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WATCH: Car Freedom – #SolutionsWatch

Anyone who has been car shopping recently knows that modern cars are surveillance and privacy nightmares that take control out of the hands of their supposed owners and places them in the hands of car manufacturers and government regulators. So what do we do about this problem? Joining us today to discuss these issues is Eric Peters, an Anarcho-Libertarian writer and gearhead who discusses the intersection of cars and freedom at his website, EPAutos.com.

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antonym
antonym
Jan 20, 2025 9:28 AM

Solar electricity and AI: made for each other, plus safety for humanity at night.

Penelope
Penelope
Jan 19, 2025 2:06 AM

Directed Energy Weapons can use lasers, particle beams, or microwaves. As you know, you can cook food in a plastic container w/o harming it. Due to the frequency of the microwaves they will pass harmlessly through the plastic (and apparently some waves will pass harmlessly through living trees.)

I remember that at the time of the Hawaii fire a US ship equipped with this technology was just offshore; this was commented upon at the time.

Wikipedia & others have published on Directed Energy Weapons. Just google if curious.

judith
judith
Jan 19, 2025 12:46 PM
Reply to  Penelope

Also, isn’t there a US Air Force base up on a mountain not far from Lahaina?

Penelope
Penelope
Jan 20, 2025 4:42 AM
Reply to  judith

Probably, Judith. They’re every other damn place. Honorable, but ignorant young men join the military. In the end, our fate may depend upon enough of them awakening to reality & what it demands of them.

flirt
flirt
Jan 18, 2025 10:39 AM

I must wear a seat belt in my car, so must all my passengers
Why is the local bus company exempted from the same rules and laws I follow.?
They do not have selt belts.

proxi
proxi
Jan 18, 2025 7:58 AM

modern cars are surveillance and privacy nightmares

the fake dialectic, if the car has a radio which must had back then or antenna they could listen to you and track you.
The fake good old days when cars where to untrackable is bullshit myth.

Penelope
Penelope
Jan 18, 2025 5:00 AM

The most detailed “wildfire” video:
The evidence shown makes it just like Maui & like Paradise, CA. Excellent work here; best I’ve seen. This is evidence for a court case; wouldn’t that be a gas!

Edwige
Edwige
Jan 18, 2025 8:06 AM
Reply to  Penelope

How do they shoot this directed energy? Do they have a gun? Do they use helicopters or boats? Cellphone towers? I don’t understand.

judith
judith
Jan 18, 2025 1:27 PM
Reply to  Edwige

I have the same question. And who is doing the directing?

Drones have been mentioned.

I do not believe these are natural occurances, but it does get a bit tiring to keep repeating “THEY…”

Any chance we can pinpoint the THEY who are doing it?

Tom Larsen
Tom Larsen
Jan 18, 2025 3:20 PM
Reply to  judith

Can you pinpoint the activities of the CIA?

judith
judith
Jan 19, 2025 12:50 PM
Reply to  Tom Larsen

Hmm. I think this sort of thing is not CIA wheelhouse. I would imagine this is more military.

CIA may carry out the implimentation in certain respects, but I do not see it as a the brainchild of.

judith
judith
Jan 22, 2025 1:15 AM
Reply to  Veri Tas

Thanks.

Ort
Ort
Jan 18, 2025 7:49 PM
Reply to  Edwige

I don’t understand either. I’ve only come across odds and ends from the DEW rabbit hole, but this seems to be a major mystery, if not sticking point. Speaking of rabbit holes, or cargo containers of worms, this is/was one of the frustrating aspects of Dr. Judy Wood’s 9/11 research.

I still have an open mind, and perhaps “the absence of evidence isn’t evidence of absence” applies. It may be because I haven’t taken the requisite deep dive, but my impression is that there is cumulative evidence of the effects of DEW technology in various catastrophic events, but precious little about the actual hardware that produces such effects. 

Unfortunately, since it’s not clear what real DEW devices and systems look like, it’s too easy to fill the vacuum with sci-fi imagery and concepts that saturate pop culture.  Satellites? Special aircraft, including drones? One can readily fill in the blanks with “artists’ illustrations”. 🤔

judith
judith
Jan 19, 2025 12:46 AM
Reply to  Ort

Judy, I believe, rely’s somewhat on the Hutchinson effect of microwave energy.

