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Good. Now we just wait to see how long until the upstairs neighbor sees it creeping in.

I just let it go full jungle, right?

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Read this book well over a decade ago and the second edition that followed. The 3rd Edition is a must read/listen.

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, 3rd Edition by John Perkins:

New York Times Bestseller

How do we stop the unrelenting evolution of the economic hit man strategy and China’s takeover?

The riveting third edition of this New York Times bestseller blows the whistle on China’s economic hit man (EHM) strategy, exposes corruption on an international scale, and offers much-needed solutions for curing the degenerative Death Economy.

In this shocking exposé, former EHM John Perkins gives an insider view into the corrupt system that cheats and strong-arms countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars and ultimately causes staggering income inequality and ecological devastation.

EHMs are highly paid professionals who use development loans to saddle countries with huge debts and force them to serve US interests. Now, a new EHM wave is infecting the world, and at the peak of the devastation sits China, a newly dominant economic power, with its own insidious version of the US EHM blueprint. Twelve explosive new chapters detail the allure, exploitation, and wreckage of China's EHM strategy in Latin America, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Europe.

If allowed to continue its rampage, the EHM strategy—whether executed by the United States or China—will destroy life as we know it. However, all is not lost. Perkins offers a plan for transforming this system that places profits above all into a Life Economy that restores the earth. He inspires listeners to take actions toward a new era of global cooperation that will end the United States's and China's EHM strategies for good.

#IKITAO #IKITAOReads

Important read

Happy new year, y’all.

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What a day to get married. Cheers to 4 years and forever more.

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They relocated from CA to TX recently. I feel like they’re primed.

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The Woman Who Saved Reality With a VCR

Marion Stokes understood something most people missed: whoever controls the narrative controls reality.

So she did something about it.

This former librarian and civil rights activist started recording TV intermittently in the mid-1970s. But when the Iranian Hostage Crisis erupted on November 4, 1979, she hit record and never stopped—capturing over 33 years of 24/7 coverage across 71,000 VHS tapes.

Every single day for three and a half decades, Marion ran up to eight VCRs simultaneously. News programs, sitcoms, commercials, breaking news coverage—everything that flickered across American television screens.

Her family thought she was obsessed. Neighbors called it hoarding. But Marion saw what was coming.

She watched TV networks erase old shows to save money and space. She witnessed how stories changed when they were retold years later. Without permanent records, truth becomes whatever the loudest voice claims it to be.

As someone who'd fought for civil rights and worked as a librarian, Marion believed information should belong to everyone—not just those with power and money.

So she turned her Philadelphia home into a fortress of truth. Tapes stacked floor to ceiling. Multiple properties filled with archives. Her son Michael rushing home from dinner to swap out cassettes because "Mom's recorders couldn't miss a minute."

When Marion died in 2012, she left behind the most complete record of American television from that era. Not because she was paranoid. Because she saw what was coming.

Now the Internet Archive is digitizing every tape. Making 33 years of TV history searchable and free.

She wasn't hoarding. She was protecting.

Because Marion Stokes understood a fundamental truth..

In a world where information is power, someone has to guard the gates of truth.

Wow. Haven’t heard this before

Have been thinking of setting this up. It just hosts your own posts, is that right?

Hah, right? I think it gets nutrients from the tree and the fungi is the conduit. But regardless it’s pretty wild