Never been a fan of Rubio, but if he keeps this up, does not stab Trump in the back and really believes 85% or more of what he is saying, he is presidential material. I am above all a pragmatist. If Rubio stands by his words and continues the pragmatic game in play today, I will support him in 2028, among other possibilities. Politics should be without emotion. It’s fundamentally based on action and, often, dark and hidden exigencies it is impossible for us to know; that’s the realism part of pragmatics. Even political leaders do not and can not know everything. We the people can generally figure out about 80% of what is going on, as has been demonstrated over the years by conspiracy theorists. Rubio has an unsavory past, imo, but if he can change his actions, we can change and support him. ABN
“When a society loses its moral compass, it collapses from within.” – G.K. Chesterton
A Thread Exposing the Decline of the West
1. The Celebration of Obesity
The “Body Positivity” Deception
The rise of “body positivity” has twisted the concept of self-acceptance into glorifying unhealthy lifestyles. Obesity, once recognized as a serious health risk, is now celebrated as an alternative version of health, all under the guise of promoting self-love.
This dangerous narrative not only normalizes life-threatening conditions but discourages individuals from taking responsibility for their health, ultimately benefiting industries that profit from illness, such as Big Pharma and the processed food sector.
See also One description of how the human population is being culled. The deep strategy is much worse than mere decline. The strategy is the destruction and takeover, followed by the annihilation of the West. The deep tactics of this takeover have been and still are mind-control and violence. Virtually everything in the public political and social sphere is mind-control theater and we are all in it. The violence is both obvious and covert. See the world through this lens and you will see much more clearly. Once you understand the violence, its means and purpose and how much of it there is, you will see even more clearly. ABN
UPDATE: I am bumping this to the top of the page and highly recommend watching it. It’s from a couple of days ago but is not at all outdated. Trump is the only American president to open cabinet meetings to the public in this manner. Trump’s cabinet is the public face of his comitatus, which is an ancient political core formation dating back to 2,000 BCE if not earlier. The comitatus has been used throughout Eurasian history and is still a primary form of governance, central to almost all successful governing bodies today. As you watch this, imagine you are watching Marcus Aurelius, Genghis Kahn or Alexander the Great speaking with their top generals and administrators, their comitatus. In a comitatus all members must be loyal to their leader. In ancient times, a leader’s comitatus would commit suicide upon his death. This was a great honor. In later times, only his innermost people would kill themselves. As you watch the video above, notice how each member of Trump’s cabinet praises him and displays fealty to his leadership. Notice how Trump defers to them in many ways. This is the way it should be and always has been. Put on your anthropologist’s hat or your historian’s hat to fully appreciate what you are seeing. Insofar as Trump and his comitatus are able to act as a single team with a common focus, they will be hugely successful. At some point, they will fight among themselves over who will be the next leader, but for now it will be best for all of them, and for us, for them to cooperate and do their work quickly and efficiently for the good of their country and ours. ABN
Was Israel involved in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy? (Is there any hard evidence or is it mostly conjecture?). And if Israel was involved, then what was the alleged motive?
Ron Unz—Although there exists no smoking gun proof implicating Israel and its Mossad in the JFK Assassination, there is an enormous mass of circumstantial evidence that they played a central role in the conspiracy, and they certainly stood very high with regard to means, motive, and opportunity.
American law ultimately is political and/or pragmatic.
This is obvious on many levels. Sometimes this fact of life is abused a little bit one way or the other, without dire consequences.
Where it matters is in serious situations. USA is facing an extremely serious situation right now — tens of millions of illegal migrants illegally brought into this country by the corrupt Biden regime.
The Biden regime’s purpose was to flood our nation with new Dem voters, which will rapidly yield a one-party state entirely under Dem control. This must be recognized and laws applied accordingly.
Deportation policies today and their legal justifications must be based on the obvious need for removing Biden’s illegal migrants as quickly as possible. If you want to preserve our precious legal framework and the rights of individuals, strict pragmatic policies must be implemented now.