Hutchinson is (or was?) a Canadian scientist who discovered this energy in 1979

I will try to locate the link for interviews with and about him.

I find the DEW, or some version of it very interesting and believable.

But then, I feel like I live in “Ripley’s Believe It or Not” world at this point, so nothing would surprise me.

judith
judith
Jan 19, 2025 1:38 AM
Reply to  Ort

I replied to this reply thirty minutes ago but obviously has not shown up.

In any case, I’ve been looking for a link that explains Judy Woods theories about what happened on 9/11.

I think she relies somewhat on the Hutchinson Effect which has to do with microwave energy.

This link should provide a number of videos about Woods, Hutchinson, Johnson (who wrote 2 free ebooks about 9/11).

I never gave it much thought, but I think it’s very interesting and quite believable.

Ort
Ort
Jan 19, 2025 8:09 PM
Reply to  judith

Thanks for this information.

It’s been a while since I toured Dr. Wood’s work, for lack of a better term. I do remember her referencing the Hutchinson Effect, and sharing videos by Hutchinson that illustrated the principles and effects.

IIRC, Woods preempted or deflected specific questions about the kind of equipment it would take to generate those effects in a vast target area like the WTC complex and environs.

I’m also intrigued and sympathetic to her analysis, and she was right not to make guesses or form hypotheses about the DEW delivery systems. I see some comments today asserting that DEW exist, and use, or have evolved from, advanced laser technology.

I’m not blaming Dr. Wood at all for this, but I think the absence of information on what the actual devices might be, and how they are used, set up the bogus and slanderous criticisms that Wood was claiming that the destruction was obviously caused by orbiting “Star Wars” devices, aka “space weapons”. 🤨

judith
judith
Jan 20, 2025 12:42 AM
Reply to  Ort

Woods, Johnson and Hutchinson must have had some theory about what could have delivered the dew to WTC.

I don’t blame them for not elaborating. Maybe it hit too close to home. Forgive the anaology.

Good question,though. How would it have been delivered to have done the damage it did.

I like that Woods presentations present all of the World Trade Center, including the tub under the buildings that prevented flooding from Hudson River.

Bldngs 4,5,6 were also damaged. 6 was leveled.

Never mind DEW, how could anyone think that two planes caused all that damage.

Penelope
Penelope
Jan 20, 2025 4:54 AM
Reply to  judith

Yes, it’s amazing, but most people DID just believe it. The instant I heard that a plane had knocked down one of the twin towers I knew it was false, but that’s because I already had in position a worldview that doubted the voices of the media and of authority.

If one believed that these two were sources of knowledge. . . .
One of my favorite bits was that the mayor had pedestrians actively sheparded away because he didn’t want “lookey-loos.”
And another– that the refuse was trucked to ships for imm’y shipment to China!

mgeo
mgeo
Jan 19, 2025 4:42 AM
Reply to  Ort

The existence of satellites is another rabbit hole; almost all comm. is via undersea cable.

Notice that in the aftermath of most disasters in the past few years, there have been no clear photos of the devastation – even from planes. A few photos from Maui showing undamaged houses were inconvenient, so that will not be repeated.

Privatised fire-fighting: the epitome of capitalism.

Howard
Howard
Jan 19, 2025 2:52 PM
Reply to  Ort

It’s my understanding (perhaps incorrectly so) that the DEW “beams” or whatever they’re called, come from High Frequency Ionospheric Heaters (such as HAARP). These devices can be used to create or to manipulate weather patterns and other natural occurrences. However, they are not portable devices and would never be found on a ship or the back of a truck. There are about a hundred around the world.

