Astronomers from the University of Nottingham conducted a new survey of the universe’s galaxy population and concluded that previous estimates lowballed the census by a factor of about 20. Using data from Hubble and telescopes around the world, as well as a new mathematical model, they estimate that there are two trillion galaxies in the observable universe; previous estimates put the number of galaxies in the universe at around 100 billion. (Source)
Month: October 2016
Paying for “access”
We keep hearing that donors to Clinton, the DNC, or the Clinton Foundation are “only” paying for “access” to Clinton or Obama.
MSM reporters say this and Democratic operatives say it. It’s their way of dodging the more accurate “pay-to-play” description for what is really going on.
Think about, who is going to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars and more for mere “access”?
“Access” is the point at which payers ask for what they want. They pay the money to get what they want. Hillary and Obama are selling them what they want—be it an arms deal, an ambassadorship, a new federal regulation, a contract.
Rather than get good government with honest representatives, the American people have gotten Clinton and Obama who sell American assets and deals for pennies on the dollar.
This is how Bill and Hillary amassed a fortune of some $250 million in the years since Bill left office.
Donations and “speaking fees” assure access. But it was the selling of actual goods—contracts, jobs, etc.—that kept the money rolling in. If they hadn’t delivered, no one would be buying.
The scam is so obvious I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised to see ABC actually covering the surface of this story, but I am:
Is America finished?
Good essay, well-worth reading—After the Republic. An excerpt:
In today’s America, a network of executive, judicial, bureaucratic, and social kinship channels bypasses the sovereignty of citizens. Our imperial regime, already in force, works on a simple principle: the president and the cronies who populate these channels may do whatever they like so long as the bureaucracy obeys and one third plus one of the Senate protects him from impeachment. If you are on the right side of that network, you can make up the rules as you go along, ignore or violate any number of laws, obfuscate or commit perjury about what you are doing (in the unlikely case they put you under oath), and be certain of your peers’ support. These cronies’ shared social and intellectual identity stems from the uniform education they have received in the universities. Because disdain for ordinary Americans is this ruling class’s chief feature, its members can be equally certain that all will join in celebrating each, and in demonizing their respective opponents. (After the Republic)
I tend to agree with the author, Angelo Codevilla, that we are toast. Our inalienable rights are long gone and there is little chance they will return.
In their place, we have an “empire” with a deeply networked ruling class that hates ordinary Americans.
I doubt Trump will be able to stop the slide, but I know for certain that Hillary will accelerate it. And Trump might do something.
Codevilla again:
Because it is difficult to imagine a Trump presidency even thinking about something so monumental as replacing an entire ruling elite, much less leading his constituency to accomplishing it, electing Trump is unlikely to result in a forceful turn away from the country’s current direction. Continuing pretty much on the current trajectory under the same class will further fuel revolutionary sentiments in the land all by itself. Inevitable disappointment with Trump is sure to add to them.
We have stepped over the threshold of a revolution. It is difficult to imagine how we might step back, and futile to speculate where it will end. Our ruling class’s malfeasance, combined with insult, brought it about. Donald Trump did not cause it and is by no means its ultimate manifestation. Regardless of who wins in 2016, this revolution’s sentiments will grow in volume and intensity, and are sure to empower politicians likely to make Americans nostalgic for Donald Trump’s moderation. [emphasis added]
Here’s more detail on the basket of deplorables
While Clinton tries to claim moral high ground, just behind the scenes a very different picture emerges among her top advisors: WikiLeaks Dump: Top Clinton Aides Slam Catholicism, Evangelical Christianity. Will she disavow?
As this news comes out, Obama is pretending to be all moral and presidential, outraged that Trump used the word “pussy” in a private conversation eleven years ago. But will he or has he disavowed his behavior in the video below where he is clearly acting in a very obscene unfit unpresidential manner? My apologies, but to see the point you do have to look at the president’s crotch.
Oboner?
We all know, or most of us do, that MSM has become Orwell’s Ministry of Truth.
According to Bill O’Reilly three of the big media conglomerates have let it be known that if any employee supports Trump, their career is finished: BILL O’REILLY: Media Organizations Have Ordered Employees to Destroy Trump Or Be Destroyed (VIDEO).
Here’s more: The Wikileaks Bombshell You Never Heard About
WikiLeaks Editorial: Reporters should not let themselves be gamed by the Clinton campaign.
There is no denial and we have a 100% record for accuracy. (Source)
Hillary Clinton & Lena Dunham discuss Lenny Kravitz’s “stuff” falling out
The fake, concerted outrage over Trump’s banter proves that he is being opposed by an elite subculture that transcends party affiliation and journalistic ethics.
The video below shows a similar kind of banter engaged in knowingly on camera. No one gives a fuck about this because it’s banter and there are far more important matters facing the country.
A Bush or Clinton has been in or near the White House for far too many decades.
These family dynasties need to be dismantled. They are inimical to democracy.