This is not a legal contradiction or a question of Constitutional protections. This is not a time for dithering over legal punctilios. American civilization is facing imminent extinction. The time to act is now. Biden twisted the law to effect an invasion of USA. Trump must bend the law (far, far less, if at all) to remedy Biden’s treason.
I posted this video this morning (several posts below) along with an essay on the dangers of an advanced AI surveillance state. I commented on that essay before watching the video because a totalitarian surveillance state is a very real and dangerous possibility and many of us are talking about it. Now that I have watched Vance’s talk, I am posting it alone. In my view it’s a good talk and I agree with the policy directives Vance outlines. As a Buddhist, I am fundamentally an optimist and do not worry too much about things I have no control over. In many comments I have said our best defense against totalitarianism is free speech and platforms that host thriving free speech. Free speech can be thought of as a kind of biological technology that always sifts through the data and eventually finds the best stuff. This process must needs always be ongoing because everything is always changing. ABN
When Vice-President JD Vance delivers prepared remarks about Artificial Intelligence, pay attention.
JD Vance is the 2028 presidential candidate of choice for the Technocrats; the current goal is to envelop the MAGA populist movement for the intents and purposes of the collective network of Technocrats.
This motive and intent baseline will not change as Vance positions to replace President Donald Trump.
During a speech to the American Dynamism Summit, JD Vance outlines his optimism for the future of the U.S. economy, as boosted by the technological advances in artificial intelligence.
Within his remarks, Vance correctly notes some voices are saying there is going to be a major fracture between the “Techno-optimists” and the “populists.” However, Vance defines that chasm, and then refutes that fear/concern around jobs, advanced AI, automation, innovation and the economy. He misses what will be the root cause of the fracture completely.
Vice-President Vance notes there is nothing to fear from innovation, artificial intelligence, robotics and advanced industrial application of emerging technology. Indeed, all facets of economic growth through the use of all the aforementioned enterprises are correctly framed by the vice president.
There is nothing to fear on the economic front from the technological advancements currently underway.
Let me repeat, before I get misinterpreted….
Everything JD Vance says about the economic future of the United States, against the backdrop of innovation and AI is accurate. JD Vance is 100% correct. However, that’s not the predictable root cause of the upcoming fracture between the Techno-Optimists (his term) and the MAGA populists.
The fracture is going to come as an outcome of how AI networks with government and then destroys privacy, liberty and ultimately freedom for Americans.
It is not the economic side of the AI system Vance supports on behalf of his benefactors that is problematic; it’s the creation of a compliant surveillance state that flows as a natural outcome of advanced and automated AI systems within a highly weaponized government. That’s the problem. That where the fracture will occur.
Techno-optimists are not paying any attention to how their beloved AI networking can be weaponized in a surveillance state. When you combine fully automated AI data processing with ‘Real ID’, facial recognition software, digital identities created for each American and the motives of govt, you can easily predict what comes next.
The U.S. surveillance system can then be fine-tuned (depending on who is in charge of it) to use the real-time digital and physical identity to control access to systems. Write a Facebook post critical of government, get blocked from your bank account. Do something defined by government as against their interests, lose your access to travel etc.
The problem for Americans is how advanced AI will be deployed under the guise of efficiency to create a comprehensive DHS surveillance state.
The predictable system will automate, connecting every aspect of our lives to our compliance in living that life in the manner approved by those who control the system.
Privacy, freedom and liberty, core fundamental principles of our American system, are replaced with surveillance and defined citizen compliance. These are the pesky issues JD Vance and his Techno-Optimists (Thiel, Sacks, Musk, Ellison, et al) do not want to consider when they think about those pesky ‘proles’ they call “populists.”
Vice-President JD Vance has been constructed as the palatable messenger to calm the fears of MAGA. To calm those AI fears, Vance focuses attention to the well-discussed AI issues around jobs, labor and employment as outlined in his speech.
Listen carefully. However, the issue is not economics, it’s about privacy and liberty.
