tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53806797291927478242024-03-14T11:21:16.813-07:00Chris NorthernThink of it as conversations; a little one sided, true, because they are the things I'd like to talk about but right now I can't think of anyone that I know that I would like to talk about them with. Not important things. Nothing to change the world, or improve life, or add meaning. Just things.Chris Northernhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14095859915091434916noreply@blogger.comBlogger140125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5380679729192747824.post-15088150092723771822022-07-03T06:00:00.002-07:002022-07-03T06:00:28.615-07:00The Deal Works Both Ways - Or The Deal Ends<p><br /></p><p>All deals work both ways. The feudal deal wasn't the best but it was a two way deal; some nobility pretended to care about their people - what they really cared about is not having to grow their own food and make their own clothes and shoes, build their own houses etc. because they literally couldn't, but at least they somewhat kept up their end of the deal.</p><p>The deal between the Federal Government and the individual States was also a deal, a better sort of deal but again one that only worked if both parties upheld their end of the deal.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=246267">Tell the Feds to fuck off, and if they don't like it physically throw them out of the state.</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I find I have nothing to add to this. well, perhaps I do. One of the things I have always found a little frustrating about America is this; the people actually have hands on the reigns to all the tools necessary to ensure and safeguard their own freedoms... and haven't been using them.</p><p>In the UK, the people have never so much has had a pinkie finger on the reigns so it's hardly surprising that Government does whatever the heck it wants. The people and the Government more or less ignore each other as a consequence. Not ideal, the things Gov' has in my lifetime done are egregious. Pretty much nothing I have approved of ever, <a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/declassified-doc-shows-uk-knew-real-time-it-was-helping-terror-groups-overthrowing">including this kind of thing.</a></p><p>Most of the reasons behind the fact that Gov' does only things that are against the interests of their peoples are discussed <a href="https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/interview-with-archbishop-carlo-maria">here.</a></p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: #f5fcff; color: #24353d; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">In short, we are governed by a high command of usurers and speculators, from Bill Gates who invests in large farms right on the eve of the food emergency or in vaccines just before the outbreak of the pandemic, to George Soros, who speculates on the fluctuations of currencies and government bonds and along with Hunter Biden finances a bio-laboratory in Ukraine.</p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: #f5fcff; color: #24353d; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">To think that there is no relationship between the instigators of these crimes and those who carry them out at the highest levels of national governments, the EU, and the UN is a sign of bad faith, because even a child could understand that we are held hostage by a group of technocrats who are ideologically deviant and morally corrupt. The peoples of the world need to reclaim their sovereignty, which has been usurped by the globalist elite.</p>Chris Northernhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14095859915091434916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5380679729192747824.post-59367356487550275702022-03-11T06:59:00.002-08:002022-03-11T09:29:08.028-08:00Are We The Baddies? <p>Are We The <a href="https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/are-we-the-baddies">Baddies</a>?</p><p><br /></p><p>Seems like a fair question.</p><p><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>Looking at the Narrative Eaters, mostly not to somewhat not to somewhat by degrees.</p><p><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>Looking at the Redpilled, somewhat not to mostly not.</p><p><span> </span><span> </span><span> Looking at the Corporate Owned media and State. Mostly, by degrees, with exceptions by degrees.</span><br /></p><p><span><span> </span><span> </span><span> Looking at the SJW, somewhat to mostly, knowingly or unknowingly.</span><br /></span></p><p><span><span><span> </span><span> </span><span> I could go on, but you get the idea. It's largely ignorance that determines the answer. Willful and deliberate ignorance in some cases.</span><br /></span></span></p><p><span><span><br /></span></span></p><p><span>The meme titled and linked to refers to sketch in which a couple of Nazi officers grasp the difficult truth, a pointless realization without understanding what it is that makes them the baddies.</span></p><p><span><br /></span></p><p><span>Nazism comprises three main elements.</span></p><p><span><br /></span></p><p><span><span> </span><span> </span><span> The integration of state and corporate heads to concentrate power in those few hands.</span></span></p><p><span><span> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3FiBPxGxyk&list=PLh6WVNwW5wiIkSNezerwenJCEKsCNx-5_&index=3">Socialism</a> for the bulk of citizens outside the root power structure.</span></span></p><p><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>And the neglected third element; The strong supplant the weak.</p><p><span><span><span><br /></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span>State capture by the corporations of the west is sufficiently visible (hidden in plain sight) that I need not go into it. That one horribly flawed philosophy is the child of another is well explicated by Carl the very Sargon of Akkad in the linked piece above.</span></span></span></p><p><br /></p><p>It's the third element, the neglected element that I think needs attention. That the strong supplant the weak is a part of observable reality but that does not make it a viable basis for a society for what might be obvious reasons... after all, no matter how strong the individual might be, we all have off days and if the philosophy of the society that surrounds you is that the strong supplant the weak then everyone in sight of your momentary laps in whatever area will certainly turn on you.</p><p><span><span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span> Within a given State there may be, and often are different nations of peoples; if the third element is dominant in society then conflict is certain between groups when one group is weakened in some way or other... disadvantaged by new laws, for example. The slow certain pile on begins, usually with selective enforcement of the new laws. Between states you may find one dominating, using its military to break the weaker state, wreck its economy and secure mineral and other assets for immediate or later exploitation by the stronger states corporations, for example.</span></span></p><p><span><span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>Any of this beginning to sound familiar? The strong supplant the weak. A philosophy, it has been noted elsewhere by others, can be internalized by a population without notice. It's all in the incremental framing, the quiet removal of other elements to the philosophy of the people until only one is left intact, oddly invisible as it is never dragged out into the light to be seen, never explicated, never mentioned other than in vague terms. The strong supplant the weak. It's a deadly philosophy for a nation to internalize for the same reason as it is for an individual, only writ large - One day the state will appear weak, and everyone, quite literally every there state on the planet will bit by bit turn and grin a hungry grin and begin to move menacingly forward with the glint of avarice or revenge or righteous anger in their eyes.</span></span></p><p><span><span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span></span></span>These things can kind of sneak up on you. Certainly they seem to have snuck up on the Ukraine: <span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://thesaker.is/ukrainian-bad-guys-and-a-fair-russian-response/">While the Russian special operation is going on in Ukraine, many are wondering what is the reason for launching it.</a></span></p><p><span><span> It should not be considered a side issue that NATO, with extraordinary irony including Germany and lead by the Washington Empire under the symbolic Emperor of the Werewest, Democrat Joe Biden, whose son Hunter would be enmeshed in controversy concerning Ukraine if the Judiciary functioned - are frothing at the mouth to economically excommunicate those opposing, and giving material support in the form of vast amounts of money and weapons to .... <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONKn4Rt_XUA">you guessed it, didn't you?</a><br /></span></span></p>Chris Northernhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14095859915091434916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5380679729192747824.post-54877521483159813622021-06-29T04:48:00.001-07:002021-06-29T04:48:56.451-07:00What are you, some kind of Gravity Denier? (A Story)<p> </p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">It is a story. I understand story
fairly well, though it took me a while to understand what kind of
story it was. It is a victim narrative; we have a victim, a
victimiser and a hero, and the story goes like this:</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">I am Gaia, the victim; I have no power
and no agency and I am being attacked by evil Civilization and too
many people.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">White Knight duly steps forward and
responds: Don't worry Gaia, I will save you.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">White Knight feels fully justified in
attacking civilization, because in his own mind he is the hero
defending helpless Gaia. Who wouldn't want to save the world - what a hero.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">But how will he destroy civilization
and save Gaia? Well, he can't destroy Civilization all on his own so
he needs a plan to con people into destroying the very civilization
that keeps them alive, healthy, and improves quality of life everywhere it exists. He looks around for a narrative that will
serve and is conveniently offered a script as follows.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Civilization produces C02 as a
byproduct and that's bad. Well, so do lots of other things, but that's not important,
that's good natural C02 not bad Man Made C02 - nor is it important
that it's plant food and makes healthy robust plants that produce
oxygen that we breath in and breath out 23,000ppm of C02 with every
breath. The number of things that are deemed by White Knight to be
unimportant about C02 is legion;</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Warm the surface of the oceans and they
out-gas C02, so increased Atmospheric C02 is a consequence of warmed
ocean surfaces (an obvious lie paints that back to front but few notice). This is chemistry and puts the lie to the C02 causes
warming narrative, but he doesn't care about that.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">In the geological record the peak C02
was 7000ppm, the minimum was 180ppm, at 150ppm most plants die,
dropping oxygen levels so that animals also die, including us, but he
doesn't care about that.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Some people bought the con and began to
reduce C02 emissions, reduce the reliability of electricity and
