Month: September 2020

by William Skink

At Monday’s City Council meeting yesterday Mayor Engen made a proclamation. Here is how the Missoulian reported on the Mayor’s words:

Six months into the COVID-19 pandemic, with no end in sight, Mayor John Engen proclaimed at Monday night’s Missoula City Council meeting it’s time to shop small.

One of the “whereases” in Engen’s proclamation states that, according to the Small Business Administration, 62% of small businesses in the U.S. “reported that they need to see consumer spending return to pre-COVID levels by the end of 2020 in order to stay in business.”

Another: “65% of U.S. small business owners said it would be most helpful to their business(es) to have their ‘regulars’ return and start making purchases again.”

As I read these words and numbers my mind glazes over. We are at the start of an economic depression 10 years in the making because our last president prioritized Wall Street over Main Street, and we are less than two months to a presidential election that will more than likely be contested by both sides as we slip further into social unrest.

But Mayor Engen thinks now is the time to use his empty words to impotently compel his serfs to direct discretionary money at local businesses.

If you have discretionary money in your pocket, the first thing you should do is be thankful. The second thing you should do is buy something useful, like a firearm or generator, because when social unrest comes to your town, you will either be prepared to defend yourself, or you won’t.

Instead of our Mayor’s useless proclamation (as his policies extract more taxes from his serfs), you should read this harrowing account of a woman’s experience in Kenosha.

People always think it can never happen in their own town, so when it does they aren’t prepared. I won’t be one of those people.

Will you?

by William Skink

Last Thursday I watched the Kansas City Chiefs play the Texans in the NFL season opener. My oldest is a huge football fan, so it was nice seeing him get to have a little normalcy by watching the reigning Super Bowl champs continue their winning streak.

While my son cheered on his team, I watched the game with a more discerning eye.

Football is a significant cultural engine driving this country, so what happens in these corporate coliseums should be of prime interest to anyone looking for signals of what’s to come.

One piece of technology highlighted during the game are wearable key-cards that everyone with the Chiefs organization is required to wear. If/when someone tests positive, the cards geolocation information will indicate if you came in physical proximity to the infected person.

Another aspect of our NEW NORMAL that football will help normalize is the removal of cash. On this front the Raiders will take the lead as Allegiant Stadium “makes history” by becoming the first American pro sports venue to open cashless.

So, while you might not be a fan of America’s national past time, I think it’s worth paying attention because the changes coming to football will be a harbinger of things to come for the rest of us.

by William Skink

Where we live is a matter of perspective, and part of what makes up our perspective is the choice we make about what to believe.

If you want your perspective expanded/challenged regarding the nature of the universe we live in, check out this Higherside podcast featuring Eileen Day McKusick.

After listening to that podcast (and quite a few others at THC) I wrote a few rhymes, but after trying to do simple formatting with this new WordPress platform, I am giving up.

by William Skink

I was a 22 year old college student attending classes at the University of Montana when the attacks of 9/11 occurred.

19 years later, who still believes the cover story about hijackers and plane impacts bringing down steel-framed buildings?

My personal opinion, derived from the research I’ve done, is that 9/11 was an occult ritual. While that may sound crazy, just consider the results.

The bipartisan power grab that was quickly imposed in the wake of the attacks has never been relinquished, making the constitutional protections Americans took for granted meaningless.

Because we failed to identify the real perpetrators of 9/11, we are still vulnerable to those same malevolent forces mind-fucking our brains and controlling our lives.

Remember the Anthrax attacks? What companies/people were rewarded with government contracts to develop an Anthrax vaccine? Who is Jerome Hauer?

Maybe it’s still too difficult, psychologically, for Americans to accept the possibility that elements within their own government would allow a terrorist attack to happen in order to benefit from the subsequent power grab.

I guess it’s easier to believe that on September 11th, 2001, two airplanes caused three steel-framed buildings to collapse at free-fall speed, pancaking floors into a smoldering heap of debris.

If that false narrative still holds power over you, then you are ready for the Covid vaccine.

by William Skink

I have become a frequent visitor of box stores during this pandemic. I mask up and enter consumer labyrinths like Walmart NOT to buy essential items, like food and toilet paper, but to purchase plastic bricks (commonly known as Legos).

Since my wife is not 100% on board with her unemployed husband spending money on “toys”, I often use cash for my purchases because cash avoids the scrutiny of my fiscally responsible partner’s examination of the credit card bill.

Last week I was annoyed to discover Walmart had stopped accepting cash at the self-checkout lines. Instead, I was directed to an aisle with a real live human checker to get my plastic bricks. I asked this checker what the deal is and she explained that the self-checkout lines went cashless because of the national coin shortage. I said that didn’t make any sense and she agreed.

Yesterday a phone conversation got me thinking about all this. The person I was speaking with said she started noticing box stores in her community changing their layout BEFORE the pandemic, including a fast food joint that inexplicably added drive-thru lanes.

It might seem like a huge leap to go from one person’s anecdotal recollections to claiming corporate America had foreknowledge of the upcoming pandemic, but another story I remembered is worth noting here.

Last year corporate America saw a record number of CEOs leave their jobs. It was such a big number that CNBC wrote this article about it. From the link:

Thanks to 160 chiefs leaving their posts in December, 2019 totaled 1,640 departures by the heads of U.S. businesses, higher than the 1,484 exits in 2008 when the country was embroiled in the financial crisis, according to Challenger, Gray, & Christmas. The firm started tracking CEO departures in 2002.

“The number of chief executives who announced their departures in 2019 was staggering,” Challenger Vice President Andrew Challenger said in a press release.

The question that Americans should be asking is what did corporate America know about the pandemic and when did they know it? Instead we’re burning down cities and laying the foundation for armed civil conflict.

Will the American public remain incurious about possible foreknowledge of the pandemic by corporate America? If the suspicious economic activity before 9/11 can be ignored, then more obvious evidence of foreknowledge (like Event 201) of this pandemic will be ignored as well.