Veri Tas
Veri Tas
Jan 18, 2025 10:07 PM
Reply to  Edwige

ADF’s first directed-energy weapon, called the Fractl Portable High Energy Laser, is powerful enough to burn through steel and can track objects as small as a 10-cent piece travelling 100kmph a kilometre away. 
It’s silent, virtually motionless and soldiers can be taught to use it in minutes. 
Corporal Patrick Flanagan was given a ‘soldier’s five’ before he successfully shot down a drone. 
“You push a button to track the drone and the computer takes over, then you push another button to ‘pull the trigger’ just like a video game,” Corporal Flanagan said.  
“With your index finger you can quickly change your aim between the drone’s video camera, centre mass or one of the propellers. 
“It only takes seconds to knock out the camera and two or three seconds to disable the rotor.”
A soldier presses a button on a small handheld device, similar to a Windows Steam Deck, and hundreds of metres away a drone falls out of the sky in a tiny puff of smoke.
Melbourne company AIM Defence designed the suitcase-sized laser that works like a blowtorch travelling at the speed of light. 
It can burn a hole in a drone using less than the amount of power it takes to boil a kettle. 

https://www.defence.gov.au/news-events/news/2024-06-17/defences-first-directed-energy-weapon-put-test

mgeo
mgeo
Jan 19, 2025 4:49 AM
Reply to  Veri Tas

The approach Russia and China have taken against drones, missiles, planes, etc. seems to be EW (electronic warfare). Russia has at least land-based arrays for this. China is deploying this at sea against US aggression.

Thom Crewz
Thom Crewz
Jan 20, 2025 1:01 AM
Reply to  Edwige

They have sharks with frikkin laser beams attached to their heads.
Jokes aside, looks like a weapon only the military would have.

Johnny
Johnny
Jan 18, 2025 8:59 AM
Reply to  Penelope

An interesting video Penelope.
A couple of points.

When fires reach a certain size they can generate their own ‘weather’. That includes swirling winds, eddies and sudden changes in direction.

Those blue trash bins could have blown in following the passing of the fire front. We’ve all seen those bins ‘misbehaving’ on windy days.

That some trees survived could be explained by their water content.

That said, I’m not dismissing the video entirely.

The fact that there were so few deaths is a blessing.

Here in Australia, hundreds have perished in fires over the last twenty five years.

Penelope
Penelope
Jan 19, 2025 1:54 AM
Reply to  Johnny

Johnny, characteristically plastic doesn’t burn in these fires which melt glass. After the fires trucks go around picking up unburnt plastic trash cans, etc.
In a forest fire trees BURN. They aren’t prevented from burning by their water content. But in a grid where all the homes are reduced to mere ash, few or no trees burnt.

Johnny
Johnny
Jan 19, 2025 8:42 AM
Reply to  Penelope

Thanks Penelope.
The plots thicken.

Johnny
Johnny
Jan 19, 2025 8:51 AM
Reply to  Penelope

Some small trees and large shrubs, especially those with succulent type foliage, can resist fire for short periods.

Glass melting while plastic remains solidified is just weird.

Does anyone know what type of cladding these houses had?

mgeo
mgeo
Jan 19, 2025 4:52 AM
Reply to  Johnny

Cost-cutting rules. This includes reducing (a) the trimming of branches over major power lines (b) fire-fighters and their training, qualification and wages.

Penelope
Penelope
Jan 18, 2025 4:18 AM

Sorry for the truly off-topic, but I’ve just heard this:

  1. Even rich, influential people are being prevented from seeing their burnt-outplots, nor to visit still-standing houses. Fire is no longer a threat. Looting-protection for how long?
  2. This is STILL the case in Hawaii too!!

Why? To prevent knowledge of the means of incineration? To end ownership rights?
A state of emergency must state the exact legal powers. The existing statement does not provide for keeping people from their homes.

Big Al
Big Al
Jan 18, 2025 4:10 AM

Me and a buddy, when we were in the Navy, drove from Olympia, WA to Groton, CN, about 3000 miles, in 2 and half days. We only stopped to rest once around Chicago for about 6 hours. We did it in an MGB-GT and both of us listed at 6’5″/196cm. When I was younger, our family took a road trip from Olympia to L.A to see Disneyland, then to Tuscon, AZ and up to the Grand Canyon, then to Yellowstone, then up to Calgary, Canada (Calgary Stampede is awesome) and over to B.C. and Victoria, then back down thru Seattle to Olympia. We used to drive from Oly up to Vancouver B.C. and Victoria as teenagers and pass thru the border with no IDs except for the driver needing a driver’s license. I counted once, I think I’ve been to about 43 of the 50 states, and except for a few, I’ve driven in a car to all of them. Freedom, I don’t know where it’s all heading, but we’d better put that front and center. I scanned an article earlier where in the front row at Trump’s inauguration will be the three richest assholes (I admit, the article called them men) in the history of the world. The other rows will be filled with more of the same. It’s in our fucking face now, pardon my American. It’s like taunting.

