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The communist media operations are in
agony. From The Flyover, 12SEP2026:
"One of America's largest newspaper
chains cut more than 90 journalists
nationally across at least 13 papers
Thursday, with some newsrooms losing up
to 40% of their staff in McClatchy's
most severe layoffs in years.
The Fresno Bee was left with roughly a
dozen reporters to cover California's
fifth-largest city. The Miami Herald,
which once employed 300 journalists,
will now have fewer than 50. Papers in
Idaho, Kansas City, Charlotte, and
Kentucky were also hit. McClatchy, owned
by hedge fund Chatham Asset Management
since its 2020 bankruptcy, cited a 41%
decline in consumer revenue over five
years, reflecting an ongoing decline in
newspaper advertising and readership,
and came despite efforts by the company
to cut costs and increase productivity
by using AI content tools."
The lamestream media should have
anticipated this repudiation of
insulting stupid propaganda, lies, TDS,
and absolute nonsense but they did not.
Rather than introduce at least a modicum
of integrity after the repeal of the
Communist Occupation in November of
2024, they became even more deranged.
For a long time now, they have been the
single biggest threat to liberty, the
rule of law, and a civil society--as I
have noted many times in this eNL. I've
suggested some things we can do to fight
back, and it appears that many people
(not just my dear readers) have been
doing those or similar things. Once the
lamestream media reaches "the tipping
point", they will permanently cease to
be much of a problem. This war against
the poisoning of minds is going the way
the war against smoking went; the evil
ones had the upper hand for decades and
appeared to be unstoppable. But then
common sense won out, en masse, and
people simply rejected the insanity.
Adding to the lamestream media woes,
but enormously benefiting the USA, three
of the lamestream media have been banned
from the White House due to their
persistent fake news. The Communist News
Network, NS Now, and Politico were
banned. Since they simply make up
whatever they want and call it "news"
it's not as if they even need to be
there in the first place. Of course,
these three are now claiming a violation
of the First Amendment as if it somehow
protects against hate speech, false
advertising, slander, libel, inciting
violence, and sedition. It does not
protect these behaviors. Nor does it in
any way protect some fictional right to
make up utter bullsh-- from a specific
location. And that is the crux of it.
Trump's ban is not on the bullsh--, it's
on letting those liars into the White
House. Real reporters are not banned,
even if they disagree with the President
or this administration.
All last year, Elizabeth Moron
repeatedly referred to "Trump's
disastrous economic policies". Here is
the reality: "U.S. households registered
their highest income levels ever last
year, while the poverty rate fell to a
record low, according to new government
data." [Epoch Times, 17SEP2026].
There is a rumor that Elizabeth Moron
will be attending the Third Grade at a
local elementary school for a year so
she can, at long last, get a handle on
basic math. It's just a rumor, but one
can hope....
The Fed took back the quarter point
rate decrease that we got last year. So
we are back up to 4%. This is good for
the bond markets and necessary for
selling bonds to offset our deficit
spending (the balance being inflation).
It's bad for borrowers on SBA loans,
HELOCs, and other loans tied to Prime.
The Fed is walking a tightrope. What
needs to happen is we need to
dramatically reduce the deficit
spending, not try to finance it. The
reduction in waste, fraud, and abuse is
helping, but increases in the defense
budget and various other forms of
largess are more than using up the
savings. President Trump is mostly
counting on growing our way out of this,
which is in reality the only practical
way to do it. But growing enough to
offset a $2 trillion spending gap is one
very tall order. Notice I said "mostly".
It's a multi-pronged strategy that is
hitting nearly every possible lever.
The Republican mid-term convention (a
"first") got over 100 million views
online. That is very good news, as it
means a mass of patriots are concerned
about keeping the House and Senate from
being controlled by the communists. Get
out and vote!
"Recent years have shown that the Antarctic
Ice Sheet is actually growing, having gained
nearly 700 billion tons of ice since 2020.
