To date, I, personally, have not seen anything particularly wise or interesting coming from Dugin. But since Ricardo posted this video, it is worth thinking about. A world of well-defined empires would resemble the 19th Century to some extent. I imagine each empire would have to be more responsive to its citizenry, while inter-empire politics would rely on 20th Century ‘Mutually Assured Destruction’ (MAD). MAD is a semi-stable world order, a semi-stasis of KOBK global game theory. This state of affairs, assuming non-violent or low violence to get there, would probably be better than any form of one-world government, which would always be susceptible to overweening conformity, mind-control, totalitarian abuse of individuals. I fear the left much more than the right, based on historical precedents. I have not yet watched the Dugin video above but plan to. It may change my views on him or what I say here. Notice, I am not shilling for empire, I am simply saying what is obvious — that KOBK game theory is real with potentially horrific outcomes. Any decent stasis is better than mutual destruction of the whole world. ABN
A major diplomatic row has erupted between the US and Denmark over Donald Trump‘s plans to ‘buy’ Greenland.
It follows an ‘explosive’ 45-minute phone call by Mr Trump, 78, to Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, 47, earlier this month in which he is said to have unleashed a ‘torrent of aggression’ after she defiantly told him her country was ‘not for sale’.
Mr Trump claims Greenland is critical to America’s national security and has refused to rule out using military force to take over the self-governing Arctic territory, which has been part of the Kingdom of Denmark since 1814.
Last night a source told the MoS: ‘The Danes are in crisis mode but he’s not backing down.’
According to a report in the Financial Times, Mr Trump’s ranting call – made on January 15, five days before his inauguration – included threats to impose tariffs on Denmark, a Nato ally.
A source said: ‘It was horrendous. Before, it was hard to take it seriously but I do think it’s serious and potentially very dangerous.’
Mr Trump has argued US control of Greenland is vital to America’s national security in countering threats in the region from Russia and China.
It is the shortest route from Europe to North America and important for the US’s ballistic missile warning system.
It started with deepseek v3, which rendered the Llama 4 already behind in benchmarks. Adding insult to injury was the “unknown Chinese company with 5..5 million training budget”
Engineers are moving frantically to dissect deepsek and copy anything and everything we can from it. I’m not even exaggerating
Management is worried about justifying the massive cost of gen ai org. How would they face the leadership when every single “leader” of gen ai org is making more than what it cost to trained deepseek v3 entirely, and we have dozens of such “leaders”
Deepseek r1 made things even scarier. I can’t reveal confidential info but it’ll be soon public anyways
It should have been an engineering focused small org but since a bunch of people wanted to join the impact grab and artificially inflate hiring in the org, everyone loses
In another open-source win, DeepSeek aims to redefine ‘open AI’ with R1, its latest model. Open-source artificial intelligence (AI) has reached another milestone — and the cost differences it represents could shake up the industry.
On Monday, Chinese AI lab DeepSeek announced the release of R1, the full version of its newest open-source reasoning model, which the company launched in preview in November. The company noted that R1 beats or is on par with OpenAI’s o1 in several math, coding, and reasoning benchmarks.
Similar to o1, R1’s reasoning takes more time to answer than other models, but its queries are meant to be more sophisticated and accurate. Alongside the 671-billion-parameter model, DeepSeek also released six smaller “distilled” versions with as few as 1.5 billion parameters, which can be run on a local device.
Not all Christians stand with modern Israel. But all Christians stand with ancient Israel. Not all Christians believe that Israel has “the right to defend itself” by committing a genocide in Palestine and invading other countries. But all Christians have been taught that ancient Israel had the right — and even the sacred duty — to exterminate the Amalekites, “man and woman, babe and suckling” because they stood in the way of Israel’s conquest of Canaan (1Samuel 15:3).
