Do your best. Speak the truth.
Musk is doing more than most. Assuming he is sincere, he is up against a host of malevolent adversaries. Obviously, freedom of speech, not reach is not freedom of speech, But Musk’s predicament is severe. Advertising money rules. If you want unvarnished truth & opinion, you will find it on small sites and in your own kitchen if you dare to speak freely there. ABN
The deep underlying sentiment seems to be: We’ll stop telling the truth about you when you stop lying about us. I doubt this is white backlash. Maybe it’s whiplash due to the stunning speed and savagery of the Gaza reprisals, if you can even call them reprisals. Disproportionate vengeance is instinctively repulsive. When you add mordantly laughable Israeli propaganda and the MIHOP causa belli, astonishment is inevitable. The scales must be set right one day and maybe this is the day. ABN
UPDATE: KOBK players have no choice but to strike when the time is right if they believe they are the strongest player. Western neocons, which includes Israel, appear to believe they are the strongest. All of their actions over several decades conspicuously indicate they are going for world domination. If you are going for world domination and you believe you are the strongest player and/or it’s now or never, you will make the battle as complex as possible. Complexity aids the strongest player. This is what Western neocons are doing now. Where it will lead is to more war, more conflicts, more stealth strategies and ruses. The goal is world domination at any price, Kill-Or-Be-Killed, KOBK. ABN
UPDATE 2: One of the next big things to happen will be terrorist attacks in Western countries. Whether they are done by Islamic fighters or are false flags, does not matter. They will be blamed on Islamic fighters. The result will be an inflamed and frightened Wester world with people everywhere panicking and calling for revenge. Westerners will clamor for facial-recognition, digital currency, internal passports, lockdowns, anything to keep them safe. The neocons will use this public fervor and support to increase their aggression where it will do the most harm to their enemies—anyone with power who opposes them. ABN
If you find this interesting and can appreciate the complexity of something we use or hear every day, why wouldn’t you find what your mate is really thinking or meaning when they do or say whatever they do or say that you don’t understand or are not sure of? We humans love complexity and can appreciate it whenever it is clearly described. Only your mate can clearly describe the inner workings of their mind to you and only you can clearly describe the inner workings of your mind to them. Yes, FIML allows you both to do that. FIML is easier to understand than this video and much more rewarding, though I really do like the video. A little ingenuity and you can become a FIML pro. ABN
The point about the Gaza crisis is that should everyone agree to stick their head in the sand and ignore the ‘elephant in the room’, it’s easy enough so to do. The meaning to a severe crisis is only properly understood when someone notices ‘the elephant’, and says look out; there’s an elephant stamping here. That’s where we are today. Slowly, the West is beginning to take notice. The rest of world however, is transfixed by it, and is being transformed by it.
What is the ‘elephant’ (or elephants) in the room? Blinken’s recent regional diplomacy was ‘a bust’. None of the regional leaders that Blinken met would talk further about Gaza beyond demanding stridently, ‘no Palestinian population displacement into Egypt’ a ‘stop to this madness’ – the carpet bombing of Gazans – and the demand for an immediate ceasefire.
And Biden’s calls for a ‘pause’ – softly, at first, and the more strident now – is being bluntly ignored by the Israeli government. The spectre of President Carter’s impotence during the Iran hostage crisis hangs ever more soberly in the backdrop.
The truth is that the White House cannot force Israel to do its will – the Israeli lobby holds more clout in Congress than any White House team. Thus, ‘no exit’ from the Israeli crisis is readily to be seen. Biden ‘made his bed’ with the Netanyahu cabinet and must live with consequences.
Impotence then, as the Democratic Party fractures beyond the simplistic division between centrists versus progressives. The polarisation emanating from the ‘no ceasefire stance’ is having stark destabilising effects on politics, both in the U.S. and Europe.
Impotence then, as the shape of the Middle East crystallises into sharp antagonism towards the West’s perceived accommodation of the mass slaughter of Palestinian women, children and civilians. The die may be too far ‘cast’ to brake the ongoing tectonic reset already underway. Western double standards are just too inescapably obvious now to the Global Majority.
