<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:googleplay="http://www.google.com/schemas/play-podcasts/1.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[L5 News]]></title><description><![CDATA[Settling the space frontier]]></description><link>https://l5news.substack.com</link><image><url>https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!SrMX!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Feebc4ce7-17dc-4b12-b83f-0e36d36ba726_1280x1280.png</url><title>L5 News</title><link>https://l5news.substack.com</link></image><generator>Substack</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 04:38:39 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://l5news.substack.com/feed" rel="self" 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Where has he acquired enough eyes to spy upon you, if you do not provide them yourselves? How can he have so many arms to beat you with, if he does not borrow them from you?&#8221; ~ &#201;tienne de La Bo&#233;tie, Anno Domini 1548</p></div><p>In case you have been sleeping there are answers to the questions &#201;tienne de La Bo&#233;tie asked five hundred years ago. The answers are that rat fink scum technologists will create and deploy spy cameras. Rat fink politician filth who rape children will vote to have those cameras deployed everywhere. Rat fink police will look at the resulting footage. Rat fink bureau rats will send out notices. Rat fink magistrates (who also rape many children) will issue warrants. Those will be no-knock warrants. Rat fink SWAT team filth (who kidnap the children that their superiors in power rape to death) will kick in your doors and murder you. Then they will rape your children before taking them to the aforementioned magistrates who will put them in cages in their basements and rape them to death. </p><p>Take a look at how it is going in Europe, where a majority in the European Parliament has consistently been against the renewal of the violent and merciless invasion of privacy, and this guy shown below forced it through on a pre-vacay emergency vote because it had to have a supermajority to be defeated. Speaking of rat fink politicians, look at those eyes and that expression, tell me he isn&#8217;t thinking of the hostage they have whose life depends on him complying with everything they demand:</p><div class="embedded-post-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;id&quot;:206295820,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.eugyppius.com/p/hyperdemocratic-european-parliament&quot;,&quot;publication_id&quot;:268621,&quot;publication_name&quot;:&quot;eugyppius: a plague chronicle&quot;,&quot;publication_logo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!U0wr!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb8f6591c-90a2-4276-a625-5e9f469c5d31_476x476.png&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Hyperdemocratic European Parliament reimposes mass electronic surveillance regulation after a majority votes it down three times&quot;,&quot;truncated_body_text&quot;:&quot;That title is polemical, okay? 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The world will never be the same. &quot;,&quot;logo_url&quot;:&quot;https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/b8f6591c-90a2-4276-a625-5e9f469c5d31_476x476.png&quot;,&quot;author_id&quot;:15736836,&quot;primary_user_id&quot;:15736836,&quot;theme_var_background_pop&quot;:&quot;#009B50&quot;,&quot;created_at&quot;:&quot;2021-01-23T07:09:49.869Z&quot;,&quot;email_from_name&quot;:&quot;eugyppius&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;eugyppius&quot;,&quot;founding_plan_name&quot;:&quot;Founding Member&quot;,&quot;community_enabled&quot;:true,&quot;invite_only&quot;:false,&quot;payments_state&quot;:&quot;enabled&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:null,&quot;explicit&quot;:false,&quot;homepage_type&quot;:&quot;magaziney&quot;,&quot;is_personal_mode&quot;:false,&quot;logo_url_wide&quot;:null}}],&quot;is_guest&quot;:false,&quot;bestseller_tier&quot;:1000,&quot;status&quot;:{&quot;bestsellerTier&quot;:1000,&quot;subscriberTier&quot;:5,&quot;leaderboard&quot;:null,&quot;vip&quot;:false,&quot;badge&quot;:{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;bestseller&quot;,&quot;tier&quot;:1000},&quot;subscriber&quot;:null}}],&quot;utm_campaign&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;newsletter&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;,&quot;source&quot;:null}" data-component-name="EmbeddedPostToDOM"><a class="embedded-post" native="true" href="https://www.eugyppius.com/p/hyperdemocratic-european-parliament?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_campaign=post_embed&amp;utm_medium=web"><div class="embedded-post-header"><img class="embedded-post-publication-logo" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!U0wr!,w_56,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb8f6591c-90a2-4276-a625-5e9f469c5d31_476x476.png"><span class="embedded-post-publication-name">eugyppius: a plague chronicle</span></div><div class="embedded-post-title-wrapper"><div class="embedded-post-title">Hyperdemocratic European Parliament reimposes mass electronic surveillance regulation after a majority votes it down three times</div></div><div class="embedded-post-body">That title is polemical, okay? But it&#8217;s morally right&#8230;</div><div class="embedded-post-cta-wrapper"><span class="embedded-post-cta">Read more</span></div><div class="embedded-post-meta">a day ago &#183; 415 likes &#183; 145 comments &#183; eugyppius</div></a></div><p>Sometimes the embed bothers to display an image. I guess Substack&#8217;s morally questionable code team have other instructions. Okay, so here&#8217;s the image of the guy who is wondering how many more times he&#8217;ll have to watch his children raped by the people who demand he commit crimes against humanity.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!FJY8!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbc36612c-b77b-45a3-ade5-117fcb69a434_1456x892.webp" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!FJY8!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbc36612c-b77b-45a3-ade5-117fcb69a434_1456x892.webp 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!FJY8!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbc36612c-b77b-45a3-ade5-117fcb69a434_1456x892.webp 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!FJY8!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbc36612c-b77b-45a3-ade5-117fcb69a434_1456x892.webp 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!FJY8!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbc36612c-b77b-45a3-ade5-117fcb69a434_1456x892.webp 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!FJY8!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbc36612c-b77b-45a3-ade5-117fcb69a434_1456x892.webp" width="1456" height="892" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/bc36612c-b77b-45a3-ade5-117fcb69a434_1456x892.webp&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:892,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:71926,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/webp&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://l5news.substack.com/i/206502080?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbc36612c-b77b-45a3-ade5-117fcb69a434_1456x892.webp&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!FJY8!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbc36612c-b77b-45a3-ade5-117fcb69a434_1456x892.webp 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!FJY8!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbc36612c-b77b-45a3-ade5-117fcb69a434_1456x892.webp 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!FJY8!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbc36612c-b77b-45a3-ade5-117fcb69a434_1456x892.webp 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!FJY8!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbc36612c-b77b-45a3-ade5-117fcb69a434_1456x892.webp 1456w" sizes="100vw"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Now, you might well ask, &#8220;Jim, why do you care? You don&#8217;t live in Europe.&#8221; It&#8217;s true. I did at various times, but don&#8217;t any more. Feel free to hit me up in the comments if you want to know more about those days of yore. My salad days, when I was green in judgement. But why do I care, you ask? I am here because I care. </p><p>You should watch what the evil mass murdering demon worshippers in charge of the European Union say and do, not because you live there, but because they are following the party line of the evil principalities and powers; the forces of darkness command everything and everyone with any power in Europe. So what they do there is going to be brought here.</p><p>Here, for example, is nasty ugly evil vicious demon worshipper and mass murderer Ursual von der Leyen, whose granddad was an eager affiliate of the nationalist socialists of 1933-1945. &#8220;And finally, it takes resilience. As technology evolves, we need to build up societal immunity around information manipulation. Because research has shown that prebunking is more successful than debunking&#8230; in short, prevention is preferable to cure. Perhaps if you think of information manipulation as a virus. Instead of treating an infection once it has taken hold&#8212;that is debunking&#8212;it is much better to vaccinate so that the body is inoculated. Prebunking is the same approach. Because disinformation relies on people passing it on to others. It is essential that people know what malign information influence is and what the techniques are that are behind it&#8230; And as the knowledge goes up, our chances of being influenced goes down, and that builds up the societal resilience that we will need.&#8221; <a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2026-01-11/eu-commissar-free-speech-virus-censorship-vaccine">Source</a>. In summary, free speech is a virus, Ursula von der Leyen hates you personally. She wants you silenced. She wants your impulse to speak to be throttled, before you can post. She was delighted when you were stupid enough to walk around in public wearing a masque because she thinks you are a miserable slave and she&#8217;s angry that you have a keyboard and willingness to ever post anything. She doesn&#8217;t even want you to post in agreement with her, because you are a vile prole. She believes herself and her associates on the thirteenth floor of her Brussels office tower to be booted and spurred to ride, and you and the other proles on the lower floors, including those who report to her, are to be saddled and ridden. Perhaps something she doesn&#8217;t like will be brought to her in her decaf latte next time her subordinate from a lower floor gives her a &#8220;gift.&#8221; Who knows?</p><p>You don&#8217;t think these people hate you. But you&#8217;re wrong. Why do you think they are constantly demanding that Americans be disarmed. Every one of them has read Machiavelli, who was also writing five hundred years ago. &#8220;Among the other harm it brings you, being disarmed causes you to be despised.&#8221; And how how they despise us.</p><p>Which is why I keep and bear arms. You should too.</p><p>Here is some information on how to &#8220;take down&#8221; a Flock camera from evil surveillance collaborators with mass murder and child rapists &#8220;Flock Group Inc,&#8221; founded in 2017 by evil vicious nasty communists Garrett Langley, Paige Todd, and Matt Feury who hate humanity and want everyone enslaved forever. They pretend that spying for their masters is about &#8220;safety.&#8221; It is not. It is about the fbi kidnapping children to be raped by politicians, with impunity, forever. The fbi was founded in 1908 to get dirt on every member of congress. J. Edgar Hoover had film and photos, he said often, of every prominent American &#8220;in bed with a live boy or a dead girl,&#8221; and he had his fbi agents steal the children and kill them. Garrett, Paige, and Matt know it in detail. They are just like Larry Ellison, wanting everyone to obey the demon worshippers because &#8220;we&#8217;ll always be watching.&#8221;</p><div class="embedded-post-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;id&quot;:206347307,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://tlavagabond.substack.com/p/8-ways-to-take-down-flock-without&quot;,&quot;publication_id&quot;:1165771,&quot;publication_name&quot;:&quot;The Last American Vagabond Substack&quot;,&quot;publication_logo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!P61I!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff80cb96b-b20e-4c04-87ff-856dab997a91_1280x1280.png&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;8 Ways To Take Down Flock Without A Sawzall&quot;,&quot;truncated_body_text&quot;:&quot;Earlier this week, I shared a tweet entitled &#8220;8 Ways To Take Down Flock Without A Sawzall.&#8221; It was a follow-up to a viral FOIA thread I posted on X earlier in the year, giving people a template file for a records request about Flock cameras in their own communities.&quot;,&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-07-09T21:55:06.954Z&quot;,&quot;like_count&quot;:110,&quot;comment_count&quot;:12,&quot;bylines&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:109068254,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;The Last American Vagabond&quot;,&quot;handle&quot;:&quot;tlavagabond&quot;,&quot;previous_name&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/36cbdd55-a7cf-4bf2-b9fb-8d92d464f3a1_1382x1378.png&quot;,&quot;bio&quot;:&quot;This is the Official Substack for Ryan Cristi&#225;n and The Last American Vagabond. &quot;,&quot;profile_set_up_at&quot;:&quot;2022-10-30T16:31:27.785Z&quot;,&quot;reader_installed_at&quot;:&quot;2023-02-25T14:11:43.202Z&quot;,&quot;publicationUsers&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:1118503,&quot;user_id&quot;:109068254,&quot;publication_id&quot;:1165771,&quot;role&quot;:&quot;admin&quot;,&quot;public&quot;:true,&quot;is_primary&quot;:true,&quot;publication&quot;:{&quot;id&quot;:1165771,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;The Last American Vagabond Substack&quot;,&quot;subdomain&quot;:&quot;tlavagabond&quot;,&quot;custom_domain&quot;:null,&quot;custom_domain_optional&quot;:false,&quot;hero_text&quot;:&quot;The Official Substack for The Last American Vagabond&quot;,&quot;logo_url&quot;:&quot;https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/f80cb96b-b20e-4c04-87ff-856dab997a91_1280x1280.png&quot;,&quot;author_id&quot;:109068254,&quot;primary_user_id&quot;:109068254,&quot;theme_var_background_pop&quot;:&quot;#FF0000&quot;,&quot;created_at&quot;:&quot;2022-10-30T16:41:19.786Z&quot;,&quot;email_from_name&quot;:&quot;The Last American Vagabond&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;The Last American Vagabond&quot;,&quot;founding_plan_name&quot;:&quot;TLAV Stack Member&quot;,&quot;community_enabled&quot;:true,&quot;invite_only&quot;:false,&quot;payments_state&quot;:&quot;enabled&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:null,&quot;explicit&quot;:false,&quot;homepage_type&quot;:&quot;magaziney&quot;,&quot;is_personal_mode&quot;:false,&quot;logo_url_wide&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/e12678c7-9118-4d6e-97f8-6cbc36156b39_900x208.jpeg&quot;}}],&quot;twitter_screen_name&quot;:&quot;TLAVagabond&quot;,&quot;is_guest&quot;:false,&quot;bestseller_tier&quot;:100,&quot;status&quot;:{&quot;bestsellerTier&quot;:100,&quot;subscriberTier&quot;:1,&quot;leaderboard&quot;:null,&quot;vip&quot;:false,&quot;badge&quot;:{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;bestseller&quot;,&quot;tier&quot;:100},&quot;subscriber&quot;:null}}],&quot;utm_campaign&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;newsletter&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;,&quot;source&quot;:null}" data-component-name="EmbeddedPostToDOM"><a class="embedded-post" native="true" href="https://tlavagabond.substack.com/p/8-ways-to-take-down-flock-without?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_campaign=post_embed&amp;utm_medium=web"><div class="embedded-post-header"><img class="embedded-post-publication-logo" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!P61I!,w_56,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff80cb96b-b20e-4c04-87ff-856dab997a91_1280x1280.png" loading="lazy"><span class="embedded-post-publication-name">The Last American Vagabond Substack</span></div><div class="embedded-post-title-wrapper"><div class="embedded-post-title">8 Ways To Take Down Flock Without A Sawzall</div></div><div class="embedded-post-body">Earlier this week, I shared a tweet entitled &#8220;8 Ways To Take Down Flock Without A Sawzall.&#8221; It was a follow-up to a viral FOIA thread I posted on X earlier in the year, giving people a template file for a records request about Flock cameras in their own communities&#8230;</div><div class="embedded-post-cta-wrapper"><span class="embedded-post-cta">Read more</span></div><div class="embedded-post-meta">a day ago &#183; 110 likes &#183; 12 comments &#183; The Last American Vagabond</div></a></div><p>Oh, look. My preview of this embed is also devoid of preview image. Must be a pattern. Or maybe my preview isn&#8217;t going to reflect how the actual article appears because Substack hates the idea of deploying a Linux compatible app, and I dare to compose on the web site interface. Much sad. Gnash teeth. Move on.</p><p>Anyway, those are a couple of articles, the one from <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;eugyppius&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:15736836,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!oApu!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6cb1103d-3c29-475c-8493-9d9fb3b1a87a_1020x1447.jpeg&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;fec1cd96-07cb-4cc4-a9e6-370539a2c862&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> and the one from <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Derrick Broze&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:101068572,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!g7Rc!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4ba0ed7e-f1a0-4cc9-a864-a12dba9c99bf_2236x2236.jpeg&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;157ae0cc-c092-4ec7-86a9-b4660ecfd3d0&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> and friends at Last American Vagabond.</p><p>You should think seriously about setting surveillance systems on fire. You should think seriously about buying or 3D printing a drone to spray battery acid at surveillance cameras. You don&#8217;t want those things in your community. As far as I know it is still legal to think about things, but if not, prepare to be convicted for wrong think.</p><p>Yes, it is your community. Therefore you have freedom of movement and freedom of anonymity and all the other rights not enumerated (see the 9th amendment if you think the &#8220;right&#8221; has to be listed to be yours). You don&#8217;t have to put up with mass murdering baby raping cannibals spying on you.</p><p>You might want to spend some time learning about communications privacy and data security. I offer classes on those topics through Secure Perimeter Institute. We&#8217;re having a special offer this week only for $20 you get a one hour course on topics of your choice, or of my choice if you don&#8217;t know what to choose. Hit me up in the comments for more info.</p><p>You might want to spend some time learning about free market money. I offer a class on that topic, too. I offer classes on history, space tourism, and other subjects. That&#8217;s what I do. I drink coffee and I know things.</p><p>You are not going to vote your way to freedom. If you mean to be free, you have to free yourself.</p><div><hr></div><p>That&#8217;s all I&#8217;ve got for today. Come back next time when I have something new. Or old.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[A salon for poetry]]></title><description><![CDATA[in a Victory Palace]]></description><link>https://l5news.substack.com/p/a-salon-for-poetry</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://l5news.substack.com/p/a-salon-for-poetry</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Davidson]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 18:11:39 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!a7EK!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4bcab8bb-0b4d-4055-83d7-0c2a852090aa_784x1168.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!a7EK!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4bcab8bb-0b4d-4055-83d7-0c2a852090aa_784x1168.jpeg" 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So, above I asked for a &#8220;salon for poetry in a victory palace&#8221; and you see the image generated. </p><p>Here is a link to the page I composed for the salon in celebration of the opportunity to read two of my poems.</p><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;3db39e25-10b0-467d-a114-5cc1f41af3ef&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&#8220;If seeds in the black earth can turn into such beautiful roses, what might not the heart of man become in its long journey toward the stars?&#8221; ~ GK Chesterton, reported Anno Domini 1952&quot;,&quot;cta&quot;:null,&quot;showBylines&quot;:true,&quot;showDescription&quot;:true,&quot;showImage&quot;:true,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;lg&quot;,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Poetry for freedom&quot;,&quot;publishedBylines&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:87001360,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Jim Davidson&quot;,&quot;bio&quot;:&quot;Jim runs Eldar Capital private equity and After Dark Publications.&quot;,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/2088e963-5974-49ea-9154-dd8e166cbd9f_128x128.jpeg&quot;,&quot;is_guest&quot;:false,&quot;bestseller_tier&quot;:null}],&quot;post_date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-30T02:39:40.627Z&quot;,&quot;cover_image&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zG2F!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3d649798-8562-421e-b971-f46ec05265ea_1663x1252.jpeg&quot;,&quot;cover_image_alt&quot;:null,&quot;canonical_url&quot;:&quot;https://l5news.substack.com/p/poetry-for-freedom&quot;,&quot;section_name&quot;:null,&quot;video_upload_id&quot;:null,&quot;id&quot;:204211592,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;newsletter&quot;,&quot;reaction_count&quot;:11,&quot;comment_count&quot;:4,&quot;publication_id&quot;:1261528,&quot;publication_name&quot;:&quot;L5 News&quot;,&quot;publication_logo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!SrMX!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Feebc4ce7-17dc-4b12-b83f-0e36d36ba726_1280x1280.png&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;youtube_url&quot;:null,&quot;show_links&quot;:null,&quot;feed_url&quot;:null}"></div><p>And here is the file that I was sent with the portion of the salon related to my reading. Please let me know if you have any difficulty with the file format.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;5c6a841a-1a57-44de-9f82-a73850c04655&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>If you enjoy poetry, you might enjoy the previous poetry salon brought together by Victory Palace. If you enjoy my poetry, please let me know in the comments.</p><div><hr></div><p>That&#8217;s all I&#8217;ve got for today. Come back next time when I have something new. Or old.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[More than half of history]]></title><description><![CDATA[is hiding the truth]]></description><link>https://l5news.substack.com/p/more-than-half-of-history</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://l5news.substack.com/p/more-than-half-of-history</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Davidson]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 06:22:36 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!7c1a!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcd3932c3-5c37-4eed-86bb-db9cc44af16f_335x727.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><div class="pullquote"><p>&#8220;Half of writing history is hiding the truth.&#8221; ~ Malcolm Reynolds, 2005</p></div><p>The image at the top of this essay is taken from a <em>New York Times</em> column at the time of the holodomor. It was published in that evil, disgusting newspaper on the 31st day of the 3rd month of 1933, a few weeks after the inauguration of mass murdering demon worshipper Frankie Roosevelt. It was written as part of a special cable to the paper from Walter Duranty who loved Stalin, loved communism, and hated mankind. So millions of people were deliberately starved to death. The <em>New York Times</em> didn&#8217;t see fit to print the truth. Stalin exported the grain that might have fed the people so he could get funds to buy more war factories and do other things he enjoyed such as luxuriating at his dacha on the Black Sea or any of his twenty dachas all over the Soviet Union. Adolph Ochs wasn&#8217;t interested in publishing the truth in his newspaper, he was interested in publishing convenient lies and selling papers.</p><p>Armand Hammer was Stalin&#8217;s banker and enjoyed his company. Jacob Schiff made good on the $10 million letter of credit sent with Lenin to Moscow in 1918.  The history books have been full of lies since before you were born. That&#8217;s okay, friend. They were full of lies before I was born, too.</p><p>George Washington didn&#8217;t chop down a cherry tree and &#8216;fess up to his daddy or ever say that he could not tell a lie. He was a liar through and through. The recent film depicting him as a young man is full of lies, pretends he was some sort of outsider rather than born into a wealthy family and welcome at all the best events. He was a terrible military commander and got a lot of men killed, though he also had many men whipped for minor infractions or hanged for what he regarded as major infractions. </p><p>Lincoln didn&#8217;t free any slaves. If you actually bother to read the words of the &#8220;emancipation proclamation&#8221; it very carefully asserts freedom only for slaves outside the territory controlled by the forces of northern aggression while maintaining slavery for all those within his grasp. </p><p>Benjamin Franklin was no fan of the American revolution. He was probably British agent &#8220;code number 72&#8221; and he certainly had a title of nobility (esquire) to which he affixed his name. He regarded himself as a member of the gentry. He used his official position as postmaster general of the United States to spy on Americans. He founded the postal disservice for the express purpose of creating a domestic espionage service. You seem to think it is a good idea to talk to your local letter carrier. You are mistaken. </p><p>Franklin went to Paris for the discussions of the treaties to settle the global war that broke out around 1775 and continued through about 1785 in terms of war fighting. Actual news of the peace of Paris of 1783 didn&#8217;t reach India for quite a while, and some naval vessels of the US navy were taking part in battles there long after the treaty had been signed. Franklin was partly responsible for the treaty in which the American colonies were &#8220;granted&#8221; their independence from the usurper Georgie the third of Hanover, except for Delaware. Delaware isn&#8217;t listed in the treaty among the colonies set at liberty. So it is naturally the home of all the major American corporations. Almost certainly related to that whole &#8220;city of London&#8221; thing dating back to Anno Domini 43 when Londinium was founded by the pagan demon worshipping Romans.</p><p>But, it gets worse. Washington was a freemason, a plantation owner, and a vigorous enthusiast of slavery. He helped bring in the constitution for the purpose of creating all the things you see in the District of Corruption and in the city that bears his name. Like the other senior freemasons, Washington was a demon worshipper and engaged in rites of cannibalism. Franklin was a member of the hellfire club. When the home on Craven street where Franklin lived in London recently had its basement excavated, there were human bones marked where the flesh had been cut away and broken open for the marrow. So Franklin was also very welcome at the constitutional convention in 1787 where he and plantation-born Alexander Hamilton and plantation owner James Madison worked up the casket of the constitution into which they placed the declaration of independence and all American liberty. James Madison never freed his slaves. Thomas Jefferson never freed his slaves (though he was also not welcome at the constitutional convention, so he gets some points there). Jefferson died in debt so his slaves could not be freed after his death. James Monroe freed only one of the 178 people enslaved on his properties. </p><p>All contemporary accounts of Christopher Columbus reveal him to be a friend of people with Templar records, related through marriage to Templars, a reader of Templar documents with the hooked X and similar symbology, and a liar. He pretended to offer a reward for the first sailor who spotted land, and when one of them did, denied that there was land, then later &#8220;spotted it&#8221; himself and awarded himself the monetary reward. He brought native islanders back to Spain after his first voyage, chained up and enslaved. I do consider him a freemason in that the freemasons are simply a re-branding of the Templars. Filing off the serial numbers doesn&#8217;t impress me much.</p><p>Please feel free to list some of your favourite &#8220;American hero&#8221; type characters from history. Let me have a crack at debunking the mythology surrounding them. Or keep your heroes, I don&#8217;t mind.</p><p>How about Ed Koch? Terrible man. Met him in 1981. He made a lousy candidate for president. How about Rupert Murdoch? Met him the following year. Both of them were guests of the &#8220;John Jay scholars&#8221; named after that same John Jay who negotiated the treaty with Canada and was a justice on the supreme court. Jay was noted for his work pimping the constitution in those anonymous letters published as <em>The Federalist Papers</em> that you might have read if you hadn&#8217;t gone to public school in more recent years. I was one of the scholars whose scholarship was named for him. I was also the &#8220;National Distillers&#8221; scholar as part of the National Merit scholarship program. </p><p>Rupert Murdoch liked the photos he published of scantily clad women in his tabloids. I asked him about the photos. He said they sold papers. That&#8217;s what he cared about. He was unconcerned about publishing the truth. About the time I was graduating from Columbia he was buying 20th Century Fox. The following year, while I was studying for my MBA at Columbia, he was buying up local broadcast stations and building Fox News as a broadcast network. I don&#8217;t think you should trust Fox News. But, I also don&#8217;t think you should trust the Microsoft NBC (MSNBC) network, nor the Communism News Network (CNN) nor any of the other outfits pimping propaganda for the hoax stream media system. Maybe read up about &#8220;operation mockingbird&#8221; and then back date it to when it really got started with the wealth coming out of South Africa and Rhodesia in the 1890s. </p><p>William Randolph Hearst had a very tenuous relationship with the truth. The <em>USS Maine</em> was not blown up by Spanish agents in Havana harbour. But publishing headlines saying it was sold newspapers. </p><p>None of your media moguls are any good. Larry Ellison&#8217;s son owns Skydance and they just bought Paramount Global. So you should expect more films from the woke Hollywood studio industry. Paramount has owned &#8220;Star Trek&#8221; since they bought the properties of Desilu studios many years ago. Larry you may recall has earned the eternal disgust of all mankind by telling the managers of his business that he wants to have everyone in the world constantly under surveillance so they will all obey his every whim. &#8220;They&#8217;ll know we&#8217;re always watching,&#8221; he told his managers in breathy excitement, fairly drooling for the undeserved and unearned power and control. No doubt a born extortionist judging by his attitude.</p><p>Would you like another anecdote on Lincoln? James Buchanan once said that if the transcontinental railway was ever made into a government project it would be the biggest boondoggle ever. It was. One guy, James J. Hill, would build the Great Northern transcontinental railway without any taxpayer subsidies, without any track laying funds granted him. But that came later, and he had a number of clever ideas going for him. But back to 1859. Lincoln takes a trip to Council Bluffs, Iowa. He meets Grenville Dodge there. Each of them bought land. Later, in 1863, Lincoln had congress set the eastern terminus of the transcontinental railway in what city? Council Bluffs, Iowa. Lincoln&#8217;s property is across the street from what became Union station of the Union Pacific railroad company. Dodge&#8217;s land is quite nearby. Good ol&#8217; &#8220;honest&#8221; Abe.</p><p>Endless shenanigans took place during the transcontinental railway project. It was indeed a huge boondoggle. Lots of unnecessary track was laid. Millions of dollars in track laying bounties were paid for track that was not needed. That was back when an ounce of gold was officially equal to twenty dollars. So if you want to know the current year numbers, divide by 20 and multiply by $4,200 or whatever today&#8217;s price of gold might be. Millions then are billions now.</p><p>You really need to understand what was done to your textbooks. Robert Maxwell named his daughter &#8220;hostage&#8221; but he used the French word, Ghislaine, so it sounds better to American ears. He was highly motivated to corner the market in textbooks. There is also a cartel associated with scholarly publications, academic journals. A guy named Aaron Swartz tried to make them open source. Aaron is dead now. Journals are still costly and textbooks are extremely expensive.</p><p>You might want to bother to understand why your country&#8217;s literacy and test scores in international academic achievement have dropped dramatically since 1979. It is because Jimmy Carter wanted to destroy education and get the teacher unions to support his 1980 re-election campaign. He was a terrible man. Mass murderer. Brought the Shah of Iran to this country for cancer treatments that could have been provided by exporting a few doctors to France for a week or two. The Shah died. So did the eight men in the hostage rescue teams of Carter&#8217;s &#8220;operation eagle claw.&#8221; Oh, was I supposed to capitalise the name of a military operation? Yeah, well, I didn&#8217;t.</p><p>You respect them too much. You put their agency names in all caps, like the &#8220;fbi&#8221; matters. They were founded in 1908 by Teddy Roosevelt against the express wishes of congress which refused to fund them. So they found dirt on a bunch of congress critters and have been funded every year since then. And you wonder why your country is a mess.</p><p>You think the men who marched off to war against Spain in 1898 were heroes. I think they were deceived. You think the Japanese empire attacked Pearl Harbour unprovoked and without warning. I happen to have seen all the radio direction finding worksheets tracking the Japanese fleet across the Pacific. They appear in the appendices of a book on the topic published Anno Domini 2000. FDR and Churchill both knew all about the Japanese attacks on Hawai&#8217;i, on Batavia, on the Philippines, on Singapore, and on Malaysia weeks in advance of the actual events. They didn&#8217;t warn the military leadership in the American and British garrisons, they didn&#8217;t warn the Dutch, they didn&#8217;t say a word to de Gaulle&#8217;s people about the plans for French Indochina. They wanted a lot of dead Americans to bring about American participation in the war to support Stalin. It was still an open question in December 1941 whether Moscow would be taken by the Wehrmacht.</p><p>Do you have any idea how many lies you&#8217;ve been told? The gulf of Tonkin &#8220;incident&#8221; didn&#8217;t happen the way it was reported. The <em>USS Liberty</em> actually was attacked by the enemy military of supposed &#8220;ally&#8221; Israel which deliberately murdered 34 American sailors and tried to send the ship to the bottom of the sea. LBJ had John McCain&#8217;s dad cover things up.</p><p>There were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq except for whatever remained of the chemical weapons sold by Rumsfeld and Cheney to Saddam during the Iran Iraq war. The powder displayed by Colin Powell at the United Nations meeting wasn&#8217;t a chemical weapon. The anthrax that ended up in congress in 2001 was manufactured in Fort Meade, Maryland by a military contractor. So was the pathogen  in Wuhan in 2019 during the world military games. </p><p>Garfield, McKinley, and JFK were killed on orders of the British espionage services. The skull and bonesmen of the cia did the deed on JFK. There is extensive documentation. The Warren commission lied about it. The Waco massacre was the fbi deliberately barbecuing seven dozen Texas men, women, and children. The Danforth commission lied about it, not only whitewashing the facts but actually bleaching the evidence on camera, the footage having leaked out.