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Washington Moves On to Plan B

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Here’s what everyone needs to understand about Ukraine:

The United States has already moved on to Plan B. No, the Biden administration has not issued an official statement on the matter, but the shift has already begun. The Washington Brain-trust has abandoned any hope of winning the war outright (Plan A) and has, thus, adopted a different strategy altogether. (Plan B)

Plan B is a combination of two main elements:

  • A—A Strategy of Denial, which is ‘a defensive approach designed to stop an adversary’ from achieving its goals. In this case, the objective is to prolong the conflict for as long as possible to prevent Russian from achieving a clear victory. That is the top priority.
  • B—To continue to increase and intensify asymmetrical attacks on vital infrastructure and civilian areas in Russia proper in order to inflict as much damage on Russia as possible.

This, in essence, is Plan B. Any concern for the Ukrainian people or the future viability of the Ukrainian state, have not been factored in to Washington’s cynical calculation. What matters is preventing a Russian victory and inflicting as much pain on Russia as possible. Those are the primary objectives. In practical terms, that means that more Ukrainian soldiers will be slaughtered wholesale in order to continue using Ukraine as a launching pad for attacks on Russia. 

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This essay by Mike Whitney makes some good points but he misses the real goals of the West. They are: 1) destroy Ukraine. Empty it of its citizens by killing its military-aged men and forcing the rest to flee. 2) Then, destroy the Russian state, dismember it, and seize its assets. Russia is geographically huge with enormous resources, yet its population is a mere 140 million. The ultimate goal is take all of it. The Western cabal/ comitatus is manifestly either reckless or confident. My guess is they are confident because they possess a super-weapon, one stronger and more powerful than nukes or entire armies. It’s possible this is it. Maybe it’s not that but something else. War has always been the underlying reality of civilizations and these wars are our reality. ABN

The “Amazing Tale” of How Three Billionaires Plunged the World into Climate Catastrophism

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…In 2012, three wealthy men, Bloomberg, hedge fund manager Tom Steyer and former CEO of Goldman Sachs Hank Paulson chipped in $500,000 each to fund a project “making the climate threat feel real, immediate and potentially devastating to the business world”. An early funded report was part-titled ‘Risky Business’ and it focused on RCP8.5 “as the pathway closest to a business-as-usual trajectory”. The pathway was said to be “closest to a future without concerted action to reduce future warming”.

…The “genius” of ‘Risky Business’ was it undertook a “sophisticated campaign” to introduce its methodological ideas into mainstream scientific literature, “where they would take on a life of their own”. In 2016, a paper from the ‘Risky Business’ project was published in the prestigious journal Science featuring the erroneous notion of moving from one RCP (Representative Concentration Pathway) scenario to another. Despite the obvious methodological flaw, notes Pielke, the paper passed peer-review with little or no criticism, and to date has been cited more than 1,100 times. “Hundreds, maybe thousands of papers followed similarly in adopting the same assumption of moving between incommensurate scenarios”, observes Pielke.

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The ancient roots of the comitatus

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The core comitatus consisted of a small number of warriors, who are called or referred to as friends. Chinggis Khan himself had four: Khubilai, Jelme, Jebe, and Sübedei, whom Jamukha characterizes as the four fierce wolves or dogs of Chinggis. The characterization of the comitatus warriors as wolves or other fierce animals goes all the way back to Proto-Indo-European times. The core group—usually a small number of men—committed ritual suicide (or was executed) to accompany the lord if he predeceased the group, and each man was buried “armed to the teeth” for battle in the next world. The comitatus warriors took their oath freely and, in doing so, broke their original connections to their clan or nation. They became as close or closer than family to their lord, they lived in their lord’s house with him, and they were rewarded lavishly by him in return for their oath. The comitatus is attested archaeologically in burials, historically in descriptions of cultures from all parts of Central Eurasia, and in early literary texts. The most famous are perhaps the Rig Veda hymns to the deified comitatus of Indra, the Marut chariot warriors. A vivid example is found in a dialogue between the lord and his warrior friends where Ahi is the snake-demon enemy, the dragon of many Central Eurasian heroic epics.

Beckwith, Christopher I.. Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present (pp. 13-14). Princeton University Press. Kindle Edition.

