No Muss, No Fuss about Myanmar's Civil War...

...so long as the Rare Earth Minerals and Oil keep flowing into China.

from Google AI:

As of April 2025, the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP) reported 6,486 civilian deaths in the Myanmar civil war since the February 2021 coup, including 1,494 women and 751 children. Separately, the United Nations reported in December 2024 that over 3.2 million people were internally displaced and 149,000 were refugees.

Specific Data for 2025:

April 2025 AAPP Data: 6,486 civilians killed in total since February 2021.

March 2025 OCHA Update: 32,000 people displaced in Kachin state due to fighting in Bhamo Township since late 2024.

January 2025 UN News Report: Over 5,000 civilians killed and 3.3 million displaced by September 2024, with numbers rising due to conscription.

January 2025 Human Rights Watch Report: Over 125 detainees had been sentenced to death, with 44 in absentia.

Note: Casualty figures for civil wars are often difficult to ascertain accurately, and these figures are based on available reports as of mid-2025.

Mass Surveillance Provocations and Justifications

Sundance, "Spygate -vs- Russiagate"

Barack Obama didn’t like Hillary Clinton. Barack Obama didn’t even care about Hillary Clinton in the 2016 campaign. Barack Obama would have liked nothing more than to watch Hillary Clinton go down in a ball of flames, until something happened in 2016 that changed the dynamic.

Suddenly, Barack Obama needed Hillary Clinton to win the 2016 election…

That my friends, is the reason why so many people get lost in the story of the 2016 election and the eventual Trump-Russia conspiracy. However, once you understand what changed in those April and May 2016 moments, everything reconciles.

The U.S. government, under the President Obama administration, was spying on American citizens.

It started with Barack Obama and AG Eric Holder’s use of the IRS database in the 2010 midterm, against the primary threat of the Tea Party movement. However, an IRS whistleblower from the Cincinnati field office took the continued use of the IRS off the table.

From the period of mid-2012 to April-2016, the administration factually and demonstrably shifted to using the power of electronic surveillance to conduct political spying operations using the NSA database and the metadata captures within it.

However, once that NSA surveillance and spying was identified in April 2016, President Obama had a problem. That’s where the Obama alignment with the Clinton ‘dirty trick’ comes into play. After May 2016, Obama needed Hillary Clinton to win the election. The rest is “Russiagate” history.

Those who remember the 2015/2016 presidential race will remember President Obama never campaigned for Hillary Clinton during the 2016 primary. After all, Bernie Sanders was potentially going to upend Clinton until the DNC stepped heavily on the scales to assist her, and team Sanders was furious. Then suddenly, following the California primary, Barack went all in.

There is a distinct timeline shift during this period that most seem to overlook, because “Russiagate” was/is easily the shiniest thing for people to follow. However, it was the precursor scandal, ‘spygate’, that is more critical yet gets almost no attention.

Here it becomes critical for people to understand exactly what was taking place. Absolutely nothing had anything to do with: the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, aka FISA – surveillance impacting Americans (FISA-702), the FISA Court, masking, minimizing or unmasking. None of those terms apply. What the Obama administration was doing was simply spying.

The only reason the aforementioned terms enter the discussion is through the method used by the NSA compliance officer to reveal the nature of how the database was being compromised. The only tool for the NSA to reveal the spying was to report it to the FISA Court which holds jurisdiction over the use of the database.

When FISA Judge Rosemary Collyer was made aware of the spying, in October 2016 by NSA Director Admiral Mike Rogers, she then interpreted the NSA admissions through the language of the FISA Court.

When Judge Collyer released her report in March 2017 [SOURCE], that’s how the FISA terminology entered the discussion. However, nothing about the use of the NSA database to conduct political surveillance or spying had anything to do with the Obama administration using the FISA-702 authority to exploit the system.

Collyer noted that 85% of the Obama administration’s searches of the database, from 2012 to 2016, had nothing to do with FISA inquires. No attempt at minimization or justification was being done, and further, only 15% of the use of the database was being done in compliance with the rules governing the use of the database.

Tens of thousands of searches were conducted by the Obama administration, as they used their access to the NSA database to spy on their targets. The NSA identified the spying culprits colloquially as “FBI Contractors,” but factually nothing was ever provided to verify that assertion.

