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I was born in the rain on the part train underneath the Louisiana

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Moon don’t mind the strain of a hurricane they come around every

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June the high Black Water devil’s daughter she’s hard she’s cold she’s

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[Music] me General thank you so much for making

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the time for us today big questions that we have that can only be answered by someone with your pedigree where is the

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American Military As Americans are suffering and dying I’ll preface this by saying our our sources on the ground

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tell us that there are hundreds of bodies American bodies still buried in mudslides uh and thousands of Americans

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uh that could potentially perish Still In This Storm where is the American Military yeah so a couple of things that

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I want to cover and Nick Nick sortor is unbelievable and being on the ground there doing what he’s doing I mean talk

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about courage so let me take it to the big picture first because it and I and then I will take it down to North

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Carolina and what what should be done what should immediately be done and we’re already a week too late so big big

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picture we have over a 100 counties probably around 150 counties from

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Appalachia Cola Florida all the way up to the Appalachian Mountains of Western North Carolina so probably looking at

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150 counties you know in various States that are in a complete disaster Zone and

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so this is a federal emergency of epic proportions of biblical proportions that

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the federal government is basically has been totally absent okay I mean absent

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and I have uh folks that I’m working with right now and and I’ll talk a little bit about what we did in North

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Carolina what’s going on in North Carolina because people out around the country are frankly some around the world are asking work and they can help

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but certainly people around the country so the big picture is we got about at least 150 counties that are in a in a

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total disaster Zone from Northern Florida all the way up to uh in parts of

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Tennessee and of course North Carolina in in North Carolina there are at least

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there’s over a thousand dead that have been confirmed to me with the just the body bags that have been filled there

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are insufficient numbers of body bags so there are dead body is lying aside and

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and and this is up in the mainly up in North Carolina that is already pushing over a thousand my guess is that by the

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time we we you know look at all of what has happened we’re going to be probably somewhere around 2,000 or north of 2000

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dead people there are still people caught up in the hills in North Carolina and Eastern Tennessee that their towns

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were completely wiped out they’re they’re totally isolated homes are gone and one of the things I want people to

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understand is that one of the things that you consider for humanitarian disaster recovery and relief operations

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one of the first things you look at is the terrain and the weather conditions that are impending right so at nighttime

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right now up in the mountains of North Carolina I have I’m very familiar with this area I’ve trained up in there I’ve been up in there many times in my in my

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experiences in the military especially at Fort Brag North Carolina I won’t call it the other name but Fort Brag North

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Carolina which I will talk to in a second here with the with the potential uh deployment of other resources that

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the government has so the the weather conditions right now are wet they are uh

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because it’s Misty at night time it rains at night we’re looking at weather temperatures that that are in the low

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30s and in another week or two by the end of this certainly by the end of this month we’re going to start to see

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freezing conditions possibly even an early snow in the mountains of North Carolina where these people are still

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walking around with nothing so when we because I want to talk about what types of resources need to be brought to bear

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and the things that I know that are being done so the big picture is we’re going to probably be north of 2000 dead

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we have at least 150 counties maybe 200 counties from Northern Florida all the way up into uh up into Western North

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Carolina that are in This Disaster Zone the federal government has done nothing

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one other strategic component here Benny and for your audience when they talk about fee is out of money or the federal

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government’s out of money first of all it’s our money so never forget that folks secondly that our government has

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has Disaster Recovery response funds and Congress and now I’m talking directly to

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speaker Johnson right Congress can reallocate funds so funds that are being allocated overseas to some other crazy

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Endeavor that we don’t need to be part of they can reallocate funds with one simple vote and and actually it’s the

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speaker of the house that can do that so so I don’t want people to go well FEA is out of money the government’s out no

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that first of all it’s our money and the speaker of the house has the authority to be able reallocate from one line item

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to another line item for dis especially for Disaster Recovery in the United States of America and the and the

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president of the United States can do it with a stroke that didn’t even take a pen it could just be direct These funds

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to go to that effort immediately the second thing is the the president of the United States has the full authority to

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call out and federalize the National Guard okay and we probably are looking

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at uh a division’s worth of of cap abilities that we need so an army

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division’s worth of capabilities so that’s roughly somewhere between 15 and

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20,000 Personnel from that that you can we can get from the National Guard right

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now with all of the all of the logistics all of the the communications all of the

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tenage you know all of the the what they call mobile kitchen trailers I mean for food I mean we can do water purification

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the the the little numbers that have been sent I think it’s uh a th from uh from the Fort Bragg area and

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there’s like another 500 this is just in North Carolina we need a full mobilization right now and I’m serious

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about this if if you know if you sprinkled fairy dust on me today and put me in charge we would have an entire we

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would have an entire active duty division because the active duty division more than the National Guard

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the National Guard has to come in they got to go through all kinds of processes they don’t respond as quickly so the the

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82 Airborne Division which is a threeh hour drive from the Western Hills of North Carolina Drive not like you know a

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day or two to get there they have capabilities that can be there literally in two hours four hours 24 hours and I’m

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talking about large packages of the full complement of everything that Nick was

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just talking about I have got I have uh uh U Representatives on the ground to

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doing a couple of things one they’re they’re collecting the Intel right now they’re getting an assessment of the

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area and these are the guys that are telling me how many body bags they’re out of how many body bags they need

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there’s still areas that that they have not gotten into I mean some of the stories that I was told in the last

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couple of days we had and and the these were fixed and I’ll tell you how they were fixed so we had North Carolina

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forestry service helicopters at Hickory Airfield in North Carolina that were sitting idle for five days and the

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pilots who know that part of the country like the back of their hands were so frustrated because they could not they

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were told they were directed basically don’t do anything okay they were and they would call up and go hey these guys

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are looking for you know help here and we can help them we know this area very well because flying in the mountains

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with a helicopter is far more difficult than flying you know along a beach right because you’re up at a higher altitude

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so there’s a lot of there’s a lot of Dynamics and technical issues here that people have to be aware of so these guys

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were sitting idle one phone call one phone call and it was to the lieutenant governor Mark Robinson and I’m going to

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give him a lot of right now because in that phone call he told me that nobody was answering their phones from the

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governor’s office of North Carolina nobody was answering their phones from the his calls to the Department of

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Homeland Security or he was calling up into the White House so Mark took it on his own went to the to the Airfield

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yesterday afternoon and directed under his authority and I you know and I don’t know what that means I don’t know what

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if if he has that versus the governor but he told those helicopters you know and because and they said thank you very

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much and they put those helic s in the service they were sitting there Benny for five days so there’s so many stories

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of incompetence and ineptitude and intentionality FEMA FEMA has a small

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element on the ground and people that are going up to it there’s no signs so it’s not like hey FEMA’s here you know

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we’re here to help we got supplies coming in we got relief efforts going on they they were told don’t you know

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basically don’t address anybody that comes up if they come up just tell them you’re sitting tight and you’re waiting

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on resources this was this morning this is this morning a themea operation that’s a little bit further away from

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Hickery up in the uh in the in the greater Asheville area so that’s kind of some of the Tactical picture but we we

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have the ability immediately and I mean immediately with a with a with a phone call by the president of the United

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States directing the national command Authority and that means the Department of Defense the Secretary of Defense the

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the Department of Homeland Security FEMA and some of these other some of these other uh Federal institutions to

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mobilize and they should put it under the the uh the command and control of a military unit because because you’re

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going to this is a military recovery and disaster relief operation I’ve been part of many of these this is a very simple

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operation actually in the military because these are Americans right our our our soldiers and and I have too many

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stories in the last couple of days of soldiers at Fort Brag North Carolina taking leave because they were they some

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of them many of them live up there or other guys know people up there so they’re taking their own leave to get

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out there and help out for a couple of days to just do some immediate operations because they can’t take that much leave right a couple of days seven

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days and so units are letting them go so low-level soldiers are or our our Rank

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and file understand the urgency they’re they’re watching this unravel and they’re looking at our government go and

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say and do nothing I mean nothing this is so outrageous we we have I mean and and

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what Nick was talking about and you guys kind of touched on it in the end you kind of say to yourself why and so what

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are they doing right and you you have to say to yourself you know 750 bucks that’s ridiculous I mean everybody knows

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everybody looks at this and goes you know what the hell is going on and what’s going on is and I said this very

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publicly this morning on my on my exp poost you know I want people to understand when they say build back

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better they need to destroy the entire system in order to build it back better in their image and I mean that

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intentionally I mean that precisely these people are are intent on destroying this country so there there

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are also stories this this just makes me sick and and good reporting from good

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people on the ground that I know of the Looting and a lot of gunshot fire a lot

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a lot of gun uh gun fights up there to get rid of looters by some of the locals and by of the recovery assets there are

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also children that they’re finding with ropes on their arms and their legs where they were tied to trees by their parents

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and their parents are now dead and they and the kids were able to get recovered there are reports of illegals up in that

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area and there’s a group of illegals that they had uh uh you know basically grabbed up about three or four days ago

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and you know these are the allegations of raping some of these children up there so I this is brutal and this is a

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war zone and and and in a war zone and this is what I mean about this sort of disaster Zone it’s like a war zone you

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saw you showed many of the pictures Benny so when you have a war zone like that you’re GNA have all sorts of

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Nefarious characters actors you’re G to have people up there with all kinds of you know hey if you if you support me if

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you support this you know and they’re going to be benefiting from it that’s we got to be very very careful about who

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we’re supporting where your money’s going and the type of people that that uh that are up in this area because

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you’re going to have it’s such a gigantic area of operations the only way

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the only way right now for a a legitimate uh uh you know wellone well

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executed uh recovery operation to take place is if they if if the United States government commits at least a a brigade

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siiz task force which is about seven to 8,000 you know men and women Soldiers

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with all of the requisite capabilities to get in there now this is even this is even outside the scope of the National

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Guard it’s such a big big problem and that doesn’t mean that doesn’t take any way from uh from the National Guard

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Leadership you know they can put a they can get a general up there who’s got some guts and is ready to make some

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decisions but that the scale and scope of this problem like I said we’re talking about so many counties in North

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Carolina but we’re looking at a much much bigger problem and so the larger the problem the bigger the resources

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that you’re going to require and those resources because we’re talking about Interstate problems here that has to

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come from the federal government and for the federal government to say we we’re out of money is total it’s

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total excuse my Irish Benny to your audience there are funds that are

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available the president of the United States can redirect them speaker Johnson needs to stand up right now and also he

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he’s got the authority to to move monies from one account to another in order to to support this operation and then they

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our Congress our house they should be so public right now in the public domain

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you know demanding that the president of the United States help these people Benny we’re going to have over 2,000

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Americans dead from a hurricane a hurricane that was never expected to go

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up into the Western Hills of North Carolina and that and I said you know the people that are that that have died

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and and and will be recovered you know bodies from Northern Florida all the way

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up to the hills of of Western or Eastern Tennessee and Western North Carolina

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Benny there are entire segments of I40 and I’ve seen the videos and the pictures I40 which is a major Federal

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Highway that cuts right through the entire Mountain Side came down right so there’s a an entire section they’re

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talking about well over a year to repair that I mean this is something that is so big you know Cala can take her

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$750 and put it where you know where you know the sun doesn’t shine because right

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now a much more massive relief effort and frankly I hate to say this because it’s

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like it sounds like I’m crazy but the you know AB budding this up to the to the most consequential election in our

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history that we are about to experience I I just it just smells bad it tastes

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bad you know it’s the old thing if it if it you know looks like a duck and quacks like a duck it’s a duck right and we got

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a problem right now Benny and this government is intentionally you know doing nothing

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they’re doing nothing so don’t let anybody say that there’s no money and don’t let anybody say that there’s no

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resources there are both and they they can be there in a moment’s notice we’re already eight days too late and for the

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82nd Airborne Division and 18th Airborne Court Fort Brag North Carolina I guess now called Fort Liberty for those

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resources to sit there what are they waiting to go to the Ukraine are they waiting to go to the Middle East we have got to get these

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resources because that Division I can tell you I’ve spent almost half of my career at that fact more than half of my

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career at that base you know in the in the world of Special Operations in the world of of really high-end capabilities

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I mean tentage clothing food you know Logistics bridging trucks U air Mobility

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they have an entire actually they have more than a brigade’s worth of of Aviation assets they have a to a

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totality of command and control capabilities just an ability to go up on and I know some of the area up there

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like there’s some Fair ground areas and then you have some some off-site airfields where there’s large open space

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or the space can be cleared immediately just bulldo because even the Army at Fort Brag has bulldozers has cranes has

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all this complement of capabilities all of that can be brought to bear you clear up a couple of spaces you start flying