dismantle civilization that supports them.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">All the things that had been done were <a href="https://thenewamerican.com/icelands-volcanic-pollution-dwarfs-all-of-europes-human-emissions/">negated</a> by a volcanic eruption in
Iceland, but he doesn't care about that. Bringing down civilization is the point.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span class="quote_sign" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif;">“</span><span style="font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif;">Isn’t the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn’t it our responsibility to bring that about?</span><span class="quote_sign" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif;">”</span><span style="font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif;">—</span><span style="font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif;"> </span>Maurice Strong</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">When anyone one points out any of this,
White Knight feels fully justified and branding them as bad people,
giving them the label of Climate Change Denier, getting them sacked
from their work (especially in the msm), silencing them on social media, calling for them to
be <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/planet-gore/we-should-tattoo-climate-deniers-greg-pollowitz/">tattooed</a> (<span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Surely it’s time for climate-change deniers to have their opinions forcibly tattooed on their bodies. - Richard Glover)</span>, and having a hose pipe run from the
exhaust of their care and rammed down their throat so they are gassed (Arnold Schwarzenegger, I would link to the vid' but can't find it now and time is limited). </p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Sound familiar? Tattooed them. Gas
them. Yeah, thought you'd spot it. The White Knight self-justifies anything to be the hero and rescue helpless victim Gaia. </p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">So we have Victim/Gaia, Villain/Us and
Civilization. 'Hero'/White Knight. A classic, manipulative victim narrative.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">But, hang on a moment. The Earth can't
talk. Its a bunch of geology and chemistry and minerals and thermal
activity. It can't care about anything. Here for billions of years,
it will be here for billions more. It would be indifferent to
Civilization if it were capable of having any opinion at all. It was
once hit by an object so large that it turned the whole thing molten hot rock and threw of a great chunk that became the moon. It didn't care,
because it is an it, not a she. It has nothing to care with.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Gaia is a ventriloquists dummy. So
who's the ventriloquist, Toto?</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Toto the dog duly pulls back the
curtain and we see <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQ9yYSVqOos">The Wizard of Oz</a>.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">The WOO isn't great and powerful, but a
weak, stupid little man who has figured out a way to trick people
into giving him power he hasn't earned and doesn't deserve.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Biology is a science. Chemistry is a
science. Physics is a science, and lots of other subjects are
science. But Climate isn't a science, as little of the theory is
subject to meaningful experiment and where it is the results are
fudged, the failed predictions ignored, obscured and lied about by the WOO pushing his story. It's a
made up <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTYTnxMYI_o">pseudo-science</a>. The idea came out of the humanities
department of universities; that is matter of historical record. It is
Junk science, <a href="https://voxday.blogspot.com/search?q=scientism">Scientism</a>, a cult dressed up as science. They literally
cannot push their beliefs without lying, as has been proven many many
times and openly planned among themselves. <a href="https://www.intellectualtakeout.org/article/climategate-ten-years-later/">They are proven liars</a>.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Now who do we now who push a
philosophy, want unearned power and will happily lie to get it?</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Tony Blair, the same who lied about
weapons of mass destruction and took the UK into an illegal and
unjustifiable war, recently said “We have people embedded in every
Government on the planet.”</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Embedded? Like covert operatives? Who's
we?</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Someone else said, “We are in a
global conflict between those who want to control people and those
who want to control only themselves.” Two sides of a conflict.
Real. Everywhere. Now.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">I probably don't need to lead anyone to
the conclusion of what the WOOs are. The evidence is everywhere. The
Conservative Government of my own country are acting like dictators
and have torn up and thrown away the freedoms our ancestors fought
for over centuries, being Magna Carta, The Rights of Englishmen,
freedom of association, freedom to travel, the right to trial by your
peers – a £10,000 and 10 Years (that figure will ring a bell with
some – A Tenner), all while the inglorious leaders act as expected,
as they had no intention whatsoever of doing what they make you do.
The point is to make you do things. Power is only manifest when it is
power over people. The stupider and more pointless the things they
make you do the better, so they nudge each other and can point and
laugh and say, “Look, look what I made them do! That's hilarious,”
and the message to the people is clear, “Look what we can do to you
any time we damn well please.”</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Anything that disrupts society is good
for them. Economic damage is beneficial to them. But the best trick
ever was and is to trick and con you into dismantling the
infrastructure of the civilization that keeps you alive.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">It's a story. A victim narrative. But
the truth is that the victim is you, the victimiser is the WOO, and
the heroes are the ones branded climate change deniers.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Anyone who calls you a gravity denier
is using obvious rhetoric. Use good rhetoric back, because these
people can't use logic, you have to talk their emotion based
language.</p>
<p align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">What are you, some kind of
Gravity Denier? (A Story)</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">I saw the man walking around town with
a parachute on his back. I asked him why.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">“What are you, some kind of Gravity
Denier?!” He snapped, aggressively.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">“Well, no. But that's not relevant is
it? The strong electromagnetic force makes thing solid, and gravity
is a factor.” He looked triumphant. “But the most relevant factor
is altitude. And you are walking on the the ground, dude.”</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">His mouth worked a bit but no sound
came out. (Cognitive dissonance is a wonderful thing to see). He
didn't say a word, just walked away looking puzzled.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Next time I saw he him he wasn't
wearing a parachute. So that's something.</p>Chris Northernhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14095859915091434916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5380679729192747824.post-34512878175129053532021-01-29T08:11:00.004-08:002021-01-29T09:04:18.980-08:00Gamestop Morale Boost<p>I haven't laughed hard enough to get the aching of the ribs for a while, so this is all very welcome.</p><p>In essence, if you've been missing this, hedge funds took advantage of their Government buddies 'Covid' strategy to force shops to close and shorted Gamestop, intent on breaking them and sucking up some free blood. This was noted and addressed.</p><p>The responses from the self appointed elites have been predictable. <a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/wallstreetbets-proves-system-rigged">WallStreetBets Proves The System Is Rigged</a> but not in the least bit successful.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQ9Z_Omk-LQ">For fun I recommend the whole thing</a> In essence, but the following meme is priceless <a class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQ9Z_Omk-LQ&t=4760s" spellcheck="false" style="background-color: #f9f9f9; cursor: pointer; display: var(--yt-endpoint-display, inline-block); font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: var(--yt-endpoint-text-regular-decoration, none); white-space: pre-wrap;">1:19:20</a></p><p>The swamp creatures aren't even bothering to pretend to wear any kind of mask at this point. so it really isn't about the money, it really is about sending a message in response to their message.</p><p>The truth is that people can simply buy and hold a single stock make them burn their own house down.</p><p>If they can't play fair - and the elites have collectively proven that they not only will not but are psychologically incapable of it - then maybe taking their toys away is the simplest answer. It isn't that hard. <a href="https://voxday.blogspot.com/2021/01/the-secret-of-elites.html">They are not that smart.</a></p><p>Obviously, I'm not advocating that any individual pour all the assets that the self-anointed elites want to take off you anyway into a stock just to break the system the very same parasites collectively feast on.</p><p>That would be irresponsible.</p>Chris Northernhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14095859915091434916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5380679729192747824.post-78425612090187199912021-01-16T05:28:00.002-08:002021-01-16T05:28:59.463-08:00The Message Is ClearAgree, approve, accept, capitulate, repeat the approved message or we will make you invisible.<div><br /></div><div>In competition with Twitter? <a href="https://parler.com/">This site cannot be reached</a> however, there is <a href="https://gab.com/">Gab</a> as an alternative, apparently not set up to fail (or perhaps to be a honey pot designed to trap dissenters to the narrative?). Gab currently has infrastructure problems related only to the vast and sudden influx of new users. (I can't imagine why that's happening.) Give them time to catch up to new demand.</div><div><br /></div><div>Removed from YT but available to those who go looking.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://newtube.app/TonyHeller/UW1NxN8">Simply Talking About Censorship is Enough to find yourself censored </a><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>You can't stop the signal, Mal. You can never stop the signal.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.projectveritas.com/news/">Newsworthy Stories at Project Veritas not much covered in the 'news'</a><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>It has been known for a good long time now that the msm is controlled by a very small number of corporations with significantly aligned agendas.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.oann.com/project-veritas-exposes-twitters-plan-for-political-censorship/">Looking for alternatives seems only prudent</a><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Of course there will be some material on alternative sites that express ideas you don't approve. So what? Rejecting ideas is within the purview of the individual.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.unz.com/proberts/dont-fall-for-the-establishments-tall-tales-there-was-no-violent-assault-on-the-capitol-and-there-is-abundant-evidence-of-electoral-fraud/">I find little to argue with in this article, for example</a><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Finding newsworthy stories that are not in the news is surprisingly easy but does take a little effort.