Step 1. Create a problem.
Step 2. Hand out other people's money on camera so it looks like you care about the problem.
Step 3. Contact donors and threaten to actually solve problem unless they are generous.
Step 4. Profit!!!
David Ricardo wrote about this in the late 1700s.
His thesis was that until people have achieved the level of financial security their parents had before having them, people do not marry or have children.
This level is obviously different for people of different social origins.
Rural Europe was still in the Middle Ages then, but I think Ricardo's thesis still fits the observable facts today better than conventional explanations pushed byvregime mouthpieces - like level of childcare interventions, or the percentage of women photographed with framed pieces of paper.
Its a spiteful thing to do to the next administration, but I doubt it will lead to nuclear war.
I suppose our friends could use it to hit some NPPs and try to get a Russian nuclear response.
But other than that, it adds a few Russian economic and cultural facilities to the target list, and a bunch of airbases. 0% chance of effecting battlefield momentum, so I don't see why Russia would re-escalate with nukes.
More likely they'd just escalate to supplying Ansrallah with missiles as well as intel.
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Wikipedia Labels ADL ‘Unreliable’ - Small Victory in the Infowar
The sheer irony of it all. The ADL, long a bastion of selective outrage and the censorious gatekeeper of “acceptable discourse,” has finally found itself on the wrong side of its favorite weapon: credibility. Labeled "unreliable" by Wikipedia, a platform that itself serves as a curated playground for Western intelligence narratives; this moment feels like a crack in the armor of imperial propaganda.
For decades, the ADL has operated as the ideological air cover for DC and Tel Aviv’s endless wars of hegemony. From greenlighting genocide in Gaza to policing dissent in Western academia, the ADL’s doublethink has been a blunt instrument of control. Question the genocide in Palestine? You’re an antisemite. Critique the apartheid policies of a state built on perpetual occupation? Hate speech. And so, they built a fortress of intimidation, shielding the systemic obliteration of a people under the guise of “civil rights.”
But here’s the plot twist: Wikipedia, that bastion of neoliberal gatekeeping, just pulled the rug. Yes, Wikipedia, the digital billboard of CIA-approved narratives, decided that the ADL is no longer a reliable source on issues like antisemitism and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. When the Empire’s own mouthpieces begin eating their own, you know the gears of the propaganda machine are grinding against reality.
Let’s not mince words. The ADL and its partner-in-crime, AIPAC, are not just tools, they are weapons in the arsenal of forever wars. Through lobbying, media manipulation, and judicial intimidation, these entities have facilitated the flow of billions in military aid to sustain Israel’s war economy, all while silencing critics under the guise of fighting hate. Hate for whom, exactly? Certainly not for the displaced, bombed-out families of Gaza or the bullet-ridden corpses of journalists like Shireen Abu Akleh.
AIPAC’s lobbying blitzkrieg in Washington has ensured the U.S. bankrolls every missile that flattens a home in Khan Younis and every bullet that silences a child in the West Bank. The ADL provides the ideological justification, ensuring that any voice daring to call out apartheid is swiftly silenced, canceled, or worse, branded an enemy of humanity.
But here’s the rub: the empire of lies is starting to crumble. Despite its history of manipulating reality, even Wikipedia can’t hide the ADL’s obvious role as a narrative enforcer rather than an arbiter of truth. And while the platform still serves as a CIA-adjacent tool of narrative management, moments like these expose its own hypocrisy. The cracks are showing.
This isn’t just about Wikipedia or the ADL. It’s about the shifting tectonic plates of the global order. In the battle for hearts and minds, the West’s monopoly on truth is being shattered by a rising chorus of resistance. From BRICS to platforms like Telegram and X, the Global Majority is pushing back against decades of propaganda masquerading as journalism. The empire is losing control of the narrative and that terrifies them more than any kinetic war ever could.
But let’s not delude ourselves into thinking this signals a sea change. Wikipedia is still a platform that dances to the tune of the U.S. State Department. One minute, it’s labeling the ADL unreliable; the next, it’s airbrushing CIA coups in Latin America and whitewashing the war crimes of NATO. But the fact that a sacred cow like the ADL is now open to question? That’s a sign the system is glitching.
This is the infowar and for once, it feels like the narrative guardians of empire are stumbling. Don’t hold your breath, though. The ADL, AIPAC, and their imperial backers are nothing if not resourceful. The war they’re waging against truth, justice, and human dignity - isn’t over yet.
But for those in the trenches, this moment feels like a victory, however small. Because every crack in the facade of imperial control is a step closer to its ultimate collapse. And when it falls, the world will breathe a little freer.