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around there you you actually run it like we ran operations in any War Zone in the country because that’s what this

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is in fact it’s worse than a war zone you’ve seen the pictures you’ve shown the the videos on your screen we need

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need to get up there with with with military resources and we need to do it now and I mean now and than you know I’m

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I’m thankful actually because I think Ronda Santa sent some some uh bridging

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assets up there from from the National Guard and from the state guard but certainly from the National Guard other

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Governors need to start coming together folks because if Joe Biden who is he is

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not there okay he Joe Biden needs to be he needs to be 25th amendment it out

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Camala Harris who has no concept of what I just said in the last 15 or 20 minutes

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zero zero concept but there are people in our government and there’s certainly people in the in the Department of

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Defense Lloyd Austin should be ashamed of himself as a secretary of defense he knows full well what is what the US

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military is very capable of doing all compliments whether it’s National Guard whether it’s our Reserve forces or

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whether it’s our active duty and right now to to put an active duty unit in there for let’s just say 30 days and

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then you can bring in you know some of the other uh C SE and rescue some of the other civilian capacity that we have in

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this country right so we know that there’s people and and we’ll get this I’ll get this information to you so you

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can put it out on your show because there are there is a church up there that is setting up operations it’s a

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great church great Pastor there’s another couple of groups up there that I know that are bringing in trucks

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truckloads of food and uh and shelter and warm clothes I mean money yes will

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help pay for the Fuel Services know one of the guys that’s up there they brought six helicopters up private these are

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private guys who went up there they normally get a phone call from FEMA FEMA never called them these guys are are the

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topend search and rescue people and FEMA calls them whenever there’s a disaster

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FEMA never called them and so they’re up there on their own because they just give a about what’s going on so

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they have about six helicopters and they need to pay for fuel the folks providing the fuel up there have given them fuel

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at Half Price which is really really nice for for but that’s fuel will eventually run out so we need to get you

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know we need to pay to get fuel up there if we continue down this path with with trying to do this you know by by private

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citizens it it and know and I’ll shut up here in a second Benny it kind of hearkens back to the The Retreat from

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Afghanistan when the government when we pulled out of Afghanistan and you know the tragic loss of of the of the of the

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beautiful 13 lives so many others that were wounded the the leaving behind of American citizens the government pulled

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out and so so what happened I mean there’s still Americans back there right and so so private citizens stepped up

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and they started to conduct rescue operations in the most difficult part of the world now we’re talking about right

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here in our own front yard never this isn’t our backyard this is our front yard America and we have the full

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capabilities assets resources funding all of it and you know what that’s our

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money don’t let anybody say well the government doesn’t have any money there is so much money that we

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can that we can come get access to and they can reallocate this we’re in a new fiscal year I mean you know these are

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things that I understand and and you know and and God help these people if uh

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from my perspective I ain’t speaking for Trump but for my perspective God help these people if we get back into office

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because you know this is insane we can’t have close to 2000 and it’s going to go

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north of 2000 when they finally when we get all the when we see it all and that and the billions and billions and

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billions of dollars that are going to be uh just destroyed in people’s lives I mean everything so sad

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um and and and we got to look back at these kinds of things and go you know what do we do what what why why and I

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know why I know why I think there’s an intentionality behind this and I would love Joe Biden he didn’t even know that

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there’s a storm he didn’t know which storm I heard you ask Nick about you know you said what storm he was like what storm you’re talking about are you

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me and I and I I’m getting uh I’m getting uh you know Irish on you here I want to calm my voice a little

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bit because because we have people American people American citizens that are at

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risk that have died that have lost every single thing that they own we have the

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full ability in this country to take care of them right now for an immediate

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period of time and I’m talking about probably for the next certainly 90 days maybe longer you know we could put them

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we can put them you know up like we put illegals up right in hotels I mean we can bring them into I I know I mean

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these are all things that that I know we are capable of doing and the military

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can get in there immediately and and start to put people in at least tents

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you know at least tents on a fair ground and line it up like we’ve always done in places like overseas combat zones where

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we just we get in there with CBS and we build plywood homes I mean you know we can bring compliments of trailers I mean

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so much can be done and our government is on its rear end doing nothing hoping

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they’re you know what they’re hoping for they’re hoping that it affects the election and the outcome of election

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particularly in places like Georgia like North Carolina affect are affected so much but I can’t imagine you know I mean

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Nick Nick highlighted it you know trying to get people to be able to vote right I mean that’s the last thing that is on my

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mind for these people you know I want them I want him to I want Donald Trump to get back into office you know Donald

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Trump has to have you know an entire Battalion of infantry around him to protect him from uh being killed by

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frankly you know some of it might be Iranians some of it’s probably people in our own damn government working with

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Mexican cartels and working with other other uh uh you know criminal elements

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to kill him to kill this man so that’s another discussion for another day I I I

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know you wanted to talk about something that Jack pic had posted and I think Jack’s right about that that there’s

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there’s other plots of foot and uh this is insane where we are as a nation never

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mind what mother nature and our government what Mother Nature did and what our government has failed to do so

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I want people to I I will I will get to you places where people can can give

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that I totally have vetted totally trust and frankly yes the the the the

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organizations that helping they need they need the money but the people need

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shelter they need thermal uh sleeping bags they need little you know little until our government kicks in until

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something kicks in they need tenage they need clothing warm clothing they need preserved Foods right Cann Goods I mean

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all the kinds of things you know so we’re we’re uh going to be up there in North Carolina here in Selma here with a

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big with a with a whole bunch of people we’ve turned our turned our entire reawaken America event that we planned

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you know months ago uh into a basically a humanitarian assistance relief effort

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so we’re going to be doing that and then we’re going to be in Charlotte um you know helping out Donald Trump with a uh

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with a big event we’re going to turn that into a humanitarian assistance relief effort and and my personally so

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personally um one of the things that I do very well and for your audience is I connect people and I connect

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organizations because I have a great network of really wonderful people uh

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they’re mostly uh former military and these are hardworking uh you know Patriots and

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they love uh they you know they’re they know what a crisis they know how to handle a crisis so we’re connecting

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different groups that I knew that were doing individual things we have to be far more coordinated so anytime that you

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see somebody because you’ll be talking to different organizations Benny the main thing that we need to do is we need

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to connect those guys so I probably on the phone this morning have connected about four or five different

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organizations people that didn’t generally know each other but they’re all focused on the same you know focal

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point and that focal point right now is to get relief efforts up into North Carolina so we’ve got trucks going up

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we’ve got helicopters going in we do have some some uh funding coming in kicking in for particularly for fuel

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because the other thing is like you need uh heaters right we need heaters heaters run on gas propane or they run on on

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just moas so so those are the kinds of things um you know there there’s the

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corporate the corporate world of of uh of Home Depot Lowe’s Walmart I mean all

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of these big box stores right I mean if you’re listening to this show please

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please please kick in help help those folks that are sitting on an Airfield

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right now running I mean yesterday as of yesterday a private organization was

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running air operations for the entire area because the government wasn’t there

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okay the government wasn’t there and and I will I will uh put a plugin for Mark Robinson again because I I don’t know if

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he listens to this show but Mark on one phone call you know up in up at the

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Capal in in North Carolina he immediately that afternoon was at the Hickory Airfield and he got those those

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forestry helicopters mobilized and they’re now flying rescue missions alongside this private organization and

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you know which is nuts we should have an entire division an infantry division

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mobilized for this effort whether it comes out of the Guard or whether it comes out of for a place like Fort Brag

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North Carolina that’s what we need right now and they can set up everything and

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that can be the focal point without any of the BS you know you tell a you tell a two-star general who’s in charge of it

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you say you know you have the con you make the decisions get stuff done make it happen you know rescue people help

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people you know if you need more stuff you come back and you ask me and I’ll I’ll bring to bear more stuff if you

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need it but right now we got to get those kinds of resources and capabilities out there so I mean I I

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I’ve G on and on I’m just you can you can your audience you can hear it in my voice folks we have got to take this

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country back because if we don’t take this country back what we’re seeing right now in the responsiveness of our

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government we’re going to see it in Spades and I I mean if if there was ever

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a time for them to shine Now’s the Time To Shine and these people have Dark

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Souls and that’s what we’re seeing so I’ll shut up thank you Benny this is exactly why you bring the General on

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your show to get the orders from a military Mastermind and from somebody who truly understands these systems now

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uh General I I can’t help but look through some of the archives of what

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happened in Katrina what happened uh with Hurricane Sandy when it struck New

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York and when these hurricanes hit dark blue cities and large Democrat voting

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Pockets let’s say this hurricane hit Philadelphia or Pittsburgh this election I can’t help but wonder if the National

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Guard the full Fleet of the American Military would have been immediately

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dispatched along with every conceivable Federal printing press to print unlimited money to help these people out

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you can go back and see the 82n Airborne deployed to Katrina exactly you can go back and see the military deployed to

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New Jersey and New New York when dark blue cities were hit by hurricanes and

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so you have to step back and say you know what it sure as hell looks like this is some sort of political Vengeance

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political cleansing of trump counties in swing States that’s what it looks like

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Prima fascia yeah so you’re right I mean Katrina we deployed Katrina which happened down in in uh nor Orleans and

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then um the the I just lost the name of the the hurricane that hit Homestead Air Force Base in Florida which was one of

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the worst disasters it was a hurricane that hit the 82 Airborne was actually deployed down to Florida to to do

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disaster and recovery and relief operations in Florida and I’m not a big fan of Rumsfeld and I said this the

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other day in a in a post that I put out because I wanted people to understand exactly what you’re asking you know

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Rumsfeld for after Katrina there was 75,000 soldiers that were deployed to

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New Orleans right to the 75,000 immed he said he said well and I and this is a

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quote from a guy that was in the room with him that said we’ll we’ll worry about the paperwork later get them

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deployed immediately 75,000 were deployed like literally in a period of

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about four days you know to get him down there right and so and I’m you know believe me I’m no fan of rumel but but

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when when when stuff needs to happen in this country if we have leaders who care

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you know and are willing to to to do the right thing then we will have responses

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like that where like I just said the uh the hurricane that hit Florida uh I

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think it was back in the early 90s if I remember 92 forgive me for the name but but that that they deployed the 82

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Airborne Division down there they ended up sending about a battalion task force which is about a compliment of about you

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know a, to 1500 in addition to the National Guard that was deployed by North by Florida at the time so I think

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the numbers that we’re seeing right now of National Guard that are there and I think they said a thousand were

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deploying out of Fort Brag Fort Liberty to go up into the hills of North Carolina that’s nothing it’s nothing

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compared to the scale and scope of what we’re seeing and that and we’re already like I said we’re eight days too late so

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um I I can’t imagine what goes through the mind of somebody I mean I’m not an

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evil person so I don’t know what goes through the mind of an evil person so I just at that so if president Trump comes back to

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office and I I know I know we’re tight on time here General if president Trump gets backed on I want to give people

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hope because it’s been a dark it’s been a dark show I want to give people hope and show the difference between America

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last which is what you were seeing at play here and America first and if Trump

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comes back into office you have a position you said wave a magic Wan but we can wave a magic Wan

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we can just elect the man back into office yeah uh how do disasters like this get treated differently because

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there will be further disasters I mean this is just a fact of life right what is America First policies look like uh

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uh in the future yeah you know I want people in your audience yeah I want your audience to think of their own home

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right your own home America is our home and we must take care of our home first

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if we’re strong if we are viable if we feel like our you know like you if you

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feel safe in your home you’ll feel protected in your home you feel like like in your community that your home is

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in if somebody is going to respond in time of need you know in an emergency you know you dial 911 when you’re at

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your home and hopefully the cops are able to show up hopefully they haven’t been you know given Dei training and so

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that’s that’s what I want Americans to feel like in our home we we are safe

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secure protected we have people that are thinking about us because they can’t do

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anything without us I mean we always say the government’s money no that’s our money everything that happens in this

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country belongs to us so I want this is our home that’s what America First means

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it means that we are going to protect our home we’re going to do everything that we can to make sure that whether

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it’s a disaster or whether it’s a you know the fental drug problem whether it’s the illegals that we’ve got in this

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country or whether it’s a a threat from overseas against our home right you got criminals that break into your house

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sometimes we don’t want that to happen so we need to protect our country that’s what America First is about just like

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it’s our own damn home because folks it is and we’re paying for it and then we can start to worry because we can juggle

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you know we have enough smart people to juggle multiple balls so we can you know worry about what’s happening in in

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Eastern Europe we can worry about what’s happening in the Middle East and we can look at our foreign policy dis which is a disaster right now and start to you

