It’s the last days of Pompeii. The ground is trembling! The mountain is smoking and rumbling but no one is paying any attention to it. It won’t mean anything. It’s just smoke and noise… until it explodes. The year is not 1952. The population is not overwhelmingly White males. White females do not quietly sit at home for their “Man” to return and tell them what to do, who to vote for and what to think. Minorities are no longer practicing some pre MLK “Civil Elegance” where they know their “Place”. The world is changing. American white will become a minority in the next 20 years. The present millennium generation is more likely to vote liberal and progressive then they are to be republicans or religious conservatives. People are on the march and on the move. And while it may not seem like much the storm clouds are building for a very rocky future. The white males who overwhelmingly hold the reins of power in the GOP are finding their path to power getting narrower. Pennsylvanian and soon Supreme Court of the United States are going to rule on Gerrymandering. And then the votes will be counted properly across the voting public. Suddenly, you won’t have any safe seats for anyone but have to win the election each and every time. Mass movements will not be restricted to the right wing but any wing. With the millenniums coming to vote, minorities and increasing liberal views on social policies ingrained in the population, the era of the white republican man, is about to go extinct due to “Climate Change.” 2018 may be the most pivotal year in voting history as more and more people are getting pissed off and voting. An engaged democracy? Something near unheard off thus far in the USA? The complacent Republicans may see their bastions of power removed or shrunk to mere nothing.
What does it look like when the GOP lead by Trump has to court those Rapists from Mexico? Those Muslim Terrorists and all those undesirables that he openly hates from his podium? I don’t think that will go over well with the average Fox News watcher? Yes things look bad now. It’s the last high water mark for them. Starting soon the tide reseeds, the flood withdraws and sanity will be restored. Too bad for the memories of those who remain? The next populist who runs for office with such a racist ideology will swiftly be cast aside. Even the Trump base is held together by one man and that is trump. David Duke could not hold the Trump coalition together with tape if he tried. In the end, GOP politicians will have to court those they hate. Just like it was a mistake to have Michael Steele as their chairman, so they say, because… gasp he was black. Like they could not see that before they elected him? But he attacked Trump! How dare he? Of the female conservative columnist at CPAC? Mona Charen had to be escorted out by security because she dared to offer an opinion that Donald J Trump is not above the room, and not above answering for his raping women or attempting to do so. Women and minorities who happen to be conservative are seeing the writing on the wall. They are not welcome. Kids are seeing the target on their back painted by gun policies. All of them have one thing in common. They can vote. They will vote and they will shake the world with their righteous anger at the people sitting in Washington who ignore them, patronize them and belittle their views as unsophisticated and uninformed. Woe be it upon the incumbent. This election will see many tossed to the wolves as the people, the real power in a democracy will lash out in ballot to take back the country from those who think they are entitled to their office by virtue of support their donators.

The night is dark and the dawn so far away but each morning, there be a sun to rise and chase the shadows away. The dawn will come as surely as there is a night to sleep in. The alarm clock will ring and the day will begin anew. Worry not for we the people are slow to anger but overwhelming in our march when we take back the spotlight of those who will not listen, who will not serve and who will not remember that “We the People: are their bosses. Not the corporations and not special interests. The Sun will dawn and the tide will recede, so too will the Trumpists be voted out of office.

One bill is needed to restore gun safety to America; it must include the following and more:

Ban all enhancements like bump stocks that make legal guns automatic. DOJ can regulate and ban any physical modifications under their own authority.

Ban all assault rifles. Three years to surrender them or be subject to criminal arrest.

Mandatory waiting period before you can take possession the gun of 10 days if you have all the legal paperwork completed. Longer wait time if the paper work is not completed until it is.

No more gun show sales. Mail order or any other order are prohibited  except for sale done in person at a gun store where they have verified all legal requirements of the sale before handing over the weapon after the waiting period.

Mandatory background checks that must be fully completed before you can buy the guy. No sunset clause on any potential delays. If it takes a month then it takes a month and you have to wait for it to be completed.

All criminals convictions, including both state and/or federal crimes, potential terrorists on watch lists, mental health issues and domestic assault cases, even if they are not yet convicted in court are banned from owning, purchasing or holding any weapons until they are no longer suspected, on the watch list or granted a full pardon. A criminal is not allowed to vote why can they still own a gun?