Reposted in full with permission from Sundance. I definitely see the problem but do not see any way out of it, save we the people having enough free speech to communicate our shared dissatisfaction and thus influence the powers that be. We the plebs have already allowed our civilization to be inundated with incompatible mass immigration, and we have even paid for it. Who is to blame? Not AI.
The Buddhist tradition has long been a ‘render unto Caesar that which is Caesar’s’ one. I am black-pilled on our technological future when viewed in terms of the past and assessed with values formed in the past.
My white-pilled, optimistic side envisions digital babies with super-high IQs; AI so good and so well networked, everyone is wealthy and no one needs to be greedy. If everyone is super smart, healthy, and has all they need, the ancient human values of violence, dominance and might makes right, may wither away. All of us are capable of murder but very few ever do it. Several generations of digital babies will produce the finest human beings possible. In their hands AI surveillance will also have the capacity to prevent fraud, group parasitism, evil cabals. Bad as it looks today, I see lots of room for optimism and no matter what, Buddhist practice works in all worlds. ABN
I don’t mind being called a conspiracy theorist. The killing of JFK was a conspiracy, and 9/11 was a conspiracy, and I wrote theories on both, so I’m a conspiracy theorist. I don’t reject any conspiracy theory on principle. Even looking into those which are obvious nonsense can teach you something about the extent of human gullibility or about the techniques of cognitive infiltration. So in 2023 I looked into the theory that Brigitte Macron was born a man. I concluded it had a very low probability, and I told Xavier Poussard and anybody who asked for my opinion. But I didn’t want to spend any more time on it.
However, I now feel some kind of responsibility to read and review Xavier Poussard’s book, Becoming Brigitte, published last month with the endorsement of Candace Owens. So I bought the original French version, read it in a day, and posted my first impression on March 12, in an ironic tweet saying: “After 292 pages, the ultimate proof. Come on, believe!”
This is a credible debunking of the theory that Brigitte Macron is a transgender man. I read the whole thing as I highly respect and enjoy Guyénot’s work. Then I read the comments under his article and became less sure again. At best, the Brigitte story is an interesting aside in our world; worth some investment if you like but not terribly important. Whether it is true or false, I will probably continue posting interesting pieces on it when I run across them. Owens is funnier on this topic than Guyénot, for whatever that’s worth. ABN
Yes, and also destroy all traditional family, religious, legal, intellectual, and institutional bonds so a total takeover can be secured. What’s worse is all of this was preceded and accompanied by covert violence against especially boys and young men. Why? Because destroying just the men (especially while they are young) in a society causes the entire structure of that society to fail and fall within just a few generations. A secondary tactic used against the West has been as you destroy the boys and young men (with poison, lobotomies, sensory damage, educational misdirection and much more) teach the women and girls to hate them. Then you will have one-half of society fighting the other half at every level, even inside of the home, even between sister and brother. Once you see this, you will understand what has been and still is happening to Western civilization. Add mass immigration with its obvious spinoffs and addons from this core attack strategy and you can see the even bigger picture. ABN
We accept that USAID was funding left-wing extremism, correct? We also accept that USAID is a front group for the CIA, correct? Yet then a disconnect happens.
Yet, for some reason I do not quite understand, people struggle to realize the two points above mean the CIA control domestic political outcomes.
The CIA is the entity, the IC silo, controlling politics in the USA, and the resistance to the politics -namely Trump- they do not agree with.
This is why I use the restaurant analogy. The CIA is the back of the house, the kitchen.
We hold elections, we change the name of the restaurant. We change the front of the house, the staff, the maître d, we even change the decor (DOGE) and the menu. But the kitchen is the same.
The judicial branch defers to the IC. The legislative branch is fearful of the IC. The executive branch is the front of the house, giving the illusion of change, but nothing really changes.
Until the system is changed, totally and radically reformed to remove the power of the IC, then nothing changes.
Repeal the Patriot Act. Repeal the 17th amendment. Start repealing the tools that created the problem, and only then do we start to free ourselves from this mess.
