How envy causes conflict

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…The most cursory look at the sort of thinking now dominant in the West shows that it is doing the reverse. Anti-racism never concerns itself with the spiritual self-improvement of its beneficiaries. It is concerned with worldly goods, but does nothing to help people improve their lot through effective means such as learning skills or deferring gratification and planning for the future. Its constant message is: You have less because the white man has more, and he has more because he has rigged the game in his favor.

Critical race theory inculcates resentment among children to whom it might otherwise not have occurred to compare themselves invidiously with their white neighbors, and directs their attention away from practical ways to improve their own lives. As we have seen, many societies have been dominated by envy, but I cannot think of another case of a regime systematically trying to maximize envy in the rising generation. It is genuinely cruel to the non-white children who are supposedly its intended beneficiaries, but as we would expect from envy-inspired behavior, the aim appears to be to harm us rather than to help them.

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While you may not agree with all of this article, it is worth reading just for having raised the issue of envy and focusing on it.

Personally, I can truthfully say that not understanding the power of envy has caused me many problems. If you do not feel envy or do not feel it much or often, it may not occur to you how often it distorts the thinking of others.

A Buddhist nun, who is a good friend, often used to tell me that “jealousy” or “envy” were the root causes of much of what we were seeing around us.

For years, I always countered her statements with some anodyne explanation but no longer do.

Envy over talent or status and sexual jealousy are among the strongest negative emotions we humans have.

If you are blessed with decent looks and brains and some ability to work productively, you may not realize how much others may be seething with envy.

If you feel envy, practice Buddhism. It will cure that malady well.

If you do not feel envy or do not feel it much, Buddhist contemplations on others—intellectual empathy—may help in understanding that the karma or conditions endured by others can be very difficult for them to bear.

Buddhist monks live simply and have “left home” (the world) both to keep themselves from feeling envy and to keep others from envying them, among other reasons.

If you are blessed (or have earned) a mind rarely sullied by envy, be careful not to be oblivious of it in others. ABN

Trump’s 2025 National Security Strategy – Europe Is Destroying Itself

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President Trump’s 2025 National Security Strategy is outlined in a detailed 33-page report.

In addition to setting the priorities for the United States focus, the report details the Trump administration perspective on the world as broken down into specific regions.  The report is a brutally honest review of the current state of geopolitical benefits, risks and threats as they pertain to vital U.S. interests.

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In addition to outlining a critically renewed focus on the Western Hemisphere, the Trump administration also notes the practical position of Europe, as it pertains to NATO and dependency on the U.S.A.

In a brutally honest review of the situation, the Trump administration notes Europe is increasingly losing their own identity.  The fear the Europeans express about being vulnerable to Russian strength is hypocritical, in the sense that in practical outcomes the EU is purposefully weakening itself and simultaneously demanding assistance against their own weakness.

[PAGE 25] – American officials have become used to thinking about European problems in terms of insufficient military spending and economic stagnation. There is truth to this, but Europe’s real problems are even deeper.

Continental Europe has been losing share of global GDP—down from 25 percent in 1990 to 14 percent today—partly owing to national and transnational regulations that undermine creativity and industriousness. But this economic decline is eclipsed by the real and more stark prospect of civilizational erasure.

The larger issues facing Europe include activities of the European Union and other transnational bodies that undermine political liberty and sovereignty, migration policies that are transforming the continent and creating strife, censorship of free speech and suppression of political opposition, cratering birthrates, and loss of national identities and self-confidence.

Should present trends continue, the continent will be unrecognizable in 20 years or less. As such, it is far from obvious whether certain European countries will have economies and militaries strong enough to remain reliable allies. Many of these nations are currently doubling down on their present path. We want Europe to remain European, to regain its civilizational self-confidence, and to abandon its failed focus on regulatory suffocation.

This lack of self-confidence is most evident in Europe’s relationship with Russia.

European allies enjoy a significant hard power advantage over Russia by almost every measure, save nuclear weapons. As a result of Russia’s war in Ukraine, European relations with Russia are now deeply attenuated, and many Europeans regard Russia as an existential threat.

Managing European relations with Russia will require significant U.S. diplomatic engagement, both to reestablish conditions of strategic stability across the Eurasian landmass, and to mitigate the risk of conflict between Russia and European states.

It is a core interest of the United States to negotiate an expeditious cessation of hostilities in Ukraine, in order to stabilize European economies, prevent unintended escalation or expansion of the war, and reestablish strategic stability with Russia, as well as to enable the post-hostilities reconstruction of Ukraine to enable its survival as a viable state.

The Ukraine War has had the perverse effect of increasing Europe’s, especially Germany’s, external dependencies. Today, German chemical companies are building some of the world’s largest processing plants in China, using Russian gas that they cannot obtain at home.

The Trump Administration finds itself at odds with European officials who hold unrealistic expectations for the war perched in unstable minority governments, many of which trample on basic principles of democracy to suppress opposition. A large European majority wants peace, yet that desire is not translated into policy, in large measure because of those governments’ subversion of democratic processes. This is strategically important to the United States precisely because European states cannot reform themselves if they are trapped in political crisis.