Now, a new study published in the journal
Nature explains this counterintuitive piece
of good news. Pulling data from satellite
observations, precipitation ice core
samples, and atmospheric model experiments,
an international team of researchers
discovered an atmospheric
teleconnection—weather phenomena linked
across vast distances—between tropical sea
surface temperatures (SST) and an increase
of precipitation in the districts of Queen
Mary Land and Wilkes Land in East
Antarctica. This increased precipitation
mass, driven in large part by long, narrow
bands of concentrated water vapor known as
atmospheric rivers, balances much of the sea
ice loss that’s been happening in West
Antarctica. [Popular Mechanics]
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Centerpoint Archery devices
Cold Steel knives
Dead Downwind hunting products
G5 hunting products
Flexilla hose connectors
Funko collectibles
Liberty Monitors hidden camera gadgets
Mike Holt Electrical Exam Preparation
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Nagy's aftermarket sound system parts
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Paraben Consumer data recovery sticks,
porn detection sticks, and similar
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ROK straps
Rostra universal cruise control kits
Swhacker archery products
In our eBay
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Radios:
Anytone 10 meter radios
Connex 10 meter radios
Dosy meters
General (brand) radios
Galaxy 10 meter and 11 meter (CB)
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President 10 and 11 meter radios
Ranger 10 meter radios
Texas Ranger radios (Chuck Norris not
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Uniden radios and scanners
3. Brainpower tip
You've
heard the expression, "Can't see the forest
for the trees". The meaning of this is you
are focusing on individual details and not
getting the big picture. This perspective
leads to things like winning the battle but
losing the war, or meeting the wrong goal. A
person who can correctly see the forest and
decide what to do in it, with it, or to it
is a strategist.
We all know people who have great ideas but
cannot execute. Maybe they can see the
forest, but they cannot focus on one tree at
a time to make their way through it. They
get lost. People who can see individual
trees and know what to do with them are
tacticians.
I am strong on tactical, not so strong on
strategic. People can mistake a string of
good tactical decisions for skill at
strategy, so don't fall into that trap. For
example, an alcoholic who takes one day at a
time is being tactical not strategic. I have
not missed a workout in 49 years, but
is that due to an overall strategy or due to
a decision to execute on schedule?
If you can take some time to analyze your
goals, plans, and past choices, you can
determine about where you are on the scale
with tactical at one end and strategic at
the other. What if you are very close to one
end? Well, it is a mental handicap to be
nearly all tactical and lack any strategic
ability and it is also a mental handicap to
be nearly all strategic and lack the ability
to execute. We call people in the second
group "dreamers". I am sure there is some
derogatory name for people in the first
group, also.
Does this mean you should work on your weak
area until you are about in the middle? The
answer depends upon what you do for a
living, what your personal responsibilities
are, and what your business and career goals
are. Let's map it out with an example:
A new hire right out of school needs
to be 95% tactical. Nobody cares about
this person's strategic vision, and it's
probably wrong anyhow due to lack of
experience. But he needs to understand
the big picture and how his contribution
fits.
A middle manager needs to be in about
the middle. This person is watching over
execution and had better understand it.
To move up in the company, this person
must also have some strategic
vision--albeit aimed and how to develop
the team he is responsible for not at
how to advise the CEO.
A senior executive needs to be about
80% strategic. Notice, it's not just a
flip of the new hire's ratio. The reason
is that senior executives are involved
in negotiations and they need to be good
at the execution part of negotiating.
If you lean really far toward the tactical
end, it is probably due to choosing tactical
rather than lacking strategic strength. In
other words, you have what you need but you
need to use it. When contemplating your next
moves, ask yourself if you are seeing the
big picture. Here's an example. Suppose you
hold a mortgage and the rate was 12% when
you took it out. Five years later, you
refinanced to 8%. That was smart. But let's
say every five years you refinance to get a
lower rate. After 20 years, you still hold a
full mortgage and you've paid closing costs
multiple times so now you owe more than when
you started. Your brother, by contrast, paid
off his note and is now mortgage-free.
Brilliant tactics with poor strategy will
still get poor results.
If you lean really far toward the strategic
end, a similar thing applies. I find many
people in this category, except they are not
particularly good at strategy. If they were,
they'd have already developed some decent
tactical ability. If you are always able to
"solve the world's problems", see exactly
what your company's management is "doing
wrong", and have a long-range plan with
steps you never complete, you are probably
this kind of person. My advice is to learn a
"use my hands" skill set. For example, take
a carpentry class or an automotive
technician class. Even if you have no
intention of working in those fields, a
semester of learning those skills will
provide you with discipline and an
information foundation that will serve you
well.
4. Finance tip
Communism is a stupidology predicated on the
idea that all of your problems are someone
else's fault.
You have to be mentally ill to embrace it.
But in the present moment, you also have to
be extremely ignorant to embrace it because
we move from theory to having survived the
four year Communist Occupation. Perhaps
pro-commies don't understand that's what it
was, which is likely the case because much
to my surprise when I mention the Communist
Occupation some people do not know what I am
referring to (they vote, and they walk among
us!).
