White men explained

The entire modern world was brought into being by white men, who also have had the decency and humility to allow themselves to be slandered without respite for many decades now. Only white women will be able to correct this profound misattribution of blame. The Western world is being overrun with non-white immigrants, of which there are so many, because, and only because, the medical sciences invented by white men and actively and freely shared across the globe by whites has made the entire world vastly healthier and thus capable of producing huge populations, which they are also able to feed due to white agricultural sciences. There is no way around it, white men deserve more credit for the good things in the world today than any other people anywhere. ABN

There is a LOT in common between the lockdown policies and the assisted dying bill — Dr Clare Craig

Let’s start with them both centring on the fear of death and both leveraging emotional appeals to justify extreme measures.

But there’s much more…🧵 

Lockdowns crossed a Rubicon in terms of civil rights – overturning the social contract.

Euthanasia crosses a Rubicon in terms of moral norms – again overturning the social contract.

Support and opposition to both policies has come from across traditional party lines. 

In both cases government did not provide a risk benefit analysis.

In both cases government has not had input from ethics advisors. 

Lockdown legislation was imposed rapidly with no public debate, insufficient public debate and the excuse of following international precendents.

Same for the euthanasia bill. 

Lockdown was backed with a hugely expensive media campaign and independent opposing voices were drowned out.

Same for the euthanasia bill. 

At their core, both policies reflect a fantasy of control: control over a virus that spreads invisibly and uncontrollably, and control over death.

The reality of the process is not what people might expect (see oregon data below – range column showed how long death took).

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A Key to Understanding the Next Four Years

To understand the outcome of the next four years (and beyond), it is important to begin with the same information.  One key not discussed anywhere else is outlined below.

Consider this a baseline for future context in the world of the USA and President Trump politics.

♦ Summarized it looks like this: In late summer 2023 not only myself, but several insightful analysts in the world of high finance, had come to the conclusion that Musk’s financial effort with the purchase of Twitter was unsustainable, unless something changed.

Something did change.

In early August of 2023, understanding the dynamic at stake, and also having a strategy for his own interests, Oracle’s Larry Ellison said, ‘he would not let Elon Musk fail with Twitter’.

Billionaire Larry Ellison, a Tesla Board member, already had invested money in place, but that wasn’t the motive on this move. In hindsight, Ellison was brilliant and intensely strategic.  It is important to understand what exactly ‘board members’ are recruited for, and the stability/security reasons for why they are recruited.

Ellison pumped money into the problem, relieving Musk of the cash flow problem created by his inability to divest shares (Musk was max-limited by Board). Ellison also helped make the $1.5 billion loan made by SpaceX, (unknown at the time) go away.

Ellison essentially positioned Twitter for the same dynamic reason that Bezos bought and used WaPo.  This is the world of high finance, and these moves are all about influence, leverage and ultimately positioning.   Ellison wanted a vessel for influence, a friendship and common ideological alignment therein just made sense.

With financial breathing room and a nod in the direction he needed to follow, after a brief stint with Ron DeSantis, Musk using his platform, leaned forward into Trump. The rest of that relationship origin is history.

Oracle, specifically Larry Ellison, is now positioned as the biggest benefactor of a second Trump administration, with a very specific group of technocrats in close alignment. AWS Jeff Bezos has been trying to make up ground ever since.

♦ Now that’s the elevator speech part; that’s the encapsulated or summarized version.  But it’s in the details where things get interesting.

It should be emphasized up front that no one is a bad guy in the framework of what took place; however, neither is this altruism.

These are essentially self-interests in a common alignment.  As long as the alignment is for good purposes, then the network of billionaire allies is in a very cool place.

[This is an extremely good analysis — concise, clear as a bell, and deeply insightful. It provides a seasoned and wise overview of where we we are headed, and how it might turn out for the good or the bad. This essays illustrates the fundamental way people should think about politics, which is a rational, if cut-throat, human endeavor. Much of politics is out of our control, but we the plebs do have input into the system when we more or less agree and make our voices heard, which we have been doing for the past 8-10 months. US politics is as good as it gets right now. We the plebs must only keep the pressure on and strive to find and embrace our general agreement on major subjects, such as: freedom of speech, no mass immigration, no government spying, no totalitarianism, 2A, good economic policies, no war, solidarity with Europe and Russia, etc. ABN]

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Jewish National Fund Chairman, Daniel Atar said that high rates of intermarriage in North America represent a severe threat to the Jewish people

Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael–Jewish National Fund chairman Daniel Atar has warned of “catastrophe” for the Jewish people due to intermarriage and rising antisemitism in the Jewish Diaspora.

Speaking to journalists at a Nefesh B’Nefesh “mega-event” for potential immigrants in New Jersey on Sunday, Atar said that high rates of intermarriage in North America represented a severe threat to the Jewish people and that combined with rising antisemitism, particularly in the US, he was increasingly worried.“

Antisemitism and intermarriage are a catastrophe for the Jewish people,” said Atar.

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