Bukele is rightly mocking Judge Boasberg. A major reason you want to keep your country clean, law-abiding, and competent is to avoid needing a prison system like the one in El Salvador, or having judges like Boasberg. ABN
It will not come as a surprise to CTH readers to hear the name Judge James Boasberg associated with efforts to protect the institutional interests of a corrupt DC deep state. Boasberg has a long, very long, and well documented history of protecting the DC apparatus {CTH Archives on Boasberg HERE}.
On Saturday, without giving the Trump administration any time to respond, Judge Boasberg issued an immediate temporary restraining order (TRO) blocking DHS, Customs and Border Patrol and ICE from deporting illegal aliens and narcotrafficking gang members belonging to Tren de Aragua (TdA), a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization.
Boasberg ordered the flights of criminal gang members to turn around and immediately bring the criminals back to the USA to enjoy a life of criminal conduct and terrorism in the USA. National security is secondary to the rights of criminal aliens to sell drugs, continue child/sexploitation, murder American citizens and rape their targets.
As I wrote in 2021, Judge James Boasberg has long been severely compromised; there simply is no other way to look at his interception of cases to protect the system, and the depth of his corruption is clearly visible in this set of rulings.
Evidence on the association between maternal tea/coffee consumption and children’s cognitive development is limited. This study included 1423 mother–child pairs from the Chinese National Birth Cohort (CNBC). Maternal tea/coffee consumption status was collected in the 1st, 2nd and 3rd trimesters of pregnancy. Cognitive development was assessed using the Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Development III (BSID-III) in children aged averagely 36-months. We utilized group-based trajectory modeling (GBTM) to fit trajectories of maternal tea/coffee consumption across the three trimesters of pregnancy. Linear regression models were used to analyze the association between maternal tea/coffee consumption and children’s cognitive development scores. Positive associations between maternal tea consumption during pregnancy and children’s cognitive development were observed. Children of mothers who belonged to a continuous tea drinking trajectory throughout pregnancy had higher cognition, fine motor, and gross motor scores than those whose mothers belonged to a trajectory of tea-drinking in the 1st trimester of pregnancy, only. Comparison of tea-drinkers (yes/no) in each trimester separately indicated that tea-drinking in the second and third trimesters were more strongly associated with the outcomes than tea-drinking in the 1st trimester. The second and third trimesters of pregnancy might be key periods regarding maternal tea consumption affecting children’s cognitive development. No significant association were found between maternal coffee consumption during pregnancy and children’s cognitive development. The GBTM modelling provides clues to truly reflect the status and trajectory of pregnant women’s tea and coffee consumption across different trimesters as their lifestyles change dynamically throughout pregnancy, which provides new motivation to investigate the association between maternal life pattern with offspring’s cognitive development.
This is a good thing. We do not want truck drivers who cannot read road signs, or who have illegally obtained their drivers licenses, piloting huge trucks on our roads and highways. How well and safely our society functions depends entirely on the competency of the people working in it. ABN
We accept that USAID was funding left-wing extremism, correct? We also accept that USAID is a front group for the CIA, correct? Yet then a disconnect happens.
Yet, for some reason I do not quite understand, people struggle to realize the two points above mean the CIA control domestic political outcomes.
The CIA is the entity, the IC silo, controlling politics in the USA, and the resistance to the politics -namely Trump- they do not agree with.
This is why I use the restaurant analogy. The CIA is the back of the house, the kitchen.
We hold elections, we change the name of the restaurant. We change the front of the house, the staff, the maître d, we even change the decor (DOGE) and the menu. But the kitchen is the same.
The judicial branch defers to the IC. The legislative branch is fearful of the IC. The executive branch is the front of the house, giving the illusion of change, but nothing really changes.
Until the system is changed, totally and radically reformed to remove the power of the IC, then nothing changes.
Repeal the Patriot Act. Repeal the 17th amendment. Start repealing the tools that created the problem, and only then do we start to free ourselves from this mess.
Eisenhower warned about it. JFK talked about it. Many more people have inferred it and have skirted on the issue, pretending there was some reform process that could be used. All of that well-intentioned inaction leads us to this place where we are now; standing jaw-agape wondering what can be done.
Take down the apparatus. Quit being fearful. Yes, leave us vulnerable to harm, but restore constitutional liberty. The people who weaponize govt use fear, real or imagined, for their purposes.
Take down the national security state. Disassemble the tools (FISA, NSA Surveillance, DHS, DOJ-NSD) and all the mechanisms in place to give the illusion of security.
Ultimately, live a life wrapped in constitutional liberty with the potential for harm always present… but live without the control mechanisms of the IC influencing every facet of life, under the ruse of security.
Find that and you will find the opportunity for freedom.