UPDATE: With all respect for Crooke’s position, I do not see any of this situation as being a surprise. The ‘eschatological rage’ he describes is in reality an eschatological plan and a very methodical one at that. ‘Greater Israel’ = planet earth. The Israelis, joined at the hip with American neocons, are going for world domination. One could state that differently to avoid overemphasizing the Jewish component: American neocons, joined at the hip with Israeli and Western neocons, are going for world domination.
The plan was obvious in Ukraine, which was simply the most recent aggression against Russia. It’s obvious in mass migration into Western countries coupled with a slew of other anti-national policies which I see no need to list here. The plan for world domination has been obvious for decades. Today it is glaringly obvious.
Why Crooke and so many others pretend not to see it is either: 1) they fear the wrath of the neocons; 2) know that others fear the wrath of the neocons and thus go along; 3) they are trapped in a conceptual mind-control cage developed by the neocon global aggressors.
The plan is a long range one. Historically it is as old as the Old Testament. In the modern era it is well over one-hundred years old, with an acute stage beginning after WW2. This acute stage has become frenzied, inflamed, even enraged, since 2001.
Western neocons are going for world domination. They have already staked everything on it. If their plan is delayed, which I doubt, the delay will be only temporary. Western neocons are locked into a win-or-lose situation, a kill-or-be-killed situation. They will not and cannot back down. ABN
In a speech in Hebrew on October 28, Netanyahu justified the Israeli slaughter of civilians in Gaza with a biblical reference to Amalek.
You must remember what Amalek has done to you, says our Holy Bible. And we do remember. And we fight. Our brave troops and combatants who are now in Gaza and in all other regions in Israel, are joining the chain of Jewish heroes, a chain that has started 3,000 years ago, from Joshua ben Nun, until the heroes of 1948, the Six-Day War, the October 73 War, and all other wars in this country. Our hero troops, they have one supreme main goal: to completely defeat the murderous enemy, and to guarantee our existence in this country.
In Netanyahu’s Holy Bible, God gives his chosen people Palestine, and the same God commands them to exterminate the Amalekites, an Arab people that stands in their way. Yahweh asks Moses to not only exterminate the Amalekites, but to “blot out the memory of Amalek under heaven” (Deuteronomy 25:19).
It was left to Saul to finish them up: “kill man and woman, babe and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and donkey,” Yahweh instructs him (1Samuel 15:8). Because Saul spared the Amalekite king Agag, Yahweh withdrew the kingship from him and drove him mad: “I regret having made Saul king, since he has broken his allegiance to me and not carried out my orders” (15:11). The holy prophet Samuel, who had a direct line of communication with Yahweh, had to butcher Agag himself (“hewed Agag in pieces,” in the Revised Standard Version). Yahweh then gave the kingship to David, who proved a more obedient exterminator, for example when he put the people of Rabba “under saws, and under harrows of iron, and under axes of iron, and made them pass through the brick kiln: and thus did he unto all the cities of the children of Ammon” (2 Samuel 12:31).
I hope this essay will inspire Abrahamic readers to reflect on the actual words and meanings in the Old Testament. I respect all moral religious peoples of all faiths but am also aware that for many religion is a cult, sometimes a dangerous cult of Satanic violence. The ancient Greek, then Christian, and sometimes Jewish term that most unites the Abrahamic traditions with Buddhism is logos. If we see God as logos we can also see the Buddha as logos realized on earth and the Buddhist path a kind of worship or reverence for logos. ‘Theologically’, Buddhists are sentient beings who are attracted to the Tathagata-logos. It is their good karma to be drawn toward logos. Others are blind to logos and sometimes repulsed by it.
A core Buddhist teaching is clinging to words is dangerous. The Buddha prohibited writing his teachings down because he did not want them to turn into scriptures that would be worshipped without being understood. This is why Buddhism defines itself as a mind-to-mind teaching. Buddhists who understands the Dharma well enough transmit it mind-to-mind to others who want to learn it. Buddhists do not proselytize or believe others are lost for having different practices. Buddhists respect and support all traditions and practices that encourage wholesome, ethical thoughts and behaviors because they all lead to logos. ABN
Police opened fire at a Paris train station on Tuesday morning after a woman reportedly threatened to detonate a bomb.