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/political/rush-judgment-trump-multiple-leftists-arrested-capitol-riot">C N N involved? How surprising.</a><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>As many have pointed out, there are those who took 1984 to be an instruction manual rather than a warning. Unsurprisingly, they are fairly easy to detect by approx half a given population base. Surprisingly, the other half of any given population base seem incapable of grasping that they are backing the bad guys, that they therefore are the bad guys, no matter how obvious it becomes.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/01/our_mounting_orwellian_nightmare.html">Orwell spoke of the condition where "words and meaning have almost parted company."</a> </div><div><br /></div><div>The core problems are evident all through the western world, throughout the whole world. One message, one narrative, no dissenting opinion permitted. That there is no dissent permitted is the prime reason opposition builds.</div><div><br /></div><div>We are a self organizing species by nature, building hierarchical structures from the many up to the few; the few then develop the delusion that we are a species organized from the top down, a point of view appealing to those who want to control other people and insufficiently resisted by those who want to control only themselves. In part, this may account for the cyclical nature of the rise and fall of civilizations.</div><div><br /></div><div>In general, things go on until the cannot any longer. Then they stop.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Chris Northernhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14095859915091434916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5380679729192747824.post-90899756119235222052021-01-11T04:27:00.002-08:002021-01-11T04:27:19.441-08:00Extreme Panic Ensues<p>It's perfectly normal to panic when you win legitimately, it seems. A handful of days remain of President Trumps first term, yet the 'winners' are desperate to turn a few days into zero days. Now, why would they feel the need to do that? </p><p>I offer the following in no particular order.</p><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/A_hKR5NYBPE" width="320" youtube-src-id="A_hKR5NYBPE"></iframe></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>Sensible of Tony Heller to use YT for teaser vids with the main act elsewhere, but I can link to YT, so here it is, the main event is a simple enough click through.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/4vBjUW4Ll4A" width="320" youtube-src-id="4vBjUW4Ll4A"></iframe></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>Of course we should all stop using their platforms, and as they ban people like 'Computing Forever' who now resides on Bitshute, and hundreds, thousand of other content providers for wrongthink of one sort or another, it's perhaps still worth linking. After all, there are still those who don't yet know how controlling the bigtech companies are:</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/AsaX1S8SSv8" width="320" youtube-src-id="AsaX1S8SSv8"></iframe></div><br /><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><h3 class="page-title" style="background-color: whitesmoke; box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; font-family: Raleway, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 30px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 33px; margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;">A Letter from the Nye County Chairman</h3><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #060707; font-family: Raleway, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">"Let me be clear: Trump will be president for another four years. Biden will not be president. Yes, I know those are shocking words in these crazy days."</span></p><p><a href="https://nyegop.org/2021/01/10/a-letter-from-the-chairman/">Not everyone submits to the narrative</a><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The Night Of The Digital Long Knives</p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #323232; font-family: Georgia, "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 14px;">"Control of the Internet, which used to be a flexible network designed to automatically route information around blockages, has now fallen into the grasp of a handful of companies, all of them seemingly eager to institute a Red Chinese social credit system. Conservatives and populists have relied for too long on Section 230 to protect us from exactly the kind of hamfisted behavior that Jack Dorsey, Sundar Pichai, Jeff Bezos, and Tim Cook are engaging in right now. We have a very limited amount of time to find and use alternatives like blogs, e-mail lists, Telegram, Signal, and Gab; we must also build alternative financing structures so the wokerati running Mastercard and Visa can’t cut off the flow of funds. People used to accuse Vox Day of being paranoid when he said these things a few years ago. What’s keeping me awake nights is that Vox might not have been paranoid enough."</span></p><p><a href="https://theothermccain.com/2021/01/10/night-of-the-digital-long-knives/">And many saw the purge coming</a><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: abril-text, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 17px;">"Kirk Wiebe is not some fringe conspiracy theorist. He worked as a </span><a href="https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/government-elections-politics/united-states-of-secrets/the-frontline-interview-j-kirk-wiebe/" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ae1a1f; font-family: abril-text, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 17px; text-decoration-line: none;">senior analyst</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: abril-text, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 17px;"> at the </span><span class="smallcaps" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: abril-text, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.1em; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1em;">nsa</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: abril-text, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 17px;"> from 1975 to 2001 and was awarded the Meritorious Civilian Service Award—the </span><span class="smallcaps" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: abril-text, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.1em; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1em;">nsa</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: abril-text, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 17px;">’s second-highest distinction. With his colleagues William Binney and Ed Loomis, Wiebe developed many software programs to find, monitor, and track terrorists worldwide. But he retired from the </span><span class="smallcaps" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: abril-text, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.1em; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1em;">nsa</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: abril-text, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 17px;"> in 2001, after uncovering a government program to illegally monitor millions of U.S. citizens’ communications. Yet while the media treated Wiebe as a hero when he exposed the Bush administration’s surveillance operations, they lost interest in him when he continued to expose the Obama administration’s unlawful surveillance operations."</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: abril-text, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 17px;">And</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: abril-text, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 17px;">"Now Wiebe has joined with retired </span><span class="smallcaps" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: abril-text, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.1em; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1em;">nsa</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: abril-text, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 17px;"> crypto-mathematician William Binney, retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Thomas McInerney, and retired Army Maj. Gen. Paul Vallely to expose a “deep state” plot to steal the presidency and hijack America."</span></p><p><a href="https://www.thetrumpet.com/23361-nsa-whistleblower-kirk-wiebe-exposes-us-stolen-election">MSM Oddly Not Interested</a><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>That'll do, I think, though I could share links all day long that point to the underlying reality so desperately being banned and obfuscated as we watch. Anyone who wants to know the November election was a massive fraud enacted against a sitting President and, more importantly the people, knows. Of the majority who know, roughly half know and like it, roughly half know and don't.</p><p>So why are the 'winners' so obviously panicked?</p><p>Could it be as simple as this?</p><p>1) The intelligence services, of which there are many, have always investigated everyone remotely connected to politics. The material is classified.</p><p>2) President Trump has the absolute authority to declassify anything he chooses to.</p><p>That would certainly constitute at the very least a metaphorical nuke if as is proposed by some who should certainly know, that approx 70% of Senators and Representatives are crooked to a degree that would shock everyone and rock the world.</p><p>I honestly can't think of anything else that explains five years of non-stop legal and illegal attacks, beginning before the man was even elected.</p><p>Did he say, Drain the Swamp? That's Us! Panic!</p><p><br /></p><p> </p>Chris Northernhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14095859915091434916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5380679729192747824.post-87666963063547601582021-01-08T03:09:00.002-08:002021-01-08T03:09:25.395-08:00The Truth vs. The Lie<p> A Tale Of Two Tapes</p><p><br /></p><p>1) The words matter, for they are true.</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/vRdNkqcsz1Q" width="320" youtube-src-id="vRdNkqcsz1Q"></iframe></div><br /><p>2) Turn the sound off, make it full screen. Just watch the neckline interactions with the collar of the shirt.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/iFADopBnb_U" width="320" youtube-src-id="iFADopBnb_U"></iframe></div><br /><p>The truth stands up to scrutiny. The lie does not. It's as simple as that.</p>Chris Northernhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14095859915091434916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5380679729192747824.post-23239224661808595152021-01-08T01:11:00.000-08:002021-01-08T01:11:07.441-08:00"Congress Is A Paper Tiger"<p> "The reason these people are not held accountable is there's no way to hold them accountable. Who investigates the investigator? Who prosecutes the prosecutor?" Senator Ron Johnson. </p><p>Understanding the problems has not lead to solutions.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/A-NoQLuUqeE" width="320" youtube-src-id="A-NoQLuUqeE"></iframe></div><br /> <p></p><p>Until recently, Tony Heller confined his activity to the AGW climate scam, but he has belatedly grasped that everything is related.</p><p>(I'm linking to the YT site, but recommend the click through link for the reasons he states; both are fairly short and worth your time).</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/NICfb-c3Epw" width="320" youtube-src-id="NICfb-c3Epw"></iframe></div><br /><p>Maybe one day we'll be able to go back to minding our own business and being left alone to do so. Of course, the fact that we did that for decades is itself part of the problem.