(1705) Evening all.
15. The fundamental interconnectedness of all things
a. Start with this:
Just saw it was a Christian camp, only girls. Sudden flood rise out of all proportion … after North Carolina? Seems induced, no?
b. Toodles in southern Alabama wrote an hour ago that she was going out, only to be hit by a rain storm, quite fierce. They’re not all that far from Texas.
c. New bill:
d. Targetted Texas floods?
e. First of our “too cryptic for comfort friends”, Roobeedoo:
If you’re not au fait with whatever this clicky thing is, never mind … me neither … and yet some sort of meaning can still be gleaned … here.
f. Second of our “far too cryptic for comfort friends”, Redacted:
g. Which relates to his previous cryptic comment translated into plainspeak:
Going to run this at Orphans now in lieu of a post Sunday morning … there’s way too much text, too many pics, too many links to double up in both places … one readership goes there, one comes here.
What to make of it all? Well sorry but it needs reading in order to make sense.
h. Add Elon tonight launching yet another political party to undermine DJT in 2026, thereby handing the Demonrats govt. Remember he’s a South African living in America … go back to Roob in point e to see wheels within wheels.
14. Similar theme
13. True
12. Some naivety here I think
… look at what Redacted posted, the one I’ll run at Orphans.
Seriously, what’s the point of even writing: “The civil service needs …” when there’s neither the slightest chance nor remotely held chance of that. In fact the agenda is the opposite of reforming.
11. Steve at 1097, war room
- E.J. Antoni: “Real Story Is Surging Full-Time Jobs, Improved Native-Born Employment, And Real Wage Growth”
- “The Deep State Uses The Foreign Service Manual Like A Bible.” Lara Logan On State Dept. Understaffing
- 20 Children Still Missing: Ben Bergquam Reports From Kerrville, Texas Flood
- “More Recovery Than Search And Rescue.” Chambers And Thiel On Texas Natural Disaster Response
unrelated food for thought:
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/07/05/when-the-drones-are-coming-they-turn-off-the-internet/#more-273806
the site has pix that may be illustrative.
riddle me this-
who is closer to the big bad wolf?
you kay?
you say?
or this-
what is the honest to G-d almighty state of you kaye military with regard to say,
roo see ya?
the presumed f three 5’s on “his” rm carriers belong to whom?
(hint- you ess feckin A).
why/how is pooh ten sending naval vessels all around you kaye willy nilly?
daring Scot subs to “come out n play)?
what of russ yun assets in svalbard?
Nordic response to same.
how is the you k/west managing these situations?
what of baltic “incidents” recently?
meanwhile-
keer the storm. the far range guy. forget the red haired girl with bangs…
the present world is 1000% NOT what we grew up in.
packy rope gangs. zero justice. you won’t defend your own daughters/granddaughters?
what would the illustrious ancestors think of that?
english have become sheep?
a muzzy “king” (or is it “queen”).
and such a beauty of a spouse. i guess she loves her sausage.
a muzzy lun done may your.
look at Scotland (most of my blood),
Wales.
poor eye your Land.
yet they show more cajones than…
to the article-
When the Drones are Coming, They Turn Off the Internet
July 5, 2025 | Sundance | 21 Comments
Some thoughts on what I would call ‘modern warfare’ for citizen preppers. Some of this experience may pertain to urban areas, some perhaps pertinent overall.
Dimitri’s wife is grabbing her purse to go to the grocery store, when he casually says “it’s 5:45.” She just as ordinarily replies, “I’ve got cash.” Dimitri sees the slightly puzzled look on my face and flippantly notes, “they turn off the internet at six thirty now,” shrugs, and goes back to reading his paper.
Perhaps similar to London life during the blitz. Various municipal govts coordinated the shut down of lights and people wait. Others got about doing what they needed to do, sirens notwithstanding.
There is a familiar life amid modern drone warfare, and with the similar control of electricity comes the need to add internet.
When the drones are coming they turn off the internet.
As I contemplate the contrasts in social resilience, my most familiar reference point is life after a hurricane. In Florida when we are dealing with the aftermath of a hurricane, no power, no water, no internet, etc., you adapt to life without modern technological conveniences.
