The Fifth Column Inside

Both Clintons have done more to assist the enemies of the United States than the best double agents and plants that Russia or China could have possibly hired.

Nations cannot survive this kind of treason in the highest offices. The notion that the Secretary of State would be taking cash in for helping Russian hackers understand U.S. security measures is so far out that if you made this story up, nobody would believe it. The fact she did this outside her office on her own time without authority of Congress recalls the exact circumstances that Bill Clinton was found to be intrigued in when it was discovered China was funneling money to his campaign in exchange for blueprints and samples of 4th generation navigation computers created by the U.S. military. There is little doubt that these systems are now onboard the hypersonic nuclear drone fleet that the Chinese have produced which may soon be employed to turn the United States into a 3000 mile wide radioactive parking lot.

Truth has become so much stranger than fiction that fiction seems comforting in comparison and this is why so many of the sheeple embrace it. They don't have the stomach for the real world. They are scared and grab anxiously at explanations that seem to normalize these circumstances and help them to ignore it all.

Keep Winning Barry Soetoro

Barry wins again. He continues to distinguish himself in that office with many firsts.

Bad things brewing on the horizon, campers. If Trump gets in there without getting assassinated first he will have his work cut out for him.

The Perfect Shelter Food Has Finally Arrived!

Mmmm ... smooth and creamy cockroach milk. Does a body good.

I'll have a second glass, thanks. Trying to wash away the aftertaste of the first glass.

George Soros must just howl with laughter as he hatches these little tidbits for the media sheeple each day. This is what they want us to eat in the New World Order work camps. Before they go to puree of people shakes. That way they can spare the cockroaches.

Nobody likes an I-told-you-so

I did tell you, though.

The first legitimate targets for reprisal in World War III will be non-nuclear nations participating that do not have a retaliatory capacity. They are the low hanging fruit. You can nuke them without having to worry about getting nuked back. A non-nuclear nation with no civil defense throwing it's weight around in the Pacific with a WW2 military is just begging to get it's ass kicked. Begging. The Chinese are announcing in the article above they intend to do just that.

Pack your rice. Itz coming.

BACK ONLINE!!!!

It is eerie coincidence that after nearly two decades online, we took a hiatus during one of the most apocalyptic years since the blog was first launched, before they were called "blogs."

It is weird seeing all the things we have predicted for two decades become a reality. Originally I was expecting a war to start in the Middle East sometime in 2006 as a backlash to the military invasions and soon go global dragging the other superpowers into the conflict. As always, I was never very good at predicting the when of things. You gotta admit, I had that Klausewitzian acceleration toward WW3 nuclear rearmaments pretty spot-on when I predicted it in 1998 on TEXAS ARCANE'S SURVIVAL REPORT. Clairvoyant that. Also the part about it starting in the Pacific over Taiwan. It is pretty clear that the globalists are going to see to it that it happens no matter what. Georgia guidestones diplomacy.

I should probably have the sense to avoid making chronological prophecies ever again but I am going to go out on a limb and suggest we still have a couple of years left before this thing happens. A couple of years in which I intend to make Vault-Co the single most important survivalist site on the internet.

Luckily I worked over the entire hiatus polishing Vault-OS. About two weeks ago I discovered that a former Google executive had produced a new suite of banking and financial software of that exact same name. There's no way I am going to tangle with copyright on this issue, they'd be too big to challenge. From now on Vault-OS will be called CD-OS, short for Civil Defense Operating System.

I have been preparing miracles and wonders in my new workshop that you will not believe until you see them with your own eyes ... and you will see them in a landmark series of web episodes on YouTube in the near future following the release of CD-OS as open source software on Github. The repository is here and I am getting very close to uploading a version that will be marked public. Not everything is going to be there in version one, I have rewritten things again and again to get the basic architecture as perfect as I can make it. I just spent the past month switching the global message protocol from JSON to a super simple human readable one pass text format similar to TOML. I did this to make it possible for even a PIC chip to participate in a CD-OS network. It took a lot of coding and testing to replace what I had before but I got it working as of this week.

When I started on my first version of this software in 1998 in Visual Basic for DOS, I used a simple .INI format like this one because it was very easy to compose. Kind of embarrassing to go in a complete circle and end up where I started. My first hardware used I2C because it was cheap components and easy to monitor. If you had suggested Modbus back then I would have laughed. Modbus PLCs and even inexpensive RS-485 sensors started around $500 back then. Way out of the budget range for most people. It's 20 years later, Modbus devices sell for less than $10 on Ebay and there is a CD-OS compatible computer you can buy for $5 (!) complete with case called the Raspberry PI. How things have changed since I began working on this idea. All this was science fiction back in 1998.

The first version of CD-OS uses Modbus over TCP-IP as the default, we encourage NanoBSD as the underlying framework where feasible and our services are all Lua-scripted. It is not what I envisioned originally - I have gotten something far, far better than I imagined by trial and error over many years. However long it has taken it will all be worth it when you see the first version soon.