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Calls anyone who disagrees with him a terrorist

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Since Hotez uses the word terrorist loosely, it’s fitting to say that people in positions like his often have dual loyalties.

Not saying he is doing this, but people in positions like his often are subversives, a type of terrorist, who use their authority to poison, lobotomize, maim and otherwise harm innocents who have trusted them.

It’s a parasitic pattern repeated covertly throughout the West for many decades.

Terrorism is a technique used to frighten large populations.

Violent interpersonal and clandestine subversion is a techniques used to weaken specific communities by culling their best individuals.

After several generations of subversive harm, whole communities can be destroyed.

Clandestine subversives of this type are often found in schools, where they misdirect and mind-control students while also gathering information on which ones to target for covert violent attacks.

They can be found in hospitals and doctors offices, in government, media, politics and law.

They use their positions to mislead society, and to identify individuals who may understand what they are doing; then placing them on target lists for physical or sensory harm by covert operators.

The harm is never connected back to them because the lists are secret and would appear meaningless even if discovered.

Some of these lists have been discovered but few understood what they are. Most believed they were merely ‘watch lists’. ABN

Texas attorney general sues ‘Muslim city’ developers over ‘radical plot to destroy land’ after probe finds alleged fraud

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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing an Islamic community group over claims that their new ‘Muslim city’ is an illegal land development scheme.

Paxton’s filing was against East Plano Islamic Center (EPIC), Community Capital Partners (CCP) and their leaders following a months-long investigation, according to a press release.

‘The leaders behind EPIC City have engaged in a radical plot to destroy hundreds of acres of beautiful Texas land and line their own pockets,’ Paxton said in the statement. 

‘I will relentlessly bring the full force of the law against anyone who thinks they can ignore the rules and hurt Texans. 

‘The unlawful land project known as EPIC City will be stopped, and those responsible will be barred from ever creating another fraudulent operation like this again.’

Plans for EPIC City, which has since rebranded as, The Meadow, suggested 1,000 homes, Islamic schools, and a mosque all over more than 400-acres in Hunt and Collin counties. 

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Psychology as ‘signs of something else’

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When we see a human behavior as a “sign of something else” we begin magnifying it.

When we live in a culture where people normally do this, we tend to think it is right to do this even to ourselves.

People often feel relieved when their “signs of something else” have been analyzed—either professionally or by self-administered questionnaires—to reveal what that “something else” is.

Once analyzed and categorized, the “something else” itself becomes a sign, or a meta-sign, a diagnosis that explains behavior while directing us to a cure based on whatever that “something else” is.

The DSM reads like a Ptolemaic system of circles and spheres. In it signs are identified, quantified, and classified to indicate what they stand for, what their “something else” is.

Professionals are needed to do this work of course, and though the manual rests on “scientific” tests and other measurements, it changes every few years and very few people are getting better because of it. Moreover there is very little consensus among thoughtful people, including psychologists, about what the classifications of “mental illness” or “personality disorder” actually mean.

This is a sure sign that something is wrong.

I submit that what is wrong is our systems of classification of mental disorder do not describe the actual disorders because these descriptions exist on a different level from the disorders themselves.

It is widely observed that many disorders as currently classified blend into each other, share attributes, are co-morbid. It is also widely known that when disorders are extreme, sufferers can exhibit symptoms of all of them.

This indicates that the human mind is a complex system that becomes disordered by over-emphasizing or under-emphasizing parts of its system.

And this may be why drugs, psychedelics, shock therapy, or shamanic rituals sometimes help. Because they reset the entire system.

If you don’t want to use drugs, can’t get psychedelics, don’t want to undergo shock therapy or shamanic ritual, I suggest you try FIML practice. If you have a good partner, are fairly intelligent, and want to truly optimize your psychology (not just terminate your ambiguous disorder), FIML will probably do this for you. In fact, even if you can get psychedelics, FIML is better.

A disorder is unique to its system and though we can speak of some generalities that may apply to it, these generalities exist at a different level from the disorder itself and cannot provide a cure.

To cure a disorder the disorder must be experienced as it is happening by the sufferer. If too much of the disorder is revealed at once or the sufferer is simply confronted with its classification, more harm than good may result. If small bits of the disorder are revealed over a longish period of time, however, the sufferer will be much more likely to gain beneficial insight into the disorder.

In my view, all people everywhere are deeply disordered and thus all people everywhere would benefit from FIML practice. People who may not benefit from FIML include, among others, those who cannot self-observe, who are severely alcoholic, whose disorder prohibits self-analysis (narcissism, for example) and, sadly, those who cannot find an honest partner.

Alleged French Foreign Legion soldier observed 10 feet from Charlie Kirk right before the kill shot

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Same Unit Tied to the Candace Owens Hit Squad? I’m not saying it’s a coincidence… but explain THIS

Look at this photo from inside the secure zone at Charlie Kirk’s last event. Dead center: a man in a Marseille hat standing literally feet away from Charlie, inside security perimeters that regular people couldn’t even dream of getting through.