A direct tax is to be levied on the sale of ammunition and on all guns. Call it the safe school tax. You want to buy it then time to pay up for the un-safety of our schools.

Repeal federal legislation that prohibits direct suit against gun makers for the carnage caused by their guns. As well as allowing lawsuits against anyone who may have advocated the use of guns. Hello NRA.

Mandatory safety class consisting of 72 hours of classroom and field training to be completed before one is granted a permit. Let’s make sure that people actually know what a gun is, how it works, how deadly it can be and be sure they can understand the implications when they decide to pick up a weapon. Refresher course every 2 years of 48 hours in length is required in order to retain your permit.

All open carry of weapons must surrender proof such as their federal permission to own this gun when asked for by law enforcement. No suspicion needed other than to request proof you own and can legally carry such a weapon.

Federal carry permits for all weapons to be paid for with the tax money from the sale of guns and ammo as well as registration fees.

Yes, that would still not eliminate the deaths but it would start to curtail them. Only problem is will such a bill survive the US Supreme Court Challenge? Looking over this list I think it would survive such a challenge as there are requirements similar to each one of these that have survived such cases already. And where would I find a Congress and President with the courage to make this into law? Certainly now with this congress and absolutely not with the spineless President we have now. He is too busy golfing.

Donald Trump has had two affairs with models in the news this month and last including one with Porn Star Stormy Daniels. Fake news.

Both are lying.

Donald Trump is accused of groping, grabbing or otherwise sexually harassing some 17 women. Fake news.

All of the women are lying or paid to lie.

Donald Trump is caught on an Access Hollywood trap expressing to 10 males that he would sexually assault women by grabbing them by the P-$$y, including Billy Bishop. First, he apologised and now it is all fake news including his apology. All Fake news. Made up fake news.

Russia scandal is also all fake news.

Including in this category would be the indictment of near 20 people and the guilty pleas of 5 Americans. Surely this is also fake news.

Steele Dossier. More fake News

The book by Michael Wolff, “Fire and Fury;” Made up and all fake news

Roy Moore is accused of rape and paedophilia. Fake news

His accusers are all lying.

Including one victim of Roy Moore whose home was burned to the ground in a case of arson. I imagine she set the fire herself just to make the news report it.

Sandy Hook Elementary School, 27 dead including 20 children age range of 6 to 7 years of age. Fake news

The grieving parents are all actors in a false flag operation for fake news.

Including one person arrested, tried and convicted of stalking and harassment of the victim’s parents of Sandy Hook’s tragedy. Demanding they tell the truth about their fake child and their fake death this person over the course of years kept bothering the parents to the point where police had to intervene and take criminal action.

Pulse Night club: 49 dead fake news.

Grieving family are also actors in a false flag operation for the fake news

And now to the latest attack:

Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida where 17 more are slaughtered.

Also Fake news.

The students are all actors in yet another false flag operation.

NRA spokesperson Dana Loesch: “Many in legacy media love mass shootings. You guys love it. Now I’m not saying that you love the tragedy. But I am saying that you love the ratings. Crying white mothers are ratings gold to you and many in the legacy media in the back (of the room). And notice I said ‘crying white mothers’ because there are thousands of grieving black mothers in Chicago every weekend, and you don’t see town halls for them, do you? Where’s the CNN town hall for Chicago?” said at Conservative Political Action Conference on Thursday February 22, 2018.

Because the calling of this massacre as fake news was too much? So instead, this shooting is being blamed on the media, aka the ones who report on fake news. Never mind the sheer irony of her statement. Thousands of black women n Chicago? She is literally saying that there are thousands of gun deaths in the City of Chicago every weekend. Why is there no town hall? There has been. Many of them. So many that it is not even a blip on the national news. Too many are killed by gun violence to report them all. No amount of newspapers will soak the blood, let alone the tears. And yet nothing has been done to stop the violence.

And why not?

The myth is any action is against the second amendment. This is not true. Despite the claims of so many gun nuts about what the second amendment means, the only ones with the last word is the United States Supreme Court (SCOTUS). And they have ruled. The government can ban any class of gun, except a hand gun. They can ban large magazines. They can prohibit the buying of weapons without background checks. Place age limits on the purchasers. Make the sale delayed for any reasonable wait time. They can demand that people show identification if stopped by police when open carrying a weapon. They can tax ammo and weapons. They can demand safety courses and so much more. And yet all of this is fake news to the supporters of gun ownership. Yet it is all adjudicated law. SCOTUS having ruled on similar laws over the years have said all of this is allowable. Yet nothing is done. Because it is all fake news.

