Everything We Don’t Need to Know, and A Few We Do
Edward Curtin
“And there are those who claim that Big Data will supplant Sapiens and drag him helplessly along like a straw in the mighty flow of information. We will then be close to knowing almost everything we don’t need to know.”
Roberto Calasso, The Unnamable Present, 2017
Onerous it is and more onerous it will be when AI relieves us of the burden of knowing anything except how to ask AI the answers to everything. The weight of thinking for oneself, reading books, and living in natural reality will be lifted.
Siri, Alexa, and the other AI assistants will usher us conveniently into virtual “reality” – an insubstantial world – where all anxieties will be tranquilized by trivia and the natural flow of time will be replaced by pointillist beeps of agitated inattention.
And most importantly: truth will disappear behind propaganda, for artificial intelligence and the digital world have been created and are controlled by the technology companies and government intelligence agencies that together with the corporate media are our controllers. Their mission is mind control, writ large for everyone.
Calasso wrote the words quoted above nine years ago, and I wrote the previous paragraphs in the future tense. But let us get up to date and realize that the future is now, even as we remember that the Internet grew out of the Pentagon’s Advance Research Project Agency (ARPANET) in the late 1960s when there were many warnings that the development of digital computer technology would lead to repression and surveillance, not emancipation.
“Hey, Siri, why am I asking you anything?” is not a question that many ask today.
There is a reason the smart phones are called smart: they are designed to make everyone stupid, but only stupid people would fail to grasp this. Everyone has a reason why they must have a smart phone. Cram people’s heads full of useless information and watch them spin. Henry Thoreau understood this in reverse long ago when he wrote in his essay, “Life Without Principle”:
“It is so hard to forget what it is worse than useless to remember.”
Today, no one can remember anything, so there is no need to forget. The useless washes minds night and day. It’s here and gone simultaneously, the ultimate evanescent mind bubbles popping incessantly.
So what is worth knowing? It is a good question.
But it is superseded by a prior question: What is important to ignore? Censorship today is primarily accomplished by flooding people with pointless information. Therefore, it behooves us to know how to avoid this inconsequential data.
Surely the first step is to ignore social media as much as possible and never to ask AI any questions. Then to avoid the corporate media’s reporting and nonsensical articles aimed at leading audiences down the primrose path where “relaxing” fiddle-faddle follows the fear-mongering headlines. And to dispense with “smart” phones, which are the current surveillance and distracting machines essential to the process of creating inattention and stupefaction in their users.
Laptop computers are bad enough, but at least one can’t carry them in one’s pocket. Smart cell phones are self-imposed cells the keys to which are not carried by their owners. This is so obvious that it isn’t. Behind such tools lie the gullibility of those fooled by their jailers. Yet to suggest the abandonment of these phones seems so ridiculous and impossible that it proves their power over those who can’t imagine living without them.
As to the prior question, let me answer succinctly. Knowing the following will save one much time and psychic energy.
- The United States is an imperial warfare state built for endless war.
- It wishes to rule the world as the only empire.
- Its wars against Russia and Iran will not be ending since they are part of a strategic war plan to defeat China as well. There will be no “deals” that result in less than total victory.
- Israel is a U.S. forward operating base in the Middle East. Their coordinated wars of aggression and Israel’s expansion are aimed at controlling the region.
- All mainstream media reports to the contrary are lies meant to lead people on, to have them think peace is possible when only war is planned. Temporary ceasefires are part of the war planning.
- This strategy is endorsed by both the Republican and Democratic parties, who serve the interests of invisible financial forces who own the country and control its economy. Though the parties and their leaders may disagree on tactics, they agree on the strategic plan to continue the wars on Russia, Iran, and China to maintain U.S. world dominance.
- Essential to their control is the digital propaganda war waged against ordinary people whose minds must be captured and assuaged through lies and an overload of trivia.
- Central to this mind control is using the Internet and digital devices to control people’s thinking by creating confusion, distractions, fear, hope, and despair in alternating narratives. Elections are a key part of this “hopey” propaganda. Study the U.S. wars of just the 21st century for complete confirmation of this bipartisan consensus
- The only small hope that these endless wars – really one strategically connected war – can be stopped is for a genuinely radical and deeply informed anti-war movement to arise in the U.S. and for the multipolar countries to realize that the U.S. has no intention of stopping its wars and for those countries to bond together like steel in their opposition to the U.S.’s agenda.
Don’t be distracted and tranquilized by digital trivia and all the things you don’t need to know. Attention must be paid to the few essentials, as with the political ones above.
Beyond those, however, and far deeper in a place of epiphanies, are what the extraordinary Roberto Calasso, in Literature and the Gods, calls “absolute literature,” which is knowledge accessed only through literary composition “in search of an absolute, and that thus draws in no less than everything, and at the same time it is something absolutum, unbound, freed from any duty or common cause, from any social utility.”
It is writing that one has to read, to enter, whose luminescence vibrates in the mind where a second reality opens up and sends shivers of recognition that ravishes one. It is what Nietzsche said was a place of truth, “a mobile army of metaphors” far beyond normal discourse or conceptual thinking.
I mention it because it is essential to experience, a place where art opens the heart and mind to the sublime. Let this digression of mine seem jolting as we skip through what is not worth knowing and what is. Let it seem as enigmatic as it is meant to be. The wars are as much spiritual as physical, a truth certain artists have always known. We are always by the way on the way.
Daniel Berrigan, S.J., a friend and mentor and anti-war poet of the spirit, died ten years ago yesterday. He had a way of reminding us with his dissident life and blunt words of essential truths. Here are a few:
“The only message I have to the world is: We are not allowed to kill innocent people. We are not allowed to be complicit in murder. We are not allowed to be silent while preparations for mass murder proceed in our name, with our money, secretly … It’s terrible for me to live in a time where I have nothing to say to human beings except, “Stop killing.”…Our plight is very primitive from a Christian point of view. We are back where we started. Thou shalt not kill; we are not allowed to kill. Everything today comes down to that — everything.”
Edward Curtin: Sociologist, researcher, poet, essayist, journalist, novelist….writer – beyond a cage of categories. His new book is AT THE LOST AND FOUND: Personal & Political Dispatches of Resistance and Hope (Clarity Press)
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Any nation leader smart enough to leave the EU must do so – as the EU is now in freefall, and any money within in will be used on insane projects like the one below – the EU is on a course for deindustrialisation, combined with mass poverty – for any nation to remain it means certain deteriorations in all fields.
“The European Union’s push to bar Chinese suppliers from its critical infrastructure under a proposed new Cybersecurity Act would cost the bloc a jaw-dropping €367.8 billion (US$431.4 billion) over the next five years, a new study has warned.
The law’s vast price tag comes from the need to rip out and replace huge amounts of Chinese hardware – a task that alone could cost €146.2 billion – with other losses stemming from resource reallocation, service disruptions, employment adjustments and legal fees, according to the report by the China Chamber of Commerce to the EU (CCCEU) and KPMG.
The revised Cybersecurity Act – proposed by the European Commission in January – would restrict the use of Chinese equipment across 18 sectors of the economy, ranging from energy, transport and healthcare to banking, digital networks and the space industry.”
How the super rich and the PTB – are making millions if not billions – by having false news released to game the market.
“Axios reported an Iran deal as “imminent” five times in 19 days. Five times, no deal. Why does the same story keep coming from the same reporter?