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know rain that in a little bit like a like a like catching a fish right we got to rain some of this madness back in we

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have good people that can do that kind of stuff but we have to first make ourselves stronger and one of the ways

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that we make ourselves stronger and and Trump has been all over this you know we energy and I’ll just talk about energy

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for a second because it’s like your own home right if there’s a disaster I mean you buy a couple of extra cans of

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propane tanks so you can you know make yourself a cup of coffee during a during a you know or or some food or whatever

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or you you buy something to take care of your home we have energy in abundance in this country country to take care of the

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rest of the world frankly I mean we have so much energy in this country and what

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that energy resource does and I ain’t just talking about fossil fuels or or or or Petro or nuclear talking about all

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forms of energy we have that right now and if we put that into high gear which

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was one of Trump’s major major issues we can turn this country we can turn the

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lights back on in America and be that shiny City on the hill that we know we

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can still be but we got to have the right leaders we got to have the right focus and that’s one but one big area

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that will immediately kick in and once that kicks in the second third fourth

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fifth order effects of opening up the energy resources that this country has it will it will start to grow and and

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have an effect on all kinds of other Industries for our country and we need to get back into being a

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manufacturing uh uh stronghold in the United States of you know from the unit States of America to the rest of the

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world we can still do that but we got to have the right leadership in the White House and right now we don’t we have no

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leadership General thank you so much for your time my uh my team is telling me that we are at time that you that you’ve

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got another hit I know you’re a busy guy please everyone follow General Flynn here obviously you probably already are

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1.7 million followers make sure that our movement grows God bless you General we can’t wait for you to be back in command

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great I’ll send you some some places Benny that you can give your folks uh you know some ideas about how to help

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cuz I know your audience is a great audience thank you God bless God bless

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Some Interesting AI Capabilities and Restrictions

While it is easy to clone voices online, there are restrictions in place when it comes to political figures.  What is interesting is that these restrictions haven’t stopped anyone.

the mighty humanzee
By The Mighty Humanzee

The awkward phone call with Vice President Kamala Harris and supposed Joe Biden raised many questions.  For years we have heard prank phone calls from celebrities, and while there are some excellent deep fakes of Joe Biden out there, it does beg the question why Biden couldn’t appear via video conference.  The only thing we heard was his voice, and some stilted sentences.

We have been interested in AI as a tool for analyzing trends and demographics, that has been a huge part of our work on Severed Conscience, but voice cloning with AI is quite interesting.  On our podcasts on Spreaker and Spotify which are audio only, we use AI as a tool to remove background noise and raise speaking volumes so that all speakers have a similar quality that is suitable for listening with the benefit of our video.  But cloning is offered on most platforms, some free and others for $5 per month.  For some of the promos for Behind Enemy Lines we have used AI to clone Spock / Leonard Nimoy, Tony Soprano / James Gandolfini, and Boyd Crowder / Walton Goggins.  This article will run you through the steps and show you that it is merely a copy and paste operation once you have a voice sample.  It’s not a tutorial, just a quick overview of how easy it is.

 

Analysis of the phone call reportedly detected that ElevenLabs was used to clone Biden’s speech.  When I tried to use a sample of Biden’s voice, a warning immediately appeared regarding the using of political figures.  So within the timeframe of 30-60 seconds that it took to upload a sample of Biden, I was presented with a warning.  Clearly ElevenLabs has an impressive capability and flagged my sample immediately.

Does this mean that Biden’s voice was not cloned?  No, it’s very likely that his voice was, as there are many open source platforms that you can download and use privately to clone a voice.  I have done that with the Nimoy voice.  And do you think that the team guarding Joe during his Covid bought would leave their trails by clicking “Verify Voice” and leave a record?

Cloning your voice, however, is quite simple.  Depending on the quality of the recording, it can be done with less than 30 seconds.  After you have uploaded the sample and it is analyzed, you only need to supply the text.  Below I use a sample from our last podcast to show that it’s amazingly simple.

Here you type what you want, then you select the voice:

First Tony Soprano reads our script, then Boyd Crowder delivers a fiery sermon style introduction like he preached in Justified.  Amazing results for just a few dollars.

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Pinehurst Trying to Move Library Closer to Reality | News | thepilot.com

Sometimes, in life, you are put into a situation that could be a huge mistake, or it could be the
best thing you’ve ever done in your personal and business life. 

This situation happened to me last year. In fact, almost one year ago.

By Grammy Pam / @grammypam64gill

Sometimes, in life, you are put into a situation that could be a huge mistake, or it could be the best thing you’ve ever done in your personal and business life. 

This situation happened to me last year. In fact, almost one year ago. 

Some of you may remember, Joe was involved in an auto accident in Durham. That same day, I was working a deal for a local, historical generational home. I had to leave the meeting and almost forgot to call back after I found Joe ok, sitting up in the bed in the Duke ED. 

I made the call only to find out the owner had decided to sell to someone else. Ok, not the first property I have lost. 

I brought Joe home and spent the next few days trying to keep Joe still and did not give the property a second thought. 

Then the call came in. On Friday, four o’clock in the afternoon. 

The one and only question the owner asked, “What would you do with the property?” 

My answer, “I would preserve the structure and grounds and turn the home into a boutique Inn. And in the process, I would name the Inn after your family. Give the proper respect to your family heritage by including portraits of your family members and give the guests an experience they would remember. Pinehurst is golf, history and luxury. The Inn would provide that experience.” 

I remember those words. I practiced those words. I rewrote those words several times before I finalized my presentation. I thought I missed my chance to present my vision for this property. 

The owner replied, “We will call back within the hour.” 

Fifty-seven minutes later, I was thanking the owner for choosing my vision. I met the owner at her attorney’s office at five-fifteen and signed the contract. Fifteen days later, I closed the deal. 

I owned another generational property in my hometown. 

My mind and my heart were in agreement. I had fulfilled an ongoing personal goal of saving another historic Pinehurst home. 

The first was Linden House. A French Provincial country house, built by the owner of the local sawmill and most of the land west and south of the area to be known as Pinehurst. This house

became my home. The home where I raised my kids and created an active family space we still enjoy today. 

This new property is larger than the other historical homes I have owned and restored over the years. Linden House was a large home, over five thousand feet at the time of purchase. I renovated and added two wings to the main house. This house stood at sixty-four hundred feet on two floors. A full basement added another three thousand feet to the total. 

This property, the Given’s House, was built by John and Irene Given in 1929. The property is three blocks from the Carolina Inn, the historic structure seen in advertisements for the area, and four blocks from the iconic Pinehurst clubhouse. 

The property is affectionately known as “The New House”. 

In areas like Pinehurst, wealthy families would build vacation homes, only to visit once or twice a year for the weather and access to world class golf. This was not the case with the Givens. Although they did not call Pinehurst home, they built their house for entertainment, for hosting family and friends in their Sandhills home year round. 

The Georgian Revival was designed by Francis Y. Joannes from New York. Joannes designed numerous fine residences along the east coast. More information on Mr. Joannes see https://prabook.com/web/francis_y.joannes/1041267 

The design of the house with the Flemish bond brickwork details, the double chimneys, the contained gutter system, the local lumber and stone sources combined to create a grand structure which became a comfortable home.

More information on Flemish Bond brick style see https://www.classicist.org/articles/flemish-bond-a-hallmark-of-traditional-architecture/ 

As the house stood, it contained ten bedrooms, eight full bathrooms and 1 half bath on the second floor. The entire ground floor was for hosting. A small foyer, grand hallway, large formal dining and living rooms, a full paneled study and kitchen flow from one end to the other. A two-stall carriage house with servant quarters above, a 20’ by 30’ ground level pool, a tennis court and greenhouse are spread across the grounds. Added benefit of a heated/cooled floored attic and a full basement, a detail not found in the local area at that time due to the abundance of sand, made year-round entertaining easy. 

The lot is 1.4 acres in size. The rectangle shape is wider, running with the street, than deep. The blue stone pebble driveway and circular drive detail is repeated along the generational estates. Like most of the properties in this area, the grounds are planted with native plants and a few varieties brought in from the northern states. Rhododendrons, azaleas, and camellias planted many years ago are the stars of the gardens. Boxwoods of many varieties line the driveway and path areas. Ivy and creeping fig cover the entrance pillars and portions of the house, where the vines have been left unchecked. Large pots scattered across the landscape offer splashes of color during the summer and stately evergreens during the winter.

As lovely as this sounds, my road to restoring this property has had a few bumps along the way. 

First was Joe. Not that he had a problem with me buying this property. After all, it was my funds and my vision. He is well aware of my long standing plan to save as many of these homes as possible. His issue was more personal. 

He loves this house! 

Having visited the West estate in Norfolk, VA, I see the resemblance between the Given house and the West house. This problem, I did not plan on having with Joe. 

A few weeks after I closed the property, Joe was able to leave the house and walk without much issue. I had driven him by the house, around the house but he had not entered the structure. Once he did, my problem intensified. 

“We need to live here” was all he said. He knew my plan to convert the property into an Inn. We had talked about finding a larger home for us but we both love the house we are currently in. 

However, the layout and design of this property reminds Joe of his mother’s home in Norfolk. He had so little time with her but the memories are burned into his mind and heart. As part of my contract to buy the property, the owner agreed to leave most of the furniture and paintings in the house. Seeing the house furnished with like pieces, brought back so many memories for Joe. 

So my task was not to talk him out of his vision of living in this house but see the potential of the house as an Inn. Easier said than done. 

I started the renovation with the exterior of the structure. The original windows and doors were in very bad shape. Storm windows had been added at some point but offered little protection or insulation. The exterior doors were worn and a bit crooked from time. The brick was in need of a good cleaning and sealing. The grounds were overgrown and in need of a good trim.  

Please note that the photos you’ll see this article are all the “before” pictures.

But before I could touch the structure, I had to file my plans of renovation with not only the county, the Village of Pinehurst but also with the historical society. Remember this house was built in 1929, making this property almost one hundred years old. 

Having completed several historical renovations, I have a list of trusted sub-contractors in this area. One by one, I contacted and discussed the vision I had and worked through the issues

with the structure. With my subs in place with approvable plans, I filed with every agency I could think of that would have an interest in this property. 

Sixty days later, my plans were approved. 

Because of the facial condition of the bricks, I was granted approval to resurface. My plan was to limewash the brick, which will coat and protect the brick from further damage. This changed the color from a washed-out light red to a creamy, light greige color. This is lending to a more French Provincial vibe than Georgian Revival. This gives me a chance to change the facade to more French by adjusting the front door pediment, which was on the list of items to replace. 

I made slight changes to the front facade plan, by changing the pediment and adding additional area to the front door stoop for easier access. The plan was approved and the conversion to French Provincial exterior was in place. 

While standing on the front lawn looking at the evolution of the front facade, I realized the ground floor windows needed to be changed as well. Back to the window manufacturer to see if modifications could be made, I changed the front windows from the custom seventy-two inch long double hung window to a functionable custom sized french door. Four oversized doors, two of which were fitted into double doors, were built to fit the openings. This not only fit the new style of the exterior but also added to the safety of ingress and regress of the structure. 

Back to the brick facade. The amazing and gifted brick and stone mason I love to use on these projects, has informed me the chimneys are in excellent shape and require no major maintenance. The detail woven into the chimney’s brick walls is stunning. During the limewash process, the mason asked to have the mortar lines tinted a couple of shades darker to highlight the detail not seen by the naked eye. This made a huge difference in the view from the ground.

The slate roofing is in excellent condition considering several fights with hurricanes over the years. That was a gift from the renovation Gods.

The last issue on the exterior, which combines with the interior process, is the 1960’s addition of a Hartley Greenhouse structure to the end of the house, which was the formal living room. This addition was used as a small conservatory-like room.  More on this issue later.

While the exterior work was in process, I started on the interior. 

My favorite part of the interior renovation is the kitchen. The original layout was a long, galley kitchen, designed for efficiency not aesthetics. The kitchen and breakfast areas were combined for a commercial kitchen layout. The marble countertops were removed and used in other areas of the house. New appliances were purchased. A ten foot by four foot working island and an eight foot by four foot eat-in island were installed. Black granite and stainless steel were used for the countertops. The original heart pine floors had been replaced in the kitchen with tile, which we replaced with a commercially approved tile. The owner had kept the wood for repair and replacement in other areas of the house.

A make-shift laundry room and the small butler’s pantry was combined to create a more functional pantry. An ice machine and a full freezer were installed as well. 