If you’ve ever lived amid the aftermath of natural disasters, you understand the need for a plan and quick adaptation. Do it a few times and adaption becomes ordinary. Horrible in ways, yes; awkward, certainly. But you take things in stride; overcome, figure out the optimal solution and keep moving. However, not everyone is prepared to consider a disruption an ‘inconvenience’ and many people who need consistency to retain stability end up in panic. I think long term readers well understand the reference.
As Dimitri goes back to the paper my mind shifts to stuff I’ve heard in bits and pieces but never given context before.
I think about this U.S. ‘Space Force’ thing, and now realize there are people who have gamed out modern warfare more than we discuss as a western technological society.
My mind also thinks about those reports I read a few years ago about various western govt offices concerned about the ability of Russia to target U.S. satellites. Suddenly I realize cell phone and telecommunication is not their concern.
There’s no internet; the problem is bigger than a temporary outage of Uber. I wonder how the commercial air traffic between Kazan, Moscow and St Petersburg is not disrupted. Old school stuff applies. Meanwhile, the kids, lots of them are playing outside as kids do – apparently life amid modern drone warfare is resilient. No one is staring at the sky.
It is very odd to see how quickly a non-technology driven society can adapt to no electricity and no internet as an ordinary part of daily life. An entire nation just figures out the optimal solution, in part because their time between analog and digital has been short. Russians have a totally different context of dependency.
I’m also starting to realize how the flexibility within a non-technological society is an asset in modern warfare. Turn off the internet in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles or any major metropolitan area – how would life be impacted?
I can only imagine the reactions from a generation who has never known life without wi-fi.
It would be a very good intellectual exercise to think carefully about what your life would be like without cell phone coverage or internet services. There are more than a few people who have never learned to read a clock with hands.
In Russia when the drones are coming they turn off the internet and sometimes the electricity. Stores stay open; people do the ordinary things people do, the trains still run, the busses stay on schedule and you can still get a hot coffee and a sandwich just about anywhere, albeit sans Starbucks. Private taxis, Uber equivalents, switch seamlessly to line up at pick-up points without issue. Try to duplicate that rapid on/off precision in Boston, Miami or St Louis… see my point?
Then extend those thoughts to Paris, Frankfurt, Warsaw or Helsinki. Dimitri is thinking about ordering a pizza, while I’m starting to realize why NATO countries are going bananas.
Can Russia beat Europe in modern warfare?
Well, turn off the electricity, turn off the internet and see what happens to social society in Prague, Rome or any region in Europe when the sirens start. Yeah, NATO is going bananas as Putin’s best non-discussed weapon just looms quietly.
Putin’s strongest weapon is essentially a social infrastructure akin to a nation full of people who can live in the aftermath of a hurricane without needing a digital screen to provide directions to the next six hours of their life.
Again, somewhere, in some office complex deep in the bowels of some agency or bureaucracy, someone has ran models of this and yet I cannot find a reference anywhere to ordinary people talking about it.
In the glovebox of every taxi in Russia you will find a paper map; when was the last time you saw one in the USA?
When the drones come, they always turn off the internet and sometimes the electricity.
How would we deal with that…
Think about it.
can’t happen in mighty bull dog church mound land?
Posted in Big Stupid Government, Big Tech, European Union, Internet, media bias, NATO, Prepper, Russia, Space Force, Terrorist Attacks, Ukraine, Uncategorized, United Kingdom (UK) and Great Britain
solutions guys?
this is acceptable?
really?
how many of you would choose Tyndale or Coverdale’s path?
suddenly we “english” are
FRENCH?!?
My blood is mostly Scottish, then Scots-Irish, Norwegian, Saxon.
I am Not pagan.
However.
I am
moral
loyal
faithful
with character and integrity.
Never on my knees but for Jesus THE Christ.
what say
YOU?
R
apologies to Mr Higham.
Up to you to post or not of course.
I sincerely ponder our future, collective endpoint.
Not denying that G-d is on the throne. Nor am I anyone special.
R