“The Chinese representative to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty forum called to end the weapons. It got scant attention. The true call is to stop war, once and for all — at least those which military strategists call wars of choice.”
Yet the PRC conducts a “military exercise” surrounding the island of Taiwan.
The global struggle is between the vast majority of humans who wish to live their lives in peace, raise their children in peace and live productive lives versus the small minority of the global population who are psychopaths and through their unrestrained psychopathy achieve leadership positions in governments, industries, religious institutions, education, finance, healthcare, etc.
I am not taking sides — I argue against taking any sides, because that is precisely how we are manipulated.
My aim is to help push the dialogue that politicians are determined to avoid.
Vanessa Beeley on the Oct 16 edition of UK Column News recalls U.S. presidential candidate Eugene Debs (in 1904, 1908, 1912, and 1920 - surely a record) who was imprisoned for pointing out that the worker never started a war: all earthly wars are begun, their duration and the time of their conclusion is decided, by the money power.
I wasn’t implying that you were taking sides. I just think that in China, as in other countries, there are war hawks and there are more reasonable factions who aren’t driven by power, money, or being controlled through blackmail.
No doubt there are warmongers, revanchists and ethno supremacists in all countries - and we have to avoid empowering them.
We're not doing a good job in Israel, but more importantly "knocking out" the leadership of Russia and Iran could bring to power precisely such forces.
This is where the neocons lack logic - all that explains their blood lust is revenge for centuries-old sleights, and the hijacking of religion to take God's decisions for him.
“ This is where the neocons lack logic - all that explains their blood lust is revenge for centuries-old sleights, and the hijacking of religion to take God's decisions for him.”
I’m more recently of the opinion that the deeper explanation will only become apparent once the influence of malignant Extraterrestrials on human civilizations becomes more widely discussed in a serious forum rather than relegating the topic to the fringe. What more logical explanation but massive trauma to early human psyches millennia ago to explain the psychopathy demanding blood lust, child sacrifice, pedophilia, war (a form of human sacrifice incorporated into human culture) and slavery.
Until the Enlightenment, the people understood the concept of all that is seen and unseen, the latter belonging to the metaphysical, the religious and the occult (simply meaning that which is not visible to the eye). After the Enlightenment the people were increasingly driven into specialized labor while a ruling elite retained to itself the "unity of knowledge"
The elite of the Enlightenment worked hard to kick away the ladders and keep the populace in their place. Despite the public perception, there was no one-way road to reason, writes David Riggs in The World of Christopher Marlowe.
"Before the Reformation, cathedral schools were an avenue of social mobility for poor boys. Cardinal Wolsey, who became the second richest man in England while in the service of King Henry VIII, was the son of a butcher. After the Reformation, however, the interests of the Church of England merged with those of the hierarchical nation state. The dissenting commissioners told Archbishop Cranmer that ‘it was meet [fitting] for the ploughman’s son to go to plough, and the artificer’s son to apply the trade of his parent’s vocation,’ while ‘gentleman’s children are meet to have the knowledge of government and rule in the commonwealth.’"
Thank you for that. It's similar to what corporations do with compartmentalized knowledge. And the best way to escape one's prescribed role is to understand how the company works.
Did you ever read about Bertrand Russell and Kurt Godel? I can't remember the book, but Bertrand Russell had built upon the French school that was looking for something called the Axiom of Truth. It would allow mathematics to be applied to moral and ethical problems and solve for "truth." Kurt Godel came along near the end of Russell's career and proposed his incompleteness theorem. It basically says that for any self-consistent set of axioms complex enough to produce countable numbers and simple arithmetic, there would be contradictions. And any additional axioms to patch up those inconsistencies would produce new contradictions.
The current concept of AI is a lot like the search for that Axiom of Truth. For those worried about AI's reach, there's comfort in learning about occult knowledge and perhaps Godel's incompleteness theorem.
Yes people over 50 grew up in the Cold War and were aware of the possibility of nuclear war because of school, tv, press, movies... It may be what was behind the punk movement. Musicians also were dealing with that menace, like the Ultravox's beautiful, 'dancing with tears in my eyes' and it's amazing video clip :
You reminded my of that Ultravox song (and what a name for a band!).
I wish the recording in 1984 was still not geared to transistor radios - the tonal potential of that song would benefit from being represented in greater depth.
According to Rudolf Steiner, Lucifer incarnated on Earth in the 3rd pre-Christian millennium.
