Tag: morality ethics

Two subway systems compared — NYC vs Moscow

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New York subway

Moscow Subway

I conclude from this and many other signs that the cabal running Russia is better than the cabal running USA & the West. I am resigned to all societies having an elite or cabal and I am fine with that as long as they do a good job. As long as they don’t steal everything, don’t destroy the culture, follow the laws at least most of the time, love the people they govern. Our cabal either hates us (they do) or (to pretend I don’t know) acts like they hate us. They definitely are not doing a good job for anyone but themselves. All signs point to them waging a war of annihilation against us. ABN

Error correction from Bret Weinstein

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Sort of good enough but weakened by tones of self-promotion. In a time when information is widely scattered claiming ‘honor’ and that you already did something most seem not to have noticed takes back with one hand what you gave with the other. I am willing to put that behind us and will continue paying attention to Bret but not without a measure of skepticism. ABN

The Child-Rape Assembly Line

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…In New York, and in the prominent Orthodox communities of Israel and London, allegations of child molestation and rape have been rampant. The alleged abusers are schoolteachers, rabbis, fathers, uncles—figures of male authority. The victims, like those of Catholic priests, are mostly boys. Rabbi Rosenberg believes around half of young males in Brooklyn’s Hasidic community—the largest in the United States and one of the largest in the world—have been victims of sexual assault perpetrated by their elders. Ben Hirsch, director of Survivors for Justice, a Brooklyn organization that advocates for Orthodox sex abuse victims, thinks the real number is higher. “From anecdotal evidence, we’re looking at over 50 percent. It has almost become a rite of passage.”

Ultra-Orthodox Jews who speak out about these abuses are ruined and condemned to exile by their own community. Dr. Amy Neustein, a nonfundamentalist Orthodox Jewish sociologist and editor of Tempest in the Temple: Jewish Communities and Child Sex Scandals, told me the story of a series of Hasidic mothers in Brooklyn she got to know who complained that their children were being preyed on by their husbands.

In these cases, the accused men “very quickly and effectively engage the rabbis, the Orthodox politicians, and powerful Orthodox rabbis who donate handsomely to political clubs.” The goal, she told me, is “to excise the mother from the child’s life.” Rabbinical courts cast the mothers aside, and the effects are permanent. The mother is “amputated.” One woman befriended by Dr. Neustein, a music student at a college outside New York, lost contact with all six of her children, including an infant she was breastfeeding at the time of their separation.

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Maine State Medical Board exhibits total lack of brains or ethics — Dr Meryl Nass railroaded again

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The doctor-patient relationship is the heart and soul of rational medicine and the legal foundation of American medicine. Apparently the Maine board—which has grossly overstepped its bounds—wants patients to be as ignorant as they are and do no research and make no effort to arrive at a reasonable decision in consultation with their physician. I hope Nass sues them into oblivion, not for the money but to annihilate this nonsense. ABN

If you’ve been a fan of Steve Kirsch, I recommend you read this very carefully — Dr Michael Yeadon

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You may recall that, when he interviewed me earlier this year, he showed no interest whatsoever in my assertion that, based on over 30 years experience of “rational drug design” rules, I was certain they had been designed intentionally to harm, kill and reduce fertility.

Instead of pushing back on this strong assertion, he tried to pick a fight with me about PCR tests, which I waved away as all but irrelevant given where we now were.

As the call closed, I put a line through yet another name.

Based on my own experience, you cannot be a freedom fighter AND retain an account with 100K+ followers on any social media platform and yet be genuine. The perpetrators can silence you with a click, if they want to.

For this and several other reasons, there’s no point in me attempting to set up an account on Twitter in my own name.

Do remember that nobody was ever coming to save us, but that we don’t need someone to save us.

We need only want to save ourselves enough to make that a reality.