</p><p>Ed Snowden tried to warn you about the surveillance state. He&#8217;s living in exile. Julian Assange did warn you about Hillary&#8217;s state department. He was tortured for years. Bradley/Chelsea Manning tried to help expose the mass murdering deep state and had her prison sentence commuted by Obama just before he left office in 2017. Maybe go watch the &#8220;collateral murder&#8221; video to celebrate.</p><p>Do you remember when Obama began calling Daesh, also known as ISIS, by a new name, &#8220;ISIL&#8221;? I remember. I know why, too. Ask me in the comments if you want to hear the story.</p><p>There are times when I doubt if anyone really cares about these things. Maybe you would be happier living with your delusions. Maybe you want to be lied to about everything. In the &#8220;Jurassic World&#8221; film the female protagonist, Claire, says, &#8220;It&#8217;s okay to lie to people when they&#8217;re scared.&#8221; It really isn&#8217;t. In fact, that&#8217;s the very worst time to do so.</p><p>You should stop obeying the people who want you enslaved. You should stop following the law. You should stop pretending that you can obey millions of pages of laws at feral, state, and local level. You should stop pretending that the feral government, which is out of control and totally wild, is now or ever was &#8220;federal&#8221; or had any checks or balances on power. You should stop calling it &#8220;government&#8221; since it doesn&#8217;t seek the consent of the governed and has not had any such consent at least since the other states declared war on Rhode Island for refusing to ratify the constitution. But you probably won&#8217;t stop paying taxes, signing up for user fees, paying to visit &#8220;national&#8221; parks, and doing the other things. </p><p>I get tired of trying to tell people about their past. I did study history in college. It was one of my three concentrations during my studies there. History, economics, astrophysics. I don&#8217;t think you really want to know. The truth makes people uncomfortable. So much so that student groups at major American universities demand that teachers not be allowed to teach them uncomfortable truths. Well, kids, you get no safe spaces here. </p><div><hr></div><p>That&#8217;s all I&#8217;ve got for today. Come back next time when I have something new. Or old.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thoughts on trade vessels ]]></title><description><![CDATA[of the Thirteenth Century]]></description><link>https://l5news.substack.com/p/thoughts-on-trade-vessels</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://l5news.substack.com/p/thoughts-on-trade-vessels</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Davidson]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 01:23:44 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xiGO!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa18efd25-446d-48c7-bdc6-abeabce6780e_1600x900.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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The short answer seems to be, &#8220;We don&#8217;t really know.&#8221;</p><p>A longer answer is that 13th Century naval records are fragmentary. Nobody felt obliged to register their merchant vessels with any of the scum bureau rats that infest our contemporary nationalist and internationalist agencies for a very good reason. There were no such bureau rats, no such agencies existed, there were no registry papers for vessels of any sort, and the world was a much better place for it. Socialists wreck everything and you should stop obeying them.</p><h3>One large language model&#8217;s answer</h3><p>Here is some information from one of the large language models that pose as &#8220;artificial intelligence.&#8221; I found the information interesting, but the answer is basically the guess I provided in my prompt with a huge error bar of plus or minus fifty percent. So it seems like &#8220;tell them what you think they want to hear&#8221; rather than find any actual knowledge in the records.</p><p>Here it is, quoted out for your enjoyment. No, I don&#8217;t think I want to tell you which LLM produced these &#8220;results&#8221; because no advertising or endorsement fee has been paid to <em>L5 News</em> to pimp their stuff.</p><blockquote><p>Merchant/Commerce (vast majority, ~80&#8211;95%+ of total): These were the core. Typical vessels included cogs (Northern Europe/Baltic: 30&#8211;200+ tons cargo, crew ~10&#8211;20+), Mediterranean round ships/galleys (50&#8211;500 tons capacity in larger examples), and smaller coasters/barges. Trade boomed during the Commercial Revolution. </p></blockquote><blockquote><p>England: Later 14th-century references suggest ~2,000 vessels (1320&#8211;1360); earlier 13th-century numbers were likely lower but still in the high hundreds to low thousands, concentrated in eastern/southern ports and the Cinque Ports (obligated to provide ~57 ships). </p><p>Hanseatic/Baltic/North Sea: Hundreds of cogs and similar; the League (emerging mid-13th century) relied on merchant fleets from ports like L&#252;beck, with convoys of dozens to hundreds. Northern Europe overall likely had thousands of operational vessels.</p></blockquote><blockquote><p>Italian Maritime Republics (Venice, Genoa, Pisa): Major players in Mediterranean trade. Venice/Genoa could mobilize dozens of galleys + merchant ships for wars (e.g., 20&#8211;50+ galleys per side in 1260s Venetian-Genoese conflicts); total merchant marines in the low-to-mid hundreds per major city, plus many smaller/foreign vessels in their networks. Larger galleys carried substantial cargo.</p><p>Other (France, Low Countries, Iberia, islands, coastal traders): Additional hundreds to thousands across hundreds of ports. Mediterranean trade networks extended to North Africa/Middle East/Byzantium</p><p>Military/Naval: A small dedicated fraction; most were converted merchants. Examples: Cinque Ports&#8217; obligation (~57 ships); ad-hoc fleets of 100&#8211;300 vessels for major campaigns (e.g., Sluys and later); Venetian/Genoese war fleets of dozens of galleys. Byzantine and Muslim (e.g., North African, Egyptian) fleets in the Mediterranean added some hundreds more, but were regionally focused. Total &#8220;naval&#8221; operational capacity in/near Europe was likely in the low thousands at peak mobilisation, but far fewer on any given day.</p></blockquote><blockquote><p>Other categories: Fishing fleets, local ferries, riverine/coastal craft (many qualifying by size/crew), and occasional large explorers/traders. Atlantic/Arctic/island traffic was lighter but included Norse-influenced vessels.</p><p>These figures are scholarly approximations derived from port records, chronicles, and archaeological insights rather than exact counts.</p></blockquote><p>Very clearly there were thousands and thousands, easily ten to fifteen thousand, vessels that could survive an Atlantic crossing. Isles as far West as the Canaries were well known, and the Azores were found by Portguese sailors in the 14th Century. There are at least twenty significant stories of sailing vessels and fleets blown off course and winding up in lands far to the West. Various analyses of Homer&#8217;s epic poem &#8220;The Odyssey&#8221; suggest that some of the lands visited by that ancient mariner included Caribbean islands. </p><h3>The city of London</h3><p>Some of my recent research led me to understand that after William the conqueror had overthrown the English monarchy and gone north to slaughter various communities loyal to the previous regime, he set forth an agreement with the city of London. So, roughly AD 1067 he recognised the ancient traditions and rites of the city of London. </p><p>Which brought to my attention that the city was founded around AD 43 as Londinium. There is extensive evidence that it was the habitation of Roman pagans. It appears to be consistent with various offshore &#8220;tax haven&#8221; jurisdictions today. When I say there is extensive evidence, I mean that many subterranean explorations have revealed mosaics from the Roman era showing various pagan entities, such as Mercury, Mars, Saturn, and so forth. </p><p>The question arises whether there was ever any actual conversion of the city&#8217;s residents to Christianity. It seems clear that to the extent that some believers made sincere efforts to express their faith, the established enterprises did not.</p><p>We find similar patterns all over Europe. </p><h3>Pretence of aristocracy</h3><p>All over Europe they talk about establishing a &#8220;new Atlantis.&#8221; If you press them on the matter they may refer you to the works of Plato. In his book <em>The Republic</em> the author Plato talks quite a bit about an hierarchical system ruled by philosopher kings. To train up these nasty trolls, they would be given the very best education, the finest foods, and consort with the best minds. That way they would feel themselves privileged and others in their communities would think they were being ruled by the best people.</p><p>Now, you might want to bother to read Plato&#8217;s book. In it he points out that no one man is really any better than any other. He notes that even a very strong man has to sleep at some point and might be murdered in his slumber by other less strong men conspiring together. Or a very strong man set upon by a gang of thugs, as no doubt happened in Athens from time to time, would be robbed and murdered. Nobody is so smart and so inventive that nobody else can follow their thinking. Indeed, the best thinkers seem to be especially capable of conveying a sense of what their ideas are to other people. </p><p>So Plato, being an evil idolator and a really nasty guy, invented a falsehood. He calls it &#8220;the noble lie.&#8221; He admits that it is false. He says that it is a great idea, though, to suggest that some people are better than others. It is such a great idea, to him, that he wants all societies everywhere to be built upon this lie. He hates the truth. He wants people to be forced into castes. Really, when you read about his personal habits, the young boys he raped, and his views, you ought to have no enthusiasm for Plato. </p><p>All over Europe there are hierarchies. One of the things the British East India company claims to have done is bring the ideas of India&#8217;s caste societies back to Europe. And, the peoples of India, of whom there are  great many, do make much of their differences. I suspect that they were led to do so as much by the filthy demon worshipping human sacrificing mass murdering child raping cannibals of the horrid and disgusting British East India company as they were influenced to take up those ideas. Probably there was a mutual reinforcement. But none of these ideas are Christian.</p><p>Quite the opposite. Jesus makes a point of washing the feet of his disciples. Jesus teaches us to serve those we work with, and points out that the first should be last, and the last first. You should look at your managers and the head of the company as people there to serve you, to make your work easier, not your superiors in any way. Moreover, it is a much better management principle that those in charge think of themselves as facilitating and supporting the work of those who report to them rather than lording it over them and calling them &#8220;subordinates&#8221; and arrogantly, rudely making their lives miserable. But you probably have not worked in any actually effectively managed company. Please share in the comments the good and bad work experiences you&#8217;ve had.</p><p>If you go to your favourite streaming service and search for the comedy sketch &#8220;the aristocrats&#8221; you find out what the jesters have always known and have always said. All aristo rats are evil, filthy, disgusting, perverted, and horrid. They murder. They rape. They sell their own children. They eagerly, enthusiastically, willingly sacrifice their children and their most beloved family members of all ages to gain power. They worship demons. They drink human blood. They are bad.</p><p>The problem with Western civilisation is that it is infested with demon worshippers. Jesus gave us a solid foundation on which to build. Plato gave us a lie. But the disgusting people in all the international agencies in all the non-governmental organisations, in all the enterprises inspired by scum like Karl Marx and George Bernard Shaw, are completely opposed to the teachings of Jesus. They all embrace the lies and falsehoods and similitude-laden ideology of pervert Plato. </p><p>Moreover, they demand you do so. Last month they demanded all month that you celebrate Plato&#8217;s ugly perverse desire to rape boys. They want you to be gay. It is not enough that you be anti-discrimination, you have to be pro-perversion. You really need to stop taking these people seriously.</p><p>They are hateful. They are mean. They will destroy your enterprise because you aren&#8217;t one of them. They will insist that if you are going to succeed you have to give them what they haven&#8217;t worked for, sacrifice your family members to their death cults, and obey them without question.</p><p>You want to know why they won&#8217;t prosecute the rapists of the Epstein files? I&#8217;ll tell you why. They all do it. They rape each other. They rape employees. They rape children. The &#8220;federal bureau of investigation&#8221; was founded in 1908 against the wishes of congress which refused to fund them until the fbi agents deployed by evil mass murderer Teddy Roosevelt found enough dirt on enough candidates for re-election to affect the 1908 results. After that, they have been able to coerce all the financial support from congress they need.</p><p>The fbi has never been interested in helping Americans. They find children, especially orphans. They arrange to have prominent men and women rape those children. If that doesn&#8217;t work out, they kidnap the children or other family members of prominent people they want to extort. The fbi are extortionists and always have been. You expect them to prosecute anyone involved in rape or murder or theft or corruption? Maybe for a show trial now and then. J. Edgar Hoover used to very proudly and arrogantly tell anyone who would listen that he had films and photos of every prominent American politician or businessman &#8220;in bed with a live girl or a dead boy&#8221; which is why he was fbi director for life. (No, I won&#8217;t capitalise the three letter acronym for that disgusting agency. You shouldn&#8217;t either. They don&#8217;t deserve any such treatment.) Hoover&#8217;s fbi agents all knew it. They all worked to supply the children to be raped and to murder the children after the fact and to hide the evidence.  That&#8217;s true of your country as well, whatever country you live in. That&#8217;s your aristocracy.</p><p>You are not living in free countries. None of you. If you want to be free, you have to free yourself.</p><p>If you want to build a civilisation worth having, and it so happens that I do, you need to unlearn all the lies you have been taught.</p><p>You have to build on a solid foundation or what you build is going to fall down. Your culture, your civilisation, everything you have ever seen, read about, touched, watched in the cinema or on television, or heard of, has been composed of things that at best have at times paid some attention to the teachings of Jesus. No, that isn&#8217;t good enough.</p><p>You have to stop pretending that you are going to have a better future building on the shifting sands of expedience. You won&#8217;t. </p><p>It may be okay for a time or even good for a time but eventually the truth comes out. Eventually the decay, the rot, destroys everything.</p><p>Aristocracy is rot. The aristo rats are rot.</p><p>Bureaucracy is rot. The bureau rats are rot.</p><p>Politics is rot. The politicians are rot.</p><p>You need to stop being involved in these things. You need to build better. </p><div><hr></div><p>That&#8217;s all I&#8217;ve got for today. Come back next time when I have something new. Or old.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[What they were hiding]]></title><description><![CDATA[and why it matters]]></description><link>https://l5news.substack.com/p/what-they-were-hiding</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://l5news.substack.com/p/what-they-were-hiding</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Davidson]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 23:19:56 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!A_8f!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb2949457-a638-4d3a-9d2d-3f7ef33c47da_805x1091.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!A_8f!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb2949457-a638-4d3a-9d2d-3f7ef33c47da_805x1091.jpeg" 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It has many problems. More than half of history is about hiding the truth. The truth is that powers and principalities founded by really evil people have considerable wealth and political control. It is clear from the lengths to which they&#8217;ve gone to hide certain things and destroy many others that the people who continue to control those enterprises, the descendants of certain blood lines, don&#8217;t want everyone to know what they&#8217;ve done. The questions are many and varied. They deserve close examination.</p><p>My hypothesis is that the people running major world powers are demon worshippers. For today&#8217;s article, one of the things they have kept hidden is their ability to travel across the Atlantic ocean in the 13th Century, roughly AD 1260. Among the reasons they&#8217;ve kept those facts hidden is because they were celebrating with human sacrifices at the great temples in Mexico and elsewhere long before they admitted to being able to cross the ocean.</p><h3>Mainstream is too shallow to be profound</h3><p>George Carlin once said that the reason they call it the &#8220;main stream&#8221; is because it is too shallow to be a river. It isn&#8217;t deep.</p><p>They don&#8217;t try very hard. We have documents that discuss events earlier than the civilisations they claim were the very earliest. We now have entire communities in Anatolia and the upper Mesopotamia region that were built about 11,400 years ago, complete with large structures, sculptures, what appears to be 3D printed geopolymer materials. But none of that can exist because the mainstream position is that civilisation began six thousand years ago. </p><p>Yes, of course there are human bones just like our bones found amongst artefacts that are dated to 360,000 years ago. So we had to be sitting around, staring at fires, doing nothing for 354,000 years in order to have the narrative work with just the materials we&#8217;ve seen and looked at closely. Whereas there was an 80% rural culture in the major cities of Western Europe four hundred years ago with telescopes a novelty and steam engines unknown, and now we have launched thousands of satellites into orbit and over 600 people into space. So it took 354,000 years to stop with the hunting and gathering, but only 400 years to go from 80% rural to 3.9% rural? From clever block and tackle systems in 1600 to nuclear powered submarines in 1954, because, what, we set our minds to it? It&#8217;s all nonsense.</p><p>The history you were taught in school is all lies. The anthropology you were taught in college is all lies. The people who taught you the lies were themselves taught lies, and they were also taught to lie. They were indoctrinated in the idea that only through falsehood and subterfuge can a better world be wrought. They were told to hammer down anyone who refused to buy into the narrative. And, much worse, they were told to make history as boring as possible to get people disconnected from their own past, from what brought their ancestors to this continent, from the discussions and battles that formed the basis for our independence.</p><p>Yes, we used to call this weekend&#8217;s celebration by the term &#8220;independence day&#8221; but nobody believes that we&#8217;re independent any more, so we just call it &#8220;the fourth.&#8221;</p><p>For a great many reasons, I refuse to call it &#8220;the mainstream&#8221; when referring to the received false narrative of history, the received false narrative of anthropology, or the received false narratives of current events. I call it &#8220;the hoax stream.&#8221; So instead of MSM (main stream media) it would be &#8220;HSM&#8221; if I were interested in three letter acronyms (TLAs). Which I&#8217;m not because three letter acronyms are foolish and confusing if you know a great deal about five or six major industries.</p><p>You have been lied to your entire life. You need to stop believing things you are told. You need to do your own research.</p><p>No, friend, I am not going to provide a bunch of links. You shouldn&#8217;t click on links from strangers. Any links I post today may change before you read this article six years from now and lead you to malware sites. Moreover, I accept no obligation to prove anything to you. So stop whining about it. I&#8217;m not going to satisfy your craving for certainty, so give it up. You either do your own research, starting with the hypotheses I put forth in these essays, or you live with the disappointment of uncertainty.</p><p>It is absolutely going to be true for most of your life here on Earth that you aren&#8217;t going to be sure you know the truth about all the things you have been told. If you do come to some understanding of the truth, through divine guidance, you are almost certainly going to encounter other people who refuse to believe the truths you tell them. Part of growing up is navigating a world filled with uncertainty and learning to do the right thing anyway. Learn to do what is good and right and learn to repent when you fall into error and sin. None of us are born with the perfection we would like to have about us all the time, we are born imperfect into a fallen world. So as long as you get back up after you fall into error and sin and try to do the right thing, and keep looking toward the truth, you&#8217;ll get further than you would if you embraced the glamour of evil.  </p><h3>Leif Eriksson</h3><p>Christopher Columbus was a liar and a freemason. But I repeat myself. He was not the first European to travel across the Atlantic. We know that there were Phoenicians fishing the &#8220;grand banks&#8221; off Newfoundland. We have their coins and other artefacts from their seasonal fishing villages from thousands of years ago. </p><p>Herodotus, the so-called &#8220;father of history&#8221; writing around 432 BC reported about a Phoenician sailing expedition which departed the Red Sea sailing southward and circumnavigated Africa, returning through the pillars of Hercules and coming back up the Nile to Thebes. He wrote that their story could not be believed because as they got south from the &#8220;torrid zone&#8221; they reported seeing the sun rising not in the southeast but in the northeast. We know that they were reporting their perspective from south of the equator. So the very reason Herodotus found their story incredible gives weight to our acknowledgement of it. </p><p>But, somehow, we are assured, the peoples of Europe and the Levant never crossed &#8220;the ocean blue&#8221; until &#8220;fourteen hundred and ninety two&#8221;? Lies.</p><p>We know that the Viking explorer Leif Eriksson led 35 men from Greenland at least as far as Newfoundland around AD 1000. He was following up on the reports of Bjarni Herj&#243;lfsson, a merchant who was actually the very first European to spot the coast of North America in AD 986. He was followed by other explorers, probably at least as far south as Martha&#8217;s Vineyard. In their &#8220;sagas&#8221; which evil men and women in England&#8217;s universities and museums discredited repeatedly for hundreds of years, the Vikings recorded sending settlements to various parts of the Atlantic coast of North America. These sagas were fully supported by the discovery of the remains of an actual Viking settlement at L&#8217;Anse aux Meadows in northern Newfoundland in AD 1960.</p><p>So, you see, it has been very important for the liars of the freemason cult and its associated esoteric congregations of Rosicrucians and Jesuits and pagans and Romans and demon worshippers to lie about the truth. Columbus wasn&#8217;t a bold explorer. He was a liar. But he got really great press from the hoax stream media of his day.</p><h3>Hanseatic League</h3><p>One of the reasons I don&#8217;t believe the hoax stream narrative about Christopher Columbus and the &#8220;discovery&#8221; of America is because of the league of merchants who built all kinds of amazing cities around the Baltic coast and North Sea. A guy in Saxony led the rebuilding of the city of L&#252;beck around AD 1158. They called him Henry the Lion. That&#8217;s roughly the time period of the painting that appears at the top of this essay, showing a part of a shrine to Saint Ursula and commemorating the Hanseatic league. </p><p>They had lots of sailing vessels. They navigated the extreme weather of the Baltic, the North Sea, the Arctic ocean, all along those strange coastlines of Scandinavia. I simply don&#8217;t believe that people who both had the sailing capabilities involved in their trade network and direct access to the sagas of the Vikings who explored Iceland, Greenland, Newfoundland, and other parts of North America never bothered to go West of the Orkney islands. It is another set of lies we&#8217;re told to believe by people who shouldn&#8217;t be taken seriously.</p><p>Of course there was trade and commerce across the Atlantic. Of course the cities of Mexico were explored by Europeans for centuries before Columbus. So why weren&#8217;t all those records maintained? Or, were they? Perhaps the &#8220;Vatican archive&#8221; and the hidden archives of the British museum, of the Smithsonian Institution, and other outfits have lots of these records. But you have to be specially qualified to get to see them. Or, you know, be above the thirty-third degree and literally eat human flesh for a few years, whatever it is that would have those in power let you in on the details.</p><p>It is sort of curious that one of the earliest freemason &#8220;temples&#8221; was built in the Orkney islands. And features a kind of Tenochtitlan stepped pyramid as part of its architecture. For people who claim not to be pagan demon worshippers, ya gotta wonder why one of their places is called &#8220;lodge Odin.&#8221; </p><h3>Caravel vessels</h3><p>Starting around AD 1255 there were caravel vessels in the harbours in Portugal. The cogs of the Hanseatic league era are typically depicted as square rigged vessels. The caravels were lateen rigged, or triangle-shaped-sail ships. The triangle sail configuration lets you sail closer into the wind than a square rigging plan. That becomes important for navigating across the ocean, even if you learn where the trade winds reliably carry you West at various times of year and where they carry you reliably East at other times of year. And, yes, those trade winds and ocean currents were clearly known to Phoenician sailors thousands of years ago.</p><p>Here is a modern replica of a caravel to give you a sense of what they look like.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4ZjT!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7921d827-d704-4155-bdc4-d2015e5a981f_1600x900.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4ZjT!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7921d827-d704-4155-bdc4-d2015e5a981f_1600x900.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4ZjT!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7921d827-d704-4155-bdc4-d2015e5a981f_1600x900.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4ZjT!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7921d827-d704-4155-bdc4-d2015e5a981f_1600x900.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4ZjT!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7921d827-d704-4155-bdc4-d2015e5a981f_1600x900.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4ZjT!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7921d827-d704-4155-bdc4-d2015e5a981f_1600x900.jpeg" width="1456" height="819" 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stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>You are welcome to summon expertise from any books or other publications or ask various other resources available to you. But I propose the hypothesis that roughly AD 1260 vessels like the one shown just above, caravels and other similar ships, took templars, freemasons, and other occult society members from Europe to Mexico. At various stepped pyramids, perhaps at Teotihuacan, perhaps in the Yucatan, perhaps in Tenochtitlan as Mexico City was then known, these people participated in human sacrifices. They washed those pyramid steps with human blood.</p><h3>Oddities in maps</h3><p>There are some really strange things about maps. Since I like looking at maps, I&#8217;m going to show you some.</p><p>Here is one from AD 1531. It is a world map created by the French mathematician and cartographer Oronce Fin&#233; which by the traditions of his time was also known in the Latin version of his name, Orontius Finaeus. Let&#8217;s have a look:</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EZke!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F066f5d2e-5b7a-434f-bd93-b513451f098a_1000x678.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EZke!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F066f5d2e-5b7a-434f-bd93-b513451f098a_1000x678.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EZke!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F066f5d2e-5b7a-434f-bd93-b513451f098a_1000x678.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EZke!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F066f5d2e-5b7a-434f-bd93-b513451f098a_1000x678.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EZke!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F066f5d2e-5b7a-434f-bd93-b513451f098a_1000x678.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EZke!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F066f5d2e-5b7a-434f-bd93-b513451f098a_1000x678.jpeg" width="1000" height="678" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/066f5d2e-5b7a-434f-bd93-b513451f098a_1000x678.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:678,&quot;width&quot;:1000,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:157436,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://l5news.substack.com/i/204748855?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F066f5d2e-5b7a-434f-bd93-b513451f098a_1000x678.jpeg&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EZke!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F066f5d2e-5b7a-434f-bd93-b513451f098a_1000x678.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EZke!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F066f5d2e-5b7a-434f-bd93-b513451f098a_1000x678.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EZke!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F066f5d2e-5b7a-434f-bd93-b513451f098a_1000x678.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EZke!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F066f5d2e-5b7a-434f-bd93-b513451f098a_1000x678.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>At left there is the familiar outline of the continent of Europe and the familiar Mediterranean sea and part of Africa looking quite like what we expect. By the way, the tradition used to be that east would be at the top of the map, supposedly from the time when Jerusalem was found in the east and was regarded as the destination of choice for crusaders and others. There is also a tradition that when he returns, Jesus splits the eastern sky. </p><p>On the right side of this map is a southern land which is labelled &#8220;terra australis re&#8221; or &#8220;southern land, really.&#8221; There is a lobe of a continent, perhaps Africa, pointing toward it but not reaching it, and another lobe of a pointier continent, perhaps South America, that seems to almost touch it. Looks quite a bit like Antarctica - the polar continent devoid of polar bears. But what is it doing on a map from 1531? Antarctica was &#8220;first&#8221; seen by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen in AD 1820, according to that hoax stream narrative we&#8217;re supposed to believe. So how did ol&#8217; Orontius have a map of it? Why would he devote half his map of the world to showing that whole part of the world? And look up near the top on the left, there are some islands off the coast from some lobe of land that is further east than what looks to represent India. </p><p>One of the items shown there at the very edge of the map is a feature that looks a lot like the Cape York peninsula sticking up from Australia. Or maybe it&#8217;s an island and just resembles Cape York. Because Cape York wasn&#8217;t seen by any European, we&#8217;re told, until ol&#8217; Willem Janszoon landed and did a bit of mapping in AD 1606. Maybe Orontius got really lucky in his making things up? Or maybe the historians have been lying through their teeth for hundreds of years.</p><p>But, wait, there&#8217;s more (said Ron Popeil on any number of adverts). Here is a map from &#8220;Piri Reis&#8221; supposedly from AD 1513. Let&#8217;s have a look:</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!F3Pq!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F76971e2e-6e23-4559-93f4-8dbb0bed9a75_500x667.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!F3Pq!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F76971e2e-6e23-4559-93f4-8dbb0bed9a75_500x667.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!F3Pq!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F76971e2e-6e23-4559-93f4-8dbb0bed9a75_500x667.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!F3Pq!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F76971e2e-6e23-4559-93f4-8dbb0bed9a75_500x667.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!F3Pq!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F76971e2e-6e23-4559-93f4-8dbb0bed9a75_500x667.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!F3Pq!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F76971e2e-6e23-4559-93f4-8dbb0bed9a75_500x667.jpeg" width="500" height="667" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/76971e2e-6e23-4559-93f4-8dbb0bed9a75_500x667.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:667,&quot;width&quot;:500,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:153095,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://l5news.substack.com/i/204748855?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F76971e2e-6e23-4559-93f4-8dbb0bed9a75_500x667.jpeg&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!F3Pq!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F76971e2e-6e23-4559-93f4-8dbb0bed9a75_500x667.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!F3Pq!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F76971e2e-6e23-4559-93f4-8dbb0bed9a75_500x667.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!F3Pq!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F76971e2e-6e23-4559-93f4-8dbb0bed9a75_500x667.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!F3Pq!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F76971e2e-6e23-4559-93f4-8dbb0bed9a75_500x667.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>The existence of this fragment of a map with reasonable details of the Antarctic coast line in the absence of the permanent ice pack along the coast seems very odd. How was it made? According to the written commentary on the map fragment itself, it was assembled by a navigation expert (Piri Reis) from maps found in archives. There&#8217;s a very long history of information the origins of which are not really clear. </p><p>Frederick Pohl wrote an interesting book about the mapping activities of Amerigo Vespucci. The continents that bear Vespucci&#8217;s name (or whose name was assigned to Vespucci at some point in his career) were described by him in journal fashion. He never published a map on his own, but his charts were supposedly published in AD 1507 by Martin Waldseem&#252;ller. Pohl went over some of the journals and put forth a narrative indicating that Vespucci looked for certain occultations and conjunctions of the major planets. Long periods of time were involved in astronomical observations from certain islands. So, the published charts had amazing longitudinal accuracy in an era when clocks were unable to function aboard ship because of the movements of waves and surf. Pohl published his book in AD 1944. Worth a look if you can find a version of it in your favourite library or digital archive.