</p><p>Who watches the watchmen? We do. Or we don't. </p>Chris Northernhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14095859915091434916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5380679729192747824.post-46090110732156395372021-01-07T12:28:00.002-08:002021-01-07T12:28:25.164-08:00Of Sadness & Anger<p> No, I'm not going to speak of either but I will link to show the why.</p><p>This link seems most relevant to the times, considering what levels of censorship have just been reached:</p><p>https://www.infowars.com/posts/police-officer-responsible-for-killing-trump-supporter-suspended-pending-investigation/</p><p>I watched the tape, but don't feel like you have to. That was cold, deliberated, deliberate and utterly without justification.</p><p>RIP Ashli Babbitt</p><p>The guy with the gun in his hand... well, there are things we have to trust God to take care of because no one else possibly can.</p><p>Of all the manifold related matters, I remind myself that despair is a sin, as Jerry Pournelle used to say. Despair removes the ability to think clearly, I believe he meant.</p><p>Speaking of clarity of thought, here's something by someone who seems to have some concerning matters not entirely unrelated. I recommend it be read to the end.</p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">When you run a business you will get audited by the government. If something your company does raises a red flag with the government, they will audit you. If there is an anomaly in your government mandated paperwork you must legally submit, it can trigger an audit. And sometimes, various agencies will just randomly audit you to make sure you are obeying all their regulations.</span></p><p>https://monsterhunternation.com/2021/01/05/one-of-these-things-is-not-like-the-other/</p><p>For the rest, time will tell. Nothing is over until it's over.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Chris Northernhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14095859915091434916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5380679729192747824.post-22199444537259772952020-12-25T08:52:00.002-08:002020-12-25T08:52:52.129-08:00Merry Christmas<p>Shared without further comment.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CPoDgytHXfE" width="320" youtube-src-id="CPoDgytHXfE"></iframe></div><br /><p><br /></p>Chris Northernhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14095859915091434916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5380679729192747824.post-41406683421791968482020-12-06T08:26:00.001-08:002020-12-06T08:26:50.801-08:00Solvable Problems<p> If you've spent any time teasing apart the ideas of any philosophy you will likely know that each has some kind of foundational statement or concept upon which everything else is based. For example, Jordan Peterson's attempt has the foundational concept "Everyone acts as though pain is real, therefore pain is real." He cites this in one of his early Maps of Meaning vid's as the foundation by including the statement "You have to start somewhere." Taken at face value, that might pass, but the statement is false: Sociopaths do not feel emotional pain at all, they literally have no idea what it is. Those rare individuals with congenital analgesia do not feel physical pain, they literally have no idea what it is. Peterson's attempt at a coherent philosophy abruptly has the foundation snatched out from beneath it and everything stacked on top collapses into the component parts; some of those are interesting, and some may have some value, but they are bits and pieces, not a coherent whole.</p><p>The entire body of left leaning philosophy has the concept of equality as it's foundation. Yanking the foundations out from left-wing thought is effortless; there is no equality in reality, you can't have or enforce what does not exist. Impossible things don't happen. Equality of opportunity is just as absurd a goal as equality of outcomes. Variance obliterates any idea of equality. It's no surprise that any attempt to implement the ideas stacked on the false foundation always lead to mere failure at the very best.</p><p>What brought that to mind was something said in the linked interview below; at around 61:07 the question is asked, can these problems be solved? The answer involves the different between solvable problems and manageable problems, and is worth your time - the whole interview is but this bit particularly.</p><p>https://rumble.com/vbkjyv-ep.-1407-exclusive-interview-with-general-mike-flynn-the-dan-bongino-show.html?mref=16emn&mc=6kk5f</p><p>The idea of holding people elected or appointed (or in general for that matter) accountable is hardly new, but has grown in importance over the last few decades.</p><p>On a related note, Vox Day shares a link to work being done to shine a light on recent electoral fraud that the msm would have us all believe is imaginary ("Who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes?" - Groucho Marx, if I remember correctly).</p><p>https://voxday.blogspot.com/2020/12/dominion-and-virtual-precincts.html</p><p>There are further links within Mr Day's post, and if you have the time they are worth your time.</p><p>I seem to be on a roll here, so I'll just link one more site that is significant and of interest, just in case you are unaware that there are an army of citizen reporters stepping up to the plate to do the work journalists of the msm choose not to do... well, there are. I picked a vid' not entirely at random.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/t4cZ65HZfEk" width="320" youtube-src-id="t4cZ65HZfEk"></iframe></div><br /><p>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4cZ65HZfEk</p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br />Chris Northernhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14095859915091434916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5380679729192747824.post-58171212267616593042020-12-04T07:01:00.004-08:002020-12-04T07:18:10.638-08:00Where's The Evidence Of Vote Fraud?<p> Where isn't there evidence?</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/5vjy3rCnmgE" width="320" youtube-src-id="5vjy3rCnmgE"></iframe></div><br /><p><br /></p><div><div><br /><p><br /></p></div></div>Chris Northernhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14095859915091434916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5380679729192747824.post-15079247729282452822020-11-21T05:56:00.000-08:002020-11-21T05:56:03.595-08:00The Biggest Crime In History<p><br /></p><p>The false media narrative(s) must be apparent to everyone by now. For example, almost all media are calling Biden the President elect, which they cannot not know to be false. The only reason I've looked at the msm for roughly twenty years is to see what they are lying about, then go find out what the truth might be.</p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CRIrUop9R7Q" width="320" youtube-src-id="CRIrUop9R7Q"></iframe></div><br /> <p></p><p>The difference between these and msm outlets (including goog/twit/tube/booface etc.) is striking.</p><p>https://www.theepochtimes.com/exclusive-rep-devin-nunes-biden-team-is-putting-on-a-facade-that-theyve-won_3587971.html</p><p>Devin Nunes has a few interesting things to say here.</p><p>"It's so much worse than people imagine." Including even myself, he goes on to say.</p><p>Sometimes I stumble onto interesting speakers on Tube, only to find them removed from the 'platform' within days. It's been getting worse, numbers are increasing, and thus it's becoming more obvious.</p><p>Well, alternatives exist. I recommend people use them (parler etc.). After all, it's no coincidence that I can only directly link to Tube here, and have to put in a raw link to rumble.</p><p>https://rumble.com/vb8jzh-teaser-devin-nunes-the-man-behind-the-explosive-memo-american-thought-leade.html</p><p>This is the point in our story where our heroes are being overwhelmed, but there is a way yet to win a path to freedom.</p><p>As individuals we should do what we can; after all, it is our freedom that is at stake.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Chris Northernhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14095859915091434916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5380679729192747824.post-3797032321014306272020-11-16T03:33:00.000-08:002020-11-16T03:33:11.078-08:00More Lies Exposed <p><br /></p><p>A huge number of employed medical specialists know they are lying, and do so because their careers/incomes depend upon it.</p><p>There's really too much covered here to comment on any individual point. In short, everything the msm and governments are telling us is false, and known by them to be false. In the last 20 years or so, this has become increasingly blatant. </p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/_eJuj0rx-48" width="320" youtube-src-id="_eJuj0rx-48"></iframe></div><br /><p><br /></p>Chris Northernhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14095859915091434916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5380679729192747824.post-23262009568708904412020-11-06T08:10:00.005-08:002020-11-06T08:10:41.947-08:00Perfectly Normal.<p> </p><p>I'd love to say the current situation is shocking, surprising or even mildly unexpected. But let's face it, everyone knew this was going to happen.</p><p>I mean, he told you what he had done and was doing:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/sQ4lo6FB-s0" width="320" youtube-src-id="sQ4lo6FB-s0"></iframe></div><br /><p>And Pelosi is on record with a parallel quote: "I feel very confident that Joe Biden will be elected President on Tuesday, whatever the end count is..." Whatever the count is, because that's totally how elections work.</p><p>The only thing that has changed here is the scale and the brazen nature of the fraud. Optics? At this point, caring about how things look is irrelevant. Don't waste too much time on this vid', unless you are lucky enough to have massive amounts of spare time, but there a a few interesting points here and there: The Pelosi quote from above is at about 11:30</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/p9Jdxti4Msc" width="320" youtube-src-id="p9Jdxti4Msc"></iframe></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>An former auditor has a few interesting points to make (he's a little sweary about it).</p><p style="color: #1e6dac; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.61px; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">In auditing you look for red flags. That’s weird bits in the data that suggest something shifty is going on. You flag those weird things so you can delve into them further. One flag doesn’t necessarily mean there’s fraud. Weird things happen. A few flags mean stupidity or dishonesty. But a giant pile of red flags means that there’s bad shit going on and people should be in jail.</span></p><p style="color: #1e6dac; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.61px; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></p><p style="border: 0px; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The massive turn out alone is a red flag.</em></p><p style="border: 0px; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">But as for doing better…</em></p><p style="border: 0px; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The late night spikes that were enough to close all the Trump leads are a red flag.</em></p><p style="border: 0px; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The statistically impossible breakdown of the ratios of these vote dumps is a red flag.</em></p><p style="border: 0px; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The ratios of these dumps being far better than the percentages in the bluest of blue cities, even though the historical data does not match, red flag.