- sometimes you just want to know how the international political elite think. We'll be looking at this issue in this post. We'll ignore all questions of morality, ethics, etc... and look at how, why, etc... things are the way they are
- there's a belief that we should maintain what happened after WWII on the US/Western side of things. Russia, China, and many other countries believe otherwise. Core to this issue is the use and proliferation of nuclear weapons. Some believe that proliferation of nuclear weapons globally would ensure that there is global peace since no nuclear powers have ever gone to war with one another. Nuclear weapons also ensures guarantees strategic independence. Obvious that several countries believe this including Pakistan, Israel, North Korea, Iran, etc... Maybe even Turkey?
During his time in the atomic bomb project, he pioneered research in the thermal quantum field and the condensed physics, while co-authored articles on chemical reactions of the highly unstable isotopic particles in the controlled physical system.[65] He maintains his stance to use of controversial technological solutions to both military and civilian problems, including the use of military technologies for the civilian welfare. Khan also remained a vigorous advocate for a nuclear testing program and defence strength through nuclear weapons. He has justified the Pakistan's nuclear deterrence program as sparing his country the fate of Iraq or Libya.[66] In his recent interview, Abdul Qadeer Khan maintained that he has no regrets for what he did and maintained that:
[P]akistan's motivation for nuclear weapons arose from a need to prevent "nuclear blackmail" by India. Had Iraq and Libya been nuclear powers, they wouldn't have been destroyed in the way we have seen recently.... If (Pakistan) had an [atomic] capability before 1971, we [Pakistanis] would not have lost half of our country after a disgraceful defeat.
— Abdul Qadeer Khan, statement on 16 May 2011, published the Newsweek, [67]
The Bangladesh Liberation War was a crushing defeat for Pakistan, which led to it losing roughly 56,000 square miles (150,000 km2) of territory as well as losing more than half it's population to the newly independent state of Bangladesh.[43] In addition to the psychological setback for Pakistan,[43] it had failed to gather any significant material support or assistance from its key allies, the United States and the People's Republic of China.[44][45] Pakistan seemed to be isolated internationally, and in great danger; it felt that it could rely on no one but itself.[44] Prime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto was "obsessed" with India's nuclear program.[46][47] At a United Nations Security Council meeting, Bhutto drew comparisons between the Instrument of Surrender that ended the 1971 war, and the Treaty of Versailles, which Germany was forced to sign in 1919. There, Bhutto vowed never to allow a repeat.
- many political leaders seem to have long memories or have partial/preferential perspectives of history. China, Russia, Vietnam, Cuba, North Korea, Iran, Afghanistan, and US are prime examples of this
- this is critical to understanding the US/Western perspective versus Russia, China, and others. The US/West wants the world to operate in their style. Russia, China, etc... believe in their countries operating entirely independently regardless of how the rest of the world operates. 'Free' means something radically different in both contexts
[173] Hong Kong Is Not What It Seems
- it's obvious the average person doesn't understand the problems that face the global economy
- understanding elitism is really important to understanding the world as it is (as well as neo-colonialism, neo-liberalism, etc...). Extrapolate this idea across countries and it makes even more sense. People at the top of these chains will obviously try to make the most of their situations and look out for their national interests. Neo-liberalism and Neo-colonialism makes sense for the US because it makes the most of the advantage the US had after the of the end of WWII?
Earlier in the week, I watched Corey Lewandoski admit to Congress that he had no compunction about lying to the press and the American people. He claimed that he was only required to be truthful when under oath. This person organized the president’s election campaign, and spoke on the president’s behalf to the American people. That he lied to us for the president is documented in his testimony.
The world now rightfully doubts the word of the president. Is there any reason why other nations shouldn’t doubt a statement by the United States?
War is serious; economic sanctions are serious. Serious people and countries act only when certain of the facts.
Is there any better reason to demand that the president and his advisers always tell the truth? This president does not, and the world no longer trusts the word of the United States. It will take a long time to regain that trust and be a world leader again.
- it's obvious what humans have done. They've declared every domain on which to engage in warfare? Humans have moved from more blunt instruments such as biological, chemical, and nuclear to more subtle ones including psychological warfare, economic warfare, cyberwarfare, etc... Despite what is said huge amounts of money are spent on this even if there are no genuine threats? At times, the elite need to telegraph their thinking to the rest of the population to get them used to particular ideas. A good example of this is Tom Clancy and Russian doctrine/behaviour in some former areas of the Soviet Empire. Tom Clancy series of books and games telegraphs to the public this low level style of conflict. The reason why countries have so many drills may be demonstrate their superiority (or lack of) over one another? It helps to stop kinetic wars from arising via deterrence?
- the ending of the World Wars is critical to understanding the mentality of some countries. Whether right or wrong the US/West ended on top. They want the rest of the world to adopt adopt capitalist, liberalist, democracy. Ironically, it's a failure. Expansion of the US/Western Empire extends the problems that exist internally to other parts of the Empire. Namely, Zero to Negative interest rates, increased inequality, reduced worker rights and conditions over time, etc... I suspect China, Russia, etc... know this and don't entirely trust the US (and vice versa) and it's system and have limited adoption of US policies internally. Since the US/West fails the Talent Paradox (it's GDP relative to the rest of the world should be moving ahead rather then coming back to the pack) and Empire Paradox (it should be able to take care of more people better over time) then it's obvious that if the US is contained then it will collapse internally much like the USSR did?
CrossTalk Bullhorns on World War Two - Revisionism
Capitalism Is Meant To Fail
- ironically, the US/West (and world) has an obvious way out. They adopt US/Western thinking but that obviously means giving up other ideologies/religions temporarily and forgoes temporarily the supposed End Times. Realistically, unlikely. I suspect it will become a more Multi-Polar world
- almost all countries have gone to hybrid social systems. There are few or no pure capitalism or socialist countries out there? Communism/socialism attempts to deal with unfairness via massive centralisation. Ironically, Russia and China were ahead of the curve here on this and took lessons from the Cold War and have applied it to their systems while even the US has a hybrid system as well? Even North Korea and Cuba have hybrid systems?
The Communist Manifesto, originally the Manifesto of the Communist Party (German: Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei), is an 1848 political pamphlet by the German philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Commissioned by the Communist League and originally published in London just as the Revolutions of 1848 began to erupt, the Manifesto was later recognised as one of the world's most influential political documents. It presents an analytical approach to the class struggle (historical and then-present) and the conflicts of capitalism and the capitalist mode of production, rather than a prediction of communism's potential future forms.
The Communist Manifesto summarises Marx and Engels' theories concerning the nature of society and politics, namely that in their own words "[t]he history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles". It also briefly features their ideas for how the capitalist society of the time would eventually be replaced by socialism. Near the end of the Manifesto, the authors call for a "forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions", which served as the justification for all communist revolutions around the world. In 2013, The Communist Manifesto was registered to UNESCO's Memory of the World Programme along with Marx's Capital, Volume I.[1]
- ironically, grumblings about the social system have been going on for as long as humans have had civilisation? Note, how many of the same issues were present in the French Revolution as now?
CNN Explains: The Occupy movement
[125] Basic Income Could Change Everything (w_ Steven Shafarman)
[141] How To Strike, Brazilian Corruption, & Basic Income w_ Ellen Brown
~258~ Basic Income Proven, Assange Media Blackout, Weed Convictions Erased
Common Censored Podcast #73 - Hurricane Dorian, Basic Income Battle, & Undemocratic Dems
- the Occupy movement has done a lot of thinking about the problems with the political system despite what others may think. The elite believe that things filter down to the bottom if you make certain people financially better off. Despite what some people say I can't see mass uprisings happening unless things get really bad or people understand the system (as is) better? Trickle down economics could work but doesn't? It's really obvious that if you give someone a lot of money, it's much more difficult to get it back? Why not do what's easier then? Don't create as much inequality in the first place?
Jesse Ventura - “We can’t allow ourselves to be governed by corporations.”
US Tries to Stave Off Recession as Nations Consider Ditching the Dollar
Keiser Report - Financial vandalism and dollar toast (E1434)
Capitalism Is Meant To Fail
“From Occupy Wall Street to rallies in Paris, the protest movements worldwide are interconnected. They’re connected because they come at a historical moment of truth giving birth to super-polarized societies [for which] trickle-down economics doesn’t work and everybody is opening their eyes about that worldwide,” Moreira told RT’s Keiser Report.
Richard Wolff on Uber founder's $72.5 million home purchase while drivers strike for better wages
- the irony is that almost everything is written in the religions and Holy Scriptures themselves. It's almost impossible to reconcile what leaders of modern society do when referenced against the religions say though? The religions say promote good, talented people up the chain. We give them money so that they can give back more to the rest of society. Examine things and it sort of makes sense but the people up the chain clearly don't really adhere to the agreement/social contract?
There are two fundamental political-economy questions posed by the imminent arrival of LEV. One question is: If millions, and eventually billions of people live for hundreds of years, how will a population explosion be averted?
The answer to that is that the rate of child-bearing will have to go way down in compensation, in order to ensure a stable global population. If LEV becomes a reality, then as a percentage of the population, children will become rare.
The other question is: Is human civilization going to accept the emergence of a caste of immortal super-rich aristocrats? Or will humanity impose an upper limit on the aggregation and hoarding of personal wealth and ownership titles?
If LEV proves technologically feasible, these two basic questions will need to be addressed within the next few decades. We live in interesting times.