Two police officers opened fire at around 9.20am at the Bibliothèque François-Mitterrand station in the 13th arrondissement of Paris on Tuesday morning.
A police source told French media that the woman “refused to obey police orders and threatened to blow herself up”.
She did not have a bomb but the threat appears to have justified the shooting. We should expect much more of this and with real bombs. This will justify full-on panopticon surveillance within Western societies while also galvanizing Western autochthonous populations against Muslims and other supposed enemies, Russia, China. Heightened war-fever will support Western escalation of whatever conflicts are prevailing. It is possible there is no Western cabal and they are not planning to take over the world, but one-hundred thirty years of evidence suggests otherwise as does Kill-Or-Be-Killed game theory which inescapably determines elite strategies. ABN
This is a disturbing meme. Besides its obvious principal meaning it also carries a second meaning—when (and if, but almost certainly) terrorist attacks start happening in the West, Western peoples will become enraged. The more attacks, the more the rage. The more the rage, the greater the support for a hot WW3. The extremely one-sided, unnuanced pro-Israel positions taken by Western nations, especially USA, appear to support having their populations enraged with war fever. In this light, years of open borders appear to have been part of the plan for WW3 leading to Western world domination. Will they pull it off? Can they? Once the missiles start flying at home, which side will you be on? ABN
The emails show the White House communications team struggling to craft a cover-up message on email chains that included Dr. Anthony Fauci, then-director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and chief medical advisor to President Biden; CDC Director Rochelle Walensky; Dr. Janet Woodcock, then-acting commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy and Dr. Francis Collins, then-director the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
A number of high-level public health officials worked with upper-echelon leadership to craft a “Myocarditis Email” that minimized the relationship between COVID-19 mRNA vaccines and myocarditis,” said Amy Kelly, program director for the War Room/DailyClout Pfizer Documents Analysis Project.
According to Kelly, the officials included: Ian Sams, COVID-19 response and special assistant to the president and senior advisor and spokesman for the White House; Abbigail Tumpey, then-associate director for communication science for the CDC’s Public Health Infrastructure; and Dr. Dana Meaney-Delman, CDC lead on maternal immunization and CDC chief of Infant Outcomes Monitoring Research and Prevention Branch.
This looks like mind-control driven by the already mind-controlled; group-think consensus bias multiplied by confirmation bias, weak characters, confused morality and irrational thinking. These are trying times. Not all of us are responsible for everything but people with enough power to ‘craft a myocarditis email’ do bear significant responsibility for making this, at best, terrible mistake. They probably convinced themselves it was a noble lie. And today pretend they did what they did because they thought it was the best thing to do, which it clearly was not since they had the f**king information and crafted the email to hide it. From every angle we see a deeply compromised and immoral bureaucratic parasite making decisions that serve no one but themselves. This is just another example. ABN
Called this in general terms at least one year ago that more war, even WW3, is all but inevitable. This announcement makes certain that we are entering the next stage of the plan for world domination by USA and its secret controllers. A large regional war will overshadow and provide excuses to steal the 2024 election, if not cancel it. Fighting in the Middle East will probably bring acts of terror into USA soon. One way of seeing this is it has been planned by whomever controls the West, including the MIHOP attack in Israel. Another way to view this is the West is falling into a trap set by Iran and others. The trap will be a large regional war that may go global and will gravely weaken USA, if not destroy it. The only way I can make any sort of rational sense of US actions is they have a secret super-weapon that will be decisive. ABN
Elon Musk has offered $1billion to the owners of Wikipedia if they change its name to ‘D***ipedia’.
The billionaire – who has accused the website of showing its ‘non-trivial left-wing bias’ in the past – was responding to Wikipedia’s donation appeal for the year.
‘I will give them a billion dollars if they change their name to D–kipedia,’ Musk posted on X, formerly Twitter, on Sunday.
He then jokingly asked to add that to his Wikipedia page, which he said includes the cow and poop emojis after he criticized the Wikipedia Foundation.