As thinking people know, during the
Communist Occupation prices were much
higher. What pro-commie ignoramuses also
ignore is that failed experiment (in
non-democracy and communism) left every
single small business either extinct or
saddled with debt--and the cost of that will
take a very long time to pay off. Not to
mention that the inflation (currency
debasement) is a structural, not
fluctuating, change. Deflating the dollar
back to where it was prior to the Communist
Occupation would require running a $2
trillion federal surplus for six years
straight (or a $12 trillion surplus in one
year). We are currently running a $2
trillion deficit, so the debasement
continues.
Trump's solution is two-fold:
1. Reduce the outflow by reducing waste,
fraud, and corruption. He offset this by
increasing other spending, notably on the
military.
2. Grow the economy. He used dozens of
things toward this end, and as a collection
they are working quite well. The last jobs
report exceeded expectations 3X.
But the real limits of this approach prevent
it from closing the $2T annual gap. We need
also to cut core spending. Wait, he had a
third part--shrink the federal government.
That will help, but it's not $2T/year.
Except that much of the shrinkage takes
shackles off of business to enhance #2
above.
If we reduce our energy costs, by for
example getting Venezuelan oil (check the
box), and correct the China situation (check
the box), and reduce the massively negative
effects of drugs coming across the border
(check the box), and do a few other things
of this ilk (check the box), we can close
that gap. Trump has done all of this. Now we
wait for the effects to kick in.
Even if the federal government runs "only" a
$200 billion surplus, the effects will be
noticeable.
Implications and solutions
So what are the practical implications for
you, and what can you do about it? The
practical implications are a matter of
memory--memory of the devastating effects of
our own Communist Occupation. Censorship,
vastly increased poverty, food shortages,
forced medical experimentation, greatly
diminished government services, higher
prices on everything (remember egg prices?),
negativism, and crazy social experimentation
that is both morally repugnant and
insultingly stupid.
The threat to you is many young voters see
communism as somehow being a positive thing
and actually workable.
What can you do about it? Since
communism has inexplicably gained traction
in the USA as somehow being viable, it is
this perceived viability that we must do
something about. And remember, it's not so
much an ideology as a stupidology. Therein
lies the solution. Communism is such a
stupid concept, it is easy to tear apart. So
tear it apart.
When some young person (it's the young and
inexperienced who are at the commie rallies)
says capitalism is unfair, ask him what is
unfair about being rewarded for risks taken
and effort made. Then ask what risks he has
taken and what effort he has made. You
should also point out that capitalism is a
wealth creation system in which all boats,
or nearly all boats, rise. It has made
America by far the richest country on the
planet for a very long time. Ask in what way
communism has elevated the people of North
Korea, China, or Russia. It hasn't, and if
you really want to get down to brass tacks
just compare North Korea to South Korea. The
only real difference is the North is
communist and the South is capitalist. And
people in the North are much smaller in
stature than those in the South due to
decades of communism aka poverty, despite
being genetically homogeneous.
Another good thing to say is this. In a free
country, anyone can become a communist. In a
communist country, nobody can become free.
Pro-commies talk about "free" food, rent,
utilities, etc. as if these things are
actually free. But someone has to pay for
them. And for that to happen in a communist
system they must be forcibly taken from
someone else. In a capitalist system, people
can earn those things. Communism
commoditizes people and diminishes them no
matter how they apply themselves. Capitalism
elevates people and gives them the
opportunity to thrive if they apply
themselves. We need America to continue to
be the Land of Opportunity, not degrading
into the Land of Poverty that communism
would make it.
5. Security tip
During the Covid Scam era, porch theft
became a full-time job for many people. The
communists first devastated employers via
the stupid shutdowns, then offered them
cheap loans if they agreed not to fire any
employees. The unintended (or not)
consequence of this was that many employees
collected their paychecks but stopped
showing up to work. With all this free time,
they went into business themselves. They
would do things such as order from every
website they could find and then claim the
package wasn't delivered; they got to keep
the merchandise and not pay for it. At
first, the thieves got by with this. Then
every delivery service except USPS started
taking photos of the delivered packages.
This led to the related business of
following delivery trucks around and simply
stealing the delivered packages if left on
the porch. A little more leg work, but still
lucrative. Claims of "not delivered" don't
pass muster with those photographs, so they
are denied. If you have been a victim of
porch theft, you have paid for someone else
to get your package.
Some ways to eliminate the risk:
Go to www.myups.com
and create an account, if you have not
yet done this. You can specify a dropoff
location, such as a nearby CVS pharmacy.
Do a look-up of access points before
specifying one. You might find an
autoparts store or grocery store is more
convenient. You can do a similar thing
with FedEx.
Note that Amazon, Home Depot, and many
others have delivery lockers. Sign up
for this.
