U.S. will supply Ukraine with ‘the weapons it needs’ against Russia

WASHINGTON, April 10 (Reuters) – The United States is committed to providing Ukraine with “the weapons it needs” to defend itself against Russia, U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan said on Sunday as Ukraine seeks more military aid from the West.

Sullivan said the Biden administration will send more weapons to Ukraine to prevent Russia from seizing more territory and targeting civilians, attacks that Washington has labeled war crimes.

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Dr Peter McCullough on covid vaccine harm

According to McCullough, only about 500 American doctors have dared to speak up about covid malpractice and vaccine injury. That’s 500 out of 1,000,000. Similar massive failures of courage and integrity can be seen in journalism, education, politics, law, and even science, even the hard sciences. These are the features of a society in steep decline, a society that has been infiltrated and taken over by a vicious, uncompromising enemy. An enemy that has fought a ferocious multigenerational asymmetric war against USA since the end of WW2. ABN

3%-4% of Catholic priest were involved in child sex abuse. ~10% of public school teachers were as well. Compare those egregious figure with ~99% of American doctors lied about covid or remained silent while others lied or never did the research needed to understand covid

The doctors were first victims of infiltration and takeover of their medical boards, educational institutions, and government agencies. To speak up or not lie might cause loss of license. For doctors to not even research covid avoids these problems while also affording them immoral ignorance and immoral presumption of ethical decency.

Corruption, misbehavior, human weakness are generally endemic in human institutions as we can see with the abuse of children in churches, schools, Boy Scouts, and more. But only asymmetric warfare can explain what happened to our medical professionals. Their fears were real, their reactions preprogrammed. Over the years they have been selected for aversion to independent thinking, honesty, moral rectitude. The result was hundreds of thousands of Americans died needlessly due to non-treatment and maltreatment.

Consider how serious this is and was. Then consider how the medical profession was taken over, by what forces and for what reasons. This is a glaring, obvious example of how and why USA is in precipitous decline and getting worse every day. Virtually all of our institutions have been similarly infiltrated and are now controlled by nefarious actors, enemy forces. ABN

Mere Facts & Data Do Not Constitute Knowledge

Years ago I was asked to develop and lead a plan targeting acquisition of a marine and boating consumer products company. During the discovery process I flew to Manhattan in order to interview the senior executives about the overall business state and direction. Being an avid sloop sailor, I was rather excited about the chance to speak with the developers of some of the key equipment I employed on my boat.

When I arrived at the intended conference room and began to speak with the C-level executives prior to the meeting start, it became clear that none of them bore experience in boating, nor afloat work or recreation at all. 

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Experience plus talent plus broad associations plus deep pattern recognition. ABN

Panpsychism, pansignaling, and Buddhism

Panpsychism means “all mind” or mind in all things, with an emphasis on cognition being a fundamental aspect or part of nature.

Pansignaling means “all signaling” or signaling in all things, with an emphasis on signaling being a fundamental aspect or part of nature.

I like the term pansignaling because it gets us to look at the signals, without which there is nothing.

Another word that is close to these two is panexperientialism, which connotes that “the fundamental elements of the universe are ‘occasions of experience’ which can together create something as complex as a human being.”

These ideas or similar can be found in the Huayan and Tiantai schools of Buddhism.

Highly recommend giving these ideas some thought and reading the links provided above.

I  tend to favor thinking of this stuff from the signaling point of view. A signal can be found, defined, analyzed, and so on. A signal is a fairly objective thing. When we consider signals and consciousness, it is very natural to consider that signals are parts of networks and that networks can be parts of bigger networks.

As I understand it, panexperientialism holds the view that atoms have experience, and that molecules have experience as do the atoms that make them up… and so on till we get to cells, organs, brains, human consciousness. Human consciousness, which is fundamentally experiential, is what humans mainly think of as experience. At all levels, the “parts” of human consciousness also are conscious or cognizant and thus capable of experience. Thus, there is no mind-body problem. Cognition or awareness is part of nature from the very bottom up. For example, a single bacterium can know to move toward something or away from it.

Life is “anti-entropic signaling networks” that organize, self-organize, combine, cooperate, compete, eat, and change constantly. From this, we can see where impermanence and delusion as described in Buddhism come from.

When matter breaks down into waves and laws, it becomes information, but similar processes are still at work. In Buddhist terms we find again dependent origination, no intrinsic self separate from other information, impermanence, rational structure, karma (the work of this producing that), the primary consciousness found in deep samadhi.

first posted FEBRUARY 25, 2017

John Durham demands docs from DNC, Hillary Clinton campaign, Fusion GPS

Special counsel John Durham has accused the Democratic National Committee, Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, research firm Fusion GPS and Democratic law firm Perkins Coie of improperly holding back hundreds of documents relevant to his investigation under unfounded claims of attorney-client privilege. 

In a 23-page filing this week, Durham asked that a federal judge order the documents be handed over for in camera review, arguing that the privilege claims lack “any connection to actual or expected litigation or the provision of legal advice.”

In his request, Durham revealed that out of 1,455 documents withheld by Fusion GPS under claimed attorney-client privilege or work product protections, only 18 emails and attachments actually involve an attorney. 

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