‘Have you ever wondered why the Wikimedia Foundation wants so much money? It certainly isn’t needed to operate Wikipedia,’ he said. ‘You can literally fit a copy of the entire text on your phone!
Mind-control works because everything is or can be made to be ambiguous. And thus everything can be subverted, altered, even completely made up if there is a concerted effort at the top and money to fuel the lie. This is why even academia is filled with so much garbage, you need a super-duper-degree to separate out the lies. The key problem in our world today is mind-control and the vulgar responses it always elicits. The entire Ukraine War and now the looming war(s) in and around Israel are based on lies and the vulgar reasoning and emotionality that follows from them. This situation is sooo Buddhist delusion writ large. Our world today from almost all angles proves the First Noble Truth of Buddhism so well, it’s time the Abrahamic religions concede the superiority of the Buddhist analysis. The principal flaws of the Abrahamic religions are unreasonably strict adherence to scripture and the absurd belief that clergy is capable of knowing God’s will through their human interpretations of those scriptures. The Abrahamic religions are also far too resistant to change, largely due to the scriptural thing. For the most part Buddhists do not say stuff like this out loud, but as we hurtle toward yet another Abrahamic war, I am making an exception. Another Buddhist criticism of the Abrahamic religions is they weaken our spirits and reason by subordinating solid human thinking to myths from thousands of years ago. ABN
UPDATE: I highly recommend this video discussion for all Buddhists and all practitioners of FIML. Barrett describes the fundamental reality of human consciousness as it grapples with emotion, sensation, bodily feedback and general states of physical being. Her insights are 100% consonant with Buddhist philosophy and FIML practice. Both FIML and Buddhism differ from what Barrett is saying only in that in addition to the emptiness, impermanence, and vagueness of human emotional states they also see human thought, belief, interpretation, perception and comprehension in the same way. In FIML practice, these deeply important uncertainties also include language, semiotics, communicative acts, and the psychologies associated with them.
At one point, Barrett says she is not saying there is nothing there or no truth to emotional states. She is just saying they typically are not clearly definable and often mistaken. Exactly right. I would add that Barret sees a very important part of the underlying problem of human psycho-spiritual existence but she only sees that one part and offers no more than a description of it.
FIML practice provides not only a more accurate description of the problem but also a method to greatly enhance our understanding of all human states of being as they occur in real-world, real-time situations. FIML differs from traditional Buddhist practice in that it offers a robust practice for two people to use together.
To emphasize a major point: Barrett has caught a very big fish but is holding it by the tail only. Buddhism is based on the whole fish as is FIML. Both Buddhism and FIML offer deeply important ways to deal with the whole fish. FIML adds a precise practice between two people that speeds up understanding. Buddhism claims there is an ‘ultimate reality’, a Buddha mind above and beyond the ‘relative reality’ of mundane uncertainty and clinging. FIML provides deep psychological understanding and correction of the mundane problem while also allowing glimpses of Buddhist ultimate reality. Barrett, Buddhism, and FIML all are addressing the same thing from different points of view. ABN
UPDATE: This video is a delightful 2+ hours discussion, not to be missed. Buddhists will enjoy how it elucidates Buddhist teachings on the Five Skandhas and how they underlie Buddhist understanding of human psychology.
It is also an excellent description of why you must do FIML. It provides a detailed and nuanced picture of why FIML practice is essential for full optimization of human psychology, language use, semiotics, and mental functioning. FIML has no content and does zero to define you or anyone. FIML shows you how to gather information and discover for yourself.
FIML is a method that allows partners to isolate significant (or not) moments during real-time, real-world communication that can be identified and agreed upon by both partners and thus become objectively analyzable (in the sense that both partners agree on what the moment was or what it entailed). That is how language can greatly help us understand how our speech, sensations, emotions, bodily states are functioning in the real-world in real-time.
The hard part about FIML is you cannot at the inception of a FIML moment sit back, like Barrett and Huberman, and just wander around pleasantly talking about theories and ideas within a well-defined (and restricted) scientific paradigm.* The first moments of a FIML query are by definition unexplained and undescribed to both partners.