- Gerry Nolan
From @TheIslanderNews on tg
Most wars since 1945 have been proxy wars, with both sides funded by a Great Power.
"World Police" are just as unaccountable, lawless and self-serving as the very worst domestic police, and for the same reasons.
If instead every village had a nuke, wars would be few, brief, and used as talking points for generations.
(Nuclear Winter was always a lie. )
A lot of non-Western elites were, in earlier centuries. Colonialism was good for some!
The same people today who denounce colonialism, glorify the process when it happens to the West.
Our elites claim it is payback for previous acts of colonisation, to be specific.
I rarely hear actual immigrants saying anything like that, unless they are academics who have abandoned their birth culture to suck up to our elites.
Both this, and previous episodes of colonialism, are substantially campaigns of class warfare, with a lesser role as intra-elite conflict.
They're winning hard presently, judging by the birth rate and the banking and property sectors.
Common Law's actual roots are in Anglo-Saxon customary law, were based on precedent, and for most of its history developed in a decentralised and bottom-up manner. Like customary law everywhere.
Codified, "Civil" legal systems are imposed from above, by fiat. Literally. F--k that. The Noahide Laws are codified fiat BS just like Babylonian and late-Imperial Roman law. (Modern Common Law is a hybrid. We should fix that. )
A lot of non-Western elites were, in earlier centuries. Colonialism was good for some!
The same people today who denounce colonialism, glorify the process when it happens to the West.
That's where the ethnos developed, which is not quite the same thing. We don't even know if the tribe of Binyamin were native or newcomers at the dawn of their literature. Tradition says newcomers, archeology disagrees.
LOL re three npubs - if I muted you, I'd only have maxi-flamewars and photos of food for entertainment.
My Jewish ancestry is from Silesia, but I'll happy file an additional claim to Ukraine and southern Russia - there's almost certainly Khazarian in my DNA.
I don't want a mule, though. Can I have robots instead?
Valid.
Furthermore, publicly-traded companies with well-networked execs and typical passive shareholders have exactly the same "Principal-Agent" problems that public administration has, and for the same reasons.
Compensation with Options is a bandaid, the main deterrent is various federal agencies and the volumious mass of regulations and laws enforceable against corporate managers. (Mostly at taxpayer expense...)
Government is fiat. Corporations are fiat, too, especially large and highly traded ones.
Something I notice about one demographic of Globalisation's "useful fools":
1800s Westerners sent missionaries to the rest of the world to prosetylise Christianity, to make the world more like themselves.
1900s Westerners sent International Development experts to the rest of the world to prosetylise interest-bearing debt and vapid consumerism, to make the world more like themselves.
2000s Westerners simply gaslight that the rest of the world has already been converted, and that no meaningful cultural differences exist.
Cue:
https://youtu.be/wdrvpSfJM1w
One of the most cruel and bizarre crimes against the English language is the way these people often self-identify as Liberal.
If only there was an easy avenue to help them self-segregate physically as well as socially...
Has potential!
Walls need to be covered by observation and fire, and that costs money that nobody wants to spend.
If citizenship/residency were an alienable property right, though, I think many haters would self-deport to sprouting Third World "Jonestowns" in a tantrum or out of a desire for free $.
You overestimate their ability to:
(a) math
(b) delay gratification
I promise you, if Australians could sell their citizenship in a free(ish) market, we'd see turnover of at least a million a year.
The *ahem* "Russians" who blew up the NordStream pipelines deserve some blame too.
Actually, the saboteurs don't - the weaklings who closed their investigation without findings, do.
100%. I sold my late-model Mazda when the b1tch decided to brake hard because I was reversing into a leaf. But it was the "always on" internet connection to the manufacturer that really "unsold" me.
Daily driver now is from 2009.
If I'm forced to own a smart car in future, the antennas are going to be chewed off by rodents. Very unfortunate,Your Honour, and how was a simple man like me to know?
I have read that the Roman Senate re-naming a calendar month after Julius Caesar - with the support of the Opposition - was likely an act of sabotage and "malicious compliance", deliberately sowing the seeds of overreach and resentment that led to the events of the Ides of March.
That's about the best we can hope for for America....
The First Amendment still exists, battered and bruised though it may be.
Trump's totalitarian dream won't survive a SCOTUS challenge.
My fear is that there just won't be one, due to elite consensus. Like what happened to Australia's s.92
What the others said about dataset size, but there's no reason to fully "reinvent the wheel".