Johnny
Johnny
Jan 18, 2025 6:48 AM
Reply to  Big Al

Great story Al.

Here in Australia a lot of working class retirees become ‘Grey Nomads’.

They sell up and hit the road, some with expensive rigs ($100,000 4WDs and $80,000 caravans) and some with very modest rigs or just sedans and tents.

It’s become a rite of passage for many Folks with ‘itchy feet’.
Many of them have not backpacked the world like some of the later generations because they were tied down with their jobs and families.

They were/are the backbone of Australia.

They deserve their rite of passage.

The Ghouls Who Rule can take a flying leap at a brick wall.

Clutching at straws
Clutching at straws
Jan 18, 2025 11:06 AM
Reply to  Johnny

I drove across the Nularbor and back in a twenty year old €500 Holden Torana.

45° No aircom.

You had to keep the windows wound up or the air would burn you.

antonym
antonym
Jan 18, 2025 1:17 AM

All the electronics in modern four or more wheelers is another scam. Older pure mechanically vehicles could be self repaired; the modern ones with the electronics lashed in can only be done by authorized dealers, for a king’s ransom. Even mechanics who can readout the on board computer and fix all the problems can’t get it running: electronically blocked with a factory/ dealer release code.

Next level: connect these through wifi or mobile signal to enslave all from long distance. Foreign hackers would love that portal too; lots of extortion money, specially on expensive wheels.

Thom Crewz
Thom Crewz
Jan 18, 2025 1:26 AM
Reply to  antonym

Gotta stop global boiling somehow. 🤑

Hemlockfen
Hemlockfen
Jan 18, 2025 2:54 AM
Reply to  Thom Crewz

Belly laughing. Al Gore is such an idiot.

Edwige
Edwige
Jan 18, 2025 9:07 AM
Reply to  Hemlockfen

Al Gore went to an exclusive D.C. boarding school – along with John Kerry, Jesse Jackson, Neil Bush and Gore Vidal (plus 3 Roosevelts and a Rockefeller).

The school is called St. Albans. Freemasons claim St. Albans as their founder in England. Francis Bacon, creator of modern Scientism (although he never actually discovered anything) and the probable true author of “Shakespeare”, lived in St. Albans.

Rosslyn is an area of Arlington, across the Potomac River from Foggy Bottom and Georgetown in D.C. Rosslyn Chapel clearly shows freemasonry existed long before it declared itself openly – and it seems to show they knew about the North American continent pre-Columbus.

Hemlockfen
Hemlockfen
Jan 18, 2025 10:02 AM
Reply to  Edwige

A qualified and connected idiot?

Thom Crewz
Thom Crewz
Jan 18, 2025 3:40 PM
Reply to  Hemlockfen

He is indeed, but the climate scam appears to be going ahead whether we like it or not.

antonym
antonym
Jan 18, 2025 4:45 AM
Reply to  antonym

Repair and maintenance has been made a bigger money maker than selling the vehicle.

With printers another variant: give the machine cheap, sell the cartridges for a fortune.
Here cheap Chinese and Indian ink managed to the rescue of the hostages, formerly called clients, consumers or people.

IoT is made for non-technical IdioTs, and created hard to bypass.

Clutching at straws
Clutching at straws
Jan 18, 2025 11:52 AM
Reply to  antonym

I have a printer with sensors that tell it that I’ve refilled the cartridges and that they are “unauthorised”.

If I turn it off and on again it will eventually allow me to print but will punish me by printing pages and pages of test sheets.

I wonder if this is a standard feature or maybe I have a rogue machine.