But in the most ironic of all statements? Loesch touched on black mothers. When in the 1960tys in California the Black Panthers began to arm themselves for confrontations with police what happened? The NRA came down on the side of law enforcement to produce some of the hashes laws in American restricting gun ownership. More fake news only in this case fake historical news.

At what point do you drop the whole notion of fake news? The irony is that the Russian scandal is called fake news about the Russians, in part, trying to press onto Americans during the election fake news itself. The Republican Party is now the party of calling what it does not like “Fake News.” They can fool some of the people some of the time, they won’t fool all of the people come November!

First they blame guns. Not a gun’s fault, it is the shooter. So they blame the shooter, but it is not their fault, they are mentally ill. So they blame the parents for not seeing the problem. But then they often don’t have parents or are living on their own so they blame social media. Which means; we are all guilty of not seeing it happen before it happens. So in the end when all are guilty, no one is punished and no one is to blame. And the wheel spins around some more, where everyone in the circular firing squad blames someone else. Nice, but it solves nothing. Gun crimes are not based on legislation, little or lots, it is based on enforcement. And that depends on popular whims of society and those are fleeting. People will forget each massacre in turn as other things grab the news and people’s attention and so gun crimes will be left aside, until the next massacre. The one common denominator is for all gun crimes is not mental illness, gun laws or parental influence. The one thing all gun crimes have in common? Guns. Limit the number and remove them from the hands of people and you have a more perfect union. The lack of guns in Japan does not mean there is no crime, or there is no violence. It means there is no gun crime. Switzerland has loads of guns in every household. Or does it?  In Switzerland all males are in the army. They have a fully automatic weapon in their house, ever house with an adult male and that is most of them. Yet low gun crime. Why? Because those who are issued a gun are also tested for mental fitness and reliability. They are indoctrinated by 2 years in the military service where they are drilled and drilled again on gun safety. Every single day they are force to show respect to their weapon and punished harshly for any infractions, as they should be. After two years of this training, they are no more likely to go against that sort of training and discipline then they are to learn to fly by simply not hitting the ground, (as Douglas Adam’s might phrase it). In the USA, if you are lucky, they have had a fire arms safety course and that is a big if. Without proper screening, background checks and waiting period laws to reduce spur of the moment events, there can be no safety. Without positive action to reduce and collect guns from the population and reduce the overwhelming amount of firearms held in private hands, the next school shooting is mere hours away. Somewhere right now, some kid is talking to himself while stroking an assault weapon how he is going to “Make them pay!” He is going to “Show them all.” And the worst thing is this. It is not even a guess or mere speculation that this is going to happen. It is. Period. And there is not, nothing, we can do about it. We can do a lot right now. There are many things we could do about it. But we won’t do a darn thing. So how many more will the next lone wolf kill? How many more young lives will be killed because no one has the courage to do anything about it? Making it easier for mentally ill people and people on the terrorist watch list to own guns is not the exception of politic action. It is the norm. This is no longer the options but the features of American gun Violence It is the normal for Washington. Keep that in mind as we bury another 17 dead, forgotten tomorrow for the next mass shooter’s kill count will be higher or more shocking or will it be just fresher?

Some basic math for the unenlightened.

America has 330 million guns which is roughly the population of America. Rather put then, there is one gun for every man, woman and child alive in the USA. 75 % of the population does not own any weapons. That means 25% of Americans do. 3% own half of the total guns, or 165 million weapons. That is roughly the amount of Americans who hold Phds (3.27%). That leaves the other 22% to own 165 million weapons. 22% is the percent of people who have blue eyes world wide, not just in the USA where the numbers are slightly higher at 33% of whites having Blue Eyes. Gun nuts, that 3% or about 10 million people. own on average 16.5 weapons each. The other citizens armed have on average 2 guns per person. One might assume, one is a long gun, like a rifle and the other a handgun.

1 in 5 or 20 % of the population will have some form of mental health issue. 1% will have a bipolar disorder. Therefore of the 10 million people who own 16 or more weapons on average in the USA, 100 000 of them will be bipolar. How many of them will resist the urge to kill? How many will ever see anything wrong with have so many guns and hearing voices telling them or ordering them to kill?
How many indeed?