His reasoning is impeccable, but the highlighted conclusion, alas, is unlikely, probably impossible. Surveillance and control are consequences of technologies invented by humans and also the root technologies of the human brain. Game theory of power strongly indicates that power, once attained, concentrates and seeks control and growth. Hierarchies form naturally based on how our minds work, how social groups form, how languages work, how power inevitably forms hierarchies. Sundance can point to ‘the CIA’ but beyond that surface the deep power in control is not visible. Who in the CIA or who is controlling the CIA?
A relevant aside to this is even the people in control of the CIA, or whatever the deep power center is, can never be certain they are in full control. Some force, some group, some entity or enemy could always depose them at any moment. This is the deep reality that drives the need for ever more power among top people. This same reality is true in China, Russia, Europe, wherever. And this same reality is true between and among all nations and power centers on earth. It has ever been thus.
Another relevant aside concerns people who want to return to kingdoms and royalties because democracy is a failure. I agree democracy is a ridiculous way to run a nation, but also must say the deep state is today the modern version of kings and queens. We just don’t know who they are and they no longer parade in front of us in costumes. Other than that, under the sun it’s the exact same old nothing new as ever.
One last aside is it is possible that a vast surveillance state will work in favor of we the people. A super surveillance AI control state will be able to apportion goods and services more efficiently than capitalism and much less painfully. A robotic world will be so wealthy, greed will seem passe. Any elite that controls this state may reason that its control is no longer absolutely necessary because there is no longer any reason for anyone to overthrow them. ABN
While the legacy media often reports that the world is rapidly transitioning away from fossil fuels to renewable energy, a new report from J.P. Morgan shows that narrative is simply not correct. Since 2010, $9 trillion has been spent globally on wind, solar, electric vehicles energy storage, electrification and power grids, but despite this expensive effort — mostly at taxpayer expense — the share of final energy consumption by carbon-free energy sources is advancing by approximately a scant 0.3% to 0.6% per year.
Michael Cembalest, Chairman of Market and Investment Strategy for J.P. Morgan, explains in “Heliocentrism,” the 15th annual energy paper by the investment firm, that the reason fossil fuels remain the dominant source of energy is that modern prosperity is tied to certain kinds of industrial products, including chemicals, steel, cement, food and paper. Approximately 80% of the energy inputs for these products are fossil fuels. JPMorgan Chase is the world’s fifth largest bank by total assets, with $3.9 trillion as of 2023.
“As things stand now, modern prosperity is highly reliant on fossil fuels,” Cembalest said in a podcast on the report. Dr. Roger Pielke, Jr., retired professor of environmental studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder, estimates on his “The Honest Broker” Substack that at the current pace, the world will not be carbon free until sometime after the year 2200.
“There’s a lot of people that are so focused on the growth in solar power that they believe that solar power, typically bolted on with some energy storage, can represent the dominant share of where we get our energy from,” Cembalest said.
Solar accounts for approximately 6% of global electricity generation. However, electricity is only about 33% of the total energy people consume, according to the paper, and by some estimates it’s only about 20%. Translating all that solar power to a share of final energy consumption, which includes all forms of energy, solar is only 2% of total final energy and will grow to 4% to 5% by the end of the decade.
“While that’s impressive growth from a low base, we obviously need to be more focused on the other 95% of where we’re going to get our final energy consumption from and rather than just the solar on its own,” Cembalest said.
An estimated 1.6 billion people rely on VPNs to carry out the most sensitive tasks online, from watching illegal videos to engaging in sexual or political activities. But few people know that a considerable chunk of that market—including three of the six most popular VPNs—is quietly operated by an Israeli-owned company with close connections to that country’s national security state, including the elite Unit 8200 and Duvdevan Units of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF).
Previous MintPress Newsinvestigations into Israel’s growing control over the tech industry have outlined how those units have been involved in many of Israel’s most outrageous hacking, surveillance and assassination programs, acting as spies and death squads. Unit 8200, for example, has been the source of much of the world’s most infamous spying software, including Cellebrite and Pegasus, the program used to snoop on tens of thousands of the world’s top politicians and journalists, including by Saudi Arabia, who used it to help track down and kill Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi.
Given this context, justifiable fears arise that control over a vast VPN empire could add to Israel’s influence over the online information and security world, creating backdoors for Israeli intelligence to carry out a vast kompromat operation on users around the globe.
This investigation is part of a serieshighlighting and detailing the power of Israel’s growing tech industry to access and control people’s data.
A Company Like No Other
Kape Technologies is a major player in the online privacy world, one of the three giants that collectively control the market. It owns many of the world’s top VPNs, including ExpressVPN, CyberGhost, Private Internet Access, ZenMate, Intego Antivirus, and a host of tech websites that promote its products. Kape brands can be seen sponsoring a wide array of public figures, such as Tucker Carlson, Angry Video Game Nerd, Drew Gooden, Lex Fridman, Cody Ko, Uncle Roger, and Ben Shapiro.
