Tag: thought
“How a chaos maximization strategy serves US interests”
I wrote this a few years ago but people still aren't aware of how a chaos maximization strategy serves US interests. People like to compare US hegemony to late imperial Rome but aren't cognizant of the fact that once Rome no longer had the strength to enforce the Roman peace or
Roman law, that didn’t mean it no longer had the strength to create Roman disorder. The strategic policy of the Eastern Roman empire along frontiers it could no longer govern was to make them ungovernable so no one could. Once the US can longer be the city on a golden hill,
it will not fade quietly but instead seek to be king of the dung heap. What this means in practice is taking advantage of it’s relatively secure and isolated geostrategic position and creating bush fires across the rest of the world for others so that it itself is viewed as an oasis
of stability and security in comparison so that financial flows can be redirected to itself from the rest of the world. Once you move from a win-win game to a lose-lose game, the strategy becomes to make sure that others lose more in relative terms than yourself. It is why the US
is undermining the international system it publicly espouses to uphold and why it's immediate satrapies are being put to the torch first. There are of course ways to strike back at the US strategy here, but none of them are particularly pleasant and beyond the mental blocks of
people who cling to Liberalism or even just basic decency.
Originally tweeted by Duke of Qin (@qin_duke) on April 8, 2022.
Geert Vanden Bossche: Predictions on the coming evolution of the Covid 19 pandemic
I SERIOUSLY expect that a series of new highly virulent and highly infectious SARS-CoV-2 (SC-2) variants will now rapidly and independently emerge in highly vaccinated countries all over the world and that they will soon spread at high pace. I expect the current pattern of repetitive infections and relatively mild disease in vaccinees to soon aggravate and be replaced by severe disease and death. Unfortunately, there is no way vaccinees can rely on assistance from their innate immune system to protect against coronaviruses as their relevant innate IgM antibodies are increasingly being outcompeted by infection-enhancing vaccinal Abs, which are continuously recalled due to the circulation of highly infectious Omicron variants. In contrast, Omicron’s high infectiousness would enable the non-vaccinated to train their innate immune defense against SC-2 while the infectious and pathogenic capacity of the new SC-2 variants would be debilitated in the non-vaccinated for lack of infection-enhancing Abs in their blood.
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Vanden Bossche has made this point many times. He has seen this result in large domestic animal populations. The weakened immune systems of the vaccinated coupled with their non-sterilizing synthetic vaccine antibodies, in his view, creates a perfect breeding ground for the evolution and spreading of even more malignant forms of SC-2. So far, his predictions on vaccine outcomes and problems have all come to pass. ABN
Gonzalo Lira: “Pure speculation—what comes next: As Mariupol is wrapped up, Russian units will be redeployed from there to the cauldron around Kramatorsk. Same with the Kiev troop reduction.”
Pure speculation—what comes next:
As Mariupol is wrapped up, Russian units will be redeployed from there to the cauldron around Kramatorsk. Same with the Kiev troop reduction.
Those 60,000 AFU fighters trapped in that cauldron will either surrender or be annihilated.
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Once that main fighting force has been neutralized, the rest of that Ukraine army will likely collapse. By “collapse“, I mean they will simply give up.
The first collapse will be around Kharkov, the closest major concentration of AFU forces to the Kramatorsk encirclement.
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Once Kharkov falls, Odessa will be next. The Russians will take it over without firing a shot.
As in Kherson and Energodar, the Russian occupiers of Kharkov and Odessa will declare a utility debt jubilee, and insist everyone start using Russian rubles as the local currency.
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Dnepropetrovsk will likely declare itself an open city.
From Southwest Belarus, Belarusian and Russian troops will stream south in a guillotine, cutting off the western entrance to Ukraine, to stop weapons flows into the country. There will be no resistance or fighting.
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The peace treaty that will partition Ukraine and create Novorossiya (the newest member of the Russian Federation) will be signed in Kiev, and the signatories will be Ukraine Pres. Victor Medvedchuk and Vladimir Putin, both of whom will sign in person before December 31, 2022.
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Originally tweeted by Gonzalo Lira (@realGonzaloLira) on March 30, 2022.
Not-so-secret weaponry
Two major things have to go nuclear: 1) the fact that Biden/Harris are completely illegitimate, no question about it, the election was stolen and their handlers are both evil and incompetent, no question about that either; and 2) Donald Trump is the ONLY politician who has a ghost of a chance of bringing sanity back to USA, the West, and the world. For some reason Trump has been tarred with a deep mind-control brush.
For some reason he is not cool, even to intellectuals who fully recognize that national sovereignty, nationalism, and some semblance of a world with representative governments is the only way to move toward a livable future. I am going to name just three respectable intellectuals who frequently further those ideas while ignoring Trump, but there are many more. Van Wolferen, CA Fitts, and Alex Mercouris all talk about the importance of national sovereignty and lament a looming global dystopia ruled by WEF and company. But they never say the most practical way as of today to avoid that future is through Donald Trump, either in a second presidency or as a kingmaker for a refurbished Republican party. I personally believe the deep semiotics of the “cooties” Trump has for these people is he is an extreme representation of whiteness, maleness, and worldly success. Biden is about to blow up the fucking world and our best people still can’t or won’t understand Trump or speak rationally about his importance. Politics is the art of the possible and Trump is by far the best realistic possibility we have. ABN
The fallacy of ‘science is a set of studies’
Russia-Ukraine SITREP. 21 days [and 8 years] of fighting
How to Detect Propaganda – The Art of the Professional Lie
As we outlined in a recent article, contrary to their social definitions, the delineation litmus between misinformation and disinformation cannot logically be based upon the information bearer’s ‘intent’. Even the circumstance wherein one is innocently mistaken or misinformed results primarily from the work of intent. When caught in their game, malicious players can as well simply resort to the excuse, ‘I was innocently mistaken’. Most often, ‘being accidentally wrong’ stems specifically from a verb called ignorance in the first place – and ignorance almost always involves intent. Therefore, almost all forms of misinformation originate from an intent, tucked away somewhere inside their value chain. This is the nature of propaganda.
