The entire heat capacity of the atmosphere is equal to the top 3.5 meters of the oceans. The remaining 3,700m of the abyss is Earth’s true thermal vault.
The truth is, the Earth is a water planet and oceans cover 71% of the surface to an average depth of 2.3 miles. Ocean currents carry warm water from the mid tropics to the northern hemisphere, then the currents return after a round trip of 1,000 years. Without these currents northern Europe would look like Greenland.
Warm waters from the Roman warm period (240BC to 400AD) are still just returning to the mid latitudes. The atmosphere by comparison is a gaseous envelope that retains almost no thermal energy, hardly any CO2 and is largely controlled by ocean dynamics.
The deep Pacific itself is so massive that it is only now receiving the cold waters from the Little Ice Age. We aren’t starting from scratch, we are mid-cycle in a 4.6-billion-year-old machine.
We’ve also reinvented the climate. Once, it was a word for the local weather of robins and sparrows. Now it’s a global ideological abstraction. We’ve lost our admiration for the natural world. We count CO2 in ppm while ignoring the satellite-proven greening of the Sahara.
It’s time to move past the light breezes and offshore winds and look into the deep. Ask yourself, is the 1.4°C warming since 1850 really an unprecedented crisis?
This is an alarming example of immigration invasion being used as a weapon against Western civilization. By destroying Western cohesion, and rhus rendering us unable to defend ourselves, our enemies plan to dominate us completely by mixing and replacing us with non-Westerners. Mind-control has worked well for them as have two World Wars by reducing White populations. But they want more. Total annihilation of Western civilization and its peoples. USA is not far behind on this downward spiral. Canada is already lost. This plot has been enacted by hostile infiltrators into top levels of Western institutions. ABN
My understand is this is an old system and not very effective, but is does appear to be a weapon Iran is using in the current war. This system does not work well at long distances, in bad weather or against planes equipped with various heat shields. ABN
Recently when the Anthropic software and ideology conflict with the Pentagon surfaced as a result of limits placed by the provider, alternative provider Palantir’s CEO remarked that any AI developer who challenges the U.S. military application of the product was foolish because the U.S. government could just take control of the company under the claim of national security.
In essence, Palantir CEO Alex Karp was saying AI developers who contract with the govt ultimately become bound to the limits or lack thereof as determined by the govt. If software developers want to contract with the military, then fight the Pentagon over use of those software applications, they will lose.
In response to the Anthropic issue, the Pentagon withdrew from their purchase arrangements and blacklisted them from further federal contracts.
Now a report is highlighting that Palantir will take the lead position in providing the software, the Maven Smart System, for the core U.S. military functions.
As described, “Maven is a software platform that uploads information from drones, satellites, sensors, radar, and other battlefield intelligence sources. The system then analyzes battlefield data in real time, identifying and prioritizing potential targets — including buildings, enemy vehicles, and weapons and ammunition stockpiles — for intelligence analysts to review and act on.”
Signals are fundamental to everything that exists. There can be no physical realm without signals and certainly no life.
What is a signal? Anything that transmits any effect to anything else is a signal. In this sense, all signals “mean” something, including the smallest signal anyone can think of.
The advantage of basing a model of psychology (not just human psychology) on signals is our fundamental unit of analysis is universal, including everything we can know and think about.
Our bodies do an enormous amount of signalling—both internal and external—without our being conscious of most of it. Many living and non-living systems maintain homeostasis through signalling that is non-conscious (or so we now believe). The laws of physics describe signals that explain, for example, how our solar system came to be the way it is and why it remains in homeostasis.
Signals also explain how non-conscious life-forms—viruses, bacteria, plants, your blood, etc.—have arisen and how they maintain their dynamic homeostasis vis–à–vis the ever changing environment that surrounds them and signals to them constantly.
Consciousness itself almost certainly emerges out of a network of signals. Conscious beings read signals in the environment while frequently signaling each other. Cats and birds use conscious signals extensively. Even life-forms that we believe to be non-conscious, such as worms and plants, send and receive signals constantly to each other, while also signalling internally and with their environment.
Draw the line between conscious and non-conscious signalling wherever you like. Then let’s jump to human psychology.
Humans are different from cats and other animals in that we specialize in signals. Birds are specialists of the air, fish of the water, and humans of signals.