"If we go back in the development of humanity before the Mystery of Golgotha, then we come to find in ancient times of oriental cultural development a human personality on Earth within that culture from which today's Chinese culture has developed, a human personality who was the outer human embodiment of Lucifer, who at that time really walked on Earth as a human embodiment, and who was the bearer of the human light that we find on the ground of ancient pre-Christian wisdom, with the exception of Judaism. Even in Greekism, through that which worked in art, in world-view, in statesmanship, flows through that which went out from the Lucifer incarnation millennia before the Mystery of Golgotha.“
Some nihilism at the heart of Chinese culture produced the murderous Cultural Revolution. After studying that recent history, and noting the continuation of its one party system, Social Credit rollout, etc., I'm incapable of taking at face value a single utterance from any political bureaucracy there.
What was witnessed in Bolshevik Russia - 20 million put to death, uncountable numbers of believers, millions more dead by famine and war.
And while The Washington Post may have conceeded "Don't forget how the Soviet Union saved the world from Hitler" the bigger story is that the German-Russian conflagration was orchestrated.
Such butchery is simple once morality is dismissed as bourgouis.
Consider the Latvian "old Bolshevik" Martyn Latsis, an official of the Cheka. In a 1918 instruction to interrogators, wrote: “We are not waging war against individuals. We are exterminating the bourgeoisie as a class. . . . Do not look for evidence that the accused acted in word or deed against Soviet power. The first question should be to what class does he belong. . . . It is this that should determine his fate.”
Even Lenin criticized his advocacy of indiscriminate class terror as "absurd."
In "Two Years of Struggle on the Internal Front" (1920) he advocated unrestrained violence against class enemies.
Latsis was tried with the old Bolsheviks and shot in 1937 at Butovo, a forest on the outskirts of Moscow that I tried to visit unsuccessfully... the soil there is such mulch that a car cannot cross.
When you take down the "bourgeoisie," you're removing most of the educated, enlightened, critical thinkers, the so-called "political class" that has the money and the social stakes to challenge despots. That said, here in my bourgeois community, the economic requirement is such that most of the folks around me -- both husbands and wives -- are focused on accumulating wealth to pay mortgages and tuitions, with a secondary nod to family time. This leaves them no availability nor inclination to think critically and they are accordingly narrow-minded and know little about history nor recent/current events. These are the supporters of the East Coast Establishment who believe they are protected by those above from most threats below.
Most Russian bourgeoisie realized their error as they were being chopped up in the streets. The Communist horde -- many of them from far away from Russia, e.g. Mongolia and even New York City -- turned back Russian social progress by 75 years, and the country has not recovered and perhaps it never will.
Interestingly, I've observed over the past three years as a certain foreign national group has bought up four homes on my block and numerous others in my neighborhood. These people do not wave hello and often do not even glance over as you pass them on the sidewalk. Their faces are blank and their eyes are dim. Is this simply a community tipping each other off about home sales, and then bidding over the top to be near their own? Or is it a local Fifth Column?
I'm pretty sure citizenship is not required to be a policeman in nearby Connecticut, as I personally know a foreign national who serves there with assignments in both Greenwich and Hartford. Pretty strange for a street cop to move back and forth between two widely separated towns. He's certain not to form any connection with the community that way, which would make it much easier to coldly execute on command.
Add to this that Connecticut no longer provides pensions for its police officers, another broken social contract.
Inch by inch, brick by brick, the road is imperceptibly paved.
PS: I'll add this. Few people know that NKVD killers were paid a significant bounty for each "suspect" they murdered. This is how that group became very, very wealthy while the rest of Russia starved. You can find their children and grandchildren in the wealthiest corners of the world. Take a walk in sunny Cap Ferrat, where more Russian is spoken than French.
“The Chinese representative to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty forum called to end the weapons. It got scant attention. The true call is to stop war, once and for all — at least those which military strategists call wars of choice.”
Yet the PRC conducts a “military exercise” surrounding the island of Taiwan.
The global struggle is between the vast majority of humans who wish to live their lives in peace, raise their children in peace and live productive lives versus the small minority of the global population who are psychopaths and through their unrestrained psychopathy achieve leadership positions in governments, industries, religious institutions, education, finance, healthcare, etc.
And China has nukes.
I am not taking sides — I argue against taking any sides, because that is precisely how we are manipulated.
My aim is to help push the dialogue that politicians are determined to avoid.
