Moving forward, the FIC [Financial Industrial Complex] will exhibit deep, bidirectional embedding with the Gulfs sovereign wealth.
This will be a positive-sum partnership.
The FIC will channel Gulf money into diversified global returns while Gulf SWFs [Sovereign Wealth Fund] gain access to FIC’s diversification reach beyond oil.
The TPS [Transnational Private Sector] will largely preserve itself through Gulf money. Trillions will flow into FIC-managed funds.
This will be the predominant hedge against US decline. Using Gulf money to embed itself into multipolar hubs.
Americans complaining about Qatars acquisition spree in the West is just the beginning.
We will see Western leaders who are TPS-sell outs,
convert to Islam if it means preserving this new partnership.
Jewish ‘morality’ is not Christian morality, nor is it a universal morality which treats all people with ethical compassion. It is a tribal ‘morality’ or code which applies only to Jews. Everyone else is inferior or worse, Amalek. ABN
Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials on Friday evening arrested more than two dozen pastors across at least seven provinces who are part of the underground Zion Church network, extending what China Aid called “the most extensive and coordinated wave of persecution against urban independent house churches in China in over four decades.” Details on both the charges and the total number of arrests remain thin, but one U.S.-based Zion Church pastor, Sean Long, said the pastors may be charged with “illegal dissemination of religious content via the internet.”
“More than thirty pastors, ministers, and Christian leaders have been arbitrarily detained, disappeared, or placed under house arrest,” according to China Aid. “Their homes and worship venues have been ransacked, property confiscated, and their families harassed.”
Christianity has faced official persecution in China ever since the communist takeover of China enshrined atheism as the state religion and Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution exerted totalitarian control over the daily life of his subjects.
Despite this fact, China likely has one of the largest Christian populations of any country in the world. Statistics on the underground church are, by definition, hard to find, but estimates on China’s Christian population range up to 100 million, more than the membership of the CCP, and growing.
The CCP has responded to the perceived threat of Christianity by pressuring its subjects to join state-sanctioned churches, which offer a theology in which biblical truth has become subservient to the state.
Zion Church is an unregistered, underground Protestant church network in China, founded in 2007 by Pastor Jin Mingri, also known as Ezra Jin, in Beijing. It has grown to become one of the largest house churches in the country, with an estimated 10,000 congregants across 40 cities, operating through unofficial gatherings in homes, restaurants, and online platforms like Zoom and WeChat. As of October 2025, the church is facing a major crackdown, with Pastor Jin Mingri detained in Guangxi Province and over 30 church leaders arrested nationwide, prompting international condemnation and calls for their release.
Pakistan and Afghanistan have been exchanging their deadliest fire in years, and border clashes are now threatening to enter the Taliban-ruled Afghan capital of Kabul.
A tense, temporary ceasefire has been reached but only after Pakistan launched apparent drone strikes on Kabul, as well as the border province of Paktika, where fighting has raged. Eastern Afghanistan has also seen airstrikes by Pakistani Air Force jets.
“Explosions were also heard in Kabul, according to city residents who spoke to Radio Azadi. Unverified footage on social media appeared to show plumes of smoke rising into the sky in the Afghan capital,” observes US stated-funded RadioFreeEurope/Radio Liberty.
The fierce fighting stretches back to the weekend, which saw Taliban fighters and Pakistani security forces at several key border crossings, leaving dozens done, in what’s being described as the deadliest-ever fighting between the two sides, with many dozens killed and hundreds wounded.
An idiolect is the “dialect” of one person. It is unique to that person. We all speak an idiolect unique to us. No one else speaks in exactly the same way as you do. In fact, the varieties of idolects among speakers of even the same dialect can be quite pronounced, to say nothing of speakers who have been acculturated to different dialects.
Virtually, the same thing is true for our use and understanding of semiotics. Each one of us has a unique tangle of semiotics even if we share the same culture. Even if two people were born and raised in the same very strict cult, they will have different takes on their “shared” semiotics; they will see thier semiotics in individual and unique ways.
The term “idiolect” is a blend of the prefix idio, which means “own, personal, distinct to the individual” and the suffix lect, which is taken from the word “dialect.”
In that spirit, I want to coin the term “idiotics” to mean “the semiotics unique to one person.” Each and every one of us has a very complex idiotics.
