There's a lot to unpack for the Heir/Tropical Soulvangelical/TSV with the latest Pentagon hack, now that they have a suspect in custody, and TSV needed to first put out a PSA about not relying on your smartphone as a -sole- means of information about current events, which we did here the other day. TSV expects investigators to comb through Jack Texiera's (sp?) social media to find out whether he's either been in contact with Ed Snowden or with Snowden sympathists. TSV's not sure about Chelsea Manning, and as far as he knows Julian Assange is still in jail. But even if investigators don't find any Snowden links, it's clear to TSV that this hack would not have happened if Ed Snowden did not do -his- hacks 10 years ago, thereby making classified breaches more socially acceptable than pre-Snowden, propagandizing to young people that hacks and breaches are somehow a form of social service, biased in favor of 'you're being lied to' or 'you're being spied on,' or just plain 'the enemy has something to hide.' But TSV is encouraged that at least on audio he's not hearing sympathy for the suspect, but apparently also an awareness of how classified breaches are actually -dangerous- to the citizens of the free world. Not every breach is about the Pentagon Papers, and in fact TSV sees it as -the exception to the rule.- It looks as though foreign policy hawks like TSV are finally getting their message across 10 years later. See? The hawks told you so.
One Year And We Are All Still Ukrainian

So are you the kind of person who -only- gets their news through their smartphone, specifically those system notifies? If so, then it's by the Heir's/Tropical Soulvangelical's/TSV's estimation that you did -not- hear about an alert notice cybersecurity experts put out about charging your phone on one of those charging stations at an airport or a mall or any other public space. The alert has said that people doing so stand a greater than likely chance of having hackers access your username or password or possibly credit card numbers. This got TSV to reason that the hackers have already hacked, and in doing so disabled any notifies coming to your phone about security regarding your phone. TSV had continued to listen to business newsradio at 7.30am sharp, and has also reasoned from his listening that public businesses have an interest in encouraging/pressuring their customers into using their charging stations, because those businesses have a relationship with those providers who installed and maintained those stations. To have people not use those stations means that the businesses won't get a return on the services they've paid for. Cybersecurity has encouraged people to bring their own charger to plug into a standard outlet, and TSV also recommends bringing a charging bank for those instances where you don't have an outlet available but you -do- only have those vicarious charging stations available. TSV is encouraged by cybersecurity recommending something old school, rather than that 'retired intel officer' whom TSV caught carrying water for Apple Pay in suggesting tap-to-pay as an alternative to using your credit card strip, as opposed to your credit card -chip-. This all goes to show that if you're relying too much on smartphone notifies as your mostly sole source of news, you're not getting reliable news, and TSV again recommends using an actual radio to listen to A.M. newsradio first thing in the morning.

So, yes, people, you can most -reasonably- say that this is a good day for the country, but the Heir/Tropical Soulvangelical/TSV emphasizes it's a good day for the children. That's because TSV observes the children understanding that it's -not okay- to not report hush money payments to a porn star as election spending. For Trump to get a perp walk or dress in an orange jumpsuit or flexing his hands around a set of jail bars isn't as priority to TSV as the moral health of our children. Sure Trump's only indicted, and he hasn't been tried or convicted or jailed, not yet. TSV wants to reserve comment on those last three until/unless they happen. But he takes exception to all this good-for-Trump's-fundraising kind of talk, because he sees those doing that kind of reporting as not really getting it as to the importance of personal accountability. We still have an epidemic of personal corruption that TSV sees as having started roughly 10 years ago with Ed Snowden, and until yesterday hasn't slowed down, and in fact TSV sees it as speeding up. There's a metaphor that world leaders used at the climate conference that TSV would like to borrow. And that's that personal corruption is like heading towards a cliff and instead of braking or slowing down, we're pushing down on the gas pedal and accelerating. Incidentally TSV got a text on his phone asking for campaign money which he will refuse to honor for at least one ''news cycle.'' He observes that nobody's talking about poor kids serving felony sentences for misdeanor offenses or going to Riker's Island as somehow being good for the poor kids' fundraising efforts. So it isn't just about Trump, because TSV wants the system to change so that you can't just run for public office as a get-out-of-jail-free-card, and make your campaign about accountability somehow being a 'witch hunt.' TSV vaguely remembers Al Capone or Charlie Manson actually trying to do that, and he's pretty sure you can't do that in Europe. In that sense at least, there's something endearing about cobblestone streets and fine wines and chocolates and cheeses.