Humans signal each other constantly with signs that can employ any of our senses—sight, hearing, touch, taste, and so on. Our preeminent signalling system is, of course, language. With language humans are capable of remembering complex groupings of signals. We are also capable of thinking about these signals and transmitting our understanding of them to others.
Right now, as you read, you are receiving a complex signal from me.
Consciousness is arguably our most precious quality. Human consciousness is filled with and based upon signals. For our psychological well-being—the well-being of our consciousness—the signals we send and receive to and from other human beings are of fundamental importance.
To say it another way, humans are profoundly interactive signalling systems and the quality of the signals sent between us and other human systems are of primary importance to our sense of well-being, our psychological health, our conscious sense of who we are and how we are doing.
When our consciousness is filled with or marked by clear, truthful, and ethically sound signals, we feel good. In those moments we do not suffer confusion, neurosis, or pain. When consciousness is filled with or marked by confusion, lies, and ethically unsound signals, we feel bad. In those moments, we suffer, often greatly. (Of course, there are exceptions to these statements. Injury and truth, to name two, can cause us pain and confusion. But the basic distinction made here works well enough.)
It makes sense, thus, to focus on human signalling if we want to figure out what makes us tick.
The science of human signalling is often called semiotics, which can be roughly defined as the study of signs and their meanings. Semiotics can and does also include non-human signs and signals, but for now let’s limit ourselves to human signalling. There are other sciences that describe human signalling, but semiotics, which emphasizes signs and their interpretation, will serve us well enough that we can temporarily ignore other ways of understanding human meaning—game theory, traditional psychology, anthropology, etc. Semiotics works well because semiotic analyses can be reduced to single signals; they have a distinct and clearly defined basic unit—the signal or the sign.
Why do we focus so much of our inquiry into human psychology on emotion? Emotion is inchoate, often even unfelt, until it is defined or given meaning as a signal or sign.
Emotions are real, but they are massively subject to cultural interpretation, to definitions that have arisen outside of the individual experiencing them. Culture is little more than a system of signs and symbols shared among a group of people. Human cultures have great variety because the signs and signals and the meanings of those signs and signals develop differently in different places and under different conditions. This fact alone should suffice to show that the meanings of human signs often are arbitrary.
As long as a bunch of people believe that the sun is a chariot driven by a god, that meaning of the sun will work as a cultural standard, or cultural element with varying interpretations. If most people in a community think the sun is the center of the universe, that will also work until a better idea comes along. If enough people believe that human hearts have to be sacrificed to keep the sun moving across the sky, that will also work well-enough to hold that society together. Wherever you look, you will find great cultural variety, much of it based on arbitrary decisions that have long been forgotten by the people adhering to that system of meaning,.
In this context, isn’t it clear that focusing our inquiries into human psychology on emotion is going to provide us with many tautological results?
Similar statements can be made about many other elements of our traditional understanding of human psychology, including such elements as personality, neurosis, mental health, what being normal means, what our goals and desires are, and so on. The emotions and/or “psychological states” that these areas of inquiry deal with are vague and almost entirely changeable over time and place.
What is not vague are signals. When we ask what signals are and what their quality is we can get much better answers based on much better data compared to the answers we get when we ask only how someone feels and where those feelings came from.
How do we do that? More precisely, in the context of what we call human psychology, how do we analyze our signalling?
Is it valuable to compare my assessment of my internal signalling with “data” taken from “surveys” of other people who speak my language and live in a society which is sort of maybe the “same” or similar to my own? Yes, you can get something from that data but you will also make many mistakes because it is very crude, or general, data and will never fully apply to any individual or even come close to actually describing anything of significant value to most people. Such data will contain so many mistakes, it should be handled with great caution, if it is used at all. (You most certainly can fool people with that data. But that happens because many people will believe the data is scientific and provides an accurate metric that describes who they are. And that is an example of how a cultural semiotic can and does impose “meaning” on individuals; not hugely different from believing you have to sacrifice human hearts to make the sun go round.)
You can’t really get at the important signalling people do by using general surveys because your data is is coming from a tautological loop based on surveys that are generally put together on the basis of other surveys involving stuff like common words or feelings.
For psychology, for human mental health, the most important signalling people do is interpersonal signalling with significant other people.