Francis identifies this inequality as the foundation for a process of exclusion that cuts immense segments of society off from meaningful participation in social, political and economic life. It gives rise to a financial system that rules rather than serves humanity and a capitalism that discards those who have no utility as consumers.
- irrespective of whether you support the US and it's allies, the US order sort of left things stuck at the end of World War II? In many places, things remain unresolved?
- ironically, if you examine the background of the elite of Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, US, China, North Korea, Pakistan, Russia, Iran, etc... then you understand that they're not that dumb. They understand the economics of warfare (asymmetric warfare in particular) and they seem to be playing from the same playbook?
united states share of global gdp
- these's not much genuine faith in this system as is. If you look at statistics across the board then you'll realise that liberal, capitalist, democracy isn't favoured by most of the population in many countries where it is used which is pretty bizarre when you think about it?
http://www.tv-quotes.com/shows/the-west-wing/quote_13867.html
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-housing-rent-freeze/berlin-rent-freeze-prompts-deutsche-wohnen-share-slide-idUSKBN1X00PW
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/10/common-russian-media-themes-has-western.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2017/05/capitalist-liberalist-democracy.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/06/is-capitalism-collapsing-random.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/06/religious-conspiracies-is-capitalism.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2017/01/saving-capitalist-democracy-2-random.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/11/saving-capitalist-democracy-random.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2017/01/explaining-prophets-2-what-is-liberal.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/05/is-western-leadership-required-more.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/05/more-psyops-social-systems-and-more.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/05/social-systems-algorithmic-music-and.html
Gramsci's Theory Of Hegemony & Counter Hegemonic Strategy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOC5bhiUS_E
The Muppet Show - Rowlf - 'What a Wonderful World'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0Q-NJKt-pc
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/18/el-chapo-son-ovidio-guzman-lopez-release-amlo
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/terrorized-traumatized-terminated-police-states-deadly-toll-americas-children
http://www.lulu.com/shop/richard-d-wolff/understanding-marxism/paperback/product-24002973.html
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/ray-dalio-warns-looming-big-sag-will-rattle-global-markets
https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2019/10/17/bad-gaslighting-epidemic-sweeps-the-elite-n2554816/
https://townhall.com/columnists/andysurabian/2019/10/17/dont-force-american-companies-out-of-venezuela-n2554889/
https://blogs.imf.org/2019/10/15/the-world-economy-synchronized-slowdown-precarious-outlook/
slavoj zizek
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavoj_%C5%BDi%C5%BEek
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/apr/20/jordan-peterson-slavoj-zizek-happiness-capitalism-marxism
Today's protests indicate the scale of troubles in our paradise - Slavoj Zizek
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzUtNe-HI_U
“This is the old problem for all those who try and impose limits on car development: if areas are left open, spending concentrates in this area. If I look at the last four of five years, we haven’t saved a euro. We have simply redistributed our spending to other areas. In principle it’s very noble, but then the effect never gives the necessary results.”
https://www.forbes.com/sites/csylt/2019/11/01/the-18-billion-exemptions-from-f1s-budget-cap/#4014d45e4bb7
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/oct/31/us-city-preparing-itself-for-the-collapse-of-capitalism
http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/
Rouhani is certainly not alone in espousing this position, although he may be unique among national leaders in doing so openly. The Chinese have been dragging out trade negotiations without any intention to actually reach an agreement. The Russians see arms control negotiations with the Washingtonians as rather pointless, promising a symmetrical (but much cheaper) response to any US escalation.
Indeed, what’s the point in negotiating with Americans if, as experience has shown, they can later renege on whatever agreement has been reached on a moment’s notice? They do so either without any justification (as was most recently the case with the Syrian Kurds) or based on any sort of whimsy that happens to sound good to them at the time (as with the abandonment of the INF treaty between the US and Russia).
This point still seems worth repeating a few more times, although it has been made many times by numerous analysts and is becoming rather glaringly obvious. (The Russians even coined a new word to describe this condition: недоговороспособный (“nedogovorosposóbny,” literally “non-agreement-capable.”) But there is another point to be made, which most geopolitical observers so far seem to be missing, and which, by the way, explains Rouhani’s joyful mood at the UN, and which I am equally happy to make.
In his review of the book, commentator Thom Hartmann writes that Orlov holds that the Soviet Union hit a “soft crash” because of centralized planning in: housing, agriculture, and transportation left an infrastructure private citizens could co-opt so that no one had to pay rent or go homeless and people showed up for work, even when they were not paid. He writes that Orlov believes the U.S. will have a hard crash, more like Germany’s Weimar Republic of the 1920s.[10]
- logical fallacies everywhere? Media drives up FUD against universal health care but elite say that the free market capitalism works and that things should eventually work out? At the same time most people believe in a safety net, in bounds, containment of power and wealth, etc? Why don't they just run small scale experiments like Universal Basic Income (UBI)? It's impossible to know what will happen unless someone tries it? Otherwise, it's just pure conjecture?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear,_uncertainty,_and_doubt
https://www.bostonherald.com/2019/11/01/warrens-health-care-ideas-will-cost-us-2-million-jobs/
Growth has been the main object of development for the past 70 years, despite the fact that it’s not working. Since 1980, the global economy has grown by 380%, but the number of people living in poverty on less than $5 (£3.20) a day has increased by more than 1.1 billion. That’s 17 times the population of Britain. So much for the trickle-down effect.
Orthodox economists insist that all we need is yet more growth. More progressive types tell us that we need to shift some of the yields of growth from the richer segments of the population to the poorer ones, evening things out a bit. Neither approach is adequate. Why? Because even at current levels of average global consumption, we’re overshooting our planet’s bio-capacity by more than 50% each year.
In other words, growth isn’t an option any more – we’ve already grown too much. Scientists are now telling us that we’re blowing past planetary boundaries at breakneck speed. And the hard truth is that this global crisis is due almost entirely to overconsumption in rich countries.
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2015/sep/23/developing-poor-countries-de-develop-rich-countries-sdgs
https://www.rt.com/news/461647-mcafee-bury-government-taxes/
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-21/banks-must-act-now-or-risk-becoming-a-footnote-mckinsey-says
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-23/u-s-fears-mass-boycott-as-chinese-turn-to-homegrown-brands
https://www.9news.com.au/national/how-the-first-home-loan-deposit-scheme-works-5-per-cent-deposit-property-prices/6e6a25b6-4c1e-4243-8a67-ba292bc13fec?ocid=Social-9NewsM
https://medium.com/the-new-york-times/tech-is-splitting-the-u-s-workforce-in-two-b5b8c7911819
Chile unrest - Why protesters rail against the system and media _ The Listening Post (Full)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TFGlKQ2hdI
Can the world afford universal healthcare? | Counting the Cost
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsnA5kpjeZM
"We live in a strange society where the big capitalists in the airplane business lobby their friends, the politicians, lying, and case studies, and lawyers, figuring out how to work out their arrangements. And our job is to watch, shut up, and pay. That's a system y
ou and I live in." - Richard D. Wolff
https://www.facebook.com/RichardDWolff/
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-11-02/iraq-biggest-protest-day-since-saddam-hussein/11666508
https://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2019/11/warren-admits-universal-medicare-would.html
https://www.dw.com/en/uk-issues-immediate-ban-on-fracking-following-damning-report/a-51087961
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-31/chris-christie-is-among-lawyers-reaping-15-million-in-1mdb-deal?srnd=premium
https://www.facebook.com/RisingUpUK/
https://risingup.org.uk/about-us
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_movement
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction_Rebellion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Wall_Street
https://theconversation.com/topics/occupy-movement-1734
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-11-02/waters-the-occupy-movement-what-they-stand-for/3615250
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-10-29/protests-around-the-world-explained/11645682
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-10-08/occupy-wall-street-in-pictures/3385182
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-10-29/protesters-clash-with-police-outside-melbourne-mining-conference/11648540
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2015/sep/23/developing-poor-countries-de-develop-rich-countries-sdgs
https://www.dw.com/en/chile-protests-and-looting-erupt-despite-presidents-new-cabinet/a-51029509
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/27/opinion/letters/capitalism-profit.html
https://www.nj.com/politics/2019/10/trump-era-has-made-corporations-afraid-to-donate-to-political-campaigns.html
Hong Kong protesters storm legislature, smash doors and walls
Hong Kong protests - How will this end _ The Stream
Hong Kong protests - Taking the streets, dominating the screens _ The Listening Post (Full)
How will Algeria's army handle protests against president Bouteflika l Inside Story
Iraq protests - Taking on the establishment, fighting to be heard _ The Listening Post (Full)
Is there any point to protesting _ The Stream
- politics is junk now? It's difficult to know what's going on without doing research, what people's intentions are, and you don't know whether the people being filtered up have the resources or talent to navigate the world as is?
Robin Hood in Reverse
Keiser Report - Financial vandalism and dollar toast (E1434)
Keiser Report - The disappearing middle class (E1334)
Robin Hood effect is an economic occurrence in which the less well-off gain more economic stability at the expense of the better-off. The Robin Hood effect gets its name from the folkloric outlaw Robin Hood, who, according to legend, stole from the rich to give to the poor. A reverse Robin Hood effect occurs when the better-off gain at the expense of the less well-off.
reverse robin hood
Piketty says his conclusion is that it’s a mistake to see inequality as rooted in nature, or driven by changes in technology. Its real causes are to be found in politics and ideology -- and that makes it easier to challenge.