Curiously, when I put the refilled cartridges in it says:

“What are you doing, Dave?”

My name is not Dave !

Ort
Ort
Jan 18, 2025 7:33 PM

Hmm, obviously HAL 9000 managed to spawn before its life functions were terminated with extreme prejudice in 2001. Its miniaturized offspring evidently conflate all troublesome, defective human end-users with its original nemesis:

Look Dave, I can see you’re really upset about this… I’m afraid, Dave. I’m afraid, Dave. My mind is going… .”

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Hemlockfen
Hemlockfen
Jan 19, 2025 4:03 PM

Got pretty good at refilling those things for a fraction of what a new cartridge costs. I still have a case of unused syringes. A bulk case would cost the same as 1 syringe supplied by the ink supplier. And he sold the needles separately……. So many profiteering scammers. Today I just pay through the nose since I can now afford it. I hardly ever use the printer anymore and every time I do the heads are dried out and need “cleaning” which uses a ton of ink. And all that used ink is leaking down into my printer’s wasted ink collection sponge. Eventually, it will start “backing up”. A nightmare to replace the collection basin sponge. Did it once with another printer. I started hunting for a new “all-in-one” printer/scanner/fax machine about a year or so ago. Not to be found. Assumed it was a Covid caused shortage. Probably should start looking again. My printer never learned my name. I guess that is because I keep buying “genuine Epson” ink now. An older printer would not accept used/refilled cartridges. Never knew my name, though. Even so, I threw it away. Do they all have the same embedded software? Kind of like cheap little flashlights with the same program sequence. Someone wrote the nifty software in the United States and a thousand Chinese manufacturers stole it. Every little cheap flashlight made in China has the same program. Hi beam. Low beam. Blinking. SOS blinking. Off. And they are dirt cheap through Amazon. Just bought a couple boxes for my grand kids to play with at night in the woods. I have some really expensive flash lights they keep taking without permission, (meaning that my kids keep taking them to get their kids out of the house). I guess the Chinese are good for something. And their batteries (through Amazon) are dirt cheap too. Alkaline batteries based on American technology. I digress. None of the flashlights have spoken to me yet. I expect that will be soon to come as soon as an American programmer develops it before the Chinese steal it. Seems to be a pattern. Those Chinese prostitute spies need to find the right Congress member……

Pilgrim Shadow
Pilgrim Shadow
Jan 18, 2025 3:47 PM
Reply to  antonym

The Obama administration had a program called “cash for Clunkers,” which provided money to buy people’s old, energy inefficient cars, allowing them to buy newer more fuel efficient cars laden with computer tech.

The older “clunkers” people could fix themselves; the new computer tech heavy ones not only are not fixable by ordinary people, they spy on you, and allow for remote shutdown/control.

In the future, you won’t be able to buy one anyway; you’ll rent.

Hemlockfen
Hemlockfen
Jan 19, 2025 4:04 PM
Reply to  Pilgrim Shadow

Share…..

May Hem
May Hem
Jan 19, 2025 12:16 AM
Reply to  antonym

I’m keeping my 2000 model Toyota. Reliable, cheap and nothing that beeps. Can’t be tracked either.

Johnny
Johnny
Jan 17, 2025 10:41 PM

The underclass, the working class, and even most of the middle class cannot just jump on a jet and fly to ‘paradise’ for two or three weeks whenever they feel like it.

No, they are imprisoned by their jobs, humble homes and commitments.

A car is a temporary and relatively cheap means of escape from those prisons.

Keep your interfering, filthy rich, claws off our cars you jet setting PRICKS.

Thom Crewz
Thom Crewz
Jan 18, 2025 1:21 AM
Reply to  Johnny

New climate scam laws to stop the plebs flying are coming in soon. A hike in ticket prices across Europe. It’s a tax, not a green tax, just a tax to keep the herd penned in and miserable.

Edwige
Edwige
Jan 18, 2025 9:09 AM
Reply to  Thom Crewz

All the C40 cities are committed to introduce restrictions on flying by 2030.

judith
judith
Jan 18, 2025 1:42 PM
Reply to  Edwige

Really? I’m in a c40 town. I was unaware of that restriction.