Vanessa Beeley on the Oct 16 edition of UK Column News recalls U.S. presidential candidate Eugene Debs (in 1904, 1908, 1912, and 1920 - surely a record) who was imprisoned for pointing out that the worker never started a war: all earthly wars are begun, their duration and the time of their conclusion is decided, by the money power.
At 57 minutes.
https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-16th-october-2024
A discussion of how difficult it is to get rid of radioactive contamination.
https://www.brighteon.com/7de2a26a-f2c9-45ad-ae1b-3d7173b083ba
I wasn’t implying that you were taking sides. I just think that in China, as in other countries, there are war hawks and there are more reasonable factions who aren’t driven by power, money, or being controlled through blackmail.
No doubt there are warmongers, revanchists and ethno supremacists in all countries - and we have to avoid empowering them.
We're not doing a good job in Israel, but more importantly "knocking out" the leadership of Russia and Iran could bring to power precisely such forces.
This is where the neocons lack logic - all that explains their blood lust is revenge for centuries-old sleights, and the hijacking of religion to take God's decisions for him.
Strange times.
Strange times indeed.
“ This is where the neocons lack logic - all that explains their blood lust is revenge for centuries-old sleights, and the hijacking of religion to take God's decisions for him.”
I’m more recently of the opinion that the deeper explanation will only become apparent once the influence of malignant Extraterrestrials on human civilizations becomes more widely discussed in a serious forum rather than relegating the topic to the fringe. What more logical explanation but massive trauma to early human psyches millennia ago to explain the psychopathy demanding blood lust, child sacrifice, pedophilia, war (a form of human sacrifice incorporated into human culture) and slavery.
Thanks. I wasn’t aware of U.S. presidential candidate Eugene Debs.
I am aware of the pamphlet by Brigadier General Smedley Butler
War Is A Racket
https://www.heritage-history.com/site/hclass/secret_societies/ebooks/pdf/butler_racket.pdf
The ChatGPT answer reminded me of the lesson Neo was taught at the Oracle in Matrix...
Know thyself and the veil will vanish!
Any thoughts on what rules of occult knowledge are worth studying?
It is not so much rules, as a way of thinking.
Until the Enlightenment, the people understood the concept of all that is seen and unseen, the latter belonging to the metaphysical, the religious and the occult (simply meaning that which is not visible to the eye). After the Enlightenment the people were increasingly driven into specialized labor while a ruling elite retained to itself the "unity of knowledge"
The elite of the Enlightenment worked hard to kick away the ladders and keep the populace in their place. Despite the public perception, there was no one-way road to reason, writes David Riggs in The World of Christopher Marlowe.
"Before the Reformation, cathedral schools were an avenue of social mobility for poor boys. Cardinal Wolsey, who became the second richest man in England while in the service of King Henry VIII, was the son of a butcher. After the Reformation, however, the interests of the Church of England merged with those of the hierarchical nation state. The dissenting commissioners told Archbishop Cranmer that ‘it was meet [fitting] for the ploughman’s son to go to plough, and the artificer’s son to apply the trade of his parent’s vocation,’ while ‘gentleman’s children are meet to have the knowledge of government and rule in the commonwealth.’"
https://moneycircus.substack.com/p/occult-capitalism-or-last-exit-to
Thank you for that. It's similar to what corporations do with compartmentalized knowledge. And the best way to escape one's prescribed role is to understand how the company works.
Did you ever read about Bertrand Russell and Kurt Godel? I can't remember the book, but Bertrand Russell had built upon the French school that was looking for something called the Axiom of Truth. It would allow mathematics to be applied to moral and ethical problems and solve for "truth." Kurt Godel came along near the end of Russell's career and proposed his incompleteness theorem. It basically says that for any self-consistent set of axioms complex enough to produce countable numbers and simple arithmetic, there would be contradictions. And any additional axioms to patch up those inconsistencies would produce new contradictions.
The current concept of AI is a lot like the search for that Axiom of Truth. For those worried about AI's reach, there's comfort in learning about occult knowledge and perhaps Godel's incompleteness theorem.
That's a brilliant encapsulation of AI.
If I've got it right, the more rich the data and potentially useful the data, the more contradictions it will reveal.
And like software, every attempt to patch bugs simply produces more. Hence ever-more frequent updates.
Sounds about right!
Thank for the article and the serie.
Yes people over 50 grew up in the Cold War and were aware of the possibility of nuclear war because of school, tv, press, movies... It may be what was behind the punk movement. Musicians also were dealing with that menace, like the Ultravox's beautiful, 'dancing with tears in my eyes' and it's amazing video clip :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOnAzx5Fn8g&list=RDcYQTL-ws6p4&index=11
You reminded my of that Ultravox song (and what a name for a band!).