- there are certain things that people don't think about when they go for leadership positions? They don't see the traps that exist. Pretty much anyone who engages in politics faces the same problems. If you don't have problems in your past, you face fake news, fake accusations, traps in general, desperate rivals, general innuendo, etc... Threats can come from overt as well as covert means, a problem which is exacerbated with the military industrial security complex that exists in many countries now
- politicians are mostly actors. The real source of decision making comes from the public servents Mandarins? Ironically, these people aren't actually elected even in democracies?
- in this system justice becomes irrelevant? It can come down to how good your lawyer is and how many appeals you can afford? Results are too variable?
Controversial whistleblower Edward Snowden, living in exile in Russia, said Monday he would like to return to the United States -- but only if he can get a fair jury trial.
“That is the ultimate goal, but if I’m going to spend the rest of my life in prison then my one, bottom-line demand that we all have to agree to is that at least I get a fair trial,” Snowden said Monday on “CBS This Morning."
Snowden told CBS’ morning show that the U.S. government has “refused” to guarantee a fair trial.
“They won’t provide access to what’s called a public interest defense,” Snowden said.
justice vs cost of lawyer
- people aren't thinking things through. The question always comes back to wealth distribution? Think of Quantitative Easing (QE), helicopter money (Australia), etc... Those who are best able to avoid fast moving boom/busts are those who can avoid recessions/depressions? This means slowing down boom/bust periods so that you can control/manipulate things as you see fit
Economic Update - Capitalism in Denial
Neoliberalism has always been directly opposed to strict laissez faire since it has invariably emphasized a strong, interventionist, and constructionist relation to the state, in the direct service of private capital and market authoritarianism, or what James K. Galbraith has critically referred to as the predator state.74 In the neoliberal view, capitalist absolutism is not a spontaneous product—it must be created. The role of the state is not simply to protect property, as maintained by Smith, but, as Foucault brilliantly explained in his Birth of Biopolitics, extends to the active construction of the domination of the market over all aspects of life.75 This means refashioning the state and society on the model of the corporation or the market.
business belief in government
Corporatocracy (/ˌkɔːrpərəˈtɒkrəsi/, from corporate and Greek: -κρατία, romanized: -kratía, lit. 'domination by', short form corpocracy,[1] is a recent[when?] term used to refer to an economic and political system controlled by corporations or corporate interests.[2] It is most often used as a term to describe the economic situation in the United States.[3][4] This is different from corporatism, which is the organisation of society into groups with common interests. Corporatocracy as a term is often used by observers across the political spectrum.[5][6]
Economist Jeffrey Sachs described the United States as a corporatocracy in The Price of Civilization (2011).[7] He suggested that it arose from four trends: weak national parties and strong political representation of individual districts, the large U.S. military establishment after World War II, large corporations using money to finance election campaigns, and globalization tilting the balance of power away from workers.[7]
This collective is what author C Wright Mills in 1956 called the "power elite", wealthy individuals who hold prominent positions in corporatocracies. They control the process of determining a society's economic and political policies.[8]
The concept has been used in explanations of bank bailouts, excessive pay for CEOs as well as complaints such as the exploitation of national treasuries, people and natural resources.[9] It has been used by critics of globalization,[10] sometimes in conjunction with criticism of the World Bank[11] or unfair lending practices[9] as well as criticism of "free trade agreements".[10]
- ironically, a lot of stuff on television actually hints at the corporate nature of liberal, capitalist, democracy?
- humans are hostage to their own systems. Many systems contradict one another. Politicians can't unite everyone so they seek to appeal to the largest faction. Despite being different many politicians are similar and use similar techniques. Obama and Trump appeal to different groups but ironically work similarly? Try to win the most votes as easily as possible? They both analyse, segment, and target the most relevant segment of the electoral
Australian politicians are in it for the money
- humans are no where near the point of being able to enact change en-masse and the elites fear anarchy. Analyse the history of the former Soviet Union as well as some of what the US has said regarding the Occupy movement and it begins to make more sense. The only way to test whether any alternative options are viable are in limited low scale experiments?
- the religions are coded instructions for particular people who can see through the code? It's a framework for a better world? Basically, try your best to be nice to other to make a better world? Not easy, as indicated in End Times of most religions those people who are horrible are supposed to be defeated/neutralised somehow? The unfortunate thing is that it feels as though many important parts are so heavily coded or incomplete that few people understand it? If you understand what it says and how mental health problems and many health problems occur (I'll write up another post on this you may be slightly bemused? This also feeds into my work on a Medical Search Engine), how the system currently works, etc... then you'll understand how to make it happen?
Scout Barry : We're all told at some point in time that we can no longer play the children's game, we just don't... don't know when that's gonna be. Some of us are told at eighteen, some of us are told at forty, but we're all told.
In Matthew, Jesus told one of his followers who had cut off a man's ear: "Return your sword to its place, for all who will take up the sword, will die by the sword.” The idea of karma or poetic justice for those who live by violence is a very old one.
- analyse and test many humans in blind experiments and you'll realise that many feel crazy? Crazy biases that are often dicated by those who attempt to manipulate society for their own needs (often for marketing, political, etc... reasons). You can't even trust them to act in their own interests sometimes (I'm assumming polling statistics were run fairly?)? One strange thing I've come across in my research is that asking the same question can lead to drastically different answers. How is possible that poverty numbers in the US are variable for a given time period? The obvious message throughout all this seems to be that humans don't want fair or just despite what they say? Trying to create a better world is almost farcical?
free education polls
universal healthcare polls
wealth tax poll
poverty united states
- the only way any possible End Times works is if you can falsify all existing ideologies, do it clean, and not fail the Empire Paradox? That means that religions are proven true. If you look outside in it becomes obvious what's happened. They've classified all research into this area which means that they've found something but can't figure out the rest, don't think it's real,
- acceptance of Jesus/religion is semi-sardonic, semi-sarcastic, joke almost at times because it's almost impossible to live this way amongst the average world? In the supposed End Times things are supposed to be fair and the Empire Paradox is overcome. I suspect the only way this is possible is if the pre-cog/prophet phenomenon is actually true?
- if it's a game of making capitalism work then the race to the North and South poles makes far more sense then outer space? If that's the case then Russia has this area covered? It should be a Russian and Chinese led world order in future unless something drastic happens?
The Arctic is home to at least 20-25% of the world's untapped fossil-fuel resources, along with minerals, including gold, silver, diamond, copper, titanium, graphite, uranium, and other rare earth minerals.
Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, Sweden, and the US have established the Arctic Council, an intergovernmental cooperation forum, that holds biennial ministerial meetings on the region. It's an attempt to stabilize the Arctic and avoid conflict as corporations and governments rush into the area to seize new economic opportunities.
With the latest news of Russia militarizing the Arctic, this will not sit well with the Trump administration who has been trying to buy Greenland. The Arctic and its resources will be a major topic of the 2020s and beyond, the first to secure its military in the region could become the next superpower of the world.
- given the total amount of shenanigans out there it seems obvious that people would see through things every once in a while. It's obvious that chunks of the military don't know/aren't sure why they are on duty? The following are semi-comical accounts of the war in Afghanistan. My guess is that if US leaders honestly believe in religion then they'll cite colonialism/penal colonies as an example of how people can be changed over the long term?
- people think it's only the elite who engage in shenanigans but it's shenanigans all the way up and down? Heaps of stuff is politicised now including awarding of the Nobel prize?
- if you interpret the current timeline as the End Times then the religious perspective of neo-colonialists will become more obvious? Pretty much all existing systems will falsify themselves under extended analysis. Ironically, I suspect this is where the Judeo-Christian vs Islam sort of falls apart because chunks of both religions already falsify themselves (the Eastern religions such as Hindu and Buddhism don't really have as much of an impact because relevant countries aren't as strong globally as yet?)? That said, Islam has probably held up better over time then Judaism/Christianity based on how people live in society?
Kirk: What happened to you out there, Edison?
Edison: Edison? I have to say, Kirk, I missed being me. We lost ourselves, but gained a purpose! A means to bring the galaxy back to the struggle that made humanity strong.
Kirk: I think you underestimate humanity.
Edison: I fought for humanity! Lost millions to the Xindi and Romulan wars. And for what? For the Federation?! To sit me in a captain's chair and break bread with the enemy!
Kirk: We change. We have to. Or we spend the rest of our lives fighting the same battles.
Realpolitik (from German: real; "realistic", "practical", or "actual"; and Politik; "politics", German pronunciation: [ʁeˈaːlpoliˌtiːk]) is politics or diplomacy based primarily on considerations of given circumstances and factors, rather than explicit ideological notions or moral and ethical premises. In this respect, it shares aspects of its philosophical approach with those of realism and pragmatism. It is often simply referred to as "pragmatism" in politics, e.g. "pursuing pragmatic policies". The term Realpolitik is sometimes used pejoratively to imply politics that are perceived as coercive, amoral, or Machiavellian.[1]
Razavi describes the think-tank culture of DC as “a wider system of knowledge production in Washington – one which has consistently rewarded ungrounded, ideologically driven assessments of the Islamic Republic at the expense of qualified, in-depth, and evidence-based analysis.”
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If this sounds familiar, that’s because the problem is not limited to Iran. Though Razavi focused exclusively on the state of Iran expertise, her assessment applies in equal measure to the self-styled experts on Venezuela, or Russia, or China, or the Balkans...
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The examples are legion. Razavi herself mentions (though not by name) “Heshmat Alavi,” a supposed expert on Iran who recently turned out to be a construct – an online persona operated by the Iranian exile group Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK). This is an outfit that seeks regime change in Tehran, and has been endorsed by former National Security Advisor John Bolton and President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani.