When we try to figure ourselves out by remembering (a dubious exercise in so many cases) what our parents did or said or made us feel, we can get some useful information, but it is not that reliable and suffers from the same sort of misinterpretation as personality studies or studies of human emotion do. You can read whatever you want into it and/or be subject to the vagaries of chance interpretations.
The only significant interpersonal signalling data we can really know with significant certainty are data noticed, remembered, and agreed upon by two (or more in some cases) people engaged in significant interpersonal communication (signalling).
A mere observer (much less a surveyor) of this communication will never be able to know or analyze the data with anything approaching the accuracy or validity of the two people involved if those two people have a reliable method for gathering that data. Even if an observer has a video record of the exchange, they will never be able to know or analyze it with the accuracy of the individuals directly involved if those two people have a reliable method for gathering that data.
The day may come when brain scans can provide us with real-time data of that sort, but for now all we have is FIML practice, or something very much like it.
Tesla‘s first semi-truck has officially hit the road, with a handful of drivers saying a key feature may have changed the industry.
Elon Musk‘s clean energy company will begin shipping its new semi-trucks this summer, with up to 15,000 expected to hit the road in 2026.
But some drivers have already gotten their hands on the vehicle and have given rave reviews for its off-the-wall features including a centered driving position.
The trucks also have rearview cameras and fast charging.
They are advertised as reaching a 60 percent battery capacity in just 30 minutes and travel 500 miles on a single charge.
Drivers who tested the vehicle said the range of each charge was a ‘game changer’
The 35-second video captures nighttime explosions and building fires, matching eyewitness footage of Iranian missile impacts verified by Al Jazeera and Fox News on March 21.
Video of an Iranian Khorramshahr missile strike on Israel amid the ongoing 2026 US-Israel-Iran conflict, which escalated from February 28 attacks on Iranian sites, leading to retaliatory barrages causing injuries in Dimona and Jerusalem.
Nighttime footage of a missile explosion near Israel’s Dimona nuclear reactor, part of Iran’s retaliatory strikes on March 21, 2026, following Israeli attacks on Iranian facilities like Natanz.
Geolocation and reports indicates the impact struck a residential complex possibly housing a bomb shelter, not the reactor core, amid claims of seven Israeli officers killed in related hits.
This escalation revives historical tensions over Dimona, built with French aid in the 1950s for plutonium production, as Iran signals deterrence against regime-change threats while avoiding full nuclear site destruction to prevent fallout.
In recent statements, Foreign Minister Baiba Braže has firmly rejected EU-mandated migrant redistribution, declaring Latvia “will not accept new migrants” and emphasizing that the country is already bearing a disproportionate burden in securing the EU’s external borders. She highlighted that over 12,000 attempts at illegal border crossings were prevented in recent years, primarily along the Latvian–Belarusian border, and stressed that Latvia would not pay for or host relocated migrants.
These positions reflect broader anxieties in Latvian society, amplified by extreme rhetoric from some Muslim community leaders. In 2015, Ahmed Robert Klimovičs, a spokesperson for the Islamic Cultural Centre in Riga, claimed that Latvia would become an Islamic state within 50 years, citing demographic trends and the high fertility rate among Muslim families. His comments—though later clarified as advocating democratic change rather than violence—sparked national debate and concern.
Meanwhile, Latvian security officials have reported that the country’s Muslim community has been affected by radicalization trends, with several individuals expressing intentions to join extremist groups like the Islamic State. The Latvian Security Police has also noted that young Latvians are being recruited by international criminal networks to smuggle migrants into the EU, further fueling fears about security and national integrity.
Former Egyptian Ambassador to Tel Aviv, Atef Salem, stated that mounting speculation suggests Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may be sheltering in fortified underground sites in Jerusalem – possibly even beneath the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound.
Salem emphasized that rumors can often serve as a psychological weapon during wartime but typically only gain traction when information is clouded by ambiguity. He explained that it is common for leaders to limit their public appearances for security reasons.
He added that some assessments suggest Netanyahu could be utilizing a fortified room or bunker beneath the Al-Aqsa Mosque as part of the extreme measures taken by Israeli leadership to ensure their safety during escalations.
Salem observed that the current conflict between Iran and Israel is a prime example of this dynamic. The lack of transparency surrounding events has opened the door for contradictory narratives.