The lord and his comitatus formed the heart of every newborn Central Eurasian nation. In Central Asia the warriors of a typical ruler’s full comitatus, even that of a mere governor, numbered in the thousands and was extremely expensive to maintain. In the Middle Ages, the comitatus and ideas of rulership gradually changed with the adoption of world religions, which frown on suicide or ritual murder, but they otherwise continued down to the conquest of Central Eurasia by peripheral powers.

Beckwith, Christopher I.. Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present (p. 15). Princeton University Press. Kindle Edition.

The Gaza Genocide as Explicit Policy: Michael Hudson Names All Names

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Israel, Gaza and West Bank should be seen as an opening of the New Cold War.

In what can be considered the most crucial podcast of 2024 so far, Professor Michael Hudson – the author of seminal works such as Super-Imperialism and the recent The Collapse of Antiquity , among others – clinically lays down the essential background to understand the unthinkable: a 21st century genocide broadcast live 24/7 to the whole planet.

In an email exchange, Prof. Hudson detailed he’s now essentially “spilling the beans” about how, “50 years ago when I worked at the Hudson Institute with Herman Kahn [the model for Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove], Israeli Mossad members were being trained, including Uzi Arad. I made two international trips with him, and he outlined to me pretty much what has happened today. He became head of Mossad and is now Netanhayu’s advisor.”

Prof. Hudson shows how “the basic Gaza plan is how Kahn designed the Vietnam War’s division into sectors, with canals cutting off each village, as the Israelis are doing to Palestinians. Also already at time, Kahn pinpointed Balochistan as the area to foment disruption in Iran and the rest of the region.”

It’s not by accident that Balochistan has been CIA jewel territory for decades, and recently with the added incentive of the disruption by any means necessary of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) – a key connectivity node of the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).

Prof. Hudson then connects the major dots: “As I understand it, what the U.S. is doing with Israel is a dress rehearsal for it to move on to Iran and the South China Sea. As you know, there is no Plan B in American strategy for a very good reason: If anyone criticize Plan A, they’re considered not to be a team player (or even Putin’s Puppet), so critics have to leave when they see that they won’t be promoted. That’s why U.S. strategists won’t stop and re-think what they’re doing.”

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Mike Garcia Tells FBI’s Wray ‘I Don’t Trust You’ To His Face—Then Wray Responds

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Wray is working for the secret comitatus that runs this country. He is a public front man like all other prominent members of this admin. Members of a comitatus swear a secret oath to each other. To break it is to die. Members of a comitatus consider it an honor above all others to swear fealty to each other and their leader.

The comitatus system is an ancient political/ warrior system that began in the Bronze Age, some 4,000 years ago. It has continued to this day and is still conspicuous in many current and recent political systems. Examples are North Korea, China under Xi, Stalin, Mao and more. The less conspicuous comitatuses operating today are the ones controlling USA, Europe, and the rest of the West. We do not know who the central figures are but their existence is proved without doubt by the policies they enact. It is reasonable to suspect secret organizations like Skull & Bones or CIA black ops are comitatuses with histories dating back centuries if not millennia.

To those who want to return to autocracy because our government of the people no longer works, the comitatuses running the West are exactly that. They are the true power behind the throne. TBH, in some respects I am OK with that. What bothers me most of all is they are doing such a terrible job. ABN

All for One and One for All

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…In order for the United States to make war against any ONE of Russia, China, or Iran, it would be necessary to effectively vacate every major US base on the planet in order to concentrate enough military power to undertake the mission.

In a putative war between the United States and Iran, both Russia and China would actively support Iran. I’m not suggesting Russian or Chinese forces would fight alongside Iranians — although that could happen. But it would likely not be necessary. Iran would simply be supplemented with arms and other logistical necessities from both its partners — and quite possibly taken under their nuclear umbrella in an explicit act of deterrence.

Additionally, in consequence of the US weakening its force posture in Europe and the western Pacific in a bid to militarily subdue Iran, Russia and China would be enabled to apply immense pressure to western logistics, trade, and political influence in those regions. This is not to suggest that China would invade Taiwan or Russia would invade the Baltics or Poland. They would need only to exert their dominant influence in what were previously considered to be unassailable American imperial domains in east Asia and Europe.