Why does this matter? Camp de Carpiagne — the elite French Foreign Legion training base — is 18 miles from Marseille. Same exact region. Same exact unit that intel sources have repeatedly tied to the active plot against Candace Owens… and now we find one of their boys in a Marseille cap inside the kill box the day Charlie drops?

This isn’t “random European tourist” energy. This is “I have credentials, I know exactly where to stand, and nobody stopped me” energy.

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The White House just published what Brussels has spent a decade censoring: Europe has shrunk from 25% of global GDP to 14%, is drifting toward “civilizational erasure,” and on its current course “will be unrecognizable in 20 years”

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The White House just published what Brussels has spent a decade censoring: Europe has shrunk from 25% of global GDP to 14%, is drifting toward “civilizational erasure,” and on its current course “will be unrecognizable in 20 years.” Not Russian intelligence. Not dissident analysts. Washington, in its own national strategy, marking the time of death.

Europe’s tragedy isn’t that it was defeated by an external force. Its tragedy is that it volunteered for collapse, mistaking moral vanity for strategy, self-harm for principle, and neocon applause for sovereignty. 19 rounds of sanctions meant to cripple Russia instead detonated inside Europe’s own chest cavity; industries fleeing, energy gutted, borders unmoored, farmers revolting, wages eroding, dissent criminalized under “values” crafted by technocrats who have never worked a real job, with utter contempt for Europeans.

And while Europe recited slogans, Russia built substance, built an economic juggernaut. The “gas station with nukes” they mocked is now the 4th largest economy on Earth by PPP, expanding faster than the entire European Union since the SMO began, reindustrializing, reorienting, rewiring Eurasia. The target of Europe’s crusade grew stronger, the crusaders grew poorer. This wasn’t irony. This was inevitability.

Now comes the most brutal line in the US strategy: the warning that some European states soon “may not be strong enough to remain reliable allies.” This is Washington stepping back from a burning house with the calm of an arsonist writing the incident report. The very patron that pushed Europe toward confrontation, long before Trump, is now drafting its alibi, framing Europe’s collapse as an unfortunate accident rather than the predictable consequence of policies its Deepstate encouraged and Brussels enforced with missionary zeal.

The EU won’t recognize the downloading of humiliation, because it arrived disguised as loyalty, and because the script being used to abandon the continent is the same script Europe still insists on performing.

A continent that once birthed Western civilization now prosecutes its citizens for speech, crushes its own farmers under riot shields, torches its industry for green dogma, and markets the whole spectacle as enlightenment. It surrendered its energy to ideology, its industry to Davos hallucinations, its security to America’s whims, and its future to compound interest. A civilization cannot live on abstractions, but its elites can, because they have engineered a system where the costs fall on the people and the graft float upward to those who never bear the consequences.

The NSS isn’t a strategy. It’s a confession in plain sight; Russia absorbed the blow, recalibrated, and rose; Europe dissolved into the very illusions it mistook for strength, while Washington, already preparing the next chapter, quietly wipes its hands of the consequences.

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The deep, largely unrecognized, source of Europe and the West’s precipitous decline is we have been infiltrated by hostile, violent gangs which have taken over all Western high-ground.

All of our institutions have been infiltrated and turned against us.

All of them.

Consider what backward Somali gangs were able to do in just a few decades.

Had they not been caught, consider the wealth and power they would have amassed and held.

That was their motive.

Then consider gangs in the past who have quietly infiltrated the West and taken over.

Consider the payoff for their bold plan:

Immense power and wealth, control of all major Western institutions, the power to mind-control and lead Western peoples to their deaths.

That was and still is their motive.

But they are smarter than the Somalis.

Not only have they not been caught, they convinced us to pay for our own execution.

Many do not fully understand this because they are so soft and weak they refuse to contemplate the clandestine violence that has been waged for many generations against talented Western young people.

Why young people?

Because the smartest ones can be identified early and lobotomized, poisoned or maimed before they become adults.

This allows those young victims to live and cause despair and resignation in their communities, but renders them incapable of fighting back or understanding what has happened to them.

It is close to impossible to catch the poisoners and lobotomizers in the act. After one roofie, a lobotomy takes but a few minutes to perform.

And a goon can be trained to do it.

The deed can be done tens of thousands of times per year throughout the West, and very few will notice the pattern.

Put on your ruthless warrior hat and realize the deep reason the West is falling so fast.

It’s not just due to ideas, pathological altruism, the nepotism of our enemies.

It is majorly due to their violence. ABN

These are super-important battles to be fought and won: Free-speech is our strongest protection against dictators and any form of AI gone wild

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Free-speech—real free speech with real, uncensored reach, is the thing that can protect us most of all from totalitarians, authoritarians and a dictatorial AI, should something like that evolve and gain power.

Many of us are willing to do all we can to protect free speech, but few of us have the power and reach of a Durov or Musk.

This is but one example of why it is important for us to support wealthy and powerful elites when they are doing the right thing.

Free-speech is our strongest protection against any form of AI gone wild.

Only a loud and insistent, well-informed public, whose speech cannot be throttled by politicians, bureaucrats or AI, will be able to stop an AI algorithm that is going off the rails. ABN