Joe’s favorite room is the lounge. This originally was an office/study room, with an outside entrance from the back of the house. The walls are paneled in pine, floor to ceiling, with a fireplace facade clad with the same pine. After some investigation, we removed the panels covering the fireplace to find an original marble surround.

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We decided the room needed a speak-easy atmosphere so we painted the room a dark color. It took three times to get the color right. Finally, I made the call to paint in a dark charcoal, Iron Ore by Sherwin Williams, one of my favorite colors. With the natural light from a few windows and an exterior door, the room works well both during the day and at night.

Being an avid reader, Joe wanted to add a library feel to the room. We kept the built-in bookcases and cabinets on one wall and doubled the space by adding more floor to ceiling bookcases. The small bar area was increased as well. This would be the gathering space for cocktails before dinner, an office space or an after dinner retreat. This room is still in process due to “you know who”. 

The dining room was not altered. I repainted the space and had the dining table refinished. The table is designed to seat twelve, which is perfect for this space. The fireplace is flanked by serving areas with storage space, replacing a need for any china cabinetry. The window replacement of a new double door opens to the front lawn. A small outside dining space is being created adjacent to and under a beautiful pecan tree.

The foyer is small but works. A double door system keeps cold weather from entering the main house. Paint and new marble floors were the only items needed in this area. 

The switchback or U-shaped staircase is in a small room-like area beside the foyer. Not a grand staircase like you may expect in a house this size, it is compact but very functionable. Again, paint and a few repairs to the trim were needed. The addition of an animal print stair runner has made an instant impact to this area.

At the front wall of the house, behind the staircase, is a half bath. New tile and period replacement fixtures were needed in this area. It seems this was the most used room in the house. The tile style and colors are consistent with the other renovated baths. 

Upstairs, the guest rooms needed little renovation. Paint and trim repairs were made.

The bathrooms required the most renovation. Floor tiles were replaced with period-like penny tiles in black and white with black grout. The wall tiles were replaced with two inch by eight inch white subway shaped tiles, also with black grout. Period fixtures were replaced with efficient look alike fixtures to keep the 1920’s style. The black and white color scheme was an easy decision. The attached bedrooms will dictate the additional colors used in each bathroom. 

The six guest rooms in the main section of the house have a fireplace and a private bath. Although the room sizes are not large, they are sufficient for a queen bed, dresser, side tables and a chair. 

The four guest rooms over the kitchen area have been realigned to create two Jack and Jill suites. In the case of a small family, these two rooms give the privacy needed for children and parents, connected by a bath. In the two, two room suites, a room has a queen bed and the other a set of twin beds. An easy task with the original layout of the rooms. 

The existing antique furniture has been cleaned and repaired if needed. New mattresses were purchased for the beds and new overstuffed upholstery chairs ordered for each room. The rooms were also outfitted with new bedding, which coordinates with the artwork in the room. Linen sheets, duvets and lots of pillows create a luxurious bed. 

An original dumbwaiter, positioned within the pantry to the upper floor, was reconditioned and is in working order. A must have for any multi-story Inn.

Speaking of the dumbwaiter, the basement underwent a renovation as well. We created a small gym with a shower/bathroom, a larger laundry area, a wine room and a room for food and supplies storage. This supply room also has outdoor access from the driveway side of the house for convenience. 

The last room to be renovated has required the most planning, redesign and work of the entire renovation. The formal living room. 

The formal living room is at the left end of the house, which earlier I described as having a Hartley greenhouse structure attached to the end, outside wall. Also in the same area, there is a half bathroom that shares an adjoining wall with the living room that is accessed by the main hallway. This gave me an idea. 

At this point, Joe is persistent about us living in this house. He has a thousand reasons why we should. But one point is still a full stop. No ground level bedroom. We are not getting any younger and the thought of climbing stairs several times a day is not positive. The only way we could pull this off is to create a sleeping space downstairs. 

Back to the previous paragraph. My idea, forming into a solid plan, is to take the half bath, combined with the formal living room and make a primary bedroom suite.

Imagine walking down the grand hallway to a pair of double doors, which open into the formal living room. The first thing in the visual sight line is a beautiful marble surround fireplace. To each side, cased openings were cut into the exterior wall for access to the Hartely. This room mirrors the dining room on the opposite side of the house, with the built-in serving areas and cabinetry in place of the cased openings. Both rooms are twenty feet by thirty six feet in size. 

With this size, this should be easy. But it wasn’t. 

The size of the room is large but also limited with wall space. The front exterior wall of the house has a double door replacement, same as the dining room. The rear exterior wall has a replacement window, which is six foot wide and seventy two inches in length. 

The interior wall adjacent to the hallway has wall space on each side of the door which I have installed custom armoires for closets. The same armoire cabinet was installed in the corner area on the rear and end exterior walls. 

On the front exterior wall, six feet of wall area was used to create a small hallway and door area into the half bath to create a full size bathroom. 

This is possible due to the fact that the half bath is much larger than most and as is, could accommodate a tub/shower. After several days, several measuring trips and a few missed meals, I have a plan. 

The existing half bath, with door access to the hallway has been refigured into a wet room. To achieve this, the door in the hallway was closed to create the back wall of the shower/tub area. The freestanding soaker tub is positioned against the back wall. The shower area is fronting that area with a glass wall separating the vanity.

The area along the front wall was closed in to create a toilet room with a door. This area has a seventy two inch long four foot wide window, which can not be touched. The other half bath has the same size window, which I have installed plantation shutters in each for privacy. 

In the opposing outside corner on the front exterior wall with the end exterior wall, a complimentary cabinet area with the back corner, was installed and designed to be a wet bar. 

The floor tile and wall tile is the same tile as used in the other bathrooms. Problem solved, right? Not quite. 

Joe asks, “How will we use the Hartley? And where will the bed go?” Good questions. And I have an answer. 

Well, the bed will be in the Hartley, of course. After the old structure is removed and the new Hartley is assembled.

 

We are in the process of constructing the Hartley now. We have had really cold temperatures and some high winds the first weeks of 2024. Since the Hartley is constructed of metal framing and glass, it has taken longer than expected to complete. The floor is the last item, as it is a multi-part system of radiant heat and tile. 

A bedroom in a greenhouse? Yes. The glass in the roof system has been replaced with an insulated metal roof panel. The three sides not attached to the house have the iconic gable facades. Under said gables are double doors that are operational.

The new Hartley size increased from twenty by twenty-four feet to twenty-four feet square. The metal color I chose is the black. It is a large size and I wanted it to fade into the lawn and sit quietly against the house. It also matches the replacement windows and doors of the house.

More information on the Hartley is here https://hartley-botanic.com/ 

I have ordered motorized shades to be installed in the Hartley for privacy. The bed I ordered has a six foot high headboard. On the backside of the headboard I will put a double dresser and mirror I found and restored. The bed will have three drawer small cabinets on each side for convenience. 

I also have an enormous amount of houseplants that will likely be scattered around the outside walls. I plan to position the bed in the middle of the room. The latest items purchased for the Hartley are a pair of black and white zebra striped rugs. 

Since electrical wiring had already been run into the existing Hartley, we were able to rewire to provide outlets, lights and a ceiling fan. 

As an afterthought, I brought the brick mason back to determine if we could break through the outside wall of the chimney and make a double sided firebox. The answer was yes, and we did. 

The demolition of the old Hartley began after the first of 2024. From Thanksgiving 2023 to New Year’s Day 2024, we were hosts for four planned events and two last minute events. These events gave me the chance to show Joe how well the house would work for Inn guests. 

The first two events were for Moore Medical NC. The MDs and PAs were invited to come stay at Given’s house for the weekend. Our guests arrived Friday afternoon and stayed until Sunday afternoon. Joe was in his element with medical nerds, golf and beer. I shuttled the wives to spa appointments and shopping. The accommodations were a hit. 

The next event was a memorial/reception for my godfather, Sol Lohman. Unplanned, as death always is, it was a chance to showcase the renovations to members of the community. 

We also hosted an after-recital party for the dancers of Andy and Sarah’s dance studio. Santa Claus made an appearance and booked an event before he left for the north pole. 

We also had a few family events, including a sleepover Christmas night. With six kids producing twenty-one grands, we tested the capabilities of the house. Surprisingly, we were able to house everyone comfortably with the addition of a few air beds. We will be keeping those as they work really well.

I still have many small items to complete. The pottery I ordered for the house will be delivered this week. This will be used for dinners at the house. The owner left the kitchen and dining items including the existing tableware that we have used so far. 

The landscaping will begin as soon as we are out of frost danger. The tennis court was removed last fall as it was in dire shape. No plan to replace. And the smaller actual greenhouse has also been removed. 

A complete renovation of the carriage house and apartment will also happen in the spring. I have the windows and doors, which were ordered along with the house items. I am also floating the idea of a pool house type structure in the area of the old greenhouse. I haven’t decided if it is needed.

The decision to open the Inn or move into the house and make it our home is still in the air. Joe has admitted how well the house would work as an Inn. But he is still talking about it as “The New House”. We have people coming in for the US Open in June. It would be nice to use the Given’s house for those guests. 

Before I end this entirely too long article, I must explain the link at the beginning. As stated, John and Irene Given built this home. Irene was a proponent of and championed for lending libraries in all communities, which has morphed into our current local public library systems. A room in the Given’s house was used as a “family library”. Their daughter, Sarah Given Larson created the Given Memorial Library with an endowment in memory of her parents, John and Irene Given.

As the article stated, they are in need of more space for the Given Memorial Library and the Tufts Archives, since the village has taken over the operations of both. The Given Memorial Library has been in operation since 1964. 

Background on John and Irene Given. John was in advertising and worked for Henry J Heinz. Irene was the only daughter of Henry J Heinz. Yes, that Henry J Heinz.

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Obfuscation In Plain Sight https://studiohumanzee.com/2024/01/29/obfuscation-in-plain-sight/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=obfuscation-in-plain-sight https://studiohumanzee.com/2024/01/29/obfuscation-in-plain-sight/?noamp=mobile#respond Mon, 29 Jan 2024 17:54:56 +0000 https://www.studiohumanzee.com/?p=17611

We hear the promise of “transparency” so much it’s as though we are surrounded by leaders and systems that are perpetually truthful.  So why does it feel like we’re wrapped in a sound proof blanket, gasping for breath?  Why are we herded into new cathedrals with “Transparency” as the hymn? Warning:  There are concepts and images contain that should not be shown to children.

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By The Mighty Humanzee

There was a time when we gained strength from our communities.  And by communities I mean that in the traditional sense where we were physically present with people on a regular basis.  A town square with a summer community band, a church, a garage band.  Those groups where we grew up with friends, we fell in love, had our hearts broken, we learned from the gruff neighbor who always seemed impatient yet took the time to show you how to handle a maul and pike to better split wood.  Your friend’s dad who told you he’d whip you all if he caught you throwing crab apples from the neighbors front lawn ever again.  That’s what I mean by community.

Social media offered the promise of community in a different sense, and I remember bristling at that assertion when I first heard that.  I still held true to the traditional sense of community.  I might meet people online, but a community?  But soon we heard wondrous stories about how social media was becoming a new form of community where you could learn, you could express yourself, you could know far more people with a variety of experiences that would better enhance your life than those who surrounded you.  You could perhaps influence multitudes, and maybe exchange words with those figures considered to be experts.  Reach real people.  There was a seductive draw to that, and I will admit that I after I relented in 2015 and joined Twitter I felt that way too.  Social media took on the role of a church, many of us have poured a lot of our energy and attention into social media.  In addition to the premise of a new community, there was the natural extension of the reaching people to inform them, to build business networks as well.  You heard the phrase “you can extend your reach while you expand your horizons”.

The self congratulatory hyperbole of social media is a symptom of how we can deceive ourselves.  I include myself in that diagnosis.  I write this with a degree of frustration and a high degree of sadness, because conventional wisdom convinces us that social media is an amplifier, social media is the best way to build relationships, communities and a foundation to accomplish goals.  Social media fails at this when you retain your individuality and shun the “rules of the game”.  I’ll tell you how shortly.

First I will testify that I have met the best people on social media – I credit that not to social media but to the people who I have developed friendships with.  They’re great people.  And we have extended those relationships beyond the platform to activities that are not governed by technology nor the rules of the venue that we frequent.  That is also due to restrictive rules we see put in place over the years that support cancellation and censorship.  We hate the bullshit.  It’s wrong, and we all see how it has affected our families when COVID hit and how it affects the country.  Essentially we are throwbacks – while we are of varying ages, we want the era before the phones, the iPads when we would be out and about just living.  We share that passion of independence, adventure and outdoor life.  And I’ve been able to meet some of those I’ve met on social media as well, and have built lasting, meaningful friendships.