His name is Barak Ravid. Deep sources in the White House and Israeli intelligence. Every time the administration needs to pressure Iran or move oil, Ravid gets the call. Is he reporting news or delivering a message?
$760 million in oil shorts placed 21 minutes before the April 20 Iran announcement. Who knew?
Yesterday Trump paused the naval operation in Hormuz. Markets rallied. “
The evidence is overwhelming that this English Labour government is pro-Israeli, to quite an astonishing extent.
“Declassified obtained the Israeli ambassador’s schedule, exposing how an array of pro-Israel lobbyists, Labour party donors and businessmen frequent her embassy in London.”
A snippet.
“Declassified has now obtained Hotovely’s diary, which offers unprecedented details about who the hard right ambassador has been meeting in private.
The information comes from a Freedom of Information request issued by lawyer Elad Man at Hatzlacha NGO in Israel.
It exposes how an array of pro-Israel lobbyists, Labour donors, businessmen, and Lords have been frequenting Hotovely’s embassy amid the Gaza genocide.”
Curious to know the names? Click the lik and see them.
Revealed: The Tzipi Hotovely diary
Also £25 million quid is set aside for the Jewish community, and the mentally ill man that was well known to the English security services in England attacked a Muslim man earlier in the day, no COBRA meeting for that and no £25 million quid to protect that section of society, the Met has added tow extra police officers to keep a 24/7 watch on the Jewish community in Golders Green.
No other section of society has received such lengthy preferential treatment, one must ask why?
Steve W (@StevenGWalker74): “Why was the Met police commissioner Mark Rowley, and subsequently his deputy Matt Jukes, meeting with the depraved and deranged genocidal maniac Tzipi Hotovely? What possible legitimate reason could they have for meeting her other than to arrest her? /1” | nitter.poast.org
Deference to an authority who “allows” killing or no, strips one of the intellectual agency to arrive at the actualized conclusion that murder deprives innocent others, possessing equally cognitive-actualized capability, to enjoy the precious, and all too brief, experience of life. Murder is repugnant, not because someone tells us this is so, but because violence is reprehensible and socially destructive.
A number of comments have disappeared from this thread, including, two of mine.
Any explanation why this happened Elvira ?
I pended the racist comment that said nasty things about Chinese people I should not have allowed. This is sad because all the replies had to go in prison also.
Yes, it is unfortunate that a thread can be derailed because of this xenophobic mindset. On the one hand I can fully understand why it is binned on the other hand, from most of the comments I read, it was apparent that this miscreant’s arguments , were being demonstrated to be totally onerous, divisive and intellectually of the lowest common denominator.
i often take a different tangent to you, but i appreciate bringing the terrain into view.
Consciousness as ‘minding’.
I see that whatever we give attention to is serving a purpose for who we are accepting our selves to be in the moment of attention and an act of intention.
There’s a pay off somewhere – or we wouldn’t do it.
The mind of the focus in the world we learn, adapt to and in a sense become, is not the simple child of the body, nor of a past that acculturates the development of the mind that it stands prior to. But runs as masking defence for maintaining such a focus —that we call a human experience or lifetime.
The defence complex runs dark to the split off mind or rather projected split of mind, that engages or suffers the experience of ‘self-will’ generated as an over-masking or overriding inhibition of rules and filters set by judgements that ‘split’ the mind – exactly as trauma is recognised to dissociate to patterns of perception and behaviour that are not relating to current relational situations, but to a reiteration of a past, repackaged as one or another attempt at solution, via escape, denial or mitigating management as controls set against ‘chaos’ or risk of reliving past fear, pain and loss.
To survival mode framed within projected threats taken as real everything is interpreted to gain and maintain control relative to projected and defended threats.
This is the mindset that hold life Is War -period. And all else is but a subset of War and is thus used or masking in as a means to gain control function by another’s loss.
‘Do you want to eat—or be meat?’
The survival mode automatically masks attack in ‘self-justifying’ narratives couched in morally framed appeals relative to selective grievance as (or on behalf of) victims – who need only be invoked for the leverage of emotional engagement.
I haven’t talked about ‘Them’. But of everyone born into and adapted a ‘world’ of threat, attack, denial, rejection, abandonment and treachery.
That Life is not War is a recognition and appreciation of a prior level of consciousness to the ‘split’. In broad terms your natural being is of communioned participation, while the masking defences of an adaptive self cost ‘Soul’ awareness.
Defences against natural awareness demonize our life, and life support. hatred is projected to others and world to ‘get rid of it’ or frame it for attack as the Enemy.
The signature of the deceiver is gaslighting – or the use of flattery and guilt to ‘gain’ control over a world so framed or judged. This is very easy to see —EXCEPTING—when we are triggered, for then what we WANT to be true is not of life and living but of life as war or a ‘house divided against itself.
If we do not repent or release a conflicted will, it compounds or winds up as a charge seeking release beneath the personal and social appearances. Violence otherwise socially managed in ‘dark mode’ – breaks out in stark visibility.
Responsibilities can be taken on that are not ours, such that what is ours, is lost or sacrificed to guilting dictates running inner gaslighting as the social masking order.
We will never get rid of’ what truly belongs to us – even if we demonise and deny or attack it – in ourself and others.
What does not belong to us can only seem to possess or violate us while we want or choose to mask in playing false – which is at some level a requirement for transacting in a world of ‘incentivised’ lies given power.
Judgement ‘kills’ love’s awareness by substituting a ‘special will’;
“I Want It Thus!”
We don’t see this as attack on life that comes back in the measure of our giving as a world beset or framed in evils.
Love’s awareness can be covered over – but cannot truly be lost if it is your created existence.
There is a reading of the The Commandments that speaks what cannot be violated, edited or lost —but that you ‘run off’ with a false and forced inheritance of a mind-adjusted COPY of reality.
‘Judge not lest you be judged’ is not a guilting control narrative, but a reminder of the law of Mind. An opportunity to release or disinvest of judgements. What is active ignorance but the presumption of knowledge?
Like the US warmongering pirates the Zionists seized the flotilla in International Waters, the oppressive occupying military force squatting in Palestine – has no legal right to hold or imprison anyone in International Waters.
“Israeli forces have threatened two Gaza-bound humanitarian flotilla activists, seized in international waters last week, with death or long prison terms, according to a rights group representing them.
The two pro-Palestinian activists, Saif Abu Keshek and Thiago Avila, were among dozens detained during an Israeli raid on the Gaza-bound Global Sumud Flotilla in international waters off Greece on April 30.
On Tuesday, an Israeli court extended their detention until Sunday, May 10.
The legal rights centre Adalah, which represents the pair, said they have been subjected to psychological abuse and held in solitary confinement. According to the group, Israeli officers threatened to kill them or imprison them “for 100 years.”
Both men remain in “total isolation,” subjected to 24/7 high-intensity lighting in their cells and kept blindfolded whenever they are moved, including during medical examinations. They are also being held in very low temperatures, the group added.”
Trump’s new Iran negotiator, is a top Israeli lobbyist named Nicky Stewart – Stewart wants any deal to fail.
Trump’s new Iran negotiator is Israel lobbyist who denounced negotiations with Iran – The Grayzone
I’d say the outbreak on the cruise liner MV Hondius, was the PTB trying out a new type of virus, to see just how effective it was in killing us, but not before we are yet against all but forced to take one of their Frankenstein vaccines.
Think about it what better a place than an isolated cruise ship to let loose a deadly virus, it can easily be detained, and it potency observed and recorded, and a tweak here or there added to make it more efficient.
