Musk is better than Zuckerberg, RFK Jr is better than Fauci, Carlson is better than Maddow, Trump is better than Harris. Modern history has provided many examples of societies that failed to stop communism when they still could have, and having failed to do that fell into communist massacres that killed tens of millions while also completely destroying their cultures. The two main examples are Russia and China. Many in Russia were aware of the danger of communism many decades before the nation was destroyed. Too many of those who were aware played nice, dithered, were complacent, did nothing when they could have done a lot. We are now living in something akin to early 20th Century Russia. Is today 1905, 1912, 1914? I don’t know but we are close to full totalitarian takeover and destruction that will be every bit as bad as what happened to Russia. It won’t be called communism but it will be a civilizational disaster. This applies to every nation in the collective West and all of our closest allies, like Japan, Taiwan, etc. It is the West that is going to fall hard, not just USA, UK, NZ, or whatever single nation you choose to focus on.
There is an argument out there that it’s all a circus. The elite have total control. Trump has been chosen to usher in digital IDs and currency. Etc. There is truth to this POV and it should be kept in mind that we are not going to get a perfect government. Digital everything is probably inevitable, including digital babies. We live in a quickly evolving world and we have to negotiate that. But remember, Russia could have saved itself if it had reformed in time. It didn’t, so the Bolsheviks won and destroyed everything. If it weren’t for Putin, Russia would look like Ukraine today. Making the right choices in muddled circumstances is the mark of great thinkers. It’s never all black-and-white. ABN
The marker approach is taken as best practice for answering the distribution question: Which animals are conscious? However, the methodology can be used to increase confidence in animals many presume to be unconscious, including C. elegans, leading to a trilemma: accept the worms as conscious; reject the specific markers; or reject the marker methodology for answering the distribution question. I defend the third option and argue that answering the distribution question requires a secure theory of consciousness. Accepting the hypothesis all animals are conscious will promote research leading to secure theory, which is needed to create reliable consciousness tests for animals and AIs. Rather than asking the distribution question, we should shift to the dimensions question: How are animals conscious?
That is the Buddhist position. All animals are sentient and sentience extends beyond earthly animals and beyond the human realm. I personally think and act as if everything is sentient or conscious. If you treat all things with respect and even talk to them or commune with them, life is richer and provides more feedback and deeper meaning in wondrous ways. Besides, it’s not possible to separate our sentience from everything else that is. Just because that’s a lot to take in doesn’t mean it’s not that way. ABN
I have only spot checked this video but it appears to be the original one made by Eric Hufschmid, I believe in 2003, perhaps containing some supplementary material. There are other versions of Painful Deceptions, which seem to be the same or similar but narrated by someone other than Eric and about 20 min shorter than the version above. The one above is clearly in Eric’s voice. Whatever, Hufschmid’s video stands as the earliest comprehensive foundation of the 9/11 story. If you have never seen this video, it is important to watch it. If it’s been awhile since you last saw it, it’s well-worth a quick review. ABN
The former high-ranking aide for Gov. Kathy Hochul who was arrested along with her husband Tuesday acted as a foreign agent for China in exchange for millions of dollars in kickbacks and fancy perks such as salted duck, according to a bombshell indictment.
The damning 64-page indictment accuses Linda Sun, 41, and her husband, Christopher Hu, 40, of spending their shady gains on a gaudy new $4 million house in Manhasset, a $2 million second home in a Honolulu high-rise and luxury cars such as a 2024 Ferrari.
The indictment alleges Sun made millions of dollars as a foreign agent for China.
If the Chinese Communist party truly believes it has a territorial claim to Taiwan, then it should also be trying to take back land from Russia, Taiwan’s president, Lai Ching-te, has said.
Lai made the remark in an interview to local media on Sunday, noting Beijing’s very different approach to two similar historical moments of territorial loss.
Beijing says Taiwan has been part of China since “ancient times” but was taken by Japan during the “century of humiliation”, the period between 1839 and 1949 during which China was repeatedly subject to defeat and subjugation. Complete restoration of China’s losses in that time is a driving narrative of the CCP, and today is largely focused on Taiwan.
However, Lai, who was elected president in January, noted that China also lost land to Russia during that period but was not making any effort to take it back. He said this showed Beijing’s plans to annex Taiwan – which it has not ruled out using force to achieve – were not driven by territorial integrity.
The twisted reasoning of a totalitarian. In USA, free speech is an inalienable right. A driver’s license is a ‘privilege’. Politicians are not our masters telling us what we can and cannot say. ABN
Judge Barry O’Donnell, who made almost €400,000 from 2016-2018 representing TUSLA as a barrister, ordered his arrest.
TUSLA is the Irish State ‘Child Protection’ agency, an organisation saturated with LGBT ideology, urging staff recently to learn about cross-dressers and drag performers, and making acceptance of LGBT and transgender ideology a condition for fostering children.
What a mockery to expect Enoch Burke, a Christian teacher, to sit before this man and expect justice.
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