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Bill Russell's avatar

Elon Musk needs methane gas for his Mar's rocket. I'm sure Elon would run a pipeline to Murdoch's cows in Montana. Murdoch doesn't have to import seaweed from the ocean.

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Bill Russell's avatar

Thanks for the chuckles. I don't think Santa Barbaran's are too amused by having to suffer through all the Elon Musk rocket launches only to learn all those launched satellites will be eventually crashing into each other miles above the earth.

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Howard Walther's avatar

I read with interest, Intelligence Individual, Mr. Eringer's article titled

"Covid Chopsticks! AI’s Bag of Tricks! Nosty Predicts! Bilderberg Hits the Bricks!"

and I quote from same "Dare I say, after dining with former KGB chairman Vladimir Kryuchkov and his crony, KGB Col. Igor Prelin, at his favorite restaurant (Fairy Tale) in Moscow in June 1997, I wrote a memo to my FBI Counterintelligence handlers detailing our conversation about how the KGB would return to power through a former KGB officer who would replace President Yeltsin. (At that time, no one had heard of Putin.)"

A new title for today's Current, from yesterday's Current Title "Silence is Golden" should read

"Gold for Silence" and I quote Mr. Eringer again "And I sat there thinking I’ve come through the looking glass and landed at the mad KGB chairman’s dinner party, as painted by Salvador Dali.

Point is, our intelligence community should have (and did) see it coming, did nothing about it— and acts surprised 27 years later."

Where Mr. Eringer is dead wrong."...our intelligence community should have (and did) see it coming, did nothing about it— ..."

I provide Mr. Eringher and the SB Currentor's this weblink below, for the US Intelligence Closure of the Oldest Russian Consulate in 8/31/2017 titled and I quote from same>>>>

"The Secret History of the Russian Consulate in San Francisco Overflights, mapping fiber-optic networks, “strange activities.” Moscow’s West Coast spies were busy."

"But why the focus on San Francisco? Why not close one of Russia’s other three consulates, in New York, Seattle, or Houston? And why now?" "The answer, I discovered, appears to revolve around an intensive, sustained, and mystifying pattern of espionage emanating from the San Francisco consulate. According to multiple former intelligence officials, while these “strange activities” were not limited to San Francisco or its environs, they originated far more frequently from the San Francisco consulate than any other Russian diplomatic facility in the United States, including the Russian Embassy in Washington, D.C." "These sources confirmed that the San Francisco consulate served a unique role in Russian intelligence-gathering operations in the United States, as an important, and perhaps unrivaled, hub for its technical collection efforts here. But, as I discovered, it was what these efforts entailed that is key to understanding why San Francisco — the oldest and most established Russian Consulate in the United States — was singled out for closure."

In closing not just the San Fran Russian Consulate, anyone got any "Gold For Silence" concerning the Russian Activities in California?

How about right here in our little ole Beach Town of Santa Barbara? Any Gold found its way into anyone's pockets in Santa Barbara? How about 3,300,000.00 of Gold. I think that would buy alot of Silence, what say you Mr. Eringer?

Ecclesiastes 3:7 "A time to tear, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;"

Howard Walther member of a Military Family

PS1 - Russia just loves little ole Santa Barbara from Foreign Policy Mag. weblink and title below>

"A look at the peculiar obsession with “Santa Barbara” in the post-Soviet experience."

https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/07/24/american-soap-opera-explains-how-russia-feels-about-everything-santa-barbara-trump-putin/

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Paul Aijian MD's avatar

Regarding the reluctance of the deep state to call Covid the China virus goes beyond not wanting to parrot Trump. The story is much more complicated than bats, and a dropped test tube in Wuhan. The Covid virus and the “ cure” of the mRNA vaccine existed, and were planned, long before people started getting sick in Wuhan. The interview with the producer of the movie, “Thank you Dr Fauci“ explains to the rest of you what has been evident to some of from the beginning. Ignorance of this is a problem as the same mad scientist like Daszak Fauci Ralph Barrick and a cast of DARPA madmen are the ones you need to know about. These same people have reportedly done gain of function on the influenza virus to launch the bird flu pandemic, or Covid 2.0. They have a vaccine already produced and the emergency is in the wings. Pun intended.