The amount of scaremongering from the bought and paid for corporate media on this one – only adds weight to the possibility that, this is a PTB event.
Evil personified.
“Smotrich: ‘My son wants me to leave some Lebanon for him to destroy later. I told him don’t worry, there will be enough for everyone.”
https://nitter.poast.org/OunkaOnX/status/2051342805721862240#m
Some comments say this ugliness is pure Zionism showing its grim face.
Another “Jews like this have done the impossible. They made the Nazi’s look like gentleman soldiers, philosophers, and benevolent citizens”
I can’t argue with you on that, Zionism is akin to Nazism.
“Israeli Minister Ben Gvir Receives Birthday Cake From His Wife Featuring a Noose Meant for Palestinian Prisoners”
Israeli Minister Ben Gvir Receives Birthday Cake From His Wife Featuring a Noose Meant for Palestinian Prisoners | IBTimes UK
On the link.
The Zionists so called “Parliament” voted a week or so ago to hang every Palestinian prisoner they illegally hold, many Zionist “politicians voted sported noose badges on their jacket lapels.
The oppressive military occupying force squatting illegally in Palestine needs to be removed once and for all, and the world needs to get involved in it.
The majority of Zionist squatting in Palestine illegally – are from other nations.
Ed, In twenty years we’ll all be living in a world where “anti-imperial resistance” fake wars are endemic and used to explain or excuse the global mass surveillance, the wholesale travel restrictions, the elimination of privacy and most private property and the chronic shortage of basically everything…
and people like you will still be cheering on the “attempt to defeat the empire”, never realizing you’ve fallen for its latest schtick.
Simian-insectoid slopes? Is Zard short for lizard? How repulsive you are. Everybody’s a moron except bestial you.
Interesting thoughts from Curtin on which I wanted to write 2-3 thigs, but during my yesterday attempt at comments (with a new nickname and another article) something unexpected happened, so this is just a test to establish possible change of status.
So, both of my attempts to comment, which included the URL of a website that I have reppeatedly posted here without any problems, ended with “pending” and after refreshing the page – they disappeared directly in the trash. It’s just strange that here, where all sorts of links are published, the link to the most inconspicuous and harmless archive in the world, of which no one cares anyway, goes directly in the trash.
Is this a moderator’s setting, or has the famous dog Askimet (or as it say) sniffed and eliminated a dangerous intruder? Both are very strange. It’s not that I object, it’s just strange to me and ask.
And this is the dangerous adress regarding the only planned technological future specifically in one of the multipolar powers (which is apparently such insignificant info that no one is covering it anyway, only I’m confused), let’s try again: https://e4everi.wordpress.com
all new names go to pending first time. Everything that was pended since I was not here is now free
“all new names go to pending first time”
I know. But usually after refreshing the page, their comments remain pending, unlike the two in question. But the same url with my old nick, it remain pending. Who knows the logic of the algorithm..
“Everything that was pended since I was not here is now free”
Except for my third comment, which did not contain the link in question and remained waiting for approval, which it did not receive. The one in which the user Make Enki Great Again (given the current developments ana narratives) asked another user (if it appopriate to assume that one of the hidden meaning of MAGA is) “Make Abraham Great Again?”. Only this in the quotes.
I don’t blame you for not allowing it, good decision. I only hope it’s not because of the nickname (you have not idea how much anti-Sumerism and Annunaki hatred I have encountered, the world that my ancestors created is cruel, woe to Adap.)
10x & good day
Iran fired at a US ship that got too close & then Iran took out some UAE oil silos.
There are reports that active resumption is imminent cuz the refuelers are already in the air. We’ll see.
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Occasionally a Russian nuclear sub docks at Cuba– lke right now. Wonder if Trump’s comment that he can do whatever he wants w Cuba has anything to do with it.
Some refuelling planes were already hit (even on the tarmac), manufacture ended long ago, and few are left in total. They say you can’t teach an old dog new tricks.
Do you find it odd that the US seemed– even before the Iran mess– to be seemingly DETERMINED to deplete US stocks of weapons? Brian Berletic has been writing for years re the Ukrainian war that the US took so much time to produce weapons. And that the Gulf bases (and who knows how many others) have radar systems that are apparently entirely vulnerable.
I dunno; maybe it was just world-record-breaking corruption– but to spend more on military materiel than the rest of the world combined, but end up inept!
All the major radar installations (costing hundreds of billions) and stattelite link installations are gone. I read that 13 bases closest to Ay-ran are uninabitable. How long will the missiles on the destroyers last?
US (government?) debt has passed $40 trillion.
Another ceasefire gone wrong?
The latter has already happened and that’s surely evident in what we see in the current global political climate – the rise of multipolarity, and the aggressive flailing of the U.S. hegemony in its pursuit to undermine China’s rise by attacking it in adjacent ways, as in the war on Iran and proxy actions in South Asia against the Belt and Road initiative.
The former – a radically, deeply informed anti-war movement – is always being birthed by good people and then adopted and strangled by power – protest diluted, movements coopted or astroturfed and undermined. It’s not for lack of people wanting peace, it’s the ever greater control and oppression they face in raising the banner.
US budget for military is today about $1,5 trillion. The rest of the world is about the same. Saying $3 trillion in Military global. This heavy business truck is impossible to stop.
Where and how will the anti-war movement feed these people? Military only know of how to shoot or bomb and spread agent orange all over a place.
Trump seems to have his OWN, personal belt-and-road: IMEC.
I’m unconvinced it’s Trump’s personal project, but IMEC is certainly a counter to China’s Belt and Road Initiative and much of the instability we see will likely be connected to IMEC along with other strategic aims.
Is it open or closed?
“The Zionist-Communist Cryptocrats covertly govern the Communist State of China….”
‘Everyone knows that the Jews have been expelled from countless countries for at least the past 500 or even 800 years.
‘ Likewise, Mao‘s first act on taking power after winning China’s so-called ‘civil war’ (which was not against other Chinese but against the Jews and Americans) was to expel all the Jews from China, confiscating (as did Castro) all their ill-gotten opium assets that included all of Shanghai and the Mainland branches of the HSBC.
Mao actually expelled all foreigners, but the Jews were certainly the target.
All Jewish publications I’ve seen, tell us only that the Jews left China “in a hurry” after the war, without specifying exactly the cause of that ‘hurry’.
The Jews have hated China ever since, and have been the cause of all the isolation, trade embargoes, non-stop media hate campaign, and much else directed against China since that time. ‘
EN — LARRY ROMANOFF: Understanding China — Part 2
Stop it now. This is far too nuanced for the muppet bigots to follow.
Unfortunately, they will upvote and believe any old tosh, regardless of it’s authenticity and historical accuracy, as long it fit in with their confirmation bias.
This site is full of stooges and bigots. Unsure of ratio but it’s a close run thing. Unsure if began this way or became coopted at some point.
At least he name it Khazarian Jews.
It means those ‘jews’ who was involved in usury, drug trade, slave trade, child sacrifices, child labour, and other inhuman activities for profit.
We could also say people who worship Babylon ideology, Baal.
Moral of the story?
The moral of the story is don’t listen to inbreds who spout proven antisemitic tropes with a dash of racist language against the Chinese.
