I enjoy playing complicated characters who use their minds to get out of situations that look hopeless.
"Life outside the wire" is a familiar military expression to describe the world beyond the protection of a secured military installation or base.
From physical attacks to cybersecurity threats, the world we live in is constantly changing, presenting new and sometimes unseen challenges. Surveillance can serve as a deterrent, but it cannot eliminate every threat. In an increasingly digital world, security must extend beyond physical barriers to include the protection of personal information, digital identities, and communications.
Growing security concerns for senior government officials - including the exposure of private home addresses and protests outside their residences - have prompted an increasing number of Trump administration officials to move into military housing in the Washington, D.C., area.
Those currently reported to be living in military or other protected housing include Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, and Attorney General Todd Blanche. The moves have followed a range of security concerns, from demonstrations outside private homes to threats linked to government policies.
What's it like to live in a military installation?
These secure residential settings offer a measure of protection while allowing officials to remain close to their offices in Washington. Many installations function like self-contained communities, with housing and amenities for residents and their families. Depending on the base, these may include fitness centers, swimming pools, community facilities, childcare services, parks, and more. Some senior officials reportedly occupy historic homes along tree-lined streets.
As technology advances and security threats evolve, the boundaries between public life, private life, and digital exposure are becoming increasingly difficult to maintain. Military bases offer an added layer of physical protection but the broader challenge remains - how to safeguard those in public service in a world where threats can emerge both outside the gates and through the digital networks that connect us all.
From the Inside Out
Whether you live 'inside the wire', as some of my clients do who live down the street in Fort Hamilton Military Base - or 'outside the wire' where life constantly reshapes itself - the simulation of our experiences is programmed to forever create new storylines in which we emotionally engage - none of which are ever 100% safe.
The political landscape will come and go with new players and new threats - both physical and emotional - as each 'chapter' sets the stage for another adventure in our simulated universe.
You know what I always blog. We exist in a bipolar physical (linear) reality to study emotions - high and low spikes in the grids that create the illusion of you sitting there reading this and me sitting here writing it.
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Humans and animals have Out of Body Experiences - sometimes aware of them and other times oblivious as time is an illusion and consciousness moves in and out of physical (linear) time. That and more are easily understood with simulation theory, which reveals that what we call everyday reality is simply a rendered interface designed for physical experience.
Because time is not truly linear outside of this 3D program, consciousness naturally slips in and out of the physical avatar during sleep, deep rest, daydreaming, or sudden shifts in focus, effortlessly accessing the higher informational grids behind the scenes.
Once you recognize that we are all operating within a programmed matrix, these moments stop feeling mysterious and start making complete sense. Both humans and animals are multidimensional travelers moving across frequencies, stepping beyond the clock and the physical body whenever awareness shifts back into the greater grid of reality.
SpaceX's Starship returns from orbit and is captured by launch pad arms in a dramatic first
A Mysterious Object in Space Pulsed Every 62 Minutes. Then It Vanished.
SpaceX's Starship soars into orbit after booster explosion prevents an unprecedented double catch
SpaceX's Starship set for return to Earth after booster catch aborted
Asteroid mining will crash the platinum market, but that's good news for Earth
A rare star system emits radio signals every 8 minutes
JWST Detects a 'Forbidden' Signal Never Before Seen in The Universe - Not Even in a Lab
Europe's Hera spacecraft begins close inspections of an asteroid rammed by NASA in a 2022 test
NASA is looking for astronauts to live and work on the Moon
Scientists Simulated What Earth Would Be Like if Life Never Existed
A mysterious 93-billion-mile cosmic structure may be the wreckage of colliding worlds
James Webb Discovers a Nearly Pristine Galaxy From the Dawn of the Universe
Scientists Discover a Strange Form of Iron on the Moon That Shouldn't Be There
Voyager 1 is almost one light-day away from Earth
Scientists Crack a Decades-Old Mystery That Could Unlock Faster Internet
Scientists Fear 'Mirror Life' Could End Humanity, But We May Now Be Able to Detect It
Physicists Propose a 'Supercurrent' To Read Qubits Without Destroying Their Quantum State
Physicists Find a Mathematical Limit to Making Time Run Backward
Physicists Say They've Sidestepped a Nearly 100-Year-Old Quantum Limit Using Hindsight
Chinese scientists cool atoms to near absolute zero in record-breaking space experiment
Einstein's Equations Reveal Gravity Can Break And Reconnect Like Magnetic Fields
After 40 years, CERN finds evidence of a one-in-10-billion particle decay
Power Grids on 5 Continents Pulse Every 60 Seconds. Scientists Think They Finally Know Why.