But social media is not the amplifier in the way people claim it is.  Or in its current form it functions differently that one would expect.  I’ve seen comrades join in and not receive the benefits that were promised as part of social media nirvana.  It’s not their ideas, it’s that social media disfavors their ideas.  And that’s because there are a few token representatives that the powers that be have deemed are “good enough” to represent the rest of us.  And I’ll tell you there are those I know who express themselves better than the anointed social media tokens.  Far better.  Yet even with a paid, verified account, those friends are still not the right types, they are lawful but awful and are kept in a box.  

The shame of it all is that there are ad from supposed verified accounts that sell erectile dysfunction pills with adult oriented content.  The screenshots are below.  It’s porn, and I could care less about the imagery.  What I am incensed about is that these appear to be verified accounts.  There are numerous variations of the account that have the same ad that appeared in my timeline every 4th or 5th tweet.  The account barely meets the requirements for a verified account – you are supposed to have an image of a person as the main profile pic.  

 

The link to the video is question is here:  https://twitter.com/SusanHarri21580/status/1740262932099768822

I state again:  I am not whining, I do not want you to subscribe or promote our efforts based on sympathy.  I am beyond grateful for all the dedicated people who enjoy what we do.  We couldn’t be more blessed.  

But when you are promoting an item for charity – it says so in the video and in the text of all the tweets – and you see how limited the range of the message is, it tells you a lot about the myths of social media.  I didn’t pay for account validation because I want to remain anonymous, as is my right guaranteed by the Constitution.  Read the Federalist papers, some written anonymously, and you’ll see that I follow a good example.  I also wouldn’t pay Elon a single penny after I see others severely limited by the content filtering.  It is suppression.  It’s subtle, and the token accounts who can speak are there to convince people that expression is done so freely.  But they prevent you from being seen.  Actively.

Again, we are promoting a charity.  And dick pills are splashed all over my timeline.  And the accounts appear to violate basic rules.  And if you recall, Elon claimed that the account verification with credit card would sort out the bot accounts.  Did it?  Miss Dick Pills tweeting the same ad as Mr Dick Pills is clearly coordinated, the timelines are sparse, they are not accounts for real people.

Yet my unverified account is, by design, limited because I don’t play by capricious rules that vary? 

A Challenge From Unexpected Sources

As a precinct delegate, I was faced with a challenge because the district I live in is deep blue, and therefore lists of houses for my party were not even mildly accurate.  For the primary, in order for me to win, I realized I would have to canvas homes.  That is, instead of targeting households that I knew were for my party and would welcome hearing from me, I had to hit entire blocks and hope I didn’t knock on doors where I wasn’t welcomed.  I covered 500 homes in 3 days, and earned 119 votes to garner the highest in the district.  That’s a 23% conversion rate.  I’m proud of that in a region where conservatives are not welcomed.  I am alarmed that the Oakland County Republican party was so disorganized to not have given me the proper list.  I inquired afterwards, and was told that there was a second list, qualified names and sorry, it was an oversight.  This hollow excuse also seems to correspond with the ballots that the Oakland County Republican party incorrectly printed and used for the county convention, mixing the names from different districts.  So I am not adverse to overcoming challenges, but I also expect that consistency should be more than a worthy goal for those who claim transparency is important.

Leg work, shaking hands, talking to people.  That’s a lot like what we do on Spaces – we talk to one another.  It’s not a top down broadcast, we talk.  On social media the rate that we have reached people for our charitable goal is far less than what I got walking from house to house dropping off a flier.  What I have seen is the antithesis of what I have been told about the power of social media.

I know writing this may make me sound ungrateful – I am not.  I cherish each person who has taken the time to view a podcast, read an article, and participate in Spaces.  There are many who I can’t wait to meet some day in person, because the times that we have truly engaged have been outstanding.  Those are the times when we talk about life – food, travel, holidays, regional and cultural differences and many things unrelated to politics.  Those times have been good for my soul at the end of a long week, believe me.  But I can’t remain silent about what I see.  I left my software career because I saw my talents being used to promote the COVID lies, and I couldn’t continue to let that lie remain unrevealed.  I have to ask people to consider the cost of what social media does compared to what it is supposed to offer.  I ask that of myself, because I don’t want to lose relationships.  But I see a culture that is being created that is not facing some basic truths.  I think that is unhealthy.

 

Lack of Reach Is More Transparent, Really?

You probably can predict what I am about to say at this point.  We are being trained to believe that transparency is truth.  We are being trained to garner aspirations from higher castes on a platform that practices the LEAST amount of transparency in it’s actions.  I have tweets with video that have been seen by only 33 people.  I have 2700 followers, that is slightly over 1%.  I see accounts who are verified flout the rules, I see verified accounts receive 6% or higher on their lower viewed tweets.  We all know of verified accounts who receive even “transparency” as they are promoted, consistently, and we wonder how they have achieved the upper echelon of likes give the shallow message they have launched into the Twitter-verse. 

 

Think of this:  Elon, the owner of this platform, has enough money to buy him all the access and attention in the world.  But in the name of transparency, very innocuous messages are throttled because my account does not merit the same level of service as a supposedly verified account that clearly does not participate in the rules, that is used for ads with a woman performing fellatio.  And we encourage people to come to this platform to accomplish what?  From a business perspective, and based on my campaign experience, the amplification effect has received so much transparency I can better promote a message by walking to 500 homes and leaving a piece of paper at the door.  It is a dismal failure in that respect.  Additionally, why would ever eat a meal at a restaurant when an appetizer has been disappointing after being served by a haughty waitress who barely conceals her disdain?

What Are We Losing?

I hope people can ask themselves these questions to help round out their views of what they are gaining and what they are losing.  And by losing, I mean the time you have poured into the smart phone that captivates your attention can keep you from your community, your home, and your family.  And have you gauged who you have reached and what that has actually accomplished?  I thought I would never win a campaign without social media, but I walked my ass off, and didn’t bother with an Instagram account until 3 days before the election.  I also saw losing battles with local zoning ordinances because people were fooled that they could win a battle online, and preferred to hold Zoom meetings instead of getting signatures on petitions. I saw my local city government conduct surveys online that “mysteriously” seemed to always prove the premise of the plans they wanted to enact.  Instead of getting bodies to city hall EN MASSE, people had the foolish idea of reaching out online to flood the survey with the “correct” answers.

We all have good goals – we talk about them on a weekly basis, but we have to ask if we are achieving those when we ignore what is front of us.  I say this out of kindness and love for those I know.  If we care about our online community as people, we have to ask that question as well.  When we don’t we cease being truthful.  Transparent or not, truth is the most important thing of all.

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The Militarized State of Washington https://studiohumanzee.com/2024/01/15/the-militarized-state-of-washington/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-militarized-state-of-washington https://studiohumanzee.com/2024/01/15/the-militarized-state-of-washington/?noamp=mobile#respond Mon, 15 Jan 2024 19:20:55 +0000 https://studiohumanzee.com/?p=17000
Joe Biden believes that Democracy Thrives under the guise of his Leadership- yet History paints his weak participation of his former investments as a purging of the American Dream.

 

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By Orange

Yet how can we as observers really not recognize this?

You notice I did not emphasize to draw the question to Americans? Because to assist such a semblance with the notion to call you an American, is radical, biased and under this administration, they’re doing the best they can to remove any kind of lip service to the idea of the word. American, or the dirty thought of being one in a Joe/Harris Administration doesn’t fall in line with the position of their Social Justice reform policy that they have worked so hard to enact. And by that, I mean, the Biden Administration:

To be honest, I am bothered by the fact that this presidency wants to insist and openly illustrate this very narrow image of me, the American. It’s conjoined with the idea that Government works in my favor, and we know that if there is anything more corrosive to the image of being an American, which is not how Joe Biden sees it and it is certainly not in favor of larger Government spending or higher consumer cost. Yet, this Administration is hell bent on raising the cost onto the consumer which has initially trapped fiscally responsible Americans. Those who have worked their whole lives and want to enjoy the years of that labor without Biden plugs.   Yet the policies that this administration has put forward time and time again places the comfort of tomorrow only onto those who cry daily over student loan debt, food security & a fair living wage. I mean, has anyone really profited off a campaign dream in America besides those 1% Billionaire’s? (Hey Bernie!!)

 And yet it all works together and is passed on- through the media each Election year and is defined to Americans as an “inherited crisis”. The imagery of that and how Covid pivoted that power play which has taken us to an even deeper place where a very serious toll will be felt economically. The steepest of Hijacked forms that continue to infect Americans onto a Monarchy of Villainism rooted in an illogical burden of psychotic spending, accommodated by a dark cloud of economic devastation, all wrapped in the name of “Saving the soul of America”. –

Talk about a construct!

 

But why call it the Militarized State? Because America on a worldwide platform has always been known and recognized for its ready attitude and strength to take on and partner when it came to the delivery of accountability. When people across the Globe are being harmed by truly heinous leaders, America is there to handle the impossible task. Not leaving them behind in Afghanistan?

Yet, Biden has clearly adorned himself with the idea that those who are our enemies, foreign and domestic, get a free ride to the enterprise of not only our authentic cultivated farmlands but also our well-known fresh waters. As I have once written in a prior article, America has served to many in the World as a Light to many and that is a Nation where the freedom of expression and religion exists.

How does that translate to Militarized?

I would have to ask you how well do you remember the inauguration of Joe?

The Field of Flags, what Rush Limbaugh called the “Chinese Olympics” is a photo of the National Mall being adorned in flags and what Media talking heads described as these flags representing those who couldn’t be there in person, but this was a demonstration of their choice for Joe.

As odd as it was to hear and see, the justified stance was all based on the continuation of the Coronavirus. While the virus was ripping through the Country, My Governor found a way to include her daughters to the event. It didn’t matter then when she insisted that the People of State Michigan needed to slow the spread and stay home and safe. And it seemed to not matter in the Last Election, nor does it matter today for some. Yet for me and a few others in the State, it should matter.

Yet, Democracy dies under Trump?

Recall during this time, the overactive participating losers called the media enacted a straight-line wind of consistent narratives to be consumed that Trump deserved to be Impeached. His time was up, and it was painted in the lines of Pennsylvania Avenue each day that Trump & treason go together like Peas and Carrots. And the latest mouthful those same loser paint according to the New York Times is the position that Military grade ammunition is being sold to civilians. I, the American, who thwart such active illustration on to the public and that ammunition needs to be removed from me because the possibility or even an attempt of more tragedies are possible because the Government believes I am not a responsible adult. But if a girl in the local community college wants to be a boy, kill a baby or maybe just burn down the local police department, its completely legal to Joe Biden and progressive AGs of Blue States. The only difference today, is that Trump is not in office. Yet the Media has been allowed to push any and every kind of suggestive fear campaign dating back from the war on Terror because those top tier, three Lettered Terror leaders know that the free civilian will stay chained onto the hypothetical and eliminate actual reality because of what they are constantly fed. 

Getting back to Bidens ideal inauguration, the Pentagon found time to investigate Trumps administration on possible ties to a plan which could pose a threat against the incoming President. Ironically, the Pentagon found nothing that insisted that Trump nor any of his working inside affiliates had any kind of plan to thwart onto the incoming Potus. Yet, Members of the US National Guard arrived on January 12, 2021, in Washington, DC. And who sent them? The Pentagon, they deployed as many as 15,000 National Guard troops to protect Biden’s inauguration on January 20th, amid fears of new* violence.

Isn’t that interesting?

“New”- like Covid, we seem too unaffected by this term that consistently resurfaces itself and it happens without enrolling. In fact, I think we are pork stuffed in this revolving door of information that should somehow pave a new idea, direction or employ a thought that’s never been asked prior. But what if I think that Joe Biden’s Idea of draping thousands upon thousands of flags on the grounds of the National Mall looked like the actual Insurrection? I mean, how else could Biden’s ideal stake holders say from around the globe that this was the real demonstration & proof of election interference?

And yet, how does that translate to the Democracy we are always hearing about?

I mean, if the modern media of today’s so-called experts can dig into any dumpster around America and insist it is a fact and onto the people and claim it is the largest scandal ever, which seeped under the door and into the Room, like -Russia… then yeah, I am calling Joe Biden’s Legacy the installed toilet catastrophe it is!  And the biggest loser is from the Joint Chiefs of Staff and his name begins with an M and ends with a Y…

Yet, within hours of that insurrection, Biden signed Executive Orders that initially dismantled the reality of America and her borders. In Biden’s own words,” I’m not making new law. I’m eliminating bad policy,” Biden said.