</em></p><p style="border: 0px; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The ratios of these vote dumps favoring Biden more in these few battlegrounds than the ratio for the rest of the country (even the bluest of the blue) red flag.</em></p><p style="border: 0px; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Biden outperforming Obama among these few urban vote dumps, even though Trump picked up points in every demographic group in the rest of the country, red flag.</em></p><p style="border: 0px; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The poll observers being removed. Red flag.</em></p><p style="border: 0px; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The counters cheering as GOP observers are removed, red flag.</em></p><p style="border: 0px; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The fact that the dem observers outnumber the GOP observers 3 to 1, red flag (and basis of the first lawsuit filed)</em></p><p style="border: 0px; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The electioneering at the polls (on video), red flag.</em></p><p style="border: 0px; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The willful violation of the court order requiring the separation of ballots by type, red flag.</em></p><p style="border: 0px; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">USPS whistleblower reporting to the Inspector General that today they were ordered to backdate ballots to yesterday, red flag.</em></p><p style="border: 0px; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The video of 2 AM deliveries of what appear to be boxes of ballots with no chain of custody or other observers right before the late night miracle spikes, red flag.</em></p><p style="border: 0px; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Any of those things would be enough to trigger an audit in the normal world. This many flags and I’d be giggling in anticipation of catching some thieves.</em></p><p style="border: 0px; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And it isn’t that I have to do better. I’m just an gen pop observer who happens to be a retired auditor with a finely tuned bullshit detector. This is going to the courts.</em></p><p>https://monsterhunternation.com/2020/11/05/the-2020-election-fuckery-is-afoot/</p><p>When I say that the only thing that has changed here is the scale, here's a lone example that can stand for the hundreds that exist in American history.</p><p><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; color: #444444; font-family: "Merriweather Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">"Johnson election theft took place in 1948, when he was running for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate against Texas Governor Coke Stevenson, one of the most admired and respected governors in the history of the state.</span></p><p class="p1" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Merriweather Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">It was later discovered that one of Parr’s men had changed the total tally for Johnson from 765 to 965 by simply curling the 7 into a 9."</span></p><p class="p1" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Merriweather Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">And somewhat later in the text...</span></p><p class="p1" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Merriweather Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">"Where did the extra 200 votes come from? The last 202 names on on the election roll in Box 13 were in a different color ink from the rest of the names, the names were in alphabetical order, and they were all in the same handwriting. When Caro was researching his book, he secured a statement from Luis Salas, an election judge in Jim Wells County, who acknowledged the fraud and confessing his role in it."</span></p><p>https://www.fff.org/2020/11/02/dont-forget-lbjs-election-theft/</p><p>At least in America there is a reasonably clear choice on offer in this specific election. Here in the UK the situation has developed to the point where it visibly and obviously makes no difference where the X goes on the ballot, the people will get the merely a slightly different version of the same thing. That may change, but is unlikely to change fast enough.</p><p>History continues to unfold according to the scripts already written, but remember that causality runs in one direction only and nothing is settled until the present becomes the past.</p><p>We do what we can.</p><p><br /></p>Chris Northernhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14095859915091434916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5380679729192747824.post-66295329312059746322020-11-05T06:16:00.002-08:002020-11-05T06:16:31.932-08:00Fun (or should I say Interesting) Times<p>Billed as satire, but these people - individually and as groups - are entirely serious and acting to 'muster their forces' and force their dreams to be our nightmares.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/swfyslAaz2o" width="320" youtube-src-id="swfyslAaz2o"></iframe></div><br /><p>It's not a conspiracy theory when they tell you what they are doing.</p>Chris Northernhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14095859915091434916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5380679729192747824.post-16819071012970436342020-11-03T03:54:00.002-08:002020-11-03T03:54:53.160-08:00Harrison Bergeron & Us<p><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #030303; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Harrison Bergeron is a short story by Kurt Vonnegut that I've seen mentioned several times recently, including here (fairly randomly as this is simply the latest place I saw the story mention and discussed):</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #030303; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Q3qTZ8pq3u0" width="320" youtube-src-id="Q3qTZ8pq3u0"></iframe></div><br /><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #030303; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #030303; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">And here's a link to the story itself: </span><span style="color: #030303; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://tnellen.com/cybereng/harrison.html</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #030303; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">It's a short read, and not desperately subtle. The underlying theme is those that believe everyone should be made equal do not have anyone's best interests at heart, coupled with the idea that the innately superior will always rise above any amount of handicapping and therefore must be ended by the equalizers.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #030303; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Whoever does the deciding is obviously motivated to disadvantage everybody else so that they themselves are and remain advantaged. This is how this philosophy has always played out when implemented in reality. It is no coincidence that any implementation of a plan to pick out any group deemed to be disadvantaged and rise them up always ends in that group being further disadvantaged.</span></p><p>On what may seem to be an entirely different topic, and while I'm in the mood for sharing things, here's something rather more interesting (in the sense of being rather less obvious and therefore rather more worth your time). There are roughly a dozen in this sequence and each is short and to the point.</p><p>I just spent a little time looking around for a transcript of these, for those who read faster than people speak, but can't find one in a reasonable amount of time and don't have time to do that work. Pity, but there we are.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Uy3SKPWjWeM" width="320" youtube-src-id="Uy3SKPWjWeM"></iframe></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Chris Northernhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14095859915091434916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5380679729192747824.post-52895079778664613832020-06-21T07:14:00.000-07:002020-06-21T07:15:36.966-07:00How Do You Go Bankrupt? Very Slowly. And Then Very Quickly.<br />
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You want the truth? You can't handle
the truth.</div>
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Or maybe you can. It hardly matters.
The truth correlates to the facts and the facts are embedded in
reality. Reality doesn't change, so you are going to handle reality,
the facts, the truth, like it or not. Or, put another way, failure to
observe reality will not stop reality impinging on you. So far, this
all sounds self-evident, but give me a minute and I'll get to where
it isn't. If you find the current reality confusing, it will all
become clear by the time I'm done.</div>
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To clarify requires some structure that
is solidly based in reality. The first questions should be, what is
real? What is the most fundamental statement about reality that
pertains?</div>
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Biological organisms compete.</div>
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If anyone cares to undertake the
endless quest for a biological organism that does not compete, feel
free.</div>
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Competition is conflict.</div>
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No matter how passive that conflict may
be, it is still conflict. A strangler vine is unaware of the
existence of the tree, but at the end of the day the tree is still
dead.</div>
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Conflict is war.</div>
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That may seem a little less firm, but
observe that though there was no malice on the part of the strangler
vine, the tree is still dead. It may have reproduced before it dies,
but so did the strangler vine. The conflict continues. You might
argue that war is a property of organisms that organise, but that is
us so I find no comfort there.</div>
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Competition is conflict and conflict is
war. No malice is necessary on the part of anyone at all.</div>
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Just for fun, let's take a human
example. 'The abiding mystery of Easter island' is one of my
favourite falsehoods. Observe the events in sequence and there is no
mystery. Europe stumbled across the island accidentally; Europe being
the Dutch, the accident being that they were looking for a posited
continent that didn't exist. They fund an isolated nation, a people
of one culture, without internal conflict, without external contact
and so no external conflict. They apparently didn't even have
weapons, subsuming the natural desire of young men to compete in an
annual competition, the winner gaining some advantage. The Dutch
describe a fairly stable farming nation. The statues were in place at
the edge of the island. By the mid 1800's the statues had fallen and
the island was a depopulated ecological disaster zone.</div>
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So, what happened? Did the Dutch arrive
with the malicious intent of destroying the nation of the people of
Easter island, wrecking the totemic statues and destroying the
ecology? No. They primarily stopped to re-supply food and water. The
conflict of cultures was sufficiently immediate that on the beach a
dozen people died, despite being welcome enough to land, lead by a
local, greeted with curiosity by locals who didn't recognize a gun as
a weapon and so tried to take it from the hand of someone who did
know it as a weapon. The Dutch wanted food and water, they got food
and water, they left.</div>
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As ships from other European nations
stopped by to visit, the interactions resulted in further losses.