Best wishes,

Mike

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I usually avoid this kind of material but when it comes from Mike Yeadon, I make an exception. Whether Mike is right about Steve or not, it’s important to know what he is thinking. Also, I too suspect anyone with a meteoric large following. It’s so easy for the Deep State to raise anyone up or take anyone down, there has to be an unsavory reason for not being interfered with. The 10/07 MIHOP was a sort of litmus test in my mind. Those who avoided any mention of something so obvious and/or are screaming about antisemitism in USA as Gazans are being slaughtered in huge numbers is compromised at least in that area if not others as well. We are living inside a massive psyop panopticon. Your biggest hero may be a cutout posting drivel fed by Deep State. Keep in mind Yeadon might be wrong about this. ABN

Ireland reacts

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Like many other parts of Europe, Ireland was itself colonized and need feel no moral compunction (no one else should either) about not wanting unassimilable immigrants, some of whom are deranged & violent. Almost all humans are tribal. Modern Westerners have been tricked into believing their tribe is ideological and based on silly morality. From Gaza, to Israel, to Ireland, to Minneapolis, we can see with our own eyes while using our own brains that ideological morality is stupid and brings more harm by far than good. It has always failed. ABN

Martin Shkreli w Tucker Carlson

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Shkreli honed a version of real-world stoic philosophy while in prison. He makes practical observations about prison and the legal system in USA. It’s a good interview and worth viewing if time permits. ABN

Pro-Israel Propaganda: Lies vs Reality — Ron Unz

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Another week has now passed since the Middle East and the entire world were suddenly upended by the huge raid into Israel by the Hamas militants of Gaza. But the new developments over the last seven days have merely continued and confirmed the situation I’d already described last Monday.

According to all news sources, some 1,400 Israeli soldiers and civilians died in the attack, most of them within the first 24 hours, probably making it the deadliest day in Israel’s entire history, amounting to more fatalities than the total for all of Israel’s wars during nearly the last fifty years combined.

Back in 2011, the Israeli government had freed over 1,000 imprisoned Palestinians in exchange for a single captured soldier. So a key goal of this Hamas attack had been gaining the freedom of the many thousands of captive Palestinians by seizing some Israelis as bargaining chips, and the effort succeeded beyond all expectations, with more than 200 Israeli soldiers and civilians taken back to Gaza as prisoners.

Israel had invested hundreds of millions of dollars in advanced technology to guard its Gaza border, but Hamas disabled those systems using inexpensive small drones and highly innovative tactics, thereby inflicting a hugely humiliating defeat upon the Jewish State.

Mossad was widely regarded as one of the world’s best intelligence services and the Israeli military had the same reputation for its prowess in combat. But despite a year of careful planning and preparation, Hamas seems to have achieved total tactical surprise while the local Israeli garrison bases were easily overrun, with none of their sentries on duty and alert. As a result, the IDF suffered up to 600 dead in a matter of hours at the hands of lightly-armed militants, probably the worst one-day combat losses in any of Israel’s many wars. Hundreds of thousands of Israeli civilians have now been evacuated both from the area around Gaza and from the northern parts of the country threatened by Lebanon’s Hezbollah, and given the scale of the recent disaster, it’s unclear how soon most of them would be willing to return to their former homes.

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The moral agony of Israel and Gaza

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The conflict is tribal, involving three Abrahamic religions, each of which claims exclusive knowledge of God’s will.

Human tribes + God’s will + conflicting human interpretations of God’s will based on ‘infallible’ scriptures = an agonizing moral conflict that cannot be resolved within the boundaries that delineate it. Reason has no place here save to figure out how to destroy the other tribe(s). All words are fighting words. All statements are inflammatory.

In Buddhism, these are glaring examples of the First & Second Noble Truths. These two truths describe the core mundane reality of the Human Realm. The Third & Fourth Noble Truths describe what we can do about it.

The strong Buddhist answer is the best thing you can do is become a monk; remove yourself from the insoluble moral agony of human greed, pride, anger, ignorance, and doubt (in a higher reality).