Gordon Chang, who predicted the “coming collapse of China” in a 2001 book, has been embraced by CNN and Fox News alike as an expert on Beijing – despite the obvious failure of his prediction to actually materialize. Likewise, Swedish economic Anders Aslund has heralded the demise of Russia since 2000 – and cashed in his “expertise” with the Atlantic Council and the governments of Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan and the Baltic states.
- if US leadership continues then basically, they'll try to convert the rest of the world into being like them? If you interpret it as a continuation of the British Empire it sort of it makes sense. That said, it hasn't really been successful? It feels like some other countries just line up behind the US and hope that things work out? One day, the US (or another country) will figure things out and we'll all be happy? My guess, is that things will likely devolve into a more multi-polar world before that happens though?
Interview with Max Keiser, Why Countries are Buying up Gold, Why Bitcoin is the Standard & More!
Trade U
The Global Banking System Is Collapsing w/ Max Keiser
Rethinking the Dollar
tastytrade
Keiser Report - The end of the exorbitant privilege (E1416)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wa50DhhGD8
"Robert writes from a series of beliefs and assumptions that I also hold: a deep belief in American Exceptionalism, that peace comes through strength, that the United States is stronger when it partners with its allies and when America is a reliable friend to its allies, that the greatness of America comes from a people that respect tradition and the rule of law, and that (yes) we are the good guys and there are some bad guys out there."[14]
A new study has discovered that we are far more dependent on America’s great debt creation machine than most of us would have ever dared to imagine. Today, debt is involved in most of our major transactions. In order to purchase a home, most of us go into debt. The same thing is true when most of us buy a vehicle. Total credit card debt is well over a trillion dollars, and total student loan debt is now over a trillion and a half dollars. Corporate debt has more than doubled since the last financial crisis, state and local governments are absolutely drowning in debt and unfunded pension liabilities, and the federal government is more than 22 trillion dollars in debt. The Federal Reserve and the “too big to fail” banks are at the core of this insidious debt-based system, and it has been systematically destroying the bright future that our children and our grandchildren were supposed to have. But if we suddenly turned off America’s great debt creation machine at this point, our entire economic system would totally collapse because we have become so dependent on it.
- trickle down theory falls apart on multiple levels. Theory says that those at the top should take better care of people over time or that they can take care of more people? Most economies are composed of Small to Medium based Enterprises (SME). People employed per given amount of money is higher in SME firms. Most SME firms have a very high failure rate? Easier to create more loans for businesses or simply give out money Universal Basic Income (UBI) style to drive economic growth (stagger it if you're worried about hyperinflation). Why won't they consider something different even on a mid-level scale? Trickle up and trickle down when you can makes more sense because it keeps asset prices going up while giving people down the chain a bit more when possible? That better explains behaviour of current system?
~258~ Basic Income Proven, Assange Media Blackout, Weed Convictions Erased
people employed per capita
loan rejection rates
- the funny thing is that if you assume that the system is fair then algorithms are automatically biased against the poor and disenfranchised? The algorithms need more work or else humans always need to be in the loop? I used to build stuff to deal with this and know how difficult it is?
We Need to Talk About Search
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NP0sBE98R10
We cannot fix social problems by reinforcing them with black box AI or biased algorithms: It’s like literally trying to fight fire with fire. Until we develop 100 percent bias-proof AI, using them to take away a person’s freedom, children, or future is just wrong.
- despite many countries being technically democracies it's obvious that the public genuinely doesn't know that much about what their governments do sometimes? It's as though they move from one lie, manipulation to the next after the truth is discovered? Takes a while but it becomes easier to figure out the doublespeak and jargon over time
[173] Hong Kong Is Not What It Seems
Keiser Report - Financial vandalism and dollar toast (E1434)
Justifying its $600bn budget? Pentagon’s DARPA to fight 'disinformation' with AI
Facebook's election 'war room' takes aim at fake information
In Europe, U.S. defense secretary to call for greater effort to counter China, Russia
"Saying all Australian Chinese who speak to the Chinese government are compromised is like saying any Aussie who speaks to a member of the government is a Liberal. It’s bizarre."
- tug of war between US and China is interesting and so is the size of the military industrial complex in US. It is critical to understanding the US. By concentrating defence responsibility and costs in the US it leaves others to work on other things? It also means that if the US loses it's edge others may abandon it? That's the reason why they spend so much on defense? They're in the security racket? Check growth and and inflation numbers for China and US. They should be going up simultaneously in both cases but it seems to be stabilising in US?
End of Unipolar Moment - Peter Lavelle Interviews Alastair Crooke
Trump vs Taliban: Trump cancels Afghan peace talks, Taliban says Americans will die
inflation united states trend
gdp united states trend
- fraudulent news and fraudulent markets means that it's more difficult to trade fairly at an individual level? In any case, most major market moves are determined by institutional traders. Ironically, since China's growth rate has been higher then the US for a long time it seems obvious that China should win by virtue of the fact that the US will feel more pain before China? Military buildup of China shouldn't matter to US because US spends far more on defence then any other country in the world. Also, they (China) have no real overseas deployments (when compared to the US)? If China (and others) are refusing to buy US debt and that explains QE program?
The Big Short (2015) - Dr.Michael Burry Restricts Withdrawals from Scion Capital [HD 1080p]
"Home flipping keeps getting less and less profitable, which is another marker that the post-recession housing boom is softening or may be coming to an end. Flipping houses is still a good business to be in and profits are healthy in most parts of the country. But push-and-pull forces in the housing market appear to be working less and less in investors' favor. That's leading to declining profits and a business that is nowhere near as good as it was a few years ago."
- US will try to avoid disorderly unwinding of Empire. Does this by secret transfer of assets to China which has an opaque system. If the US Empire has secretely collapsed then a lot of what they've been doing in recent times (decades) makes sense?
- some people wonder why economists, politicians, financiers, bankers, bureaucrats, etc... are paid so much in spite of effectively being paper shufflers. They basically keep things in check, they keep society/civilisation running. It mightn't be genuinely and completely fair but it works?
- assuming most conspiracy theorists aren't mentally ill then their minds work on cause effect most of the time. They seem to see more of the picture though but you have to filter through a lot of junk? The elite want to bring the world together under particular ideologies. They ignore the fact that most people are unique and that geography, history, biology, sociology, local politics, etc... all play an important role in what people believe? It seems naive to believe that the world could be brought together in such a way? US is a massive target because they want to spread their ideologies to the rest of the world and is currently the wealthiest country on Earth. There are also lots of pathways to going down the conspiracy theory route. Basically, ask why/how some countries and people become succesful or wealthy and things don't make sense which leads to various conspiracy theories? One alleged conspiracy theorist is John Perkins. He said that the US collects massive amounts of data on the rest of the world and then uses various means to destablise, bribe, coerce other countries into giving them cheap labour or resources for the best possible price?
Conspiracy Theorists Are Domestic Terrorists! - #PropagandaWatch
Latent inhibition is a technical term used in classical conditioning to refer to the observation that a familiar stimulus takes longer to acquire meaning (as a signal or conditioned stimulus) than a new stimulus.[1] The term "latent inhibition" dates back to Lubow and Moore.[2] The LI effect is "latent" in that it is not exhibited in the stimulus pre-exposure phase, but rather in the subsequent test phase. "Inhibition", here, simply connotes that the effect is expressed in terms of relatively poor learning. The LI effect is extremely robust, appearing in all mammalian species that have been tested and across many different learning paradigms, thereby suggesting some adaptive advantages, such as protecting the organism from associating irrelevant stimuli with other, more important, events.
- humans believe what they want to believe even if it's not true? Many humans are selfish and when they hear that a new politician can deliver more for them they gladly go along for the ride even if deep down they don't believe that the politician can deliver what they want?
Yet God loves us so much that even before the world began he had a plan to save us and put things right. He sent his own son – Jesus, who willingly came to take our punishment for our wrongdoing so we could be restored and made right with God.
- it feels like the elite have a naive interpretation of the future? Searching for the truth isn't always possible? Answers are dependent on circumstances? In any case they use heaps of lies and manipulation to control people so how can it be that they want the truth? Look at what happened to various whistleblowers? They know that they're corrupt? Throughout history ideologies are used to bind people. I suspect socio-economic systems such as capitalism, religion, etc... are examples of this. The alternative is obviously anarchy? Judgement is about truth beyond reasonable doubt? We've seen what happens at what occurs if people try for absolutes though such as Copernicus vs Ptolemy, Evolution vs Intelligent Design, etc...
We Need to Talk About Search
- a lot of stuff in reliigion doesn't add up (positions on homosexuality doesn't make sense because it's a naturally occurring phenomena, some stuff about pork being unclean matches up against outbreaks of particular disease during that time period, etc...)? Suspect that the religions have the equivalent of covert operations as well (confessional seal mightn't be entirely truthful?)? Suspect that religion is part PSYOP? Making people believe that there is always a good and bad side seems to be critical? That way people are always fighting one another and never examine the system in question? That said, people are taught to try and do good from the get go so it can't be all bad?
- people don't understand how the system works? If they examined things across the board then it's obvious that this version of liberal, capitalist, democracy would be rejected? Across all stats less then majority doesn't favour this? Ironically, a lot of the stuff that reduces inequality have been reduced or banned over the years. Unions, demonstrations have been banned, public ignored, people intimidated, etc... Wonder how many times have the elite ignored the public? There are obvious flaws with the system which nobody wants to genuinely confront?
