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Red Beacon Daily News, July 15, 2026. Brought to you by Disastercoffee.com, folks. Let's get into it. Let's talk water. Right off the bat. Planning a sustainable water future in the United States. On the fringe, the management of water has become an issue. And I'm seeing it pop up more and more.

This article talks about desalination of my... amongst other things, but the intro is what's interesting. Within 45 years, water demand in the United States is predicted to double, while climate change expected to worsen fresh water supplies, with 44% of the country already experiencing some form of drought. One way to expand water resources is desalination, where salt is removed from seawater or brackish ground water to make clean, usable water. That is the line. 45 years water demand the United States is predicted to double. That seems like an underwhelming prospect compared to what's happening right now, which is an overwhelming prospect. The level of drought right now is insane. 44% of the country already experiencing some form of drought. 44%.

The article goes on to talk about a 2040 solar photovoltaics paired with optimized battery storage or projected to produce electricity at a lower. cost and the grid in the states facing the largest water deficits, making renewable power desalination a competitive option by 2040. The real issue here is what? It's growing usage. It's a concern for things other than talking about things like data centers and other technologies that will come from artificial intelligence that will require even more water. The conversation about water is, well, if you're not into prepping and you haven't been

following that world in the world of drought and the world of emergency water storage, then you probably haven't spent the last 10 years reading about aquifers, reading about Lake Mead, reading about the fact that when we're in a drought, we don't go from the drought to all the sudden, oh, we got some rain, we're back to normal. And I think that's what people need to understand. We don't go back to normal to what normal used to be. There is no more going back to normal with water levels. Water is an issue. Okay? Water is undoubtedly an issue and it will continue to be an issue. And if you get a data center next door to you, guess what, it's going to be an issue even more. Plan accordingly. This is why prepping. This is why self-reliance

and independence has to be at the core of human life. It just has to be. It has to be one of those things because we have to understand that the world turns, baby. Things change as the world turns. You have to be adaptable. You have to be able to say, okay, well, this is a problem. We got to be able to address this. We've got to look at this this this way.

We've got to do this, right? It's a big deal. It's a very big deal. And we're relying to ourselves if we don't think it's a big deal. Big news out of New York for our eyes on AI. Your AI assistant here. We've got a bit of a good news situation. So New York State becomes the first U.S. state to impose AI data center ban.

Kathy Hochel on Tuesday signed an executive order banning the construction of any new hyperscaler data centers using 50 megawatts or more of power for up to one year. It's the first statewide Dana Center ban in the U.S. Those similar measures also referred to as moratoriums are being considered by other states. I talked about this. We talked about this. The people do not like the data centers. The kids, when I say the kids, I mean, you know, I don't know. 10 to 20, 10 to 25, whatever, 12, 15 to 25, somewhere around there.

They do not like artificial intelligence. It's a comedian justice. for their entertainment at most at best and I'm going off

my kids and his friends like they understand the downside the downstream effects not just the effect on humanity but the effect on resource management right the effect on RAM

you see RAM is a big conversation also with this artificial intelligence thing because kids get get RAM. The kids can immediately wrap their head around this idea. Oh, the RAM. Well, my RAM is affected because I'm in this situation where I need, in order to operate my digital world that I love, I need this RAM. And the RAM is going crazy. Why? Because data centers, artificial intelligence needs it to operate. So we're going to see a lot more of this stuff. This is artificial intelligence

is, funny enough, the common enemy. You know, it really is the common enemy we all need. I haven't been able to pinpoint what the division is between people who really are in love with the AI capability and people who are wary of it and people who won't use it, don't use it. But there is something to it. There's a set of symptoms. There's something symptomatic. There's something, I don't know what it is. I don't want to make accusations.

I don't have enough data. But there is a certain amount. There's a certain kind of people and it's not a, it's not a demo. It's not a demo. You know, well, it is, but it's not an age range. It's not a race, religion, whatever. You know, it's not that. It's an interesting group of people who really lean on artificial intelligence go.

oh, this is great. We're going to use it. This is cool. We're going to make all of our images with it. We're going to make all of our logos with it. We're going to make all, you know what I mean? And there's other people who look at it and sneer. The governor said we're in the midst of one of the most significant economic upheavals in generations, perhaps ever. These hyperscale AI data centers consume enormous amounts of power, truly threatening to outpace our grid's capacity. They drive up costs for local rate payers, and I refuse to let the cost get passed down to New Yorkers.