Three of the top ten mass killings by gun violence have occurred in the last year. The number of school shooting so far is 18 and we are not even finished February 2018 yet. In 45 days we have had one school shooting every 2.5 days. Twice a week and the trend line is increasing. Yet despite all of this, the only gun control law to pass congress was to remove restrictions on people with mental illness from owning guns. Who says Congress does not care?

Revelation 1:8
“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty.”

If you look at the boxes for Amazon.com you will see an arrow going from a to z in the name.  They say this is because they have everything you need from A to Z. Oh really? I think they might be claiming to be divine in status. Or that might just be a conspiracy theory I am creating?

Trigger warning in effect

On the British version of Big Brother a question was asked:

“Would you date a trans woman?”

The question is simple but it hides a much deeper conversation. The correct answer would be of course not. (Please feel free to trigger yourself now.) People will assume this is transphobic without even understanding the very question itself. The problem is that this is all such a new subject that is finally entering into mainstream that we have forgotten the lessons of the past.

In the 60tys, in the American South, (Similar laws were also in effect in South Africa extending until the end of Apartheid.)It was illegal to marry someone who was of a different race or color. The correct term was “Miscegenation,” that forbids the marriage of whites with blacks. In cruder terms, it has been called jungle fever, Asian Rage, Hispanic Panic and so on. So let’s rephrase the question, would you date a black woman? Well since most people are not racist, they would answer yes.  And they would be missing the point of the question and their answer would be racist.  The distinction here is best summed up by the following question. Can a Jesuit pray while smoking? Or is it he may smoke while praying? But those are the same question, are they not? In fact, the answer is they are not. A Jesuit may do what he wants so long as the emphasis is on the praying not on the smoking. Nothing should be in the way between a priest and his God, so the pray must be the thing of important, the smoking is therefore incidental. Back to the dating a “Black” women. Is the emphasis in the question based on the person? Or is it on the race of the person. They are speaking of a “Black” not dating the women, but the skin colour, just as the original question is based on the “Trans” not the woman part. Thus the question itself is wrong. The only person who would answer “Yes” is called a “Tranny Chaser,” someone who is into the sexual fetish of dating Trans people and had no intention of dating a real person. Similar to the person dating some women who is “Black,” they are ignoring the person in favour of the emphasis on the colour. And this is racist.

The better question would be; “Would you date a women who happens to be…” (Insert ethnic, cultural, or any other feature you might wish to separate from the larger collective called women.)

The question thus becomes, would you date a women who happens to be transgender. Providing there is mutual attraction and appropriate ages are observed, (That means you Roy Moore!) then the answer is yes because the person under discussion is addressed  not as an issue and not as a statement but as a person. And “persons” are who we date, not abstractions and classifications. Date by personality not by fetish.

Did you know that in the Beijing phone book there are over 3 million people with the surname of Wong?

That’s a lot of Wong numbers.

The presence claims of voter fraud in the USA can be seen as false. To wit, I will present the claims, debunk them and then show the reason why they are making such claims.

Donald trump lost the popular election by 3 million votes but won the Electoral College by 80 thousand votes in the right state. The claim is he won the popular vote but that there was wide spread voter fraud of some 3-5 million voters.

Roy Moore lost the special election in Alabama by 20 000 or so votes. Voter fraud for a host of reasons including a lot less Republicans voted and a lot more democrats voted. They have an expert using Math that can show you the chance of something happening to one in 15 billion.

It has long been an issue to limit the number of voters by removing their right to vote for criminal convictions. The poor tend to vote democrat, so do minorities and minorities just happen to go to jail a lot more than white folks, thereby also being stripped of that right to vote. Nixon put into place a Southern Strategy to alienate blacks from voting by having the Republican Party embrace the Dixiecrats and their racist or near racist voters. Voter registration laws disproportionally infringed on the rights of minorities to vote, this is done by making it harder for them to vote, demanding of them things like identification. These are not the laws of Jim Crow, demanding complicated reading tests or high levels of math, just picture ID is usually enough so long as it has your name and address upon it. However, these claims of infringement are also applied to any such reasonable measures as asking for the already mention Identification at polling stations as poor people have no identification. A reasonable person would see this not as a voting problem but as a problem with getting a sort of identification card for people to use for any number of reasons like bank accounts, driving, rentals and modern living, not as an issue of voter identification or preventing said people from voting in the first place.