It is a felony with typically a five
year prison sentence to steal from a
mailbox. But people still do this,
because they are stupid. One solution is
to have a PO box for deliveries, and
sign up for delivery notifications per
the tracking number. USPS also lets you
specify that packages get left at your
local branch rather than delivered to
your porch or mailbox.
Some ways to reduce the risk, if you opt
for home delivery anyhow:
Install two separate cameras for your
porch. We know that one is not enough.
Sign up for delivery notifications,
and retrieve your package as soon as it
arrives (assuming you are home to do
that).
Set your stove timer for 47 minutes
(an odd time) on days you are expecting
a package, and check each time it goes
off then set it for another 47. This
reduces exposure time of left packages,
but can drive you batty.
Get one of those porch lockboxes, and
hope the driver uses it instead of
simply leaving the package.
Put any kind of box, hutch, or locker
on your porch. Put a sign "Set parcels
in here". This will hide parcels from
view, thus reducing the risk.
Shop local and support local
businesses, thus reducing the number of
boxes delivered to your porch.
6. Health tip/Fitness tips
Age 65 in
these pics
I'm an
"intermediate" level climber. We
intermediates:
Can smoothly "send" mid-range
problems (e.g., up to V7 or
5.12a).
Learned all of the climbing
techniques and use them.
Have not yet mastered the
movement that permits sending
advanced problems.
By contrast:
A basic level climber has
little or no hip rotation, and
thus climbs inefficiently with
little or no technique.
An advanced climber can send
V7 or 5.12 or higher, using
movement and balance more
efficiently than an intermediate
climber.
I pull from the spine, whether I
am pulling dead yucca leaves or
lifting something from the
floor. I've tried to teach
people how to do this, some catch
on but most do not. The amount of
pulling power you get this way is
huge, and you don't wreck your
shoulder. The amount of pulling
power dramatically increased
because of the sheer amount of
muscle fiber that is being used.
I'm describing something that very
few people ever learn to do:
generating force from the
spine‑anchored chain instead of
the shoulder‑arm chain. Most
people never catch on, because it
requires a perceptual shift, not
just a mechanical one. You’re not
“pulling with your arms” this way.
You’re recruiting the entire
posterior chain as a single
integrated unit.
What pulling from the spine means:
Posterior chain recruitment
— lats, erectors, QL, glutes,
and even hamstrings contribute
to the pull.
Thoracolumbar fascia
tensioning — the fascia acts
like a tensioned sheet
transmitting force across the
back.
Lat‑to‑pelvis linkage — the
lats anchor into the pelvis,
so the pull originates deep,
not in the shoulder.
Scapular depression
mechanics — the shoulder
becomes a pass‑through joint,
not the generator.
Whole‑body integration — the
pull is distributed across
many fibers, not isolated to
the deltoid or biceps.
Most people try to “pull with
their arm.” I pull with everything
behind the arm. In fact, when I am
pulling weeds or most anything
else I am pulling with my feet. I
will explain in a moment.
Why most people can’t learn to
pull from the spine
Motor pattern difficulty —
people default to arm‑dominant
movement because it’s
familiar.
Weak posterior chain —
sedentary lifestyles leave the
lats and erectors
underdeveloped.
Poor proprioception — they
can’t feel the deep muscles
engaging.
Fear of load — people
instinctively avoid recruiting
large muscle groups for
“simple” tasks.
Energy cost aversion — the
calorie burn is high, so the
body resists learning the
pattern.
Why the power is
enormous when
pulling from the
spine
Because you’re using:
lats
erectors
QL
glutes
hamstrings
thoracolumbar
fascia
core bracing
grip‑to‑spine
linkage
That’s a massive
amount of muscle
fiber.
A shoulder pull uses
maybe 5–7% of your
available pulling
musculature. A
spine‑anchored pull
uses 40–60%.
That’s why I can rip
yucca spines out like
they’re nothing.That’s
why I compress leaf
bags harder than most
men can lift them.
That’s why my work
gloves will tear, it's
just a lot of force.
Strong for my age?
It's true that I am strong for my
age, but also true that I am
strong for any age. I'm strong in
a way most people never become at
any age, and you can be strong
like that also. You just need to
master the movement of pulling
from the spine. Pulling from the
spine is:
efficient
powerful
safe for the shoulder
metabolically expensive
mechanically complex
cognitively demanding
It’s the same pattern we climbers
use on overhangs and we martial
artists use in a variety of
moves—but I am applying it even to
yard work. Which is why my output
is so high and I get done in an
hour what would take a normal
person a whole afternoon.