</p><h3>Flags and seals</h3><p>You have been told all your life that the Declaration of Independence was signed and read aloud to the army on the 4th of July in 1776. Apparently the signatures weren&#8217;t affixed until August of 1776 or, in at least one case, until 1777. So, then, why are we told the country began in 1776? Or is that the year something else began? It turns out that the Bavarian illuminati also founded their institution that same year. </p><p>The opening of hostilities is dated to the 16th of December 1773 in Boston harbour. The city was regarded as being in a condition of anarchy until the arrival of British troops some weeks later. Actual battlefield activity began in Lexington and Concord on the 19th of April 1775. So why are we supposed to ignore the actual choices to go to war as the beginning of the country and substitute a bunch of politicians lying to one another in Philadelphia writing some words we&#8217;re supposed to believe? And in the 250 years since then, have you seen any evidence that governments are instituted among men to secure rights to life, liberty, property, and the pursuit of happiness? I myself have not. (I don&#8217; think you have, mate.)</p><p>So, when you look at the &#8220;great seal&#8221; of the United States on the back of the one dollar bill, you see a pyramid. If you look at the base of the pyramid you see the Roman numerals for 1776. The pyramid has thirteen steps. We&#8217;re told those thirteen steps represent the thirteen original colonies supposedly part of the country at its founding. (Of course, in the treaty of Paris the colony of Delaware is not granted its independence. You should look for the treaty language from 1783 and verify that fact.)</p><p>Here, have a look at this colour version of the reverse of the so-called &#8220;great seal&#8221; of the United States:</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mt3S!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fad47a309-5b31-4aa5-b5c7-e81a91fd0620_370x370.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mt3S!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fad47a309-5b31-4aa5-b5c7-e81a91fd0620_370x370.png 424w, 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stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Above the thirteen levels of the pyramid is a strange looking eye in a triangle. When you read up on the freemasons, you see that all-seeing eye iconography in various places. In the film &#8220;Stargate&#8221; the symbol is identified with the &#8220;eye of Ra&#8221; symbol. In the film &#8220;The Man Who Would Be King&#8221; the symbol is found on the bottom of a stone in some part of Afghanistan. You&#8217;ll find it all over your culture, and over your freemason Feral Reserveless paper money.</p><p>Here is the flag of the British East India company:</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!cqRa!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F04e8873a-5e50-4635-a748-f3f6fd06f77c_1000x600.svg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!cqRa!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F04e8873a-5e50-4635-a748-f3f6fd06f77c_1000x600.svg 424w, 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stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Now, why do you suppose the politicians in Philadelphia supposedly founding a new free country adopted the red and white stripes of a company founded on the last day of the year AD 1600? How peculiar.</p><p>Those stripes represent the steps of a pyramid, some of which are dripping in blood. Why? Because the people who founded the company 177 years before the Betsy Ross flag was adopted by congress (in 1777) were from families that travelled to Mexico to see human sacrifices on the pyramids in the &#8220;new world.&#8221; The company&#8217;s iconography was adopted about the time of its founding in 1600. The founders were from families that travelled to Mexico from as early as AD 1260.</p><h3>Expunging the records</h3><p>By tradition the Aztecs under Montezuma were expecting the return of Quetzlcoatl, a white skinned man who sailed away into the east. His promised return was to be in the year &#8220;one reed&#8221; which was the year Cortez and his mass murdering conquistadores showed up. But, wait, you say, there were white people sailing the Atlantic ocean in the ancient traditions of the Mayan and Aztec people? How odd that Europeans don&#8217;t have historical accounts of these events. Or, given the burning of the library of Alexandria, and the Mongol conquest of Baghdad and the destruction there of the libraries of the houses of wisdom, it is a wonder we know anything at all.</p><p>But it is rather worse, because you would think the Aztec and Mayan and Nahuatl and other native peoples would have had their own written languages and written records from the past. Indeed, there are a very few Mayan &#8220;codices&#8221; mostly preserved in museums in Europe. But these survived a great burning, carried out by the freemason-indoctrinated Dominican priests who torched all the written works of the Aztecs, Maya, Nahuatl, and others of the relevant area. You see, they didn&#8217;t want historians to come around and find out what the freemasons and their predecessors in the Roman and Venetian patrician families had been doing in Mexico for generations.</p><p>The official policy of Cortez was the destruction of palaces and the burning of libraries, beginning in 1521. The Spanish government insisted that the Dominicans have the only spiritual authority in &#8220;new Spain.&#8221; You can read about Diego de Landa who handled the burning of the Mayan codices and about Juan de Zum&#225;rraga who worked in what is now Mexico city and decide for yourself how much of their insistence on destroying the libraries and written records of the native peoples had to do with their conviction that souls needed saving. To the credit of de Landa he interrupted a group of about 300 Mayans who were about to sacrifice a young boy and then preached with such fervour, according to contemporary accounts, that the local people (who probably wanted to get away from having any more of their children sacrificed by the traditions of their people) asked him to stay around and show them a new way.</p><p>Meanwhile all the written records that could have tied European &#8220;nobility&#8221; to disgusting practices in the &#8220;new world&#8221; were eradicated. </p><h3>Hiding the giants</h3><p>One of the things frequently found in the Americas were bones of giant humans. There are also numerous historic accounts of giants living among people in, for example, Patagonia. Some of the sightings of &#8220;big foot&#8221; or sasquatch suggest that these beings are of very large stature in many cases. </p><p>So why don&#8217;t the museums back east have displays of giants found in the Americas? They clearly took the bones. Newspaper accounts all over the West document that the bones were found, that the Smithsonian and other museums absconded with the remains, and that the records were expunged. Why hide the giants?</p><p>Because the &#8220;blood lines&#8221; include Nephilim. Because the aristo rats of Europe are demon worshippers and are not Christians, with few exceptions.</p><h3>Erasing discoveries</h3><p>Every few days I see another documentary or read another essay about various discoveries in the area of ancient civilisations. Lots of evidence has been suppressed. Many authors have been attacked for their work in exposing the truth about our past.</p><p>Graham Hancock is an author who has done some important work in this area. His books have been very popular. Recently his attackers have taken to calling him a racist for reasons that I find difficult to comprehend. He&#8217;s literally saying that indigenous peoples all over the world were capable of great technological feats. But somehow because he rejects the hoax stream narrative, he must be a racist? idgi</p><p>The Younger Dryas impact hypothesis suggests that the beginning of the renewed ice age of lower temperatures globally was caused by some impact events. Asteroids or something from space hit our world and started a lot of fires about 12,800 years ago. The resulting fire storms put so much soot in the air that a &#8220;black mat&#8221; can be seen in the appropriate sedimentary layers all over North America and in various locations elsewhere. As with &#8220;nuclear winter&#8221; and the results of volcanic explosions, the extra particulates in the atmosphere reduced temperatures. The ice sheets which had been melting returned. The ice age was prolonged by about 1,200 years. Then 11,600 years ago something else happened and in a matter of about 40 days and 40 nights the world was flooded. The impact hypothesis has been attacked by the hoax stream narrative people. It is all so tedious.</p><h3>Clamour for control</h3><p>The people who have wealth and power in our world are mainly evil men and women. They hate everyone else. They work to hurt others as much as possible. They want to control everyone.</p><p>Larry Ellison, an exceptionally evil and personally wicked man, recently said to a group of his managers that he wanted total surveillance of everyone all the time. The surveillance would be so complete that everyone would be obedient because they would know that they were being watched all the time. Ellison hates all personal liberty, hates all creativity, hate all independence, wants death camps, wants to work people to death if they so much as think ideas he doesn&#8217;t find agreeable, wants total obedience because his is a disgusting, evil, violent psychopath. He is not the only one, he is typical of his cohort. Bill Gates, Reid Hoffman, Sam Altman, and others are as bad or worse. These are vicious people who want to facilitate the enslavement of mankind out of a timid view that other people shouldn&#8217;t ever have the opportunity to unseat them from their wealth and power.</p><p>For hundreds of years, since at least AD 1260, the freemasons, the other esoteric societies, the Venetian &#8220;black&#8221; (or evil) so-called nobility, the families of patrician Rome who survived the sacks of that city, the disgusting scum of the Western empire under Charlemagne and his successors, have been drinking human blood, eating human flesh, raping children, and engaging in every sort of abomination. These are the very worst people in the world. They are hateful, evil, disgusting, vile, and violent. So, of course they infest universities. They hide documents. They laugh at people who try to find &#8220;confounded&#8221; works in the official records, documents and books that should be there but have been made unavailable. Of course they lie, all the time, and in great detail, about everything. Never trust them.</p><h3>How far would they go</h3><p>To keep power, they locked everyone down in 2020. To keep power and wealth they had the Feral Reserveless scammers issue endless money to their banking friends and by locking you down kept you from getting at any of the spending power of that new wealth. The Cantillon effect kept it all for their friends and fellow gangsters. Trump did that. He did it deliberately. He knew what he was doing. Obama continued the policies while pretending to be Joe Biden. </p><p>How far would they go? They would import savage criminals to rape and murder you and any other Christians around. They would kill. They rape children, all the time, because they are themselves savages. There is extensive documentation. They had Garfield, McKinley, and JFK murdered while president.</p><p>They set the world on fire in 1914, again in 1939, and are trying again since 2014. These are the worst people ever. They are in many individual cases deserving of death.</p><h3>Prayer</h3><p>We are not ever going to vote our way to freedom. The facts of the obvious theft of elections have been very clear. The senate is full of evil men and women who refuse to safeguard elections. Even if they were to agree to do so, the truth is the elections would be fraudulent anyway. We are not going to be able to fight our way to freedom without much help from God.</p><p>So I have a prayer.</p><p>Eternal Father, please help us free the slaves, stop the wars, end the tyranny of the state and the state of tyranny, cast out all demons, translate the Gospels into every language, care for the young and the old, the sick and the dying, with dignity and respect, out of a place of humility, and carry the Gospels to the farthest stars in every direction and to all souls in between. Please help with guidance, resources, ingenuity, endurance, fortitude, and patience. Please show us the little fires so we may pass by them. Please bring love into our lives so we remember what we have to live for. In the name of Jesus Christ I pray. God&#8217;s will be done. Amen.</p><h3>Please support my work</h3><p>This week I paid in full and on time the rent on the storage unit in Ohio where I had to leave all my stuff several years ago. It was in the midst of the covid lockdowns and scam that I learned that I could no longer live in Dayton. In about a month I am planning to get myself to Ohio to get all my things out of there. A good friend I&#8217;ve known since 2004 has agreed to let me put my stuff in the spare bedroom at his house in Illinois. So there will be moving! That is also a blessing, having a place to take things where there won&#8217;t be a monthly rental fee. It is also a project about which I have no clarity on how I&#8217;m going to pay for. If you are able to help out with the moving expenses, please contact me in the comments or direct messages, unless we&#8217;re already in communications in some other way.</p><p>Last week I posted about how you should be careful when receiving direct messages here on Substack, or any platform. People will pose as someone else and send you an address for a crypto payment or some other sort of transaction. You should know that I will never tell you where to send any funds using comments or direct messages on this system. So we&#8217;ll need to get in touch by email or by encrypted chat or messaging using some other methodology.</p><p>If you would be interested in my novel <em>Freedom Decentral: Free the Slaves</em> please let me know. After Dark Publications is planning to have it available in time for the Christmas season this year. It will be available in hard back in a limited edition and in trade paperback.</p><p>Secure Perimeter Institute is paying 20% commission if you bring us a customer. Or apply the 20% as a discount if you want a class on communications privacy, data security, or physical security. We&#8217;re raising a further $23K in our seed round, so if those topics interest you feel free to contact me in the direct messages or comments and I&#8217;ll send our one sheet overview.</p><p>Space Travel Services is planning to rent space at several space ports over the next few years to sell space tourism events, book travel to launch sites, and sell gear appropriate for space tourists. We are seeking to get involved at the Vegas Spaceport in the near future. If you&#8217;d be interested in getting involved, please let me know.</p><p>In California some friends of several years are raising money for their aerospace venture. In Oregon some friends are raising money for their Freedom Renaissance film studio. In Georgia a friend provides accounting services to investment funds. In Indonesia a friend from Texas is putting together a number of film and television projects and other entertainment industry activities. I&#8217;m happy to put you in touch with any or all of these outfits.</p><p>If you are not in a position to contribute money or to invest money, that&#8217;s cool. You can help by commenting on this article, or by restacking it, or by restacking it with a comment and tagging one or two other Substack writers, or by hitting that like button. Everything you do that improves the standing for this article in the algorithm helps make things here in the algorithm ghetto a little brighter.</p><p>Thank you for all the help you choose to provide.</p><div><hr></div><p>That&#8217;s all I&#8217;ve got for today. Come back next time when I have something new. Or old.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry for freedom]]></title><description><![CDATA[and the journey to the stars]]></description><link>https://l5news.substack.com/p/poetry-for-freedom</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://l5news.substack.com/p/poetry-for-freedom</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Davidson]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 02:39:40 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zG2F!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3d649798-8562-421e-b971-f46ec05265ea_1663x1252.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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Poetry&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:85810127,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/1911f4a5-f035-4d6f-936d-e1daca1ab0a1_329x325.png&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;11023557-4ee3-440b-8aab-7cc6627fafc9&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> has invited me to read one of my poems, &#8220;Anthem for the Ama-gi.&#8221; I have accepted the invitation.</p><p>You can read more about the poetry event at Victory Palace Poetry&#8217;s substack. Here is a link all about it: <a href="https://substack.com/@victorypalace/p-202117414">link</a></p><h3>The Anthem</h3><p>Many years ago I was told by a friend of mine from Holland, Michael van Notten, that there would be a gathering in London, Ontario of the International Society for Individual Liberty. At the time, the group went by the acronym ISIL. It was the seventh month of Anno Domini 2000. </p><p>A good friend of mine in Texas had been working with me on the ratification of a new, very liberty oriented, constitution for that country. He lent me his Volkswagen Jetta. At the time I still had an older passport and also at the time it was still possible to cross the border into Canada with no other documentation than a driver licence (if you were driving). So I attended the event. </p><p>While there a man drew these symbols on the blackboard, in chalk:</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XSX5!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff31e2ea5-3550-43fd-ad76-6d39c9de92c9_720x261.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XSX5!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff31e2ea5-3550-43fd-ad76-6d39c9de92c9_720x261.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XSX5!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff31e2ea5-3550-43fd-ad76-6d39c9de92c9_720x261.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XSX5!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff31e2ea5-3550-43fd-ad76-6d39c9de92c9_720x261.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XSX5!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff31e2ea5-3550-43fd-ad76-6d39c9de92c9_720x261.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XSX5!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff31e2ea5-3550-43fd-ad76-6d39c9de92c9_720x261.jpeg" width="720" height="261" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/f31e2ea5-3550-43fd-ad76-6d39c9de92c9_720x261.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:261,&quot;width&quot;:720,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:23649,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://l5news.substack.com/i/204211592?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff31e2ea5-3550-43fd-ad76-6d39c9de92c9_720x261.jpeg&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XSX5!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff31e2ea5-3550-43fd-ad76-6d39c9de92c9_720x261.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XSX5!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff31e2ea5-3550-43fd-ad76-6d39c9de92c9_720x261.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XSX5!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff31e2ea5-3550-43fd-ad76-6d39c9de92c9_720x261.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XSX5!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff31e2ea5-3550-43fd-ad76-6d39c9de92c9_720x261.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>He explained that these symbols were written in cuneiform and represented the most ancient way of saying &#8220;we&#8217;re free.&#8221; It represents manumission, debt cancellation, and freedom from servitude.</p><p>So I wrote a poem about it. You can read my poem at the following link:</p><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;505bfe1e-9aec-4e2b-8a7c-b4e302877dd2&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;When I was young, on a course I did steer&quot;,&quot;cta&quot;:null,&quot;showBylines&quot;:true,&quot;showDescription&quot;:true,&quot;showImage&quot;:true,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;lg&quot;,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Anthem for the Ama-gi&quot;,&quot;publishedBylines&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:87001360,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Jim Davidson&quot;,&quot;bio&quot;:&quot;Jim runs Eldar Capital private equity and After Dark Publications.&quot;,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/2088e963-5974-49ea-9154-dd8e166cbd9f_128x128.jpeg&quot;,&quot;is_guest&quot;:false,&quot;bestseller_tier&quot;:null}],&quot;post_date&quot;:&quot;2023-12-11T11:38:11.494Z&quot;,&quot;cover_image&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/1955807b-e780-4e44-ac33-3c2a819a8ea0_1100x220.png&quot;,&quot;cover_image_alt&quot;:null,&quot;canonical_url&quot;:&quot;https://l5news.substack.com/p/anthem-for-the-ama-gi&quot;,&quot;section_name&quot;:null,&quot;video_upload_id&quot;:null,&quot;id&quot;:139682373,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;newsletter&quot;,&quot;reaction_count&quot;:5,&quot;comment_count&quot;:4,&quot;publication_id&quot;:1261528,&quot;publication_name&quot;:&quot;L5 News&quot;,&quot;publication_logo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!SrMX!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Feebc4ce7-17dc-4b12-b83f-0e36d36ba726_1280x1280.png&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;youtube_url&quot;:null,&quot;show_links&quot;:null,&quot;feed_url&quot;:null}"></div><h3>When a friend died</h3><p>In 1993 one of the groups I was involved in was the Houston Space Society. We had a meeting about the planet &#8220;Mars.&#8221; Michael Duke from the NASA &#8220;Mars Exploration Study&#8221; team and Robert Zubrin who had published <em>The Case for Mars</em> were both speakers.</p><p>About the time of this meeting, one of our core members had a severe aneurysm-related stroke. He was in the hospital. So after our meeting and getting the speakers situated at their accommodations after the event, I went to the hospital to find out how bad things were for our friend. He died a short while later.</p><p>For various reasons the work I was doing at the time had tapered off. A talent agency had a gig for me, so the same morning that I found out my friend was dead, I was sitting in the &#8220;green room&#8221; at the location for the shooting of the film &#8220;Reality Bites.&#8221; I would be an extra in the film, no lines of dialogue, probably no screen credit. But it paid &#8220;scale&#8221; which made it worth sitting there and getting in costume and going along with the directions. 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I don&#8217;t talk about most of those.</p><h3>Please support my work</h3><p>This week I am very grateful for the ability to pay in full and on time the rent on the storage unit in Ohio where I had to leave all my stuff several years ago. It was in the midst of the covid lockdowns and scam that I learned that I could no longer live in Dayton. In about a month I am planning to get myself to Ohio to get all my things out of there. A good friend I&#8217;ve known since 2004 has agreed to let me put my stuff in the spare bedroom at his house in Illinois. So there will be moving! That is also a blessing, having a place to take things where there won&#8217;t be a monthly rental fee. It is also a project about which I have no clarity on how I&#8217;m going to pay for. If you are able to help out with the moving expenses, please contact me in the comments or direct messages, unless we&#8217;re already in communications in some other way.</p><p>This week I posted about how you should be careful when receiving direct messages here on Substack, or any platform. People will pose as someone else and send you an address for a crypto payment or some other sort of transaction. You should know that I will never tell you where to send any funds using comments or direct messages on this system. So we&#8217;ll need to get in touch by email or by encrypted chat or messaging using some other methodology.</p><p>If you would be interested in my novel <em>Freedom Decentral: Free the Slaves</em> please let me know. After Dark Publications is planning to have it available in time for the Christmas season this year. It will be available in hard back in a limited edition and in trade paperback.</p><p>Secure Perimeter Institute is paying 20% commission if you bring us a customer. Or apply the 20% as a discount if you want a class on communications privacy, data security, or physical security. We&#8217;re raising a further $23K in our seed round, so if those topics interest you feel free to contact me in the direct messages or comments and I&#8217;ll send our one sheet overview.</p><p>Space Travel Services is planning to rent space at several space ports over the next few years to sell space tourism events, book travel to launch sites, and sell gear appropriate for space tourists. We are seeking to get involved at the Vegas Spaceport in the near future. If you&#8217;d be interested in getting involved, please let me know.</p><p>In California some friends of several years are raising money for their aerospace venture. In Oregon some friends are raising money for their Freedom Renaissance film studio. In Georgia a friend provides accounting services to investment funds. In Indonesia a friend from Texas is putting together a number of film and television projects and other entertainment industry activities. I&#8217;m happy to put you in touch with any or all of these outfits.</p><p>If you are not in a position to contribute money or to invest money, that&#8217;s cool. You can help by commenting on this article, or by restacking it, or by restacking it with a comment and tagging one or two other Substack writers, or by hitting that like button. Everything you do that improves the standing for this article in the algorithm helps make things here in the algorithm ghetto a little brighter.</p><p>Thank you for all the help you choose to provide.</p><div><hr></div><p>That&#8217;s all I&#8217;ve got for today. Come back next time when I have something new. Or old.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Punishing Brexit]]></title><description><![CDATA[for a decade]]></description><link>https://l5news.substack.com/p/punishing-brexit</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://l5news.substack.com/p/punishing-brexit</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Davidson]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 04:26:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!J-rn!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe910f1ab-2385-467a-b10f-b01006605828_615x437.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!J-rn!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe910f1ab-2385-467a-b10f-b01006605828_615x437.jpeg" 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Brexit has failed. We've not delivered on Brexit and the Tories have let us down very, very badly.&#8221; ~ Nigel Farage, Anno Domini 2023</p></div><p>The people of the UK voted for Brexit on the 23rd day of this month in 2016. So this week the choice to restore the sovereignty of the UK and withdraw it from the European Union turned ten years old. In those ten years, the Conservative party, the Labour party, and all the other political groups with parliamentary power have utterly failed to uphold the purpose expressed by the people. That election had very high turnout and was a clear victory for Brexit, which deeply upsets every major business owner and every prominent politician in the world. They have set about punishing the people of the UK for daring to want out of globalism.</p><p>The people of the UK asked to be let out of the European Union, out of the mandated metric monstrosity, out of the endless flood of criminal immigrants eating out their substance, out of the relentless rape gangs, out of the endless machinations of Brussels bureau rats, and back to a restored Britain. As you can see, the policies of the evil, mass murdering, demon worshipping globalists are fixed, and the strategy of ever voting your way out of these problems is unworkable because: no matter what you choose in voting, you get the policies you don&#8217;t want from the people you don&#8217;t like. And they rape children.</p><h3>The Rape Gang Inquiry</h3><p>I would invite you to read it yourself. In a recent essay, I broke with my preference of not posting links and included a link to a very good and thorough treatment of that inquiry. Let&#8217;s hit the highlights.</p><ul><li><p>About 250,000 children, mostly girls, have been raped by gangs in the UK;</p></li><li><p>All of the police agencies are supportive of the rapists and cover for them;</p></li><li><p>The pretence of a shortage of jail cells has led to early releases for all rapists;</p></li><li><p>The young victims live in fear of being grabbed again and raped to death;</p></li><li><p>Nobody in political power in the UK cares, at all;</p></li><li><p>The politicians and senior bureau rats in the UK are themselves raping children.</p></li></ul><p>Let me reiterate. I am not here to convince you of things. If you want to regard each of those bullet points as an hypothesis, then please go ahead and falsify each one. That&#8217;s why there are open comments on this article. That&#8217;s why comments are always open on all the articles here. If the search for the truth is pursued through the discussion, then perhaps we can uncover some facts and figures. But, I suspect that you don&#8217;t really want facts, figures, statistics, statements from authorities, or details. So only on very rare occasion when it suits my inclination do I bother to link to very much. To date there haven&#8217;t really been many people squawking about the lack of proof. But, by all means, get in the comments and really let me know how you feel about these things.</p><p>Are you at all upset that a quarter million children have been raped, deliberately, purposefully, as a racket, for profit, by brutally criminal immigrants who are eagerly supported by enthusiastic police agencies? Do you have any evidence at all that there is any sort of coordinated opposition to the rape activities of these mostly immigrant gangsters? Do you actually think that the freemasons who appoint all those constables and police inspectors who wear that ridiculous freemason checkerboard of black and white squares around their uniform caps and who involve themselves in rape, murder, human sacrifice, and demon worship at their most selective events promoting members to their very highest ranks, actually care, at all that a quarter million children have been raped? If so, please do me a favour and provide even a tiny bit of evidence for this concern on their part. </p><p>The truth is that the people who run the police agencies like to see young girls raped. They enjoy sharing stories about each of the girls. They enjoy comparing the pictures. They make fun of the little girls. They don&#8217;t care about the harm, the injuries, the suffering, the deaths. The police like to have children raped. The police would do something about the rape gangs if they wanted the raping to stop. They don&#8217;t do anything. They work very hard to exonerate the rapists and to get them early release. The magistrates are exactly the same. These are the official policies.</p><h3>It goes to the top</h3><p>It is a matter of public record that the evil villain Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor raped Virginia Giuffre. He spent as much time as he could with Jeffrey Epstein. He raped as many children as possible. He is mentioned hundreds of times in the millions of pages of Epstein files so far released, and is probably mentioned in the millions of pages of Epstein files that Donald Trump personally opposes ever releasing to the public. Andrew met with Epstein and Maxwell several times a year during the height of their relationship.</p><p>It seems clear from his behaviours that Charles doesn&#8217;t share his brother&#8217;s particular taste in perverse sexual gratification. It also seems clear that Charles never liked his wife Diana and was directly involved in her murder. However, it is also obvious that the criminal investigation into Andrew&#8217;s conduct has nothing to do with him raping as many children as possible. There were certain disclosures revealed in some of the Epstein files that suggest that Andrew shared information of a highly secret nature. So he&#8217;s in trouble over official secrets. Charles could not possibly care any less how many children got raped by his brother.</p><p>Charles is not at all, even slightly, concerned about hundreds of thousands of school age girls groomed and repeatedly raped, for profit, by the people Charles wants imported from around the world. Charles is the representative of a family that originate from Germany. They are pagans. They never wanted to have any part in the church founded by Jesus Christ two thousand years ago. Charles was &#8220;crowned&#8221; without ever agreeing to defend the faith. It has become clear in recent years that he does not share the faith. </p><h3>Without consent</h3><p>The parliamentary system is a sham. It purports to represent the people of each constituency with a member of parliament who respects their preferences. It actually does no such thing. A great many members of parliament have no residence in the constituency they pretend to represent. They are party political operatives. They could care less if everyone in their constituency died, was raped, or suffered in hospital. All they care about is the political power they get from being &#8220;parachute&#8221; candidates who jump into parliament representing some group of locals about whom they care not one whit.</p><p>Without the consent of the governed, it isn&#8217;t government. Nor indeed is the outward appearance of consent adequate. For consent to be meaningful it must be fully informed, it must be voluntary, and it must be entered into competently. None of those conditions can be met. </p><p>The consent of the governed is not obtained with full disclosure of all the expenditures of the tax money stolen from the people in various ways and the expenditures of the fees stolen from the people for various supposed privileges. Parliament refuses to require the publication of all the expenses. They claim national security. They claim the difficulty of having bureau rats bother to keep track. They glut themselves and their families on privileges and benefits. They ridicule their constituents at dinner parties, get drunk on cocktails, and have a good laugh at everyone who obeys their idiotic rules. They are arrogant and ugly. They lie, cheat, steal, and they rape children. When called upon to do so they authorise the murder of anyone who is inconvenient to the tyranny.</p><p>The people may have the choice to vote or not vote. Fully 27% of the people of the UK who were eligible to vote didn&#8217;t bother to do so in 2016, for the Brexit vote. Why not? For all manner of reasons, no doubt. But quite a few don&#8217;t think the system represents them, don&#8217;t want to be involved in it, and won&#8217;t go to the polling places because the people who administer the elections are a bunch of jerks. You can ask the people of the UK why they don&#8217;t vote. Since over a quarter of the people won&#8217;t vote, it is clear that the system doesn&#8217;t have the consent of the governed.</p><p>Yes, I believe the unanimous consent of the governed is essential for any claim that the entity oppressing the people is legitimate or in any way a consensual &#8220;government.&#8221; It is not. </p><p>John Locke lied. It is not true that we secure our rights by instituting governments. That has been tried many times and it has always failed. It failed with the Magna Carta, which is hidden away and ignored. It failed with the peasant&#8217;s great rising when the aristo rats were having their hired men rape the virgin girls to get an extra shilling per child by claiming they were now adults. It failed with the English civil war. Even chopping off the head of a brutal ugly nasty despicable tyrant wasn&#8217;t enough to secure the rights of the people. So there was a restoration, and then a &#8220;glorious&#8221; palace revolution, a game of musical Stuarts, with the eldest daughter of James the Second becoming queen along with William of Orange in 1689. </p><p>And, so you Yanks don&#8217;t get too full of yourselves, your American revolution also failed to secure your rights. Or did you think your rights were being respected by those things in the District of Corruption that claim power over you?</p><h3>Global tyranny</h3><p>The flag of the United Nations was designed in San Francisco in 1945. Some of the delegates to that conference were from Columbia University. The &#8220;office of strategic services&#8221; which became the central intelligence agency was involved in designing the lapel pins for the members of that conference.