What we are seeing now is a whole new sort of attack on democracy itself. The number of fraudulent voters found in 2016 general election was a handful of people. And they were dealt with by the authorities who have a vested interest in preventing voter fraud. The claim that this number is in the millions is not found in on the ground research, arrests or even anything to do with reality. The claim is based on simple racism. If in one voter list you have the name of “John Brown” and in another part of the city you have another “John Brown” what do you have? A reasonable person might assume there are two “John Browns?” Not so the racists. They claim the two are one and the same person and thus a minority is trying to vote twice for the Democrats. In fact they use all sorts of more ethnic sounding names to make their case even more blatant. When told that the respective authorities are constantly vigilant and investigating any such claims, finding them all to be unwarranted or sheer fabrication, they produce their hole card. This is further evidence of the “Deep State” at work, subverting Democracy. See when Donald Trump wins, this is the way it should be. When a Democrat wins, because they have a wider base including minority and the poor, it shows another example of voter fraud.

Over to Alabama. The recent court filings by Roy Moore included experts who make the claim that there was wide spread voter fraud. One such expert, using Math to make this claim that such an election result would occur only once in 15 billion times. While very impressive sounding, one need only realise the GIGO effect: Garbage In, Garbage Out. First of all statistics would have been the right discipline, not math. Second of all, you cannot reduce psychology and sociology to a mathematical formula. The way people behave is not reducible to a mathematical formula. (Tongue planted firmly in check, this expert should have stayed with proving the JFK assassination or perhaps tried using mathematical formulas instead.) Lastly, past performance is not indicative of future events. Just because a person voted Republican yesterday is no promise they will also vote republican tomorrow. Judge Moore lost because he is an alleged paedophile, not because of voter fraud. People voted with their feet. They did not go to the polls; they vote more for a write in candidate then the margin of his loss. All of which can be account for in simple, easy to understand, reasonable explanations. All allegations of voter fraud have been examined and resolved. Including one man who they felt was an out of state voter. When tracked down he was living, working and fully eligible to vote. It was the case that shows the rules. People think there is fraud but the reality is there was none.

So why are there such claims to begin with? What is their purpose? The stated purpose; to protect democracy is laughable. Each claim is merely intended to cast discredit upon what is a fair election process. In order to discredit any future winnings where democrats win the popular vote, the alt right will sit back and claim it is voter fraud. It’s all them immigrants voting in multiple jurisdictions and polling stations. It is fraud to prevent the people’s voice from being heard. Or rather I would like to say “White People’s voice” except, the vast majority of white people will not stand for the crap coming from the alt right. They are a minority who voice is only heard because of the 24 hour news cycle’s need to fill content with controversy in order to drum up ratings. It is not factual, or representative of society. Merely the dreams of the alt right crowd to somehow be bestowed with relevance and granted status of actually having a legitimate point of view, when clearly they remains the trolls and enfant terrible of society. All of this is in advance of the coming days when “Whites” are no longer in the majority. When Hispanics, blacks and other minorities will grow and surpass the white population and thus begin the start of their decline from power. As black women showed in Alabama’s election for Senator, when they vote 98% against Roy Moore, so long as the people are motivated to vote, so long as they are giving cause to vote, the people’s will, will be done and elections will have the proper results. It is time to remove the scourge of Nazi, neo Nazi, Alt-Right and voter fraudsters from our election and allow democracy to prevail. Let the fascist return to under the rock Donald Trump, Small Hand Donald, with his tiny hands could not hold back so he dropped the ball and accidentally release them upon the media landscape!