The empire is stretched so thin and its potential for power projection is so diluted that undertaking even one Big War would be enough to bring the entire house of cards tumbling down.

This is the harsh reality the Masters of Empire are now facing, and no amount of mythologizing about the “limitless” power at their disposal can change it.

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Seattle school district takes next step in ditching gifted program

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Privileged progressives, donning their white knight armor, are in the next phase of a plan to end Seattle Public Schools’ gifted students program — known locally as its highly capable cohort (HCC). They complained the HCC was too white.

HCC separates academically gifted students from others via different classrooms or entirely different schools. But in 2020, white Seattle school board directors voted to terminate the HCC over the objections of parents. HCC will be completely phased out by the 2027-28 school year. 

Outraged more by the success of white and Asian students than by the untapped potential of Black and Hispanic pupils, progressives would rather drag achievers down than elevate everyone…

What is replacing the gifted highly capable cohort program?

The “whole-classroom model” is replacing HCC and be implemented in each classroom starting in the 2024-25 school year. It’s unworkable.

Under the model, classrooms will include students of all different learning abilities. A teacher is supposed to address each group of students, in classrooms with 20-30 students, with no additional resources and limited new training. How does a teacher create individualized programs for so many students with disparate needs? It’s not likely that a teacher can help a student who can barely read while simultaneously challenging a classmate who is reading two advanced books a week.

“On a recent day in a first grade classroom, seven advanced learners sat on the floor reading silently on their iPads. Several others wrote independently at their desks. A special education student wrote with a paraprofessional aide at their side. The rest of the class sat in a front corner of the classroom while the teacher read a book out loud.”

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The ‘whole-classroom’ model is a guaranteed fail. It is extremely basic pedagogy that students of like ability be placed in classrooms together. If there are large gaps in talent between students, the talented will be bored and the less talented will feel discouraged. Or you will get the outcome italicized and highlighted above. ‘Gifted’ classes were designed to prevent that outcome. ABN

Cybernetics — (the basic theory underlying woke/ totalitarian control of language and behavior today)

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Cybernetics, control theory as it is applied to complex systems. Cybernetics is associated with models in which a monitor compares what is happening to a system at various sampling times with some standard of what should be happening, and a controller adjusts the system’s behaviour accordingly.

The term cybernetics comes from the ancient Greek word kybernetikos (“good at steering”), referring to the art of the helmsman. In the first half of the 19th century, the French physicist André-Marie Ampère, in his classification of the sciences, suggested that the still nonexistent science of the control of governments be called cybernetics. The term was soon forgotten, however, and it was not used again until the American mathematician Norbert Wiener published his book Cybernetics in 1948. In that book Wiener made reference to an 1868 article by the British physicist James Clerk Maxwell on governors and pointed out that the term governor is derived, via Latin, from the same Greek word that gives rise to cybernetics. The date of Wiener’s publication is generally accepted as marking the birth of cybernetics as an independent science.

Wiener defined cybernetics as “the science of control and communications in the animal and machine.” This definition relates cybernetics closely with the theory of automatic control and also with physiology, particularly the physiology of the nervous system. For instance, a “controller” might be the human brain, which might receive signals from a “monitor” (the eyes) regarding the distance between a reaching hand and an object to be picked up. The information sent by the monitor to the controller is called feedback, and on the basis of this feedback the controller might issue instructions to bring the observed behaviour (the reach of the hand) closer to the desired behaviour (the picking up of the object). Indeed, some of the earliest work done in cybernetics was the study of control rules by which human action takes place, with the goal of constructing artificial limbs that could be tied in with the brain.

In subsequent years the computer and the areas of mathematics related to it (e.g., mathematical logic) had a great influence on the development of cybernetics—for the simple reason that computers can be used not only for automatic calculation but also for all conversions of information, including the various types of information processing used in control systems. This enhanced ability of computers has made possible two different views of cybernetics. The narrower view, common in Western countries, defines cybernetics as the science of the control of complex systems of various types—technical, biological, or social. In many Western countries particular emphasis is given to aspects of cybernetics used in the generation of control systems in technology and in living organisms. A broader view of cybernetics arose in Russia and the other Soviet republics and prevailed there for many years. In this broader definition, cybernetics includes not only the science of control but all forms of information processing as well. In this way computer science, considered a separate discipline in the West, is included as one of the component parts of cybernetics.