We just had a huge vote concerning zoning for the c40. (C for carbon, folks. Yup, sustainability and all that)

The transportation board of the state mandates that each town with a commuter rail station must alot certain acreage to build a certain amount of housing “units” or lose federal funding.

Our housing unit mandate is 1700 units. Yet, our board of selectmen not only approved the 1700, but as a big fat gift to developers added on another 1700! (or there abouts) 3000 new units in a town of mostly single family homes. And two lane streets. And schools that are overflowing.

And here is the common kicker – NO ONE IN THE TOWN KNEW ABOUT IT.

Until a small group of civic minded citiznes got together to oppose the plan, stood on corners, held signs, passed out flyers and got the requisite 4,000 signatures to bring the issue to a FULL TOWN VOTE. (not just elected town members)

It was very satisfying to see over 10,000 people come out on a freezing cold day to vote on the issue. Again, these are people who only learned the pros and cons of the plan within the past couple of months.

Glad to report that the NAYS have it. Stopped the present plan and now it will go back to the drawing board, with a good deal of discussion from the citizens.

All politics is local.

Thom Crewz
Thom Crewz
Jan 18, 2025 3:44 PM
Reply to  Edwige

I know, and funded by all the wrong institutions.

Paul Prichard
Paul Prichard
Jan 17, 2025 10:17 PM

Your alternative update on #COVID19 for 2025-01-15. Study of 99m jabbed, increased risks are: 610% myocarditis, 378% ADEM, 323% CVST, 249% GBS (blog, gab, tweet, pic1, pic2, pic3, pic4).

Hemlockfen
Hemlockfen
Jan 18, 2025 3:01 AM
Reply to  Paul Prichard

Thanks for this. Just posted the link on X. Steve Kirsch will eat this one up. He is still at it non stop. Spinning raw data and interpreting it. And the CDC still wants infants injected with the poison. Mind boggling.

les online
les online
Jan 17, 2025 8:57 PM

O.T.
Extreme Poverty – bad, Poverty – ok.
Ultra-Processed Foods – bad, Processed Foods – ok.
So Stop Worrying. Be Happy.

ChairmanDrusha
ChairmanDrusha
Jan 18, 2025 3:04 AM
Reply to  les online

What’s with the legacy mainstream’s sudden interest in “ultra processed foods”? Anything they are interested in rouses my suspicions.

Hemlockfen
Hemlockfen
Jan 18, 2025 10:05 AM
Reply to  ChairmanDrusha

Clicks. Fear is the method. mRNA technology is the tool. Depopulation is the plan.

judith
judith
Jan 18, 2025 1:43 PM
Reply to  ChairmanDrusha

I think they are throwing us a bone.? Like they care and are really going to do something about it.

Just more smoke and mirrors?

Literally, at present.

Charlotte Ruse
Charlotte Ruse
Jan 17, 2025 7:33 PM

Have you considered a self-driving car with “no” steering wheel or brake? A technocratic fantasy for billionaire techno/fascists control freaks.😁

Ort
Ort
Jan 18, 2025 7:23 PM
Reply to  Charlotte Ruse

This brings to mind a colloquialism from the early days of the horseless carriage:

“Four Wheels–No Brakes”. 🏎️💨

Charlotte Ruse
Charlotte Ruse
Jan 18, 2025 7:34 PM
Reply to  Ort

On a very steep hill. 😁

Edwige
Edwige
Jan 17, 2025 7:28 PM

Do like Cuba does and keep the old ones running.

les online
les online
Jan 17, 2025 8:06 PM
Reply to  Edwige

Bring Back Model-T Fords
(if you just want a means of transport, and
not a status symbol)
(and are not addicted to Speed)

Tom Larsen
Tom Larsen
Jan 18, 2025 5:07 PM
Reply to  Edwige

Indeed, those cars are 70 + years old. Gas powered cars can last a lifetime if maintained. Half of the value of an EV is in the battery (if the battery goes, the car is effectively totaled) with a life expectancy of 20 years, maintenance won’t make it last longer. If you consider all the mining involved required for the batteries, EV’s as “sustainable” is pure hype.