It’s no coincidence that Billy Bush, cousin of Jeb, allegedly made the illegal tape of Trump bantering. And it’s no coincidence that a slew of toadies, cucks, and shitheads are pretending moral outrage over it.
Peaceful revolutions almost never happen. A Trump victory will constitute a peaceful revolution, and with luck, a removal from power of corrupt elites and family dynasties who are making fortunes selling out and destroying the USA.
Looks like full scale attack mode on Trump from GOP
They hit him as hard as they can from every side, but he’s still standing.
“GOP has instructed every Senator and Congressman to not defend Trump. Do not talk about him favorably. It’s a coup.” (Source)
Trump is not the corrupt GOP and he is not the corrupt DNC.
If he wins, he will be the first democratically elected president in many decades.
Edit 10/09: It appears that Billy Bush, Jeb’s cousin, made the tape of Trump and that its release was coordinated across the GOP-DNC elite and timed a day before the second debate.
Scott Adams Interview: Trump’s Tactics and Hillary’s Persuasion Game
Adams sees Trump as fundamentally a skilled persuader. In this interview, he explains this concept well. Adams also sees the New Yorker in Trump and mentions how this affects the way he speaks.
What Adams says about persuasion is probably largely true. But it is a truth that belongs in a world characterized by bad communication.
In the public sphere, there are no options to the world Adams describes.
In the private sphere of interpersonal communication, there are.
Unfortunately, most people use only the techniques of the public sphere in the private sphere.
They do this because they do not know any other techniques. FIML is a technique that allows for much better communication in the private sphere.
Using special techniques to persuade is the opposite of what FIML does.
FIML seeks to remove all artifice and assumption from close interpersonal communication. By doing this, FIML also removes them from the individual psychologies of FIML partners.
After doing FIML for some time, I no longer see individual psychology as a sum of traits and signs that can be studied or understood as if they were actual entities, actual ghosts or ghost-like sub-beings that have minds of their own and perdure over time. I don’t use signs to tell what my partner thinks or feels, or not very many save the straightforward ones.
Individuals are semiotic beings that respond deeply to communication signals, especially signals coming from people. In the public sphere, in the world Adams describes, we never know what anything means unless we have successfully persuaded someone. But then what does that mean?
And even if we have persuaded them, maybe they have really persuaded us but we don’t know it.
You don’t want to live like that with your best friend. With FIML you can put it all out there and figure it all out and all of that can be done at your own pace.
If you are using public-sphere communication techniques on your best friend (you are), you are actually allowing yourselves to be pulled apart by the public sphere. You are allowing yourselves to be absorbed by the public sphere, dissolved by it, destroyed by it.
FIML is a method that helps partners gain enormous control of their communication. Perfectly open, honest, and with no tricks.
Judge Jeanine Pirro on Hillary Clinton
FBI agents are ready to revolt over the cozy Clinton probe
…agents say Comey tied investigators’ hands by agreeing to unheard-of ground rules and other demands by the lawyers for Clinton and her aides that limited their investigation.
“In my 25 years with the bureau, I never had any ground rules in my interviews,” said retired agent Dennis V. Hughes, the first chief of the FBI’s computer-investigations unit.
Instead of going to prosecutors and insisting on using grand jury leverage to compel testimony and seize evidence, Comey allowed immunity for several key witnesses, including potential targets. (FBI agents are ready to revolt over the cozy Clinton probe)
Ancient Cannabis ‘Burial Shroud’ Discovered in Desert Oasis
Thanks, famous actors!
This is a well done take-down of a Clinton ad using pro actors. I am posting it because it essentially reverses the shallow semiotics of the Clinton original to produce a deeper effect.
No-Touch Torture Report
Gloomy but interesting read on “no-touch” torture. Shows how inherent human weaknesses are used against people and what those weaknesses are.
An example:
5. Imprisonment and Isolation
Isolation is commonly used as punishment in prisons. Many whistleblowers like Bradley Manning suffer this condition. In soft interrogation it is used to get the target to talk to their interrogator since humans have the need for companionship. In no-touch torture the target is driven from their friends and family using different techniques in order to isolate them so that the electronic mind control has more effect on their psyche. Like in Guantanamo, the target becomes isolated losing their job and medical care. Part of the method involves slander in their community. They end up on the most part in poverty and paranoid about doctors and other people from false correlations that are purposefully induced into their lives. Isolation is also a form of sensory deprivation which will be discussed later. Days and weeks lose their meaning. (Executive Summary: Neuropsychological and Electronic No-Touch Torture Report)
I personally believe no-touch torture is sometimes done on people who have no idea it is being done at all.
Psychological gaslighting is an example of this, but there are many other reasons a person or group of people might seek to destroy an individual through clandestine means. And many other ways to do it, some of which can be found at the link above.
Somewhat related, this is not about torture but manipulation. Probably not a bad idea as reported: Pentagon Paid for Fake ‘Al Qaeda’ Videos A controversial foreign PR firm known for representing unsavory characters was paid millions by the Pentagon to create fake terrorist videos.
American Buddhist Net 