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Pat Fish's avatar

The link at the end of Howard Walther's comment to the article about the soap opera Santa Barbara's effect on the Russian people is mandatory reading.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/07/24/american-soap-opera-explains-how-russia-feels-about-everything-santa-barbara-trump-putin/

I had a client from Ukraine this year who told me the same information, that the vision they had of the West, the first television glimpse of the life in America, was that show. And he said every time a new episode aired there was no crime for an hour, everyone including gangsters were glued to their TV sets.

When he came to me to get a tattoo his daughter was so excited she could come along and explore the city. I was actually IN the first episode, sitting as an "extra" on the bus, which gave me great points with him.

Contrast our complaints about the annoyances of our physical environment being eroded by mandates and government mistakes with the bleak frozen wasteland that is the average Russian city.

As we launch into 2025 it is good to have the perspective that for MILLIONS of people our little town was the vision of freedom, of the good life, of prosperity and style.

I sent the article to the Ukrainian fellow and he responded: "Yeah, haha. True. Also, if there's something complicated going between friends, like relationships, changing pairs inside one group of people, when you never know who dates who in the current period of time, we often call it like: it's kind of Santa Barbara going between them."

That's an interesting perspective, no?

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J. Livingston's avatar

Concur. I was taking an Amur River cruise in Russia Far East, right after the collapse of the Soviet Union and was bit of a celebrity among the ship's staff when it became known was actually from Santa Barbara. I had never seen the series myself, so I knew nothing about the fuss.

But our guide repeated the same stories - life came to a standstill in every corner of Russia (Soviet Union) when the series was on and everyone talked about the last evening's episode all day at work. Yes, they said they enjoyed the manners and the polite conversations among the actors and tried to emulate these formalities themselves. Hello, how are you, instead of a gruff gimme that. She reported everyone went into a mini-depression on Fridays after the last episode for the week, knowing it would be a few days over the weekend until they got their next Santa Barbara fix the following Monday.

I finally looked at a few episodes later once I got home and had to laugh since besides some opening and closing photo vistas of Santa Barbara, it was mainly a sound stage with some cheesy Spanish style furniture and a tall potted bougainvillea at the doorway. A weird episode about using the town veterinarian to deliver a lover's baby which needed to be kept secret from members of the prominent family.

The "gated Santa Barbara mansion" in the closing credits was actually a view across Alameda Park vegetation, showing the older Spanish style apartment building with an arched entry on the corner of Garden and Sola. The exclusivity of that calculated image was ruined when for a few seconds a large truck rolled up Garden Street between the "private grounds" and the Santa Barbara "mansion".

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Pat Fish's avatar

* One note: the reason I got to be an extra was because I had written a feature article about the woman who was the location scout for the show in The Independent, which might have been in the NightLight Magazine days it is so long ago. Exteriors were shot in Santa Barbara and Montecito. The first episode that I did watch showed a long drive coming down off the Mesa onto Cabrillo and the shore and there are hardly any cars, made me heave a sigh at the thought that the traffic density now is so extreme by comparison.

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Chuck santry's avatar

Great way to end 2024!

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Julia Gonzales's avatar

Mr. Eringer, it seems freedom of speech is gonna cost me. OK I’ll pay for my opinion of your article. As usual you have quite a buffet of topics. Space junk has concerned me since I first started hearing about it, but that chain reaction could be a possibility. Also your depiction of the China bug is suspicious to me. Is it supposed to look Asian? To me it actually looks like quite a few minorities, was it meant to? It could be Asian, Hispanic, Middle Eastern, and few others. Just wondering.

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