Pathogens from outside the isolated people took a toll, the
introduction of a non-indigenous religion lead to internal conflict,
they people toppled their own totemic images, ships took some for
sailors due to losses of their own men to disease, some were taken as
slaves and were later freed from Peru, taking smallpox home with
them. This would be the mid 1800's and soon after the almost
unpopulated island was turned into a sheep farm – and that accounts
for the destruction of the ecology.
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Competition is conflict and conflict is
war.</div>
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How much malice was involved in the
destruction of the nation of the people of Easter island? Some at
some times over that few hundred year competition-conflict-war, but
for the most part, very little.</div>
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[If you're wondering how the statues
were moved into place in the first place, the locals were asked on
many occasions and answered the same way, “They walked.” I see no
reason not to believe them. Having walked an upright fridge-freezer
across a kitchen floor and a wardrobe across a bedroom floor, it
looks to me like an eminently sensible answer. The scale is
different, but the principle is the same.]</div>
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Off the coast of India, there is
another island. The nation of people here kill anyone who turns up.
No one goes there.</div>
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Competition is conflict, conflict is
war.</div>
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Views through this lens, the whole of
human history adjusts itself into better focus.
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It should be obvious that a competition
of ideas is a conflict of ideas is a war of ideas. Any doubts about
that are easily dispelled by by a brief examination of The 30 Years
War, The Cold war, or indeed most or even all wars to some degree or
another, in that ideas played a part in the divisions.</div>
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If you think that's bad, this next
obvious logical deduction will make you wince (or howl or something).
Different nations of different peoples express different cultures and
have different ideas about what is right and wrong, good and bad,
lawful and unlawful, and self-evidently want to live under political
systems laws that reflect that. Where two nations inhabit the same
territory, there will be competition to determine these things; some
people(s) will find themselves living under laws they find abhorrent,
and this will lead to conflict.</div>
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Shall we take a look at some of these
conflicting idea? Well, why not. You must be familiar with some of
them, or at least aware of the existence of same.</div>
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Equality.</div>
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Of all the dumb ideas I have come
across, this one is so self-evidently absurd that it's barely worth a
mention, yet it will get the longest. There isn't any. It isn't
possible to have what doesn't exist. Equality of outcome is
impossible, equality of opportunity is equally impossible. That the
bell curve concept exists in mathematics and can be applied to any
and all areas of human endeavour makes the impossibility of equality
obvious. The consequence that there are things I can never have and
never be is mitigated by the fact that there are thing is I can be
and can have. Same for everyone.
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Tolerance</div>
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You won't have to think very hard
before you stumble across something you will not tolerate. It
probably took you about three seconds.</div>
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Inclusion</div>
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The same as tolerance. No, I don't want
to include cannibals in my family, community, town, country, culture,
nation.</div>
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Diversity</div>
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Diversity simply ensues competition of
what must by the definition of diverse be different from each other,
ensuring competition between the diverse, and competition is conflict
and... well, you know the rest.</div>
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Freedom of Speech</div>
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If you are surprised to see this one
included on the list, I would respectfully suggest that you have not
been paying sufficient attention to some of the things some people
are openly saying. Some of those things are openly and self-evidently
evil (and there's a word I don't use often) and no, I can see no
justification for a society permitting freedom of lying and freedom of
promoting evil things. A society is partly defined by those things
which are a taboo, verboten, or whatever. The only competition is
over which things, competition over this is conflict, and I'm
not going to bother saying it again.</div>
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That there are people who will
immediately attempt to jump all over me for expressing the above
repudiation of ideas that have been permitted to become so mainstream
that conservatives now passively or actively defend them will be proof of
the underlying reality – competition is conflict...</div>
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While I'm here, a quick word about
Sumto. The series is called The Price of Freedom, and really that
should have been phrased as a question, because that's what I was
trying to have Sumto work out over time. Well, reality overtook the
project and I have put the work aside for now. The truth is that the
price of freedom is everyone else's freedom. And the price is too
high. A culture develops over time, through competition and conflict
and war, over what freedoms the people of the nation decide they can
give up, enforce others giving up, and which freedoms they can afford
to keep or cannot abide to live without. This process is ongoing. It
never ends. These are decisions the individual doesn't get to not
make. They are what make an individual who he or she is, a family
what it is, a community what it is and a nation of people what it is.
The process becomes particularly sharp where different nations of
different peoples inhabit the same territory, as they have different
answers and … well, again, you know the rest.</div>
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I'm about done here. Read back from the
top and you will come to a place where I point out that malice is not
necessary for competition to be real (it's optional). Competition may be real yet unnoticed by
one or either party, that conflict arises by the nature of the
competition inherent in being a biological organism, no matter how
passive that competition may be. As we are a species that organizes,
war is an inevitability and viewed through this lens it should now be
no surprise that history is written as though it were the history of
war (and attempts to avoid or defer war), as war is conflict and a
history of conflict is a history of competition, and competition
cannot be avoided, even if no malice existed in any human heart.</div>
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Now I recommend that everyone go and
sort themselves out.</div>
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I was going to leave it there, but by
chance I came across someone literally frothing at the mouth. This
concerns specific subjects, current subjects, but is as an apt
expression of the foundational reality expressed above.</div>
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Competition is...<br />
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkP65B8q0pU">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkP65B8q0pU</a></div>
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Thoughts as a River</div>
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Yes, my own thoughts on the subject meander some, as usual.</div>
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If belief is the consequence of our interactions
with observable reality before we are even conscious enough to be
aware of either ourselves or observable reality, then no wonder it's no wonder that belief is so foundational as to be practically unnoticed within our
own minds.</div>
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An infant cries from instinct and is fed, and so believes if it
cries it will be fed. The interaction with observable reality forms
the belief, and the belief is reinforced as true. That this is
selective in an evolutionary sense is clear; the parent who does not
respond to the cry permits the infant to die from hunger and the
genetic material of the parent is removed from the gene pool.</div>
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Perhaps belief is the foundation of observable
reality for the individual. That our earliest beliefs matched
observable reality before we were even conscious seems clear enough.
When an infant make a noise the infant will get fed. Belief in that
is reinforced with repetition. A different noise gets the infant
cleaned so that sores do not develop, become infected and kill the
pre-conscious individual. Belief then, might be said to be selective.
When belief did not match up with observable reality, the individual
died and the genetic material of the neglectful parent disappeared.</div>
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Belief that a noise in a tone of voice would get
one cleaned and fed so that continued life occurred is foundational
to experience. Further interactions with observable reality laid down
further beliefs.</div>
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Belief can then be considered as the banks of a
river though which our thoughts process. The more experience, the
more interactions with observable reality, the more substantial and
fixed the banks of the river of our thoughts.</div>
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Inevitably, some beliefs will not match up with
observable reality though the individual continues to survive. Some
beliefs are not selective, at least not immediately. The belief you
can fly unaided is usually immediately selective when tested against
reality. The belief that it is possible to lie without consequence is
not usually immediately selective, though it is corrosive to society.
The belief that you can lie to yourself about being able to fly
unaided may eventually prove to be so, if ever tested against
reality.</div>
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As the individual develops and encounters more
ideas, often in fragmentary, unconsidered form, beliefs are added to
the banks that channel our thoughts. Our thoughts erode the bank and
our beliefs shift and adjust. Ideas are what we think with, so
exposure to an idea can build up and channel our thoughts in new
directions, linking up with other ideas and making firm channels. A
good deal, perhaps even most or even all of this shifting of our
beliefs may happen without conscious direction by the individual.</div>
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In the information age it is possible to be
bombarded with ideas contextualized by other peoples beliefs.</div>
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Sometimes the banks of the river wear away
completely and our thoughts flood. What is real? What is true? What
is good?</div>
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Belief, the banks of the rivers of our thoughts,
gets worn away here and reinforced there by interactions with
observable reality in a process that is only sometimes selective. A
belief may be initially harmless to the individual, yet harmful to
others when applied to reality. For example, a belief in Global
warming-Climate Change is not immediately selective to the
individual, yet the decision to burn grain to produce energy has the
immediate causal effect of reducing the amount of grain available to
the market, the law of supply and demand kicks in immediately and the
price of food increases, subsidized exports cease and a number of
countries who relied on cheap grain imports find themselves unable to
supply sufficient food to their domestic markets, the population
finds itself unable to purchase the more limited supply of food, food
riots follow, suppression of food riots follow logically - as burning
down the bakery is never a successful strategy... and yes, I'm
talking about the middle-east here, though I'm not going to go into
it further as I suspect my point may be made. Belief can be selective
on those who do not hold the belief when those who do believe test
their belief against reality.</div>
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Causality is often obscured by its own existence.