A man called frank britton – who was associated with ‘American Nationalist’, an antisemitic newspaper – was said to have written the pamphlet ‘Behind Communism’. However, his date of birth and death, his place of birth, his educational and professional background, photos, personal records etc.. are barely documented, if at all. It’s not even known if Frank Britton was his real name. In other words, any old antisemitic dickhead could have written ‘Behind Communism’. It’s riddled with distortions and historical inaccuracies, but it works well on the minds of the absolute idiots and supremacist bigots who will swallow any old tale as long as it targets their hated group and they don’t have to do any thinking or research at all.
The number of muppets upvoting this racist vomit of ignorance. No-brain, know-nothings with low self-esteem and a desperate need for attention in the laziest, simplest way possible.
Regardless of your point people DO die in their wars, whether they are communist or capitalist, that the real shame of it all, they fabricate a war usually to assets steal – or overthrow a government that won’t co-operate with their plans.
Its easy to focus on the big names pulling the strings behind the curtain, but it isn’t them being blown up or tortured, raped or forced out their homes and off their lands, they (PTB) need wars and destruction to keep us cowered and their propaganda to keep us compliant.
Look at this way, there’s over 2 million people in Gaza being exterminated and you can watch the genocide live – do you really think those people give a toss about the PTB right now? no, they don’t.
A classic antisemitic trope with brutal ignorance of history and those Jewish persons roles within an already established communist regime (CCP), actually established in 1921. Sad that this crap is spread by imbeciles and ignoramuses.
So if we skeptics mention Jewish people, Zionism or Israel we are anti-semitic, and if we DON’T mention them we’re apologists for the Palestinian genocide?
Who said mentioning Jews was antisemitic? You paranoid? On the other hand, saying that Jews created communism and that they run the CCP is a classic, studied, antisemitic trope. You dumb fool. Or shill. Or whatever the fuck you are.
Hey admin, how come you let antisemitic lies sit on this site unchallenged, yet you dip in now again when the agenda suits to correct some commenters who make generally inaccurate statements? Despicable.
You are a rude man and after I have tried to help you many times with your mistakes over your name. Not nice. You might wait longer time to be helped if you make mistakes again.
Also are we for the Zionists or do we hate Jews? We are accused of both sometime by the same person. Such foolish nonsense.
Zard gives you a source for his claim and names so his claim is ok as it can be checked by others like you. Please do it and if he has lied you can say so here.
If you are correct then I was wrong to allow the comment.
We get very very many messages of hate for Jews and we are called Zionists by people who write them for not letting them be published. I would not give my time to a site that support racism to any group. You are wrong and too happy to attack us.
Well, look.. I detest overt racism or prejudice of any kind – it’s the most basic stupidity and tribalism of some people and it is often exploited by power to divide us. So I do get angry and have to call it out. I don’t believe that off guardian is a so called ‘right-wing’, racist outlet.. but comments that refer to Chinese people as ‘insectoid slopes’ (referring to eye shape and a decades old derogatory term), plus promoting a classic antisemitic propaganda piece, shouldn’t be allowed to sit on a site like this. Not if it’s to have any chance at being taken remotely seriously, and of cultivating proper debate over the articles published. I raised that with you in an angry way because I was having a go at another commenter and allowed my ire to seep into my highlighting to you. That’s on me. But the original comment has no grounds to stand on any decent site.
I agree with you. I did not read it well and I will remove it, but this will also remove many replies now.
Thank you – and sorry for the too-angry way I raised it.
Where’s your evidence that David Duke has any connection to the KKK?
He was brought up in a family of staunch pro-Jewish people. When first stumbling across some of the misdeeds of Zionist Jews he could not believe it himself and made great efforts to obtain documentation over the years from the US National Archives to verify every claim made against the Jews.
In his book, Jewish Supremacism – citing Jewish authors/scholars more often than not – Duke specifically declares that he harbours not hatred of Jews as a group of people but merely wishes to uncover the heinous acts, ideologies (against us ‘gentiles’) and agendas of some of them, often in leadership roles across the world, namely those inflicted with a Zionist and also Talmudic belief systems.
If you want to rail against racist hatred, then take a look at the writings of the Talmud.
You’re a racist prick defending the KKK. This site is riddled with pricks like you.
You’re a racist prick defending the KKK.
This site is riddled with pricks like you.
Old Winston could have been wrong but he said: “Communism is a “sinister confederacy” of “International Jews” who “have gripped the Russian people by the hair of their heads and have become practically the un- disputed masters of that enormous empire.”
(Churchill, W. (1920). Zionism versus Bolshevism: A Struggle for the Soul of the Jewish People. Illustrated Sunday Herald. February 8)
Have a read of this:
https://silview.home.blog/2021/05/29/chinese-communism-is-as-jewish-as-its-russian-cousin/
Also, nearly all the Soviet commisars for the first Bolshevik government were J-ish including Lenin.
It is ok to make factual point like this but calling people by nasty and racist names like Zard has done is not ok. I should not have allowed Zard’s comment but now it is here and so many have replied I think it must stay. I apologize.
Well, looks like I’ll have to disagree again! It’s a dangerous precedent to set – racist language is okay if you don’t capture the comment before it gets too many replies. An odd position to take but I’ve made my points and am happy to let them stand if you are. If anything, it shows by the votes just how many racists you now have infesting your site. And the more you allow, the more racism will be overtly commented. Not a great look.
Another classic example of antisemitic conspiracy theory. Do you understand the concepts of historical distortion and antisemitic hate? Any old bellend can create a blog of bigoted, twisted facts and propaganda for the dumb and prejudiced to swallow whole. There is so much nuance about the period, the limited roles some Jews played within it, the Zionist / anti Zionist struggle (between Jews!) along with the persecution of Jews generally at that time. This nuance is exploited by agenda driven bigots/jew-haters and simplified, twisted and lied about in order to push the mad conspiracy – and you are making your small, unthinking, no research contribution to that. Congratulations. Be proud.
I’m really not going to engage with your absolute bigoted view any further, other than to say this: See how, like the original commenter, you divert and distract from the article published here? Isn’t there some other place where you bigots can gather together in masturbatory self-congratulation and supremacist euphoria?
Oh really, that would be a first for you not to engage in the short time you’ve been commenting here.
How about reading BOTH articles I linked first before replying. Clearly, you haven’t.
This is a topic I normally steer clear of, since it can get ugly quickly.
However, since you jumped up and down about the original comment from someone else, I thought I would give you some homework.
After all, you have a had a couple of weeks of radio silence and now you’re back all guns blazing.
Hush your pretty little racist/antisemitic mouth. You fucking moron. God, I hate antisemitic pricks like you. A waste of space and energy. I only comment now to you because you’re a filthy moronic bigot and you deserve to be called out for it.
i gave you two articles to read, and stated a fact (that is not disputed) regarding the commisars of the first Bolshevik regime. That was all.
Yet, you came back with only insults. You have nothing to add in a constructive way to the debate nor any counter argument.
Previously, you were called out by others for being an agent, yet I gave you the benefit of the doubt. Clearly, all you previous posturing and ‘clever’ debating over multipolarity was read from a script. Your latest arrogance and deflection from the subject material in this thread betrays you.
Your reaction here is way over the top and is that of a paid agent, tasked with shutting down genuine debate. I hope the pay is good, enough to ease your conscience assuming that you have one. If and when the worldwide digital technocratic gulag shuts it doors your usefulness will be over.
I could lower myself to your level with ad-homs but on this occasion I am not going to. You have revealed yourself in true technicolor glory.
You like to dissect stuff as you attempted during your hard sell of the multipolar NWO, so dissect the points raised in the TWO linked articles in two separate comments. Don’t try to dismiss the points by calling others dumb and calling the author a bellend. Silview has done some good analytical research on many topics.
