China’s coming lawfare offensive

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A weaponized ‘legal toolbox for foreign struggles’ is reshaping Chinese economic relations with the rest of the world

China has accelerated the implementation of an integrated program, founded on Xi Jinping Thought, to weaponise law, with both territorial and extraterritorial effect. Expressly termed “lawfare,” this program seeks to reshape economic relations with the rest of the world, creating a capital market “with Chinese characteristics”.

Analysis by the Washington-based Foundation for Defense of Democracies signals China’s intention. The goal, foreign minister Wang Yi is quoted as saying, is make to “good use of rule-by-law as a weapon and constantly enrich and improve the legal toolbox for foreign struggles” against governments, businesses, and individuals Beijing views as insufficiently deferential. 

The central elements are China’s amended Counter-Espionage Law (2023) and new Law on Foreign Relations (2023). The old Counter-Espionage Law focused on unmasking spies. The amended law targets ordinary business practices, such as gathering information on local markets, potential partners, and competitors. While the old law sought to protect “state secrets and intelligence,” the new law adds an all-encompassing new category — “other documents, data, materials, or items related to national security or interests,” which could mean anything. 

The effect has been to make potentially radioactive any negative information about China, including its economy.

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Huge increase in Natural Causes of Death since vax rollout in 2021

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Subception: a strategy for keeping unconscious a subliminal, emotion-provoking stimulus that threatens or is incongruent with one’s self-concept. The evidence is clear. Widespread professional ignorance or denial—conscious or not—is a clear marker of civilizational decline. One million US doctors and many more nurses and other health care workers, plus academics and government officials, are almost all riding this anti-science train of stupidity, denial, and death. A good many have spoken up and most people understand by now that the covid vaxxes deliver more harm than good, but it’s a good two and one-half years since the danger of the vax was known and it is still being recommended and mandated. ABN

UPDATE: My partner just remined me that there is plenty of science behind these data and how they are willfully misinterpreted—behavioral science. The behavioral science psyop of the covid plandemic, the vaxxes, and now their morbid aftermath has been brilliantly orchestrated against the world by a clandestine clique of mind-control parasites who see themselves as warriors but are actually parasites. Their ideological strategy is ‘whatever is best for us’ and ‘whatever works, no matter the damage to others’. Their tactics come from behavioral science findings on crowd-control and mind-control. Fear, lies, inversion, deliberate absurdity, undermining everything, destroying anything—these are their methods and we are their lab rats. ABN

Is the greatest emotion taking pleasure in correcting our own mistakes?

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Surely it’s in the top few.

In the Buddhist tradition, shame is sometimes called the greatest emotion because shame makes us open to changing for the better.

But shame can also be felt and avoided or hidden or misdirected. Shame here generally means something bothers our conscience.

Correcting our own mistakes often follows shame but not always. Someone may tell us of a mistake that does not make us feel ashamed.

Taking pleasure, even delight, in correcting our own mistakes is very close in time and psychology to actually making the correction.

Whether it is the greatest or not, the emotion that accompanies self-correction is well-worth cultivating.

A new land purchase will protect nearly 29,000 acres in Maine’s 100-Mile Wilderness

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After a new land purchase, the Appalachian Mountain Club is permanently protecting nearly 130,000 contiguous acres of forestland in Maine’s 100-Mile Wilderness.

On Thursday, the group announced the purchase — with the Conservation Fund — of the nearly 29,000-acre Barnard Forest, which is adjacent to more than 100,000 acres it already holds.

The AMC’s President and CEO, Nicole Zussman, said the $15.2 million purchase of the property will create nearly 130,000 contiguous acres of protected land — more than twice the size of Acadia National Park — and will allow for continued responsible forestry, carbon sequestration, and other uses.

Zussman said the group plans to open up the area to hiking, snowmobiling and fishing for the first time in two decades.

“So it’s really an opportunity for the local community, as well as tourism, to come and visit and have access to this just absolutely breathtaking piece of property,” she said.

Zussman said the AMC has already restored more than 100 miles of stream habitat in the region before the purchase, opening up waterways for species such as brook trout and Atlantic salmon.

“And then this piece of property will allow us to keep going further south within the West Branch of the Pleasant River,” Zussman said. “So it just extends it. Because the West Branch goes into this area, into the greater Penobscot River drainage.”

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Stomach acid is good for you

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Story at a Glance:

•Many pharmaceuticals on the market are automatically given to large numbers of patients despite the harms of these medications often greatly outweighing their benefits.

•One of the worst offenders are the acid suppressing medications, and their overprescription goes hand in hand with a widespread medical blindness to the critical functions of hydrochloric acid throughout the body and the actual causes of acid reflux.

•A variety of safe and non-invasive approaches exist to address the wide range of (often unrecognized) complications from acid reflux and dysfunctional stomach acid production.

Note: this article is a bit on the longer end, but since the stomach acid issues profoundly affect so many people, I felt I this article needed to be able to cover all the key points.

One of the more depressing parts of being an awake physician in the medical system is reading the drug lists of the patients you see and realizing how many prescriptions they are on that do not benefit them, and in many cases harm them. Presently, 66 percent of U.S. adults are estimated to have at least one prescription and on average, they have 9 prescriptions filled per year (which can include renewals of an existing one).

Since doctors are extremely reluctant to terminate existing prescriptions, this creates a scenario where people get placed on more and more drugs as they age (some of which are for treating the side effects of other drugs they are taking).