Once identified and described the unique, idiosyncratic import of those moments will be discovered. And often what is discovered will be of next-to-no importance or be some sort of mutual or one-sided mistake or trivial misinterpretation. At other times, deep and deeply interesting patterns or critical associations will be discovered. At those times, you will be able to clearly see how your habitual mind is functioning in a real-world, real-time situation.
Since FIML moments are moments, they are small enough and well-described enough for partners to mutually clearly understand and admit what has happened without reservations. This is extremely refreshing, especially when experienced scores and then hundreds of times. There is no other way to get this information and mutually understand it than FIML practice.
* I do not mean to slight or dismiss Barrett or Huberman here. They have provided a superb description of an extremely serious problem and also illustrated how science today has not solved it. Barrett mentions how serious the problem is but does not provide a solution to it. Knowing the problem is there is a good start. It’s like identifying a disease. Solving the problem as FIML does is the next step. FIML treats the disease and largely cures it. I 100% agree with Barrett when she emphasizes how serious this problem is. I see its seriousness as being even greater than she does. This problem is far worse than a few mistaken convictions in law courts or a persistent fog of interpersonal confusion. It is a constant ever-present demon in all of us and it leads to enormous suffering, sadness, violence, murder, tribalism, worse. As for science, FIML is a subjective science, possibly the realest and most important subjective science there is right now.
In Barrett’s vocabulary, basic FIML works with the very fine ‘granularity’ of emotion/ sensation/ interpretation. A next step after identifying these granular moments during FIML is to analyze/ discuss how they are related to other granularities and also less granular more abstract habits or mental states/ conditions; this is where in Barrett’s terms FIML ‘adds dimensionality’ to our worlds. What is remarkable about FIML is the dimensionality we add is based on mutually agreed objective idiosyncratic data.
Around the 1:30 mark and beyond, Barrett describes what Buddhists know as the Five Skandhas — 1) form/ percept/ stimulus, 2) sensation (bodily action), 3) perception (more detail and feedback), 4) activity (more detail, feedback and abstraction), 5) consciousness/ mental state (delusional, or within relative reality). The Five Skandhas, of course, are fractal, dynamic, fast-moving, multi-granular, and describe/ categorize bodily-mental states at all levels of delusional/ hallucinatory/ relative ‘reality’.
‘Get your butterflies flying in formation’. ABN
This is more than a meme. It is a check list of why freedom of speech is of crucial importance to any and all thriving civilizations. Each of these topics, and many more, conclusively demonstrate that intelligent people with minority views are often—nay, usually—right, while those who censor, ban, and deplatform are always wrong; always because in the heat of the moment it is always wrong to ban minority or non-government-approved views. The strangle-hold on Xwitter, forced by the ADL, known with sickening smugness as ‘freedom of speech without freedom of reach’, has cost and will continue to cost society millions of human lives and trillions of dollars. When speech is restricted, bad actors hide in dark. ABN
I have no idea whether this report is accurate, but given the nature of events and revelations in the past several years – this seems plausible, possibly likely.
In the aftermath of the 2020 election outcome, several people on the more libertarian/conservative side of the political spectrum, were concerned about being targeted by an Obama third term. As the rather revelatory story is told today, that provided the motive for Peter Thiel to cozy up to the FBI and avoid being a target.
Business Insider is reporting that Billionaire PayPal founder Peter Thiel became a “confidential human source” for the FBI in 2021. The outline claims that known FBI informant Charles Johnson brought Thiel into the relationship. The exact specifics of what Thiel did for the FBI are unknown.
Overstock founder Patrick Byrne was/is also an FBI asset, using his money in conservative circles to support entities of interest to the government. Byrne provided the seed money for Dave Rubin’s Locals platform. Robert Mercer did the same with Breitbart, and Rebekkah Mercer did the same thing with Parler. Billionaire Paul Singer did the same thing with The Washington Free Beacon.
