I think it was a book by philosopher Mario Bunge (1919-2020), who tried to create a systematic scientific world view, where I saw it, but he had a view of inflation where the cause was not cost push or demand pull, but corporate greed, doing what the market could bear. How else to account for simple price rises like frozen blueberries increasing by a dollar in price over a few days, then another dollar. The blueberries come from Chile or Canada in large containers, and are then distributed at the depots. So, it is not resource shortages, or an increase in transport costs. It can only be coronations trying to squeeze as much money as they can out of shoppers. That theory of inflation is now known as greedflation.
Roman Yampolskiy, an AI expert gives his view of the worst-case AI scenario. AI researchers tend to accept the unproven assumption that the problem of controlling super-intelligent machines is solvable. Hover, he notes: “… we don’t know the actual status of the AI control problem. It is possible that some forms of control may be possible in certain situations, but it is also possible that partial control may be insufficient in many cases. Without a better understanding of the nature and feasibility of the AI control problem, it is difficult to determine an appropriate course of action.”
Christian thinker Michael Snyder is documenting the decline of America, just as we are documenting the wider decline of the West, in real time. And, the decay is accelerating, happening every day. California is a good example for the United States, as this rogue state leads the way in woke craziness, and political oppression of conservatives, that is, if any conservatives are still left there, as people are moving out. California dreaming, celebrated in the 1965 song by the band the Mamas & the Papas, that dreaming of golden beaches, and muscle men n Venice Beach, has been replaced by the California nightmare, of spiralling crime, drugs, homelessness, and excrement-filled streets, like San Francisco, and so many US cities now. What is disturbing is how fast this sort of social collapse can occur; people are not aware of it, and continue on their daily lives, but the white ants are eating away at the foundations of the house, and suddenly, one day, things just fall apart.
It has started. In Germany the first law suit directly against BioNTech (22UAy.DE), the Covid mRNA vax, is being undertaken by a German woman who is alleging vaccine injuries arising from the Covid jab. Her lawyer is undertaking to challenge the view that the BioNTech jab has a positive risk-benefit profile, which is a direct challenge to the claim that the Covid vax is safe and effective. If this succeeds, it will turn the Covid vax narrative upside down. So, we will be flowing the case.
Tele-commuting, working from home, became the Big Thing during Covid. It aided the lucky who could merely plug in a laptop and do their largely meaningless work. (A friend told me that after getting through emails, he basically wrote two or so paragraphs a day, from home, with lots of sleep-ins.) But now that dream run has come to an end, and companies are demanding their employees to get back into the offices, so that they can keep an eagle eye on them. Good for the companies, I think. And, what about the multitude of people who could not work from home, and suffered economic ruin? No governmental tears for them.
One of the lesser discussed aspects of the Covid scamdemic is the amount of Covid fraud that went on, which is being called “the great grift.” In the US $ 4.2 trillion in emergency aid was unloaded in stimulus spending to deal with the economic disaster that the lockdowns were. This was a ripe cherry that was too juicy for crooks to pass by. As one investigative team concluded: “Fraudsters used the Social Security numbers of dead people and federal prisoners to get unemployment checks.” “Cheaters collected those benefits in multiple states. And federal loan applicants weren’t cross-checked against a Treasury Department database that would have raised red flags about sketchy borrowers. All of it led to the greatest grift in U.S. history, with thieves plundering billions of dollars in federal COVID-19 relief aid intended to combat the worst pandemic in a century and to stabilize an economy in free fall.”
Overall, the crooks got away with $ 280 billion, with $ 123 either misspent or wasted. As appalling as that is, the even greater crime, not yet quantified, are the costs of levelling small businesses through lockdowns, while Big Business, especially Big Tech, made a killing.
Following our coverage of the Trump indictment, Ann Coulter, who once wrote a book about trusting Trump, but who now sees him as an utter failure, continues this line here in the indictment discussion. It is carelessness of Trump’s part and so on. She does not go into technicalities, as covered elsewhere today, but does make much of an alleged tape recording where Trump does the perfect: I did not declassify these documents, so just tape me saying this so I can be imprisoned later! I doubt whether this tape exists, or whether the mainstream media account is correct, but if it exists and is authentic, issues of admissibility arise. Further, the tape is mere hearsay evidence about the classification status of the documents; Trump could have been merely trolling.