Web Exclusive: Trump Doesn’t Understand Capitalism
Is the Capitalist System Fundamentally Flawed
political demonstrations by country
https://www.pewresearch.org/topics/protests-and-uprisings/
100 Companies Are The Cause Of It
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpY0ymkTMcE
https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2017/jul/10/100-fossil-fuel-companies-investors-responsible-71-global-emissions-cdp-study-climate-change
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/nov/20/90-companies-man-made-global-warming-emissions-climate-change
https://b8f65cb373b1b7b15feb-c70d8ead6ced550b4d987d7c03fcdd1d.ssl.cf3.rackcdn.com/cms/reports/documents/000/002/327/original/Carbon-Majors-Report-2017.pdf?1499691240
http://www.carbontracker.org/report/stranded-assets-danger-zone/
https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/sustainable-development-elephant-room-191009072428736.html
https://www.afr.com/policy/energy-and-climate/why-greta-thunberg-going-radical-won-t-help-the-planet-20191010-p52zbi
https://www.news.com.au/technology/environment/climate-change/activists-hold-head-in-the-sand-protest-on-manly-beach/news-story/e7df5f4ea8f6eeb30c8b27332c2d5f59
https://www.dw.com/en/imf-calls-for-huge-hike-in-carbon-tariffs-to-save-earth/a-50787293
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-10-12/extinction-rebellion-protest-demand-heard-but-ignored/11594914
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-09-03/climate-change-breaking-the-law-extinction-rebellion/11475060
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/10/oil-firms-barrels-markets
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-10/protesters-in-quito-seize-ecuadorian-police-shouting-murderer
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/ecuador-rises-against-imf
https://www.newsclick.in/around-world-8-minutes-ecuador-fights-back-against-imf
https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Ecuador-Protests-Enter-7th-Day-Against-Pro-IMF-Economic-reforms-20191009-0008.html
protest against imf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988_IMF/World_Bank_protests
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_Seattle_WTO_protests
- there seems to be near universal practice of banning protesters now (watch news from around the world to gain perspective), mass surveillance, torture, an adequate social safety net, slavery, etc... in spite of these being in violation of UN Human Rights and many countries constitutions? Suspect that governance is a lot harder then some people think?
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2017/04/youtube-news-downloader-script-music.html
un human rights
Maids for Sale: Silicon Valley’s Online Slave Market - BBC News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qxz-vmbFXd4
https://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/
The Declaration consists of a preamble and thirty articles:
The preamble sets out the historical and social causes that led to the necessity of drafting the Declaration.
Articles 1–2 established the basic concepts of dignity, liberty, and equality.
Articles 3–5 established other individual rights, such as the right to life and the prohibition of slavery and torture.
Articles 6–11 refer to the fundamental legality of human rights with specific remedies cited for their defence when violated.
Articles 12–17 established the rights of the individual towards the community (including such things as freedom of movement).
Articles 18–21 sanctioned the so-called "constitutional liberties", and with spiritual, public, and political freedoms, such as freedom of thought, opinion, religion and conscience, word, and peaceful association of the individual.
Articles 22–27 sanctioned an individual's economic, social and cultural rights, including healthcare. Article 25 states: "Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services." It also makes additional accommodations for security in case of physical debilitation or disability, and makes special mention of care given to those in motherhood or childhood.[6]
Articles 28–30 established the general ways of using these rights, the areas in which these rights of the individual can not be applied, and that they can not be overcome against the individual.
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During World War II, the Allies adopted the Four Freedoms—freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom from fear, and freedom from want—as their basic war aims.[8][9] The United Nations Charter "reaffirmed faith in fundamental human rights, and dignity and worth of the human person" and committed all member states to promote "universal respect for, and observance of, human rights and fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language, or religion".[10]
When the atrocities committed by Nazi Germany became fully apparent after World War II, the consensus within the world community was that the United Nations Charter did not sufficiently define the rights to which it referred.[11][12] A universal declaration that specified the rights of individuals was necessary to give effect to the Charter's provisions on human rights.[13]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Declaration_of_Human_Rights
un convention human rights
https://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Declaration_of_Human_Rights
Keiser Report - What is the Fed hiding (E1457)
But despite all the technical arguments against law, the government has turned a deaf ear, insisting that the concerns of industry are due to a misunderstanding of the legislation.
Wilson told ABC Radio on Monday that China's Communist Party was an "authoritative regime by nature and authoritative regimes are oppressive and that's why people are standing up for their future."
He said he supported "non-violent protest."
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Wilson has been accused of hypocrisy after a 2011 tweet resurfaced where he suggested protesters from Occupy Melbourne - part of the global social movement on economic inequality - should be sprayed with water cannons.
Eco-activists threaten 2 weeks of mass action in 60 cities
pollution levels by country
energy consumption by country
- it's very difficult to know whether the US leadership is a good thing or not if you examine the whole of history from multiple perspectives. They've solved problems but also created heaps of them. Overseas military bases are there to control/change people over time. Protect resources and interests like in Saudi Arabia? Possibly change them to becoming liberal, capitalist, democracies like the US?
- humanity is a series of hierarchies. Currently, the US is trying to push liberal, capitalist, democracy on the rest of the world? The irony is that isolated pockets of humanity have moved beyond the systems in place. They can live in piece without the rest of the world without the framework that is currently in place?
https://www.actvism.org/en/politics/socialism-debate-marxist-richard-wolff/
- people don't think about doublespeak or jargon. There's no such thing as "Free Trade". As it exists, it's "semi-Free Trade". Moreover, reduction in taxes and tarries reduces the amount of money that goes to mostly socialised activities such as healthcare, social security, public services in general, etc... It only helps to increase the inequality gap?
- in the battle between socialism and capitalism the capitalist wins because the socialist entity has to be stronger then relevant capitalist entities that it must be fighting. That means that ultimately it's a battle between capitalist like entities?
Economic Update - Capitalism in Denial
AskProfWolff - The Corporation as a Totalitarian Institution
Richard Wolff offers context to those critical of Venezuela and Cuba's socialist systems.
As for the Iranian Government, Dr Behrouz said: "It seems they are prepared to fight against the sanctions until the end of Trump's presidential term".
"After these two years, the new government in America could be more logical. It could create a new chance to start logical diplomatic communication."
Mr Shams said inside Iran, people often tried to cope by making light of the situation whenever possible.
"People try to forget the situation by creating funny moments, so you often hear jokes about everyone from the Supreme Leader to Trump."
But he said neither governments were putting human rights at the forefront of their decisions.
"They are in a childish political fight," he said, adding that the victims were not politicians but rather ordinary Iranians.
- the irony of religion is that it's genuinely unrealistic to reach what they want if you live as an average person. It makes you wonder what the purpose is? If it's a PSYOP the purpose is obvious. Make it so that those who want to reach the top are comfortable with being hypocrites? This filters out those who are competent enough enough, strong enough, hypocritical enough, believe in the system, etc...
- Trust Gap means that even if you want good in this world you can't really trust anyone? Look at the people that humanity has idolised and demonised at the same time? Jesus, Nelson Mandela, Mother Theresa, Stalin, Martin Luther King Jnr, Mahatma Gandhi, etc... Realistically, over turning the current world structure is unrealistic. Parallel societies are far more likely to occur unless security services decide to disrupt their operations?
- consistency is bad for traders. You can't use the past to predict the future especially if the future brings something genuinely new? Passive and hedge funds are dangerous in particular because they turn the past into the present and since new systems are being brought into the present all the time it can cause distortions. Lies and manipulation are critical to the proper function of the financial system and this entire system?
- understand the system and you'll realise how difficult it is for those at the bottom to rise up? Each boom cycle corresponds with lots of people getting money at the bottom. More people are employed then run their own businesses? Each bust cycle creates the most problems for those at the bottom. Those at the top can take better advantage of those at the bottom most of the time. Ironially, greater centralisation creates too big too fail type scenarios. Only way out is parallel societies?
- elite don't want people digging around in case they discover how flawed the system genuinely is? Some decisions are just silly so they don't people to know, don't want them to know it isn't as fair as they want people to believe, etc? Ironically, those at the top have boxed themselves in? By sticking to particular ideologies certain outcomes are more likely? It's irrelevant what the intentions of the elite are. What's more interesting to me is what the consequences are for the overall group? Ironically, the religions and various other books, meetings, etc... outline what the elite actually want. If they're a series of random thoughts it also tells you what their intentions are? If you examine the End Times in particular then it becomes obvious that things don't match up? If intentional, it's almost like a sick/cruel joke that the elite have run on the rest of humanity for thousands of years? Once you understand this it's like the classic choice between between "red pill or blue pill"? If you want to create better society you'll be severely limited by the systems in place? People are stuck in a semi-Matrix type environment? My guess is that it's irrelevant whether any or all of this is true or intentional anyway because no one would believe it anyway? A lot of conspiracy theorists have been semi-banned and there are many websites out there where they get labeled complete lunatics? Many political media outlets often have an agenda in play? Never listen to a single source of information if you want to figure out the truth
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_pill_and_blue_pill
If You Can't Win The Debate - Ban It - The David Icke Dot-Connector Videocast
Conspiracy Theorists Are Domestic Terrorists! - #PropagandaWatch
We Need to Talk About Search
Most people’s lives are dominated by mental story, so whoever can control those stories controls the people. The good news is that all we need to do to reclaim our world from the controllers is to reclaim our stories. The barrier between us and freedom is as thin as a fairy tale.
