An in-depth overview of some pertinent topics that have recently came to my attention. I cover only a snippet of the news and topics that came to my attention here; there is certainly not enough time to cover the entire contents of this everchanging crucible. Although, we are reaching a crescendo of sorts within the "birth pangs" of this system and this it behooves us to begin to prepare plans for an exodus, lest we become one of the moribunds within a sea of the faceless, soulless and, soon to be, obsolete.