</p><p>If you look at the official flag of Columbia University you see a light blue field with a white crown on it. You might ask yourself why it has that look. It turns out that Columbia was founded as &#8220;King&#8217;s College&#8221; in the city of New York. My diploma from Columbia still has that terminology, in Latin because reasons. Columbia was founded in 1754 by George second. That crown is a symbol of his family, the Hanover family, and their usurpation of the title &#8220;king.&#8221; There is no king but Jesus Christ.</p><p>If you look at the flag of the United Nations it also has a crown. Yes, there is a polar projection of the continents of the Earth in the center. Surrounding that depiction of Earth are laurel wreaths, which were used to crown the Romans who were allowed to have a triumphal parade in Rome - generally with a slave holding the crown over the head of the general (who had often been hailed by his troops &#8220;imperator&#8221; or worthy to lead Romans). That slave would ride in the chariot with the victorious general and remind him from time to time that the glories of this world are fleeting.</p><p>Now, try to imagine if that globe were a head and that crown were surrounding it. Look at it from different angles. Think about what it is saying. The flag of the United Nations is saying that there is a king of the world.</p><p>I&#8217;m saying that the victors of the second world war claim the authority to impose that worldly domination all over the world. Those victors are among the biggest arms exporters in the history of the world. The victorious &#8220;allies&#8221; have the permanent veto seats in the security council. No major war takes place anywhere in the world without their involvement, without them selling arms to one or both sides, without their fingers in all the pies, getting lots of corrupt profits from the wars, and lots of individual pleasure for the politicians and bureau rats from the deaths, the bloodshed, the suffering.</p><p>These aren&#8217;t good people. And you should make a greater effort to stop obeying them.</p><p>Your obedience isn&#8217;t protecting you. It isn&#8217;t going to protect your children. You should stop &#8220;doing your part.&#8221; They aren&#8217;t going to protect children from rape because they are rapists.</p><p>Do you know why the federal bureau of investigation (the fbi) won&#8217;t help prosecute the Epstein rapists? The system would have to produce detailed records for the defendants, who are very wealthy men. Those men know what the fbi has always been, since it was founded in 1908. The short version was frequently cited by J. Edgar Hoover when anyone would ask him how he had so much power. He had power because he had film and photos of every prominent man in America &#8220;in bed with a live boy or a dead girl.&#8221; And the fbi always provided the children, and always murdered them. All that information would come out in detail during any prosecution on criminal charges of any of those very prominent visitors to Epstein&#8217;s island and ranch and other properties.</p><p>Why did Teddy Roosevelt found the fbi? Congress refused to fund it. So the fbi found dirt on a bunch of congress critters and after the 1908 election, congress has always funded the fbi. The idea for it came from the same people who murdered McKinley. And was Teddy going to say no? Of course not.</p><p>If you don&#8217;t like the way things are, and I myself certainly do not, then you should stop supporting things the way they are. You can begin by not paying taxes and fees you don&#8217;t owe to people you don&#8217;t like for things they don&#8217;t provide anyway - things like security, prosperity, peace, justice, freedom. If you want things like those, including all those things and more, then you need to look elsewhere. You aren&#8217;t going to get those from rapists and war profiteers. Grow up. </p><p>Look at things the way they really are. You don&#8217;t have to put your hands on the tyrants to push them over. Just stop supporting them. Stop holding them up. They cannot operate without your help.</p><p>They don&#8217;t have enough voices and eyes to rat out all your neighbours. They rely on you and people like you to summon the police and testify and bear witness and make complaints. They rely on you and the scum running social media sites to report on infractions against wrong think. They don&#8217;t have enough prison cells for everyone, and they might be reluctant to pull that  &#8220;lock down&#8221; thing very often. </p><p>As long as you cooperate with the system of your oppression, you are going to suffer.</p><p>You do have to serve someone. You have a choice. You are free to choose who to serve.</p><p>As for me and my family, we serve the Lord our God.</p><div><hr></div><p>That&#8217;s all I&#8217;ve got for today. Come back next time when I have something new. Or old.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nature of the war]]></title><description><![CDATA[and its origins]]></description><link>https://l5news.substack.com/p/the-nature-of-the-war</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://l5news.substack.com/p/the-nature-of-the-war</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Davidson]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 05:15:19 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8C6n!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6815c008-b0d9-4df0-bfcc-e79f4965bb2e_960x640.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8C6n!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6815c008-b0d9-4df0-bfcc-e79f4965bb2e_960x640.png" 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She says, in part, &#8220;My point in bringing this up is this: I do not believe that what Britain is dealing with today is the just result of woke culture, or (as Auron Macintyre says) of the state and police fearing accusations of racism &#8216;more than it feared the destruction of its own people.&#8217; I think what is happening in Britain is more deliberate than that. <strong>I believe these are acts of war.</strong> &#8230; What they need to recognize is that what is being done to Britain, Ireland, and many European countries today, matches almost precisely what has been done in the past to conquered people by those who have waged war on them.&#8221;</p><p>Today&#8217;s post is going to include some links, some graphic images, and some direct words. You may find these things offensive. They might not be &#8220;safe for work&#8221; depending on whether you are still engaged in payroll rat race ladder climbing.</p><h3>The scale of the situation</h3><p>The first thing to understand is that mistakes were not made. Friend <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Margaret Anna Alice&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:35383324,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F39b7a601-1b2d-4eba-939f-17f4f621d8b1_600x600.jpeg&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;634678d7-3d0f-46c3-bc40-3a6649153e2b&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> wrote a poem about that with respect to the lockdowns, the economic calamities, and the poison jabs of recent years. I believe it applies to our situation going back much further. The situation in Christian countries where violent criminals have been deliberately brought in from other countries and other cultures is not new. It has been going on slowly since the 1980s and much more rapidly since the people in power became very disappointed with everyone else for voting for Brexit and against &#8220;her turn.&#8221;</p><p>The people who have the actual power in our world want to eliminate about 90% of the human race. They have been clear about this matter. Ted Turner in a 1996 interview with an environmental extremist publication announced his view that about 95% of people then alive should be eradicated to establish an ideal population level. Essentially all of the high level politicians and very wealthy business owners share this sentiment. </p><p>So when the politicians of every major party stand in favour of grooming gangs, widespread rape, violence toward the people of their country, the importation of criminals, and the abolition of tools for self-defence, it should not surprise you that the problems are very large.</p><p>You would do well to understand the outcome of the recent official inquiry by authorities in the UK with respect to the widespread rape gangs. Simply put, the people in power want to eliminate all the poor men and women in their areas. They view all &#8220;commoners&#8221; as beneath contempt. As Machiavelli wrote five hundred years ago, &#8220;Among the other harm it brings you, being disarmed causes you to be despised.&#8221; We can discuss in the comments whether the people in power despised everyone else first, or whether that contempt arose because the people in many countries willingly allowed themselves to be disarmed.</p><p>Here is a good overview of the rape gang problem, and how it was continually, purposely, deliberately supported by, facilitated by, enabled, and promoted by the police authorities and by the bureau rats in all the nation state agencies.</p><div class="embedded-post-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;id&quot;:202576627,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://lhgrey78.substack.com/p/the-systematic-rape-of-englands-daughters&quot;,&quot;publication_id&quot;:7567125,&quot;publication_name&quot;:&quot;LHGrey's Substack&quot;,&quot;publication_logo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Jbyl!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbb3e7e12-f6ab-4d5b-8a2d-c26ad83a78bc_1280x1280.png&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;The Systematic Rape of England&#8217;s Daughters: Pakistani Grooming Gangs, Elite Treason, and the Reckoning That Will Not Be Denied&quot;,&quot;truncated_body_text&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-18T13:24:09.241Z&quot;,&quot;like_count&quot;:112,&quot;comment_count&quot;:14,&quot;bylines&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:435049404,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;LHGrey&quot;,&quot;handle&quot;:&quot;lhgrey1&quot;,&quot;previous_name&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/4b68f1ef-0a39-4f6e-9d8c-4a08bd531974_1278x1282.png&quot;,&quot;bio&quot;:&quot;Writer, Artist, Forensic Psychology Major, Philosopher, Dark,Takes No Bullshit.&quot;,&quot;profile_set_up_at&quot;:&quot;2026-01-10T02:15:12.184Z&quot;,&quot;reader_installed_at&quot;:&quot;2026-01-10T05:58:00.157Z&quot;,&quot;publicationUsers&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:7720890,&quot;user_id&quot;:435049404,&quot;publication_id&quot;:7567125,&quot;role&quot;:&quot;admin&quot;,&quot;public&quot;:true,&quot;is_primary&quot;:true,&quot;publication&quot;:{&quot;id&quot;:7567125,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;LHGrey's Substack&quot;,&quot;subdomain&quot;:&quot;lhgrey78&quot;,&quot;custom_domain&quot;:null,&quot;custom_domain_optional&quot;:false,&quot;hero_text&quot;:&quot;My personal Substack&quot;,&quot;logo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/bb3e7e12-f6ab-4d5b-8a2d-c26ad83a78bc_1280x1280.png&quot;,&quot;author_id&quot;:435049404,&quot;primary_user_id&quot;:435049404,&quot;theme_var_background_pop&quot;:&quot;#FF6719&quot;,&quot;created_at&quot;:&quot;2026-01-10T02:16:02.386Z&quot;,&quot;email_from_name&quot;:null,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;LHGrey&quot;,&quot;founding_plan_name&quot;:&quot;Founding Member&quot;,&quot;community_enabled&quot;:true,&quot;invite_only&quot;:false,&quot;payments_state&quot;:&quot;enabled&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:null,&quot;explicit&quot;:false,&quot;homepage_type&quot;:&quot;newspaper&quot;,&quot;is_personal_mode&quot;:false,&quot;logo_url_wide&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/86f357ba-bfed-45e0-8843-6110d6f2bab1_1402x467.png&quot;}}],&quot;is_guest&quot;:false,&quot;bestseller_tier&quot;:100,&quot;status&quot;:{&quot;bestsellerTier&quot;:100,&quot;subscriberTier&quot;:1,&quot;leaderboard&quot;:null,&quot;vip&quot;:false,&quot;badge&quot;:{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;bestseller&quot;,&quot;tier&quot;:100},&quot;subscriber&quot;:null}}],&quot;utm_campaign&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;newsletter&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;,&quot;source&quot;:null}" data-component-name="EmbeddedPostToDOM"><a class="embedded-post" native="true" href="https://lhgrey78.substack.com/p/the-systematic-rape-of-englands-daughters?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_campaign=post_embed&amp;utm_medium=web"><div class="embedded-post-header"><img class="embedded-post-publication-logo" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Jbyl!,w_56,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbb3e7e12-f6ab-4d5b-8a2d-c26ad83a78bc_1280x1280.png" loading="lazy"><span class="embedded-post-publication-name">LHGrey's Substack</span></div><div class="embedded-post-title-wrapper"><div class="embedded-post-title">The Systematic Rape of England&#8217;s Daughters: Pakistani Grooming Gangs, Elite Treason, and the Reckoning That Will Not Be Denied</div></div><div class="embedded-post-cta-wrapper"><span class="embedded-post-cta">Read more</span></div><div class="embedded-post-meta">23 days ago &#183; 112 likes &#183; 14 comments &#183; LHGrey</div></a></div><p>The rape of England&#8217;s daughters is not accidental. It is not at all because the police fear being called racist if they enforce laws against grooming, against rape, against murder, against torture. The police don&#8217;t enforce those laws because they have been ordered not to do so, because they want not to do so, and because they really enjoy every story they hear about every young boy or girl being raped. The police are not in any way victims of political correctness. They are enforcers of political correctness. They are not in any way victims of the two tier policies of others, they are not obligated to pretend Henry Nowak isn&#8217;t bleeding to death on their watch, they are enthusiastic, eager participants. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!7Oml!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Faa298484-25ab-4597-9dd2-467d99f9df4c_639x619.webp" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!7Oml!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Faa298484-25ab-4597-9dd2-467d99f9df4c_639x619.webp 424w, 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It would be an error to attribute the violent acts of some people to all people with similar ethnicity. Not only would it be morally wrong to tar broadly everyone of a certain background with accusation of wrongdoing they did not individually commit, your real enemy would like it very much if you were to do so. The people in power would be delighted if you were to waste your blood and energy fighting against other poor people. Also, if they have any reasonable case to build around the idea of ethnic strife, they are going to call for United Nations peacekeepers who will come to your countries, rape even more men, women, and children, and destroy everything they see. </p><p>I am against collectivism in all its forms. If you think all black people are stupid, how do you explain Walter Williams or Thomas Sowell? Yes, I am aware of the normal distributions of intelligence and the distributions of violent crime. Which means that you should be careful what ideologies you promote, because the people in power are also aware of these matters. Policies relating to educational resources and the places where &#8220;critical race theory&#8221; and other deliberately antagonistic ideas are taught as part of &#8220;systematic instruction&#8221; are not accidental. They are deliberate. </p><p>Your neighbours are not your enemies. You do not battle against flesh and blood.</p><p>Your actual enemy lives in Windsor castle. Your actual enemy is freemasonry. Your actual enemy are mass murdering, demon worshipping, violent cannibals. </p><p>You see that black and white checkerboard design that forms a hat band for police caps all over the English speaking world? That same design forms the floor of every freemason den of iniquity worldwide. The freemasons believe that all good is in balance with evil, and they work very hard to promote as much evil as possible. When you talk to the police for any reason you are most likely talking to someone who is a freemason or who got their job due to connexions with freemasons. So, yes, your actual enemies have already captured the police. It would be an error to ever summon the police.</p><p>Your enemy has wealth and power. The family that runs the UK has assets in excess of two trillion pounds sterling. They associate very closely with other enormously wealthy and powerful families. If the current policies were imposed only by one of the political parties in the UK, you might be correct in supposing that the policies originate from within that party. But the conservative parties, the Tories, were against Brexit, were outraged that the people voted for Brexit, and have resolved to punish everyone in the country for doing so. The Tories, led by evil Boris Johnson enthusiastically pushed for the war in Ukraine so that hundreds of thousands of people would be slaughtered. The vicious Fabian socialist mass murderers of the Labour party were likewise enthusiastic about the European Union, hate the people who voted for Brexit, and favour war in eastern Europe. Even the &#8220;reform&#8221; party is ambiguous about policies related to mass importation of violent criminals. So it isn&#8217;t possible to isolate the programme of destroying Christendom to just one political group or another.</p><p>Parliament doesn&#8217;t run the UK. The usurpers of Windsor castle do.</p><p>Do you imagine that because &#8220;two tier Kier&#8221; is being removed from office that it is because he was discovered to be ineffective at dealing with the rape gangs? Not at all. Do you think that his favourite friend Peter Mandelson who he appointed to be ambassador to the USA being removed from office had much to do with Mandelson&#8217;s deep involvement with child rapist Jeffrey Epstein? Only to the extent that Mandelson disclosed top secret information to Epstein, as indicated in some of the few Epstein files that have been disclosed so far. That Andrew of house Windsor fellow is not facing criminal charges relating to his repeated raping of children but due to his errors in supposedly disclosing national security information. The men and women in power don&#8217;t care at all about children. They rape children. They imported violent criminals from other parts of the &#8220;empire&#8221; to rape even more children. </p><p>To them, you and your neighbours are the problem. You are a problem to be addressed by poor health care, antagonistic policing, rape gangs, imported violent criminals, total disarmament of you including so much as gardening shears, and ongoing poisoning with vax jabs. You are common, they are noble, they refuse to love you and your neighbours as they love themselves. </p><p>It would be a mistake to suppose that these policies and intentions are in any way isolated to the UK. Everywhere in Christendom the people in power want to exterminate most of the population, enslave the rest, rape, loot, and pillage all the time.</p><h3>The pursuit of justice</h3><p>There can be no peace without justice. The can be no justice without freedom. There can be no freedom without tools for self-defence.</p><p>You won&#8217;t get any justice by allowing yourself to be enslaved. You won&#8217;t get any justice by allowing the surveillance cameras to go up all over your community. You won&#8217;t get any justice by being disarmed.</p><p>You don&#8217;t need to go to a store to buy weapons. Any piece of metal can be sharpened. Any 3D printer can make the parts for a workable gun. Any computer numerically controlled (CNC) device can cut metal to form whatever other gun parts you need. Any electrical discharge machining system can cut blocks of metal. Very powerful water jets can be used to cut metal. So you don&#8217;t really need to think too much about shipping guns and ammo to the people who have been disarmed. They can figure out how to arm themselves.</p><p>The freemasons aren&#8217;t unarmed. Their places of gathering have all sorts of information about the people involved. They have all kinds of resources.</p><p>The police aren&#8217;t unarmed. They have special units with all kinds of weapons and some kinds of training. </p><h3>The need for action</h3><p>You should probably spend more time reading the speeches of Patrick Henry and the anti-federalist papers than you have. In the springtime of 1775, he gave a speech with strong words about the usurper of what was then house Hanover.</p><p>&#8220;Let us not, I beseech you, sir, deceive ourselves. Sir, we have done everything that could be done to avert the storm which is now coming on. We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and Parliament. Our petitions have been slighted; our remonstrances have produced additional violence and insult; our supplications have been disregarded; and we have been spurned, with contempt, from the foot of the throne! In vain, after these things, may we indulge the fond hope of peace and reconciliation. There is no longer any room for hope. If we wish to be free -- if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending -- if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained -- we must fight! I repeat it, sir, we must fight! An appeal to arms and to the God of hosts is all that is left us!&#8221; </p><p>I suggest you read the rest of that speech, which is known for the phrase &#8220;give me liberty or give me death,&#8221; and which you would do well to go find online or in a book somewhere.</p><h3>Some rules for effective engagement</h3><p>Above are some of the things you should avoid doing. You should avoid collective guilt policies. People who have similar ethnicity or national origin who are not violent criminals should not be treated the same as those who are violent. You should avoid giving excuses to those in power to summon United Nations troops, because that won&#8217;t go well. You should be aware that UN troops are rapists, murderers, looters, and thieves. The events in Rwanda and Somalia where UN troops were irresponsible are thoroughly documented. The purchase of children for sex by UN troops using food aid for that purpose in Congo is also well established. </p><p>The first rule you should establish is that no one is in charge. Who are the ring leaders? If those individuals are identifiable, they will be targetted, removed, and the great rising would falter. So don&#8217;t put anyone in charge.</p><p>My friend Claire Wolfe wrote an important book you haven&#8217;t read. She titled it <em>101 Things to Do &#8216;Til the Revolution: Ideas and Resources for Self-Liberation, Monkey Wrenching and Preparedness</em> and it came out in 1997. In it she wrote, &#8220;America is at that awkward stage. It&#8217;s clearly too late to do any good working within the system, and it&#8217;s still too early to just shoot the bastards.&#8221; Around 2006 she revisited the matter and wrote that it is no longer too early. Almost immediately some people online began asking her for their orders, calling her &#8220;general,&#8221; and assuming she wanted to be in charge. She immediately explained that was mistaken. She wasn&#8217;t volunteering to lead the revolution. Nor should you. Whoever is in charge is going to be the first eliminated, so learn to act without a hierarchy. Learn to lead yourselves. </p><p>Long ago there was a president of the Republic of Texas. His name was Sam Houston. In the year 1861 he was governor of the state of Texas. The people of Texas voted overwhelmingly for the secession of their state from the national polity. Then they sought to become a part of the Confederate States. Houston asked the important question, why leave one failed union only to join another? You should ask yourself if the people in power have misled you for generations, and they clearly have done so, why do you want new leadership? Don&#8217;t delegate your power. Keep your power. Do the things you know to be right. Don&#8217;t seek credit for doing things. Don&#8217;t seek to gain political influence over others in &#8220;the movement.&#8221; If you try to become the new boss, you&#8217;ll be the same as the old boss.</p><p>A second rule to establish is to keep quiet. The first rule of fight club is nobody talks about fight club. The second rule of fight club is nobody talks about fight club. </p><p>There is an old Irish drinking song. The words are roughly:</p><p>Whatever you say, say nothin&#8217; when you talk about you know what<br>For if you know who should hear you, then you know what you&#8217;ll get.<br>They&#8217;ll take you away to you don&#8217; know where for you wouldn&#8217;t know how long.<br>So whenever you think about talkin&#8217; just remember the words to this song<br>Whatever you say, say nothin&#8217;.</p><p>One of the things that I have been teaching since 1992 is how to use encryption. During all that time I have repeatedly made the statement that you should never assume things that you encrypt are actually secret. You have no idea how your communications are being monitored. We have extensive evidence that cell phone microphones and cameras are turned on remotely. We have extensive evidence that car computers are taken over and the cars are accelerated for the purpose of killing the occupants. We have extensive evidence that things in your home are spying on you, including your television set. So you should not conspire with other people online. You should not say anything to anyone.</p><p>If the activity you think is needed requires more than one person, then figure out who you think can be trusted. Meet them where you can be sure you don&#8217;t have any devices on you, and they don&#8217;t have any devices on them. Talk as little as possible. Destroy any notes or paper documents you exchange in these situations by shredding, burning, and stirring the ashes - ashes can be reconstructed, friend. The best way to keep secrets is to share nothing with anyone. </p><p>A third rule to consider implementing is to never stop. Remember that the aristo rats were raping children in 1381. The new &#8220;poll tax&#8221; implemented by the evil parliament required that every adult pay a shilling. Virgin girls were exempted, so the men the &#8220;nobles&#8221; sent around to collect the tax were raping the virgin girls of any age, or sticking their hands in to break the maidenhead. If they weren&#8217;t virgins, they were adults and owed the tax. As a result, the people of England rose in the great skurry or the great rising. They began killing the evil aristo rats. But they stopped. They were persuaded to stop. And then the usurper calling himself &#8220;king&#8221; sent his men around to find the ring leaders, execute them, and kill and rape more and more people to subdue the population. So don&#8217;t stop.</p><h3>Prayer</h3><p>&#8220;As you looked, a stone was cut out by no human hand, and it struck the image on its feet of iron and clay, and broke them in pieces. Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold, all together were broken in pieces, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors; and the wind carried them away, so that not a trace of them could be found. But the stone that struck the image became a great mountain and filled the whole earth. &#8230; And in the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that shall never be destroyed, nor shall the kingdom be left to another people. It shall break in pieces all these kingdoms and bring them to an end, and it shall stand forever &#8230; The dream is certain, and its interpretation sure.&#8221; ~ from chapter 2 of the book of Daniel.</p><p>Since 1880 the people who want to ruin your world have been growing in power. They have all kinds of wealth. They have positions, secular authority. They have corrupted church leaders, they have stolen gold and precious gems, they have enslaved people all over the world. They have bought up magazines, newspapers, decreed the licensing of radio and television broadcasts, bought up film studios and television production groups. They&#8217;ve murdered three presidents (Garfield, McKinley, Kennedy) and threatened all the rest. But for all their wealth, all their power, they are still afraid.</p><p>The wouldn&#8217;t want to enslave you if they didn&#8217;t fear you. I am here to tell you that I am not afraid of them.</p><p>Is that because I know something you do not? I think you also know, when you take some time to think it over. I am not afraid because I know that we are here not because of the path that lies before us, but because of the path that is behind us. For over 250 years we have fought against these people who want to enslave the world, who want blood sacrifices for the demons they worship, who rape and murder and loot and pillage, who would destroy all of Christendom with hordes of violent criminals, who are themselves violent criminals every chance they get. I am not afraid because of the simple fact that we are still here. They have not defeated us.</p><p>So I pray: Eternal Father, please help us to free the slaves, stop the wars, end the tyranny of the state and the state of tyranny, cast out all demons, translate the Gospels into every language, care for the young and the old, the sick and the dying, with dignity and respect, out of a place of humility, and carry the Gospels to the farthest stars in every direction and to all souls in between. Please help with guidance, resources, ingenuity, endurance, fortitude, and patience. Please show us the little fires so we may pass by them. Please bring love into our lives so we remember what we have to live for. In the name of Jesus Christ I pray. God&#8217;s will be done. Amen.</p><div><hr></div><p>That&#8217;s all I&#8217;ve got for today. Come back next time when I have something new. Or old.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Taking liberty home]]></title><description><![CDATA[to the Isles we came from]]></description><link>https://l5news.substack.com/p/taking-liberty-home</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://l5news.substack.com/p/taking-liberty-home</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Davidson]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 15:01:57 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!YTVW!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdb97080e-cd1e-40e0-9c38-31b7d383fbe1_1082x720.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!YTVW!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdb97080e-cd1e-40e0-9c38-31b7d383fbe1_1082x720.jpeg" 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class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><div class="pullquote"><p>&#8220;Tyrant Starmer is pushing this online surveillance infrastructure while citizens in the U.K. are protesting and rioting against the British government&#8217;s murderous mass immigration policies - which have invited foreign rapists and killers to overrun the kingdom and slaughter citizens.&#8221; ~ <a href="https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/06/no_author/the-brits-should-declare-their-independence-too/">J. B. Shurk, The Brits Should Declare Their Independence, Too</a>, Anno Domini 2026</p></div><p>This morning the home of Austrian economics and conservative American freedom oriented political thought ran the above captioned (and linked) piece by J. B. Shurk. You can read other Shurk writings including the piece above on <em>The American Thinker</em> and sometimes on that burning platform (that is now very popup advert oriented).</p><p>Let&#8217;s be clear, though. Keir Starmer is certainly a minion of tyranny. The entire Labour party in the UK has always been pro-tyranny and anti-freedom. Starmer does submit names of operatives who do hateful evil things to the British people to be made peers and put into the &#8220;house of lords.&#8221; But he is a servant, a minister, of the actual tyrant upChuck the third. The house of Hanover has, over the years, implemented a system that is increasingly deceptive and violent in service to the ambition they have always held: global domination under one &#8220;royal&#8221; family. They have always wanted to murder the other leading families in Europe, always wanted to rape children, always wanted global hegemony. </p><h3>We were exported</h3><p>If you want to understand the history of English aristocracy and how perverted and evil all of them are, you have to go back to the beginning. But we are going to elide some of that history. You should reflect on the fact that Votigern, not necessarily a practicing Christian and known for engaging in pagan acts, invited mercenaries like Hengist and Horsa and other Jutish and Saxon troops to defeat the Picts. Hengist, Horsa, and those who came with them were not Christian. You should reflect on the words you say for each day of the week as evidence of their lasting demonic influence on your culture. They worshipped Tiw, Woden, Thor, Frigg, and you keep using those names in saying Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, because you refuse to be careful in your language. We&#8217;ll return to this point in a bit.</p><p>Let&#8217;s skip ahead past the invasion of the evil violent demon worshipping Norman French to the English great skurry, that the peasants called &#8220;the great rising,&#8221; of AD 1381. Why did the people rise? Because the aristo rats ordered their men to administer the poll tax by raping all the virgin girls. The chief complaint is now referred to by the evil compromised official historians as tax collectors putting their hands up the skirts of the young girls to break their maidenhead and therefore demand the poll tax from the family for each child so abused. The truth is that they didn&#8217;t always use their hands. The truth is that all the aristo rat families that had peasants in rebellion had ordered this treatment. The truth is that the entire conception of aristocracy is a denial of the &#8220;love your neighbour as yourself doctrine,&#8221; and all men and women who regard themselves as members of the aristocracy are refusing to behave as Christians. Rather worse, the &#8220;church of England&#8221; codifies and empowers this abuse of status, seating the wealthy in the &#8220;best&#8221; pews and relegating the poor to the far reaches of the nave if they are allowed in at all.</p><p>England would be a better place if the peasants had not stopped, had never stopped. But they were deceived, misled, and stopped killing the aristo rats and the tax collectors. So those who had been involved in the uprising and many who had not were murdered by the English &#8220;royal&#8221; family. There is nothing good about the families who have ruled England. None of them are royal. All have been usurpers.</p><p>After the evil Hanover family took power in 1714, many other things happened. As a result of Georgie&#8217;s war and the Jacobite uprising, my family were cleared off our lands and &#8220;transported for life&#8221; as punishment for having supported the rebellion. It is certainly the case that our family tradition is that we had done so, though many families in the Highlands were cleared because they were inconvenient to the aristo rats in the area without having done anything to oppose the established order. Thus Davidsons were exported in large numbers to plantations in North America and the Caribbean with the intention that we be worked to death. </p><h3>They imported the slaves</h3><p>In the so-called &#8220;peace&#8221; of Utrecht in 1713, the slave trade became primarily British. That agreement settled the &#8220;war of the Spanish succession.&#8221; The slave trade was granted to the British along with certain trading privileges at Spanish ports in the New World. Essentially all slaves that came across the ocean before 1775 were imported to the Caribbean and North American colonies of Britain on British ships flying British and British East India company flags. </p><p>Those red and white stripes appearing on the American flag represent the steps of pyramids where human lives were sacrificed. The red stripes are the upper surface of the steps, covered in blood. The white stripes show the places between those steps, the vertical risers. The pyramid depicted on the back of your one dollar bill is that of the evil demon worshipping Bavarian illuminati. That pyramid and the sacrifices practiced by Aztec and Maya pyramid cults were celebrated by the European aristo rats, many of whom made voyages to the &#8220;new world&#8221; even before the time of Leif Erickson. Most of your history has been hiding the truth.</p><p>After the &#8220;peace of Paris&#8221; in 1783, the slaves imported from Africa were brought on ships flying the United States version of the British east India company flag. There were zero slaves imported on any vessel flying the Confederate naval jack, a fact that apologists for the brutal raping and pillaging of northern armies throughout all Southern territories are always unwilling to admit. Indeed, the Confederacy sent a warship to support the suppression of the Atlantic slave trade during the war, another fact ignored or denied by the hoax stream narrative.