved with local politics, and if the local politics change then I am ready to relocate to other areas that are open to conservative, Christian families. I am going to continue obtaining more wealth and making sure that wealth is far from the U.S. dollar hegemony. I will do my best to educate my children to raise more non-liberal children, so that I can help in keeping my Western culture alive. Keep your eyes open, and God speed.
HJL,
I really enjoyed Sarah Latimer’s article on using Amazon. Although I use it quite a bit, I still found some of her shopping tips helpful.
Regarding caveats about shopping, the biggest one I have found is the item price is cheap but the shipping cost is outrageous.
Here is a quick example, note the cheapest one doesn’t have free shipping. [Editors note: These prices/shipping do not seem to be from Amazon Prime. Mrs. Latimer strongly urges SurvivalBlog readers to sign up for Prime. If you just order 10 or 12 items a year, it will probably pay for itself.]
Also be aware that the cheapest one may be shipping from your state and you will also have to pay sales tax, making it more expensive. – S.T.
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Hugh,
For purchases like 99% Isopropyl Alcohol, don’t neglect the Industrial & Scientific department. You can often find higher quality and less expensive products there than you can in the Health & Beauty department. I found a good deal on XL 6-mil Nitrile gloves there. – WGU
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Hugh,
Two more tips:
Landlords Are Catching Retail’s Cold – RBS
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In some towns, the strip malls can’t die fast enough – RBS (Warning: This site may require a login to access.)
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Texas shelters, churches fear sudden influx of Cuban migrants will overwhelm them – W.C.
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Obama on track to double national debt – B.B.
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Items from Mr. Econocobas:
Fed Puts June Rate Increase on Table Provided Economy Says Go – For your daily comedic relief, it’s amazing what these folks will say with a straight face.
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From the desk of Mike Williamson, SurvivalBlog’s Editor at Large: 3d printed pistol – For discretion or emergency.
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This is why my family made the decision to move out of the People’s Republic of California back in 2012 and never to return. Imagine a U.S. Marine battalion under attack by Islamic Extremists and all of a sudden the Powers to Be issue a decree to disarm the Marines. Their thinking is either terrorists would lay down their weapons or they’d not find a weapon with them being banned. Oh, well. We feel sorry for Californians and pray for all of you. FYI- My family couldn’t be happier to live in Nevada, where we own any number of rounds in our magazines from our .22 cals through our .50 cals and suppressors on everything. God Bless! – J.H.
JWR’s Comment: Even the grandfathered 11+ round magazines will now be banned in California. It is high time for all SurvivalBlog readers to leave that Mickey Mouse state!
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Are We Ignoring a 4GW Asset? – A 4GW approach to ISIS. Some Muslims leave to join ISIS, find they are horrible, and return. Arrest or ignore? How about recruit? – T.Z.
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In Search For Cures, Scientists Create Embryos That Are Both Animal And Human – This is a crime and a place they are going that we have to pray doesn’t ever happen. ?- DSV
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TSA Watchdog Spills Secret Behind Long Airport Lines – Have you ever notice when a government agency loses funding, they cut the things that hurt you the most rather than the unnecessary things? – J.F.
“No man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a bit of ground that he can call his own. However small it is on the surface, it is four thousand miles deep; and that is a very handsome property.” – Charles Dudley Warner, My Summer in a Garden (1870)
Today, we present another entry for Round 64 of the SurvivalBlog non-fiction writing contest. The nearly $12,000 worth of prizes for this round include:
First Prize:
Second Prize:
Third Prize:
Round 64 ends on May 31st, so get busy writing and e-mail us your entry. Remember that there is a 1,500-word minimum, and that articles on practical “how to” skills for survival have an advantage in the judging.
For years, I have been feeling shocked by the amount of strange happenings, those that I couldn’t explain; they just didn’t make sense. More and more, I would get angry, frustrated, and upset with how these events and their origins occurred. I have a feeling that many like-minded patriotic Americans may feel the same way, especially since 9/11.
Not only has our society change since that day but so has our culture. As a Desert Storm Marine and now a retired fire chief, I have found that our society and culture changed so quickly. It seemed each year the changes had been growing and growing. I had thought that maybe I was getting older and less knowledgeable of the new pop culture, but I also found myself wondering what was wrong with all of these headlines, cable TV programs, legislation, new rules, new taxes, free money, crazy home loans, embellished financial markets, persecution of the Bible, downplay of religion, and more. I could go on, but I think you also feel the same. That is why we are here with the great resources of SurvivalBlog. We are all looking for answers to those strange questions and feelings we have as a community. So many events, over the past 15 years, just don’t make any sense to us.