The Heir/Tropical Soulvangelical/TSV wants to say a few words about what he calls Beijing Balloongate, and he doesn't care if this were a month and a half ago. He derides Beijing's response of "calling for calm" as an unaccountable response, and he was hoping that defense officials would say the same thing. He understands full well there are times for a defense dispassionate, but that wasn't one of them. He knows they don't want to be responding to "provocations," but they are the collective voice of America in response to Balloongate, and as far as he's concerned, their response was not strong enough. He also believes that those 2-3 other balloons that got shot down -also- came from hostile countries, and he dismisses a report that one of the balloons was supposedly a ham radio experiment. TSV keeps up on the Glenn Houser radio show, where he heard about the report, but TSV believes that the ham radio people actually lost their balloon in a tree somewhere, and was not one of the balloons that got shot down. Maybe some info would become declassified in coming weeks, but until then, he believes that each of the other balloons came from Russia, Iran and North Korea, respectively, and someone needs to -prove- to him they weren't until he's ready to believe otherwise.

The Heir/Tropical Soulvangelical/TSV wants to say a few words in support of the A.M. dial in contrast to the apparent social myth that "nobody" listens to A.M. or that A.M. is somehow in "decline." He gets about 85% of his information first thing in the morning on an A.M. newsradio station, and reception is considerably better than on a given news station's corresponding F.M. station, which is often unstable. But he also wants to sign on at least one petition letting elements like carmakers and media companies, and maybe his own congresswoman, know that he's an A.M. listener seeking to be counted accordingly. Let's also not forget that he listened to the last 10 minutes of this past Superbowl on A.M., and plans to listen to sports games on A.M. once he gets his DIY music player finished, so that he'll have a duofecta of a music/audio player and an analog terrestrial radio to spend extra time with. Right now he watches a lot of Youtube videos, and he really wants to get away from that at the right time. And because the Internet is mostly a source of misinformation, with few exceptions, he outright refuses to use the Internet for his first hand reports, no matter what media executives at least seem to think.
One Year And We Are All Still Ukrainian

The Heir/Tropical Soulvangelical/TSV recommends -against- big tech methods of payment such as tap-to-pay if even if it's -solely because- there was that one "former intel officer" TSV heard about on audio Bloomberg 8.45am who recommended in favor of it because of these "skimming" reports. It sounds to TSV as a clear form of guerilla advertising and a fake PSA to boot, since big tech's been down in the equity markets and they've had to lay off people. What TSV recommends instead if you really want to keep safe, use the chip on your chip card, cover the keypad while you're typing in your PIN, use your common sense, or just outright use cash. TSV has done any or all of these things and he's never had trouble. Using one of these tech fad methods of payment he deems as taking privilege of fear, uncertainty and doubt for big tech to try to force cash payments into obsolesence, and hence is the -worst- thing you can do. What's going to happen when tap-to-pay causes a Russian Hacker to get your PIN and your credit card number because the pridefulness of big tech makes it so they don't focus so much on security? This TSV asks also because it's the logical fallacy of if-not-one-then-the-other. If someone could -ever- get hacked using something else other than tap-to-pay, does anyone deserve to believe that tap-to-pay is your way -not- to get hacked? That's TSV's point, and he had hoped that Bloomberg at least would go to a differing point of view on the subject for the sake of equal time. After the media's illusion as the Fourth Estate broke over the Biden Documents issue, it got broken again over the big tech payment method issue. Luckily TSV didn't hear this report on 1010-wins or cbs-880, so they might have kept this rumor report below the fold for lack of actual substantiation.