Strange Materials Make Waves Behave in Ways That Defy Expectations
A quantum breakthrough makes light behave like both a solid and a liquid
Scientists Reach a Record Temperature: 280 Billion Times Colder Than The Universe
The diamond paradox: Scientists describe the path to the most stable structure
Scientists Develop a Groundbreaking Rechargeable Battery That Runs on Vitamin B12
Einstein Was Right Again: Scientists Discover Chemical Bonds That Defy Textbook Rules
Chemical fingerprints reveal ancient Pueblo blue mineral sources
Who is Colette Kress, Nvidia's interim CEO? Longtime exec takes top spot after Jensen Huang resigns
Caltech robot makes history by building a structure in space
SpaceX's Starship soars into orbit after booster explosion prevents an unprecedented double catch
SpaceX's Starship set for return to Earth after booster catch aborted
AI agents test and improve robot code in virtual worlds before deployment
Adobe brings AI agents and new creative tools to Photoshop, Premiere, and Firefly
Something in The Way You Walk Changes Up to 7 Years Before a Parkinson's Diagnosis
Tattoos Affect Your Immune System in Ways Scientists Are Only Beginning to Understand
Animal Protein Is Linked to Lower Testosterone in Middle-Aged Men, Surprising Study Finds
Scientists Discover a Hidden Eye Disease That Can Steal Your Night Vision
A Tiny Region Deep Inside Your Brain Helps Decide What You Remember
What's the best way to reverse memory decline?
Cluster headache linked to pronounced levels of burnout symptoms
30 Minutes on a Vibrating Mattress Shifted Alzheimer's-Linked Proteins in a Small Trial
Scientists Warn: The World Has Less Than Four Years of Carbon Budget Left
Scientists Discover Two Enormous Tears in a Tectonic Plate Beneath Iran
Earth's fiery birth may have created hundreds of oceans' worth of water
More Than a Billion Years of Earth's History Is Missing - Scientists May Finally Know Why
Scientists Discover Two Remarkably Untouched Worlds Hidden in The Pacific
Scientists Warn of a Growing Tsunami Threat Lurking in Greenland's Fjords
NASA reveals Earth's ozone hole has grown to a size not seen in a decade
How a warming ocean is changing the base of the marine food web
Antarctica's Melting Ice Has Triggered a Sudden Shift Deep in the Ocean
How the Southern Ocean helped fuel Earth's warmest climate in 65 million years
5,000-year-old skulls reveal a disturbing secret of ancient Egypt's first kings
5,000-year-old skulls reveal a disturbing secret of ancient Egypt's first kings
How Chinese brewers refined their booze 5,000 years ago
Hundreds of Stone Age Rock Carvings Found Hidden in Plain Sight in a Spanish Cave
How Archaeologists Risked Their Lives To Save 30,000 Ancient Treasures From ISIS
The Maya used so much red paint that they poisoned their water with mercury, mud sediments reveal
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Scientists find deadly virus DNA hidden in 1,000-year-old manuscripts
Scientists uncover a 192-year-old mystery hidden in a mangled silver coin
Where are all the males? Ancient human fossils reveal a startling mystery
High-Tech Drones Reveal Long-Hidden Aboriginal Rock Art Shelters in Australia
DNA on the Shroud of Turin reveals centuries of hidden secrets
Researchers Recover DNA from 7,000-Year-Old Leather, Revealing a Link to Goats Alive Today
Paleontologists discover one-in-a-million fossil with 450-million-year-old soft tissue
A 6-Million-Year-Old Whale Had a Face So Strange Scientists Thought It Was Crushed
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Scientists discover a giant 66-pound rodent that lived 34 million years ago
Eight people died, including 2 children, and 18 others were hurt after part of a three-story building collapsed into a construction site at the corner of Flatbush and Bedford Avenues in Flatbush, Brooklyn, just after 4 p.m. Wednesday November 11, 2026 (Veterans Day). Thursday, rescue operations concluded at the collapse site officials saying there were no more victims.
On March 20, 2026, the DOB ordered the stoppage of demolition at the neighboring construction site after inspectors found inadequate overhead protection for adjacent properties. When inspectors returned on April 23, they found that demolition had resumed despite the stop-work order and issued another violation.
The DOB lifted the order on May 8 after the conditions were corrected. The neighboring construction site had active permits for excavation and foundation work. Following the collapse, the DOB issued a full stop-work order. A DOB notice attributed the collapse to "unsafe construction operations", while officials said the cause remained under investigation. Read more from Wikipedia
Both Flatbush and Bedford Avenues are major thoroughfares that I've driven on for decades in downtown Brooklyn. In the 1990s I taught a summer school program in the area. It's always sad to see destruction and death. The images remind me of war torn countries or the aftermath of an earthquake.
Owner of collapsed Brooklyn building is a notorious slumlord, tax deadbeat who owes $450K debt.
Olufemi Falade - who has the dubious distinction of landing on the NYC public advocate's annual 'Worst Landlords Watchlist' six times - racked up nearly all of his debt at the three-story building at 1321 Flatbush Ave. that crumbled Wednesday.
This is what happens when you combine Friday the 13th with Mercury Retrograde (Transportation and Communication).
On November 13, 2026, at 3:54 p.m. EST, the FAA issued a nationwide ground stop across the US. Apparently new technology upgrades overwhelmed antiquated telecommunication systems. It was lifted at 8:15 p.m. EST. It was the third national ground stop in US history, the other two occurring during the September 11 attacks and the 2023 FAA system outage. Read more .
A Tanker collided with a river boat near Port of New Orleans with at least 129 people on board. All passengers were accounted for after the crash, although at least 32 passengers were injured.
A major global Microsoft outage occurred November 12-14, 2026, affecting users in more than 70 countries - disrupting businesses, airlines, schools and government agencies.
Friday the 13th - Definition, Mythology, History, Superstitions, Math, Creation, Film, Time, Religious Art
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