Roy Moore was running for Senate left open by Jeff Session, now the attorney General, for Alabama. Moore was in the lead until bombshell allegations arrived from “Liberal Media” that he had improper relations with under aged girls. It is the height of irony that papers like the Wall Street Journal, New York Times and Washington Post are called “Liberal” in anything, let alone in the smear of reporting upon such allegations. The era of Trump has made formerly conservative voices sound liberal, even dare we say it? To a thunder of squishing breaks as they hear this news… Socialist. Course the nut cases from the fringe like Alex Jones, Info Wars and Breitbart are now somehow considered to be legitimate new sources might account for the shift in media. Back to Alabama and Roy Moore. He was first accused of being a child molester by three women, now up to six and growing eventually to eight women. When I first heard their story, it sound just a little too good to be true to agree with it. In short, I was sceptical of the timing and the comments, yet awaiting further information to come. As that day wore on, Judge Moore spoke with Sean Hannity. In that interview he sunk himself by coming off as a creep and perv. His answers were evasive, all but screaming, “I did it!” or “Guilty!” He even agreed that he knew two of the girls and had dated them with their mother permission. He has since denied this and taken a polygraph to prove he did not know any of them at all. In any case, once I heard that, I was full convinced he should step down from running. Yet this fellow brings up two salient point to ponder on the wider picture.
First guns support; Roy Moore showed up on stage with a concealed handgun to show people that he was all for the NRA. This organization clearly only represents the interests of gun manufacturer and have fooled millions of Americans into joining. Their views however are ignored. They tend to run with the rest of American in wanting longer waiting period, more checks and more restrictions. All of which the NRA oppose. Yet all one has to do is walk on stage with a gun and the NRA love’s you? Very strange. Now, as more and more females are speaking, more damning information came out, such as Moore denial of having met one of his victims. She accused him of trying to rape her. He said he did not know her, did not know the diner she worked in, and never tried to rape her. She presented her year book, showing his signature and the name of the place in his handwriting. Yes very convincing. His attacks were almost laughable. The girl he almost raped? She was a behaviour challenged student. Which means you can rape her? In his mind it does. He was also banned from a shopping mall for harassing the young girls within and a local high school had a security guard follow him around on football nights as he was known to harass the cheerleaders. Yet for all these, the gun crowd still supports him? One issue voters, like gun nuts are scary like that.
The second point is the white people still support him. By that I mean white male republicans and their wives of a certain age, still support him. Why? The Liberal North cannot understand the support of this paedophile in Alabama. But here is the dirty secret you won’t hear much about. Why do people, who are white and older, support him? Because they remember a time long ago, that if they discount the rape and paedophile allegations, you are left with a man looking for a wife among the younger girls. This is in itself not a game changer. Many of their grandparents have similar stories of older men marrying younger women. And staying married all their lives. So the fact that Moore was trolling the food court at the mall looking for a teeny bopper to marry is not a disqualifier for voting for him. On the day of the vote, he lost by 1.5% but he filed legal papers to overturn the vote. He failed. Part of the reason why he failed was the experts he used. One of them was a UFO believer, easily dismissed! Another person cited in the legal case, while having a more serious issue to advocate had fundamental problems as well, but at least rationally based. His name is Richard Charnin
https://richardcharnin.wordpress.com/
First, they brought up his attempt to prove the assassination of JFK using math. I offer no comment, because I am not going to read that book, instead focusing on his views on the Alabama vote. He claims there are irregularities in the vote. That the way the voting pattern showed many former Clinton Supporters had to vote but a lot less of Trump supports did not. This he claims shows voter fraud. While I am not going to argue with his analysis, his math or even his statics and numbers, all because I don’t have to. In any election, past performance is not indication of future support. Just because I Vote for Trump in 2016 does not mean I will vote for Trump ever again or that I will vote for Moore now. Indeed, based on pure psychology, this voter pattern is explained. People hear tell he may be a paedophile. The liberals don’t want that so they vote in greater numbers. They have a reason to go to vote. On the other hand, republicans hear he is a paedophile and they refuse to vote for a liberal Democrat instead vote with their feet and do not go to the polls. It is usually as simple as that. Occam’s Razor. Go with the simplest explanation that explains all the facts. So sorry Judge Moore, but the people of Alabama voted you off the island. Your own supports did not vote for you so the polls switched and you lost. Now and forever, your past made you and it will always come out in the wash. People simply do not like you or trust you as much as they trust Donald Trump. May heaven help us all?

Greenbanks, West Virginia, is an unlikely place for refuges to stream into. But none the less, in they pour. More of a trickle, than a torrent; for in this city is United States National Radio Quiet Zone where in 1958 the US federal government set up a place for research into the universe using a radio telescope. Today, this quiet zone, radio noise causes interference with the telescope. Any electromagnetic wave might disrupt the ear of the researchers so to live there they have to sing away their rights to such technology. Today it is a home for people suffering from electromagnetic hypersensitivity. Basically, they can feel those invisible waves from the electromagnetic spectrum that come from Electromagnetic fields (EMFs), things like WIFI and cell phones and many other sources. Worse, for the sufferers, is that there is no way to show that their condition actually exists, let alone how it is caused or a cure, to any scientific certainty. We think this might not only be a problem for humans but for all mammals especially those who use sonar to navigate likes whales, or bats to hunt. But so far, we cannot diagnose it or treat except in the avoidance of such sources of EMF. The symptoms are things like headaches, stress, and anxiety; up to much more serious illnesses have been reported. Science, at first, dismissed this as merely hysteria. Yet more and more cases come forward with the same or similar symptoms, it was not merely so easy to dismiss. Or to claim it was “All in your head.” Nor is there any cure, the physical remove of certain EMF sources such as living in Greenbacks’ is about all they can do when they are so afflicted.

