“Other than the anarchist world, the HAM RADIO world might be the most infested/infiltrated with FEDs.” – Dr. Freckles
Bouncy Castle: A discussion of EMPIRE, or a random walk around it …

MP3: https://planetarystatusreport.com/mp3/20230421_EMPIRE_AND_A_RANDOM_WALK_WITH_BUGBEARS.mp3
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Implode or Explode — https://planetarystatusreport.com/?p=5669
Implode vs Explode is NOT all or nothing, it’s always a hybrid.
Implosions: tend to be less catastrophic in terms of EXTERNAL war, and more catastrophic internally.
Explosions: tend to be bad internally, but as bad or even worse in terms of neighbors.
Short, incomplete, list for discussion.
*** empires can also be destroyed by BIGGER empires … “consumption” or “subsumption” … this is a different topic …
- Explode: Austro-Hungarian
- Explode: Ottoman Empire
- Implode: the USSR
- Implode: the Spanish Empire
- Explode: Alexandrian Empire
- Implode: Roman Empire (multi-century implosion)
ODDS of SURVIVAL: https://planetarystatusreport.com/pdf/20160729_Odds_Of_Survival.pdf
Empires: Implosion or Explosion
“Some empires IMPLODE … some empires EXPLODE … you would prefer the imploding kind.” – Dr. Freckles
My own hell …
“It was a dark night of the plane flight of the soul …” – Dr. Freckles
Hell is flying commercial now … this is my hell … since at least 2001.
(check the podcast archives, search the page for “TSA” back in 2015/2016 …)
GARBAGE FOOD
“A lot of you mother fuckers don’t understand that the cricket-flour garbage food reality STARTED WITH Norman Borlaug … and it shows.” – Dr. Freckles
The ALGO’s game …
“Don’t play the ALGO’s game … teach the ALGO a new game.” – Dr. Freckles
Futile public gestures …
“Accept this: we are in the age of futile public gestures.” – Dr. Freckles
More Cops …
“More cops, more crime.” – Dr. Freckles
What I’ve said …
This is what I said in 2015, basically during a lunch conversation with other computer programmers: https://planetarystatusreport.com/pdf/20160729_Odds_Of_Survival.pdf
There’s too much fear mongering, too much manipulation, not enough good information. That’s where we’re at … I saw someone on social media posting some more fear porn today, a new thread, and it made me want to outline PRECISELY my position:
- TPTB are managing a fuzzy event which was/is expected to occur in a five year window, starting in late 2019.
- BEST CASE: the “fuzzy event” is the collapse of the USD/Petro-Dollar empire … this will likely trigger a worldwide depression lasting a few decades. It will be pretty bad, but not the end of the world. Just really fucking horrible. I think a worldwide famine is baked into the cake for the best case.
- WORST CASE: something, I don’t know what for sure, so bad that you’d gaslight billions of people for 3+ years using multiple high intensity military psychological warfare operations. The flavor of OP? – trauma based, mainly. As such, it’s a GOING OUT OF BUSINESS sale, setting fire to the restaurant, cover the escape and final thievery … and then what? – the elite are safe in their compounds, and the rest of us likely battle each other for scraps until something more awful than starvation kills us.
YOU ARE NOT POWERLESS – I’ve also said this.
YOU CONTROL your fate – even as a Christian, knowing GOD has a PLAN, I believe this.
And the ONLY WAY to manage the worst parts of what I describe? – liberty.
Liberty is not the “nice to have” later …
Liberty is how we avoid, possibly, an extinction level event.
Tyranny? – this is how the human race dies … not with a bang, but with a whimper.
But what WE DON’T NEED is more bullshit fear …
I don’t know for certain what is going on …
And, I could be wrong …
(something, below, from November 2019)
Guns …
“The best deal on a gun is using the black market.” – Dr. Freckles
“If you buy your guns at Cabela’s, you are a DUMB SHIT.” – Dr. Freckles