Eisenhower warned about it. JFK talked about it. Many more people have inferred it and have skirted on the issue, pretending there was some reform process that could be used. All of that well-intentioned inaction leads us to this place where we are now; standing jaw-agape wondering what can be done.
Take down the apparatus. Quit being fearful. Yes, leave us vulnerable to harm, but restore constitutional liberty. The people who weaponize govt use fear, real or imagined, for their purposes.
Take down the national security state. Disassemble the tools (FISA, NSA Surveillance, DHS, DOJ-NSD) and all the mechanisms in place to give the illusion of security.
Ultimately, live a life wrapped in constitutional liberty with the potential for harm always present… but live without the control mechanisms of the IC influencing every facet of life, under the ruse of security.
Find that and you will find the opportunity for freedom.
His reasoning is impeccable, but the highlighted conclusion, alas, is unlikely, probably impossible. Surveillance and control are consequences of technologies invented by humans and also the root technologies of the human brain. Game theory of power strongly indicates that power, once attained, concentrates and seeks control and growth. Hierarchies form naturally based on how our minds work, how social groups form, how languages work, how power inevitably forms hierarchies. Sundance can point to ‘the CIA’ but beyond that surface the deep power in control is not visible. Who in the CIA or who is controlling the CIA?
A relevant aside to this is even the people in control of the CIA, or whatever the deep power center is, can never be certain they are in full control. Some force, some group, some entity or enemy could always depose them at any moment. This is the deep reality that drives the need for ever more power among top people. This same reality is true in China, Russia, Europe, wherever. And this same reality is true between and among all nations and power centers on earth. It has ever been thus.
Another relevant aside concerns people who want to return to kingdoms and royalties because democracy is a failure. I agree democracy is a ridiculous way to run a nation, but also must say the deep state is today the modern version of kings and queens. We just don’t know who they are and they no longer parade in front of us in costumes. Other than that, under the sun it’s the exact same old nothing new as ever.
One last aside is it is possible that a vast surveillance state will work in favor of we the people. A super surveillance AI control state will be able to apportion goods and services more efficiently than capitalism and much less painfully. A robotic world will be so wealthy, greed will seem passe. Any elite that controls this state may reason that its control is no longer absolutely necessary because there is no longer any reason for anyone to overthrow them. ABN
Israel’s actions in Syria are not about security—they are about survival in a rapidly changing geopolitical landscape. In this talk, Shahid Bolsen explains how Israel’s territorial expansion and buffer zone strategy are desperate attempts to maintain relevance as the Middle East transitions toward *collective sovereignty*.
From the occupation of the Golan Heights to the manipulation of sectarian divisions among Alawites, Druze, and Christians, Israel is using every tool at its disposal to prolong instability and delay its inevitable absorption into the emerging regional order. But these moves are not signs of strength; they are acts of desperation.
The new Middle East, led by regional hegemons like Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Egypt, and Iran—with support from BRICS powers—no longer needs Israel to function as a Western proxy. Zionism, as an expansionist ideology, is incompatible with this new reality.
Western critics call Syria’s leadership “undemocratic” while ignoring the fact that democracy has never been a prerequisite for good governance. What matters is results: stability, security, and the protection of national interests.
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Real-world game theory. Well-worth watching for a deeper understanding of Israel, Zionism, and the Middle East. Many of Bolsen’s points apply to Trump and how he is behaving toward Israel, Russia, Europe, and USA. KOBK and hardcore game theory is the only way to really understand world politics, or any politics for that matter. So far, in my view, Trump has been playing the game very well. When people said he was acting as Netanyahu’s servant when he tucked in his chair, I saw the opposite. When Trump deals directly with Putin and sidelines not only the execrable Zelensky but also all of Europe, he is playing the game very well indeed. America First is KOBK. And the only way any nation should be governed. See Top of the World Alliance for more. ABN
The young Maine child who was given a controversial and experimental Pfizer-BioNTech mRNA injection at a public school without his parents consent may not have immunity from Covid-19. But the doctor who delivered the non-consensual shot and the powerful hospital system that supplied it do. Legal immunity, that is.