In fact, the only attribution that could be associated with the “contractor” claim, is the workstations and user access IDs deployed to search the database. To this day, we do not know where those workstations were located, or who was behind the user IDs operating the searches.

What we do know is that massive spying operations were undertaken during the period from 2012 to 2016, and many of those searches were for the same people repeatedly; meaning the same people were under constant illegal surveillance, and all of their electronic information was being reviewed by the Obama administration.

♦ Again, just for emphasis, the Obama administration was spying on targeted Americans repeatedly, and absolutely none of the activity had anything to do with FISA authorities. It was the existence of the NSA captures, the database itself, which brought the Obama administration to a place where it became useful for their spying operation.

The use of the NSA database for domestic spying operations followed the moment when the use of the IRS database was no longer feasible. Once congress and the American people became aware of the IRS and DOJ’s collaborative “special research project,” a targeted surveillance mechanism that culminated in the IRS/DOJ agreeing to settle a class-action lawsuit, the Obama administration switched from using the IRS data to using the NSA data. It really is that simple.

Obviously, the existence of the NSA database itself is problematic. However, the problem expands exponentially when we realize the false sense of security, the FISA firewall, is nothing more than a ruse to keep gathering the data of Americans.

The American people are told the data captures and FISA searches are being done as part of the national security system, where searching the database is a critical tool for the various intelligence agencies to identify threats. However, as shown by President Obama’s activity in 2012 through 2016, only 15% of that activity was part of a national security effort.

The overwhelming amount of activity that takes place within the NSA database, is simply the U.S. government conducting electronic surveillance. That’s the issue highlighted by “Spygate,” President Barack Obama’s unlawful use of the data captures to monitor targets identified by the administration.

Just like the Cincinnati IRS whistleblower (’12), once the NSA compliance officer noticed what was happening (March ’16), the trail of spying became a risk to the Obama administration. That’s the moment when Hillary Clinton’s planned deployment of the vast Russian conspiracy became of value to Obama and the surveillance perpetrators.

The Clinton campaign had been planning to use Russia as a dirty trick tool against the winner of the GOP nomination. The testimony of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign manager, Robby Mook, even admitted it.

John Durham – Q: In the Summer of 2016, was Mr. Trump’s relationship with Russia something that the campaign focused on?

Robby Mook – A: Yes. I mean, it was frankly something we were focused on before that time. But absolutely.

Q: Mr. Mook, before the break you had testified that there was a conversation in which you told Ms. Clinton about the proposed plan to provide the Alfa-Bank allegations to the media; is that correct?

A: Correct.

Q: And what was her response?

A: All I remember is that she agreed with the decision.

[SOURCE]

What became known as “Russiagate” was the 2016 Clinton campaign smear that was directed at Republican candidate Donald Trump. However, “Spygate” preceded the deployment of the smear.

The Obama administration used Clinton’s Russiagate to hide Obama’s Spygate.

President Obama’s support for the dirty trick Hillary Clinton created, starts with his motive to hide the spying.

Bejing in Lockdown in Anticipation of Scheduled Sept 3 Military Parade.

Who's on 1st?  On Hu Chunhua, Xi's current heir apparent and leader in a new triumvirate consisting of Hu Chunhua (Secretary General), Wang Huning (Premier), and General Zhang Youxia (Head of PLA)

Xiǎo xiān ròu

Andogenous 小鮮肉 fresh little meat exits the Asian Mainstream?

"Custom is like a King, and the Law, like a Tyrant"

- Dio Chrysostom

While America's Cultural Revolution Rolls on?

from Google AI:

The "Four Olds" were old ideas, old culture, old customs, and old habits, which Mao Zedong sought to destroy during China's Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) to eliminate counter-revolutionary and feudal influences in society. This campaign involved widespread destruction of historical sites and cultural relics by the Red Guards, public humiliation of individuals, and the closure of schools to redirect students towards "revolutionary struggle".

Europa meets Antigone, in the Western Exogamous Model

Peter Paul Reubens, "The Rape of the Sabine Women"

Law vs. a Civilization's S-Curve

Why do civilizations fall?  Because the rules/ laws that govern behaviour for the bottom and top of a civilizations S-Curve need to be radically different(?)