http://www.thetibetpost.com/en/news/exile/6606-we-have-the-truth-on-our-side-his-holiness-the-dalai-lama-of-tibet
- if you assume all news has an agenda and then try to figure out the useful stuff it makes more sense. Easiest algorithm is to summarise news from multiple outlets and then see whether they contradict or not. Then figure out what can be verified/authenticated. Ignore the rest because that's where the crowd will move anyway (truth doesn't matter as much as what can move the crowd). Lots of block points in this system everywhere to stop or reduce chances of upwards and sideways movement. Fake news, fake markets, funnel points, etc... If you want to take advantage of financial data look at weak points in the chain. These will crack first. Countries such as the US have too much control over things to be able to make use of this data
- you stop uprisings by demoralization, surveillance and subversion, divide and conquer, threats, physical force, Panopticon effect, manipulation, false and real whistleblowers, limited concessions from time to time, manufactured consent, etc... The system is maintained via PSYOPS primarily. Culture of celebrity, culture of social mobility, deflection, distraction, etc... Where all else fails use fear, uncertainty, doubt, confusion, etc... Claims of class warfare, jealously, envy, etc... if there is resentment at inequality gap
Whistleblowers - Why do they risk it all _ The Stream
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3DepcTlJII
Keiser Report - A Black September (E1436)
- why do politicians lie? If you examine humans then you'll realise they're really strange. They are tribal when they don't need to be and they're easily manipulated. For that particular reason, even if a politician wants to unite people they'll struggle. Then it becomes a game of manipulation. Even if you want to do something good it's really difficult. It's really difficult to know sometimes whether those up the chain mean well or not?
- changing things from the inside is not possible because of the system screens people who want to change it via the various funnels that are in place? Even if ideologues can gain entry they're stuck with NDA agreements, corporate interests, awkward/contradictory ideologies, etc...
- throughout history religion and ideologies were used to unite and/or manipulate. The madness in all of this is that the elite manipulate people into thinking one thing based on what the elite think. If the system fails then the elite simply reload with a new idea. Secrecy and confusion used to maintain things? So many ironies. If things really haven't changed for the better (according to some people) then why do they keep on getting another chance? Because, they have the money and power to maintain their positions?
- if you understand how capitalism works then you understand that it creates virtual funnels. The system that existed that existed thousands of years ago continues on to this day. One funny thing is that wealth in hands of a small percentage of humanity makes more sense if you understand how the elite may think? Perhaps they think that IQ tests are valid measures of what constitutes a "useful human being" (lot's of evidence that they are biased towards particular racial profiles and socio-demographic profiles and can be beaten via training/tutoring)? That's why they think they can neatly overlay IQ and income bell curves and that makes sense? That said, if you examine the elite in detail it makes less sense?
iq bell curve
income bell curve
The Russian nobility (Russian: дворянство dvoryanstvo) originated in the 14th century. In 1914 it consisted of approximately 1,900,000 members (about 1.1% of the population).
Up until the February Revolution of 1917, the noble estates staffed most of the Russian government.
The Russian word for nobility, dvoryanstvo (дворянство), derives from Slavonic dvor (двор), meaning the court of a prince or duke (kniaz), and later, of the tsar or emperor. Here, dvor originally referred to servants at the estate of an aristocrat. In the late 16th and early 17th centuries, the word dvoryane described the highest rank of gentry, who performed duties at the royal court, lived in it (Moskovskie zhiltsy), or were candidates to it (dvorovye deti boyarskie, vybornye deti boyarskie). A nobleman is called a dvoryanin (plural: dvoryane). Pre-Soviet Russia shared with other countries the concept that nobility connotes a status or social category rather than a title. Throughout the 18th and 19th centuries, the title of the nobleman in Russia gradually became a formal status, rather than a reference to a member of the aristocracy, due to a massive influx of commoners via the Table of ranks. Many descendants of the former ancient Russian aristocracy, including royalty, changed their formal standing to merchants, burghers, or even peasants, while people descended from serfs (like Vladimir Lenin's father) or clergy (like in the ancestry of actress Lyubov Orlova) gained formal nobility.
- who are we promoting? Mental profiles are somewhat odd? It's almost impossible to avoid a battle between the will of the many and the will of the few given some psychological profiles? Those at the top obviously believe that they can figure out solutions to many of humanities problems but intelligence tests indicate they aren't that much different from the rest of the population?
https://www.corbettreport.com/our-leaders-are-psychopaths/
https://www.corbettreport.com/episode-090-our-leaders-are-psychopaths/
https://www.corbettreport.com/episode-213-revisiting-psychopathy/
https://www.corbettreport.com/criminal-psychopaths-run-the-government-lets-give-them-more-power/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/victorlipman/2013/04/25/the-disturbing-link-between-psychopathy-and-leadership/
https://off-guardian.org/2018/01/12/documentary-i-am-fishhead-are-corporate-leaders-egoistical-psychopaths/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopathy_in_the_workplace
psychological profile politician
https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/tyrannical-minds/201906/the-politics-political-profiling
In order to run for public office, a person has to be able to accept continual assaults on his or her personhood. Human beings don’t like that experience. And so presidents, for instance, develop each his (so far) own style of coping: Truman was in your face, Eisenhower hid out in plain sight, Kennedy relied on family and personal charisma, Johnson (the power master) reverted to his outsider origin story, Nixon arguably descended into paranoia, Carter was holier-than-thou, Reagan lived in a Hollywood castle “on the hill,” aristocratic Bush I tried to be just one of the folks, Clinton lived a life impervious to normal standards, Bush II lived in a hazy world dominated by VP Cheney, Obama was above it all, and Trump goes the furthest in creating an alternative universe in which he resides.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/addiction-in-society/201902/the-psychology-politician
https://www.thecut.com/2017/02/politicians-have-different-personalities-than-the-rest-of-us.html
mental profiles politician
Wright and Tomlinson started their investigation with a pair of recently released personality profiles of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. These profiles were prepared by personality experts, and label Trump as high in extroversion, average in openness to experience, and low in conscientiousness, agreeableness, and emotional stability. Clinton was judged to be high in conscientiousness and emotional stability, and average in openness to experience, agreeableness, and extroversion.
- in liberalist, capitalism, democracy the elite bring the ideas. Everyone else must adapt, even if they must go bankrupt and work for the new incumbent? Ironies abound because most of the Big 5 US IT firms were insolvent for about a decade before turning a profit? In reality, it's a case of who has the deepest pockets once again? The more money you have to invest, bet, etc... the more likely you can make more money? It's not a genuinely fair contest (who said life was meant to be fair?)? If you examine people at the top it's interesting. It's at this point you realise that life is a semi-popularity contest. People don't necessarily want the best candidate a lot of the time. The want the best candidate that is popular/sociable and fits in? People up top should be able to make money, raise money, make friends, come to agreements, etc... It doesn't necessarily correspond with talent or hard work? I came up with the following formula a while back. It seems to work?
success in this system = opportunity/network/environment/school + capital buildup/financial backing/savings + understanding local system/capitalism + understanding craft/skill/education + ethics and/or corruption level/communication/interpersonal skills + genetics/health/physical condition + effort/hard work/flexibility
Europe’s desperation move to avert global recession
Dr. Richard Wolff - Is the Global Financial Crisis Close
bankruptcy by demographic
The 2011 study also found that 60 percent of bankruptcy filers have salaries of less than $30,000. This reflected a decrease from about 66 percent four years earlier.
Over the same period, an increasing percentage of filers reported making more than $60,000 annually. This demographic grew from comprising 5.5 percent to 9.2 percent.
Although there is a typical profile of someone in bankruptcy and certain life factors that make bankruptcy more likely, no one is immune to severe financial troubles. If you find yourself struggling financially, consider debt settlement and debt consolidation before turning to bankruptcy.
worlds most wealthy people list religion
According to a study from 2015, Christians hold the largest amount of wealth (55% of the total world wealth), followed by Muslims (5.0%), Hindus (3.3%), and Jews (1.1%). According to the same study it was found that adherents under the classification Irreligion or other religions hold about 34.8% of the total global wealth.[3]
A study done by the nonpartisan wealth research firm New World Wealth found that 56.2% of the 13.1 million millionaires in the world were Christians,[4] while 6.5% were Muslims, 3.9% were Hindu, and 1.7% were Jewish; 31.7% were identified as adherents of "other" religions or "not religious".
- there's a fatal flaw in most empires that have arisen on Earth? They don't meet the criteria to overcome the "Empire Paradox" (namely, they can take care of everyone inside of their respective Empires). Technically, US should overcome Talent Paradox through use of neo-liberalism and neo-colonialism but hasn't?
The issues being discussed couldn’t be more urgent. Over 2 million Americans are in prison, 30 million don’t have health insurance, 40 million live in poverty, millions more are overworked and one disaster away from total destitution. But you don’t hear that anxiety or that sense of anger from the “mainstream” candidates. What you hear is the sound of people trying hard not to lose.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-09-20/area-51-invasion-shows-how-humorless-government
- it feels like the world goes through financial inequality cycles. Every once in a while things have to change because things get bad. Understand how neo-liberalism is supposed to work (as opposed to how it actually works) and it makes more sense how it's semi-religious in nature. Those at the top are supposed to be able to take care of people at the bottom better. In reality, those at the top are good at shifting around money but not really solving problems by themselves?