As well, we observed inside a previous article that most deliberations of merit inexorably devolve into a false Hegelian Bifurcation, the result of the active work of agency (not bias). The goal of the ethical skeptic is not to take a ‘middle’ position in such manufactured polarization, as that simply serves to reinforce the false dilemma in the first place. The purpose of epoché is to divorce yourself from the bifurcation to begin with – and be able to spot the agency behind it (not mere human bias). Be neither a theist, atheist, nor agnostic. Such roles are all unwitting victims inside a web of deception.
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“In the West there is no truth. There is wishful thinking and there is this impression of success by the Ukrainians that doesn’t stack up. In fact, the Russians are capturing large quantities of Western equipment, British and American… For the Russians right now, everything worth controlling is controlled”: Col MacGregor
Fractals as part of why nature is pleasing to humans
Because of this prevalence of natural fractals, the human brain has evolved to respond favorably to fractals, and to do so in the blink of an eye. The human brain only needs 50 milliseconds to detect the presence of fractals.
“As soon as we look at nature, it triggers a cascade of automatic responses,” Taylor explained. “Even before we’ve noticed what we’re looking at, we’re responding to it.”
And the response is a positive one. Humans experience less stress and better well-being when looking at nature, and this is driven by fractals. Taylor’s research has found that fractals can reduce stress and mental fatigue for the observer by as much as 60 percent.
…“At our biological core is the desire to feel relaxed; it’s an essential need as a human,” Taylor said. “We can derive so many benefits from the stress-reducing quality of nature and we can measurably increase people’s well-being by reintroducing nature to design and architecture.”
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This is an interesting insight and may also be why some creative people prefer a messy-looking way of organizing their things. Nature is also very complex and can appear very different from different angles. Nature also stimulates basic sensory instincts. ABN
ANONYMOUS: “I have a theory about why all the white guys in the West have become so belligerent toward Russia and talk about taking up arms to defend Ukraine”
I have a theory about why all the white guys in the West have become so belligerent toward Russia and talk about taking up arms to defend Ukraine.
It comes from rage from having their own culture and history eviscerated in their own land and its historical figures deemed as evil traitors and their legacies erased while they are cowardly and impotent to stand up to it. They’ve had to stand by and do nothing as their culture, history, and heroes were vilified, destroyed and erased because they couldn’t fight back because if they did their lives, and their relatives’ lives, would be destroyed in the most ignominious and permanent fashion (i.e., canceled).
So all these gelded white guys who cower in fear from their BIPOC HR department all of a sudden talk about heading off to a foreign land to stand up to a nuclear power. They are wannabe brave hearts over a land they have no connection to or much knowledge of because yet they couldn’t and can’t stand up for their own country and their own children who are being taught that white people are evil and forced to sit in Drag Queen Story Hour learning about sodomy.
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The Great Russian Restoration
…With Russia squarely facing down NATO, the country will be forced into adopting a war economy, and that necessarily means a greater integration of the state and big business, with disloyal elements in the business class almost certainly put on a purge shortlist.
But there is certainly more in the works that will become readily apparent in the days and weeks that follow.
In just one week, Russian civil society has been shaken to its core:
Lines are being drawn between traitors and loyalists within workplaces, universities, and at the bazaar.
The Duma may not survive in its current state for long.
Martial law is being openly discussed.
Talk of QR codes and implementing the 2030 agenda in place like Moscow and St. Petersburg has all but been abandoned.
Liberals are boarding planes and heading for Georgia, Armenia, Turkey and Riga (another poor choice, perhaps).
Central Asian migrants are being deported in droves and many are fleeing on their own volition.
If the 90s saw a new, Liberal Democratic Oligarchy emerge from the chaos of the last days of the Soviet Union, then the 2020s are shaping up to be the death knell of that old political order. Russia is going through yet another political metamorphosis right before our very eyes.
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Excellent insights into what is happening in Russia. ABN
Humans are “hackable animals”: Doctor Yuval Noah Harari, advisor to Klaus Schwab
Who Wants War with Russia? The neocons and their allies might be making it happen
…Ukraine is no democracy. The nation’s current government came into power after the 2014 coup engineered by President Barack Obama’s State Department at an estimated cost of $5 billion. The regime change was driven by State Department Russophobe Victoria Nuland with a little help from international globalist George Soros. It removed the democratically elected President Viktor Yanukovych who was unfortunately for him a friend of Russia. Ukraine is reputedly both the poorest and most corrupt country in Europe, witness the Hunter Biden saga. Zelenskyy who is Jewish and claims to have holocaust victims in his family tree is a former comedian who won election in 2019. He replaced another Jewish president Petro Poroshenko, after being heavily funded and promoted by yet another fellow Jew and Ukraine’s richest oligarch Ihor Kolomoyskyi, who is also an Israeli citizen and lives in Israel. As an entertainer, one of Zelenskyy’s musical acts consisted of his playing a piano with his penis, suggesting that Ukrainian humor has some unique characteristics.
After the election of the post-coup new model Ukrainian government in 2014, opposition parties were declared illegal and some leaders were arrested for “treason,” the media was censored and the parliament outlawed Russian, the language of a third of the population, as an official language. Then the government declared war on the predominantly Russian Eastern provinces and, for past eight years, has killed 14,000 people.
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