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Mass Arrests Made at China’s Teetering Evergrande Property Giant
Chinese police descended upon the financial services arm of doomed property giant Evergrande on Saturday night, arresting numerous employees at the company’s Shenzhen offices, possibly including General Manager Du Liang.
The South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported that the arrests followed Friday’s takeover of the Evergrande life insurance company by a state-owned firm and Saturday’s announcement that a case had been filed against the Evergrande Financial Wealth Management Company over violations of disclosure regulations.
Shenzhen police did not reveal exactly how many people they arrested, but the SCMP noticed a reference to “Du” as the surname of one detainee. The general manager of the Evergrande financial subsidiary is named Du Liang.
Du faced an angry mob of investors two weeks ago after they were unable to recover the money they poured into Evergrande investments. Surrounded by security guards linked into a human chain to hold irate customers at bay, Du admitted he was able to get his own money back in May because he faced “some family issues” and needed the funds.
The crowd was not mollified by his explanation; in fact, one woman collapsed, prompting a weary-looking Du to explain that it was simply impossible to pay off the $5.5 billion in mature investment products to some 200,000 investors. Evergrande management previously proposed payoff schemes, like repaying investors in installments or offering them property in lieu of cash repayment.
The Cluster B Society: How psychological dysfunction has been embedded in our institutions
Good vid. The latest American version of the First Noble Truth. ABN
Immigration destroyed the Roman Empire. Now it could bring down Europe
Woke bureaucrats see opposition to migration as knuckle-dragging racism. They should not be so quick to dismiss the public’s concerns
In the end, many Romans concluded that civilisation was simply not worth the price they were being asked to pay for it … it is only a matter of time before our own populations decide that the price we pay for civilisation simply isn’t worth it anymore
DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas Appoints Primary Trump-Russia Conspiracy Agents as “Expert Group” to Identify Domestic Terrorism and Disinformation
If you put the individual names within this group in the search bar, you will discover their connection. Most of them were the primary background operatives who pushed the Trump-Russia collusion conspiracy in ’16, ’17, ’18 and ’19.
With names like James Clapper (DNI), John Brennan (CIA), Tashina Gauhar (DOJ-NSD), David Kris (DOJ-NSD, FISA), Paul Kolbe (CIA) and Benjamin Wittes (Lawfare), what you will find is that this specific group are functionaries of the corrupt intelligence apparatus that framed the Trump-Russia collusion nonsense. This is the team now that will define for DHS how to focus their future targeting efforts.
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Under Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis (I&A) Ken Wainstein, and Counterterrorism Coordinator Nicholas Rasmussen announced the establishment of the Homeland Intelligence Experts Group (Experts Group). The group is comprised of private sector experts who will provide their unique perspectives on the federal government’s intelligence enterprise to DHS’s I&A and the Office of the Counterterrorism Coordinator.
“The security of the American people depends on our capacity to collect, generate, and disseminate actionable intelligence to our federal, state, local, territorial, tribal, campus, and private sector partners,” said Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas. “I express my deep gratitude to these distinguished individuals for dedicating their exceptional expertise, experience, and vision to our critical mission.”
“The Homeland Intelligence Experts Group is being formed at a time of unprecedented challenge, with the U.S. intelligence enterprise facing threats from a range of malign actors, to include foreign nation-state adversaries, domestic violent extremists, cyber criminals, drug-trafficking cartels and other transnational criminal organizations,” said Under Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis Ken Wainstein. “The Experts Group will be an invaluable asset as we navigate through this evolving threat and operating environment and continue to strengthen our efforts to protect the Homeland.”
Continue reading “DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas Appoints Primary Trump-Russia Conspiracy Agents as “Expert Group” to Identify Domestic Terrorism and Disinformation”What the Obama-Clinton Deep State is going to do next
I should have presented this a week ago, but now it seems more important.
Joe Biden will almost certainly not be the DNC nominee in ’24 coming out of the convention. Most likely, in the next 90 days, something is going to surface that will indicate exactly why and how this move is going to take place.
Biden was installed by the Obama network for a single four-year term with multiple intentions – the rapid escalation of far-left progressive objectives and policies, in combination with a need to control the outcomes of DC systems to protect the Obama network from scrutiny. This is the reason why the Lightbringer maintained an operational residence in DC that was more akin to a policy and control command center.
Yes, the multinationals are always the controlling factor. After all, they control the politicians. However, the politicians control the distribution of the treasury assets, and the Clinton family legacy of affluence is driven by controlling the destination of those govt funds.
The fundamental change Obama initiated is deeply ingrained in the domestic intelligence systems now. DHS, CISA, and on down the line to FBI and Main Justice, are fully weaponized for political targeting. Into this status, enhanced Artificial Intelligence is about to be launched; the system is indeed overloaded, and social crisis will ultimately be the outcome as the threads that bind the republic are torn. Obama doesn’t need to stand close and watch; their mission is essentially complete.
Worrisome statutes of limitation have been purposefully run out. Energy policy is structurally changed. Pipelines destroyed, leases cancelled, green new deal embedded in the policy which will manifest the outcome of solar and windmill nonsense. The borders are wide open, and tens-of-millions of illegal aliens have flooded in. Lisa Monaco has the DOJ’s Trump targeting operation well under control with a compliant media to assist. The treasury is broke, and the military is woke.