This situation is even worse for the elderly, who both have more time to be put on an increasing number of medicationso and due to their altered physiology are also the most vulnerable to the harmful effects of those mediations. For example, from 2009-2016, after 2 billions office visits were assessed, it was found that for adults over 65, 65.1% were on two or more drugs, 48.9% were on four or more, and 36.8% were on more than five (with the highest use occurring in the oldest Americans).

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Consciousness is a cheap and easy way to make things work

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Is a dragonfly conscious? I bet most of us would say it is.

Is a robotic manmade dragonfly conscious? I bet most of us would say it is not, though obviously it could come into being only through conscious effort.

Is consciousness common among living things? It seems that virtually all animals and probably all or most insects are conscious. I don’t know about bacteria but maybe they are too. It could be argued that any entity that is able to make a decision, a choice between two or more options, is conscious to that extent.

Is a rock conscious? It could be in the sense that it does not behave other than like a rock. Something about it or its conditions holds a rock within the laws of physics as we know them. Rocks are predictable.

If the cosmos is conscious, then it makes perfect sense that many of the beings on earth are conscious and maybe all of them are. Maybe the earth itself is conscious.

Consciousness is a cheap and easy way to make things work. In that sense a conscious universe is a parsimonious description of the universe.

A mind-only or mental or conscious universe is a significant part of the Buddhist tradition and explains how rebirth happens and what enlightenment probably entails. This Buddhist tradition is called Mind Only or Yogachara.

There is nothing in Buddhism that prohibits us from adding to the tradition. Indeed, we are encouraged to make it our own by using our own words and understanding to pursue enlightenment. You do not need to be a Buddhist to conclude that the cosmos is conscious or able to think. And many non-Buddhists have come to that conclusion.

I personally believe or strongly suspect that this human realm is governed by a kind of conscious dramatic something. The drama is bigger than us but we are in it. We make some of the rules for ourselves but not all of the rules. I believe when karma is understood in terms like this it makes for a healthier and more accurate philosophical understanding of the human condition.

Consciousness may very well be a primary, more primary than time and space. It is roughly in this context that some philosophers say that experience is the fundamental data point, or stuff of life. A statement like this is very close to the Buddhist idea of thusness or the deep truth of the moment in the mind, the deep truth of the mind.

The Buddha said all things are empty including the Buddhadharma. This is much like saying consciousness itself is empty and can only be grasped through the thusness of experience, which is always dramatic in one way or another. Empty consciousness conscious of itself can be experienced. Is that the stuff we are floating in?

Major Tripwire – Homeland Security Publishes Guidance for Using Artificial Intelligence as Tool for Surveillance, Monitoring and Tracking of American Citizens

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You might ask, why is the Dept of Homeland Security (DHS) in the business of conducting widescale surveillance, monitoring and tracking of American citizens.

Unfortunately, if you are asking that question, then you likely don’t know the first, fourth and fifth amendment to the U.S. constitution were usurped by the 2001 Patriot Act.

George W Bush and Dick Cheney created the domestic surveillance system under the auspices of DHS and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.  Barack Obama and Joe Biden then took that DHS surveillance system and modified the dials (Justice Dept., FBI) so the surveillance only applied to their ideological enemies.

If you have followed my outlines on this issue [Category Here], you will note exactly where this latest development falls on the continuum.   The 2024 election is right around the corner. Previously I stated the artificial intelligence (AI) component to the internet surveilllance system was going to launch toward the end of this year.  Well, DHS has just announced exactly that [SEE HERE].

I find it very interesting the DHS memo was issued on August 8th, but only published for the general public yesterday.  July and August were when I first identified AI spider crawls were already underway.  Pay very, very close attention to the two underlined words in the following paragraph:

[SOURCE pdf, Page 3]

Take out the word “improper” and the admission is, DHS uses AI to profile, target and discriminate.  In the second sentence, DHS currently participates in systemic, indiscriminate and/or large-scale monitoring, surveillance, or tracking of individuals.  The only thing those sentences in the paragraph say, is that DHS will not allow AI to create improper outcomes within a system they outline that already exists.

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Hermit may be living in house made of driftwood perched precariously on side of Devil’s Slide cliff on the Pacific Coast Highway — ‘The dude should just be left alone’

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According to Casillas, a few years ago the trust asked the State Lands Commission,  to clarify who owned the site but they never responded. 

Since then, Casillas has said they have left the person alone, telling the outlet: ‘We weren’t bothering a person who wants to be a hermit. 

‘We know someone’s been there but we just don’t know who it is. The dude should just be left alone.’ 

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I do not want publicize this but that has already been done. I do respect and agree with the people involved who believe: ‘The dude should just be left alone.’ ABN

BBC ‘Disinformation’ Reporter Lied On Her CV, Admits To ‘Awful Misjudgement’

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The BBC’s ‘disinformation’ correspondent, Marianna Spring, was busted lying on her CV to win a job, according to The New European, a British newspaper, which has seen emails between Spring and Natalia Antelava, the editor-in-chief of US publication Coda Story.

According to the report, Spring was trying to land a job as a Moscow stringer, when she said on her resume that she had worked alongside BBC Eastern Europe correspondent Sarah Rainsford.

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MUST WATCH: Dr Peter McCullough scathing overview of WHO and world response to the covid bioweapon

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This is the kind of factual information far too many want to ban as disinformation. The value of free speech has been resoundingly confirmed by the covid plandemic—those who were censored were telling the truth while those doing the censoring were not. It’s clear as a bell. Free speech with full reach accorded by a free market of ideas is always best for civilization. Anyone who wants to censor you also wants to control you. Censorship takes us backwards and down. Free speech makes our societies thrive. No better proof of this than the covid years. ABN