It is profoundly important to know this and to understand it deeply.
We can talk at length about the generalities of our idiotics and profit from discussions like that. But we will never fully grasp what our idiotics do, how they function, and when they come into play unless we tackle them the moment they arise.
This is so because idiotics are very complex, with many parts bonded and tangled together in unique ways. The only time we can really get anything approaching an objective view of them is when they arise as small bits within real-life conversations. We can only see them when they function in the moment, when they touch our emotions in the moment, when they determine how we hear, speak, or respond in the moment.
General discussions lead away from idiotics because general discussion by their very natures (being general) are not unique to the individual. By definition, generalities are not idiotics.
This is one reason it is possible (indeed, common, I believe) for individuals to feel horribly lonely while in the company of other people. Or to feel horribly lonely when trying to explain yourself as you get more and more lost in generalities.
If you are never able to deal with, contend with, analyze, or remark upon you or your partner’s idiotics, you will have a bad time.
FIML practice works because it works with idiotics. Ironically, working with your own and your partner’s idiotics will make you much smarter.
The FIML approach to human psychology considers humans as existential networks of signals, some internal and some external.
A core concept in FIML is that cognition relies on semiotic networks. Semiotics are meaningful or communicable signals.
The purpose of FIML practice is the optimization of interpersonal communication. An important part of this process involves removing what we usually call “misinterpretations.” Some synonyms, depending on context, for misinterpretation are neurosis, emotional suffering, emotional confusion, disordered thinking, wrong views, and so on. The main point is that the sufferer of a misinterpretation is making some sort of mistake in how they perceive, cognize, or react to the world around them.
Misinterpretations are fundamentally rooted in meaning. A misinterpretation is not fundamentally emotional, but meaningful. From the mistaken meaning flows emotions, perceptions, reactions, psychological confusion.
A friend sent me a fascinating Wikipedia entry on ideasthesia:
Ideasthesia (alternative spelling ideaesthesia) is a neuropsychological phenomenon in which activations of concepts (inducers) evoke perception-like sensory experiences (concurrents). The name comes from the Ancient Greek ἰδέα (idéa) and αἴσθησις (aísthēsis), meaning ‘sensing concepts’ or ‘sensing ideas’. The notion was introduced by neuroscientist Danko Nikolić, but can be seen in examples in the Ethics of Spinoza (especially in the third part of the Ethics[1]), as an alternative explanation for a set of phenomena traditionally covered by synesthesia.[2]
While synesthesia meaning ‘union of senses’ implies the association of two sensory elements with little connection to the cognitive level, empirical evidence indicated that most phenomena linked to synesthesia are in fact induced by semantic representations. That is, the linguistic meaning of the stimulus is what is important rather than its sensory properties. In other words, while synesthesia presumes that both the trigger (inducer) and the resulting experience (concurrent) are of sensory nature, ideasthesia presumes that only the resulting experience is of sensory nature while the trigger is semantic.[3][4][5][6][7][8]
Note this from the section above—‘the linguistic meaning of the stimulus is what is important rather than its sensory properties… ideasthesia presumes that only the resulting experience is of sensory nature while the trigger is semantic.
“However, most phenomena that have inadvertently been linked to synesthesia, in fact are induced by the semantic representations i.e., the meaning, of the stimulus rather than by its sensory properties, as would be implied by the term synesthesia.”
If ideasthesia happens with simple perceptions, imagine how often it happens in our existential networks of cognition, semiotic perception, semiotic response and interpretation.
By correcting the core meanings of core misinterpretations, FIML practice corrects maladapted existential networks, thus relieving suffering while optimizing communication.
This response is inevitable. The sooner it happens full-bore, the better. The longer you wait the more violent it will be. These are not far-rightists. They are normal human beings sensing their annihilation and reacting. ABN
A 30-year study in Denmark tracked 321 Muslim Palestinian “asylum seekers” found: 63% were convicted of crimes (another 15% are still in the courts) and over half never worked a day in their lives and ended up on welfare. (lazy criminals)
Their 399 children follow suit—34% had criminal convictions, 37% relied on welfare, and 132 were jailed.
Denmark’s own Justice Minister finally admitted: “These asylum seekers should never have been let in.”
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