In fact, he pursued to enforce the position that he was reuniting Families:

Biden’s strategy is centered on the basic premise that our country is safe and stronger and more prosperous with a safe, orderly and humane immigration system that welcomes immigrants, keeps families together and allows people — both newly arrived immigrants and people who have lived here for generations — to more fully contribute to our country,”

– not trafficking children or pro-longing the War on Drugs? Yet, the statistics do not lie. In fact, the media has tried to insist that polls change on a daily basis just like your emotional fears but those do not matter. Even if illegals or cartel members are running thru the backyards of those living in Arizona or Texas today, it does not matter, says Joe!

Which that illustration reminds of the words of Abe Lincoln, words that are becoming more and more relevant today and that is America will fall not because she was the light to a dark world, but because poor investments and national security risks translates to nothing. Those who are power hungry mad men and have never been responsible for a damn thing in their lives unless it favored their personal ambition and greed are allowed to roam free today.

Even as the New Year of 2024 kicks off, Americans will collect themselves to run to the polls to vote for their conscience. Unless of course you’re living in a Blue State. If you live in a Blue State that tells me that you’ll be harassed weekly leading up to Election Day. Enlightened by the Local press daily who only push narratives that lie to you and climate change! 

Don’t Believe Me? 

I am currently reading about the National Defense Industrial Strategy from the DOD that was just released this last week. You should want to read this as well, but I just want to make a few Notations for my records because the future is looking bleak according to this. And those apart of this Joe Harris Administration are clearly outlining this as a generational goal set for the future. Which in turn is going to help me itemize the lists of who to vote for and who I should throw overboard like a sack of Tea.

Moving on:

Under the label of Priorities in this report is a section called,

Resilient Supply chains:

And this is where America is claimed to be, suggestively- according to their data collected. But remember, Joe keeps telling the Media to STOP Lying about the Economy, the Border and Rulings from the Supreme Court!

And the Goal is to enhance and somehow maintain where we are at. Much of what you find in this report is pretty alarming, yet- to a degree- it helps you recognize why we are doing nothing at the border, why they are seeking to fill more busses with illegals and most importantly what part of this Country they are checking for a pulse.

The information you read in this report seems to be directly compelled by analysis taken from a conflict that is overseas, in a land called:  Ukraine.

So, with the understanding that we are no longer working towards maintaining an economy for our own future instead we are being prepped to maintain a Global Initiative of deterrence and supplies, which forecasts sunny skies and rainbows for those who loath our history, despise Independence, reject education and skills and will be loyal to their own drum beating of how Justice will be served. Yup, it seems like a pretty pro-active strategy that the Biden Administration believes you deserve, America.

It’s not hard to openly see how all those years of Common Core in those General Education Rooms are working together like the college soiled institutions which are now the bidding grounds of the how the Government functions 101. 

That being said, I don’t need to convince you of Who or What policy or Canidate to vote for in 2024. This alone I hope can compel enough Americans to see and vote for truth not lies. And that should be on the Ballot in 2024, Facts should matter in America.

In closing, the DOD wants to know that you as an American, have their backs. They will rally for their ideals of the Common Defense. 

Will you give Consent? If not, they say-” The Consequences of inaction are far greater.”

 

 

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Michigan Leads The Way In New Green Deal, But At What Cost https://studiohumanzee.com/2023/08/16/michigan-leads-the-way-in-new-green-deal-but-at-what-cost/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=michigan-leads-the-way-in-new-green-deal-but-at-what-cost https://studiohumanzee.com/2023/08/16/michigan-leads-the-way-in-new-green-deal-but-at-what-cost/?noamp=mobile#respond Thu, 17 Aug 2023 00:45:17 +0000 https://www.studiohumanzee.com/?p=12778
The unspoken truths of clean energy are the important ones

Has any of our leaders uttered the word “rationing” when describing this new  clean energy utopia they are constructing for us?

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By The Mighty Humanzee
rationing
The promise of a brighter future has been a center piece of our political leaders’ discourse they use to convince the public that their tax dollars are well spent. Prosperity is measured by the number of public construction projects, and the private-public partnership alliances that bring new jobs to a region.

Lately the promise of reinventing our entire energy sector of our economy has been added to the yearly promises our leaders offer as justification to keep their jobs. 

Community planning and renewal is tied with clean energy. Dirty energy – what we have now – must be retired. To circumvent the rough and tumble markets picking winners and losers, government needs to champion new technology with large budgets in order to successfully “launch projects successfully” and avoid delays. What is not commonly known nor publicly acknowledged is that the New Green Deal will require rationing of energy, in large qualities. These new technologies cannot provide nor sustain the same levels of energy that we require today. While the new and shiny technology is attractive, this underlying secret is quietly forgotten.

Michigan is designated as a center of manufacturing in the Fourth Industrial Wave, and to date 2 billion dollars of state tax dollars have been spent to bring this dream to fruition, with leaders openly stating that this is just the start of a long process. The following transcript is from an interview I had with Jason Hayes of the Mackinac Center. Jason is the director of Energy and Environmental Policy, and is a subject matter expert on the economic impact energy policy has on manufacturing and commerce.

In this exchange we uncover the reality of what Net Zero energy means for the environment. Jason also discusses the short comings of the wind and solar energy, the key components to our future manufacturing economy. In short, when you understand the capacity and utilization of solar and wind, it will translate to deforestation. Yes, in order to provide energy on par with what current energy resources provide, we will need to cut trees. Lots of trees.

Jason Hayes / JH:

So at the same time, our big plan then is to build wind and solar, which can’t provide
reliable electricity because the wind does not blow 24/7 and the sun does not shine 24 7.And so you have a situation where, for example, solar panels in the state of Michigan in January and February, December through February in Michigan. Solar panels have a 6 to 7% capacity factor. And so people will scratch their head and go capacity factor. What does that mean? If you take what the solar panel is made to produce? So if it was producing at 100%it would produce some number divide into that number, the total amount that it does produce and you get capacity factor.

So in Michigan in December through February,solar panels are basically 94% unused. So by that I mean, if you were talking about it in time, that’s not actually time bound, but it would mean that 94% of the time they effectively sit unused. Now some people will go “hang on”. That’s not exactly. But it’s just to give you an idea, it’s 94% of the capacity goes unused. So we’re just spending money for no real purpose. Because the way that you then in
quotes, fix, the problem is you build lots more solar panels you can lots more uh,
transmission lines to connect them all together. Because the only way that you do that is you carpet over farm fields.

Or I’ve literally, I’ve listened in senate hearings in the Michigan legislature listened to elected officials say, well, we should just cut down our state forests in the up because there’s so much land up there and use that land to put in solar panels.Really? You’re like, hang on.

The Mighty Humanzee / TMH:

Well, the other thing too that people don’t take into account is the attenuation of running electricity through a line over long distances. … I write software, right.I’m not an engineer, but I mean, I know some of this, I mean, this is like, this is common sense. So essentially we’re gonna go do what they did in Scotland.

JH:

What’s that?

TMH:

It’s so, essentially they’re saying, “hey, let’s just, they want to imitate what they did in Scotland.” … they estimate they’re gonna cut down 16,
16 million trees in Scotland and Scotland doesn’t have that many trees.

The complete exchange is here:

So you heard that correctly: in order to fulfill current capacity we will need to remove components of nature that we were told were the mechanism needed to offset carbon dioxide emissions, we need to cut down trees. Do you recall that a few years ago how many corporations made public pledges to plant trees as “carbon offsets” to the impact of fossil fuels on the environment? Suddenly those are not a concern.

The link to the complete interview is found below, I think you will find it fascinating how calculating the impact of this disruptive approach to energy acquisition escapes so many. We see countless studies that exclude factors of capacity. utilization and environment impact, as well as ignoring other solutions that do not require such drastic measures.

One approach that Jason describes in the full interview is supplementing our current clean coal plants with carbon capture technology, thereby saving the state billions of dollars without risking our future on technology that, in many estimations, is not an efficient substitute based on our current needs. The question that is not asked is why we are shutting down the potential backup energy systems while we build the riskier wind and solar? Clearly with variable source energy we need a secondary system ready to go in order to maintain current levels when solar and wind are unavailable. Or should we consider that the quest to shut down coal, natural gas and nuclear energy really indicates that there will be no alternative capacity, and we will consigned to a very different, impoverished society?

In our documentary Rationed State, we traced the roots of the Canadian health care system known as Community Care. The progenitor of the Community of Care is Daniel Callahan, and his central thesis was that in order to manage a society’s health as a system under population pressure, rationing was to be expected. In a sense, this is a Malthusian approach: growing population exceeds current resources so various constraints must be instilled to provide for all. This is the big secret that the clean energy proponents will never speak aloud, it is the uncomfortable truth that our leaders will never acknowledge. Yet the World Economic Forum speaks quite candidly that in the future, car ownership will be reduced 75%, as reported by the Mackinac Center and by the WEF itself.

Has that ever been uttered by our leaders or by the media?

You can find the complete interview here:

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It’s Not Science, Its DATA! https://studiohumanzee.com/2023/08/08/its-not-science-its-data/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=its-not-science-its-data https://studiohumanzee.com/2023/08/08/its-not-science-its-data/?noamp=mobile#respond Tue, 08 Aug 2023 13:50:05 +0000 https://studiohumanzee.com/?p=12453
Data driven polls, Data driven survey’s, Data Driven Health, Data driven Experts.

 

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By Orange

It is all imposed onto you with the impression of helping the way we think about each other, our communities, ourselves and most importantly, our future. The Ai, ChatGPT, polling, surveys, clicks, likes and the list goes on, all generated to develop an Image of you. Your Interest, Dislikes and Responses are all captured to help create a world that you do not really know. And the longer we remain on the Social Media Hemisphere, the more you become detached from the reality you are alive in.

Now- I need you to re-read a sentence back to yourself again that you breezed with ease through. “Your interest, dislikes and responses are all captured to help create a World that YOU do not really know”. How is that possible? Allow me to remind you, who pushed the argument 4 years ago of normality. Why did the media project this idea, which is the world you live in? It was never the media’s reality, yet we allowed Fauci, an appointed Loser, to answer that question. Meanwhile, we all took the time to appoint ourselves as well to openly oppose Congress, Governors, and Health Experts.  So, if this data is being collected to create an image of myself, certainly I would think that I would be able to recognize myself in the world that I am creating. Right?

Wrong, because what you hear out of the suggested Experts every day is the opposite of what you spent life living, understanding, and learning to know. How is it that the very Government which is supposed to benefit me in terms of protection, speech and privacy in the community, the state, and the Nation I live in just decided one day to forfeit me? Americans want to know; how does this happen?

In a Jam session from Twitter- Zee brough to the table an informational piece from Sub stack titled: Kids who get Smartphones become adults with worse Mental Health. While the article presents a compelling argument geared toward parents who are actively choosing to hold off on Smart phone usage- the other side of the coin encourages parents, who allow online connection to actively join in on the Global survey initiative of reporting to a website called Sapiens Labs.com.

The Global Mind Project is what it is called, and the basis of their objective is to reach and collect data from everyday people in different geographical locations from the Global Pandemic and how it has affected them.  The global mind project allows you to test yourself and spits back a comprehensive assessment of your personal Mental Health. This is a worldwide outreach and you’re probably thinking the same thing I am. Well, maybe not but my first question besides Why- was, who is really collecting this data? Nothing to be alarmed at all about this, I mean, it’s all in the name of Health and Safety, right?

And I will admit- the more I read over this just to refresh the points, it allows me a minute or two to realize how immediately we are led to think that there should be this cure to ourselves from the vices we suffer from, or our children may as well possibly exhibit in the future. The more I think about this as a mother and as an individual, it is alarming. I cannot help myself but to tease the idea that our own government could quite possibly want this data or other Political figures around the globe. It makes you really question the purpose of surveys. And the possibility of it having enough data to track and project the idea of helping us manage our lives prior to any possible decision we make for ourselves. And because it has been invitational to a degree, more so now than prior to Covid, people around the world act willfully to it by Checking themselves into the Data Empire.

 Just to give you an idea, I want to show the results of data collected in 2009. Here you can see just how popular the Internet was. From everyday Americans all over the Nation, from Rural to Urban regardless of your race and age. Clearly the internet wasn’t as popular in 2009 as it is for the newest kids on the block. Who are investing all their time and efforts.

So, we can undoubtedly say that in 2023, the adoption of the internet has grown immensely. Infact the most recent data from Data Report suggest that:

  • There were 311.3 million internet users in the United States of America at the start of 2023, when internet penetration stood at 91.8 percent.