Now, say what you want about, Hockel? say what you want about Hokel, she's in the right here. She's 100% in the right here. And that should be the mindset of every governor. That should be the mindset of the president of the United States, by the way. It really should. You know, if you look at Europe and their struggles to deal with the heat over there, you can't tell me that it's a good idea that in the midst of summer and moving into a winter,

you know, you spend a decade talking about how radical. the weather is going to change because of climate change. And then you say, oh, and we're going to deal with that by having no power to no electricity. Or electricity that's so expensive that people are going to be forced to turn the air conditioner off in the summer, the heater off in the winter, and put themselves at risk. Their lives at risk. And that, my friends, is the core issue of AI. That's the core. That is the simmer everything down to the gloss.

and what you get is that right there. That's what it is. Who's looking at artificial intelligence at the decision-making level and saying one life, one life is as important as artificial intelligence. Your grandmother's life is as important as the expansion of artificial intelligence, right?

Choose AI over human life. Choose the expansion of AI over human life. human consequence, what have you. And everybody knows that everybody feels it. Everybody understands that this is the conversation being had right now. We're going to show up. We're going to cut through your backyard. We're going to build a data center.

We're going to suck all your water. We're going to drive your energy bill up. And you're going to suffer it. We're not going to give you jack shit, but you're going to suffer it. And on top of that, you're going to pay for it. And that's what you do. And that just doesn't fly with Americans. You know, it's not going to fly.

It's going to be a battle. It's going to be a battle. So, you know, in terms of water, in terms of AI, see the things that are happening, see the direction the world is going. Understand. Right? These are the moves that one should make.

You can take three, 55-gallon drums, stack them on top of each other, build a very basic wooden frame, a very basic line of PVC pipe that connects each of those buckets from the holes that are already built into the bucket. And you have 150 gallons of water right there. But again, as I mentioned yesterday, not on Red Beacon Media, but on the Prepar and Broadcasting Network, we have to decide if, if, you know, You know, what level of contortion are you willing to get into to satisfy the needs of artificial intelligence and big corporations? How much are you willing to contort yourself? Catching rain, water, using, no more electricity, no more this, no more that.

I'm doing all this to save money, quote-unquote. But we're also reaching a point where we have to reach, we have to, you know, a stand like Hokuls is admirable. Because she's looking at the world and going, well, what are the expectations of humanity in the face of this new artificial intelligence? Boom. How many trillions of dollars is a human life worth? Right. How much trillion dollar investment is a human life worth? A family.

What's an American family's life worth? Right. Now, I didn't expect to so seamlessly dive into this next segment. But since we're on this subject, we might as well talk about this prep or tech. This device is the Oasis. The Oasis is an amazing device that I tested months ago. I'm on the website Offgrid Power Technologies. And the Oasis uses hot water to distill water,

well, it uses steam to create distilled drinking water and also power devices. It's kind of a cool little, you know, it's a very little unit. It's a very... Where is mine? Mine is... Where is mine? I moved it.

I always have the oasis close to the show here because I like to pick it up and show it off. Oh, there it is over there on the left with my other... With my hydro blue. Pressurized Jerry can.

Two powerhouses of water preparedness right there. The pressurized Jerry can, amazing, and the oasis. The oasis can work. You have to have water creating steam, right? You have to have a steam creating device. I use a big pressure cooker in this image here.

You can see a pressure cooker on the side of a small one, on a small butane stove. Maybe the most inefficient way to do this thing, but that's what they got going on. I take the big pressure canner, put it over a fire. It creates steam. Powers this whole system, charges electricity. turns lights on. It's not, you know, you're not going to power a fridge with it, but you can charge your phone. You can turn lights on those kinds of things, you know, low power camping lights. And you'll create a gallon of drinking water per hour over that open fire. A gallon of distilled

water per hour. If you're going to depend on this thing, store some good, you know, pink sea salt or pink, I'm sorry, pink Himalayan salt or some sea salt that you can add to your distilled water, right? This is important because distilled water is void of everything. And also it generates power. This is not necessarily the ultimate solution to your AI rebellion, right? But it's things like this and reminder that there are human beings and creators out there and human-driven innovation that's happening outside of the artificial intelligence world. all that, I mean, it's insanely valuable.

Insanely valuable. And if we ever get to a point where, you know, localities and, you know, local governments are being paid off by artificial intelligence companies like meta and Google and so on. And they're saying, you know, I mean, your bill's going to go up. It is what it is. There's a little bit of fight that has to happen there. A little bit of rebellion that has to happen on. that end for sure. But there's also in the meantime technology, right? In the meantime technology. See, the whole basis of preparedness, guys, is so that you have the foot to stand on when things get

crazy. The prepping world was largely built with this idea that the zombie hordes are coming and we're going to have to survive a fallen world. But the base of preparedness is also about the politicians, the processes, the corporations, this shit, it's all out of line. And it's time to address it. And there are going to be some instability while we address it, right? We're going to have to have some fights, some political fights. We're going to have to have some protests. We're going to have to have some chaos.

And in the face of all that, we've got to have our own food. We've got to have access to water. We've got to have, you know, these things. We have to have these things. So if civil unrest winds up shutting down, you know, access to whatever resource, you know, your ability to pivot and adapt is essential. And off-grid power technologies gives you that capability. So, yoasis is sweet if you're interested. These guys are not a sponsor.