</p><p>In order to make the common people suffer more, the slave trade was monetised and financialised as the South Sea company. That led to a deliberate bubble and a general stock market crash in 1722. The resulting global depression lasted until 1782. No one in the city of London involved in that mess should be excused for their role in the economic suffering they caused. </p><h3>The first Chuck lost his head</h3><p>What J.B. Shurk is proposing would not be the first time the English have risen in rebellion against oppressive foreign overlords. The Norman aristo rats were overthrown in the English civil war. The evil tyrant Charles the first was found guilty of treason by parliament. He was executed in 1649.</p><p>About that same time, a man named George Fox went up a hill. As he lay on the ground contemplating the scenery below him he reflected on his situation. He prayed about the difficulties facing a good Christian. The Roman part of the church was filled with simony including the sale of indulgences for sins and abominations, especially to aristo rats. The usurper Hank the 8th had ousted the Roman church, confiscated the monasteries, looted the cathedrals, and claimed himself to be the head of the &#8220;church&#8221; which he made a mockery of the church founded by Jesus. By the time of George&#8217;s expression of concern, there was endless legalistic doctrine and false ceremonies, the selling of pews and other forms of simony, and many other sins all through the Anglican established church. </p><p>As George lay there looking over the countryside below him and wondering how a good Christian would be able to find the right house of worship in which to pray, a voice came from behind him saying, &#8220;There is one, even Christ Jesus, who can speak to thy condition.&#8221; As you know from the Gospels, Jesus went through the lands around Jerusalem and taught in many synagogues as well as in the temple in Jerusalem. His teachings were thwarted and his miracles were derided by the Pharisees and others in official power. </p><p>So George and his friends went another way, away from the established churches. They refused to use the pagan names for the days of the week, reverting to the text in Genesis. The first day is known as the first day, so the gathered worship communities that George helped start call it &#8220;first day school&#8221; rather than &#8220;Sunday school.&#8221; We refer to each day of the week by a number, so rather than celebrating the Moon and Monday, we refer to that day as second day and so forth. </p><p>George founded what he and his friends called &#8220;the religious society of the friends of Jesus.&#8221; We are also known for being publishers of truth, and because Jesus is the truth, the life, and the way, we sometimes refer to ourselves as the religious society of the friends of truth. George walked all over England and travelled to various English colonies to spread the word. He was in Derby in 1650 when he was interviewed in gaol by Gervase Bennett. It was Bennett who asked George why he was so determined to follow the words in the Bible. George replied that men should tremble before the word of God. Bennett mocked him, saying, &#8220;You tremble? You quake? Well then you shall be known as a quaker.&#8221; And the title of quakers is widely applied to our faithful people.</p><p>The good and meritorious reasons for which the evil usurper upChuck had his head removed in 1649 should be applied to all such usurpers and tyrants. The one in Windsor castle is no different.</p><p>The evil aristo rats restored the monarchy in 1660. The second upChuck went on to borrow and spend all the gold he could get his hands on, then closed the exchequer, refusing to pay any of the interest on his debts. Further deceit and disgusting behaviour followed under his brother the second James. So the English people rose again in a glorious revolution in 1688 and got rid of the Stuart family. Instead they brought over a Dutch fellow named William who was married to one of the Stuart women. The two of them, William and Mary, reigned jointly until her death. </p><p>But, as usual, the general population was betrayed by the interests of the aristo rats. So a new family was imported, a more German family, and a much more pagan family.</p><p>You think they import people from Pakistan, India, and Africa because they want to subjugate the British people, and that&#8217;s true. But they especially import child rapists because the aristo rats, especially the Labour party top leadership, are themselves child rapists and perverted in other ways. They don&#8217;t like Christian culture because God is against perversion and Jesus is especially opposed to harming children.</p><h3>Freedom means no king but Jesus</h3><p>You really ought to stop taking your definitions from academics. Many academics are perverts and nearly all are some sort of anti-clerical opponent of faith. They will tell you that &#8220;theocracy&#8221; means the rule of priests, but that isn&#8217;t what the word means. It is the rule of God. And God doesn&#8217;t want very many things from you.</p><p>God has three rules you should attend to very closely. Love God with your whole energy, love your neighbour, love yourself. In that order.</p><p>You should reflect on the rules against idolatry and against putting others ahead of God when you pledge your allegiance to a flag, or a document, or an usurper. </p><p>There is abundant evidence that upChuck the third is not Christian. Whether he is a devout muslim may also be questioned. He seems to be a demon worshipper. His brother Andrew is a child rapist. Ever since 1883 when the British secret service murdered James Garfield, the American experiment has been compromised by the wealth and power of the freemasons and the English aristo rats.</p><p>So the people of England, the people of Scotland, the people of Wales, the people of Ireland, the people of America, the people of Canada, the people of Australia, the people of New Zealand, and the other former English &#8220;commonwealth&#8221; countries should evict the bureau rats and aristo rats who pay fealty to the usurper of house Windsor. We should make our homes and our communities parts of Christendom once again.</p><p>For these results, I pray. God&#8217;s will be done. Amen.</p><div><hr></div><p>That&#8217;s all I&#8217;ve got for today. Come back next time when I have something new. Or old.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fixing problems and]]></title><description><![CDATA[staying ready]]></description><link>https://l5news.substack.com/p/fixing-problems-and</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://l5news.substack.com/p/fixing-problems-and</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Davidson]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 15:25:14 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!JRHB!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F548d986e-f2a2-40bc-8dd5-89cd36477e9e_1280x720.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!JRHB!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F548d986e-f2a2-40bc-8dd5-89cd36477e9e_1280x720.jpeg" 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stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><div class="pullquote"><p>&#8220;For he delivers the needy when he calls, the poor and him who has no helper. He has pity on the weak and the needy, and saves the lives of the needy.&#8221; ~ Psalm 72</p></div><p>This morning I woke up on the side of the hill. Last night I got up to the same spot I had been in last week. Unlike last week, last night my first trip up the hill with my stuff went well. Then I came back to get a couple more items and thought to cut a diagonal to shorten my trip. Just as I thought to myself, there&#8217;s a ditch around here somewhere, whump! Down I went. Dryer though, since there hasn&#8217;t been much rain lately. This time I checked to be sure all the things in my suit jacket pockets stayed put. Took a little longer to find my eyeglasses. But I found them. Got up the hill with everything. It cools off quickly around here. So I pulled out the big blanket and slept.</p><p>Public Storage called yesterday. I should have until the 24th to make a substantial payment to keep the account out of delinquency. I don&#8217;t even have the price of a cup of coffee.</p><p>The good news is that a plan of sorts seems to be coming together which may lead me back to Ohio for the first time since 2021. A friend in Illinois has room for all my stuff, in a spare bedroom, zero cost of rent. Which would be a big help. If it works out, the trip to Ohio would be in the 8th month of this year, what the people running England want us to call &#8220;August&#8221; after some Roman fellow.</p><p>This week the good news about the very high valuation for the SpaceX initial public offering has inspired me to once again set about getting Space Travel Services going. Someone needs to orient space tourists, show them the ropes, give them tours of space facilities, encourage them to buy souvenirs of their visit, and do the other things that make tourism so much fun. There are already a great many space ports around the world, and some friends are working on even more.</p><p>If you&#8217;d be interested in our one-page summary on the Space Travel Services enterprise, please let me know.</p><p>If you would be able to help out please contact me through the direct messages or by other means if we&#8217;re in current contact. Any amount would be helpful.</p><p>If you aren&#8217;t in a position to help financially please like, restack, or comment on this post. Thank you.</p><h3>Please support my work</h3><p>The rent on my storage in Ohio where all my books and personal papers, mementos, family photos from my mom&#8217;s side, and many other useful things are kept is past due, again. It was past due until the last day of last month when I was able to make a partial payment. It is past due again for this month. Meanwhile, a friend has agreed to store my stuff for free, and the idea of going to Ohio and getting my things to Illinois is a plan starting to come together.</p><p>One (1) person has indicated a willingness to buy my novel in hard cover, linen bound, printed form. So there are 299 left on offer for $88 plus shipping. You can also buy it in trade paperback for $19 plus shipping. One (1) person has indicated willingness to buy the trade paperback. Feel free to let me know if you&#8217;d like a copy, because it costs quite a bit to get the printing part of publishing started. I have extensive experience in this industry with several of my own books, and with those of a number of other authors.</p><p>I have no idea how to proceed. Your help would be very welcome. I&#8217;m looking for work, for investors into some projects, for customers of those same projects.</p><p>Secure Perimeter Institute is paying 20% commission if you bring us a customer. Or apply the 20% as a discount if you want a class on communications privacy, data security, or physical security. We&#8217;re raising a further $23K in our seed round, so if those topics interest you feel free to contact me in the direct messages or comments and I&#8217;ll send our one sheet overview.</p><p>Right now I am raising several hundred dollars so I can pay the rent on my book storage in Ohio in full. I was unable to get together enough to pay on time, so a late fee has been added. Right now I am raising at least a thousand dollars to get started going to Ohio to retrieve my things in storage and move them to Illinois, where a friend has agreed to store them for me for free.</p><p>Things have been very difficult for me for several years, so you may rely on me for advice on how to get through difficulties. I am looking for work, investors, customers, and help. The Secure Perimeter Institute continues to offer classes on communications privacy and data security. Space Travel Services is building its business plan for space tourism services.</p><p>I refuse to have anything to do with Stripe and its policies. They are very bad. So if you would like to support my work, trying to &#8220;upgrade to paid&#8221; won&#8217;t happen. Pledging is pointless because I will never turn on payments.</p><p>If you want to support my work please get in touch through the comments or direct messages unless we&#8217;re already in touch by encrypted email or messaging or some other means. I am currently able to receive payments by Zelle Quickpay, by CashApp, by BTC, ETH, or ICP crypto currencies, and in some other ways.</p><p>It has been brought to my attention that there briefly existed a substack profile calling itself 15news which is obviously using the sans serif problem of the numeral 1 being confused with the lowercase letter l in casual reading. Please do be careful about direct messages and double check whether you are receiving a message from some &#8220;Jim Davidson&#8221; who has stolen my name, banner image, and profile pic and is deceptively calling itself 15news. Yes, of course, I have reported this matter to Substack through their reporting system. (To their credit it appears that account is currently gone.) Also be aware that <strong>I will never send you BTC or other crypto addresses in direct messages and the same for other payment info. So anyone sending you a BTC address in direct messages isn&#8217;t me.</strong></p><p>In California some friends of several years are raising money for their aerospace venture. In Oregon some friends are raising money for their Freedom Renaissance film studio. In Georgia a friend provides accounting services to investment funds. I&#8217;m happy to put you in touch with any or all of these outfits.</p><p>If you are not in a position to contribute money or to invest money, that&#8217;s cool. You can help by commenting on this article, or by restacking it, or by restacking it with a comment and tagging one or two other Substack writers, or by hitting that like button. Everything you do that improves the standing for this article in the algorithm helps make things here in the algorithm ghetto a little brighter.</p><p>Thank you for all the help you choose to provide.</p><div><hr></div><p>That&#8217;s all I&#8217;ve got for today. Come back next time when I have something new. Or old.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[United Spaceports is building new spaceports]]></title><description><![CDATA[starting in Las Vegas]]></description><link>https://l5news.substack.com/p/united-spaceports-is-building-new</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://l5news.substack.com/p/united-spaceports-is-building-new</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Davidson]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 12:21:36 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!prUH!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2dd20369-9052-4edc-b56a-656d53e00621_729x617.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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This week investors found the attractive small &#8220;float&#8221; of SpaceX and sent the price up to $218.76 in early morning trading yesterday (2026.06.16) bringing the market cap of the company&#8217;s 13.1 billion shares up to $2.87 trillion.</p><p>We interviewed Rob Lauer of United Spaceports Corporation by telephone yesterday. He pointed out that last week&#8217;s peak price already had SpaceX trading at a high multiple of its revenues. If we use the trailing 12 months revenues of $19.3 billion, the price to revenues ratio is now 148. Earnings for the entire SpaceX operation including its heavy investments into &#8220;artificial intelligence&#8221; development are negative for the year. Starlink provided $7.1 billion in earnings before interest, depreciation, taxation, and other adjustments in the last 12 months, but SpaceX showed an overall net loss of $4.27 billion in the first quarter of this year.</p><p>We asked Rob how investors should evaluate this impressive initial public offering by the biggest space company in the world. He noted, &#8220;Amazon famously lost money for a decade while reinvesting in market share. From selling books in the 1990s to becoming the largest retailer in the world with no retail stores, it has become a huge revenue engine and very profitable.&#8221; Amazon&#8217;s trailing 12 months revenues were $742.78 billion with earnings at $90.8 billion against a market cap of $2.65 trillion, for a current price to trailing earnings ratio of 29. At the time of their initial public offering in 1997 they had never reported positive income for any quarter since being founded in 1994. It took them until the end of 2001, or a further 18 quarters, for Amazon to report its first profitable quarter, and until 2003 before it had a profitable year. Nevertheless, investor confidence in the company has been thoroughly rewarded.</p><p>So, what captures the imagination of investors in the SpaceX deal? Rob says, &#8220;They currently launch 90% of all satellites worldwide. They have over 600 launches so far in their history and a very high success rate, so they are positioned to dominate the launch market for years to come.&#8221;</p><p>Currently the SpaceX total number of launches stands at 669. They have had a total of 12 mission failures in their entire history. So their track record is 98.21%. It is even higher for their flagship Falcon series rockets which represent the vast majority of all their flights to date. There have been 6,900 successful orbital flights since 1957 so SpaceX already accounts for 9.7% of total orbital flights ever.</p><p>&#8220;Another interesting feature of the SpaceX future is their intention to land on the Moon and Mars and use the resources they find there. The 2015 commercial space act gives them title to those areas they occupy, which might mean SpaceX would own the planet Mars later this century,&#8221; Rob noted. That&#8217;s certainly a fascinating outlook for the future, especially considering SpaceX&#8217;s plans for manned trips to the Moon and Mars as early as 2028 for the Moon and to Mars as early as 2029.</p><p>Are there other space companies planning initial public offerings? Yes. In fact there are a large number of space companies already public, and considerable investment in space financing. One of those companies is United Spaceports Corporation which began life as Las Vegas Spaceport, Inc., in 2023. It is a pioneering company spearheading the development of its first spaceport about 15 minutes down the highway from the Las Vegas strip. They have put together 240 acres of land and have permits and approvals for all their jet aeroport operations now in hand. So their first spaceport will be a hub for space related activities, provide business jet accommodations away from the busy McCarran (Reid) international airport, and include extensive space tourism experiences for visitors to the Las Vegas area. They are also building scientific and educational facilities as part of this first project.</p><p>Rob Lauer is chief executive officer for United Spaceports. His company is already working with companies that have developed space planes for horizontal takeoff and landing. In addition to satellite launch facilities at various future locations, the company will provide infrastructure and support for manufacturing, hangar spaces for jet aircraft and rocket powered spacecraft, support space training for tourists and facilities for filmmakers, and provide other resources for the future in space.</p><p>In addition to flying into space for a visit to orbit, Rob pointed out that a trip by space plane from Las Vegas to Dubai would take about two hours. The last Concorde flight took place in 2003, but new companies like Boom Supersonic and Hermeus are developing systems for supersonic and hypersonic passenger travel. These systems will need long runways and active support which is part of the United Spaceports business model.</p><p>Nearly every national government wants to have its own rocket launching capability. There have been over 80 countries which have put a satellite in orbit, mostly on the rocket facilities of the major spacefaring nations or those of the European Union. The leading space launch countries are the US, Russia, China, India, Japan, South Korea, New Zealand, Israel, Iran, North Korea, the United Kingdom, and the European Space Agency. It is very likely that bringing space port facilities to countries like Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Indonesia, Thailand, South Africa, Argentina, or Brazil would be profitable for United Spaceports and welcomed by those countries.</p><p>So I asked Rob about their plans for a public offering. He told me they are currently raising funds under a regulation D offering. &#8220;We are undergoing SEC required Public Company Accounting Oversight Board audits currently. Once that audit is completed we will be filing our form S1 for a direct listing initial public offering through which we&#8217;ll be seeking to raise at least $200 million. NASDAQ has issued us the ticker symbol (UNSP). We have retained Securities lawyers and accountants to prepare our filing within the next 10 days.&#8221;</p><p>Both Clark County and the Federal Aviation Administration have issued approvals for the construction of their runway at their Las Vegas area location. So the company expects to have extensive revenues by providing an alternative landing site for business jets and small aircraft very soon. The company plans at least one hotel for that location and its operations should inspire other hotel companies to build in the area.</p><p>If you want more information on SpaceX, their initial public offering, on the market capitalisation of these companies, on United Spaceports, or their plans, please let us know.</p><div><hr></div><p>That&#8217;s all for today. Come back next time when we have something new. Or old.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the unlit roads]]></title><description><![CDATA[and improvements]]></description><link>https://l5news.substack.com/p/on-the-unlit-roads</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://l5news.substack.com/p/on-the-unlit-roads</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Davidson]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 17:57:54 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!e3P8!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5f564857-0ba5-4648-8644-8c3aab90bc1e_768x1024.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!e3P8!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5f564857-0ba5-4648-8644-8c3aab90bc1e_768x1024.jpeg" 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class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><div class="pullquote"><p>&#8220;Liberty, then, is the sovereignty of the individual, and never shall man know liberty until each and every individual is acknowledged to be the only legitimate sovereign of his or her person, time, and property, each living and acting at his own cost.&#8221; ~ Josiah Warren, Equitable Commerce, 1848</p></div><p>It has been an interesting week. Last week included two nights searching for a place in the dirt to sleep. One of the places that worked out was down a road that has recently been &#8220;improved&#8221; by the city and county. It passes under the interstate near here. A few weeks ago, there was construction going on, and that phase of activity has ended. Where before there was an unlit road with no foot path and older asphalt, today there is a slightly wider pavement, a marked bike trail, and some indication of future plans to build a foot path when the area has grown up a bit more. </p><p>During me late night and early morning hunt for a place to get horizontal for a while, I returned to that area. Last year I had been able to get off the road and into the trees a ways without any difficulty at night or in the morning. So up the road I went, enjoying the smooth pavement and the marked bike lane for my passage. Then I got to the area where I had slept before, and behold the ground was all torn up. Ahead of me closer to the interstate were buildings not previously seen. Up I went, and came back to the level area to get my suitcase and whump! into the ditch I went. Went up a different way and whump! into a different ditch. Tore my pants, skinned open a divot on my shin, mild lacerations to my wrist. But I got uphill, out of sight in the trees, slept about three hours, got up, got my things back together (I thought), and went to the burger joint which opens early for breakfast trade. They are very happy to have me working on my laptop over by their window, since customers in the restaurant attract customers to eat there (as is tradition).</p><p>Yesterday I went back to the same area looking for some things that fell out of my suit jacket pocket on one of those drops into the ditch. I did find my things, which is nice. Also I noticed the tall power poles that the regional inter-state electric power utility monopoly has along the road. I saw that the road construction teams had chopped down the very tall dead trees that were near the road. And I noticed that the corrupt relationship between the city, county, and that electric power monopoly did not include the city or the county making the power company put up street lighting. So, of course it is hard to see the ditches on the open ground. Not fun.</p><p>You may be asking yourself, why would they be developing the roadway and not the sidewalk? Well, they did put in some pieces of sidewalk here and there, but they are widely separated by ditches and by unpaved portions, so essentially not navigable by someone with a rolling suitcase, a backpack, and my arms full with briefcase and that rolling case. The answer was right there in broad daylight. Three new buildings, obviously intended for apartment dwellers of the near future, have started going up. Walls and roofs are on, finish work and windows not yet complete. But you can see where the corrupt city can meter water to each resident, the corrupt power company can meter electricity to each resident, some corrupt monopoly network communications provider can meter connectivity to each home, and the tax money and user fees are gonna roll right in. If you look at your power bill or you look at your phone bill or your Internet bill, you&#8217;ll see that the city, county, and state grab some money every billing cycle. They do so because they make it work that way, because they never ask you for your consent, and because you never do anything about it.</p><h3>You put up with too much</h3><p>Didn&#8217;t the lockdowns convince you that they don&#8217;t care about your consent? The Feral Reserveless scammers issued trillions of dollars of new money in 2020 to fix the huge liquidity crisis in the finance industry and also helped guarantee the purchase of more trillions of dollars in national debt. You got access to none of that money early on because you were locked down in your homes and your &#8220;non-essential&#8221; businesses were closed by mandates. Then you got to defend your health care sovereignty, your actual bodily autonomy, from poison vax jab mandates in late 2020 and through 2021. You couldn&#8217;t enter a Trump building anywhere without showing &#8220;proof&#8221; of vax jab poisoning.</p><p>Have you noticed that the coastal cities are not underwater? Yes, the climate hoaxers got billions of dollars for their scientific grifting and the sea levels did not rise as announced hysterically by Algore in his &#8220;An Inconvenient Truth&#8221; documentary. How inconvenient. It turns out that in the last two hundred years, total sea level rise has amounted to less than four inches, and it continues to rise and fall with the tides, with rainfall and snowfall totals. </p><p>It turns out we are not running out of water because the water evaporates from the surface of rivers, lakes, and oceans, and falls as rain. It turns out we are not running out of oil, but discovering major new oil and gas fields every few years, many of them with enormous reserves. Some of them are discovered in places where they are then fought over. I could tell you stories. It turns out that the biogenic origin for oil is unlikely and the biogenic origin for natural gas is idiotic. There are vast methane clouds in deep space which we have seen with our telescopes when we point them out between the stars, trillions of cubic feet of natural gas and not a farting dinosaur anywhere to be seen. It turns out that there are atmospheres and oceans with gaseous and liquid methane in the planets and on the moons of the outer planets of our star system, far from where we think dinosaurs and ancient fern trees grew during the &#8220;carboniferous&#8221; era. It turns out that the scientists are lying grifters who only want more money to read books, stay out of sight, and occasionally measure something out in the woods. </p><p>Of course, those facts have not stopped the Malthusian demon worshippers. Thomas Malthus lied about what to expect. Is there three feet of horse manure on every street in London? No. Turns out horses were replaced not many decades after Malthus died. Are we running out of room to live? Have you ever driven through the Rocky Mountains or far northern Canada? I have done. There are about 1.475 million square miles, mostly empty, just in the states and provinces with Rocky Mountains. The free mountain west is big, empty, and mostly unclaimed.</p><p>No, there is no need for eugenics. That is an idiotic doctrine by the demon worshippers who claim lineages and blood lines from ancient times, some from before the flood. They believe in a purity of heritage which is not indicated by the extensive evidence of hybrid vigour and from the very extensive evidence of feebleness among inbreeding aristocratic families. You have some of the stupidest people in the world telling you how to live. And they want to murder you, rape your children, and steal everything in sight. The arguments about over population were all paid for by the Club of Rome and World Economic Forum types, are all false, and are used by them to excuse their work in mass murders through war and genocide. And you put up with it.</p><p>Now Larry Ellison has been kind enough to mention, in a speech to his team which has been published, that his company and other big data companies plan to monitor all devices continuously 24 hours a day, seven days a week, fifty-two weeks a year. &#8220;Everyone will obey us because they&#8217;ll know we&#8217;re always watching,&#8221; is the short summary. He wants you enslaved. And you put up with it.</p><p>Your phone is watching and listening. Many of your computers are watching and listening. Many of the other devices in your home have new technologies and updated tech. Your television can both see and hear as well as show  you stupid people falling over and emit loud noises. Your toaster has an app you download before you can get your bread toasted. Why do you put up with these things?</p><p>Did you think none of these things were your fault? Maybe not. But they are definitely your problems. Do you want to be free? Because it does take effort. I believe it is worthwhile. But maybe you don&#8217;t.</p><h3>Please support my work</h3><p>It is getting increasingly sketchy. So I applied for work at a place I know. They acknowledged that they need help. Also they aren&#8217;t able to hire at this time. The rent on my storage in Ohio where all my books and personal papers, mementos, family photos from my mom&#8217;s side, and many other useful things are kept is past due, again. It was past due until the last day of last month when I was able to make a partial payment. It is past due again for this month, so the confiscation of my stuff is no doubt soon to be again threatened. Meanwhile, a friend has agreed to store my stuff for free, and the idea of going to Ohio and getting my things to Illinois seems totally out of reach.</p><p>One (1) person has indicated a willingness to buy my novel in hard cover, linen bound, printed form. So there are 299 left on offer for $88 plus shipping. You can also buy it in trade paperback for $19 plus shipping. One (1) person has indicated  willingness to buy the trade paperback. Feel free to let me know if you&#8217;d like a copy, because it costs quite a bit to get the printing part of publishing started. I have extensive experience in this industry with several of my own books, and with those of a number of other authors.</p><p>I have no idea how to proceed. Your help would be very welcome. I&#8217;m looking for work, for investors into some projects, for customers of those same projects.</p><p>Secure Perimeter Institute is paying 20% commission if you bring us a customer. Or apply the 20% as a discount if you want a class on communications privacy, data security, or physical security. We&#8217;re raising a further $23K in our seed round, so if those topics interest you feel free to contact me in the direct messages or comments and I&#8217;ll send our one sheet overview.</p><p>Right now I am raising several hundred dollars so I can pay the rent on my book storage in Ohio in full. I was unable to get together enough to pay on time, so a late fee has been added. Right now I am raising at least a thousand dollars to get started going to Ohio to retrieve my things in storage and move them to Illinois, where a friend has agreed to store them for me for free.</p><p>Things have been very difficult for me for several years, so you may rely on me for advice on how to get through difficulties. I am looking for work, investors, customers, and help. The Secure Perimeter Institute continues to offer classes on communications privacy and data security.</p><p>I refuse to have anything to do with Stripe and its policies. They are very bad. So if you would like to support my work, trying to &#8220;upgrade to paid&#8221; won&#8217;t happen. Pledging is pointless because I will never turn on payments.</p><p>If you want to support my work please get in touch through the comments or direct messages unless we&#8217;re already in touch by encrypted email or messaging or some other means. I am currently able to receive payments by Zelle Quickpay, by CashApp, by BTC, ETH, or ICP crypto currencies, and in some other ways.</p><p>It has been brought to my attention that there briefly existed a substack profile calling itself 15news which is obviously using the sans serif problem of the numeral 1 being confused with the lowercase letter l in casual reading. Please do be careful about direct messages and double check whether you are receiving a message from some &#8220;Jim Davidson&#8221; who has stolen my name, banner image, and profile pic and is deceptively calling itself 15news. Yes, of course, I have reported this matter to Substack through their reporting system. (To their credit it appears that account is currently gone.) Also be aware that <strong>I will never send you BTC or other crypto addresses in direct messages and the same for other payment info. So anyone sending you a BTC address in direct messages isn&#8217;t me.</strong></p><p>In California some friends of several years are raising money for their aerospace venture. In Oregon some friends are raising money for their Freedom Renaissance film studio. In Georgia a friend provides accounting services to investment funds. I&#8217;m happy to put you in touch with any or all of these outfits.</p><p>If you are not in a position to contribute money or to invest money, that&#8217;s cool. You can help by commenting on this article, or by restacking it, or by restacking it with a comment and tagging one or two other Substack writers, or by hitting that like button. Everything you do that improves the standing for this article in the algorithm helps make things here in the algorithm ghetto a little brighter.</p><p>Thank you for all the help you choose to provide.</p><div><hr></div><p>That&#8217;s all I&#8217;ve got for today. Come back next time when I have something new. Or old.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[On a mission to freedom]]></title><description><![CDATA[all are welcome]]></description><link>https://l5news.substack.com/p/on-a-mission-to-freedom</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://l5news.substack.com/p/on-a-mission-to-freedom</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Davidson]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 19:19:53 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9HGN!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fded62a6f-8f5a-46ce-aefa-db60e419ccc4_3000x1688.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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So I was able to book a room for three nights. As I was heading to the room with some of my gear, an older lady began carrying her ice ahead of me, and stopped for a cigarette. She stepped to one side and I thanked her. She said, &#8220;You look like a man on a mission.&#8221;</p><p>It came to me that what she said was true. So I said, &#8220;Yes, I am.