Now consider that on a global scale. And so, you see, the Global Mind Project does understand why there is a need for Mental Health and its importance. Precisely when it came to Quarantine during covid and how the Internet played a very important role for the generation coming up into Society because they were led to keep family safe by staying home and jumping online. It’s just so ironic that the capability was there in terms of handling the influx of users when it was needed the most and per usual, we accept and never question.

Now, remember when I asked, Why and Who?

The initial question of Who is important because when I was introduced to this sub–Stack Quest of New information, I wanted to know who was collecting data. Now, I realize that everything in 2023 collects data. No matter where you are- you’re being monitored, online. But in 2009?

Remember, people in general during 2009 were apprehensive about their interest in terms of the world Wide Web. Some people cared and others didn’t and yes, advancement in terms of access and affordability was the deciding factor for many considering the added expense. So of course, people went without.

So, because I needed to know Who, of course I started digging what was going on in 2009 to bring such added interest to expand the reach of the internet. Of Course, there is a report called “Exploring the Digital Nation: Home Broadband internet adoption in the United States. Published in 2010, yet the internal workings began in 2009 from a swath of places. Some of those areas covered information that was pulled from the US Department of Commerce, National Telecommunications & Information Administration and of course the Economics & Statistics Administration. In fact, the graph that I showed the results to you of people responding to the internet back in 2009, was from this very report.

For instance, in the report, the DOJ is listed as a reference with the information which was pulled from Americans with Disabilities Act. Now I don’t think it’s off the wall that these Government agencies are collecting data to form reports, in fact I would expect that in 2023, but 2009? Many times, these reports are then used to help enable a seasoned politician wanting to “make a deal” with the other side of the table- for self-seeking & national face of purpose. We witness this every Election year.

Yet what I’m not sure of, is if people in general found ADA as informational as I do. Let alone as alarming as well. And my point is that to most of the data collected for ADA insisted to initially profile Americans across the USA in 2009 and 2010. And most of this implementation all happened in the name of more Security less Liberty because the Bush Administration chose to create endless possibilities and loopholes embedded through fear instead of strength. (Sound familiar?) In fact, in 2008, George Bush JR. granted Congress the ability to ensure that the term disability was broad reform because SCOTUS was branded as being Strict and Unfair.  One interesting piece to this is that we, as Americans never investigate individually, how many times the Federal Government has been sued for showing themselves as the real bigot in the room. Today we are learning in real time that the government has had more than enough time to learn and apply the short coming of their painful past in the settlement process of lawsuits. Rarely do we tend to conclude that this may be a direct result of why we are seeing such a process today. From the top of the Fed all the way to the small rural Statesmen from the towns that we call home.  

 When we sit back and think about 9/11 and the amount of alarming legislation which was shoved through Congress, we still believe that it wasn’t really that terrible. Certainly not as bad as Brandon today- but when you have three departments within the government reporting on exploring implementation of the Internet, something should send up a red flag. I know, the Patriot Act and yadda Yadda.. but that’s for another time and place, folks.  Getting back to the Red Flag, I do however believe, that if we are going to insist that Mental Health is an issue, it needs to be addressed and not disguised. And today, those who need it the most are literally walking disguises claiming to be Free and Proud.

 And little have we realized the full-blown implications of all of this planned Interconnectivity from the same Government on society as a whole in America, today. Rarely do we see how Policy advancement has been used to dilute freethought and movement of everyday people. And that somehow, we’ve been impressed to believe that Politics is the way to curing Society. Politicians for years have been allowed to create agendas for a future investment or enslavement. The American Disabilities Act created a fluffy pillow to accommodate a lot of the language written by Executives from these departments to influence Policy change that dominates small communities throughout your State. And if you don’t believe me- listen, look at your community today. Can you say it is honestly thriving? 

Severed Conscience is the direct result of curiosity gone wild on cell phone adaptation and the platform galore we choose compared to our everyday life. It has left us needing more and it’s all based on Clicks, likes and shares. The small and direct look into the bubble of Severed Conscience hands the listener an opportunity to recognize from demonstration and simplified points of just how this weave of online community and culture really does approach you with the idea of not just conformity but never checking out.

So, we have to ask ourselves the real question- Can you unplug from convenience? 

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Title Theft https://studiohumanzee.com/2023/07/31/title-theft/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=title-theft https://studiohumanzee.com/2023/07/31/title-theft/?noamp=mobile#respond Mon, 31 Jul 2023 21:43:16 +0000 https://www.studiohumanzee.com/?p=12320
Your Vital Documents Are Online

In today’s time, so many of our trusted government offices have put our information online. This was happening before Covid hit us.

By Grammy Pam / @Grammypam64Gill
In today’s time, so many of our trusted government offices have put our information online. This was happening before covid hit us. It started in 1990 in NC, when the state government started putting court records and real estate records online.
 
Several factors were in play. Storage of old files and records was the number one reason why the digital push happened.

Attorneys and other state offices wanted an easier option to obtain information than spending hours traveling to and from other offices. This filtered down stream to other related industries such as real estate firms, survey/engineering firms, and people wanting to search tax records. 

Because of this conversion of records online, there has popped up a developing industry of using online records to manipulate titles on real estate. 

By finding properties that are owned by individuals, scammers can download a Deed, recreate said Deed and transfer the property to another name or company. When this happens, the new “owner” can then sell or mortgage the property. 

Usually with a real estate sale, there will be a Deed and if a loan is needed for the purchase, a Mortgage Deed or Deed of Trust, depending on your state. These items are recorded in order, within minutes. It may take days, weeks or even a month for the information to reach the tax department. Usually this is when the first indication of a title theft has happened. 

With the new documents recorded, the “new loans” will be effective. It will take 3-4 months of no payments for a mortgage foreclosure department to begin the process. Notice will be served on the property with posting of the foreclosure documents by the local sheriff or court service. This may be your first encounter of the theft of your property. 

If you are interested in checking your home title but don’t know where to start, I’m going to help you. 

It is an easy task if you understand the process. I will show you an example using my home county of Moore. 

After reading this guide and you still have questions, please let me know. 

Start by knowing your recording office. In NC our titles are recorded by county. The Register of Deeds is in charge of all titles, mortgages, birth and death records. In your reporting county (?), this office may have a different name. Some states use the Clerk of Court as the official recorder of all info. 

This is the website for Moore County

Here is where we will choose Real Estate.

And then we will choose Grantor. The Grantor is the seller in a real estate transaction.


Now enter the last name, first name of the owner of the property and click search.

Here we see the last few years of transactions by the Grantor. The instrument we are looking for is a Deed. We see a Deed here where Robert Blandford has conveyed a property. We can see the name of the Grantee, which in this case is Robert Blandford and two others. I know this person and the other Grantors are his daughters. Click view and we will see the Deed.

At this point we can see each page of the Deed. If we click page 3 of 3, we will see the signature and notary information.

At this point you can see if the signature matches and the Notary that certified the signature. 

If this was your Deed, as a Grantor, you should see your signature. If a Deed has been fraudulently created and filed, you will need a copy of this for your attorney. 

In states that use title companies instead of attorneys to close property transactions, you could contact that company, which should be shown on the top of the first page of the Deed. I would suggest you contact your personal attorney and let their office contact the title company. The title company will not represent you in this transaction. Your personal attorney is the only outlet you will have to fight this. 

If you are not confident in this process, contact me and I will find your recorder’s office and set up a link for you to use. 

I check my property weekly. This takes me a few minutes to do even with links. By contacting a title company or an outside company who will protect your title, they will only help you if your

property has not been stolen. I’m not sure of the monthly cost to do this but it is a simple thing for you to do to protect yourself and your property.

 

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Hello Caller, AI Is Listening https://studiohumanzee.com/2023/07/25/hello-caller-ai-is-listening/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=hello-caller-ai-is-listening https://studiohumanzee.com/2023/07/25/hello-caller-ai-is-listening/?noamp=mobile#respond Tue, 25 Jul 2023 17:55:47 +0000 https://www.studiohumanzee.com/?p=9665
Is AI Freeing Us or Trapping Us

Part of our series Severed Conscience examines the use of AI to monitor our sentiments, as well as entrain responses into our psyche.

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By The Mighty Humanzee
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Technology, while a great equalizer and an enabler, can mask issues that we avoid addressing by reducing pain and effort.  The same technology that got us through COVID is causing us to avoid issues of erosion of relationships, to ignore skyrocketing cases of depression and suicide in children.
Hello Caller, AI Is Listening

There are many common sense considerations that are lost in the hype of AI as the savior of all things.  Some of this is due to numerous terms that are used interchangeably which foster confusion, and as with much of the tech world, there are many proponents who are under the impression that if they can repeat a phrase somewhat correctly and in context, they actually understand the technology and its impact.  We are going to see two terms, AI and Natural Language Processing  and for our discussion they will mean the same thing.  While AI is the overall term for computer analysis and decision making in the place of a human, the ability to understand written text and then responding with phrases that match the context and meaning of a conversation is Natural Language Processing (NLP).  This is a vastly different technology than face recognition, also a form of AI.  For our focus here AI and NLP mean the same thing, and we’ll use AI for simplicity’s sake..  For further details, you can reference this article The Difference Between Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning

By chatting with an AI app on your phone, you will be guided out of your rough waters.  The AI capabilities have advanced to a point where the responses have become eerily human, and in fact AI has been “clever” enough to fool a support center into creating an account.  In the mental health community there are proponents who advocate using AI to perform preliminary diagnosis when patient load is too high for mental health professionals.  This raises serious ethical issues, even if the process is monitored for quality much like any call center.  With people suffering with mental health issues and reaching for help, any mistake carried out by AI with the efficiency of computers can be catastrophic.  Among those considerations is what of the patient’s emotional response to AI, even if they are aware?  Efficiency is an important factor for the professional caregiver, but of the patient’s needs? What is the perception of that patient who feels the need for human contact, but the path they are put on doesn’t warrant interacting with a person to diagnose their needs to begin with?

Many studies are cited by proponents of AI’s use for mental health apps.  In particular the study Bonding With Bot: User Feedback on a Chatbot for Social Isolation measured how users felt when chatting with AI about their mental states.  The measure, called Net promotion, is borrowed from marketing.  While it sounds “sciency”, in the end the measure is merely the short term gratification factor “did the person feel “good” about using the app?”  The prognosis of the study:  because a majority of those surveyed felt good after interacting with the AI chatbot, use of the app must be good for them.

For example, a 2021 study of about 800 people experiencing self-reported social isolation and loneliness had them interact via text messages with a chatbot. The study found most users reported they were satisfied and would recommend the chatbot to a friend or colleague.

This is staggering.  A child feels good because they climb a tree 20 feet above the ground, or a drug addict feels good when they get a hit.  These are short term feelings, but do not chart a course relative to objective long term goals.  Setting the criteria for success as to whether the subject felt good about that interaction is short sighted.  What if these interactions alleviated someone’s tension temporarily, but a few hours later they hit their depression once again?  And what if using the chat app again sufficiently satisfied the user’s short term anxiety yet created habitual use of the app to the extent that they interacted less with people?  The study overwhelmingly states that those surveyed thought the interaction with AI chat was a good experience.

Isolation could be strongly reinforced by not disengaging from technology.  Embracing it further because short term fixes for fear, anxiety, boredom, and insecurities are more readily available than conversing with someone on social media, let alone seeking interpersonal contact, can lead to overuse.  Numerous studies relating to the effect of blue light from mobile and laptop devices on sleep cycles indicate that time in front of screens is not healthy.  Reduction in cognitive function and concentration, memory loss, and irritability are conditions that contribute to depression.  A cycle of hitting highs and lows due to dopamine responses to a cheerful conversation, a funny joke or a new piece of interesting information clearly forms a pattern of addiction. 

Hello Caller, AI Is Judging

The big question is, how can AI deliver the types of results that are reflected in the studies?  One thing that is irrefutable is that AI is amazingly good at identifying patterns in large volumes of data.  Many times these patterns will coincide with diagnosis that a human medical or clinician performs.  AI is also good at identifying patterns that humans may miss in large volumes of datasets, and AI is capable of performing this at speeds higher than humans are capable of.

To respond in a responsive, human-like fashion AI must be able to determine the context of a conversation, and the source of those judgments are ultimately supplied by humans.  Finding patterns is one thing for diagnosing cancer cells based on markers found in blood samples, but determining the mental state of an individual and whether that is loneliness or depression is something else.  Yet mental health apps have been developed to deliver short term remedies for anxiety, such as guided breathing exercises.  Is that what is needed, or should someone learn to not hyperventilate after they receive push-back in a planning meeting?  This is a judgment call, you can argue that one approach is soothing, the other is harmful because it callously ignores the immediate needs of someone in a panic attack.  Who makes that call to place the advice into the AI’s vocabulary when guiding someone?