From Google AI:

An S-curve for a civilization describes its historical development as a process of logistic growth, moving through distinct phases: a slow and difficult beginning, a period of accelerated growth and power, a mature phase where growth levels off, and a subsequent decline or collapse. It is a conceptual model, not a rigid law, with key stages of growth driven by technological innovation and cultural diffusion. 

S-curve phases for a civilization

Phase 1: Emergence (Slow beginning)

Description: A civilization's early days are characterized by slow, challenging growth. Founding populations are small, with limited resources and vulnerable social structures.

Key activities: This is a period of experimentation, as people figure out the foundational concepts of agriculture, social organization, and primitive technology.

Driving forces: Early growth is driven by the establishment of basic infrastructure and societal norms, with progress limited by a lack of knowledge and a small population base. 

Phase 2: Accelerated growth

Description: As the foundational elements of a civilization mature, it reaches an inflection point where its growth rapidly accelerates. This explosive expansion is often fueled by technological breakthroughs and more efficient resource management.

Key activities:

• Innovation: Breakthroughs in agriculture, writing, and metallurgy lead to increased productivity and population.
• Expansion: The civilization expands its territory, influence, and trade networks.
• Complexity: Social structures become more hierarchical and complex to manage the expanding population and resources.

Driving forces: A positive feedback loop is created where a larger, more advanced society can sustain a greater number of innovators and institutions, which in turn accelerates growth. 

Phase 3: Maturity (Leveling off)

Description: The civilization approaches its carrying capacity, or the maximum population and complexity its environment and resources can support. As growth slows, the curve begins to flatten.

Key activities:

• Stabilization: Expansion slows as the civilization begins to face diminishing returns from growth.
• Resource depletion: Resources become more expensive, and growth and innovation slow as the market becomes saturated.
• Internal conflict: Competition over resources and power can increase within the civilization.

Driving forces:

• Limits to growth: Environmental constraints and increasing complexity limit further expansion and innovation.
• Strategic myopia: Leaders may become overly focused on managing the existing system rather than adapting to long-term challenges. 

Phase 4: Decline or renewal

• Decline and collapse: The civilization's stability may break down, leading to a period of decay, social unrest, and potential collapse, or a "death" of that S-curve.
• The next S-curve: A civilization may avoid decline by entering a new cycle of growth, driven by a new wave of innovation. This "reinvention wave" acts as the new engine for a subsequent S-curve. For example, a new technology might emerge to solve the problems of the previous phase. 

 The concept of successive S-curves

The history of a civilization is not a single S-curve but a series of overlapping ones, representing major technological and social transitions.

The Agricultural Revolution's S-curve is dwarfed by that of the Industrial Revolution, which is now potentially being followed by a digital or information-based S-curve.

This model suggests that new ideas and technologies emerge as the old ones mature, driving the civilization forward in episodic waves of growth.

Government Internet Surveillance: Welcome to the Watch List

 

Gotta LOVE the 'bots!

At 1:33 pm today I got 41 hits from "Salesforce.com"

I got 41 hits from Salesforce.com at Letters, too...

Loren Blinde, "Salesforce unveils top secret authorized government cloud offering" (October 22, 2024)

On October 21, Salesforce announced Government Cloud Premium, a new Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering with Top Secret authorization from the U.S. Government that makes the Salesforce Platform available for Top Secret use cases. Government Cloud Premium provides U.S. national security and intelligence organizations with a dedicated environment for no-code, low-code and pro-code application development, workflow automation, and API-first architecture for easily integrating government systems and tools. And, since it is API-first architected, the underlying data model and applications are extensible, so agencies can take advantage of other data and systems – including proprietary artificial intelligence (AI) applications – to advance the mission.

Legacy systems cannot provide the speed, scale, and application development agility required to preserve decision and intelligence advantages. A recent case study from the U.S. Department of Defense found that legacy systems can take years to adapt to mission needs. In order to maintain operational advantages amid an increasingly dynamic and complex world, U.S. national security and intelligence agencies need the flexibility to respond quickly to evolving mission needs.