You just throw around the old tropes to shut down the conversation. Pathetic. Next you’ll be screaming ‘Nazi’ and ‘far-right’ at anyone who disagrees with you.
I’ve done the work long ago in comparing the shite people like you publish, with the reality of documented history – in full, not a half twisted story from a source or two that confirms my inner hateful bias. Try reading more than just the shit you want to be true. How fucking stupid can you be?
You have done no research, except read from scripts handed to you.
As for the “Zionist/anti-Zionist struggle” that you mentioned, although there is some overlap between the Zionists and the internationalists, the internationalists will throw the Zionists under the bus when the time is right. In fact, it is becoming increasingly obvious that time is fast approaching, since global governance is the desired outcome of the ultimate controllers (whoever they are). So long at the world is looking at the activities of the Zionists (nationalists) they are not watching the internationalists (along with the other globalists) working away in the background. A classic magician’s sleight of hand.
“These ‘joos’ lead by false ideology“. Putin has done many fine speeches.
Its the ideology behind it that we criticise, and those people who follow an anti-human ideology we criticise. It should not be a generalisation of a nationality.
Correct language is important. On this single point Observe may have a case.
More on the Bolsheviks with references in the article
https://ihr.org/journal/v14n1p-4_Weber.html
Why is it ‘antisemitic’ to make statements or criticisms of Jewish (historical or current) behaviour?
Yes, the ‘Russian’ Communist revolution and the overturn of the Czarist government and murder of the Czar’s/Romanov family were committed by the Jewish revolutionary leadership.
In 1990, a major New York publisher, the Free Press, a division of Simon & Schuster, published a book by Israeli historian Louis Rapoport called Stalin’s War Against the Jews. According to Rapoport:
“Many Jews were euphoric over their high representation in the new government. Lenin’s first Politburo was dominated by men of Jewish origins…Under Lenin, Jews became involved in all aspects of the Revolution, including its dirtiest work.”
The whole record of the Bolshevism in Russia is indelibly impressed with the stamp of alien invasion. The murder of the Tsar, deliberately planned by the Jew Sverdlov and carried out by the Jews Goloshekin, Syromolotov, Safarov, Voikov, and Yurovsky, is the act, not of the Russian people, but of this hostile invader.76
Further, Jacob Schiff, who at that time was one of the wealthiest men in the world as head of the huge banking house of Kuhn, Loeb & Company financed the Jewish-Communist revolutionaries in Russia to the tune of $17 – $24 (hundreds of millions of dollars by today’s value). Rabbi Marvin S. Andelman, in his book To Eliminate the Opiate, cites two sources documenting Schiff’s financial support of the Communist revolution and ultimate repayment by them.
Why would a staunch capitalist finance an anti-capitalist revolution? The author of a well researched book Jewish Supremacism, David Duke, came to the realisation “that the Russian Revolution was not ultimately about the triumph of an economic ideology, it was about the culmination of an age-old struggle between two powerful peoples – the Jews and the Russians – in an ethnic war that tragically ended in the totalitarian tyranny of the Communist dictatorship.”
You have a sick bigoted mind and there’s no cure for your sickness. Probably got it from your parents.
Right on again, Edward! Thank you for righting the ship.
0.4% of the British population identify as Jewish.
In a crowd of 100,000 people, 400 would be Jewish.
As if by magic, 0.54% of the British population identifies as transgender
Between them, thats less than 1% of the population.
Would you bend society to meet the needs of 1% of the population?
How and why would that make any sense, ever?
It is not magic. All Doos are transgenders, and all transgenders are Doos. Fixed!
It is that easy YPB.
Thanks for this article. It is right on point. It reminds me of the words often ascribed to Thomas Jefferson —
Thomas Jefferson believed that a well-informed and educated citizenry is essential for a functioning democracy and the preservation of freedom. He famously argued that a free government cannot coexist with an ignorant public, noting that if a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be.
These are not Jefferson’s exact words but they are what he believed in many of his writing. He founded the University of Virginia to accomplish the very goal of creating a well-informed and well-educated citizenry. I went to UVA in the 1980s and these words were posted everywhere. I’ve not been back there recently, but I’m guessing Jefferson’s ideas about a well-educated citizenry have been replaced with all the AI and digital mania that is now proposing the need to be either educated or informed. As Elon Musk often says, there is not need to know anything. You can just ask an AI.
So the AI proponents are telling us we can be both ignorant and free. They are also telling us “you will own nothing and you will be happy.” We are moving into the world of happy slaves.
They are preparing us for all out war with Russia, Iran and probably China, by upping them as the boogeymen and instilling as much fear into us of them, as possible.
“NATO is holding closed-door consultations with TV and film industry professionals across Europe and the US, The Guardian reported on Sunday. The move has prompted accusations that the bloc is working to leverage the arts for “fear mongering” and “propaganda,” it added.
The military bloc has held three private meetings with directors, producers and screenwriters in Los Angeles, Brussels and Paris, and is planning to convene with members of the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain (WGGB) in London next month, the newspaper wrote.
The upcoming meeting will be overseen by the British think tank Chatham House and will discuss the “evolving security situation in Europe and beyond,” according to the report. NATO cyber and innovation technology deputy head James Appathurai is expected to attend, among other officials, the newspaper added.”
So you are one of those who believe nukes aren’t real I take it, since the only way your statement “they are preparing us for all out war with Russia, Iran and probably China” could make even a small amount of sense would be if nukes, and therefore MAD didn’t exist.
If you believe nukes do exist then a moment’s reflection will tell you that “all out war” between two or more nuclear powers would never be seriously attempted by even the most hubristic regime since it would likely mean the destruction of everything, including their own power base, and possibly their lives.
So, what is this unthinking reflexive hyperbole?
And do you have any idea how many decades have gone by with this message of doom hanging over us – which never materializes?
And do you realize that in the same time frame the west has actually surrendered most of its manufacturing base to these supposed “existential enemies”? That economic ties and ideological aims have only grown closer?
is it perhaps time to re-evaluate? Especially post-covid when the level of visible cooperation between these supposed rivals exceeded anything we previously considered possible.
Perhaps the stories of confrontation, rivalry and looming war are a psyop? And perhaps where we find ourselves know is not just coincidentally inline with the decades old Rockerfeller plan?
Look beyond what is being said to what is actually being done in hard concrete terms. It tells a very different story
Firstly I do believe nukes exist – and the only way one of the big superpowers would use nukes is – if they faced utter and total defeat in battle – but most wars now aren’t fought to that length of conclusion, small military battles are usually enough to decide a winner now, only Israel and maybe NK would actually use nukes, the latter is protected and instructed by China, it wouldn’t use nukes without China’s blessing, the former is protected by the USA and Europe, though I would like to see Israel fall forever – Israel has already threatened to bomb every world capital with nukes it can reach – if Israel falls.
Ah, so you chose to ignore every point I made that doesn’t jive with your world view.
Then why did you use the term “all-out war”? You’re simply contradicting yourself.
But look, the idea of a “small military battle” deciding a real major war between two nuclear powers is simply absurd. Any such war once started would inevitably escalate quickly and require all the military might of both sides.
The only way a “small military battle” could possibly resolve anything would be if the war was mere tokenism, or indeed fake.
I studied the Cold War and lived through the tail end of it. The whole point of the nuke “deterrent” is that it makes a limited conventional war between two nuclear powers almost impossible, since as soon as hostilities commence the pressure on each side to get in a first nuclear strike before their opponent becomes quickly overwhelming and a nuclear exchange almost inevitable.