As you learn more about AI, you will often hear phrases like:”AI learns” or “AI is trained”.   This means an AI application is fed data at higher volumes and changes may be introduced when incorrect conclusions are formulated by the AI program.

One company claims to have had 500 million conversations with over 5 million people in 95 countries.  Wysa https://www.wysa.com/ is a partner with the World Economic Forum and recipient of the FDA Breakthrough Device Designation for AI-led Mental Health.

Wysa conducted a study with the data accumulated from AI conversations

Wysa has held over half a billion AI chat conversations with more than five million people about their mental health across 95 countries. The worrying trend we saw in employee mental health led us to conduct in-depth studies of employees in USA and UK, as well as Wysa’s user base, to understand why current models aren’t working.

This report documents one of the largest observational studies of its kind globally, and examines the data from over 150,000 conversations that 11,300 employees across 60 countries had with Wysa.

There is a bias here, and it is this:  Ai has found an issue, and the answer is more AI.  There is depression among workers, and in order to save money, save businesses, AI assisted conversations are needed.  

Where is the root cause analysis?  Is this an AI band aid for the isolation, loneliness created by ordering people to remain in their homes during COVID, or the stress of an economy so hobbled by pandemic restrictions that people fear for family members losing their jobs?  It doesn’t matter.  

What about the additional screen time spent due to using Zoom for communication where you once would meet face to face?  What about not actually seeing people?  It doesn’t matter, the AI will read your responses and you’ll be encouraged to be mindful, to think happy thoughts, practice some Zen principles instead of seeking counsel from someone who can pinpoint that you are right to be worried as society has shut down.  While your interactions may remain anonymous, they will be captured centrally, studied and recommendations will be made to your managers.  What if you are in a small department of 7 people, and now your manager can determine that you have the problem with depression?  It could be fairly easy with your team being so small.

Now consider that you have been flagged for depression, and this information needs to be supplied, by law, to authorities to make sure you are not an immediate threat to neighbors.  What would that criteria be, and would you be given due process?  What if AI is used because there are not enough professionals to assess your mental state but in order to be safe, your activities are now restricted?

Finally, should your employer or government be making suggestions on how you deal with your anguish, fear, love and joy?  Does this type of tracking and attempts at behavior modification allow you to remain in control of the equation that ultimately judges your worth as an individual?  

What if your values are determined to no longer match what society requires, will the AI be your friend then?

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The Hidden Hand of The Tavistock Institute https://studiohumanzee.com/2023/07/19/the-hidden-hand-of-the-tavistock-institute/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-hidden-hand-of-the-tavistock-institute https://studiohumanzee.com/2023/07/19/the-hidden-hand-of-the-tavistock-institute/?noamp=mobile#respond Wed, 19 Jul 2023 14:22:44 +0000 https://www.studiohumanzee.com/?p=11457
Our Children Lives Secret Lives Online. What Are They Really Connected To?

This article is part of our Severed Conscience series, and is based on the research by Orangezipple1 and Kelly Trowhill LLMFT, MAFPc.

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By The Mighty Humanzee
Contributors: OrangeZipple1 and Kelly Trowhill

There are guiding hands in our society that have remained on the periphery of public scrutiny, yet have been integral to shaping policy and have had access to public data for decades.  Their names are not familiar, yet they have been working as influencers and illuminaries for the sciences and human behavior and have created policy for decades. 

The Tavistock Institute and its subsidiaries have been prevalent in the mental and social sciences since the 1920s, and have been at the forefront of research for the National Health Service since the 1940s. Recently events regarding transgender reassignment sponsored by medical clinics have brought public attention to their legacy and their current influence on health policy. They have had influence world wide.

The Tavistock Institute has had large role in influencing society, and this article will detail the profiling practices of psychodynamics originating at Tavistock that are used in policy today and how it’s influencing social media to our detriment. We will also examine the abuse Tavistock perpetrated by clinicians who active recruited transgender candidates. The practice of recommending gender reassignment in the majority of cases resulted in lawsuits and the eventual shuttering of the clinic. Finally we will examine how social media resulting in isolation lead to putting vulnerable minors at risk from this clinic, essentially delivering patients to the clinic doors by recommendations online.

In our documentary Severed Conscience, we posit that a mental condition arises from social media use which causes depression, mental confusion and suicidal thoughts.  The blue screen technology impacts sleep and production of hormones  like ghrelin, serotonin, melatonin, and adrenaline as a result of over stimulation of the optic nerves at the wrong period during sleep cycles.  The dopamine overproduction occurs with the continuous change in content, delightful play of colors and images, while leaving the sufferer at risk for outside influence.  Our brains receive a reward from this stimulation similar to drug use.  This process rewards the brain as it allows the brain to distract itself during moments of discomfort and lulls in attention.  The “portal” to the brain is opened leaving us susceptible to suggestion.  Isolation is a common result, and a false sense of connection to an online community can result in further detrimental health behaviors and prohibit attachments in real life.  Children are the most vulnerable as laptops and smartphones have become substitutes for interaction.  

The study of group behavior, based on the years of research conducted by the Tavistock institute from the 1920s to the 1950s, is integral to creating an environment that entices and delights.  The creators of Facebook and Twitter have long admitted that they understood the psychology of what their software was doing.  But the Big Tech elite are not the first to try to take advantage of human vulnerabilities and try to shape behavior.

History of Tavistock

Tavistock was formed in 1920 as a response to wartime trauma.  Soldiers suffering from PTSD were subject to study in hopes to find treatments.  Behavioral studies resulted in discovery of various mechanisms to cure trauma.  

As a result of psychological lessons learned during World War I, the Tavistock Clinic was founded in London in 1920. Originally known as the Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology, the clinic was established as “one of the first out-patient clinics in Great Britain to provide systematic major psycho-therapy on the basis of concepts inspired by psychoanalytic theory

https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid=rep1&type=pdf&doi=a2d73b42a277421904841312dc36c6c433f3c349

For decades Tavistock has had the goal of influence in group dynamics.

“the two main thrusts of the emergent strategy are to enlarge the nucleus of staff competent to work with the ‘system psychodynamics’ perspective and to take roles in the educational activities of the Programme and, during 1993–94, to extend the range of these activities to include events specifically designed for industrial, commercial and other sectors and not confined to the experiential method” (1992/93 Review, 1993, p. 42).

At the onset, Tavistock has had lofty goals, many that sound as though the transformation of everyday life is at the center of their mission.  Indeed, clinicians at the Tavistock Institute have the practice of creating a positive feedback loop while collecting observations through the application of their theories.  The article THE TAVISTOCK PROGRAMME: THE GOVERNMENT OF SUBJECTIVITY AND SOCIAL LIFE  relays the evolution of the Tavistock Institute from the 1920s through the late 1970s.  The goal of is to create new ways of thinking regarding group dynamics, which do not focus solely on describing current conditions, but focus more fully on what could be created.  In many instances conditions for this new way of thinking resulted from crisis.  That was the area of interest that could produce insight to new possibilities.

Early on, the Tavistock Institute was able to gain access to public and private life by involvement with British defense departments, juvenile courts, and eventually in the private sector with vocational behavior, then finally the interplay between management and labor forces.  While new theories of behavior emerged, mental health was a primary focus.

Eventually a concept of group relation was theorized, and that the individual was the sum of social interactions.  Since this was the case, individual characteristics become a secondary focus.  Social groups are considered to be systems that can be adjusted, manipulated or influenced, and the emotional effect is far stronger within the individual members of the group.

As with many institutions that work with government mission creep is always a risk.  In postwar Britain in the 1940s, government officials recognized the value of group dynamics and the theories that Tavistock had formulated, and it was at this time that Tavistock was incorporated into the National Health Service.  Tavistock’s theories had then evolved to support the mission that since government could influence group behavior in industry and large institutions like the military, government was ultimately responsible for the welfare of all citizens.  Since the individual was really governed by group dynamics, when you control and influence a well defined profile of a group of people, by extension providing the individual the environment to thrive.

In other words, a soft collectivism under the guiding hand of the government became the worthy goal.  Treat the groups, the individual is somehow served.

But Tavistock soon developed another understanding, and surprise of surprises, government alone was not up the task of tending the flock.  And you guessed it, technocrats from the medical profession, behaviorists with experience in industry and labor, and scientists from behavioral and mental health sciences were needed to carry out the mission.  And of course the NHS with Tavistock would at the helm given their position of access to personal data.

So private interactions from labor unions and manufacturing were gathered and detailed.  The private life was an integral feedback element to ensure the dynamics off the group were on course.  Interestingly enough, industrial accidents were no longer blamed on the individual and poor training, but on some element awry in the group interactions.  Leadership was no longer a personal trait that someone demonstrated or possessed but the interplay of a series of complex group relations and interactions.   The economics interactions fell under the technocrats purvey, and therefore all of society became their responsibility.  

“Social psychiatry appeared to provide the basis of a policy science with practical solutions.” 

Tavistock Today

The National Health Service and Tavistock institute have come under scrutiny.  The idea of studying group dynamics had evolved to something more sinister:  transgender reassignment therapy.  Social influence specifically from groups whose goals are to “nudge” people toward specifics ends is achieved through social media content designed to steer decisions and shape ideologies.  An evolving framework of control that also actively recruits new members and then funnels them to experts.

Matt Rey, a patient who transitioned back to his biological sex, has now entered into a lawsuit against the National Health Service and the Tavistock Institute, claiming the therapist at the clinic conduct unsafe, predatory practices.

As a confused and isolated teenager, Rey looked to the internet for answers. FTM individuals who shared glamorous stories about transitioning convinced Rey that a new identity was the solution to happiness.

Turning to the gender identity clinic at the Tavistock Institute in the UK, Rey was surprised to learn that access to “gender-affirming care” was so easy—one visit with a primary doctor, two consultations at the gender identity clinic, then bloodwork—were all it took to begin the transitioning process.

Rey’s bloodwork indicated high levels of testosterone. “One of the doctors said I was ‘intersex’ because of this, but that is not how you diagnose that,” said Rey. “I probably had PCOS, which was not diagnosed at the time. I didn’t even question it, because when you go to a doctor, you expect to be told the truth. When they told me that I was intersex, it made me want to transition, because it made sense as to why I experienced all this confusion all my life.”

https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/hidden-side-gender-affirming-care-driving-transgender-mental-health-problems-and-suicide

Other victims have been coaxed into attending clinics, and the recruiting process began online.  A isolated child who has not under careful supervision from an adult can succumb to peer pressure and depression based on their over use of social media.  Layla Jane was approached when she was 11.  Her transition process began two years later.

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In our documentary Severed Conscience, we posit that a mental condition arises from social media use which causes depression, mental confusion and suicidal thoughts.  The blue screen technology excites the dopamine cycle resulting in addiction, while leaving the sufferer at risk for outside influence.  Isolation is common, and a false sense of connection to an online community can result in further detrimental health behaviors and prohibit attachments in real life.  Children are the most vulnerable as laptops and smartphones have become substitutes for interaction.  

The study of group behavior, based on the years of research conducted by the Tavistock institute from the 1920s to the 1950s, is integral to creating an environment that entices and delights.  The creators of Facebook and Twitter have long admitted that they understood the psychology of what their software was doing.  But the Big Tech elite are not the first to try to take advantage of human vulnerabilities and try to shape behavior.

Is Severed Conscience at Work

As stated earlier, Severed Conscience results from social media profiling a person and with AI, then funneling information that is curated for specific profiles.  This is the same concept as psychodynamics providing behavioral recommendations based on the study of group interactions.  The difference is that technology allows this to be conducted on a planetary scale.  These profiles have not been kept private, as we have seen in the Twitter Files and lawsuits from Dr Shiva that demonstrated specific individuals were studied.  We are all studied – the platforms tell us this, and we naively assume that our data is not supplied to those like the Tavistock Institute.  Technocrats who have the goal to improve the efficiency of the workplace or who feel that gender reassignment is not the decision of parents fathers from a matrix of characteristics gathered and calculated now have the tools to irrevocably change or even destroy lives.  Behavioral data helped build the social platforms, and the condition of Severed Conscience keeps people engaged, enticed, and sometimes delivers them into the hands of those who feel entitled to transform them.

Why do we let them continue to poach?  Trends in the Millennial generation indicate that they want to be lead and are embracing collectivism at higher rates than previous generations.  Centralized watering and feeding troughs are easier to manage and influence.

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