All Christians are expected to stand with Moses when, in Numbers 31, he ordered his men to slaughter all the Midianites, as a punishment for having encouraged the Israelites to intermarry with the Moabites. Moses was enraged with the army commanders for sparing the women and the children, but finally allowed them to keep for themselves “the young girls who have never slept with a man.” The booty amounted to thirty-two thousand girls, of which Yahweh required 0.1 percent as his own “portion”, offered to him presumably as holocausts, together with Yahweh’s portion of oxen, cattle, donkeys and sheep.
Where does this kind of story fit on the scale of civilization? It belongs, at best, to “prehistoric warfare” as described by Lawrence Keeley in War Before Civilization: The Myth of the Peaceful Savage, when the extermination of enemy tribes was not uncommon, and “[t]he capture of women was one of the spoils of victory — and occasionally one of the primary aims of warfare — for many tribal warriors. … The social position of captive women varied widely among cultures, from abject slaves to concubines to secondary wives to full spouses.”[1] In ancient Israel, “abject slaves” seems to have been the case. “Full spouses” was out of the question, since the whole justification for the massacre was to prevent intermarriage. Sex with non-Israelites is fine, as long as “no bastard shall enter the assembly of Yahweh, nor any descendant of his even to the tenth generation” (Deuteronomy 23:3). This, rather than any special respect for women, explains the rule that a Jewish mother is required for being a Jew.
UPDATE: I watched over half of this before checking out who Richard Poe is. The interview is about his book: How the British Invented Communism (And Blamed It on the Jews). From his page:
GENETIC GENEALOGY / ANCESTRY My ancestors were Russian Jews, Mexican conversos, indigenous Mexicans, and Koreans. I am them, and they are me. For more on my genetic genealogical research, go here.
Poe’s Jewishness was not disclosed in the interview, according to what I saw and a friend who watched the whole thing. I went to check out Poe’s background because his thesis sounded highly slanted in the interview. Readers can make of this what they like. Poe did say some interesting things about the British, who surely do do a lot of double-dealing. But so do Jews. History today, if it has not always been, is much like politics — full of bullshit. ABN
US President-elect Donald Trump becomes the first person familiar with the negotiations to publicly confirm, on-record, that a hostage release and ceasefire deal has been reached.
“WE HAVE A DEAL FOR THE HOSTAGES IN THE MIDDLE EAST. THEY WILL BE RELEASED SHORTLY. THANK YOU!” Trump writes on Truth Social.
Outgoing US President Joe Biden has yet to issue a statement.
Aligning with the concept of using tariffs to fund government operations, President Trump has announced his intention to create the External Revenue Service. It appears to be a collection and enforcement mechanism to gather income from tariffs, duties and other sources that will pay for access to the U.S. consumer market.
One of the issues the External Revenue Service will likely address is the de minimis loophole.
The de minimis loophole comes from back in the 1930s. The idea back then was, say you went on a vacation to Paris, you shouldn’t have to file customs paperwork or pay taxes if you decided to ship some little Eiffel Tower statues to your friends back home.
Congress in 2015 then raised the de minimis threshold from $200 to $800. However, the e-commerce world exploded, and Chinese companies began using the de minimis loophole to ship cheap goods (ex. Temu and Shein) into the USA direct to consumers without paying any customs duty.
It was reported last year that the U.S. was on track to receive a billion packages through the de minimis loophole that aren’t taxed and don’t have customs slips saying what they are. Making matters worse, illegal items are slipping through the cracks, including, knockoffs, unsafe items and even chemicals used to make fentanyl. The worst abuser that exploits this de minimis loophole is, by far, China.
This is KOBK real-world game theory at work. Trump knows that taking Greenland is his best course of action because if he doesn’t take Greenland, Russia or China will and then one of them will control the global far North. The major ignored piece of why things happen the ways they do in this world is the KOBK imperative. It is at play in every major political act in the world. I am not a fan of KOBK or promoting KOBK. It’s simply the underlying reality of how power functions on this planet. One reason the West would do well to form an alliance with Russia is that alliance would be stronger than anyone else. The difficulty in forming that alliance, however, is many factions in the West hate Russia and want to ‘kill’ it, not unite with it. From a KOBK point of view, this makes sense. ABN
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