This was the dominant reality that kept a kind of peace between the rival power blocks since 1945.
Until 15 years ago everyone knew this and a serious contemplation of war between US, Russia or China was understood to be beyond consideration.
But then a restructuring propaganda got underway, designed to bury public awareness of this old reality. Potential war with Russia began to be regularly discussed as a possibility, with no reference to the nuclear deterrent, which was simply 80% phased out of awareness.
I believe it was around then that the concept of real war began to be supplanted by the concept of “anecdotal” war. War as a propaganda meme, a background noise to be used as an excuse for various agendas and as a distraction from the creeping tyranny of the “multipolar” takeover.
War with Russia/China can be contemplated now because it’s agreed by all parties that it will never be real.
So, you’re right a “small military battle” would probably be all that was needed these days, just enough to convince the masses and excuse or usher in whatever agenda is on the horizon.
For your information the Cold War hasn’t ended its just evolved – and the warfare you studied is now very much outdated back then it was mostly men versus men, now its mainly missiles and drones versus other nations missiles and drones, Russia and Ukraine have set the bar, and Iran has reached it if not surpassed it.
“Then why did you use the term “all-out war”?”
Point taken, however I’ve noticed that you’ve totally and utterly ignored the article in question, and instead jumped on my two-line comment.
That in itself tells me something.
‘.. which never materializes?..’
” Nuclear war is not only imaginable, but planned…
..The Coming War on China, from award winning journalist John Pilger, reveals what the news doesn’t – that the world’s greatest military power, the United Stat…”
Nuclear war is not only imaginable, but planned – True Story Documentary Channel
The only known disaster we know of is ‘Tjernobyl’. Today it is fully recovered and a paradise for sound and healthy animals and vegetables.
That means that a few nuke exchanges will not jeopardize our globe, but could actually happen to make this world a better place, if the baddy baddy guys they were wiped out!
Then there would also be more to us the good guys, when the globe was cleaned for filth and dirt, and recovered. We would be happy man!
Pending.
Thanks, Mr. Curtin, for addressing our anger and disgust at barbarity, and at having to watch our own country practice it while witnessing the unforgivable lies of the controlled press.
The irony of this otherwise insightful essay is that the author himself has fallen hook, line and sinker for one of the foremost false and dangerous “hopey” narratives being spun by the mind-controllers: multi-polarity. There is no more real disagreement, conflict, or opposition between the world governments than there is between any of the major parties within countries.
The transnational ruling class controls them all, and, like the owner of the WWE, hires and pays *all* the actors on the world stage and writes the script for the geopolitical “play” that is performed for the gullible masses for their entertainment/distraction, energy harvesting/squandering, and emotional stimulation/manipulation that is used to mold their minds, modify their behavior, and manufacture their consent for the collective/coordinated agenda of the global billionaires and ultra-rich family dynasties.
It is a world war between good and evil, them and us, the common people of every country, religion, race, etc. They are going for the kill/all the marbles, envisioning and methodically implementing a utopian (from their perspective) New World Order where they own everything (the logical inverse of us owning nothing) and and safely rule over a drastically reduced (via all manner of mechanisms) population permanently enslaved within the digital control grid being rapidly built up all around us.
Everything else is a Black Magician’s (they’ve been practicing/perfecting that dark art for centuries) trick, and unfortunately most people have fallen for one or more or of them.
Concerning smartphones, it is necessary to confront those who makes it difficult to live without a smartphone, be it taking a bus or ordering goods or services online. I have given a specific example in the link below – do be updated.
https://fampo.no/smartphones-and-mental-health/
Many public services and private business are switching or have switched to online, such as with councils saying they no longer give out application forms – or you need to report something online, the private sector such as banks are closing nearly all their branches and moving more to online banking, we are being coerced, no forced to go down this road – many councils and local authorities are using the “Covid” outbreak as the reason they’ve moved and stayed with it.
This is why we are all but forced to – if not, endear ourselves to our mobile/cell phones, then keep them close, and as you say they are addictive or rather the algorithms are programmed to addict you, the fatal blow for the masses will come via the CBDC’s when they remove real cash completely from society and it will go straight onto your phone or card via your account.
Addendum to the above.
There was study carried out by I think it was Hungarian professor in the 1990’s or there abouts, two groups of folk were given money, one on cards – the other real cash in the hand to spend, the study consistently showed that those who spent the cash using the card did so in a carefree fashion, there’s was no remorse or anything in that sense – the cash wielding group on the otherhand, felt guilty when handing over the real cash, and in some cases they were even reluctant to let go of the cash.
Another reason why the PTB, and its corporate buddies, will remove cash from our pockets.
Not only are we encouraged to apply, purchase, and transact online, but here in Massachusetts, on state and federal govt sites, one needs to insert ones social security number. This after years and years of being warned to NEVER put a social security number online.
I won’t do it. Which can be inconvenient, but alas. I am still able to bank in person. But to apply for Senior Housing, offline, requires a trip to the city to pick up a paper application.
In order to register on the largest, most popular Nanny/Caregiver site one now must submit a social security number, online, so that the site can do a background check before you are allowed to register. So I am required to give the site my social security number, which is then passed on to the company that actually does the background check. And these two entities do not even pay me.
Nah.
Of course, all any of us neanderthals hear regarding online apps is “It’s safe! It’s secure!”. I then inform that over the past 3 years I have had my social security and other information stolen from two very “safe and secure!” sites.
Why does every decent article at the moment get ruined by a ” wink wink, nudge nudge” towards Christianity ?
If Christianity is a fact. I mean if it really really is a fact. Then wtf do you want us to do?
Anyone else read that the guy who stabbed two exceptional people in London recently attacked a Moslem earlier that day ?
The Muslim wasn’t exceptional enough.
Come on though George, you know that’s the response they’re looking for! they play up these insanely inflated levels of bias and racism to encourage rage in us, so we’ll bite on the dangled hook, get involved in their curated “controversy” and forget the bigger picture of what they are rolling out.
Yes that makes sense. Rage bait.
How about What-the-fuck-is-going-on bait? See here:
https://x.com/andreysuperior/status/2050908800303915020
21 year old conjures up super-babe on OnlyFans and rakes in the thousands. I was poised to do a piece on this new Matrix/Philip K Dick world when I thought: How do I know that this story about a fake thing isn’t itself fake? Like the exaggerated claims made about AI.
yes, this one intended outcome i’m sure. mental paralysis caused by not knowing what if anything is real anymore. we just have to keep pressing on with our wits about us I suppose
Yes. Winteroak posted about ‘The alleged offender […..] is charged with
attempted murder of THREE men, two Jooz and one Muslim……’
https://winteroak.org.uk/2026/05/04/stabbings-shromrim-and-supremacy/
This ‘moslem’ was a self-hating Doo who declared himself to the Quran only recently.
Therefore in reality, formally, he was still a Doo, and therefore the guy had the right to stab him as a Doo.
A ‘Fair Go’ aUStralia?
Not anymore:
https://thedissidentvoice.org/2026/04/sanctions-and-academic-freedom-in-an-open-society/
Everyone’s about to need a new vaccine even though they aren’t demonstrably ill:
https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-develop-new-antibody-for-virus-that-infects-95-of-people
Don’t get it and you’ll die of… something… somewhen.
Dear Lord, Edwige, hope they’re not going to start killing people w a vaxx again.