Silicon Six: How Amazon, Facebook & others dodged $100BN in taxes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1V-hhRhPSc
The government has used its favourite media organs — the Murdoch press — to float some really crazy suggestions about why it is hesitating to respond to the ACCC report, something it pledged to do before the end of the year.
According to The Australian, the government fears that asking the digital firms to pay for content they use from media companies would be considered a tax. So what? Everyone pays when they use content from someone else. Why should tax-evaders like Facebook and Google get an exemption?
Another "fear" is that Facebook and Google will move offshore if rules are placed on their operations, resulting in a loss of revenue and jobs. Really? Where are they going to move – Vanuatu? Tuvalu? Fiji? Samoa? This is a big bluff from lobbyists who are paid heavily by the digital firms and if the government swallows this, it will swallow anything.
This, by the way, is the same government that dismissed fears voiced by technology companies last year when very real evidence was produced to show that the encryption law which was being pushed through would endanger the small tech industry that Australia has. Warnings came from countries around the globe and not from paid lobbyists, but from technically qualified people.
But, hey, what use does the government have for such people? The way it has driven the education system into the ground is a clear indication that education is the lowest priority on its agenda – that is, if it has anything close to an agenda.
If all the ACCC's work goes in vain, then Morrison might as well give Facebook and Google non-profit status and exempt them from all taxes. After all, they pay very little now and the government does not seem keen to force them to pay their rightful share.
https://www.itwire.com/open-sauce/govt-fearful-of-power-wielded-by-global-digital-giants.html
https://truthout.org/articles/a-new-generation-is-rising-up-to-resist-neoliberalism-across-the-globe/
https://truthout.org/articles/we-must-end-neoliberalism-or-neoliberalism-will-end-us/
https://www.inverse.com/article/60897-elon-musk-says-neuralink-could-bring-a-i-superintelligence-to-the-brain
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/pa75a8/worker-owned-apps-are-trying-to-fix-the-gig-economys-exploitation
https://fossbytes.com/pirate-bay-of-science-going-offline-activists-trying-stop/
https://libgen.org/
https://sci-hub.tw/
https://www.innovestsme.com.au/adventures/?
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/history-was-supposed-end-what-happened
https://www.zerohedge.com/health/why-future-needs-us-humans
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/will-drones-push-middle-east-past-point-no-return
"Harvard and Yale can't claim to truly promote knowledge while at the same time supporting the companies engaged in misleading the public, smearing academics and denying the truth. That's why we are joining together with our friends at Yale to call for change."
...
Harvard said it did not believe that divestment was the best way to tackle the climate crisis.
In a statement published by the Harvard Crimson, spokeswoman Rachael Dane said: "Universities like Harvard have a crucial role to play in tackling climate change and Harvard is fully committed to leadership in this area through research, education, community engagement, dramatically reducing its own carbon footprint, and using our campus as a test bed for piloting and proving solutions."
Some political figures took to Twitter to support the protest.
Among them was Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders who told the students: "We are with you in this fight."
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50534143
- the US/West believes that they can convert the entire world to their way of thinking? This has been tried many times. Has never worked. What's more the US is coming back to the pack (in terms of GDP). Highly unlikely that their plan will succeed?
Toby Ziegler : Well... How about when we, instead of blowing Iraq back to the seventh century for harbouring terrorists and trying to develop nuclear weapons, we just imposed economic sanctions and were reviled by the Arab world for not giving them a global charge card and a free trade treaty? How about when we pushed Israel to give up land for peace? How about when we sent American soldiers to protect Saudi Arabia, and the Arab world told us we were desecrating their holy land? We'll ignore the fact that we were invited. How about two weeks ago, in the State of the Union when the President praised the Islamic people as faithful and hardworking only to be denounced in the Arab press as knowing nothing about Islam? But none of that is the point.
Andrea Wyatt : What is the point?
Toby Ziegler : I don't remember having to explain to Italians that our problem wasn't with them, but with Mussolini! Why does the U.S. have to take every Arab country out for an ice cream cone? They'll like us when we win!
Toby Ziegler : Thousands of madrasas teaching children nothing, nothing, *nothing,* but the Quran, and to hate America. Who do we see about that? Do I want to preach America? Judeo-Christianity? No. Their religion forbids them from playing the trumpet? So be it. But I want those kids to look at a globe. Be exposed to social sciences, history, some literature. They'll like us when we win.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0745661/characters/nm0771493
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_science
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immanuel_Kant
Thomas Samuel Kuhn (/kuːn/; July 18, 1922 – June 17, 1996) was an American philosopher of science whose 1962 book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions was influential in both academic and popular circles, introducing the term paradigm shift, which has since become an English-language idiom.
Kuhn made several claims concerning the progress of scientific knowledge: that scientific fields undergo periodic "paradigm shifts" rather than solely progressing in a linear and continuous way, and that these paradigm shifts open up new approaches to understanding what scientists would never have considered valid before; and that the notion of scientific truth, at any given moment, cannot be established solely by objective criteria but is defined by a consensus of a scientific community. Competing paradigms are frequently incommensurable; that is, they are competing and irreconcilable accounts of reality. Thus, our comprehension of science can never rely wholly upon "objectivity" alone. Science must account for subjective perspectives as well, since all objective conclusions are ultimately founded upon the subjective conditioning/worldview of its researchers and participants.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Kuhn
- sometimes it's really difficult to know whether the political establishment are just too cynical, ill suited too their jobs, etc... National Security ,emoradum 200 and China's one child policy are examples of this and were designed to keep world's population down to deal with resource exchaustion issue. They can't solve the riddles so they have to compromise? Countries have to have secrets and security clearances because they need to undermine one another to get what they want. Transparency without responsibility and accountability means nothing because some people just don't care what others think
- political elite know about technological limitations that humans face so they try to deal with the issue of resource limits by attempting to control human population size and also by investing in relevant advances in human science and technology?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Borlaug
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Study_Memorandum_200
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-child_policy
bill gates contraception population control
https://c-fam.org/friday_fax/bill-gates-thinks-many-africanscalls-population-control/
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/09/africas-rapid-population-growth-puts-poverty-progress-at-risk-says-gates/
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/bill-gates-vaccinations-depopulation/
https://www.gatesfoundation.org/what-we-do/global-development/family-planning
population growth trend
https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_growth
The Black Death, also known as the Pestilence (Pest for short), the Great Plague or the Plague, or less commonly the Black Plague, was one of the most devastating pandemics in human history, resulting in the deaths of an estimated 75 to 200 million people in Eurasia and peaking in Europe from 1347 to 1351.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Death
Year
Lower Estimate
Upper Estimate
1200 AD
360
450
1300 AD
360
432
1400 AD
350
374
1500 AD
425
540
https://www.ecology.com/population-estimates-year-2050/
Big Australia was a term used by Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to describe an increase in the population of Australia from 22 million in 2010 to 36 million in 2050 along with the policies needed to react to it. A portion of the projected growth involved immigration to Australia, which proved controversial.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Australia
national security memorandum dtbnguyen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Study_Memorandum_200
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-child_policy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_clearance
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-01-24/six-class-system-dispelling-myths-of-a-classless-australia/9339532
https://www.infowars.com/american-society-would-collapse-if-it-werent-for-these-8-myths/
- understand how the system works and you may understand why certain government policies exist. For instance, if the environment is deflationary another way to deal with things is via population control? Obvious that Japan and Russia may be good examples of this which have diminishing growth rates, increased average age and therefore healthcare costs, etc...
contraception law by country
Worldwide laws and policies on contraception, abortion and sterilization affect service provision.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7439344
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/datablog/2016/mar/08/contraception-and-family-planning-around-the-world-interactive
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_reproductive_rights_legislation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prevalence_of_birth_control
https://www.salon.com/2014/04/09/8_countries_you_wont_believe_have_it_backwards_on_birth_control_partner/
https://onlinedoctor.superdrug.com/birth-control-around-the-world/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Decade_(Japan)
japan trend gold price
https://goldprice.org/gold-price-japan.html
https://www.goldbroker.com/charts/gold-price/jpy
https://www.gold-eagle.com/rate/price-of-gold/Japan
japan economic trend
https://tradingeconomics.com/japan/gdp-growth
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/12/japans-economic-outlook-in-five-charts
http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sci-tech/three-australian-teams-race-each-other-and-time-itself-to-crack-a-cure-for-aging-20171027-gz9j2g.html
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/japans-fertility-crisis-is-the-worst-its-been-in-118-years/ar-BBHnFMM
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- this is what I meant earlier about drones being more effective and cheaper then 5th-Gen and possibly 6th-Gen fighters. Note, that the Saudi Arabian Air Defense is composed of an array of mostly US based air defense equipment? Also, the share price of relevant companies who comprise Saudi Arabian Air Defense systems (basically, US manufactured by Raytheon, Lockheed Martin and Northrup-Grumman) have gone up instead of down? Surely, if markets were genuinely fair their share price should have gone down because their equipment has proven to be useless? Unless, it was a false flag attack? Some have said that Russian Air Defense systems are useless but they seem to less useless then some of the current US Air Defense systems that are deployed (based on specifications and past experience)?
The Big Short (2015) - Dr.Michael Burry Restricts Withdrawals from Scion Capital [HD 1080p]
Patriot missiles failed to protect Saudi Arabia from attack because even the world’s best anti-air systems sometimes don’t work, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said, expertly rebuking critics of the US defense industry.
Washington was left red in the face after missiles and armed drones successfully penetrated Saudi airspace – which is guarded by an arsenal of fancy US-made Patriot systems – hitting a major oil facility in the country.