The Heir/Tropical Soulvangelical/TSV believes he already figured out why Southwest Airlines had cancelled and grounded at least 60% of its flights, leaving people stranded, as opposed to other airlines that have roughly a 4% grounded rate. He believes its because Southwest fired/laid-off/encouraged its older and more experienced, and hence more competent, staff to quit, and replace that staff with inexperienced college graduates, and possible cronies. The staff TSV believes Southwest Airlines fired TSV believes were part of flight coordination. We're not talking about pilots or crew. We're talking about people in offices around the country whose job it is to make sure a given plane goes to a given airport where it's needed, outside of actual air traffic controllers. The older workers TSV believes had it down to a science, but because they're -old- TSV believes Southwest got worried about health insurance costs for these workers, and it's pretty ageist. So he thinks it's college graduates now, along with cronies and family members of vice presidents, etc. So he's seeing age discrimination, cronyism and nepotism, and of course he believes these things are going on because of Trump. Trump made it acceptable to do illegal and unacceptable things, so why wouldn't Southwest follow suit? Why didn't the -other- airlines do so? Because TSV believes they used good old fashioned common sense management, even Jet Blue, hardly the most popular carrier out there. But TSV is a bit of a train fan, so he's encouraging people to "next time take the train." People who wanted to fly cross-country back home on Southwest Airlines in a manner of 6-8 hours ended up spending up to 6-8 days sleeping on floors of airports. A cross-country train like the Silver Liner or Cross Deseret TSV believes it's called would hardly take 3-4 days. So you want to sleep in airports for 8 days because you still want to get home in 8 hours? How Type-A is that? So it'll probably be March or April of next year before we start doing public hearings as to what happened in late 2022, long after people totally forgot. And TSV is not very impressed with the Corporate Response of Southwest's executive. It reminded him of Boeing's executive's Corporate Response to the crashes of the 737 Max airplane. He doesn't see sincere contriteness or willingness to take responsibility, something we need to encourage our children to know how to do.