I have had so many strange feelings that have caused me anguish and have pushed me to make changes in my life and my awareness. However, I had not found out exactly why! I didn’t know why people felt “off”. So, since I am a problem solver and I needed to know why, I began to pursue the origins of my frustrations and started my research.
I now have enough knowledge and answers to feel more comfortable with awareness, and I’ve reached a point where I now feel more comfortable and a bit more at ease. I have a lesson that I teach my family. I tell them that the worst thing you can do is to ignore a problem, and the I give them steps to find a solution:
In my continued studies and search for the origins of my frustration, I recently found multiple websites with great articles that gave me some of the final pieces to the answers. Now this information may be hard to digest for most people/Americans. It will depend on your level of awareness and acceptance of possibilities. At this time in my life, I allocate more time to analyze people, TV, social media, and advertisements, always looking for the origins of their behavior and actions. So I feel that maybe sharing my results may bring more discussion and ideas to the forum with an end result of finding more resolve.
For those who are not aware, some of the origins of Democratic party were slave owners. Please also research LBJ and his comments after laying the foundation of the welfare state. Another interesting comment came from the NBA commentator, Charles Barkley. All of these statements and history will come together at the end of this paper. Since the 1960’s, there has been a movement known as Liberal thinking. I feel this movement started with good intentions, since the 60’s were of such chaos and change. However, underlying those good intentions were a few select leaders that had a common theme. I believe this theme had been hiding and found a vehicle to use their ideology. Since the McCarthy hunt on communists, those ideologists needed another vehicle that was more subvert to change this country into their utopia. The Progressive Agenda has its roots in Communism and Marxism. This may or may not be a shock to you. If this is not a shock, you are aware and should keep reading. This is not a history lesson, and I will not supply a time-line of events. This is more of a foundation for future thought.
Since the late 60’s, have you noticed a change in our culture as a “Western Middle Class” culture? I would first look at the claims for climate change, peak oil, et cetera. Currently, in 2016, the celebrities of Hollywood keep talking and pushing the topic of “global warming” on their agendas, even though our ice caps have stabilized and there is proof that the solar cycle was a good contributor to the warmer climate over the last 24 years. Why?
Now look at the attack on the family structure. What are the divorce rates now, compared to the 1950’s? Where are the family units? Where are the traditional roles? Also look at the attack on religion, by those proponents of scientific evolution. How many headlines do you read and people you know who no longer believe in the Bible? Why?
These are the tools used to “break” up the success of the western middle class culture. These are the same tools of Marxism. Why are they being used? Well, since the success of post-war America’s middle class was the greatest in history, no empire has had such a large and wealthy middle class. That is why we had such a great lifestyle. Unfortunately, we may never see it again.
All those McMansions, expensive cars, vacation homes, real estate investing, and wealth in the middle class was too much for the wealthy elite. Having a wealthy middle class truly meant that they all had less! Those wealthy middle class people were using up all the resources for their profits rather than the elite’s. So, the elite had to make some changes.
How could they stop the successful expansion of the middle class before they were able to have a compounding effect on their next generation. A generational wealth transfer was going to be a real problem in the next 40 years. Each generation that could expand their nest eggs into a doubling affect on their wealth would result in the ruling elite being diluted all the more!
Before they could find a way to steal the middle class’s wealth, they had to make sure they would eliminate any financial education to our middle class children. I know in my public schooling, I never received any financial education. I was not taught how to write a check, what is savings, or how to become financially independent.
Instead of learning financial education, I was taught just to go to school, find a good job, get married, both of us have successful careers, invest into your 401k, and retire! Oh, by the way, we were also taught sex education in school and told not to get pregnant and that kids are really expensive! Furthermore, free condoms, birth control, abortions, Welfare state, link cards, WIC, and section 8 are available if you mess up! The meaning is don’t have many kids. If you do have kids, the government will help make sure that they grow up without a financial education, so as not to threaten our wealth and power. I look back on that now, and it starts to make more sense. I am upset that I was duped.