Train a Lora on your posts and bolt it on to your favourite LLM. It won't quite be you, but you'll be horrified and entertained by how close it can get :D
nostr:nprofile1qqsqdzwltpr635ehdzfd52tz947qlhq77x2c7j7yguwep9n258k2nusprdmhxue69uhhw6r9v96zu6rpwpc8jarpwejhym3wvdhj7qg4waehxw309aex2mrp0yhxgctdw4eju6t09uq3kamnwvaz7tm5dpjkvmmjv4ehgtnwdaehgu339e3k7mf04qpewr owns the copyright, so y'all must pay him; but my lawyers and I are claiming additional fees for "Indigenous Knowledge" and "Plant Breeders Rights".
(Australia is a test-bed for new and improved forms of Statist monopoly-construction. We're the "closed beta" of FutureFash.)
I've had a few clients who speak it like a native tongue.
Usually in grant applications, or investor pitches.
Only one was an actual believer, and I understand he's now bankrupt and hiding from creditors back home in Uttar Pradesh :p
I can't say that about neuroscience or endocrinology. There's a lot of "code reuse" that really shouldn't have been reused, and a lot of "memory accesses" that really shouldn't be allowed.
Bones, and their maintainence and remodelling, though, that is just poetry. Natural selection does good work if it has time to iterate through a hundred million generations.
Yum! Homemade is always best!
I had an apricot tree once at a rental I lived in. Made 20l of jam that year. Lasted me years even though I gave a lot away.
If I buy some rural land in the next year or two a few apricot trees have to go in.
Freezing sounds good.
Annoying re frost! What's your local climate like?
I'm not a huge fan of sweet foods either, but I didn't have a freezer nearly large enough for that harvest.
That said, I used to sometimes drink a glass of milk with a spoonful of honemade apricot jam stirred in. I only have commercial jam in the house right now, but maybe I'll try...
Probably already easier to obtain Monero than non-KYC Bitcoin, here in AU.
Fast-forward a few years, I daresay it will be easier to obtain Monero here than physical fiat cash.
Exchanges and hosted wallets already seize Bitcoin that is accused of being "tainted", here in AU.
Payment processors Western-world-wide are also noted for rejecting or seizing funds associated with disfavored causes and industries, without so much as a court order.
The USA may still allow some financial freedoms for a while, but for the rest of us on the wrong side of the Rainbow Curtain, its getting dark.
Yup, and yup. They were paying others for the analysis, but from the ads I'm seeing they're building in-house mass financial surveilance too.
Bitcoin is fully-auditable and tracable. If you use it and one of your counterparties takes it to an exchange, the government can trivially find you.
This.
I have been in the presence of a couple of MPs when the topic came up.
They find the existence of permisionless _anything_ horrifying.
The way normal people would react to waking up as a brain in a jar, or discovering we live in a simulation controlled by Yog-Sogoth.
The cynicism is higher in the Public Service, but the power-hunger no different.
Look at how a typical Third World country treats USD. That's how they think of Bitcoin at best.
Australian elites think of Bitcoin the way North Korea thinks of USD. There are a few other countries worse than Australia. Bangladesh comes to mind.
If you want to predict the adoption of Bitcoin-friendly policies in any State, you might want to look at the ratio between GDP and banking industry firms market capitalisation.
Australia is one of the highest in the world.
They can't un-invent it, but they can try to convert it into something akin to the markets here for cocaine and child-molestation.
Controlled by cronies and informants, but occasionally "harvested" anyway, after a double-cross attempt or just a desire to bump revenue and headlines with asset forfeiture.
Romans were Arabs, now? General Vespasian would be surprised to learn that.
He burned the Temple and banned Jews from owning land for several dozen miles around Yerushmalim - pretty much the entirety of ancient Judah.
He had reasons - Bar Kokhba had committed sickening war crimes, even by the low standards of that age.
The rest of your post is equally devoid of truth.
Do better. Be better.
I can't imagine any Jewish guy I know IRL being that lame in his clapbacks.
Israelis just aren't very Jewish any more. Too busy trying to become Best Nazis, I guess...
I hold XMR and shiny rocks along with my BTC, not a maxi here. I care about "not getting rekt" more than I care about NGU.
eCash can be forked by anyone, any time. Its not trustless and cannot be, but its madly flexible - works even offline and via paper bearer tokens.
"Richly, and with ridiculous display,
The politician's corpse was laid away.
While all his acquantaince sneered and slanged,
I wept,
For I had longed to see him hanged"
- Belloc Hillaire
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