Interestingly, Peter Thiel has a networked relationship with several people of “conservative” influence – including Tucker Carlson. It is strongly suspected that Thiel is one of the financial backers of Tucker Carlson’s new media venture. {Go Deep}
People often ask me why CTH viciously protects our independence, enjoys staying small and refuses to take lucrative offers for platform expansion. The reality is, The Truth Has No Agenda – but the majority of the characters you run into within the information space generally do. lol.
It is important to understand that the Big Money-espionage-Big Media-Big Government-mind-control complex is a subculture. It has its own rules, jargon, mores and semiotics. Players within this subculture know each other or can recognize each other through mutual associations and any number of subcultural cues. This subculture is deeply entwined with and within the parasitic cabal that governs all politics (including war policies) in the West. The Western cabal is vying for control of the entire world. I, for one, can accept that humans will be living within some sort of hierarchy for some time. If our cabal were even halfway decent and showed even a modicum of intelligence and kindness, I would not be terribly bother by it. But, by their deeds ye shall know them. The general view we the people have of our cabal is they are selfish, nasty, parasitic, little demons who also seem to be grossly incompetent, even stupid. This does not mean Thiel, Patrick Byrne, or Tucker Carlson are bad guys; they may be good guys trapped on the edge of the cabal system. ABN
…Titled the “law of increasing functional information,” it holds that evolving systems, biological and non-biological, always form from numerous interacting building blocks like atoms or cells, and that processes exist – such as cellular mutation – that generate many different configurations. Evolution occurs, it holds, when these various configurations are subject to selection for useful functions.
“We have well-documented laws that describe such everyday phenomena as forces, motions, gravity, electricity and magnetism and energy,” Hazen said. “But these laws do not, individually or collectively, describe or explain why the universe keeps getting more diverse and complex at scales of atoms, molecules, minerals and more.”
In stars, for instance, just two elements – hydrogen and helium – were the main ingredients in the first stellar generation following the Big Bang about 13.8 billion years ago that initiated the universe.
That first generation of stars, in the thermonuclear fusion caldrons at their cores, forged about 20 heavier elements such as carbon, nitrogen and oxygen that were blasted into space when they exploded at the end of their life cycles. The subsequent generation of stars that formed from the remnants of the prior generation then similarly forged almost 100 more elements.
Here is the abstract from the paper:
Physical laws—such as the laws of motion, gravity, electromagnetism, and thermodynamics—codify the general behavior of varied macroscopic natural systems across space and time. We propose that an additional, hitherto-unarticulated law is required to characterize familiar macroscopic phenomena of our complex, evolving universe. An important feature of the classical laws of physics is the conceptual equivalence of specific characteristics shared by an extensive, seemingly diverse body of natural phenomena. Identifying potential equivalencies among disparate phenomena—for example, falling apples and orbiting moons or hot objects and compressed springs—has been instrumental in advancing the scientific understanding of our world through the articulation of laws of nature. A pervasive wonder of the natural world is the evolution of varied systems, including stars, minerals, atmospheres, and life. These evolving systems appear to be conceptually equivalent in that they display three notable attributes: 1) They form from numerous components that have the potential to adopt combinatorially vast numbers of different configurations; 2) processes exist that generate numerous different configurations; and 3) configurations are preferentially selected based on function. We identify universal concepts of selection—static persistence, dynamic persistence, and novelty generation—that underpin function and drive systems to evolve through the exchange of information between the environment and the system. Accordingly, we propose a “law of increasing functional information”: The functional information of a system will increase (i.e., the system will evolve) if many different configurations of the system undergo selection for one or more functions.
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Well, well, well, I like that highlighted sentence. That is precisely what FIML does. FIML practice affords partners numerous opportunities to examine and analyze how their communications actually function, and from that choose or learn how to improve their communicational and psychological functions, how to optimize them. FIML is an acronym that stands for Functional Interpersonal Meta Linguistics. Function or functionality is not just a buzz word. It describes an active dynamic process which, for sentient beings, is the stuff of experience. In this sense awareness and experience along with functionality can be understood as primary components of the universe and everything we know. Karma also describes a process of conscious functionality, each bit of which has consequence. It describes a dynamic, dramatic reality of being and becoming and is best not understood merely as a judgement of reality. ABN
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