It sounds weird, but the wealthy elite saw the successful middle class as a threat to their power. By slowing the birth rate of the successful, wealthy middle class, the elite could keep more of this country’s resources for themselves. Thus, with more of the resources and now a better financial education, they could again turn to putting more wealth into their pockets for their families’ fortunes. Population control was about hoarding and eliminating the threat to their wealth and power.
But how could the elite get America to accept this elimination of the American dream that they just sold to us after WWII? Well, they used the Rothschild technique of creating chaos to turn a profit. Wars had to be started, the middle class divided, instill the idea of separation of church and state, create racial riots and economic recessions, reform education, destroy of the family unit, buffoon the patriarch member, promote the feminism movement, increase the divorce rate, create circumstance for latch key kids, and promote the popularity of two incomes/no kids (DINKS). All these techniques will lead to fewer children of a successful middle class, thus creating a reduced chance of a compounding generational middle class wealth! Hint: Does this sound like Karl Marx?
Population control was working well, until we had a Washington DC outsider win the Presidency for eight years. However, after that hiatus, the master wealthy elite plan of population control was back on track.
I believe those eight years were a wake up call for the wealthy elite. They knew that they had to control and manipulate all major elections in their favor. It seems that was the last election in which the middle class had a real impact on the results. Since that era, we just vote to keep ourselves distracted and to give us the feeling that we have a say, as the winners were and are not selected by us. The elite were in charge, so I’ll write form their perspective for awhile.
Population control of the successful middle class was working. Now we (the elite) moved on to setting up more government regulations that could steal back the wealth of the middle class. We decided to also print dollars to steal their wealth with devaluation and give them easy-to-obtain debt. Without a good financial education, the middle class would crater under the ease in obtaining more debt. Now we can charge them fees for being overdrawn and overdue! They won’t and don’t know how to manage wealth. (Remember? We didn’t allow them any financial education.)
Well, that is an easy explanation of what happened since the 1999 Act that deregulated the ruling elite– the Glass-Stegall Act. If you are not familiar with this deregulation of the banks, please study and use a filter. In essence, it was the beginning of the end of our middle class wealth. It started slowly with overdraft fees, then ATM fees, and then moved to force the middle class into bankruptcy.
We (the elite) were concerned that our friends were losing their wealth because we allowed so much middle class debt. All of those middle class people are not paying back all of their loan payments. Now, what? We can’t have our banker friends lose their wealth. How about we just print up some dollars, give it to them, and they can save themselves. “Hey, Alan, can you start the printing press and we promise Ben will shut it off.” Yikes! Yea, right?
Hugh,
The the Amazon story is great. I have very little time and live in a rural area. By using Amazon I save a lot of time and money. I also can’t say enough for the customer comments.
However, my comment is more advice to anyone who wants to sell on Amazon. I am in the wine business, and it’s very regulated. However, with the recent changes of state-by-state shipping laws, we can now ship direct to 38 states. Along comes Amazon and BOOM my sales with them have skyrocketed. Not to say, they are way easier to deal with then big box stores! We also always strive to give our customers a fair deal and deliver when we say. One thing that keeps us honest are customer reviews.
So, if you want an outlet to sell product online, try Amazon. They’re great! – M.C.
Stan Druckenmiller: The Bull Market Is Exhausted; Make The Move To Gold
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Why new overtime rules will raise payroll costs for employers of all sizes – RBS
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The effects of raised minimum wages now begins to hit: Wendy’s Serves Up Big Kiosk Expansion As Wage Hikes Hit Fast Food – That $15/hr wage doesn’t do you any good when you lose the job to a worker that never goes on strike or complains. – P.S.
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I don’t recommend staying in an urban location for TEOTWAWKI, but this is certainly a creative solution: How to Get Your Apartment Off the Grid – Sent in by J.W.
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This is Hungary’s Brexit: Referendum on migrant quota crucial to save sovereignty from EU – Is OUR national sovereignty a reality? How long will it be until we are at this point? Will we, by then, even be able to vote on it? – D.S.
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Texas: Muslim convict demands sharia, court agrees – B.B.
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SurvivalBlog reader W.C. sent in the link to this white paper on EMP.
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Another reason to avoid social media: Wave goodbye to anonymity with the FaceFind dating app. So much for OPSEC – S.A.
“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.” – Albert Camus