&#8221;</p><p>What is my mission? All the way back in 2017 when my friend Ben Stone published my book <em>Space Scouts: A Field Manual Parody</em> I wrote an introduction in which I mentioned the purpose of freeing the slaves, stopping the wars, and ending the tyranny of the state. </p><p>Clearly, I need help to accomplish this mission. So I have been praying for help, and considerable help has been provided.</p><p>In 1991, I was arrested and falsely charged with felony gambling promotion of a lottery. A few months later the state of Texas attorney general agreed, in writing, that my company and I had been running a lawful sweepstakes the whole time and dropped the charges. These facts are a matter of public record. They don&#8217;t do much in terms of what it was like for me, and I&#8217;ve put some of those experiences in writing elsewhere in this newsletter. </p><p>One of the things that I learned from that experience was that it was possible to have a $30 million contract, possible to have a 14-page legal opinion letter, and possible to have contacts with people on the nation state&#8217;s &#8220;national space council&#8221; and brief them about the project, and still get arrested, falsely charged, and experiencing the uncushioned accommodations at old Harris county lockup with the raw sewage all over the floor of the main holding cell. You really think you can stay safe by obeying all the laws, and you are really wrong about that idea. </p><p>There used to be a saying, &#8220;ignorance of the law is no excuse,&#8221; and there are now so many laws that it has been true since at least the time of Lambert vs California (1957) that ignorance of the law is a valid excuse. A court case in 1991 (Cheek v United States) raised this issue and established a standard of knowing violation to tax compliance matters while another case in 1994 (Staples v United States) applied the matter to machine gun manufacture and sales. In simple terms, ignorance is in fact an excuse. And there are far too many &#8220;laws&#8221; made up by evil men and women who hate you and want to hurt you.</p><p>How many laws? So many that they fill 190,000 pages and more at the national level, about 1.5 million pages for state laws, and about 100 million pages for all the local city and county laws across 20,000 identifiable jurisdictions in the USA. Of course you aren&#8217;t going to spend your entire life being familiar with all those laws, and any lawyer who tells you that he is familiar with all the laws is lying to your face. You should get up, walk out, and not engage such a legal &#8220;expert.&#8221; They ought to know better, and most of them do. It is an exercise in humility to engage in confronting the vast terrain of legal pitfalls and malicious entanglements and you don&#8217;t need to do it.</p><p>Resolve to serve no more and you are at once free, wrote Etienne de la Boetie, five hundred years ago. If you want to understand what he meant, you really ought to read his essay, published posthumously because he knew very directly about the tyranny of the state. The item to seek out is &#8220;On Voluntary Servitude&#8221; and a good place to get it is from the Ludwig von Mises web site at Mises.org because those people are really dedicated to your freedom. Many of the very smartest people I have ever met work for that enterprise, or did so before passing away. </p><p>Are there slaves? Yes. There are people, millions of them, in America, being bought and sold as slaves. Human trafficking is real. </p><p>The people in the hoax stream media are liars about it. They lie when they review &#8220;Sound of Freedom&#8221; and say it is a bad film that improperly describes what is actually happening. It is a mild mannered film that barely scratches the surface of the real problem.</p><p>The real problem is in house Windsor, house Rothschild, in the houses of congress, in your statehouse, in the cartels, in the drug culture, and all over the world. Some of it is done in the name of freemasonry or other esoteric cults. Some of it is done in the names of certain demons. There is a worldwide infestation of evil.</p><p>Make no mistake, they have been working for centuries to destroy Christendom. They want to enslave you, your family, your children. They want to inflict propaganda through the public schools. They want to rape your children again and again forever. They want to help you die with medically assisted death. They want to harvest your organs and the organs of your children and grandchildren.</p><p>Nothing about the state is any good. Nothing about the military enterprises are any good. Nothing about the war profiteers is any good. Nothing about genocide is any good.</p><p>The growth of your economies has been tied to the growth and success of your families. More people are better. You should endeavour to help one another with all these matters, such as freeing the slaves, stopping the wars, ending the tyranny of the state and the state of tyranny.</p><p>It is a mission. It is my mission. I would like it to be yours, as well. Please join me in this work.</p><p>I don&#8217;t promise it is easy, because I know directly that it is not. I don&#8217;t promise that you are going to be recognised for your part in this work, because you may not. I do promise that there are good things ahead for all of us who are faithful and who believe in a better future through the passion and sacrifice of Jesus Christ. We have been rescued from debts we could not pay by one who paid a price he did not owe for crimes he did not commit so that we may be free.</p><p>You should take those lessons to heart. You should read the Gospels. You should share them with all souls. Those who believe may be baptised.</p><p>There is work to do. We must be about it.</p><div><hr></div><p>That&#8217;s all I&#8217;ve got for today. Come back next time when I have something new. Or old.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ticks and]]></title><description><![CDATA[other parasites]]></description><link>https://l5news.substack.com/p/ticks-and</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://l5news.substack.com/p/ticks-and</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Davidson]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 18:45:26 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vvo3!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Faedf9723-912a-4042-ad8a-42691087ba61_900x418.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vvo3!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Faedf9723-912a-4042-ad8a-42691087ba61_900x418.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vvo3!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Faedf9723-912a-4042-ad8a-42691087ba61_900x418.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vvo3!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Faedf9723-912a-4042-ad8a-42691087ba61_900x418.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vvo3!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Faedf9723-912a-4042-ad8a-42691087ba61_900x418.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vvo3!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Faedf9723-912a-4042-ad8a-42691087ba61_900x418.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img 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stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><div class="pullquote"><p>&#8220;Rule by the statist elite is not benign or simply a matter of who happens to be in office: it is rule by a growing army of leeches and parasites fattening off the income and wealth of hard-working Americans, destroying their property, corrupting their customs and institutions, sneering at their religion.&#8221; ~ Murray Rothbard, Power and Market: Government and the Economy, Anno Domini 1970</p></div><p>This morning I pulled a tick off my leg. Yesterday was spent at the burger joint that is very accommodating for those of us hereabouts who don&#8217;t have regular living quarters. Night before last was spent falling into ditches, skinning open my shin which now features a missing divot, and sleeping outside. Last night was spent getting hit by spray from industrial grade sprinklers and sleeping outside. Judging by the tick&#8217;s size and lack of bloating, it was a recent &#8220;acquisition&#8221; and caught in time.</p><p>The experience reminded me of my recent essay on obligate parasites. Such parasites require the blood of the victim or host for their life cycle. Everyone who works in the District of Corruption in any capacity is an obligate parasite. They require your money, your wealth, your delegation of power, your obedience, to continue existing. Yes, they are indeed evil. But, you may want to look at your own role in these matters.</p><p>Do you pay taxes you don&#8217;t owe? Yes, you do. You don&#8217;t owe any taxes. Taxation is theft. You should stop doing that part.</p><p>Do you use free market money? There are now millions of different currencies privately operated that you can use for nearly any transaction, including with various apps from major financial services companies like Square. If you exclusively use your country&#8217;s national currency you are being hurt by monetary inflation. Inflation is theft. You can stop it at the source by using other money.</p><p>Do you obey laws that have no authority? Most likely you do. Even a famous anarchist author once wrote that he would walk to the pedestrian crosswalk in order to avoid having a conversation with a dimwitted police officer. But your obedience to rules, regulations, permit schemes, approvals, and similar nonsense is your choice. Therefore it is your responsibility.</p><p>Elsewhere on Substack today I read about a family with a farm. A badger had take up residence under their home. Its burrow had undermined the structure. Structural engineering consultants (also known as guys who are good with tools) said there was significant risk of the house collapsing. The English owners of the farm and home had reported the matter to the relevant local authorities. They sought a permit to have the badger den filled in. The permit was delayed for over six months, and still had not been issued at last report. The family had asked for an emergency ruling which was also refused. The people making these determinations face no cost for being wrong. They pay no part of the consequences of their inaction. Indeed, they are paid to fail to act, or to act wrongly. The amazing thing to me is that people still bother.</p><p>Every real estate developer I&#8217;ve ever worked with is adept with hand tools. Find wetlands plants on your property? Easily fixed. A bit of shovel work and the plants are gone, the risk of your entire property being declared a wetlands resource and prevented from any development is ended with a small amount of physical labour. You don&#8217;t like it? Get your own wetlands.</p><p>You need to be responsible for picking the ticks off your body. Asking someone else to do so is foolish. Don&#8217;t waste time. Don&#8217;t multiply entities unnecessarily. If you don&#8217;t like ticks, going to see a doctor or nurse in today&#8217;s healthcare industry is simply asking for more parasites to infest your situation.</p><p>Yeah, sure, it would be great if you were living in a country with much less government, many fewer agencies, far fewer or zero bureau rats, few or no politicians. You don&#8217;t need a legislature to vote for new taxes; you need to stop paying any taxes. You don&#8217;t need a legislature to invent new laws. You need to stop obeying all the old laws that are in any way inconsistent with God&#8217;s law. </p><p>Today is &#8220;flag day&#8221; which means that flag idolators are worshipping striped cloth in America. You should stop doing that part, too. That flag has 13 stripes that were included on flags from the English military empire, including on their naval jacks. Those stripes come from the freemasons and illuminati and represent the thirteen steps on the pyramid on the back of the dollar bill. That &#8220;great seal&#8221; of the United States is freemason iconography. You should stop pledging allegiance to that artefact of human hands. The &#8220;pledge&#8221; was written by a nasty socialist who hated freedom. </p><p>What are you doing? Much of what you do is nothing good. I am disappoint.</p><div><hr></div><p>That&#8217;s all I&#8217;ve got for today. Come back next time when I have something new. Or old.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Destroying Christendom was]]></title><description><![CDATA[always their intention]]></description><link>https://l5news.substack.com/p/destroying-christendom-was</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://l5news.substack.com/p/destroying-christendom-was</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Davidson]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 16:06:16 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XTig!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8b4d6c65-9038-4e7d-b252-441c4e69c4c5_960x1558.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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During that time some people have sincerely accepted the faith, been baptised, received the Holy Spirit, and gone on to bear much good fruit. Also during that time, many people who pretended to accept the faith did not do so. Instead, they conspired in secret societies to do much evil.</p><p>There is a place in what is now Germany called Hanover. The electress of Hanover wanted to be empress of all the world. Although her title was established for the purpose of having the holder of that title be one of the few members of the post-Charlemagne &#8220;nobility&#8221; to elect the Holy Roman Emperor, she was not Christian. Her associate Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz concocted a lengthy family history and lineage claiming inheritance going back to David of Judah. The intention was to assert authority over all the world. She died before she would have been crowned in England, so the plan was carried on with her feeble-minded son, George, instead. He was assigned the crown by parliament in 1714. </p><p>Two major households established themselves in England in the 18th Century. From Hanover came the family whose descendants now call themselves Windsor. From Frankfurt came the family whose descendants call themselves Rothschild. Together they control trillions of dollars worth of assets. </p><p>If you want to understand events in the three hundred and sixteen years since then, you need to look at those two families, at their intentions, and at their actions. In their aspiration for global domination they have infected, corrupted, altered, and destroyed essentially all of the major institutions that existed at that time. The churches were infiltrated and perverted. The universities were infiltrated and the woke communist ideology you see preached in them today is the deliberate result of hundreds of years of effort. Families that might have once had ambition to compete with the Hanover-Windsor clan have been eradicated with revolutionary fervour and furore. Leaders who did not submit to those who claimed overlordship have been assassinated.</p><p>The skull and bonesmen became the cia. They assassinated JFK. The freemasons perverted American media by buying up newspapers and magazines with Hanover and Rothschild money beginning around 1880. They assassinated Garfield and McKinley. Teddy Roosevelt was their eager &#8220;progressive Republican&#8221; managed society enthusiast. It was he who established the fbi to subvert, corrupt, and coerce every congressperson and most major business leaders. Subsequently academic, racist, and demon worshipper Woodrow Wilson appointed J. Edgar Hoover to the fbi. It was Hoover who created files of every important man in America &#8220;in bed with a live boy or a dead girl&#8221; and who made senior agents of the fbi kidnap the children and murder them for the purpose of extortion.</p><p>Your department of justice in the District of Corruption does not prosecute the Epstein rapists. It also does not prosecute the rapists of the fbi&#8217;s victims over the past century and more. Mainstream politicians from both Republican and Democrat parties are fully under the thumb of those who really run things. They won&#8217;t oppose abortion, which has murdered 1.4 billion since 1880. They won&#8217;t oppose the wars decreed by the Windsors. They won&#8217;t oppose the genocides. They won&#8217;t stop any of the assassinations, as Frank Church&#8217;s committee on the espionage agencies and as the select committee on assassination demonstrated in the 1970s. There will be no reform and there will be no remorse from those in power.</p><p>Dresden and Cologne were not accidentally bombed, they were deliberately bombed, although they were substantially civilian cities. They were bombed for the purpose of destroying Christians and Christian heritage sites. The Notre Dame cathedral was burnt up deliberately. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were places with many Christians in Japan, both nuked. These are not mistakes. Mistakes were not made.</p><p>The esoteric brotherhoods, the hermeticists, the Egyptian idolators, the Norse and German pagans are with us today, all over our world, involved in all the enterprises that have announced their intentions to destroy Christendom. These intentions are seen in the 1762 hiring of Jean Jacques Rousseau to write his screed on a &#8220;social contract&#8221; that never existed, which was used by the Jacobins to justify bloody murder by guillotine. That revolutionary fervour and furore eradicated a major potential competitor for world domination when the nationalist socialist assembly ordered the execution of Louis sixteenth and his wife and Marie. These intentions are seen in the 1848 hiring of Karl Marx to write his screed on communism, drawing heavily from the Bavarian illuminati manifesto of Weishaupt in 1776. That revolutionary furore eradicated the Romanov family though its overall results on Russian culture are still ambiguous. </p><p>Napoleon, a freemason, could have chosen to use the gold from the sale of Louisiana territory to bring together all of Christendom to defeat the Ottoman empire and restore Constantinople. He chose instead to invade Russia. Guess whose orders he was taking? His &#8220;defeat&#8221; in 1814 and exile to Elba along with the invasion of the United States and the burning of the city of Washington that same year were celebrated with festivities for the centennial of house Hanover&#8217;s usurpation of the throne in England. A century later they set fire to the world with the first world war. That war led to and endless array of battles which had no purpose other than the elimination of population in Germany, France, Belgium, Austria, Russia, Italy, and other affected areas. Not content with the bloodshed and the ruin caused by what emerged from that first world war calling itself &#8220;house Windsor&#8221; the same family orchestrated the outbreak of another war twenty years after the peace treaties of the first one had been signed. </p><p>The intention has always been to destroy Christendom, obliterate its monuments and cathedrals, destroy Christian culture, enslave Christian men, women, and children, and rape them all for generations. In 2014, seeking to celebrate their tricentennial, that same family began the massacres that resulted in the war now ongoing in Ukraine. The wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, Somalia, and Iran, among other places, have all been orchestrated by the same people for the same purposes. Destroy the culture, seek out Christian enclaves for eradication, murder, rape, and destroy. </p><p>You should examine the facts in light of this method of making sense of events. Think it over. Consider the available evidence. Use your logic and reason. Think about the why of the events you see and read about. Who benefits? What do they seek?</p><p>Then you will see that the results obtained were their goals all along.</p><h3>Please support my work</h3><p>Things are exceedingly grim. This morning I woke up on the east-facing slope of a hill near where I&#8217;ve been living. My shin is skinned open, my pants torn, fell in two ditches. I&#8217;m not only out of funds but now in debt as well. The rent on my storage in Ohio where all my books and personal papers, mementos, family photos from my mom&#8217;s side, and many other useful things are kept is past due, again. It was past due until the last day of last month when I was able to make a partial payment. It is past due again for this month, so the confiscation of my stuff is no doubt soon to be again threatened. Meanwhile, a friend has agreed to store my stuff for free, and the idea of going to Ohio and getting my things to Illinois seems totally out of reach.</p><p>One (1) person has indicated a willingness to buy my novel in hard cover, linen bound, printed form. So there are 299 left on offer for $88 plus shipping. One other person has indicated a willingness to buy my novel in trade paperback ($19 plus shipping). Feel free to let me know if you&#8217;d like a copy, because it costs quite a bit to get the printing part of publishing started. I have extensive experience in this industry with several of my own books, and with those of a number of other authors. Please add a comment on one of the book&#8217;s chapters or on any of my essays if you would be interested in buying a copy of my book.</p><p>I have no idea how to proceed. Your help would be very welcome. I&#8217;m looking for work, for investors into some projects, for customers of those same projects.</p><p>Secure Perimeter Institute is paying 20% commission if you bring us a customer. Or apply the 20% as a discount if you want a class on communications privacy, data security, or physical security. We&#8217;re raising a further $23K in our seed round, so if those topics interest you feel free to contact me in the direct messages or comments and I&#8217;ll send our one sheet overview.</p><p>Right now I am raising several hundred dollars so I can pay the rent on my book storage in Ohio in full. I was unable to get together enough to pay on time, so a late fee has been added. Right now I am raising at least a thousand dollars to get started going to Ohio to retrieve my things in storage and move them to Illinois, where a friend has agreed to store them for me for free.</p><p>Things have been very difficult for me for several years, so you may rely on me for advice on how to get through difficulties. I am looking for work, investors, customers, and help. The Secure Perimeter Institute continues to offer classes on communications privacy and data security.</p><p>I refuse to have anything to do with Stripe and its policies. They are very bad. So if you would like to support my work, trying to &#8220;upgrade to paid&#8221; won&#8217;t happen. Pledging is pointless because I will never turn on payments.</p><p>If you want to support my work please get in touch through the comments or direct messages unless we&#8217;re already in touch by encrypted email or messaging or some other means. I am currently able to receive payments by Zelle Quickpay, by CashApp, by BTC, ETH, or ICP crypto currencies, and in some other ways.</p><p>It has been brought to my attention that there briefly existed a substack profile calling itself 15news which is obviously using the sans serif problem of the numeral 1 being confused with the lowercase letter l in casual reading. Please do be careful about direct messages and double check whether you are receiving a message from some &#8220;Jim Davidson&#8221; who has stolen my name, banner image, and profile pic and is deceptively calling itself 15news. Yes, of course, I have reported this matter to Substack through their reporting system. (To their credit it appears that account is currently gone.) Also be aware that <strong>I will never send you BTC or other crypto addresses in direct messages and the same for other payment info. So anyone sending you a BTC address in direct messages isn&#8217;t me.</strong></p><p>In California some friends of several years are raising money for their aerospace venture. In Oregon some friends are raising money for their Freedom Renaissance film studio. In Georgia a friend provides accounting services to investment funds. I&#8217;m happy to put you in touch with any or all of these outfits.</p><p>If you are not in a position to contribute money or to invest money, that&#8217;s cool. You can help by commenting on this article, or by restacking it, or by restacking it with a comment and tagging one or two other Substack writers, or by hitting that like button. Everything you do that improves the standing for this article in the algorithm helps make things here in the algorithm ghetto a little brighter.</p><p>Thank you for all the help you choose to provide.</p><div><hr></div><p>That&#8217;s all I&#8217;ve got for today. Come back next time when I have something new. Or old.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fuel for space launch]]></title><description><![CDATA[and tomorrow's initial public offering]]></description><link>https://l5news.substack.com/p/fuel-for-space-launch</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://l5news.substack.com/p/fuel-for-space-launch</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Davidson]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 01:32:01 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!elXg!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F37ef1745-593a-4444-a760-3c39e527d76a_650x366.webp" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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I don&#8217;t mean garden-variety crazy or a merely raving lunatic. I mean a record-shattering exponent of far-out insanity.&#8221; ~ John Drury Clark, Ignition!: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants, Anno Domini 1972</p></div><p>One of the early stories in <em>L5 News</em> that I read with great interest and enthusiasm showed up in 1982. A company in Texas named Space Services Incorporated of America, whose logo featured the letters SSI, had launched their first <em>Conestoga</em> rocket from Matagorda Island, Texas. It seemed to me, at the time, that as a college student with concentrations in economics and astrophysics it might become possible for me to work at that company. So after graduating with my bachelor&#8217;s degree, I went to Rice University for my master of business administration studies. </p><p>During my second semester there at Rice, the people at NASA responsible for launch systems killed seven astronauts. Later Richard Feynman would point out that they knew the difficulties, their senior engineering contractors told them not to launch in the freezing cold weather, and they went ahead anyway. So there was a dearth of jobs for summer interns in the space biz that year. I was able to get onto the team at Space Services. As a result, I began working on their business plans, financial models, real estate sales software (for the related business Ayrshire real estate), and working with lead engineer Mark Daniels and president Deke Slayton on their satellite launch services business. As a result of my background in physics and astronomy, I knew that there were payloads in the scientific community that would be customers if there were rockets available to launch them. Within a few weeks, I had the company&#8217;s permission to send out 800 questionnaires to space and atmospheric scientists from which we received dozens of requests for payload launch capabilities. Charlie Chafer took the lead on getting NASA and congress to pony up funds for a set of &#8220;centres for the commercial development of space,&#8221; and the outfit at the University of Alabama at Huntsville emitted a request for proposals.</p><p>So it was that in 1988 Mark, Deke, Bill Vance, and I spent long hours putting together a detailed technical and financial proposal for what became two contracts for a total of seven launches. Shown here is the inaugural launch of the first private commercial rocket with a department of transportation &#8220;launch licence&#8221; flying out of White Sands missile range. We called it <em>Starfire</em>.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!A1M1!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9733579e-ec32-4fbd-93e4-d01f9f6670e4_700x887.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!A1M1!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9733579e-ec32-4fbd-93e4-d01f9f6670e4_700x887.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!A1M1!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9733579e-ec32-4fbd-93e4-d01f9f6670e4_700x887.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!A1M1!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9733579e-ec32-4fbd-93e4-d01f9f6670e4_700x887.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!A1M1!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9733579e-ec32-4fbd-93e4-d01f9f6670e4_700x887.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!A1M1!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9733579e-ec32-4fbd-93e4-d01f9f6670e4_700x887.jpeg" width="700" height="887" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/9733579e-ec32-4fbd-93e4-d01f9f6670e4_700x887.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:887,&quot;width&quot;:700,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:38362,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://l5news.substack.com/i/201671208?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9733579e-ec32-4fbd-93e4-d01f9f6670e4_700x887.jpeg&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!A1M1!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9733579e-ec32-4fbd-93e4-d01f9f6670e4_700x887.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!A1M1!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9733579e-ec32-4fbd-93e4-d01f9f6670e4_700x887.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!A1M1!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9733579e-ec32-4fbd-93e4-d01f9f6670e4_700x887.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!A1M1!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9733579e-ec32-4fbd-93e4-d01f9f6670e4_700x887.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>In addition to being logistics manager for that first flight, I was the voice of launch control for the investors and family members assembled to watch it go. It was a very pleasant day. The payload was provided with seven minutes of microgravity, the payload recovery team found the parachute, payload, and guidance systems, and we all set to work sending the parts back to be refurbished. The follow-on contract was for six additional launches. Things seemed good, for a time.</p><h3>Initial public offering</h3><p>As you may imagine, the venture funds that leveraged the Space Services opportunities in 1989 went on to eviscerate the corpse after the 1995 failure of the Conestoga orbital launch that took place at Wallops Flight Facility. The company survives, after a fashion, having subsumed their customer Celestis and now offers to launch a small portion of your loved one&#8217;s ashes into orbit and provides other similar services. No word on them being acquired by Service Corporation International. </p><p>Meanwhile, a startup that also launches rockets from Texas is now getting ready to emit the single largest initial public offering (IPO) of all time. SpaceX, stock symbol SPCX, has sold 555.6 million shares for $135 each, raising $75 billion (exclusive of any &#8220;greenshoe&#8221; or sales beyond the original planned number of shares for sale in the event demand is very high). Accordingly, the SpaceX market cap is now $1.77 trillion. Their IPO  is more than twice as large as the enormous Saudi Aramco initial offering in 2019. What a difference seven years makes, huh?</p><h3>The Resource Play</h3><p>There is an interesting natural resources company called Linde (NASDAQ LIN) which is one of the competitors in the air liquefaction industry. They use industrial scale compressors to pull gasses out of the atmosphere. These are then refined using fractional distillation and sold to companies with gaseous requirements. Some of the competitors in the same industry include Air Liquide of France; Air Products and Chemicals, Inc of the USA; Messer SE &amp; Co. KGaA of Germany; and Nippon Sanso Holdings of the Mitsubishi keiretsu. </p><p>SpaceX uses a great amount of liquid oxygen in its space launches. It also uses plenty of methane and kerosene as fuels. Let&#8217;s go over their vehicles briefly and consider propellants. Then we can discuss manoeuvring gas.</p><p>Merlin engines in the Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy use highly refined, rocket-grade kerosene known in the industry as RP-1. The rocketeers of America have extensive experience with RP-1 as the first stage fuel for the Saturn launch vehicles. As with the Saturn rockets, which you may recall from space launches about 57 years ago, the Falcon rockets also use liquid oxygen as the oxidiser. For ignition the Merlin rocket engines use tri-ethyl-aluminium-tri-ethyl-borane which is some very reactive, pyrophoric, nasty stuff. These rockets also use helium to pressurise the propellant tanks, force propellants into the engines, and for maintaining structural integrity. So all those helium companies in Wyoming, Kansas, Texas, Colorado, and New Mexico that are drilling for helium would be another resource play.</p><p>Another air gas used in the Merlin and Falcon rocket systems is nitrogen. It is used for the reaction control system thrusters to orient the rocket stages in space. These systems don&#8217;t ignite and don&#8217;t generate any reactive gas exhaust, they simply emit the nitrogen gas to provide short controlled bursts of movement in various directions.</p><p>Starship and Super Heavy use the Raptor engine system. It also uses liquid oxygen but the fuel is liquid methane. So the resource play here is with air liquefaction companies like Linde and the natural gas producers of North America. In addition to propellants, the Raptor systems use nitrogen for reaction control in space.</p><p>On a scale of zero to very nasty, the Dragon spacecraft&#8217;s Draco and SuperDraco engines runs way up toward very nasty. Their fuel is mono-methyl hydrazine and their oxidiser is nitrogen tetroxide. These two chemicals are hypergolic which means that when you put them in touch with one another they burn very rapidly. Both of them are highly reactive, toxic, corrosive, and trouble for anyone who spills some on themselves. Arguably a bit nastier and also much harder to contain is inhibited red fuming nitric acid (IRFNA) which tends to corrode anything you put it into, but even the post-Soviet era Russian space systems have largely ended its use.</p><p>If you look at the top image in this essay, you can see lots and lots of gas clouds being emitted from the SpaceX launch taking place when the photo was taken. If you look at the lower right hand corner of the photo, it shows a number of storage tanks used for the various propellants and other chemicals.  The whole place must be a fun environment for new worker training videos and testing to be sure the novices know what not to wreck.</p><h3>The Future</h3><p>It seems clear that there will be many things done with the IPO funds well outside the space launch business. SpaceX will be deploying many Starlink satellites, offering various connectivity services through them, and has a huge focus on artificially intellectual degradation (AI) which means lots more data centres, lots more computer processor chips, and who knows where profits may be found. </p><p>I&#8217;m not at all encouraged by the mElon&#8217;s plans to impose indentured servitude to make the settlers of his lunar and Martian space cities pay for their travel to those locations. I am doubtful whether any good results may be obtained by the intentions outlined by his teams. Nevertheless, despite wasting billions on other projects, it is clear that SpaceX has dramatically reduced the cost per pound for putting payloads in space. Many of us in the human settlement of space enthusiast communities are very inclined to a long-term positive outlook.</p><p>Your mileage may vary.</p><h3>Please support my work</h3><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Ec6Y!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc645f542-67d4-41a9-8853-11294974ae97_1280x720.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Ec6Y!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc645f542-67d4-41a9-8853-11294974ae97_1280x720.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Ec6Y!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc645f542-67d4-41a9-8853-11294974ae97_1280x720.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Ec6Y!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc645f542-67d4-41a9-8853-11294974ae97_1280x720.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Ec6Y!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc645f542-67d4-41a9-8853-11294974ae97_1280x720.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Ec6Y!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc645f542-67d4-41a9-8853-11294974ae97_1280x720.jpeg" width="1280" height="720" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c645f542-67d4-41a9-8853-11294974ae97_1280x720.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:720,&quot;width&quot;:1280,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:223595,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://l5news.substack.com/i/201671208?