One thing the Heir/Tropical Soulvangelical-TSV forgot to get me the Mentor/Happy Bachelor to post on our shares base earlier when we were talking about Kyrsten Sinema, and Sam Bankman-Fried, and the criminal evidence warehouse fire, is about his suspicion about this whole "triple threat," flu/Covid/RSV. He's not saying that these aren't real, in fact quite the contrary. But on audio he's heard about the shortage of cold/cough remedies on shelves at least in New York state (and possibly elsewhere, though audio has yet to confirm that). It's enough of a shortage that Chuck Schumer has pressed for the FDA to get companies to address maybe replenishing supplies accordingly. But TSV has an idea of how this happened, and it all has to do with him listening to Business Newsradio first thing in the morning at 12:30 UTC, and that's his present source in tracking predatory and aggressive marketers coming after him and piously simplistic others once inflation and recessionary fears blow over. Here's a practice sheet of that, because a couple months ago the above audio segment talked about how Pfizer saw an increase in its stock in the equity markets, and the same with Moderna over a couple weeks ago, and the takeaway was that both companies gained from their being in the Covid vaccine/treatment market. RSV he heard started being talked about roughly a month ago, and in the backdrop was biz radio 12.30utc mentioning Glaxo Smith Kline. About that time, TSV heard GSK commercials at his catering counter job regarding RSV, and he believes GSK felt like they missed the Covid boat and they certainly vowed not to do the same with RSV. He notes that the commercials -do not- advertise any particular product, but they do say "brought to you by GSK." And then on audio with a chrono order of news reports newsradio he heard reports to the effect of "hospitals are filling up with RSV cases," but they don't substantiate as to -what- percentage of hospitals (weekly average or so) report -what- percentage of their capacity (weekly average or so) is being taken up. He suspected that a marketing segment on behalf of not just GSK leaned on this particular newsradio station to make this report, regardless of lack of real substantiation. At the same time, audio he heard of health officials, and no names for some reason for the most part, so again no substantiation, warning about the "triple threat." Rochelle Walensky made an appearance at some sort of meeting in Philadelphia, reported by Philly public radio, warning of either RSV alone or of the "triple threat." TSV -truly hopes- these officials don't have any invested interest in the companies, because of course this would point to a conflict of interest. To what degree have we the public, he wonders, vetted the officials' resumes with respect to which companies they have in their investment portfolios? So in this way, coupled with likely visual doomscrolling of the average populace that TSV himself has wisely not exposed himself to, he believes people panicked and took medicines off the shelves. Cynically he doesn't believe companies like Pfizer or Moderna or GSK mind there being this supply crisis, because when the FDA complies with Chuck Schumer and says to the companies, "please replenish supply," of course TSV believes they'll say "sure no problem." With both the coverage of the "triple threat" and the need for supply of medicines, the companies stand to gain. TSV is very curious as to how biz radio 12.30utc talks about how equity stocks fare for the health companies in coming days, because if those go up even still, they are effectively to the early 20s as tech companies were to the mid- 10s: the hysterical mood of the populace being both controlled and gained from by a given for-profit sector. So the way in which this is a practice sheet for TSV is about aggressive marketing that he has to protect himself against, and while he was just looking over the Wikipedia entry for Pfizer, he saw multiple sections with the phrase "aggressive marketing" in the title, and that stunned him to the point where he wonders whether his suspicions as above are merely coincidence. Probably not. So here's what TSV wants to say to people. Definitely be careful with viruses such as the flu and Covid and RSV. He recommends people get vaccinated with the flu and Covid, even if such vaccines do come from the the companies he's kind of cynical about. Where RSV goes, keep an ear out, he recommends, about -actual substantive information-, e.g., confirmed stats and data and number crunching, to see how big of a threat it is at any one time. We did that with Covid during the pre-vaccine pandemic, but now that we've gone -post-vaccine-, TSV observes we've almost totally sloughed off to the point where he's not hearing it on audio like he's supposed to, because he shouldn't have to plow through a dozen pages on an unreliably functioning Internet to get the answers. Once there comes an RSV vaccine, TSV recommends to rely on confirmed and substantiated info to decide to do the vaccine, instead of on fear, uncertainty and doubt.

So while we're working on getting back on audio again, the Heir/Tropical Soulvangelical had also wanted to point out how Sam Bankman-Fried can get a get-out-of-free-jail-card simply by running for public office and then claiming the charges against him are politically motivated. It appears to the Heir our system currently generally allows for that, even though legally you can't dismiss charges simply by running for public office. Even though the Heir was opposed to Kyrsten Sinema's obstruction of the social changes bill (which was really just a beta of the things we need to -really- recover from Covid19 as a society), he also opposes the Ed Snowden Progressives using her switch of party to bully and harass the majority of the populace for not swearing fealty to them. And onto the burning down of the evidence warehouse in Brooklyn. This the Heir sees as a colossal failure, because it encourages criminals. Despite the officials' contention that the warehouse was only mostly about evidence with respect to cold cases, the Heir believes that's a distractionary claim from how he believes that it's the majority of -current- cases he believes are affected, and how this will enbolden criminals who may now believe they can commit any crimes they feel like because the evidence against them is likely to be housed in a facility that has a high burn risk.

So you may have noticed that we haven't put out base shares regarding the election, and that's because it's connected with our efforts for going back on audio. The Heir and we have actually been doing audio offline, but we're figuring out how to get it online in that pared-down format we've been talking about here on our shares base. If we don't get to it in a timely manner, we intend to at least sum up here what the Heir's been saying about the elections. Stay tuned.