TWO people just died of Hanta virus while on a tour boat, so obviously that amounts to a pandemic too.
My neighbor who lost her husband to the covid shot (turbo cancer) has high blood pressure but distrusts drugs. I counselled her to walk 30min/day, preferably in sunlight; avoid mouthwash (it kills the bacteria at the back of the tongue that make nitric oxide; and hum for 1 full minute couple times a day (increases nitric oxide production in sinuses).
Nitric oxide is increased by exercise and by sunshine, and it’s the substance that increases elasticity of your arteries and veins. Result: No more high BP.
Why don’t doctors know this stuff; you just have to read a little bit.
Thanks!
Allegedly three people dead, only one ‘confirmed’ from a virus… The liner
was at sea. The people developed ‘headaches, vomiting, gut ache, diarrhea’ – symptoms of food poisoning. But the ship doctor knew his stuff, didnt need
no laboratory confirmation. And it wouldnt be good publicity for the company
if it was food poisoning, would it ?
Thanks. But can you really guarantee that? That humming, walk and sun light can lower blood pressure?
Who the hell are the Shomrim?:
https://winteroak.org.uk/2026/05/04/stabbings-shomrim-and-supremacy/
Been picked up by the ‘Fuzz’ lately?
Have posted the same link, above, but got held up in limbo as i wrote the
‘J’ word… Cant go hurting people’s feelings…
Encouraging religion back into the west maybe a solution to help ground people, yes organized religion has it’s own set of problems in the past but I can’t help but feel this general malaise in the west, at least in the uk anyway, is because nothing is sacred anymore, everything has been commoditised. Why do I care about accessing the entirety of human knowledge at my fingertips, how does this help me on a personal level.
A good news story from the Dark Ages (The Scamdemic):
https://brownstone.org/articles/how-covid-transformed-me-into-a-gardener-and-business-owner/
The next (The Scamdemic) they will bury him in the garden.
The problem is: everyone is being evicted from farmland and the countryside, except in evil Russia and China.
For the helluvit I didn’t ask, I TOLD perplexity.ai to “Comment on the following statement: The United States is an imperial warfare state built for endless war and wishes to rule the world as the only empire.”
Here is the reply.
That statement is a strong, sweeping claim, and it blends elements of critique with a very absolute conclusion. It’s worth unpacking rather than accepting or rejecting it outright.
1. Where the claim comes from
Critics of U.S. foreign policy often point to:
A large and persistent military presence abroad (bases in dozens of countries).
Frequent military interventions or involvement in conflicts since World War II.
High defense spending relative to other nations.
Efforts to shape global institutions and norms (economic, political, security).
From this perspective, some scholars and commentators use terms like “empire” or “imperial” to describe influence that goes beyond traditional borders.
2. Where the claim overreaches
The statement goes further by asserting:
The U.S. is built for endless war.
It wishes to rule the world as the only empire.
These are harder to support as objective facts because:
U.S. policy is not monolithic; it changes across administrations, public opinion, and global conditions.
There are strong internal debates within the U.S. about military intervention vs. restraint.
The U.S. also invests heavily in diplomacy, trade, alliances, and international institutions—not just warfare.
Unlike historical empires, it does not formally annex most territories it influences, and many countries actively choose alliances with it.
3. A more grounded interpretation
A more balanced way to frame it might be:
The U.S. is a global superpower with unmatched military reach.
It has a history of using that power in ways critics see as interventionist or self-serving.
At the same time, it operates within a system of alliances and international norms, and its actions are shaped by both strategic interests and domestic constraints.
4. Bottom line
The original statement captures a critical viewpoint, but it simplifies a very complex reality. It’s more accurate to see U.S. behavior as a mix of power projection, strategic interests, ideological goals, and internal debate—rather than a single unified drive for “endless war” or total global domination.
If you want, I can compare this perspective with how other major powers are described (like China or historical empires) to give more context.
Also thanks to Ed Curtin for providing Calasso’s most eloquent definition of BULLSHIT (narratives completely oblivious to what it true and what is false) together with his own examples of the genre.
Fancy that, ai with b ia s.
Or GIGO.
Garbage In Garbage Out.
“It has a history of using that power in ways critics see as interventionist or self-serving.”
Yeah, maybe w reason. It no longer acts w/in norms & it gives primary & enabling support to an ally that is actively slaughtering Lebanese civilians now that it’s produced near genocide among Palestinians– and famine.
Well, perhaps I’m being simplistic here, but “idealogical goals” is hilarious.
And whether it is “power projection, strategic interests, or internal debate” or a “single unified drive for “endless war” or total global domination” – it’s still wrong.
Infiltration and dispruption of another country and instigating regime change, and war, is wrong.
If the United States of America spent more time and resources on it’s own citizenry, it’s own land, it ‘s own infrastructure, it’s own common welfare, we would be a site better off. A whole hellova lot better-off.
Simplistic, but there ya go.
Perfect example of msm bias in AI. A complete hedged pile of trash crash of assertions.
A fine and mind stimulating article from Mr. Curtin. I do enjoy his essays. Although I would caution against the idea that it is the U.S. and Israel against China and Russia. This is a game of the transnational super-elite against the world (a.k.a., the rest of us). All the major players (U.S., Israel, China, Russia, etc.) are all pieces on the chessboard. The world politic has been reduced to theater. To think that it is only U.S. elites who wish to rule is myopic.
The only imperialist countries, those that want to conquer, occupy, control and extract resources from, is the US and Israel. Their victims, anyone who does not obey their demands, is punished relentlessly. Russia, China, Iran and others are authoritarian and abhorrent but they are not pursuing colonialism outside their countries. Each has merely been trying to protect themselves from the US and Israel who are conquering empires. US used NATO to threaten Russia with missiles on it’s border, like a Cuban missile crisis. Pure provocation is the US and Israel. US sanctions are the beginning of every war, telling everyone the next victim of their war empire. Israel just bombs first. Settler colonialism in the US, starting with stealing and never recompensing First Nations peoples, even to this day being prisoners in their own lands, is the unconscious evil and cruel mentality of our society that never seems to be questioned and rectified. Americans sleepwalk through life while violent empire goes forever unquestioned. Israel has done the same with Palestinians and other neighbors of the Middle East. The assertion that Russia, China, Iran or anyone else is prosecuting violent war empire and imperialist colonization of other countries, is without any evidence of that activity, or truth in fact.
We had a saying in the trade, “A tradesman never blames his tools.”
Have smartphones really caused the evident inattention and stupefaction in
their users – or have they merely revealed the successful effects schooling had
on kid’s intelligence ?
No. Cell phones have caused it. Hands down.
Any propaganda in school may only work if the RF from phones don’t give the children (who have thinner skulls) cancer first.
From my observations, the cell phone addiction is not reserved for under 40s.
Sometimes I look around my gym, and I kid you not, every single person on a piece of exercise equipment, is looking at a phone. ALL AGES. It’s astonishing.
And whether we like it or not, the horse has left the barn, and is miles and miles down the road.
I was the last person I know to get a cell phone. And that was only because every pay phone, everywhere, went missing. Gone. Vamoos. I had to have a way to contact mother’s who’s children I was minding.
I do have a basic smart phone. Because it is comfortable for me. I do not own a car right now so I use uber when public transportation is not available or feasible. Cell phone needed. And I love the camera. There are many advantages to this phone But that’s my choice.
I do not condone how this technology has insinuated itself into every corner of life.