Vault-Co 2.0 Hiatus

As many of you know I have approximately five million other things I am supposed to have finished up as of the end of last year. As much fun as I have posting random idiocy to this blog and then watching people argue over it, I am afraid I have to put it into idle mode for a while until I get some things completed.

The next time Vault-Co opens for business, it is likely the first post will be the link to download VOS from Github or SourceForge. Until then I wish all of you few worries and less anxiety, I want you to always remember that fear in excess is a mind-killer and that my primary virtue is raising the alarm about things that in many cases you still have many years to prepare for. Remember not to believe a single thing you hear from the media, it's all rubbish and designed to lure you into indifference.

I wish that you will be shrewd about the future and never let it find you unprepared. I promise you that the next time you see me I will be bringing a replacement for those index cards and excel spreadsheets that you are tracking inventory with at the moment and hopefully many other goodies in the first public release of Vault-OS that I package up.

My staff sergeant once told me, "It is likely a suicide mission and I don't expect to see you alive again, private, but I do expect you will make a fine looking corpse. I promise if you come back closed casket I will give your Mama a peek when she shows up so she knows you died with all your hair still on."

NoSQL is the Next Step In Data Storage

It just is. I've spent the past thirty years programming SQL even when some people called it UQE. I have just built an entire architecture around SQL. Nobody should be more supportive of SQL than me, it is only in the last couple of years I have gotten really good at using it.

It's done. SQL is over. I wish I had come to this conclusion six months earlier.

The truth is, there are better paradigms now. Experimental open source like MongoDB has been kicking the crap out of this technology in clustering, searching, freeform storage, document archiving and delivery. SQL is dinosaur tech in comparison. NoSQL is a standard for web delivered services that have to be as fast as the developer can make them and if necessary can even all reside in memory. I have just been waiting for it to become an embeddable standard that can travel with the application for zero-installation and zero-administration like Sqlite has always been.

That day has come.

Most Ambitious Skyscrapers On Earth Under Construction

When a civilisation is in it's expansion phase, the people who live in it are a little crazy and exuberant and still believe they can do anything if they put their mind to it. They are not easily discouraged and their mind runs to projects that are an expression of this spirit of expansion, eager to press against boundaries that seem impossible to others.

When a civilisation is in sharp decline, like Kwanstainia, they no longer even feel confident enough to fill in potholes and put in bicycle racks. Everything starts to collapse in on itself and nobody feels as though anything can ever succeed. No? Archaeologists discovered that the last 200 years of the Roman Road - The Appian Way - despite an army of civil engineers ... the only repairs to these roads were made by people who lived in front of them and the "repairs" were merely mud and straw where formerly superstrong durable Roman concrete had formed the roadway so smooth you could have eaten off it.

In early Mycenaean pottery, motifs of guys in what look like power ranger outfits hold sceptres that shoot out lightning bolts and monsters are depicted smaller than they are running away from them, clearly bested by these ultra bad-ass representatives of mankind. The artisan who created this pot is trying to say with his design, These monsters never stood a chance against mankind.

In late Mycenaean era pottery the pots themselves are of lower quality workmanship and the monsters are the biggest thing on the pot, with the people cowering like insects and holding one another for comfort. No power rangers to be seen. Buildings are toppling and one wonders why would you do a pot design like this, other than to capture the general zeitgeist of the age you are living in?

What has really changed in the interim? Something about the declining phase has taught learned helplessness to the people who formed these pots from clay. At some point they just felt everything was getting the better of them. The world outside them is the same place with the same hazards and problems, it is in their reactions that the difference is to be found. They no longer imagine themselves to be capable of solving any of these problems that beset them ... when in fact, they are usually no more or less difficult than the problems solved by the people who came before them.

If you think about this long enough like I have, you can sum up these changes in personality as an aversion to pain that is so strong that people can no longer handle the pain of admitting something is wrong. It's too painful for them. Their ancestors would say "What a mess! Alright, this isn't gonna fix itself! Let's get started!" and six months later the problem would be gone. Nowadays, six months later they are still waiting for the problem to fix itself. Too painful to even admit there is a problem.

Jim Penman of Jim's Mowing here in Australia described this phenomena in his book The Hungry Ape and also described the biological changes taking place that produce this kind of personality. Jim has recently been spending his time trying to see if a brute force biochemical method could be used to reverse this personality type. He often paints it in terms of what it could do for aborigines, when in fact I have read enough of Jim Penman's books to know it isn't aborigines who need this therapy first. That's just the politically safe option to talk about. In fact, it is the citizens of the West who need this kind of therapy a hell of a lot more than the aborigines ever will. The aborigines have been here for 80,000 years without breaking a sweat and will likely be here another 80,000 years after it is all fallen into ruins. It's not aborigines who require some sort of miracle intervention, it's everybody else.

TSA Extending The Definition of "Travel" To "Human Movements"

Searching bags at a Trump convention. 

What I don't even ...

One of these nights you'll be getting up to go the bathroom and there will be a TSA agent frisking you before you can sit down on the toilet. All for your own safety.