I have noticed that the Australian press were approaching the Trump indictment along the lines of some sort of bad boy who got caught stealing cookies. The view was that he should not have had classified documents, because, well, the documents are classified, and that means top secret. But, that is the foolish view of things. Below is material that goes into detail about why this case against Trump is just trumped up, so to speak. The case against Trump is a clause in the Espionage Act that criminalizes a failure to hand over national defence information. However, presidents, as part of the executive, presidents have the power to declassify any documents, as was done by all presidents in the past, and the clauses under the Espionage Act are not applicable.
What is concerning here regarding the rule of law, is that exactly what Trump did, has presently been done by Joe Biden, who stored his classified documents in his garage, with the door often left open. Of course, no CCP spies would drop by, would they?
Supermarkets are now demanding customers download QR codes and an app on their smartphone merely to bypass a barrier and enter the supermarket. With Covid now quiet for the time, it is not clear why the supermarkets are doing this … on second thoughts, it is clear! It is so that people can be controlled by the QR code, and the elites behind that, so if one is acting in any way contrary to the degenerate regime, you can be cancelled and not get food. In short, it is the bad “social credit,” so called in action. It is probably no accident that the elites have used the term “social credit,” as part of an implicit attack upon Douglas social credit.
This process of the cancellation of the literature of the Western canon began in the 1990s under the political correctness (pc) regime, but under woke, pc on steroids, things are accelerating. What has passed now is that the great white men like Shakespeare are all racists, because, well, the Left says that they are, and have the power to break people’s wills, as the radical Left have completed the long march through the institutions. Anything that nationalists might appeal to as affirming cultural value must now be regarded as problematic, and subject to banning, or in the case of the James Bond books, modification. The demographic replacement of white people, is matched by the cultural war upon their traditions, to level everything to dust. The dust of the Left.
This story brings together the dangers of Left-wing woke, and Big Tech. An Amazon delivery man, presumably non-white, was delivering a parcel to a home. This man had on his head phones, but still thought he heard a racial slur coming from the home. He reported this, and Amazon locked the account, just on his say so, and the man was locked out of his home. He home owner was not even home at the time. The moral of the story is that diverse folk will be hearing racial slurs even from empty houses, so it is a real danger to have a house so fully connected to the regime’s IT, in the crazy world of woke.
The elites who fly to climate change save-the-world talkfests in private jets, are now wanting to reduce car use by the ordinary people by 75 percent from 1.45 billion to 500 million by 2050, as a core part of its “you will own nothing and be happy.” The strategy is to increasingly put on the pressure, with fuel and car costs, so people are squeezed out of using cars, and become like peasants of the Dark Ages, tied to their home locality. It will then really be a techno-feudalistic society, where mobility is something the elites enjoy, even trips to outer space, while we, the plebs, walk.
The mainstream media are not touching this one with the proverbial ten-foot pole, here in America, and I did not see anything about this on the Australian media websites. But, Senator Chuck Grassley has revealed that Ukrainian owner of Burisma, the Ukrainian oil and gas company, allegedly made 17 audio recordings of conversations with the Bidens, and the context is that as vice president, Joe Biden seems to have influenced Burisma of appointing his son Hunter to the board of directors. That sounds like an abuse of office. Add to this are allegations that Mykola Zlochevsky, the founder of Burisma, had bribed the Bidens to influence policy decisions, paying then-Vice President Biden $5 million and Hunter another $5 million to prompt the firing of a prosecutor looking into corruption of Burisma.
It is really a family of crooks.