I wish the recording in 1984 was still not geared to transistor radios - the tonal potential of that song would benefit from being represented in greater depth.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjJddbiRq7g
And the lyrics...
"It's late and I'm with my love alone
We drink to forget the coming storm
We love to the sound of our favourite song
Over and over"
How we were manipulated. The ratcheting up of angst over nuclear war to have it whisked into oblivion and replaced by climate crisis.
We were had. It is painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we have been taken in.
"Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back."
The Earthly Incarnation of Lucifer
According to Rudolf Steiner, Lucifer incarnated on Earth in the 3rd pre-Christian millennium.
"If we go back in the development of humanity before the Mystery of Golgotha, then we come to find in ancient times of oriental cultural development a human personality on Earth within that culture from which today's Chinese culture has developed, a human personality who was the outer human embodiment of Lucifer, who at that time really walked on Earth as a human embodiment, and who was the bearer of the human light that we find on the ground of ancient pre-Christian wisdom, with the exception of Judaism. Even in Greekism, through that which worked in art, in world-view, in statesmanship, flows through that which went out from the Lucifer incarnation millennia before the Mystery of Golgotha.“
Some nihilism at the heart of Chinese culture produced the murderous Cultural Revolution. After studying that recent history, and noting the continuation of its one party system, Social Credit rollout, etc., I'm incapable of taking at face value a single utterance from any political bureaucracy there.
What was witnessed in Bolshevik Russia - 20 million put to death, uncountable numbers of believers, millions more dead by famine and war.
And while The Washington Post may have conceeded "Don't forget how the Soviet Union saved the world from Hitler" the bigger story is that the German-Russian conflagration was orchestrated.
Such butchery is simple once morality is dismissed as bourgouis.
Consider the Latvian "old Bolshevik" Martyn Latsis, an official of the Cheka. In a 1918 instruction to interrogators, wrote: “We are not waging war against individuals. We are exterminating the bourgeoisie as a class. . . . Do not look for evidence that the accused acted in word or deed against Soviet power. The first question should be to what class does he belong. . . . It is this that should determine his fate.”
Even Lenin criticized his advocacy of indiscriminate class terror as "absurd."
In "Two Years of Struggle on the Internal Front" (1920) he advocated unrestrained violence against class enemies.
Latsis was tried with the old Bolsheviks and shot in 1937 at Butovo, a forest on the outskirts of Moscow that I tried to visit unsuccessfully... the soil there is such mulch that a car cannot cross.
When you take down the "bourgeoisie," you're removing most of the educated, enlightened, critical thinkers, the so-called "political class" that has the money and the social stakes to challenge despots. That said, here in my bourgeois community, the economic requirement is such that most of the folks around me -- both husbands and wives -- are focused on accumulating wealth to pay mortgages and tuitions, with a secondary nod to family time. This leaves them no availability nor inclination to think critically and they are accordingly narrow-minded and know little about history nor recent/current events. These are the supporters of the East Coast Establishment who believe they are protected by those above from most threats below.
Most Russian bourgeoisie realized their error as they were being chopped up in the streets. The Communist horde -- many of them from far away from Russia, e.g. Mongolia and even New York City -- turned back Russian social progress by 75 years, and the country has not recovered and perhaps it never will.
Interestingly, I've observed over the past three years as a certain foreign national group has bought up four homes on my block and numerous others in my neighborhood. These people do not wave hello and often do not even glance over as you pass them on the sidewalk. Their faces are blank and their eyes are dim. Is this simply a community tipping each other off about home sales, and then bidding over the top to be near their own? Or is it a local Fifth Column?
I'm pretty sure citizenship is not required to be a policeman in nearby Connecticut, as I personally know a foreign national who serves there with assignments in both Greenwich and Hartford. Pretty strange for a street cop to move back and forth between two widely separated towns. He's certain not to form any connection with the community that way, which would make it much easier to coldly execute on command.
Add to this that Connecticut no longer provides pensions for its police officers, another broken social contract.
Inch by inch, brick by brick, the road is imperceptibly paved.
PS: I'll add this. Few people know that NKVD killers were paid a significant bounty for each "suspect" they murdered. This is how that group became very, very wealthy while the rest of Russia starved. You can find their children and grandchildren in the wealthiest corners of the world. Take a walk in sunny Cap Ferrat, where more Russian is spoken than French.