Almost as a followup to our previous base share about our eventual return to audio being a High Frequency Candidate, the Heir's increasingly DX'ing and hunting around the HF bands partly as a source of content along with ''vital basic information'' on the radio first thing in the morning to make discussion about. He also comes across religious stations as well, both on the MF and the HF bands, and had hoped that a divine wrath he'd find amidst the stations he could channel towards our inherently corrupt society, but results were mixed. He's found some black church sermons on HF along with the Lord's Prayer on MF, with some smidgen of wrath and outrage at said corrupt society, but just a smidgen. Unfortunately he's also come across some anti-gay and anti-choice content that seems more akin to the Attack Dog News Network than anything resembling the Lord's Prayer, and he finds that content offensive. Keep in mind that the Heir doesn't consider himself particularly observantly religious, but he's far from agnostic. It seems to him that the more unhinged and offensive content is counterproductive if the main idea is to spread the Word Of God to the people of all great nations (and small, too). People will get so turned off by the offensive content that they might end up using the logical fallacy of If Not One Then The Other, and embrace outright secularism. That's the last thing the Heir thinks this world needs right now, still having its neck under the boot of Ed Snowden, replacement marketing and corporate recruiting pressures such as ''the power of positive thinking.'' But it's also occurred to him that the anti-gay stuff may be increasing since Labor Day with respect to the upcoming midterm elections, which polls on the radio seem to indicate are a foregone conclusion. As such, the Heir generally sees elections as Tyranny Of The Majority, because with the exception of 2018 and 2020, he sees himself among a lesser plurality that the majority votes -against.- The majority doesn't just vote against the candidates the Heir votes -for-. In doing so, they vote against -him-. He's not going to forget that even two weeks after the election is over. He's going to look for a special election candidate to support to get his revenge on the majority (unless the election goes -his- way, but that's not what the polls are saying). He also wants to support school board candidates in Bucks County who will challenge the currently anti-gay and anti-trans school board at present. As far as the Heir's concerned, the election won't be over until there's an election that steps in the direction of the righteous path for society.

As you may very well know, we haven't done audio for nearly four years. However, we anticipate that's going to change, though the format may be more pared down and slightly different. But it'll, among other things, exemplify the tropical conservatism of adhering to principle. Furthermore, we anticipate being what we call a High Frequency Candidate, for the sake of those radio amateurs wanting to do micro- or personal broadcasting, and are in need of content. This is not likely to happen for months yet. But as the Heir keeps making progress on his tropical soul DIY mp3 player, and we get closer to the deliverance and light of tropical soul, it'll be the next logical step once we finally get to tropical soul. The Heir's been DX'ing the shortwave bands along with collecting knowledge about what kinds of transmissions are out there, so he and we look forward to see what we can do with shortwave in some form. We haven't decided whether we want to get a license yet. Keep checking in, people.

The Heir heard on audio yesterday or the day before about how a majority of Florida residents affected by the storm don't have flood insurance. He doesn't think it's about residents wrongly thinking that their homeowner's insurance would cover flood damage. He believes it's a corollary to what he said about people having to put basic needs on their credit card because they spent the money meant for non-discretionaries toward aggressively marketed discretionaries. In both cases, the Heir believes the people were confused by the "power of positive thinking," and that if you've got the "power of positive thinking," that somehow means you don't need flood insurance if you live in Florida, regardless of whether or not a hurricane is on its way. As the Heir finds out more and more about how ordinary people were being lied to by tech- and other marketers, it's obvious now to the Heir that on a culture-wide basis, you reap what you sow. Granted, he wants the people to recover properly no matter what mistakes they made in the past, but once they've recovered, almost certainly they'll make the same mistakes again in the future because the Heir believes the marketers will return. Florida residents will -not- buy flood insurance in the future in meaningful numbers, and people will -continue- to put basic needs on their credit card when the new marketing campaigns heat up again.