Tucker Carlson has just released his third Twitter program, which is even more gutsy than his time on Fox. He addressed the Trump indictment and said that this was coming from the time that Trump took office in 2016. And now it is here. The Deep State is doing what it is expected to do, and that is destroy anyone who looks like opposing them in any way. “[The] prosecution of Donald Trump is transparently political,” Tucker said. “He’s literally Joe Biden’s main political opponent. He’s pulling over 60 percent among Republican voters right now. So, Joe Biden is doing what no president has ever dared to do. He’s using law enforcement to lock up his chief rival. That’s happening right now. Anyone who denies it’s happening is lying to you.”
This is the first time in the West, but not in places like Africa and South America, where the main political opponent of the ruling regime is sought to be removed.
Alan Dershowitz has confirmed that the lawyer class, at least in the US are part of a grand conspiracy. He knows first hand that a group that calls itself The 65 Project is acting to intimidate any high-level lawyers who may seek to defend President Trump. This group will file bar charges against any such lawyer. Dershowitz says he will defend any individuals who suffer such a fate, all of which is completely illegal, possibly criminal. It should not be too hard to defend, so their bluff should be called. That things like this go on would have been surprising even 12 months ago, but such degeneracy now seems to be part of the course.
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/19725/donald-trump-lawyer
We need to keep up with what the mad scientists are doing because they are changing our world, and human nature in fundamental ways. For example, now they have created synthetic human embryos, not even needing human eggs and sperm! The cells do not yet form a brain, but do form the basis of the embryo, so it is just a matter of time. The research, as always, is proposed to yield some solution to an allegedly pressing human problem, like miscarriages, but even if that was true, and there are surely other research methods, the possibility of abuse is enormous. We can imagine the CCP using such a technology to produce on an assembly line, genetically engineered super-soldiers, and it is already moving down that path.
Christian thinker Michael Snyder is one of the few conservatives writing about the razor-edged situation the world is now in. As he documents, neither Russia nor the Ukraine/NATO intend to back down or in anyway deescalate. Putin cannot back down now with the Russian death toll, as it will finish his regime. And the neo-cons and Democrat hawks are intent upon war. The Russians just deployed tactical nukes to Belarus, and Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has said that these weapons are “three times more powerful than US atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.” Thus, when tactical nukes are employed, it will be worse than anything humanity experienced in Japan in 1945. And, the West will retaliate, and will not accept the Russian strategy of “escalate to de-escalate.” Then, it is on, and where it ends is anyone’s guess.
We have a problem, alright.
The warnings of the coming of World War III continue to be given. Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chairman of Putin's security council has said that the world is on the verge of a global war, which is likely to go nuclear. Putin himself has said the same, and that Russia, now with nukes on the ready, is willing and able to use them to fend off an existential threat. Western leaders have said that the goal is to bring down Putin, but he will not go now without a fight, and they continue to prod the bear with a white-hot rod. And, what a fight, as Russia is putting into place the deadliest weapons the human race has not yet seen, such as nuclear torpedoes that can drown a country like Britain under radioactive water, as detailed below.
It is the final stage of deconstruction under the gender agenda. Now the Johns Hopkins University of Maryland has issued a new “inclusive language guide” for the modern era that abandons the concept of women entirely. The guide’s “lesbian” section refers to women as “non-men,” even though men are still called men in the “gay” section. By the same postmodern “reasoning” men could have been referred to as “non-women,” but that is not the way this is being played out here. This is ultimately the endgame of what was started in the 1960s, with its so-called liberation movements, that in the end come full circle. The children of the revolution eat the parents.
https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-06-15-johns-hopkins-erases-women-woke-guide-nonmen.html
When we see material from the World Economic forum (WEF), and its key philosopher, Yuval Noah Harari, the senior advisor to the WEF, we can expect something that will be disturbing to us. The latest from Harari, after his previous media high of the AI replacement of humans, is that AI will rewrite religious scripture to make a “new bible,” for globalisation. It is a pretty silly attention-seeking thing to say, since, such a “bible” was written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Manifesto of the Communist Party in 1848, and popularised in music by the likes of John Lennon, in his song Imagine (1971). I am sure that ChatGPT would have told him, if he asked.
https://slaynews.com/news/wef-ai-rewrite-bible-create-religions-actually-correct/