They have been a sponsor, but they are not a sponsor of ours right now. Again, this is prep or tech that I think is worthy of talking about, you know. It's just is. Right. The whole world of the Red Beacon revolves around what? It revolves around this sort of individualistic idea, right? Which is also the basis of Christianity. Right.

And a few years ago, I was for the first time, just a couple years ago, a few years ago in the Outer Banks, which is another, you know. I was on the beach. just leave it at that. I was on the beach there was overcast as is the case sometimes in the Outer Banks and I was reading Walden for the first time. I was reading Walden and by Henry David Thoreau a man who was pivotal in, you know, just absolutely pivotal when it comes to the American Renaissance, right, the original American Renaissance. Like we are, we are We are into the next renaissance. It is the human renaissance.

That's what we're in right now. It may not be touching you yet. You may not be feeling it yet, but you have to understand. These things happen fast, okay? They happen fast. It's in music, it's in writing, it's in art. It's happening right now. There are lots of people talking about it, and we need to keep talking about it.

We need to contribute to it. And that's what the lightkeepers are all about at red beaconmedia.com. It's all about showing up doing your part in the Renaissance. I'm not looking to monetize poetry on red beaconmedia.com and make a killing off of your work and not give you any money for it. Okay. I would literally want people to, I am looking for the throes and the Emerson's of our time. And you don't have to be great. but your experience and your words are pivotal man pivotal so we're reading from uh from waldon today

and you know this is just an sort of individualistic take right this chapter is all about buying property largely i think it's called where we live or something along those lines what is it excerpts from where i lived and what i lived for awesome right um I got to find it again. This is not to dissuade anybody from working hard or anything like that, but this is just, it's one of these things. It's like, you know, we have to be aware of our time on this earth and what it is we want to do with it. We also have to be very wary this day and age of corporations. We'd have to.

We have to be aware of what major corporations are doing, you know? Major corporations are completely out of control when it comes to profits. And guess what? That's their, that's why they exist. And this is a fundamental thing you have to understand about a corporation. They have a meeting every year ago, hey, how can we make more money next year? And we've reached a point with a lot of these corporations where it's, they're shaving and skimming and doing so much now to, because it's somebody's job to push that needle a little further,

make a little more millions than they did last year. and in doing so it's reached a level of it's reached comedic levels you know what I mean to the point where you have a company like Sony that's not going to sell

video games anymore they're only going to sell online video game licenses and they're going to charge you $70 for the ability to play a video game on the Sony PlayStation that you can never touch never feel never smell never use unless they say so and until they say so.

So you're going to pay $70 for the privilege to play a video game online on their device. And then when they say, we're not supporting that video game anymore, your $70 goes out the window and you have nothing. And listen,

we talked about this five, six years ago. You will own nothing and you will be happy. The second part, of course, doesn't seem to be the case. But the first part, which, you know, that line was born out of the Great Reset, for those of you who don't know. 100%. It's the direction we're going. Why? Because tangible stuff costs money.

If we can charge these idiots the same amount for less, we don't have to give them anything. We just charge them. Well, that's the way to go. Let's do that. Now, the antithesis of this is Walden. Is this excerpt from Walden? Because we need people like this in the world. And we have people like this in the world.

One of the great things about Instagram, love it or hate it, is there are so many great talents on Instagram who are just buried by, you know, the mainstream sewage that you barely get to see them, but you can find them on Instagram to blow you away. Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed and in such desperate enterprises?

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music, which he hears, however measured or far away. It is not important that he should mature as soon as an apple tree or an oak. Shall he turn his spring into summer? If the condition of things which we were made for is not yet, what were any reality which we can substitute? We will not be shipwrecked on a vain reality. Shall we with pains erect the heaven of blue glass over ourselves?

But when it is done, we shall be sure to gaze still as the true ethereal heaven far above, as if the former were not. What is Thoreau talking about here? He's talking about when a man decides to jump into the stream of life and how he decides to swim in that stream. In other words, you know, when you decide what it is you want to do, and do you allow what you want to do to be bulldozed by what everyone else says you should do

or, you know, that whole thing. Walden is a book about that. If you can identify with that, Walden is a book about the independent thinking man and his actual life. Now, he had a job, and he, you know, he wasn't like that, but, you know, it was, this is a, this is a thing that exists in the world today still. Actually, it's greater than ever. Your ability to succeed in enterprises that are not desperate, right? And to march to the beat of your own drum, as he says, it's never been more of an opportunity than now.

So, enjoy it. Don't forget that it exists. Don't have it be. out of you. It's very important. All right, folks. I do appreciate you joining me for Red Beacon Daily News today. We will see you guys tomorrow. I'm sure it'll be another wild day of this wild world. So thank you so much for joining you.