As individuals we move through time at one second per second though a
sea of perceptions, many of which bare little or no relation to each
other. Without notice, belief can build up from fragments of ideas
that appear to link to others the mind has already been exposed to,
each snagged from the sea of information that washes past our senses
in a constant stream. AGW, or Climate Change, is a fair example. To
the best of my knowledge, from some thirty years of paying attention
to the subject, there is exactly zero evidence supporting AGW and an
absolute mountain of evidence which causes the belief to dissipate
like morning mist exposed to sunlight (ironically enough); yet the
belief persists in the minds of a multitude of people for a variety
of reasons almost as plentiful as the individual who hold the belief.
Had every individual who believed in AGW had the idea tested against
reality in a fashion design to be selective in evolutionary terms the
belief would have faded from reality almost immediately. The actions
taken to combat this demonstrably false belief have been selective,
and will continue to be selective, over time. Nations that continue
to pour hard won resources into imaginary methods of producing energy
will decline economically as lower production increases price –
when the price of energy is increased due to lower production the
price of every single commodity is increased and the methods of
generating wealth to purchase commodities is also increased. That
cannot end well.</div>
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And I think that is where I am going to stop for
now, partly because I just read this:<span style="font-size: small;"> “</span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The
more I contemplate the universe, the more I am convinced that the
fundamental core of Man's philosophy must revolve around a single
question: to pretend or not to pretend. So much human evil stems from
the fact that we deceive ourselves, we deceive each other, and we
seek to deceive God.* And one of the primary locuses of deception is
the language we choose to employ.”</span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;">
- Vox Day</span></div>
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What Vox says here neatly expresses an idea that I
have been struggling to tease to the fore sufficiently clearly to
state succinctly. I'm just as happy to see someone else get there
first as it saves me the bother of getting the idea crystal clear so
that I can think with it.</div>
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*The whole of Society, past, present and future
has been for me a very useful conceptualization of the many meanings
of the word God and is useful in this context. I should say that the
work of Jordan B. Peterson is quite simply full of useful ideas.</div>
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Just to finish up here for now, the subject is
belief and selectivity. The meaning of a given word is a belief as
well as being a deliberate structure to express meaning. A fair
example is the word discriminate, a word that is now generally used
to be, and therefore believed to be synonymous with prejudice.
Society has long accepted that prejudice is bad. Discrimination is
prejudice. Discrimination is bad. The bank of the river of belief is
shored up in one section and the thoughts of the individual are
channeled. Belief is selective. The word discriminate has a primary
meaning which is now no longer to the fore of those who accept the
belief that discrimination is wrong. Discriminate means the ability
to tell the difference between one thing and another and make value
judgments between them.</div>
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If a man believes discrimination to be bad then he
might neglect to discriminate between boiling and warm water taking a
dip at Yellowstone Park. When I heard the story of a group of youths
literally diving into boiling water when there was warm water to swim
through just a few yards a way I did wonder how it was possible to be
so willfully negligent of their own survival potential. They did not take time to discriminate between boiling water and warm water. That lack of
discrimination killed them. Being negligent of discriminating between snakes with similar markings to a Copperhead might well also lead to negative consequences. There is a mushroom that looks exactly like a button mushroom but is deadly poison, and it would clearly be wrong to discriminate between them. The use of the word discriminate as only synonymous with prejudice is insidious and undermines the individuals relationship with observable reality.</div>
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Belief is not some bolt on optional extra to
existence.
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Belief is instinctive and initially in accordance
with observable reality.</div>
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Belief is selective in an evolutionary sense.</div>
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That is clear enough. Where things get muddy is in
the established fact that evolution favors good enough solutions and
that false belief need not be immediately selective. Existence would
be a good deal simpler if belief that was not in accordance with
observable reality were immediately selective, though if it were I
seriously doubt any of us would survive to adulthood.</div>
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<a href="https://voxday.blogspot.co.uk/2018/03/texas.html" target="_blank">The quote from Vox Day was on a slightly different subject</a></div>
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I really don't care what people think. I really do care that people do think. Most of what we call thinking isn't. </div>
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Chris Northernhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14095859915091434916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5380679729192747824.post-25388274405154381302018-02-02T06:13:00.003-08:002018-02-02T06:13:53.894-08:00Why Do We Tell Stories?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Why do we tell stories?</div>
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It's a fair question and I guess the answer is
clear enough from our evolutionary biology. Once our species grasped
the idea that the future is real, that the fat lion under the shady
tree will tomorrow be hungry and we might be its prey, then we needed
a way of conveying the idea of what might be done about that fact,
especially to our children, in a form they would accept and remember.
A story.</div>
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JBP (link below) has shown clearly that the idea
that the future is part of reality was selective in evolutionary
terms, that our distant ancestors who planned for the future were
more likely to nurture children to adulthood. So telling stories
about that is clearly also selective in evolutionary terms. We
express ideas in stories – such as The Boy Who Cried Wolf. A child
who hears and understands that story, who acts the principle out in
reality, is literally more likely to survive to adulthood than a
child who does not.</div>
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Stories are thus demonstrated to be selective in
evolutionary terms, and brain functionality follows trends that are
selective. We likely evolved to accept the premise of a story and act
it out in reality. True stories clearly lead to better results than
false stories, and when evolutionary pressure was high this would
have become a dominant trait. Societies who tell true stories, that
acted out improve life for everyone, succeed, while societies that
tell false stories break against reality, they fracture, fragment and
collapse, often with great loss of life. But there are always
survivors, and evolution favours 'good enough' solutions. Survivors
of failed communities, built on false stories, will still reproduce.