Pulling with the feet
When I pull old yucca leaves off,
I am pulling with my bare feet (I
do all yard work barefoot, except
when using power equipment). If I
sketched out the lever arms and
the force paths, it would be
obvious. It's that chain, and it
begins at the feet.
Ground‑force anchoring — your feet create the counterforce that lets the spine generate power.
Posterior chain recruitment — lats, erectors, QL, glutes, hamstrings all fire as one system.
Thoracolumbar fascia tensioning — the fascia becomes a loaded sheet transmitting force from pelvis to shoulders.
Lat‑to‑pelvis linkage — the lats pull down into the pelvis, not “out” from the shoulder.
Whole‑body integration — the arms are just the final expression of a force that started at the floor.
When I pull a yucca spine, I'm not “grabbing and yanking.” I'm loading the floor → loading the legs → loading the pelvis → loading the spine → loading the lats → loading the arms.
That’s why the power is enormous.
Iron Mike
If someone really understands
force chains, ground reaction, and
posterior‑chain recruitment,
watching Mike Tyson is like
watching a physics lecture
delivered through a human body.
And yes—if you gave him a yucca
plant, he’d “clean” it the same
way I do: by generating force from
the ground, through the spine,
into the lats, and finally out
through the hands. Not because
he’s Tyson. Because he uses the
same chain I'm talking about.
Why Tyson is the perfect example:
Ground‑force reaction —
Tyson’s punches start in his
feet, not his arms.
Posterior chain activation —
his lats, erectors, and glutes
fire as one integrated system.
Spinal torque mechanics — he
rotates through the
thoracolumbar fascia, not the
shoulder.
Whole‑body integration — the
arm is just the final link in
the chain.
Scapular depression — his
shoulders stay down and
connected to the spine,
maximizing transfer.
Tyson’s punch is a
pull‑from‑the‑spine delivered
forward, not a push from the
shoulder. That’s why his power
looks effortless. That’s why my
yucca‑pulling looks effortless.
It’s the same physics.
The Tyson → yucca connection
When Tyson throws a hook:
his feet anchor
his legs load
his pelvis rotates
his spine torques
his lats fire
his arm expresses the force
When I rip a yucca spine:
my feet anchor
my legs load
my pelvis stabilizes
my spine torques
my lats fire
my arm expresses the force
Different task, same chain. Most
people never learn this because
they never learn to feel the force
path. They think the arm is the
engine. The arm is just the
delivery mechanism.
Why does Tyson look “fast”? He’s
not fast because of arm speed.
He’s fast because:
the chain fires as one
the force path is clean
the movement is efficient
the ground reaction is
immediate
the spine is the lever
the arm is the endpoint
That’s exactly what I mean by
“...pulling with my bare feet.”
I'm using the same chain Tyson
uses—just in a different context.
I'm not just strong. I'm mechanically correct in a way most people never become (but you can, now that you know about it).
Tyson is the boxing version of what I do in my yard. I'm the yard‑work version of what Tyson does in the ring.
You can dramatically increase your
strength without adding a single
bit of muscle to your frame. The
key is to use the muscle you
already have. Anchor your feet and
pull from the spine.
7. Factoid
In
a capitalist society, a person has the
opportunity to become wealthy due to
hard work and smart decisions. In a
communist society, nobody gets ahead by
working hard, or making smart decisions;
they get ahead by being a member of the
ruling elite. Capitalism is a system for
creating wealth, communism is a system
for consuming it.
8. Thought for the Day
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal
sharing of the blessings. The inherent
blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of
misery.
- Winston Churchill
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Authorship
The purpose of this publication is to inform and
empower its readers (and save you money!). The views
expressed in this e-newsletter are generally not
shared by socialists or other brainwashed
individuals. That's because those fools live in an
alternate reality and have not bothered to learn the
basics of how life works. They cannot do basic math,
cannot apply logic, and cannot be bothered to learn
the basic facts relevant to any topic that they are
passionate about.
Except where noted, this e-newsletter is
entirely the work of Mark Lamendola. Anything
presented as fact can be independently verified.
Where sources are not given, they are readily
available to anyone who makes the effort. Mark
provides information from either research or his
own areas of established expertise. Sometimes,
what appears to be a personal opinion is the only
possibility when applying sound logic--reason it
out before judging! (That said, some personal
opinions do appear on occasion).
Personal note from Mark: I value each and every
one of you, and I hope that shows in the diligent
effort I put into writing this e-newsletter. It is
an act of service, almost no money is generated
for me through this effort. Thank you for being a
faithful reader. Please pass this newsletter along
to others.