Perhaps fearing that Riyadh might give the US defense system a 1-star review on Yelp, Pompeo used his master statesmanship to reassure loyal customers around the world that they didn’t spend billions of dollars on something that doesn’t actually work.
How is it that, after spending “$80 million a year” on air defense, the Saudis weren’t able to track “missiles that are crossing the Persian Gulf?” a journalist traveling with the secretary of state rudely asked on Wednesday.
“We’ve seen air defense systems all around the world have mixed success. Some of the finest in the world don’t always pick things up,” Pompeo replied, dunking on all of the haters with facts and logic.
He went on to suggest that Saudi Arabia simply doesn’t have enough (US-made) “infrastructure” to stop such an attack, and that Washington will work with the Kingdom to alleviate this problem. Sounds expensive.
The Houthi rebels in Yemen have claimed responsibility for the precision strike, and warned that more attacks could come at any moment. Washington and Riyadh, however, have blamed Iran for the incident – an accusation that Tehran fiercely denies.
false flag attack
The Royal Saudi Air Defense Forces (RSADF) is the fourth branch of Saudi Arabian Armed Forces. It was a part of the Army until 1966, when it was made independent by Field Marshal Khalid bin Sultan. The RSADF has its headquarters in Riyadh (Air Defense Ministry Building designed by Arthur Erickson Architects with Bing Thom), where there is also an elaborate underground command facility that co-ordinates Saudi Arabia's advanced "Peace Shield" radar and air defence system.
Peace Shield
Remote-controlled air/ground radio communications sites.
17 Lockheed Martin AN/FPS-117 long-range phased array, 3-dimensional air search radar.
6 Northrop-Grumman AN/TPS-43 portable 3-dimensional tactical air search radar.
Raytheon Improved HAWK air defense missile system.
Raytheon MIM-104 Patriot air defense missile system
Oerlikon Contraves Skyguard 35mm Twin Cannon Short Range air defense system
Lockheed Martin THAAD anti-ballistic missile defense system.
The devastating blitz on Saudi Arabia’s oil industry has led to a flurry of accusations from US officials blaming Iran. The reason for the finger-pointing is simple: Washington’s spectacular failure to protect its Saudi ally.
The Trump administration needs to scapegoat Iran for the latest military assault on Saudi Arabia because to acknowledge that the Houthi rebels mounted such an audacious assault on the oil kingdom’s heartland would be an admission of American inadequacy.
Saudi Arabia has spent billions of dollars in recent years purchasing US Patriot missile defense systems and supposedly cutting-edge radar technology from the Pentagon. If the Yemeni rebels can fly combat drones up to 1,000 kilometers into Saudi territory and knock out the linchpin production sites in the kingdom’s oil industry, then that should be a matter of huge embarrassment for US “protectors.”
American defense of Saudi Arabia is germane to their historical relationship. Saudi oil exports nominated in dollars for trade – the biggest on the planet – are vital for maintaining the petrodollar global market, which is in turn crucial for American economic power. In return, the US is obligated to be a protector of the Saudi monarchy, which comes with the lucrative added benefit of selling the kingdom weapons worth billions of dollars every year.
According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, Saudi Arabia has the world’s third biggest military budget, behind the US and China. With an annual spend of around $68 billion, it is the world’s number one in terms of percentage of gross domestic product (8.8 per cent). Most of the Saudi arms are sourced from the US, with Patriot missile systems in particular being a recent big-ticket item.
Yet for all that financial largesse and the finest American military technology, the oil kingdom just witnessed a potentially crippling wave of air assaults on its vital oil industry. Saudi oil production at its mammoth refinery complex at Abqaiq, 205 miles (330 kms) east of the capital Riyadh, was down 50 per cent after it was engulfed by flames following air strikes. One of the Saudi’s biggest oilfields, at Khurais, also in the Eastern Province, was also partially closed.
There are credible reports that the damage is much more serious than the Saudi officials are conceding. These key industrial sites may take weeks to repair.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo got it half right when he claimed, “Iran launched an unprecedented attack on the world’s energy supply”.
Yes, it is unprecedented. But Pompeo and other US officials have most likely got it wrong about blaming Iran.
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There must be trepidation among the monarchs in Saudi Arabia and the UAE that the rebels from war-torn and starving Yemen are now coming after them with drones that could demolish their oil economies. What’s more, the much-vaunted American protector is not able to deliver on its strategic bargain, despite billions of dollars of Pentagon weaponry. That’s why Washington has to find an excuse by casting Iran as the villain.
Putin cited the Koran to admonish the Saudi coalition’s war on Yemen, saying that the Muslim holy book said the only legitimate form of violence was self-defense and, in that context, spoke of the Russian-made missile systems as a possible solution.
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- He said: ”Once I spotted a huge rat and pursued it down the hall until I drove it into a corner.
“It had nowhere to run. Suddenly it lashed around and threw itself at me. I was surprised and frightened. Now the rat was chasing me."
The book explains that Putin got away, but the memory never escaped him.
He said: “Luckily, I was a little faster and I managed to slam the door shut in its nose.
“There, on that stair landing, I got a quick and lasting lesson in the meaning of the word cornered.”
- Einstein says: “The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive, legends which are nevertheless pretty childish.”
The sentence has been hailed as evidence that the physicist, one of the 20th century’s most esteemed thinkers, was an atheist. But Einstein at times said he was not an atheist, and resented being labelled as one.
In the letter – being auctioned at Christie’s in New York on Tuesday – Einstein, a Jew, also articulates his disenchantment with Judaism. “For me the Jewish religion like all others is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions. And the Jewish people to whom I gladly belong and with whose mentality I have a deep affinity have no different quality for me than all other people,” he wrote.
“As far as my experience goes, they are no better than other human groups, although they are protected from the worst cancers by a lack of power. Otherwise I cannot see anything ‘chosen’ about them.”
- BENGALURU: Forest officials were baffled when an elephant that was part of an operation to capture a prowling tiger fled into the HD Kote forest in Mysuru district, forcing the officials to turn their attention to catching the jumbo.
- To measure animal intelligence, scientists observe creatures in the wild — watching a dolphin stick a sponge on its beak to avoid getting cuts from sharp rocks and coral, for example. Or they bring animals into the lab and offer them puzzles to solve, such as rewarding crows when they learn to rip paper into strips of just the right size.
Only a few species stand out in these studies, and by comparing them, scientists have identified some shared factors. The animals have big brains relative to their body size, they live for a long time, and they can form long-lasting social bonds.
- Pentagon spokesman Eric Pahon told CNN that the “timing of this flight is intended to reaffirm US commitment to Ukraine and other partner nations.”
"Russia's unprovoked attack on Ukrainian naval vessels in the Black Sea near the Kerch Strait is a dangerous escalation in a pattern of increasingly provocative and threatening activity," he added.
Jatras said, “It’s hard to describe all of the things that are wrong with conducting the so-called extraordinary flight over Ukraine. To start with, Ukraine is not an ally of the United States. We have no commitments to Ukraine. Ukraine is not a member of NATO. We already had one American pilot killed in a training exercise in Ukraine.”
“The rhetoric accompanying this is extremely dangerous regarding these so-called unprovoked attacks on the Ukrainian vessels in the Kerch Strait. It was not an unprovoked attack,” he added.
“These vessels were trying to provoke an incident and that’s exactly what they have accomplished. And now of course Russia is being blamed for that. Rather than ratcheting up the tensions which runs for a serious risk of a military confrontation between the United States and Russia and Ukraine and even the possibility of a nuclear war, somebody with some common sense to take a step back from this and look at what the interests of the United States are,” he stated.
“I voted for ‘America First’, I did not vote for ‘America Last,’ and ‘Ukraine First’ or any these other confrontations that has nothing to do with the safety and welfare of the people of the United States,” he concluded.
Tensions over Ukraine escalated on November 25, when Russian border patrols fired at three Ukrainian ships and then seized them along with their sailors because of illegal entry into Russian waters in the Kerch Strait, which connects the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov.
The incident took place near Crimea, a former Ukrainian territory on the Black Sea that joined Russia in a referendum in March 2014.
The seizure of the Ukrainian ships sparked a fresh row between Moscow and Washington and prompted US President Donald Trump to cancel a planned meeting with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Argentina.
- Turkish officials have long complained that the U.S. partnership with Syrian Kurds is a betrayal of decades of U.S.-Turkey partnership. The People’s Protection Units (YPG) and associated militias, Turkish diplomats argue, are affiliated with the Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK), a U.S.-designated terror group. Turkish authorities have repeatedly told their American counterparts that “you can’t fight one terrorist group with another.”
- The US used to be the largest rare-earths-producing country in 1990, but China has stolen the crown long ago. In 2018, Beijing mined 120,000 tons of the materials – a 15,000-ton increase compared to a year earlier, while the US produced just 15,000 tons in total. China holds 44 million tons of the elements if its reserves, while the US just 1.4 million tons.
- What at all does the US want on this world? Why do they hate Russia with passion? If you buy Russia's this, we will sanction you. If you buy Russia's that, we will sanction you. If you buy Russia's here, we will sanction you. If you buy Russia's there, we will sanction you. What at all therefore is wrong with the US? Turkey, India, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and U.A.E will all face sanctions if they buy S-400. Also, countries and firms involved in the Nord Stream 2 pipelines will face sanctions if they refuse to abandon the project. Why?
The real problem for the US is a loss of weapon market to Russia not "compromise the security of the F-35", just more of the lie, cheat and steal motto.