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc645f542-67d4-41a9-8853-11294974ae97_1280x720.jpeg&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Ec6Y!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc645f542-67d4-41a9-8853-11294974ae97_1280x720.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Ec6Y!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc645f542-67d4-41a9-8853-11294974ae97_1280x720.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Ec6Y!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc645f542-67d4-41a9-8853-11294974ae97_1280x720.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Ec6Y!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc645f542-67d4-41a9-8853-11294974ae97_1280x720.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Things are exceedingly grim. I&#8217;m not only out of funds but now in debt as well. The rent on my storage in Ohio where all my books and personal papers, mementos, family photos from my mom&#8217;s side, and many other useful things are kept is past due, again. It was past due until the last day of last month when I was able to make a partial payment. It is past due again for this month, so the confiscation of my stuff is no doubt soon to be again threatened. Meanwhile, a friend has agreed to store my stuff for free, and the idea of going to Ohio and getting my things to Illinois seems totally out of reach.</p><p>One (1) person has indicated a willingness to buy my novel in hard cover, linen bound, printed form. So there are 299 left on offer for $88 plus shipping. One other person has indicated a willingness to buy my novel in trade paperback ($19 plus shipping). Feel free to let me know if you&#8217;d like a copy, because it costs quite a bit to get the printing part of publishing started. I have extensive experience in this industry with several of my own books, and with those of a number of other authors.</p><p>I have no idea how to proceed. Your help would be very welcome. I&#8217;m looking for work, for investors into some projects, for customers of those same projects.</p><p>Secure Perimeter Institute is paying 20% commission if you bring us a customer. Or apply the 20% as a discount if you want a class on communications privacy, data security, or physical security. We&#8217;re raising a further $23K in our seed round, so if those topics interest you feel free to contact me in the direct messages or comments and I&#8217;ll send our one sheet overview.</p><p>Right now I am raising several hundred dollars so I can pay the rent on my book storage in Ohio in full. I was unable to get together enough to pay on time, so a late fee has been added. Right now I am raising at least a thousand dollars to get started going to Ohio to retrieve my things in storage and move them to Illinois, where a friend has agreed to store them for me for free.</p><p>Things have been very difficult for me for several years, so you may rely on me for advice on how to get through difficulties. I am looking for work, investors, customers, and help. The Secure Perimeter Institute continues to offer classes on communications privacy and data security.</p><p>I refuse to have anything to do with Stripe and its policies. They are very bad. So if you would like to support my work, trying to &#8220;upgrade to paid&#8221; won&#8217;t happen. Pledging is pointless because I will never turn on payments.</p><p>If you want to support my work please get in touch through the comments or direct messages unless we&#8217;re already in touch by encrypted email or messaging or some other means. I am currently able to receive payments by Zelle Quickpay, by CashApp, by BTC, ETH, or ICP crypto currencies, and in some other ways.</p><p>It has been brought to my attention that there briefly existed a substack profile calling itself 15news which is obviously using the sans serif problem of the numeral 1 being confused with the lowercase letter l in casual reading. Please do be careful about direct messages and double check whether you are receiving a message from some &#8220;Jim Davidson&#8221; who has stolen my name, banner image, and profile pic and is deceptively calling itself 15news. Yes, of course, I have reported this matter to Substack through their reporting system. (To their credit it appears that account is currently gone.) Also be aware that <strong>I will never send you BTC or other crypto addresses in direct messages and the same for other payment info. So anyone sending you a BTC address in direct messages isn&#8217;t me.</strong></p><p>In California some friends of several years are raising money for their aerospace venture. In Oregon some friends are raising money for their Freedom Renaissance film studio. In Georgia a friend provides accounting services to investment funds. I&#8217;m happy to put you in touch with any or all of these outfits.</p><p>If you are not in a position to contribute money or to invest money, that&#8217;s cool. You can help by commenting on this article, or by restacking it, or by restacking it with a comment and tagging one or two other Substack writers, or by hitting that like button. Everything you do that improves the standing for this article in the algorithm helps make things here in the algorithm ghetto a little brighter.</p><p>Thank you for all the help you choose to provide.</p><div><hr></div><p>That&#8217;s all I&#8217;ve got for today. Come back next time when I have something new. Or old.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why would they want]]></title><description><![CDATA[illiterate, illogical, drunk, gambling racists?]]></description><link>https://l5news.substack.com/p/why-would-they-want</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://l5news.substack.com/p/why-would-they-want</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Davidson]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 23:26:36 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tHCY!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F001cfc2d-dc24-45dc-ab09-bc84ef18afdb_1800x600.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tHCY!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F001cfc2d-dc24-45dc-ab09-bc84ef18afdb_1800x600.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tHCY!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F001cfc2d-dc24-45dc-ab09-bc84ef18afdb_1800x600.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tHCY!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F001cfc2d-dc24-45dc-ab09-bc84ef18afdb_1800x600.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tHCY!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F001cfc2d-dc24-45dc-ab09-bc84ef18afdb_1800x600.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tHCY!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F001cfc2d-dc24-45dc-ab09-bc84ef18afdb_1800x600.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tHCY!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F001cfc2d-dc24-45dc-ab09-bc84ef18afdb_1800x600.jpeg" width="1456" height="485" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/001cfc2d-dc24-45dc-ab09-bc84ef18afdb_1800x600.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:485,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:138657,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;A system is what it does. Results were goals. Mistakes were not made.&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://l5news.substack.com/i/200968912?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F001cfc2d-dc24-45dc-ab09-bc84ef18afdb_1800x600.jpeg&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="A system is what it does. Results were goals. Mistakes were not made." title="A system is what it does. Results were goals. 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What is it doing? One of my friends likes to say that a thing is what it does. At the top of this essay is a graphic encompassing some of those sayings. I take responsibility for the middle sentence: The results achieved were the goals all along. The bottom sentence is from <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Margaret Anna Alice&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:35383324,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F39b7a601-1b2d-4eba-939f-17f4f621d8b1_600x600.jpeg&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;f5dbacfc-8168-4737-8c3c-33bdedaf74a7&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> and her most excellent poem inspired from our recent experiences with lockdowns and poison jabs.</p><p>Some of the things the other side wants are obvious. The &#8220;K-shaped&#8221; economy is not accidental. Many of the things they have said were spoken deliberately. Their plan is that you will own nothing, have no privacy, obey them because they are always watching as Larry Ellison arrogantly asserted, be enslaved, never enjoy anything. But you will tell other people you are happy because they want all the slaves to be placid.</p><h3>They call themselves elite</h3><p>You may not have understood some passages in Scripture. You may not have read some of the books of Scripture that were left aside after the first edition of Anno Domini 1611 when the &#8220;King James&#8221; bible had 80 books. Most likely you have not read First Enoch which is one of the 81 books in the Ethiopian bible. Yet, all these things that have been hidden are being revealed, as Jesus told his disciples two thousand years ago. That which is hidden will be revealed, what is whispered in an ear will be shouted from the rooftops.</p><p>They want you to call them elite. They believe they are booted and spurred to ride the rest of mankind. They believe they are from special &#8220;blood lines.&#8221; They believe that they are superior to other people, even though breeding amongst the various lineages and with all manner of humans makes it clear that they are deluded. Different species cannot interbreed. </p><p>They are not elite. The people who have power and most of the money are evil, worthless, disgusting villains. They are rapists, murderers, torturers. They have inflicted trauma for the purpose of control. They have experienced such traumas. Most of them are insane. None of them are any good. They are not spiritually good, they are not ingenious, they are not clever, they are not good with tools and technologies, mathematics and ideas, reason, knowledge. They &#8220;have people for that&#8221; and in their estimation all they ever need is going to be provided for them. Maybe not by you, but certainly for generations to come by those of your children they kidnap, rape, torture, and enslave. Not only don&#8217;t they find these ideas objectionable, they have been raised and encouraged to believe that their way is the very best way to be. </p><p>One of the reasons they keep trying to disarm you (and have succeeded in places where their cults and secret societies are stronger) is because they hold you in contempt, and have always held you so. Jesus told his disciples to sell their cloaks and buy arms because Jesus understood the nature of the conflict in which we are engaged. </p><h3>They believe</h3><p>No, I don&#8217;t think they are any better. I call them effete because they are used up, obsolete, no longer effective for purpose, and because they have learned to be effeminate and disgusting. All the things going on in the &#8220;capitol district&#8221; in <em>The Hunger Games</em> is a microcosm of the sorts of depravity they engage in. The District of Corruption is their incarnation of evil on Earth. </p><p>They believe they will always be protected by their lineages, by the powers they worship. They are mistaken, deluded, and insane. But it doesn&#8217;t really matter whether you believe they have power to do all the things they seek to do. It does matter that they believe they have such power. It also matters that they want to herd others, to hurt others, to feast on human flesh, to rape children, to rape adults, and to drink blood of their recent victims. None of the things I&#8217;m writing here are hyperbole, they are actual aspects of the world you are in.</p><p>It is in the nature of reality that their time is coming to an end because God has said so, because God has shown these times to His prophets, because God sent His son Jesus to pay the price for all our sins, and because God wills it that we be freed from them. Jesus says that he is here so that we will have life and have it more abundantly. </p><h3>Hiding global culture</h3><p>One of the aspects of our world that has been kept hidden is the existence in many eras of a globe-spanning culture. People have always been able to navigate across oceans. Any anthropologist, historian, or archaeologist who says otherwise is lying. Probably they have individually been suborned, corrupted, or coerced to tell these lies, because the superabundance of evidence makes it clear that they are lying.</p><p>To further their goals, one of their secret societies, the Jesuits, attempted to burn all the libraries of the Mayans, Incas, Aztecs, Nahuatl, and other native peoples. Having accounts of all the people from Europe, all those powerful families, all those &#8220;nobles&#8221; coming to American to engage in cannibalism and demon worship would not have gone over well with Christians in the Old World. So they hid the truth.</p><p>Not very well. You know that the pagan Norse vikings travelled to Newfoundland and Vinland five hundred years before Columbus. You should know that Columbus was a freemason. He knew where he was going wasn&#8217;t over the &#8220;edge&#8221; of the world. Phoenicians fished the grand banks of the Laurentide abyss where nutrient rich waters upwelling from below make for an enormous ocean bounty. Minoan sailors brought Michigan copper and Cornish tin to the Mediterranean four thousand seven hundred years ago to make bronze. We know these things now from the variations of isotopes and other metallurgical techniques that let us identify the sources of metal materials. </p><p>We know that there was a great flood 11,600 years ago. We know that there was a great burning 12,800 years ago. We have reason to believe that the more technologically capable peoples of 12,800 years ago slaughtered all the North American megafauna, burned up all the forests and communities they could, in order to stop the warming trend that had strongly taken hold and was going to raise sea levels and drown their evil coastal cities. They were willing to sacrifice the Clovis peoples and millions of others in order to keep the Laurentide, Cordilleran, and European ice sheets. </p><p>We know many of these things because they were written about openly in the Edfu building texts, by Plato in his dialogues, in the Sumerian epic of Gilgamesh, and in the book of <em>Genesis</em>. We were lied to by anthropologists, archaeologists, historians, and scum like the minister of Egyptian antiquities, for decades, who made absurd claims about who built the &#8220;great&#8221; pyramid and why all the subsequent pyramids are cheap knockoffs of it. They would say, &#8220;the statue of the sphinx cannot have been built 16,000 years ago because there was no culture doing such things,&#8221; and then date things known to be much older to some 5,000 years ago. Yet we found Gobekli Tepe and other communities in Anatolia and upper Mesopotamia. We learned that these places were built 10,800 years ago and deliberately buried after about a thousand years of use so that when we dug them up we&#8217;d know how old they were when in use. We also know that the communities that existed then, until about 4,300 years ago, so for some 6,500 years, did not have the kinds of hierarchies under which we suffer. They were far more decentralised. Many did not even have a central armoury for keeping weapons nor any central administrative structure because people don&#8217;t need such things when they live in harmony with trade and commerce. They did, though, have global commerce. </p><p>Thor Heyerdahl, whose family presumably included some pagan demon worshippers given his first name, one of those nordic, germanic entities, did some impressive work with reed boats that were similar to designs that carried Phoenicians across the Atlantic and with other simple tools that are reminiscent of how the Polynesian peoples navigated the Pacific. We are taught to use terms like &#8220;stone age&#8221; to deprecate the capabilities of men and women who knew much more than you were ever told to think they knew, and &#8220;the middle ages&#8221; or the term &#8220;medieval,&#8221; to describe the very advanced culture of Christendom. You are never told to remember that there were no stirrups before about Anno Domini 800, nor wooden collars for teams of horses and oxen to take the strain of their loads on their shoulders rather than their necks, as well as many other tools and technologies developed to build those cathedrals you can still visit in various cities in Europe. You are now being asked to believe that some mysterious culture called &#8220;Tartaria&#8221; built all those things because you are not allowed to know about the Hanseatic mercantile law, about the great trade faires at Troyes from which we get the &#8220;ounce troy&#8221; of 31.1034768 grams still in use by apothecaries and precious metals traders. </p><p>But you are also being told not to believe that nuclear weapons exist, not to believe that forty thousand men and women working together put six men on the Moon between 1969 and 1972, to believe that secrets about those events could be kept hidden with so many surviving engineers and technicians, and to believe that the stars move about on crystal spheres. Why? We&#8217;ll get to some of those points a little later in this essay. But feel free to comment all about what you believe regarding the global flat Earth society and its tenets.</p><h3>Hiding economic knowledge</h3><p>One of the more important experiences of my life took place at a Mises Circle event toward the beginning of this millennium. Richard Ebeling was there to explain how he and his wife went to Moscow. They paid a fee, brought in high speed and high quality photocopiers, and were given access to all of Ludwig von Mises papers in the state archive. As part of his presentation, Richard told us how those papers ended up in Moscow.</p><p>So, I&#8217;ll reiterate that story, briefly, and in my own terms. Ludwig left Vienna in the tenth month of 1934. Anyone who lived in Europe at the time knew what sort of Vril-worshipping filth had come to power in 1933. Those living in Austria would have been able to see &#8220;the writing on the wall&#8221; and began to make arrangements to be elsewhere. Although he presumably visited from his remote lodgings in Switzerland up until 1938, von Mises knew he had to make his home elsewhere. But he left his personal papers, copies of his manuscripts, his collection of books, and other materials at his home in Vienna. I kind of know what that&#8217;s like.</p><p>So when the nationalist socialist German workers party came to power with what we are told to call &#8220;the anschluss&#8221; (though I refuse to use that eszett character &#223; because reasons) in the fourth month of 1938, one of the things they did was to box up all of von Mises papers and haul them to Berlin where they were hidden in the state archives. Obviously, we all know that von Mises understood <em>Human Action</em> and knew how to make an economy work. The gnostic demon worshipping scum knew that they wanted to run the world, so they wanted those papers even though none of the policies they implemented through 1945 had anything to do with using free markets to find market clearing prices. </p><p>As you may recall, the Soviet armies came to Berlin in the fifth month of 1945. During their freemason-inspired communist celebrations, rape festivals, murder fests, and cannibalistic orgies, the Soviets went through all the stuff the Germans had prepped for evacuation from Berlin after they were abandoned by the hierarchy. One of the rail cars on a siding in Berlin, according to Richard Ebeling, was full of the boxes with the papers the Germans had grabbed in Vienna at the home of von Mises. So they sent that rail car to Moscow. And, again, the papers were put into a state archive. Access severely restricted. Obviously the evil mass murdering freemasons, fabian socialists, and communists thought they would need to run the world economy at some juncture. So they let a few economists from the soviet state academy look at those papers from time to time. </p><p>After the fall of the Soviet Union in the 12th month of 1991, the new Russian confederation had some trouble with finances. I gather the Ebelings were able to negotiate a visit in 1996. Funds were paid. Copiers were brought in. Copies were exported. Copiers were left behind.</p><p>I was sufficiently impressed by those events, and doing well enough with the private venture capital stock exchange and other ventures at the time that I made a substantial contribution to support the von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama. You can read lots of really good things about actual economics if you bother to go to Mises.org and spend some time reading what is published there.</p><p>My point for the purposes of this essay is that we actually know a great deal about economics and how to prevent scarcity. One of the &#8220;four horsemen of the apocalypse&#8221; that you read about in <em>The Revelation of Jesus Christ</em> is responsible for famine. That horseman carries a scale and his words call for price fixing - which never works and always leads to scarcity. All you &#8220;Venus Project&#8221; idolators who think that super computers are going to centrally manage the economy and set prices are fools. You&#8217;ve been lied to your entire life. <em> </em></p><h3>Security is illusion</h3><p>If you want to know as much as possible about computer data security and communications privacy, I can help guide you. But I don&#8217;t want you to be mistaken. Security is illusion. Most of what passes for security is theatre. Everything you have experienced at an American aeroport since evil Teddy Kennedy&#8217;s civil aviation reform act of 1978 was signed by mass murdering demon worshipper Jimmy Carter is theatre. If you think you are safer because you and your children get wand raped and manipulated by transportation security goofs, you are deceived.</p><p>No one is safe. Your home is not secure. Your data can be copied or compromised or replaced. Your communications can be made more secure than they are, and you should bother to use end-to-end encryption for emails and for text and voice comms, but if the other side really wants to know everything you are saying and doing, you need to know they are going to get at that information. Either from your devices, or from devices they come and inflict upon you, the things you want to keep secret are very likely to be exposed. </p><p>My purpose in saying as much is to point at the truth. I don&#8217;t want to discourage you or suggest you are any better off obeying them. You aren&#8217;t. They are evil. If your strategy is to pay taxes you don&#8217;t owe to people you don&#8217;t like who want to enslave you and you are convinced that obedience is an effective defence, please don&#8217;t be surprised when you are accused of things you never did in order to strip from you every asset you have.</p><p>To continue somewhat in this vein, if you want to know more about data security or communications privacy, please get in touch in the comments, in direct messages, or by other forms of communication we may have gone forward with, because I do help people understand this stuff. I&#8217;ve been teaching communications privacy since 1992 and teaching communications in general since 1980 as a paid college instructor.</p><h3>Teaching has been compromised</h3><p>When I mention that Jimmy Carter was a mass murderer and demon worshipper, I&#8217;m anticipating a certain amount of push back. I never see any. There was some push back on one of my essays about how evil and disgusting the filthy house of Windsor has been but utterly no one rises in Carter&#8217;s defence. Kind of epic.</p><p>One of the nasty things he did was to enact the department of education. In its essential features, the department of education&#8217;s purpose has always been, for nearly fifty years, the destruction of American teaching and learning. The purpose of the filthy communists and evil freemasons who run the teacher unions and public employee unions is the destruction of freedom, the normalisation of evil, especially the evil of homosexuality, and the increase of rules and regulations through the dramatic increase in administrators and regulators in &#8220;education.&#8221;</p><p>I don&#8217;t like the term &#8220;education&#8221; because I am against the system, so &#8220;systematic instruction&#8221; is undesirable in my view. If you doubt that the department of education and the disgusting perverts in the teacher unions have destroyed education, you should spend some time looking into the reduction of literacy, the increase in ignorance, the high school graduates who fail the identification of the ocean between Europe and North America answering a multiple choice quiz at a greater rate than answering at random would produce (meaning that the students not only have the answer wrong, but are confident in their error). </p><p>The people who have power over you, who coerced and suborned Eisenhower and all the other presidents since Garfield, want your children to be ignorant. &#8220;My people are led into servitude out of ignorance.&#8221; They hate you, want to rape your boys and girls at every opportunity, and want to hurt your family for generations. That was true of the house of Hanover in 1714, it was true of the house of Saxe Coburg Gotha in 1914, and it is true of everyone in the espionage agencies including gchq, fbi, cia, nsa, mossad, dea, and all the rest. You cannot get them to prosecute the Epstein criminals because they are fully complicit and directly involved in all those things. Obviously they don&#8217;t want any arguments from your kids, so they have captured the public schools to hurt everyone as much as possible.</p><p>At the beginning of the 20th Century many rural high schools in America taught ancient Greek, Latin, literature from the classical Greek and Roman cultures, all the plays of Shakespeare, mathematics up through calculus and linear algebra, and many other topics you might have heard about in college or even graduate school. At the beginning of the 21st Century most of those things were much more difficult to access, because evil men and women are nearly all the teachers. So if you have not gotten your children out of the public indoctrination camps that masquerade as schools, and they yell at you about it in your sunset years, they are fully justified. Repent.</p><h3>The trivium</h3><p>The core of learning is the three classes of the trivium. Grammar. Logic. Rhetoric.</p><p>If you want your children to have understanding of the mess you&#8217;ve left for them, you should make sure they are taught grammar. It is the foundation of knowledge. It helps you know words, know how to assemble them intelligently, and how to read with comprehension and retention.</p><p>If you, or your children, want to expand your understanding, you need logic. Logic is the knowledge of the relationship amongst ideas. Learning critical thinking and learning how ideas are distorted and presented to you with the intention of propaganda are essential to your freedom. I was taught to read by my older brothers when I was three because they thought I would be more interesting. They also exposed me to constant evaluation of everything said around us, not only as those things were said on broadcast radio and television, as well as in school or at the dinner table, but also when we would sit around talking about what we had experienced. Often I learned more about logic and critical thinking from my informal conversations with my older brothers than from any structured course.</p><p>Rhetoric teaches not only the application of knowledge and wisdom, but also the recognition of rhetorical devices. If you want to know when you are being lied to, and how people telling you only parts of the truth are trying to lead you to false conclusions, you should study rhetoric. You probably ought to spend more time studying these topics than you have.</p><h3>The slavery of addiction</h3><p>The house of Hanover only pretended to be against slavery. In fact, they allowed parliament to ban slavery only for the sake of deception. The opium wars make it clear that their entire lineage has always been evil. All the &#8220;drug cartels&#8221; are evil, are run by these &#8220;elite&#8221; lineages, are intended to enslave others.</p><p>One of the more amusing parts of the book and film &#8220;Fight Club&#8221; covers the idea of addiction to addiction recovery programmes. At the same time, I strongly encourage people who are addicted to alcohol, uppers, downers, starchy foods, gambling, pornography, promiscuity, other substances or activities, should consider forming a twelve-step group, or should pray for guidance to a good twelve-step group near you. You can actually remove yourself from enslavement to addiction. God loves you and wants you to be free.</p><p>No one in the house of Windsor, no one in any of the espionage agencies, no one in any of the &#8220;ancient lineages&#8221; who insist that they are &#8220;elite&#8221; are any good. They are evil, perverted, disgusting, rapists, murderers, cannibals, blood drinkers, organ stealers. They want you to be mutilated, tattooed, pierced, and enslaved. </p><h3>The idiocy of gambling</h3><p>The house always wins. Yes, it is possible for you to win a jackpot. That&#8217;s part of how the house wins. It encourages the other gamblers to put more at risk. The longer your winning streak, the more certain you will lose at some point. Gambling is foolish.</p><p>If you want to be disgusted, read some of the primary source material from the &#8220;royal society&#8221; wonks who came up with the national lottery, the insurance schemes, and the other mechanisms for separating foolish people from money. The odds set by the gaming board of Nevada are much better for you than anything from any state lottery. So if you must gamble, do so at a private casino. The convenience store lottery tickets are much worse odds.</p><p>Yes, gambling is promoted because it is addictive. Yes, gambling is promoted to separate you from your wealth and separate the rest of your family from their wealth. Yes, the people in power hate you, want to hurt you, and want you to be impoverished.</p><p>Insurance is gambling. Every insurance agreement is a bet against yourself. You would be better served by praying for health and protection from calamity. </p><p>Most of your economy is based on the destruction of money as a store of value combined with offering an open casino called &#8220;the stock market&#8221; (and the bond market) where you can earn almost as much in returns as the monetary inflation destroys deliberately.</p><p>The house always wins. The people who print money into existence, the Feral Reserveless scammers in America and the &#8220;Bank of England&#8221; demon worshippers in the city of London, and all the other central bankers, are &#8220;the house.&#8221; They exist to hurt you, hurt your family for generations, and enslave everyone with debt.</p><p>The national debt is not your debt. People like Thomas Massie (known to be a &#8220;senior Molay&#8221; demon worshipper) and Ron Paul who say, frequently, that every child born in America owes part of the $40 trillion debt as of the end of calendar 2026, are liars. They may excuse their nasty commentary by pretending that they want a balanced budget or less wasteful spending. But in fact they are deliberately promoting a narrative that says your infant children owe the national debt, although those children are not able to enter into any agreement knowingly, willingly, and competently.</p><p>You yourself owe none of the national debt, never did, and never will as long as you don&#8217;t sign any of the agreements they put in front of you. (Some of you keep signing where form 1040 says you are &#8220;taxpayer&#8221; and you should stop doing so.) You cannot be held to an agreement without knowing the terms of the agreement, including how the money is spent. The evil, vicious, hateful, rapist, murderer, blood drinking liars in the houses of congress, who are all despicable and bad, without exception, never publish the actual spending of every dollar. They have not even implemented any system for tracking every expenditure. Trillions of dollars are spent and may be hundreds of billions are actually tracked.</p><p>Everyone in the house, everyone in the senate, every president is a liar, an oath breaker, and a traitor, without exception. Those who pretend otherwise are the worst of the lot because they are craftier and more deceptive. They swore to uphold and defend the constitution, including where it says, &#8220;No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time.&#8221; They know it. They read it. They couldn&#8217;t get into office without knowing the words in the constitution. They refuse to obey that obligation in article one, section nine, because they are personally evil.</p><h3>Racism is sought</h3><p>&#8220;The proposed guidelines would have advised judges to produce a pre-sentence report, which provides background information on the offender, for specific groups such as ethnic, cultural and religious minorities and for transgender individuals, women and young offenders. There would have been no requirements for similar pre-sentence background reports for other groups.&#8221; ~ news report 2025</p><p>How do you get lots more racism? Not by teaching people the way we were taught in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. We were taught to respect one another, to leave one another alone, to acknowledge that all the members of a minority were likely to sit together at lunch, and that included us nerds and wonks and theatre geeks. (To be fair, some of us were sitting together because we were rejected by all the other cliques.) Many of us read the Martin Luther King, Junior &#8220;I have a dream&#8221; speech in school. Some of us, including me, recited it in front of classes at various times.</p><p>Evil rapist mass murderer pervert Barack Obama married a man who pretended to be first lady. He wanted to impose the kind of cultural revolution that resulted in millions of deaths in communist China under Mao. His policies, promulgated under his three terms (including while he was actually running the Biden administration), have promoted racism for the purpose of creating animosity. He wants to see racists rounded up and slaughtered or slaughtered in riots promoted by his deep state espionage agencies like those we saw in 2020. </p><p>Policies which discriminate against certain ethnic groups and which preferentially release violent criminals of another ethnic group are clearly meant to promote racism. If you think it was a mistake that pervert police in Southampton deliberately manacled Henry Nowak and made sure he bled to death, you have not been paying attention. Mistakes were not made. The police officers knew he was stabbed and said, &#8220;I don&#8217; think you have, mate&#8221; because they were instructed to be rude and deliberately provocative in order to encourage rioting and rebellion that could be violently, brutally suppressed by the vicious scum mass murderers in parliament, in house Windsor, and in all the domestic espionage agencies.</p><p>You think Daniel Penny was arrested and accused of murder by mistake? Nope. You think Kyle Rittenhouse was accidentally defamed by the hoax stream media and accused of murder for ridding the world of known pedophiles during the 2020 riots in Wisconsin by mistake? You think Iryna Zarutska&#8217;s murderer was accidentally released from custody dozens of times by communist prosecutors and judges in North Carolina? No. Mistakes were not made.</p><p>The hateful evil men and women who hold public offices are scum. The ones who pretend to be any good are the least trustworthy. The people with power and most of the money are evil. You should not expect to get good results from them.</p><p>If you want better results, pray more often and more sincerely.</p><h3>Please support my work</h3><p>It is getting increasingly sketchy. At this time I don&#8217;t have enough money to renew my phone service. The rent on my storage in Ohio where all my books and personal papers, mementos, family photos from my mom&#8217;s side, and many other useful things are kept is past due, again. It was past due until the last day of last month when I was able to make a partial payment. It is past due again for this month, so the confiscation of my stuff is no doubt soon to be again threatened. Meanwhile, a friend has agreed to store my stuff for free, and the idea of going to Ohio and getting my things to Illinois seems totally out of reach.