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By seizing control of the psycholinguistic constellation of words and concepts within societies and fractally within individuals, societies and individuals are controlled by a cybernetic feedback loop that is self-sustaining.

This fully explains the why of speech controls (censorship, shaming, invention of new terms, etc) and how this leads very quickly to formation of a control mechanism for all of society.

The algorithms that control search engines and social media posts are extremely powerful cybernetic control mechanisms. As of today and probably well into whatever future arises, everything depends on the people (and their digital machines) that control societal cybernetics. As of today, there is no way to control those people.

It will probably always be easy for independent thinkers to see what is happening but never possible for them to effect change unless they are at the very top of the hierarchy which controls the cybernetics.

At the same time, it will always be all but impossible for independent thinkers lower down in the hierarchy to bring enough of the population to see what is happening and effect change from the bottom.

Independents and a responsive base of people at the bottom may occasionally effect some change, but the top has so much more control none of those bottom-up changes will matter for long if they matter at all. Everything we see in the world today supports this view. ABN

Heroic doctor dies days after exposing deadly COVID-Vax component

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Four days after German chemist Dr. Andreas Noack released his final video on graphene hydroxide, he was seized by a sudden unexplained attack that caused paralysis, weakness, profound disorientation (like he was drunk), and collapse with loss of breathing. His pregnant wife described the event in two videos. In the first video, her description led early listeners to assume that Dr. Noack was physically attacked, but that was not the case. In the second video, Dr. Noack’s partner further explained that she suspected he was struck by some kind of directed energy weapon (and reported at one point that the electricity went out just before he was incapacitated.)

2020 police raid and arrest of Dr Andreas Noack. One year later, he would die under mysterious circumstances three days after exposing graphene hydroxide in the Covid vaccines.  [continue reading below]

This would not be the first time that Dr. Noack was attacked prior to his sudden and unexpected death, as he was assaulted by police the year before in Nov. 2020. During live filming, Dr. Noack suddenly interrupted his discussion, and pounding and yelling could be heard from the next room. Even without translation, the video is extraordinarily chilling. Police, yelling in German, barge into Dr. Noack’s studio, wearing face masks and bulletproof vests, all in black and carrying weapons. They wrestle the doctor to the floor, and eventually, one of the police, himself panting with anxiety, disables the camera as raised voices continue off-camera.  I had to locate this video in archives as it had been erased from internet links.

We are being controlled, steered, managed, stifled, misdirected, propagandized, lied to, frightened, restrained, repressed, and generally bamboozled at every turn.

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Politically, virtually everything we see throughout the West entails rapidly increasing totalitarianism, total state-control of the human mind. What is not yet widely recognized among those who can see what is happening is totalitarianism is often violent at precise individual levels. It is very plausible that Noack was murdered with a directed energy weapon. His violent death was meant to send a signal to others.

At less conspicuous levels, totalitarian violence is employed not to kill individuals but to to weaken or destroy them, thereby also weakening their communities. Typically, violence of this nature is done clandestinely against promising children and young adults to disable them before they can cause the totalitarians any trouble. Poison, psychosurgery, sensory damage, psychological isolation and more are the tactics used. By weaking or disabling the young, they weaken their entire community.

Israel has used this tactic for decades against Palestinians. Shooting children in the eyes or ears with rubber bullets or the knees with real ones can disable individuals for life. Random arrests and torture, psychological or otherwise, can be as harmful as psychosurgery or accompany it. ABN

Stupid of Trump to play this shit-stained card

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He should have distanced himself from the vaxxes two years ago. Maybe there is a political calculus where this is a good move but I don’t see it. That said, and bad as this position is, it is in no way a deal-breaker. The vax is a nasty issue but wars, borders, trade, economy, fuel, laws, USA Constitution & sociology are much bigger issues. AND, there is no other candidate who has anywhere near Trump’s potential to actually help USA. ABN

Elon Musk says ‘the groundwork is being laid for something far worse than 9/11’ after Biden administration ADMITTED flying 320K unvetted migrants into the US has national security ‘vulnerabilities’

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Elon Musk has bashed the Biden administration after they admitted to flying 320,000 unvetted migrants into the US. 

