They killed Charlie Kirk in public as a terrorist warning. Many more are quietly dispatched with no publicized clues to cause of death. We can only speculate about much of what happens in our world, but pattern recognition is real and it is always good to keep in mind that terrible forces are operating both glaringly in public and quietly in private. Many are disabled and not killed. Those are often the people you see going off the rails for no clear reason, though the stress of being quietly disabled frequently leads to drug abuse, suicide and overdose, which hides everything. Kill the strongest, kill the weakest who might talk, kill the best, kill the least, kill anyone you want. They are not us, is the thinking. It’s the code of the invaders. ABN
No reasonable person in the EU wants this outcome, no ordinary citizen in the U.K wants war with Russia and only a tiny percentage of Americans would support it.
However, 80% of the British/EU political class and around 75% of the Washington DC political class would immediately welcome this outcome.
Europe is burning through their spending of the confiscated €300 billion Russian sovereign wealth fund. The money will be completely gone within a year as it is the funding mechanism for almost all Ukraine support.
When you think about this in very practical terms, this makes the EU war against Russia a foregone conclusion.
In my opinion, the decision to spend that confiscated Russian asset wealth is what changed in early June when Zelenskyy visited King Charles in London. What was once avoidable is now ultimately only a matter of time.
Unless someone is willing to step into the finance side and repay Russia, a western conflict with the Russian Federation to avoid the issue seems to be the overwhelming likelihood.
In the interim, Eastern Ukraine remains a meat grinder.
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A fisherman was rescued alive after spending more than two weeks trapped in an underwater sinkhole.
Erasto Crisanto Valdez, 31, disappeared on July 23 while fishing with his father in a cenote, a natural sinkhole, in San Francisco La Paz, Mexico.
It was only after an international effort 15 days later on August 7 that Mr Valdez was rescued from the sinkhole.
Six days after he went missing, rescuers found a harpoon Mr Valdez had been carrying at a depth of around 65m (213ft).
Erasto Crisanto Valdez, 31, disappeared in July while fishing with his father in a cenote, a natural sinkhole, in San Francisco La Paz, Mexico
And some 15 days after he first went missing, rescuers found the fisherman in a cave with an air pocket more than 100m (328ft) below the surface.
It is believed Mr Valdez was able to survive because of a river flowing out of the dry cave that he was able to drink from, according to Mr Gust.
Mr Valdez said that while languishing in the darkness, all he did was drink, pray and sleep. He had lost all sense of time and said he thought he had only been trapped for about three days.
Both emotions and facial expressions are ancient instincts.
Human language and cognition have grown well-beyond ancient instincts. Grown beyond but also still affected by.
We have become more complex.
Today, we not only read instincts, we also read instincts into other people’s cognition through what they say, how they say it, how it sounds, how their faces move.
Which micro-expression is the right one?
The truth is we don’t know. Our readings of facial expressions in real-time, real-world situations are often wrong, often tragically.
Our cognition has advanced beyond our instincts but generally speaking it has not advanced far enough for us to generally recognize this fact.
Cultures and social groups deal with the ambiguity of facial expressions by being formal, wearing masks, emphasizing “face” or “saving face,” promoting respect or strong egos that can sell themselves through assertion of meaning, Botox, makeup, boobs, etc.
I think it is arguable that many/most/all people take on and use religion or philosophy in order to provide themselves with a generalizable set of emotions and facial expressions that can be employed in many situations. In this we can see how the architecture of our cognition (our philosophy/religion) is connected to our emotions and facial expressions.
Obviously, our reading of other people’s faces and emotions is not always wrong. If it were we wouldn’t do it. But our readings are wrong often enough that tragic mistakes are frequently made.
It is a pity that these truths are not more widely recognized. Browse almost any psychological forum and you will find many comments concerning the anguish people feel at having a condition that is widely misunderstood or misread.
I am sure most, if not all, psychologists recognize the basic problem of our poor abilities at reading emotions, tone of voice, gesture, and even what we mean at all when we speak and act.
UPDATE: Andrew Wilson in this debate is a perfect example of how not to talk. He is the opposite of what FIML teaches. FIML was designed to prevent the kind of speaking and listening Wilson does in this discussion. He is using language dishonestly; to perform rather than learn, to dominate rather than understand, to evade when he cannot answer, etc. He is a glaring example of something many humans are prone to and all of us suffer from. It is a sign of our time that anyone would hire Wilson to teach anything to do with language. Or pay him to speak with Candace, who uses language masterfully. As for Candace, public speaking is not the same as interpersonal communication. I am 100% certain that even she would greatly benefit from FIML practice. Since she clearly understands language very well, I am sure she would take to FIML quickly and love it. Anyone who can see what FIML does and why it is necessary, will be able to learn the technique rapidly and benefit from it almost immediately. ABN
I am not sure who this person is. The clip was posted by Aubrey Laitsch, who I assume is the speaker. This very much appears to be authentic testimony. This is yet another insight into the very dubious manipulation occurring throughout the investigation into Kirk’s murder. Incidentally, imo, Candace performed very well in the debate and Wilson did not.ABN
This is a very important POV and analysis of it. I hope all readers of this site will at least know and understand this strategy. Whether you agree with it or not, or believe it will work or not, at least know what it is. ABN
Shocking new details have emerged concerning the mysterious disappearance and death of a New Mexico woman who worked at a secretive US nuclear lab.
Authorities have revealed that Melissa Casias, whose body was discovered on May 28, was shot in the head at or around the time of her death, but it remains unclear if this was murder or a suicide. Her body was found well after her death.
Casias, an administrative assistant at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, vanished without a trace on June 26, 2025 after strangely walking out of her home without any identification, keys or way of contacting her.