</p><p>One (1) person has indicated a willingness to buy my novel in hard cover, linen bound, printed form. So there are 299 left on offer for $88 plus shipping. You can also buy it in trade paperback for $19 plus shipping. Feel free to let me know if you&#8217;d like a copy, because it costs quite a bit to get the printing part of publishing started. I have extensive experience in this industry with several of my own books, and with those of a number of other authors.</p><p>I have no idea how to proceed. Your help would be very welcome. I&#8217;m looking for work, for investors into some projects, for customers of those same projects.</p><p>Secure Perimeter Institute is paying 20% commission if you bring us a customer. Or apply the 20% as a discount if you want a class on communications privacy, data security, or physical security. We&#8217;re raising a further $23K in our seed round, so if those topics interest you feel free to contact me in the direct messages or comments and I&#8217;ll send our one sheet overview.</p><p>Right now I am raising several hundred dollars so I can pay the rent on my book storage in Ohio in full. I was unable to get together enough to pay on time, so a late fee has been added. Right now I am raising at least a thousand dollars to get started going to Ohio to retrieve my things in storage and move them to Illinois, where a friend has agreed to store them for me for free.</p><p>Things have been very difficult for me for several years, so you may rely on me for advice on how to get through difficulties. I am looking for work, investors, customers, and help. The Secure Perimeter Institute continues to offer classes on communications privacy and data security.</p><p>I refuse to have anything to do with Stripe and its policies. They are very bad. So if you would like to support my work, trying to &#8220;upgrade to paid&#8221; won&#8217;t happen. Pledging is pointless because I will never turn on payments.</p><p>If you want to support my work please get in touch through the comments or direct messages unless we&#8217;re already in touch by encrypted email or messaging or some other means. I am currently able to receive payments by Zelle Quickpay, by CashApp, by BTC, ETH, or ICP crypto currencies, and in some other ways.</p><p>It has been brought to my attention that there briefly existed a substack profile calling itself 15news which is obviously using the sans serif problem of the numeral 1 being confused with the lowercase letter l in casual reading. Please do be careful about direct messages and double check whether you are receiving a message from some &#8220;Jim Davidson&#8221; who has stolen my name, banner image, and profile pic and is deceptively calling itself 15news. Yes, of course, I have reported this matter to Substack through their reporting system. (To their credit it appears that account is currently gone.) Also be aware that <strong>I will never send you BTC or other crypto addresses in direct messages and the same for other payment info. So anyone sending you a BTC address in direct messages isn&#8217;t me.</strong></p><p>In California some friends of several years are raising money for their aerospace venture. In Oregon some friends are raising money for their Freedom Renaissance film studio. In Georgia a friend provides accounting services to investment funds. I&#8217;m happy to put you in touch with any or all of these outfits.</p><p>If you are not in a position to contribute money or to invest money, that&#8217;s cool. You can help by commenting on this article, or by restacking it, or by restacking it with a comment and tagging one or two other Substack writers, or by hitting that like button. Everything you do that improves the standing for this article in the algorithm helps make things here in the algorithm ghetto a little brighter.</p><p>Thank you for all the help you choose to provide.</p><div><hr></div><p>That&#8217;s all I&#8217;ve got for today. Come back next time when I have something new. Or old.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Free your mind]]></title><description><![CDATA[with ideas from my first novel]]></description><link>https://l5news.substack.com/p/free-your-mind</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://l5news.substack.com/p/free-your-mind</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Davidson]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:31:25 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!3MTo!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F349790f1-19c5-44d7-b862-030cd90ca3cd_600x990.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!3MTo!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F349790f1-19c5-44d7-b862-030cd90ca3cd_600x990.jpeg" 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stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><div class="pullquote"><p>&#8220;Let go of fear, let go of doubt, let go of disbelief. Don't be limited by what you've been told all your life about how the system is your friend, how the government is necessary, how you are the beneficiary of its protection, its largesse, its regulations. Understanding is the first step on the path to freedom. Free your mind and everything else follows.&#8221; ~ Jim Davidson, &#8220;The Morpheus Proposal,&#8221; Anno Domini 2004</p></div><p>Many people have been waking up to the nature of reality. It is important to understand that &#8220;Mistakes were not made&#8221; as friend <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Margaret Anna Alice&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:35383324,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F39b7a601-1b2d-4eba-939f-17f4f621d8b1_600x600.jpeg&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;ccf32daa-41ac-4d85-b184-60a63d86fb33&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> notes in her poem.</p><p>The people who have power and wealth in great quantities want to enslave everyone else. They used to pretend otherwise. Lately they have been exposed by a series of leaks and expos&#233;s. WikiLeaks, OpenLeaks, Ed Snowden, and many others have made enormous efforts to bring you as much of the truth as possible. As a result of the political difficulties for those guilty of the worst offenses, a number of important disclosures have begun, including a few additional files on the JFK assassination, about half the total files from the Epstein scandal, and essentially none of the facts from recent events such as the demolition of the World Trade Centre buildings in 2001, the lies leading to the Iraq war, the fbi role in kidnapping, raping, and murdering children to implicate politicians and businessmen in wrongdoing since 1908, and many other assassinations. The lies have been nearly continuous since about 1714.</p><h3>Designing your future</h3><p> Long ago, I took a class. The teacher had some important insights to share. It was on the first day of class that she asked us to introduce ourselves, tell a little about what we were doing, and say what our purpose in life would be. When it got to be my turn, I said, &#8220;I&#8217;m Jim Davidson. I work in the satellite launch industry. My purpose in life is to make humanity a multi-planetary species for fun and profit.&#8221;</p><p>Everyone in the room got quiet. After a moment, the teacher said, &#8220;That&#8217;s really &#8230; planetary, Jim.&#8221; After that, one of my frequent online handles became &#8220;planetaryjim.&#8221;</p><p>We talked about how to design the future. There are a number of strategies you might pursue. One of those strategies is to look at how things have been going. Look at what you can expect from your current job, income, home, family. Add to those things all the items you would want to make it more like what you intend. Take away all those things you don&#8217;t want to make it less like what it has been. Guess what? You get more or less what you have now.</p><p>Another strategy you can pursue is to take a completely white board and a set of marker pens. Design everything from scratch. Build the world you really want. Include everything you want. Leave out everything you don&#8217;t want.  Then look at that design. Instead of scraping off the things you want less and adding in the things you want more and getting more or less the same situation, look at what you really want. Compare it to where you are. Then think about how to go about getting what you really want. What steps would be needed? How much would it cost? Whose help would you need? </p><p>In essence, that&#8217;s what my series of novels is about. It is my intention to complete seven more books in the series, for a total of eight. The first novel is <em>Freedom Decentral: Free the Slaves</em> and it shows you how to have decentralised justice, how to work with your neighbours and your community to build a different system. How to shed standing courts and all the rules and regulations that are needed so that you and lots of other people can be found guilty of infractions, eight hours a day every day, so that the court can keep going, pay for its utilities, maintain its buildings, pay the judges, bailiffs, clerks, and constables, and have lots of loot left over to put into pension plans. </p><p>The first novel also tells the stories of some of the characters that are going to be in the second novel, which has the working title of <em>Freedom Decentral: Stop the Wars</em>. Some of the people you meet in my first novel have been in slave camps. Others have been fighting against tyranny for several years. A few have been working on getting control of the high ground in orbit around our planet. There are a lot of characters, a great deal of action, and some really explosive scenes.</p><p>To give you a sense of where this series is going, I have put all thirty-three chapters of the first novel here on <em>L5 News</em>. Later this week I&#8217;ll begin recording an audio version of each chapter so that those of you who prefer to listen, or have more time to listen than to read, can enjoy the book. </p><h3>Support the author</h3><p>A few years after that class mentioned above, I published my first book <em>The Atlantis Papers</em> which I wrote for a project that had been planning to put a new free country on large artificial platforms somewhere in the doldrums in international waters. The project fell apart. The book helped me meet author and options trader Courtney Smith who invited me to join him in starting the New Country Foundation. He also introduced me to Wes McCain and Michael van Notten who were very interested in building a free port in East Africa. My second and third books were published under the same publishing company, After Dark Publications.</p><p>Today I am offering a limited edition of 300 copies in hard cover with dust jacket of <em>Freedom Decentral: Free the Slaves</em> for $88 each. My expectation is that with at least 80 copies sold, After Dark Publications would be able to produce these in time for Christmas 2026. So the first 80 copies will be signed, by me. Today I am also offering an unlimited number of copies in trade paperback for $19 each. Shipping not included.</p><p>You can make payment arrangements and share shipping particulars with me through the direct messaging here or by other means of communication if we&#8217;re already in touch. I do not share my phone number on this platform, but I will share my email addresses. So we can be in contact.</p><p>If you would like me to continue writing the next novel in the series, please let me know. The best way to do so is to pre-order one of the printed books.</p><p>The next best way is to write a comment here. Comments help immensely with algorithm, which is how we all get seen, or get hidden. Lately, quite a few of us have been more hidden than seen. So you can help change that by engaging with this essay. A like, a comment, a restack, a share on other social media platforms, all these things are very helpful. Your help would be much appreciated.</p><p>You don&#8217;t have to like the book, or all the characters, or some of the chapters. I would be very grateful for any and all feedback. So you can add comments to any post anywhere on <em>L5 News</em> including this one. Comments are always open. </p><p>Consider the gift of freedom for your friends and your family. Free your mind.</p><div><hr></div><p>That&#8217;s all I&#8217;ve got for today. Come back next time when I have something new. Or old.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chapter 33 War Comes to Appalachistan]]></title><description><![CDATA[&#8220;We never announced a scorched-earth policy; we never announced any policy at all, apart from finding and destroying the enemy, and we proceeded in the most obvious way.]]></description><link>https://l5news.substack.com/p/chapter-33-war-comes-to-appalachistan</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://l5news.substack.com/p/chapter-33-war-comes-to-appalachistan</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Davidson]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 20:55:44 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!J3BU!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd711b65f-8c39-43a8-a188-c83467f6e000_1200x675.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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We used what was at hand, dropping the greatest volume of explosives in the history of warfare over all the terrain within the thirty-mile sector which fanned out from Khe Sanh. Employing saturation-bombing techniques, we delivered more than 110,000 tons of bombs to those hills during the eleven-week containment of Khe Sanh.&#8221; ~ Michael Herr, 1977</p></div><h3>The Softening Up</h3><p>Daylight came early on Thursday 8 June. In another twelve days, the very longest day of the year would hail the arrival of full Summer. Sadly, a great many who saw that dawn would not live to see another.</p><p>First light saw pilots and technicians swarming toward aircraft up and down the coasts and up into the mountains of Appalachia. Jets and attack helicopters began taking off just before dawn.</p><p>All along Interstate 85, from Lynchburg Virginia to the crossings of Lake Hartwell on the border between South Carolina and Georgia were deployed the tanks, troops, armoured transports, and command vehicles of the slave owners including hundreds of thousands of volunteers from the communist-indoctrinated inner cities. These forces would head upslope three hours after dawn, once the anticipated &#8220;softening up&#8221; had battered the resistance into what the owners anticipated would approximate submission. They still had no understanding of the abolitionists opposing them.</p><p>Meanwhile, their artillery crews began pounding the nearby hills, villages, and towns with round after round of shells, mostly incendiary and anti-personnel, but in some places high explosives for fixed emplacements and to shatter buildings. Where defenders were in armoured vehicles, these were targeted with armour piercing rounds from the artillery units, although many such vehicles were hidden from view in caverns, hollows, entrenchments, inside buildings, and in other ways.</p><p>Some aircraft were aerial reconnaissance, now necessary because the orbital assets of the slave owners were being rapidly destroyed, ever since the late Tuesday victory in the space war by the freedom alliance. Isaac Vossius&#8217;s name was on the lips of all the freedom enthusiasts worldwide who had followed the events in orbit. His sacrifice was not in vain.</p><p>In the early light, behind the first ridge line, all along that route, men, women, and children began to inflate balloons of various sizes. In some places, there were pressurised tanks of helium, in other places hydrogen was used. As the first owner aircraft began to dot the eastern horizon, hundreds of thousands of balloons were released, each carrying aloft a cable, chain, or small piece of metal. As the jet aircraft sped overhead, they met the rising clouds of the smallest balloons coming out of the West, carried on the prevailing wind. Dozens of aircraft sucked these into their air intakes, flamed out, and came out of the sky - here and there crew members were able to eject successfully.</p><p>The coordinated offensive continued. Now attack helicopters were sent in to wipe out the rebels manning the lighter than air defence. So these people released many tens of thousands of pairs of balloons, each set with a cable between them, many also linked to the ground by strong tethers. Various applications of nanotechnology and 3D printing had gone into some of these cables, others were simply the strong metal familiar to tow cable manufacturers.</p><p>Elsewhere, defence teams were pulling cables taut between trees, towers, buildings, and across ridges where the cable ends could be set in stone. Helicopters encountering these obstacles in their &#8220;nap of the earth&#8221; flights were quickly arrested. Some flew between balloons only to find fouling cables wrapping their rotor systems. Few of these high speed encounters were survivable.</p><p>Yet the assets of the slave owners were massive, and everything seemed to be committed in this battle. For every jet brought down, four more were behind it, for every attack helicopter reduced to burning debris, six were following.</p><p>Having done their work, the lighter than air defence crews left their empty gas cylinders and moved to other locations. Some took up positions to resist the assault waves with sniper rifles, anti-tank and anti-aircraft guns, rocket propelled grenade systems, and many other innovative weapons. Others fled back to safer locations in the hills and hollers, going to ground or taking up support roles in logistics, communications, or supply. Women and children retreated into the massive limestone caverns found all over the region, or were shepherded by loving families into deep underground bunkers.</p><p>In spite of the efforts of these brave defenders, hundreds of aircraft completed their bombing runs, attacked isolated positions, and supported the ground assault. It was as though the slave owners were throwing everything that they had at the interior of the country, to destroy those who would defend themselves from tyranny.</p><h3>The Deep Fake</h3><p>Deep underground at Wasp, Tennessee, there was a muted sound and much shaking of the ground with each nearby bomb detonation that exploded up above. Susan Nolan and her children gathered around Bob Nolan and Sam Smith who were about to set out.</p><p>Bill Watson looked around for Tyrone and, sticking his head through the partly opened doorway of Ty&#8217;s bedroom, found him staring at a computer screen. Bill said, &#8220;Ty, it&#8217;s about time for Bob and Sam to head out.&#8221;</p><p>Tyrone looked up. His sickened expression was disturbing to Bill, who turned his head slightly to indicate his question. Tyrone gestured him over and moved his mouse a bit, then pushed back his desk chair on its casters, as if to distance himself from the video now playing on the screen.</p><p>Bill watched the video as an actor turned toward the camera, displaying Ty&#8217;s face, and then did various terrible things to women and children. The sound was off, but from their expressions it was clear they were screaming in pain and terror. He shook his head, reached over to the screen and pushed its power button. The blank screen reflected Ty&#8217;s image, then Bill turned to face his friend.</p><p>Bill said, &#8220;You knew this would happen. As soon as we began discussing telling the world about their death camps and torture sites, you knew that they would use your images from the video to create a deep fake. We all knew it was coming, too. Everyone knows it&#8217;s how they operate, how they think, who they are. They think people who obey them believe all their lies and are unaware of their deep fake technologies. Perhaps they even think that people in the rebellion would be taken in, but we&#8217;re not. They can&#8217;t discredit you. And this video of theirs tells you how desperate they are.&#8221;</p><p>Tyrone sat with his arms crossed, looking down. He nodded, looked at his friend, gritted his teeth, and gave a slightly feral grimace, as if he were ready to tear into someone, anyone. Then he mastered himself and shook his head. He said, &#8220;I know it. I still feel hatred toward them for doing these things.&#8221;</p><p>Bill nodded, &#8220;I know. Hard to love your enemies when they&#8217;re so patently evil.&#8221;</p><p>Tyrone nodded as well. &#8220;Jesus never said it would be easy to follow his ways. He also cast out demons, and I think that&#8217;s part of what we&#8217;re facing.&#8221;</p><p>Bill nodded again and said, &#8220;C&#8217;mon, let&#8217;s go shake hands with Sam and Bob. They&#8217;re heading out.&#8221; Hopping to his feet, Ty held the door open for Bill and followed him into the main room.</p><h3>Ground Attack</h3><p>All along the line of their enemy&#8217;s attack, people loyal to the rebellion began dropping highway overpasses and bridges. In many places, they were using already rigged explosives, in other places more impromptu methods were needed. Some hillsides above stretches of highway were brought down to landslide over the road, leaving dirt, boulders, and whole trees littering the path of the oncoming troops and transports.</p><p>Some of these actions took out individual vehicles, but that was incidental to their purpose. In a few places, bottlenecks into the hills kept the enemy from advancing. In most, though, it simply delayed them while they found alternate routes. But in every case, it pinned the lead vehicles heading toward the broken roadway, forcing them to stop and make arrangements to back up the column of those following them.</p><p>As a result of having now stationary targets, the abolitionists were able to bring in attack aircraft of their own, such as the Super Cobra flown by Sam with Bob handling the weapons systems and accompanying drones. Where aircraft weren&#8217;t available, artillery shells rained down on the stopped columns. Panicked troops fled their vehicles and tried to find ways off the roads, which had become killing zones.</p><h3>The View from on High</h3><p>Up in orbit, Juan&#8217;s teams had spent the entire day Wednesday gathering the materials from the remnants of the destroyed enemy battle stations. Several dozen sky rods were salvaged. When the enemy attack on Appalachistan came, Thursday morning, these rods were directed at the columns of tanks heading up Interstate 26 from I-85.</p><p>Numerous craters were left where the sky rods fell. One company of tanks crossing the French Broad River were hit by six sky rods that not only obliterated many of the vehicles, but also dropped the bridge, stopping the column of tanks, trucks, and armoured vehicles behind. Again, the rebellion sent forward attack aircraft and used artillery to disrupt the trapped column.</p><p>Ann Branson sent a detailed report down to the team at Wasp, Tennessee. Analysis of the attacking formations made it clear that they were attempting to reach, with as much firepower as possible, the location where Bob Nolan&#8217;s lab was hidden. As the weary day wore on, it looked as though some enemy infantry, the irregular forces out of the coastal cities, including Red Rangers, were going to get through.</p><h3>Difficult Answers</h3><p>Karen Runningwolf looked into the web cam above the laptop. She said, &#8220;Mr. Difficult completed his interrogation today. Things are much worse than they seem. The owner&#8217;s whip, Antony Marcus, revealed that the owners are preparing to use nuclear weapons all over the Appalachians, in the Rockies, and wherever they think our people are found. According to Mr. Marcus, they were looking for an excuse to justify their actions. No doubt the destruction of Hampton Roads and the damage to Newport News is the pretext they were looking for. I&#8217;m sorry I don&#8217;t have better news to report. You&#8217;ll find attached to this message lists of targets recovered from the bunker where we found him. Some of these are marked highly probable from his reactions under interrogation. Every effort should be made to warn the affected populations, including our own people. May God have mercy on their souls.&#8221;</p><h3>Another Cataclysm</h3><p>Far away across the continent from events in the mountains of North Carolina and Tennessee there was a deep rumble throughout San Francisco. The long awaited and much feared &#8220;big one&#8221; had arrived. Seismometers read 9.2 on the Richter scale, and the modified Mercalli intensity was rated at XII, the most extreme level.</p><p>Seismic waves could be seen on ground surfaces. Buildings collapsed. Bridges and overpasses slammed down. Underground pipelines throughout the city ruptured. Rail lines bent and sheered. Rapid transit and cargo trains derailed all over the region. Everywhere lines of sight and level were distorted. Cars, people, and many other things were thrown into the air.</p><p>Within moments of the initial shock, fires broke out. Rubble, bodies, and debris littered the city. Clouds of smoke and dust blew slowly along with an onshore breeze.</p><h3>Colonies in Space</h3><p>Far to the east around the curve of the Earth, the space colony lifted off its cradle. One hundred and three rocket engines provided lift, and their nozzles were slightly canted to provide spin. Moments after liftoff the vehicle was hundreds of feet in the air, spinning gently for stability and accelerating.</p><p>From their acceleration stations Aamiina Hersi Kalinle and Harold Ley monitored the launch sequence with elation. Everything was going great. The enormous spacecraft headed east to take advantage of the Earth&#8217;s rotation. As its ground track crossed over the shore of the Indian Ocean, it was fifteen miles in the air.</p><p>Far below them in the waters of the Indian Ocean, a submarine had just surfaced. Crew members scurried out of hatches and onto the deck, rapidly assembling equipment and deploying an experimental surface-to-air rail gun. As they made ready to aim and fire, the new space colony continued on its ponderous way, gaining altitude and passing toward the east.</p><p>A klaxon sounded, and the captain&#8217;s voice came over the crew address system. &#8220;Stand down. Target has reached altitude beyond our range.&#8221;</p><p>All across the deck crewmen stared at the fiery apparition as it continued to rise beyond their reach. Many of them smiled, then looked around to see who had seen them doing so. Finally, they returned to their tasks, and began disassembling the rail gun.</p><h3>Strategic Retreat</h3><p>As Friday night fell, the enemy forces were still battling their way in eastern Tennessee. Bob and Sam had already refueled their Super Cobra twice during that day of fighting. Like a massive amoeba, the forces of the slave owners sent out one pseudopod after another. Everything that wasn&#8217;t headed toward Wasp seemed to be part of an effort at envelopment.</p><p>At 10 pm, Bob called for retreat. The people remaining in his lab were clearly in danger of being surrounded and there was no way to hold the position. Indeed, their military doctrine was against holding positions. Far too many weapons could project force into any given building, fortification, or cavern. No location was worth sacrificing men and women to defend it, simply because the locations were not the freedom alliance. The people were.</p><p>Bill made sure everyone was headed down the northern escape tunnel. Then he set the trip wires. Anyone forcing their way in would not survive the explosions prepared for them. Nevertheless, Bill wanted to leave the lab intact in the event they were able to return to it. So he left all the power systems operational. He, Bob, Susan, Mary Sue, and Clementine all had the codes for getting back in. If there were anything left to get back into, that is.</p><p>As they emerged from the tunnel, Bob and Sam&#8217;s helicopter, once again fully fuelled, came overhead. It headed up the valley toward US 25. Scouting the area, they found everything clear and reported back. Then they proceeded west along the highway to check further down the intended escape route.</p><p>As the refugees came up to the highway, they entered a long low wood building. From the outside it gave every appearance of being an abandoned stable. On the other side of the building from the road was the door they entered by. Inside were several pickup trucks and SUVs. Screened from the highway by trees were two sliding doors that Bill and Pete opened.</p><p>Susan, Clem, Mary Sue, and Tyrone drove the various vehicles out onto a gravel parking lot. Pete and Bill closed the doors behind them. Bill climbed in on the passenger side of the pickup driven by Mary Sue. Pete did likewise with the SUV driven by Clementine. Susan had her three children with her. Soon everyone was seated and heading West.</p><p>Three jet aircraft came out of the eastern sky, flying low and fast. Their sonic booms swept over the fugitives. Their cannons and missiles targetted Bob and Sam&#8217;s helicopter. Bob&#8217;s drones expended all their ammunition returning fire at the jets, downing two of them, and fighting off the missiles, interposing themselves to absorb much of the auto-cannon rounds.</p><p>Screaming in a high gee turn, the last of the enemy jets came back around. Its remaining air-to-air missiles and cannon fire from its guns overwhelmed Bob&#8217;s remaining defence systems. Sam had brought the helo up to just above auto-gyro altitude. When the main rotor system took a hit, began leaking hydraulic fluid, and started flaming up, the last jet broke off and headed for its home base. Shrapnel in his left shoulder, Sam guided the copter as best he could through its emergency landing.</p><p>As the copter crashed in a farmer&#8217;s field, Susan turned the convoy of ground vehicles down a side road. Coming through the open gate into the field, she was fairly confident that open gate meant no livestock. Flying over bumps and folds in the ground, she raced with her family toward her husband, the other vehicles following only slightly less recklessly.</p><p>Cresting the last ridge separating her from the crash site, she saw Bob supporting Sam as the two moved quickly away from the flaming wreckage. Rounds began to cook off behind them, sending tracers, shrapnel, and bullets in all directions. Somehow everything seemed to go elsewhere, but seeing the chaos ahead, Susan turned on the crest of the hill, slowed, and turned to parallel the ridgeline, getting her children back below the hillcrest away from the wreck.</p><p>As if to confirm her fears, a fireball lit the sky. The fuel had exploded. The uncontained explosion went in all directions, preceded by a ground shock travelling at the speed of sound in dirt, knocking the feet out from under Bob and Sam, followed moments later by the air shock, and then a rain of debris. Fortunately, only minor wounds were inflicted as they hugged the ground beneath them.</p><p>Having made certain of the explosion, Susan turned again and headed over to her husband. Parking nearby she and the children rushed up to Bob and Sam, who were still clinging to the dirt. Lifting his helmeted head and shaking it slightly, Bob looked up, rolled onto his side, and exposed his shattered visor. His face, battered, bruised, and cut, but mostly intact displayed a rueful grin.</p><p>As Susan, Little Bob, Kathy, and Amy rushed up, Bob said, &#8220;Hello wonderful people. It&#8217;s good to be home.&#8221;</p><div><hr></div><p>end of book one <em>Freedom Decentral: Free the Slaves</em></p><p>These characters will return in book two <em>Freedom Decentral: Stop the Wars</em></p><p><a href="https://l5news.substack.com/p/freedom-decentral-free-the-slaves">Table of contents</a></p><p><a href="https://l5news.substack.com/p/chapter-32-sovereigns-of-the-high">Chapter 32</a></p><div><hr></div><p><em>Freedom Decentral: Free the Slaves</em> copyright 2019, 2020, and 2026 Jim Davidson all rights reserved.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their goal]]></title><description><![CDATA[is your death]]></description><link>https://l5news.substack.com/p/their-goal</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://l5news.substack.com/p/their-goal</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Davidson]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 19:30:33 GMT</pubDate><enclosure 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The usurper on the throne upChuck third wants you dead. His goal is to kill everyone who disobeys his will. He is very upset that his brother Andrew was caught raping a minor. He is very upset that Britons voted for Brexit. He and his family and their associates have always wanted blood, have always murdered. His family orchestrated the start of world wars one and two. His family financially supported the death camps of the Soviets, the Germans, the Japanese, the communist Chinese, and the South African provincial government. His family murdered Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley, and Kennedy. Their goal is your death.</p><p>It does you no good to obey them. That only encourages them. It does you no good to vote. No matter for whom you vote you get the policies you don&#8217;t like from the people you don&#8217;t want who work for their advantage and your privation. It does you no good to comply with their rules, pay for a hunting licence, a fishing licence, a driving licence, a pilot licence, a radio broadcast licence, pay the taxes they demand, pay the fees they require, get a building occupancy permit, get a fire compliance certification, hire by their rules, pay your company&#8217;s share of payroll withholding, steal from the people who work for you out of their pay packets. Yes, you are responsible for everything you do, and it is stealing even if you are told it is required. Payroll is a stupid way to engage people to mutual advantage, and you know it.</p><h3>Blood</h3><p>Since 1880 the sacrifice of infants through infanticide, abortion, and neglect has murdered over 2 billion souls. The house of Windsor is against you ever praying near an abortion clinic. They want to carry on with blood sacrifices to the demons they worship. Since 1880 more than 400 million have been murdered in genocides, including in colonial Britain and in countries whose national state has been supported financially by investments from house Hanover and house Windsor (the house formerly known as Saxe Coburg Gotha and the direct successor in interest to Hanover). The wars directly instigated by that family include the Boer wars, the Spanish American war, various colonial wars, the wars to clear the Scots Highlands of families of like mine, various wars of occupation in Ireland, the opium wars with China, the wars to protect Windsor family cocaine trafficking, opium trafficking, and marijuana trafficking worldwide, all the wars in the Middle East since 1948, both the first world war and the second world war, and the war in Ukraine. Combat deaths and civilian deaths brought about by these wars number at least a further 200 million. Thousands and thousands of whistleblowers, reporters, and publishers of truth have been jailed, tortured, or murdered to keep their narrative of lies rolling along.</p><p>That&#8217;s a great many dead people. By their fruits shall ye know them, says Jesus.</p><p>A good tree brings forth good fruit. A corrupt tree brings forth disgusting fruit. Behold the fruit of the house of Windsor: death, rape, plunder, maiming, mutilation.</p><h3>Please support my work</h3><p>Answers to prayers: Yesterday as I was posting my most recent essay, a long-time supporter sent me some funds. So I was finally able to make a partial payment on the rent in Ohio on the storage unit where I keep my books. There is still a balance due from last month. There is now another month&#8217;s rent due, which becomes past due on the sixth of this month. 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Please do be careful about direct messages and double check whether you are receiving a message from some &#8220;Jim Davidson&#8221; who has stolen my name, banner image, and profile pic and is deceptively calling itself 15news. Yes, of course, I have reported this matter to Substack through their reporting system. (To their credit it appears that account is currently gone.) Also be aware that <strong>I will never send you BTC or other crypto addresses in direct messages and the same for other payment info. So anyone sending you a BTC address in direct messages isn&#8217;t me.</strong></p><p>In California some friends of several years are raising money for their aerospace venture. In Oregon some friends are raising money for their Freedom Renaissance film studio. In Georgia a friend provides accounting services to investment funds. I&#8217;m happy to put you in touch with any or all of these outfits.</p><p>If you are not in a position to contribute money or to invest money, that&#8217;s cool. You can help by commenting on this article, or by restacking it, or by restacking it with a comment and tagging one or two other Substack writers, or by hitting that like button. Everything you do that improves the standing for this article in the algorithm helps make things here in the algorithm ghetto a little brighter.</p><p>Thank you for all the help you choose to provide.</p><div><hr></div><p>That&#8217;s all I&#8217;ve got for today. Come back next time when I have something new. Or old.</p>]]></content:encoded></item></channel></rss>