Nick Shirley video on FRAUD in California

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I ran America’s only Supermax jail: What history’s most notorious terrorists and serial killers told me as they waited to die

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JD Vance at center of stunning Iran war rupture after secret meeting with spy boss

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Game theory and trust

MAGA billionaire Peter Thiel infuriates Vatican by claiming ANTICHRIST is coming and will impose dystopian ‘one–world’ government

MAGA billionaire Peter Thiel has angered the Vatican by hosting a four–part lecture series in Rome warning that the Antichrist is coming and will subject humanity to a ‘one–world’ government.

Thiel, 58, has raised concerns for months about what he views as an imminent threat, according to The New York Times.

The tycoon, who made his money by setting up PayPal, has warned of the ‘occult forces [that] are ceaselessly at work, intent on destroying what remains of the West,’ the outlet reported.

The Antichrist is described in the Bible as a conniving figure who opposes Jesus Christ and seeks to challenge human allegiance to God.

Thiel, the chairman of big data and artificial intelligence giant Palantir, has argued the Antichrist will manipulate humanity by promising solutions to contemporary existential threats.

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UK security adviser attended US-Iran talks and judged deal was within reach

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Imaginary communication

Normal socially-defined communication—business, school, professional, etc.—operates within known limits and terminologies. Skill is largely defined as understanding how to use the system without exceeding its limits, how to play the game.

Many other forms of communication must be imagined. That is, I have to imagine what you mean and you have to imagine what I mean.

In many cases of this type I will imagine that you are normal to the extent that I am able to imagine what normal is. And I will imagine that you imagine me to be normal. As I imagine you I will probably assume that your sense of what is normal is more or less the same as mine. This is probably what the central part of the bell curve of imagined communication looks like. People in this group are capable of imagining and cleaving to normal communication standards. If you reciprocate, we will probably get along fine.

If my imagination is better than normal, I will be able to imagine more than the normal person or given to imagining more. If this is the case, I will tend to want to find a way to communicate more than the norm to you. If you reciprocate, we might do well communicating. If you don’t, I might appear eccentric to you or distracted.

If my imagination is worse than normal, I will have trouble imagining or understanding normal communication. I won’t have a good sense of the cartoons we are required to make of each other and will probably appear awkward or scatterbrained to most people. If you reciprocate, we might do well communicating and find comfort in each other.

Normal communication, even when imagined, is based on something like cartoons. I see myself as a cartoon acting in relation to the cartoon I imagine for you. If my cartoon fits you well enough that you like it and if your cartoon of me fits well enough that I like it, we have a good chance of becoming friends.

A great deal of normal imagined communication is cartoon-like, and being normal, will take the bulk of its cartoons from mass media—movies, TV, radio, and, to a lesser extent today, books and other art forms.

People still read and learn from books and art, but normal communication has come to rely heavily on the powerful cartoons of mass media.

The big problem with our systems of imagined communication is they are highly idiosyncratic, messy, and ambiguous. We have to spend a lot of time fixing problems and explaining what we really mean.

It’s good to have idiosyncratic communication, but we have to find ways to understand each other on those terms.

The Tikvah Fund’s War on Tucker Carlson

…The frantic campaign to purge figures like Tucker Carlson from the American Right reveals the inherent fragility of Jewish influence. By attempting to use the coercive power of the state to suppress rising populist dissent, organized Jewish power inadvertently accelerates the very instability it fears. This escalation into state-sponsored censorship is a desperate bid to maintain control, yet it serves only to deepen the rift with the gentile population. As the ideology of the current establishment begins to turn against its own Jewish architects, this current conflict represents merely the latest chapter in an unavoidable and predictable civilization struggle between gentiles and Jews for civilizational primacy.

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Trump’s top counterintelligence official resigns in protest over Iran war

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‘We are an occupied nation’ — Carrie Prejean