Her skeletal remains were discovered 11 months later in Carson National Forest, propped up against a tree with a handgun near the body.
Melissa Casias worked at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, a long-running nuclear research facility, before disappearing on June 26 last year. Her remains were found on May 28
The newly released autopsy noted that the bullet was fired into the right side of Casias’s cranial base, hitting the bottom of the skull near the large hole where the spinal cord connects to the brain.
‘There’s no way this was suicide, not from that angle,’ the law enforcement source claimed, noting the reported position of the bullet when it entered Casias’s skull.
Casias’s work at LANL has raised fears that the administrative assistant may have been the target of a larger plot to steal classified government data on nuclear research or rocket technology.
Her disappearance has been linked to several other missing person cases in the Southwest, including a retired employee from LANL and former US Air Force General William Neil McCasland, who oversaw the military’s ties to research at the nuclear lab.
Genes aside, I believe ambiguity in speech and its consequent cascades of error are at the root of virtually all human psychology, both good and bad.
And this goes back in time as far as we can imagine because the problem of ambiguity in speech was there for your parents, your grandparents, and everyone else who came before you. And the same is true for everyone else in the world.
All cultures everywhere are both burdened and determined by this problem.
(The only exceptions are specialist “cultures” that make a point of removing error from their communication systems, such as mathematics, hard sciences, engineering, some branches of linguistics, etc. The people in these cultures only avoid the problem while working or speaking within their specialist culture. When at home or off the job, their psychologies are the same as the rest of us. In fact, smart as many of those people are, I bet few of them have ever considered how inaccurate their common speech is or how error-ridden their listening is, to say nothing of how profoundly that messes up their psychologies.)
Ambiguity in speech comes from inaccurate words and phrases, our strong tendencies to want to keep the wrong parts of speaking too short, our fear of open, truthful speech, our hyper-focus on wording and typical refusal to allow people to take back or alter their words or our inability to see the need for that, our strong tendency to believe we know what others mean, our constant need to grab meaning on the fly, or extract it from gestures or tone of voice, the brevity of most speech acts, our fear of being wrong or saying the wrong thing (legitimate fears given the foregoing), our practical incapacity to describe our own subjectivity or even know it, our inability to get other people’s subjectivity from them because they also suck at this.
When ambiguity flourishes, meanings are imagined. Guesswork replaces knowing. In response, everyone’s psychology become confused, confusing or rigid. We act roles rather than life.
How can we claim to know anything about human psychology without acknowledging that almost anything with psychological import that anyone ever says to anyone is sure to be riddled with error and ambiguity?
And even when it’s not: 1) it’s very hard to know when that is and 2) the event is so rare it’s like a bird that stops flapping its wings and falls to the ground.
In January 2012, Andrew Adler, the owner and publisher of a small weekly newspaper called the Atlanta Jewish Times, sparked considerable controversy when he penned an article titled ‘What Would You Do?’ in which he put forth three possible responses Israel might pursue if Iran were to acquire a nuclear weapon. The first two — pre-emptive strikes on Hezbollah and Hamas and disobeying the US Secretary of Defense to destroy Iran’s nuclear facilities — failed to raise any eyebrows. Adler’s third suggestion, however, would result in his immediate resignation as editor and the subsequent sale of his newspaper:
“Three, give the go-ahead for U.S.-based Mossad agents to take out a president deemed unfriendly to Israel in order for the current vice president to take his place, and forcefully dictate that the United States policy includes its helping the Jewish state obliterate its enemies. Yes, you read “three” correctly. Order a hit on a president in order to preserve Israel’s existence. Think about it. If I have thought of this Tom Clancy-type scenario, don’t you think that this almost unfathomable idea has been discussed in Israel’s most inner circles?… You have got to believe, like I do, that all options are on the table.“
Almost immediately, the article became headline news around the country forcing major Jewish organizations like the ADL and AJC to feign indignation, and within a week the US Secret Service had launched an ‘investigation’ into the matter while a teary-eyed Adler appeared on the Atlanta Interfaith Broadcasting network’s cable TV show to disavow his column and explain that he actually held a favorable view of President Obama!
Adler’s straight-talk, shocking though it may seem to some, provides crucial insight into the mentality of God’s chosen people and the candor they often use when speaking amongst themselves. Killing a foreign or domestic head of state who presents a perceived obstacle to the preservation of fragile little Israel is not unknown to history, as any reader of Laurent Guyenot’s indispensable book The Unspoken Kennedy Truth or Ronen Bergman’s 2018 bestseller Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel’s Targeted Assassinations can assure you.
It only just now occurred to me that the gory public execution of Charlie Kirk was also meant to terrify Donald Trump, which it seems to have done very profoundly. Ofc, there are many other motives for having murdered Kirk. Recall that Netanyahu publicly presented Trump with an Israeli cell phone, which everyone with brains read as an ostentatious threat on Trump’s life. The topmost levels of world power are always Kill-Or-Be-Killed (KOBK), pure savagery, winner take all. Deep infiltration and apex parasitism are brutal KOBK strategies. This is precisely how the West has fallen and continues to fall. This is manifestly obvious in every single Western government there is, and it includes all of the West’s major institutions and many of its lesser ones, which are frequently used as training grounds for KOBK infiltrators. Consider the chutzpah of Netanyahu to have proposed shotgun marriage to USA’s military, and the timid acquiescence of US Congress to his power-move. ABN
Coffee is one of the world’s most widely consumed beverages, and previous research has linked its consumption to a lower risk of conditions such as type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. However, the biological mechanisms behind these benefits remain unclear. A new Finnish study links habitual coffee consumption to healthier body composition and metabolic markers, while revealing distinct associations with sex hormones in men and women.
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