The Maine Supreme Judicial Court decided on March 4 in Hogan v. Lincoln Medical Partners that the hospital system and its affiliates are fully immune from legal liability after administering an experimental mRNA injection to a five-year-old child without parental consent.
The ruling, issued March 4, affirms a lower court decision that dismissed the case brought by parents Jeremiah Hogan and Siara Jean Harrington, whose child was injected with the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 shot at a school clinic in November 2021. The couple had sued the healthcare provider, its parent company MaineHealth, and the physician who administered the shot, alleging a litany of offenses, including medical malpractice, battery, false imprisonment, and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
MaineHealth is the largest hospital operator in the state of Maine and employs more than 24,000 workers, including Dora Mills, the sister of Gov. Janet Mills, who serves as the “Chief Health Improvement Officer.”
Though it was clear at the time the vax was not safe, since then it has been proved the vax is dangerous. The state should never have the right to overrule parents or do medical procedure without their consent. This is basic to USA legal rights and freedoms. In retrospect, the Constitution was right and the doctors and the hospitals and the state and federal governments were wrong. Right there is why you do not interfere with parents rights or anyone’s right to refuse medical treatment, nor do you restrict their freedom to speak about what is going on. The conspiracy theorists were way more right about everything covid while the government and the, now dead, legacy media were way more wrong about everything. This is an example none of us who lived through it should ever forget. Covid illustrates from many angles the fundamental, inalienable importance of individual rights as spelled out in the US Constitution. All culture needs some bedrock upon which to found itself. USA’s is our magnificent Constitution. ABN
Great interview, many good points made clearly and succinctly. Lutnick is another prominent Jew we can all like and admire, provided he is not a covert Jewish Supremist. There are a large number of Jewish Supremists, both covert and overt, within the Jewish community, so it is more than reasonable for interviewers to ask Lutnick if he is a Jewish Supremist, and if he disavows Jewish Supremacy if he claims not to be one. He has dubious connections with Jeffrey Epstein and should be asked about that as well. If he can answer honestly and evidence backs up his answers on Epstein and Jewish Supremacy, he would be a reasonable candidate for president of USA in 2028. I am not sure I would support him due to lingering suspicion, but if he really is clean and shows it, I would support him if he had the best chance to win. And I would definitely support him if he wins the presidency, with the same provisos in place. I look forward to the day when we we can openly draw a line between Jewish Supremists and Jews who despise Jewish Supremacy. When that day comes, Jews like Lutnick and Stephen Miller, who appear to be unreservedly pro-American, will be able to lead the Jewish community toward a non-Supremist future, allowing them to make a real contribution to USA and Western civilization and not just always take from it. ABN
On Croatian Television channel 4. Vladimir Putin was allowed to speak.
He addressed the Europeans: “Russia has never been and will never be your enemy!
We do not want European raw materials and wealth, we have our own raw materials and wealth, we absolutely do not need your raw materials. Russia is the richest country in the world in terms of raw materials.
We do not want your land or your territory. Look at how wide Russia is on the map. Russia is twice the size of the whole of Europe in one place. What would we need your land for, what do we do with it?
Why do you think Russia is an enemy of Europe? What damage has Russia done to you?
Have we sold you gas and raw materials at lower prices than the prices at which your “friends” are currently selling you? YES
Did Russia sacrifice 20 million people in World War II to get rid of the Nazis? YES
Was Russia the first country to help Europe during the Covid pandemic? YES
Did we help Europe when there were fires and natural disasters? YES
What has Russia done to you that you hate it so much?
Russia is not your enemy; your real enemies are your leaders, those who lead you!”
100%! Russia and Europe are natural allies. It is savage stupidity to pretend otherwise, let alone actively provoke war with Russia. European leaders are very obviously either: 1) complete morons or 2) bribed and blackmailed by a non-European subversive organization that hates both Russians and Europeans. ABN
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