The trait of accepting a story as true and acting its premise out
regardless of how it resolves itself in reality is a good enough
solution.</div>
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As a species, we literally evolved to accept
stories as true and act them out in reality. Results of this vary,
but those who have a feel for or who tend to analyse a story for
factual accuracy and imagine forward before acting it out in reality,
are apt to be more successful. As a consequence, there are more
people who have a feel for the truth of a story than not... but the
trait to uncritically accept any story will always be part of the
whole of a given society and part of the brain functionality of the
individual.</div>
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The tendency to compare the consequences of a
story acted out in reality, say stories in history, with a currently
prevalent story and imagine the story forward to its consequences
should become dominant over time. Fact checking, comparison with the
known consequence of similar stories recorded in history, critically
analyzing a story and rejecting or accepting it accordingly is also
selective – those who do this would literally be more likely to
produce children who survive to adulthood and perpetuate the trait. I
say 'would' here because we now effectively live in a human version
of Mouse Utopia (link below), a situation where practically all
individuals might well survive to reproductive age regardless of what
survival strategies they are taught and adopt.</div>
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With this in mind, it might be as well to now take
a look at what is frequently called 'the sacred narrative of the
left' and dig into the foundations of that collective story to see
for yourself what veracity the story might contain.</div>
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Chris Northernhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14095859915091434916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5380679729192747824.post-73389780351578682442017-12-29T03:27:00.002-08:002017-12-29T03:27:56.894-08:00The Lindsay Shepherd Affair: Context & AnalysisThese matters are not simple and straightforward, and I am glad that there are those with developed skill, knowledge and understanding who are shining a spotlight on these matters.<br />
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There is a historical context here - to large degree, the west is struggling through the long term consequences of recent history. The threads are often tenuous, tangled, and reach back decades. It takes time and effort to follow them back to their origins, and some of the origins go further back, they are ancient, seemingly written into our evolutionary biology - which would neatly explain why these issues continue to reoccur in one form or another throughout human history.<br />
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Though small groups, such as a family, can and do work according to the underlying ideas of socialism, the connection between effort and gain within that unit is still understood - children gain much but can contribute little, the family exists exactly because of this reality. That situation is transitory; children grow, contribute more over time, become self-sufficient, self-supporting adults. The connection between gain and effort, between effort and gain, re-establishes itself over time. In any larger society, should the principle be applied, that connection becomes increasingly tenuous, (the connection between effort and gain is not re-established over time), and as soon as it becomes invisible (through distance between members of larger society) the whole social system collapses. In short, when it is possible that an individual gain from the efforts of the group while contributing little, it is entirely consistent with human nature that they do so, and that the inclination then spread through the group as it becomes more obvious that some gain as much as others through little effort. The whole output of the group declines, eventually to the point that there is no output and the whole group suffers the consequences of that.<br />
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There are so many examples of collectivist principles applied to societies of various sizes, including but not limited to entire nations and empires that failed - every single time - that it seems incredible to me that it is not generally accepted common knowledge. Here is just one example... yes, it is a long piece by Stefan Molyneux (who has a problem being brief, but these matters are complex and require full analysis) but worth your time:<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">"During the proceedings, Shepherd was accused of breaking the law, both federal (Bill C16) and provincial, violating Wilfred Laurier's standards of conduct, and of being actively transphobic. Rambukkana compared me directly to Hitler (and Milo Yiannopoulos, to be fair), failing to recognize that what I predicted would happen in the aftermath of Bill C16 (see </span><a class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string" href="https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&q=http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F2AZqj4B&redir_token=2nxT7ohZW698rYYQNCbxxLG4R_18MTUxNDYyOTI0MkAxNTE0NTQyODQy&v=YWVmDSMl30s" style="background-color: white; display: inline-block; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: var(--yt-formatted-string-endpoint_-_line-height); text-decoration-line: none; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://bit.ly/2AZqj4B</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">) was exactly what was undertaken by the tripartite disciplinary panel he headed."</span><br />
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If you tend to feel you don't have time, then here's something shorter and more fun. I'm pretty sure that no one who reads my very occasional posts will fall into the snowflake category of human being, so I'd guess you are more likely to laugh than be offended.<br />
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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.Chris Northernhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14095859915091434916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5380679729192747824.post-48483187497073869952017-09-13T02:57:00.002-07:002017-09-13T02:57:43.505-07:00RIP Jerry PournelleThough we never met, I find I feel the loss quite personally.<br />
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We have lost a Champion of Reason.<br />
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Dr. Pournelle's blog holds a wealth of insight and information spanning many years. You will not have to spend much time there to realize that we have lost someone far more than significant that those who think of him primarily as a writer of Science Fiction.<br />
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<a href="https://www.jerrypournelle.com/chaosmanor/" target="_blank">Chaos Manor</a><br />
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Chris Northernhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14095859915091434916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5380679729192747824.post-81756291098782374372017-07-16T05:08:00.000-07:002017-07-16T05:08:07.755-07:00Libertarian Game of ThronesStumbled across this today and thought I would post it here. Yes, it is as funny as you might think, but...<br />
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... but there is as deep a flaw with Libertarianism as any there is with other ideology. Real world functionality relies on all members of a society understanding, accepting and acting on its principles at all times. And that isn't going to fly.<br />
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There are several reasons why, but the most obvious is that the Big Five personality traits exist - they are real - and we are each born with a propensity toward a mixed bag of those traits, which leads to us each being unique, especially when factors of environment and personal experience are figured in. In short, getting a society to abide consistantly by the same set of rules is no easy task. Bad enough, but worse when it is clear that our species has a desire to control its environment... a passive, non-controlling ideology is about as contra-evolutionary reality as you can get. As a species, we did not evolve to be Libertarians, and attempting to adopt a philosophy that is fundamentally against our evolutionary biology is just about as futile an objective as I can imagine. A significant percentage of people wil work against it, work to influence, control, steer the ship, grow their following, and utliamately dominate.<br />
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Yes, it's a shame. But we are what we are and need something a little more robust and structured to keep more-or-less all of us more-or-less in line within a functioning society more-or-less all of the time. One society, one set of rules, within which we can compete without violence.<br />
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I don't think I'm going to explore that line any further, right now. Instead I'll pass you on to someone else who has a few thoughts to express that might be useful in developing or refining your own ideas: <a href="https://www.jerrypournelle.com/chaosmanor/before-western-civilization-sowing-the-wind/" target="_blank">/Before western civilization - sowing the wind</a><br />
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There is more to the article than I reproduce here, and I recommend the visit required to read the whole piece.<br />
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"It is self-evident that men and women are not equal in all respects. It is self-evident that all men are not created equal. It is self-evident that all women are not created equal. The Bible exhorts us to be kind to strangers – but not submissive to them. Western tradition tells us to act as if it were self-evident that all men are created equal, and that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; those principles became the common heritage of much of the west, but they are only an assumption; we have no proof, only the observation that things work better if we accept them.</div>
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That, of course is not strictly true; there is a great history of philosophy that leads to modern Western ethics and moral principles; but the average citizen of the west does not know this, other than having a vague knowledge that those who should know can teach it to those smart and interested enough; but for practical discussion, the fundamentals of Western ethics and morals are assumed. We assume these truths to be self-evident even though it is really self evident that they are not literally true.</div>
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But like all rules contrary to observable facts, it is easy to carry them too far – and to assume that others share them when they do not."</div>
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<br />Chris Northernhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14095859915091434916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5380679729192747824.post-30445032072617625192017-07-09T03:41:00.000-07:002017-07-09T03:41:15.946-07:00That's Not Fair! Stumbled across this vid' just a little while ago and had some thoughts about it. Probably best watch it first or you won't know what I'm talking about. It's short but sweet.<br />
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So, something we probably already knew is demonstrated fairly well. What child hasn't spontaneously put together the concept of 'That's not fair' all by themselves?<br />
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What this Vid' demonstrates is that the concept is built into our evolution at a very early stage. In a natural environment, effort and reward would be fairly equal. When inequality is artificially introduced, it is noticed really fast.<br />
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For me, this is kind of a wasted experiment, though. Wouldn't ti be interesting to push the boundaries a little? What would be the response if the greater reward were given for greater effort, or a more complex task? What response without access to the tools of that task, and then with the needed tools? With and without the ability to watch and learn the complex task? I think a good deal more insight into our own nature could be squeezed out of a series of experiments building on this theme.<br />
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I was instantly reminded of the story of Cain & Abel, for reasons which will only perhaps become clear if you invest the time in watching a much longer and more complex Vid' - but I do recommend it. The insights here have great value and are worth your time.<br />
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<br />Chris Northernhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14095859915091434916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5380679729192747824.post-58115580226461344222017-06-09T01:46:00.001-07:002017-06-09T01:46:39.215-07:00What is God? What is Religion?These are questions we tend to answer flippantly, if at all, but given that every single culture in the whole of human history has proposed answers the questions must be rather more important than we might tend to think from a modern perspective.<br />
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Here are the answers I think are most useful, a condensed subjective view derived from the work of Jordan B. Peterson (I'll link below because I really think that JBP's work has practical value for any individual).<br />
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God<br />
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If we conceive God as the most ideal, moral leader possible then a couple of useful things happen. One, there is an ideal to aim for, whatever that ideal may be. Two, that spot is already taken by an abstracted ideal so that any given living glorious leader cannot delude themselves that that are that perfect ideal - the top spot is already taken. Nor can the people, or any substantial percentage, think that their glorious leader is God.<br />
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A good deal of historical nastiness could have been avoided. A good deal of potential future nastiness can be avoided.<br />
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Religion<br />
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If we conceive of Religion as a blueprint for 'how society should be' then it is literally possible to look around the world and see which blueprints are most successful when mapped onto reality. It is even possible to break that down into subsets of a given religion. Even done in a cursory kind of way, some useful results can be gained.<br />
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Adopting the most successful blueprint might be an idea. Consciously attempting to improve that blueprint might be a better idea. Discard all such blueprints look to me to be a ludicrous waste of a great deal of effort expended over a long long time.<br />
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One other useful aspect of religion is that it provided moral absolutes. Without those, morality within a culture becomes subjective, each individual making unique decisions about what is and is not moral. It doesn't take much thought to see where that path leads; the first and most obvious consequence being that every single individual you meet would be an unknown interaction of potentially conflicting moralities. The word 'Dangerous' doesn't even begin to cover that situation.<br />
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL22J3VaeABQAT-0aSPq-OKOpQlHyR4k5h" target="_blank">Maps of Meaning</a><br />
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<br />Chris Northernhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14095859915091434916noreply@blogger.com0