The less strong Buddhist answer is mostly remove yourself from the tribal fray but make an effort to raise public awareness of the depth of the predicament; share the Dharma. That’s what I am doing on this site. In that spirit I present the video below. It has been taken off Instagram after receiving some 12 million views. It does provide valid information but if the information inflames you, one way or the other, it will only contribute to the problem. I present it in the hope that more understanding leads to better understanding and eventually moral clarity, at least for people enlightened enough to see beyond the fray. ABN

‘I need to make some GOOD comments about men’ — Christie Laura Grace

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Hey guys. I need to make some GOOD comments about men.

1. When I first started speaking out, I was anonymous on Twitter. I had just started my case with the federal government (2021). I was thrown under the bus–especially the first year by people who said they had my back–but it was not by men.

Men, great men, were my primary supporters during that time, and still are today. The bulk of them were, and have been, complete gentlemen to me–in every sense of the word. Famous or not, several men have been such a rock for me. I have mentioned them by name previously. They come from all walks of life–medical, academia, insurance industries, military, former hostage negotiator and lieutenant–these guys stood up for me, stood in front of me, protected me, gave me great advice, and helped keep me safe during some rough times when I was receiving serious harassment and threats, which a few came to my person in real life–especially last year.

In 2021, I was afraid to use my real name in public and speak out, and some of these guys had Zoom calls, phone calls, and met me to let me know they had my back, and they were not going anywhere. They are still here today. You know who you are. Thank you!

2. Men are receiving a lot of heat these days just for being men. They are not appreciated. I wish this was not the case. Many men, good men, are being treated poorly, and unfairly. I wish this was not happening. I know you could blame feminism or whatever it is, but I know this is happening at scale–even in politically conservative and religious areas, and I am oh so sorry for this. I know this is going to change at some point.

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Israel’s Culture of Deceit — Chris Hedges

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Washington DC — (Scheerpost) — Israel was founded on lies. The lie that Palestinian land was largely unoccupied. The lie that 750,000 Palestinians fled their homes and villages during their ethnic cleansing by Zionist militias in 1948 because they were told to do so by Arab leaders. The lie that it was Arab armies that started the 1948 war that saw Israel seize 78 percent of historic Palestine. The lie that Israel faced annihilation in 1967, forcing it to invade and occupy the remaining 22 percent of Palestine, as well as land belonging to Egypt and Syria.

Israel is sustained by lies. The lie that Israel wants a just and equitable peace and will support a Palestinian state. The lie that Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East. The lie that Israel is an “outpost of Western civilization in a sea of barbarism.” The lie that Israel respects the rule of law and human rights.

Israel’s atrocities against the Palestinians are always greeted with lies. I heard them. I recorded them. I published them in my stories for The New York Times when I was the paper’s Middle East Bureau Chief.

I covered war for two decades, including seven years in the Middle East. I learned quite a bit about the size and lethality of explosive devices. There is nothing in the arsenal of Hamas or Islamic Jihad that could have replicated the massive explosive power of the missile that killed an estimated 500 civilians in the al-Ahli Arab Christian Hospital in Gaza. Nothing. If Hamas or Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) had these kinds of missiles, huge buildings in Israel would be rubble with hundreds of dead. They don’t.

The whistling sound, audible on the video moments before the explosion, appears to come from the high velocity of a missile. This sound gives it away. No Palestinian rocket makes this noise. And then there is the speed of the missile. Palestinian rockets are slow and lumbering, clearly visible as they arch in the sky and then tumble in free fall toward their targets. They do not strike with precision or travel at close to supersonic speed. They are incapable of killing hundreds of people.

The Israeli military dropped “roof knocking” rockets with no warheads on the hospital in the days leading up to the Oct. 17 strike, the familiar warning given by Israel to evacuate buildings, according to al-Ahli hospital officials. Hospital officials also said they had received calls from Israel saying “we warned you to evacuate twice.” Israel has demanded that all hospitals in northern Gaza be evacuated.

Following the strike on the hospital, Hananya Naftali, a “digital aide” to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, posted on X, formerly Twitter: “Israeli Air Force struck a Hamas terrorist base inside a hospital in Gaza.” The post was quickly deleted.

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