Or like it. But it’s here. And I don’t think it is going away anytime soon. All I can do is deal with it on my own terms.
Digital tech has evolved from useful tools into making us humans their tools. A coup d’etat of humanity and society using the sales pitch of convenience. Until humans know when to refuse incarcerating convenience, we’re in a pickle.
There are lotsa people who dont know what they dont know, but they certainly make up for it.
With AI, they can hold up their heads, and even regurgitate the stuff here as comments.
‘Pure Consciousness, which is the Heart, includes all, and nothing is outside or apart from it. That is the ultimate Truth.’
Ramana Maharshi.
That’s just pish.
But thanks for trying.
So say you. But where is ‘You’?
https://www.headless.org/experiments/pointing.htm
An Englishman’s view.
Great Quote.
Off- topic (or maybe not) but needless to say the Michael Jackson biopic has been getting ‘bad’ reviews from the mainstream media for suspiciously similar reasons. They never forgave him for that “Jew me, sue me” lyric, hence they are desperately trying to persuade people not to see it, and repeating mostly unfounded smear stories. A complete failure judging by the box office receipts – but then what do you expect from our out-of-touch media?
Smear stories? The man took children to bed with him. Wake up.
The latest dangerous and extremely serious development
:
Russia has, after 4 long years of war with Ukraine, finally lifted their fat bottoms and issued a warning against 3 microscope countries in the Baltics:
“If the Baltic’s dont stop allowing their airspace being used for bombings inside Russia, these Balticum countries will have to face the legal consequences in International Court”, says the Russian Governments in Kreml.
Putin says the patience and room for ‘talking it over’ with a bottle of vodka has passed its time! https://21stcenturywire.com/2026/04/18/russias-security-chief-issues-final-warning-to-four-nato-states/
Great timing: I just came across a study of “AI” chatbots in my area of expertise (equine science)…
Accuracy of large language model-based artificial intelligence tools for equine topics
The study tested three “AI” platforms: ChatGPT (CGPT), Microsoft Copilot (MicCP), and ExtensionBot (ExtBot).
Responses were scored for accuracy, relevance, thoroughness, and source quality.
The study tested four different levels of understanding by the user about equine topics: beginner, intermediate, advanced, and trending.
Intermediate questions had the highest total score, averaging 16 out of 20 (80% accuracy). That’s as good as it got.
The things were rubbish for beginners — arguably the most important demographic, as those with little knowledge of horses and horsekeeping are the people most likely to consult an “AI” chatbot, and the ones most in need of reliable basic information.
Accuracy was affected by platform, level, and topic. CGPT (avg 84%) and MicCP (avg 82%) outperformed ExtBot (avg 65%).
I wonder: under what circumstances would I be content with an accuracy of 84%. The phrase “horseshoes and hand grenades” comes to mind…
The authors’ conclusions: “AI platforms could be resources; currently they fall short of the knowledge that Equine Extension Specialists can offer. AI platforms had difficulty addressing complex topics and demonstrated inconsistent performance across criteria.”
***
This rubbish keeps getting foisted on us, any errors being attributed to the newness of the tech, not its fundamental unreliability.
I’ve written a couple of articles about it:
Clever Hans throws a horseshoe into the “AI” spin machine
Remember who you are: the faux supremacy of “AI”
The money machine has to have its time before the universal flaws can be revealed.
Karl Marx was at work in 1850 and first in 1950 it started slowly to realise its flaws and we are still not out of its influence here 175 years after.
In my opinion we could expect about 100 years plus with this digital type writer bs.
The new ‘ism, Digitalism.
“The Commies are coming, the Commies are coming!”
Whatever.
Yeah. That guy must be very old. Who in their right, non-senile mind still screams “The Commies are coming”?
Mommy, what’s a commie?
22 July, 2025 https://townhall.com/columnists/marklewis/2025/07/22/the-commies-are-coming-n2660730 .
https://www.dcpatriot.com/2023/11/20/the-dc-patriot-cartoon-of-the-day-november-20-2023-the-commies-are-coming-the-commies-are-coming/ .
They are here, alive, and still dangerous.
So the neighs have it then.
These are fine words but what difference do they make from other trivia of lives lived in quiet desperation, to recall Thoreau’s words? It all seems like lies without deeds to walk the talk. I don’t come across much of that. People like Dan Berrigan, who at least try to practice what they preach, seem all too rare. Most seem satisfied to keep doing their jobs in a social system of universal alienation, life no more than one big trivial pursuit, a “useless passion” – to recall Sartre’s words
Beautifully written Edward. Thank you.
I notice, by the way, that the digital assistant Siri, is an anagram of Iris, the all-seeing eye.
Daniel Berrigan, S.J., a friend and mentor and anti-war poet of the spirit, died ten years ago yesterday. He had a way of reminding us with his dissident life and blunt words of essential truths. Here are a few:
There the biggest m+rder+rs goings.
They have ki11ed more than all the wars put together.
Sites like this are petrified to bring the subject up, yet we have lies
that Christianity is some knight in shining armour when it is establishment
to the core.
You have a pervert’s attitude to victims.
Christ was a victim, and notwithstanding he was a victim killed and murdered himself by the crowd and the Empire, you blame HIM for being responsible for the killings and murdering.
I descried my definition of a pervert under a previous article. One who accuse his/her victims for being guilty and responsible for his obsession of perverse violence.
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Perverts?
Plenty of them in the church hierarchies.
Bless you Mr. Curtin. Thank you for your absolute literature.
And two minutes silence upon this.
“Seek the truth and it will set you free”, said by Christ! Thank you however for the references.
This Digital society and Artificial Intelligence is the most disgusting anti life I have ever known and seen.
We were taught in Architectural schools to make drawings with Architectural writing, lovely to create and to look at and with informative specifications at the same time, art.
All physical handcraft, all art and all physical beauty, gone, into artificial plastic invented tits on a TV screen.
You say the Military invented it. The military organised the Covid bs too, it was a global psy-op and a business case.
What do Military make for a living? Its a death cult. Killing, hurting, destabilise, disable, spread sickness, destroy. The solution is to know it.
The name of Christ have killed more than all the wars put together.
So, if Christ had not lived nor existed, all these killed people would not ave been killed, but would have lived today. Is it that you are trying to say?
Jesus was probably a good bloke, but the priest – exploiters who twisted his words made Christianity into a business. Twas all downhill from there.
I like churches because they are like lodges and granges and fraternal orders. They are places where regular normal like-minded people can meet and conspire outside of the direct supervision of governmental and corporate institutions.
My adult daughter is a member (unfortunately) of a small church, but the constant infighting about Biblical interpretations is stressing her out.
Go figure.
Read the story about Pastor Muhlenberg conspiring in the Virginia church.
Yes.
The hypocrite priest got angry at Jesus because Jesus was not a hypocrite.
The greedy Priest got angry at Jesus because Jesus was not greedy.
The Priest who lied got angry on Jesus because Jesus never lied.
All the sinners instead of being happy for Christ’s gift, the forgiveness, got angry on Jesus because he was not a sinner.
How was Jesus able to be without sin, when everybody else sinned and were sinners?
Because Jesus was the Messiah described in the old Testament that everybody have been waiting for.
The world couldnt take it. Jesus reminded everybody of how baddy baddy and smut they were.
They thought they were high class, but that was just a lie. They realised they were nothing but a bunch of hound dogs, crying all the time.
Therefore they hanged him. https://yandex.ru/video/preview/7125577231636110487