For my own experience with this began about 5 years ago with the digitally re-mastered Beatles. I love the Beatles so I thought this is going to be great. Except after listening to 3-4 song, I felt nauseated: The feelings expressed not the sickness itself. I also cannot stand modern radio or most modern songs; with few exceptions; those exceptions being the real singers like Adele whose voice will sometimes break as she sings, showing that it is indeed her doing the music not a computer. Computers do not make such mistakes. There are two types of music today, or at least for my purposes I will divide music into two groups. Those singers, who I will call analog, that people who use their own voice to make magic of music happen and those who used a computer to do so. To wit; years ago they would take 30-40 takes in order to get the singer to sing that song just that right way; the “Oh so perfect” take. Today they get them to sing it once and say next song. The music is then entered into a computer for washing to make the song hit all the right notes in perfect harmony. Except humans are not perfect. If you use a measure tool on the human voice as they sing one single note, you would see the voice of the singer wobble in the electronic display because the singer’s voice is not perfect. You would not hear a difference but there is one to the measuring tool. However, when a computer does it, sing one single note, they make the note come out perfect, same tone and pitch, for as long as they want to or need to. Watching it in the electromagnetic spectrum, you do not see peaks and valleys; you see a straight line for the music is playing the perfect note. You might think this was a good thing. It is not. Since we human, as frail creatures, such a perfect note would induce real vomit, headaches and other such reactions due to it being so unnatural when we expect to hear something that is so natural like singing. Because it is too pure, too unnatural, programs like Autotune had to be programmed their musical output to insert the final product with flaws in it so that the human ear does not reject the music but can listen without it sounding too strange. It still comes off as robotic if overly washed.

Sadly the result is some people are hyper sensitive to music, wither it be for the misophonia or phonophobia, dislike of sound in general or hypersensitive hearing (of specific frequencies) such that Autotones uses to make their music work. I know not what or how, but listening to the digital music formats of songs, drive me insane. Like the newly re-mastered Beatles, such wonderful songs turned out to be a vomit comet. Been many years and I still have not managed to listen to but a handful of the songs. I will stick with my analog copies. They do not cause me anxiety, stress, anger and headaches. I can tolerate this music to some degree, usually in the 2-3 hours range but then after like a crest that builds up it breaks over and floods the valley below. Modern music, digital music, might one day have great singers like days of yore, but sadly I will never know. For in their quest to be perfect, they have simply turned what beauty they may have had into mere painful noise that drives me up the wall. Too perfect, this frankenmusic is merely a lazy form of singing for singers who are bad. They cannot sing but fool the public into thinking they are singers. This has now spilled out of the recording studio into the concert hall. So even “Live” is not just a digital rendition of the digital rendition from a digital source. Too many digitals for me.

Signed by the man seeking refuges in his old time rock and roll, yelling at the local teens; “You kids get off my grass!”

Here are some links to articles on this subject.

https://bodyecology.com/articles/little-known-dangers-of-emf.php

https://www.emf-experts.com/emf-quiet-zones.html

https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2010/08/31/129562500/pop-off-can-songs-be-too-fresh-too-clean

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitch_correction#Criticism

https://www.theverge.com/2013/2/27/3964406/seduced-by-perfect-pitch-how-auto-tune-conquered-pop-music

https://www.bphope.com/when-noise-annoys-coping-with-hypersensitive-hearing/

http://www.hyperacusis.net/what-is-it/4-types-of-sound-sensitivity/

Post script: A song was playing on the radio. Some guy was singing a Christmas song. So i asked a buddy, is that guy just singing his own song or is he singing along. Turns out he was singing the same song as on the radio. I could not hear the words and i could not recognize the song playing because all i could hear was the base and what I can only describe as noise.  Everyone else could hear music from the radio. All i heard was a pile of nothing that made any sense to me.