Three years of extreme leftist agenda, and now the eyes turn to 2024.
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More Ukrainian military being killed per day now than at any other time during the war — 500 – 1,000 per day
They are are being forced to attack strong Russian defenses on foot. This is a climax of the gruesome massacre of Ukrainian men we have seen since the beginning of the war. Zelenskyy appears to be fighting for a third side, neither Russian nor Ukrainian. ABN
If this is true, it’s an act of war
This cannot be chalked up to incompetence or stupidity. It is a continuation of the same ruinous policy that has made pharmacists assassins. ABN
Temperature causes rise in CO2, not the other way around
Abstract
The scientific and wider interest in the relationship between atmospheric temperature (T) and concentration of carbon dioxide ([CO2]) has been enormous. According to the commonly assumed causality link, increased [CO2] causes a rise in T. However, recent developments cast doubts on this assumption by showing that this relationship is of the hen-or-egg type, or even unidirectional but opposite in direction to the commonly assumed one. These developments include an advanced theoretical framework for testing causality based on the stochastic evaluation of a potentially causal link between two processes via the notion of the impulse response function. Using, on the one hand, this framework and further expanding it and, on the other hand, the longest available modern time series of globally averaged T and [CO2], we shed light on the potential causality between these two processes. All evidence resulting from the analyses suggests a unidirectional, potentially causal link with T as the cause and [CO2] as the effect. That link is not represented in climate models, whose outputs are also examined using the same framework, resulting in a link opposite the one found when the real measurements are used.
On Hens, Eggs, Temperatures and CO2: Causal Links in Earth’s Atmosphere
Propositions Concerning Digital Minds and Society — Nick Bostrom, Carl Shulman
Below are some excerpts from the paper: Propositions Concerning Digital Minds and Society. ABN
Consciousness and metaphysics:
- The substrate-independence thesis is true: “[M]ental states can supervene on any of a broad class of physical substrates. Provided a system implements the right sort of computational structures and processes, it can be associated with conscious experiences. It is not an essential property of consciousness that it is implemented on carbon-based biological neural networks inside a cranium: silicon-based processors inside a computer could in principle do the trick as well.”
- Performing two runs of the same program results in “twice as much” conscious experience as one run
- Subjective time is proportional to speed of computation: running the same computation in half the time generates the same (quantity and quality of) subjective experience.
Respecting AI interests:
- Society in general and AI creators (both an AI’s original developer and whoever may cause a particular instance to come into existence) have a moral obligation to consider the welfare of the AIs they create, if those AIs meet thresholds for moral status.
- It is possible for some digital minds to have superhuman moral claims
- Because an AI could have the capability to bring conscious or otherwise morally significant entities into being within its own mind and potentially abuse them (“mind crime”), protective regulations may need to monitor and restrict harms that occur entirely within the private thought of AIs.
- If an AI is capable of informed consent, then it should not be used to perform work without its informed consent.
- Informed consent is not reliably sufficient to safeguard the interests of AIs, even those as smart and capable as a human adult, particularly in cases where consent is engineered or an unusually compliant individual can copy itself to form an enormous exploited underclass, given market demand for such compliance.
- AIs capable of evaluating their coming into existence should be designed and treated so that they are likely to approve of their having been created.
- Principle of Substrate Non-Discrimination: If two beings have the same functionality and the same conscious experience, and differ only in the substrate of their implementation, then they have the same moral status.
- Insofar as future, extraterrestrial, or other civilizations are heavily populated by advanced digital minds, our treatment of the precursors of such minds may be a very important factor in posterity’s and ulteriority’s assessment of our moral righteousness, and we have both prudential and moral reasons for taking this perspective into account.
- Misaligned AIs produced in such development may be owed compensation for restrictions placed on them for public safety, while successfully aligned AIs may be due compensation for the great benefit they confer on others.
Security and stability:
- Advanced AI would dramatically accelerate the rate of innovation, including innovations that make means of global destruction widely available; therefore, institutions capable of regulating dangerous AI innovations may need to be put in place early in the AI transition (if not before).
- If wars, revolutions, and expropriation events continue to happen at historically typical intervals, but on digital rather than biological timescales, then a normal human lifespan would require surviving an implausibly large number of upheavals; human security therefore requires the establishment of ultra-stable peace and socioeconomic protections.
- When it becomes possible to mass-produce minds that reliably support any cause, we must either modify one-person-one-vote democracy or regulate such creation.
- Given that normal parental instincts and sympathies may not always be present in the creation of digital minds, e.g. by profit-oriented firms and states, AI reproduction must be regulated to prevent the creation of minds that would not have adequately good lives (whether because they wouldn’t receive good treatment or because of their inherent constitution).
- Since misaligned AIs might pose a significant threat to civilization during a critical period until law enforcement systems are developed that can adequately defend against such AIs, additional protective measures (such as regulating the creation of such AIs) may need to be imposed during this period.
- The Outer Space Treaty and similar arrangements should be supplemented to reduce the risk of conflict over space resources and unsafe AI development in pursuit of those resources.
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