Musk took to his platform X early Tuesday and said the president’s administration is ‘importing voters and creating a national security threat’ for secretly allowing illegal immigrants in the country. 

‘It is highly probable that the groundwork is being laid for something far worse than 9/11. Just a matter of time,’ Musk said as he reposted a story from DailyMail.com. 

The Tesla‘s creators comments comment after a secret Biden program was exposed where the administration admitted to flying 320,000 migrants into the US – but officials refuse to say who was flown and to where. 

Lawyers for the administration’s immigration agencies have claimed that revealing the locations of where these undocumented aliens are could create national security ‘vulnerabilities.’ 

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Is it better that Musk says this or not? Clearly, it’s better. This headline will communicate with many millions of viewers who are far less informed than readers of this site.

Is Musk a limited-hangout ensnaring us only to misdirect us at some later date? Could be. But that is the level we need to be paying attention to, not categorical dismissal of Musk or those like him. To simply dismiss everything Musk says or does is not the right way to fight this information war. This same reasoning applies to virtually all public figures, especially those who have risen to prominence quickly (and thus are almost certainly backed by nefarious forces).

We have to accept that there is no master authority that can separate truth from falsehood or always point us in the right direction. All of life is largely a muddle and so is information warfare. We can assess information case by case, person by person, group by group. If a great many of us do this anarchically but in concert, we will succeed is creating a sea of public understanding that even a savage totalitarian elite will have trouble suppressing.

Going forward, this is our best strategy; lean in toward good information and action and people who are better than others at their level with good information and action. Example: Musk is better than Gates or Zuckerberg. He says more good stuff and does more good stuff. Everyone must be viewed with suspicion. No one is worshipped. Trump is better than Biden. Carlson is better than Maddow. X is better than FB. These are our tools—gradations of understanding always subject to change and reconsideration. We have to be pragmatic, probabilistic, broad-minded, able to assess what is better than and not just what is the ideal best. ABN

What Game Theory (does not really) Reveal About Life, The Universe, and Everything

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FIML fixes noise as defined in this video. Cooperation is not always cozy and nice. It also produces subcultural cooperation that defects against other populations, including the host population. This explains the rapid proliferation of parasitism inside USA & West over the past several decades. The nice behaviors of the West (domestically) have invited the formation of a plethora of internal subcultural parasites. Modern Western history is an example of why not knowing how and why to defend yourself against parasites leads to rapid demise and loss of the game. Will the West figure this out in time? I do wonder. The tone of the video above largely supports a delusion. Moreover, the video fails to account for KOBK, the Kill-Or-Be-Killed violent game that is consuming our elites (and us). ABN

Problem, Reaction, Solution simplified, fake-afied, and chronologically mixed up

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Manufacturing Consent: The Border Fiasco and the ‘Smart Wall’ — Whitney Webb

NOTICE: Icke is referring to the X-embedded video above. That short snippet is from a longer video from seven years ago when Trump was speaking about a system for controlling foreign visa holders and illegals.

All of that being said and understood, consider also that it is irrational to believe anyone can stop the advance of technology, including surveillance technology. It is equally irrational to presume that we the people can stop the application of this technology or that we live in a system designed to ever consider our well-being, let alone the will of a small minority who can see what is happening with surveillance technology. Please read my comments on Webb’s piece here for more on this.

At the risk of exploding people’s heads, I am gonna say this: there are conceivable advantages to more surveillance, particularly in greatly reducing street crime (assuming police are charged with following up and courts apply the law). Yes, of course, there are terrible things to be concerned about but there is no way to stop the tech, just as there is no way to successfully ‘outlaw’ bioweapons or space weapons or violating treaties that pretend they are doing that. We live in a world controlled by elites who are fighting savagely among themselves. The best we can realistically hope for is that the best elites (for us) win. Right now, Trump, Musk, Carlson and others look much better to me that Biden, Zuckerberg, Maddow and their ilk. I am 100% in favor of Webb and Icke and others writing as they do, but let’s not allow their dark visions to keep us from seeing the even deeper reality—elites always rule, some elites are better than others. ABN