Israel’s actions in Syria are not about security—they are about survival in a rapidly changing geopolitical landscape. In this talk, Shahid Bolsen explains how Israel’s territorial expansion and buffer zone strategy are desperate attempts to maintain relevance as the Middle East transitions toward *collective sovereignty*.
From the occupation of the Golan Heights to the manipulation of sectarian divisions among Alawites, Druze, and Christians, Israel is using every tool at its disposal to prolong instability and delay its inevitable absorption into the emerging regional order. But these moves are not signs of strength; they are acts of desperation.
The new Middle East, led by regional hegemons like Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Egypt, and Iran—with support from BRICS powers—no longer needs Israel to function as a Western proxy. Zionism, as an expansionist ideology, is incompatible with this new reality.
Western critics call Syria’s leadership “undemocratic” while ignoring the fact that democracy has never been a prerequisite for good governance. What matters is results: stability, security, and the protection of national interests.
text from video description
Real-world game theory. Well-worth watching for a deeper understanding of Israel, Zionism, and the Middle East. Many of Bolsen’s points apply to Trump and how he is behaving toward Israel, Russia, Europe, and USA. KOBK and hardcore game theory is the only way to really understand world politics, or any politics for that matter. So far, in my view, Trump has been playing the game very well. When people said he was acting as Netanyahu’s servant when he tucked in his chair, I saw the opposite. When Trump deals directly with Putin and sidelines not only the execrable Zelensky but also all of Europe, he is playing the game very well indeed. America First is KOBK. And the only way any nation should be governed. See Top of the World Alliance for more. ABN
Before the Depression and World War 2, the only interaction most Americans had with the federal government was when they went to the post office. It’s one of the oldest federal institutions, having been there since the founding, and it’s one federal agency that, unlike so many others, is specifically authorized in the Constitution; Article I, Section 8, Clause 7, gives Congress the power to “…establish Post Offices and post Roads.”
That doesn’t mean the Postal Service is immune from being expected to operate efficiently or that its operations couldn’t use some modernization and improvement. Now we can chalk up another win for the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). The United States Postal Service will be working with the DOGE to cut billions from their budget.
Postmaster General Louis DeJoy plans to cut 10,000 workers and billions of dollars from the U.S. Postal Service budget and he’ll do that working with Elon Musk ‘s Department of Government Efficiency, according to a letter sent to members of Congress on Thursday.
DOGE will assist USPS with addressing “big problems” at the $78 billion-a-year agency, which has sometimes struggled in recent years to stay afloat. The agreement also includes the General Services Administration in an effort to help the Postal Service identify and achieve “further efficiencies.”
USPS listed such issues as mismanagement of the agency’s retirement assets and Workers’ Compensation Program, as well as an array of regulatory requirements that the letter described as “restricting normal business practice.”
He also promises to honor Trump’s request to spare the lives of Ukrainian soldiers trapped behind Russian lines. Once you understand the importance of good Russian-American relations, you will understand the game theory Trump and Putin are pursuing despite European stupidity (which is already beginning to shift). Good Russian-American relations are the necessary foundation for a prosperous and peaceful world. See this for more: The Top of the World Alliance. ABN
This article explores the hypothesis that modern East Asian populations inherited and maintained extensive psychosocial adaptations to arctic environments from ancestral Ancient Northern East Asian populations, which inhabited arctic and subarctic Northeast Eurasia around the Last Glacial Maximum period of the Late Pleistocene, prior to back migrating southwards into East Asia in the Holocene. I present the first cross-psychology comparison between modern East Asian and Inuit populations, using the latter as a model for paleolithic Arctic populations. The comparison reveals that both East Asians and the Inuit exhibit notably high emotional control/suppression, ingroup harmony/cohesion and subdomain unassertiveness, indirectness, self and social consciousness, reserve/introversion, cautiousness, and perseverance/endurance. The same traits have been identified by decades of research in polar psychology (i.e., psychological research on workers, expeditioners, and military personnel living and working in the Arctic and Antarctic) as being adaptive for, or byproducts of, life in polar environments. I interpret this as indirect evidence supporting my hypothesis that the proposed Arcticist traits in modern East Asian and Inuit populations primarily represent adaptations to arctic climates, specifically for the adaptive challenges of highly interdependent survival in an extremely dangerous, unpredictable, and isolated environment, with frequent prolonged close-quarters group confinement, and exacerbated consequences for social devaluation/exclusion/expulsion. The article concludes with a reexamination of previous theories on the roots of East Asian psychology, mainly that of rice farming and Confucianism, in the light of my Arcticism theory.
American Buddhist Net 