He highlighted that Israel is rigorously controlling the publication of images and videos from within its borders, threatening heavy fines and penalties for anyone documenting scenes that could reveal the reality on the ground.
These restrictions—combined with limited access for field journalists—make it difficult to verify reports of damage and destruction in several Israeli cities.
Israel’s veiled threat to Moscow came just after Russian media warned traffic cameras in Moscow were vulnerable to the same exploits that Israel reportedly used to monitor Ayatollah Khamenei’s residence before assassinating him.
Israeli military spokeswoman Anna Ukolova has drawn outrage in Moscow after threatening that Russian authorities who “wish Israel ill” could be subject to “elimination,” while suggesting Israel could hack into Russian closed-circuit television cameras to identify and track targets.
Asked by a journalist with Russian radio broadcaster RBC whether Israel had access to Russian traffic cameras, Ukolova declined to answer directly but warned that “Khamenei’s elimination shows our capabilities are serious” and that “no one who wishes us harm will be left aside.”
She added, ominously, “I hope Moscow does not wish Israel ill right now – I’d like to believe that.”
Ukolova’s statements came just days after it was revealed that a large number of Russian CCTVs were potentially using BriefCam – an Israeli video analysis software that closely matches the description of a program the Netanyahu regime reportedly deployed to track Iranian movements outside the home of Iran’s Supreme Leader before they assassinated him during their February 28 sneak attack.
UPDATE: Below is a thoughtful comment I found under the article above. It describes precisely how a great deal of mind-control works. Define the terms, commandeer the psycholinguistics and you will control entire civilizations, and move them in any direction you like. ABN
1. Humans are highly cogno-linguistic. We perceive reality largely by the language that we use to describe it. Most everyone believes and presumes that you have to be able to think something before you can say it. The more dominant-reality is that, above a certain base-level of perception and communication, you have to have the words, language, grammar, and comprehensive-concordance-syntax by which to say something before you can think it. Whosoever controls language – controls the mind – for better or for worse.
2. The world is ever-increasingly controlled and administered by people who genuinely believe whatever is necessary for the answer they need. Administrative agents of broadly-defined entrenched-financial-power have solved the criminal-law enigma of mens rea or guilty-mind by evolving or devolving (take your pick) into professional-schizophrenics who genuinely believe whatever they need to believe for the answer they need, and who communicate among themselves subconsciously by how they name things, and by how things are named for them. They suffer a cogno-linguistically-induced diminished-capacity that renders them largely-incapable of perceiving reality beyond labels.
3. Their core business-model or modus operandi is called a systematized-delusion:
“A “systematized delusion” is one based on a false premise, pursued by a logical process of reasoning to an insane conclusion ; there being one central delusion, around which other aberrations of the mind converge.” Taylor v. McClintock, 112 S.W. 405, 412, 87 Ark. 243. (West’s Judicial Words and Phrases (1914)).
Iran fired two ballistic missiles at a joint US-UK military base in the Indian Ocean just hours after Keir Starmer gave the green light for Donald Trump to use UK-based bombers threatening the Straits of Hormuz.
The move prompted Tehran to warn the Prime Minister he had placed British lives ‘in danger’ by consenting to Trump’s request to use B-52s and other aircraft flying out of RAF Fairford and Diego Garcia to blast Iranian missile sites in the strategically important waterway.
Multiple US officials confirmed to the outlet that neither missile had struck the base. Two sources said one of the missiles failed in flight, while the other was intercepted by a US warship, but the action is a concerning development in the third week of the US-Israeli war on Iran.
Two deep points worth mentioning: 1) Trump is doing Netanyahu’s bidding because he fears Jewish Supremists will kill or harm him or members of his family; and 2) Starmer, who appears to be a Jewish Supremist, is purposely destroying Britain through the mass invasion of migrants. Starmer is Jewish but you do not need to be Jewish to be a Jewish Supremist. Some 50 million Zionist Christians in USA are fundamentally Jewish Supremists. They are at the bottom of the JS pyramid, but they are JS nonetheless and will be harmed or killed like Charlie Kirk if they turn against JS. This is the deep fact at the heart of what is now WW3 destroying the world economy. The more people understand this, the better our chances for a better world. JS do not care about anyone else’s blood, treasure or land. They only care about their own blood, treasure and land, which is ultimately, in their fantasies, the entire world once everyone else is killed or enslaved. ABN
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