Hosted on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Top Secret cloud – a dedicated cloud infrastructure accredited to operate Top Secret Workloads – Government Cloud Premium helps agencies enhance information sharing, gain mission-critical data insights, and speed up operations while helping meet the highest standards of security and compliance. Government Cloud Premium will provide intelligence agencies with a strategic advantage.

“The work of our national security and intelligence communities could not be more important, and we are deeply committed to ensuring they have the tools they need to drive mission success. With Government Cloud Premium, U.S. national security and intelligence customers can now transform operations and move at mission speed with reliable, secure, and compliant capabilities,” said Bill Pessin, senior vice president, Salesforce National Security.

Source: Salesforce

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from Google AI:

AI Overview

In the intelligence community (IC), Palantir is the dominant provider of data analytics for mission-critical operations, while Salesforce's role is largely focused on administrative and support functions. Both companies have robust government cloud offerings with high-level security clearances.

Palantir: The core analytics provider

Since its founding in 2003, Palantir has been deeply embedded within the intelligence and defense sectors, developing software specifically for high-stakes, data-intensive use cases like counterterrorism and threat analysis.

• Data integration and analysis: Palantir's Gotham and Foundry platforms are used by intelligence agencies to unify disparate datasets, enabling analysts to find hidden connections and derive actionable insights securely.
• Mission-critical applications: The company builds AI-enabled operating systems for defense and intelligence, with recent contracts valued in the billions. Its products support decision-making in the field and help agencies manage complex, classified information.
• Controversies: Palantir's government work has drawn criticism for its secrecy and for ethical concerns related to its use in mass deportation efforts and surveillance.

Salesforce: The enterprise solutions vendor

Salesforce provides the intelligence community and other government agencies with business applications for non-combat-related tasks, such as human resources and administrative services.

• Administrative functions: Salesforce products help government agencies automate internal processes like case management, workflow automation, and personnel tracking.
• High-security cloud: The company offers Salesforce Government Cloud Plus, which provides national security and intelligence organizations with a top-secret authorized platform for app development and data integration.
• Expanding AI: With its recent acquisitions and AI platform, Salesforce is increasing its offerings for the public sector, including "agentic" AI solutions to automate government operations.

Recent developments

In recent years, the rivalry between the two tech giants for government business has intensified. Salesforce has challenged Palantir's dominance by pursuing larger defense contracts, including a recent push for a Pentagon HR system.

For its part, Palantir has expanded beyond its core mission-based work into government enterprise systems and a larger commercial market. Both companies are also at the forefront of integrating AI capabilities into their government offerings.

Collective Stupidity Strikes AGAIN!

A Trans Rage problem? ...or a Gun Control problem? Go-along-to-get-along Catholic Bishops choose the latter...

Monica Showalter, "After Minneapolis, weakling Catholic bishops ignore trans rage, call it gun control problem instead"

By now, transgender rage shootings are so numerous it's common to look up whether the shooter was transgender when such news breaks. They usually are.

🚨WHAT DRIVES TRANSGENDER VIOLENCE AGAINST CHRISTIANS?

The media will bury this after Minneapolis, but the Annunciation Catholic School shooter joins a list of trans perpetrators who targeted or hated Christians.

First, my list. Then, what I think drives this.

🧵1/15 pic.twitter.com/frkuDhbxWK

— Tyler O'Neil (@Tyler2ONeil) August 29, 2025

But don't look to the local Catholic Church bishops to admit that such things are a problem, even as the Church is increasingly in the crosshairs of these disturbed individuals.

The message from many Church officials, at least at the bishop level, is that guns are the problem, and more gun control is the solution. Pay no attention to the rage of the perpetrator, which they seem to think would go away if honest citizens gave up their right to their defensive weapons. Homicidal trans individuals, hopped up on mind-altering drugs, wouldn't dream of using cars or flamethrowers or knives to satisfy that rage against Christians, after all. The only problem is guns.

Yes, they're out there.

According to lefty journalist Christopher Hale:

After a Catholic school Mass turned into a crime scene, U.S. bishops are raising the temperature on gun reform.

In the wake of the Aug. 27 shooting at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis — where two children were killed and 17people injured during an all-school Mass — Pope Leo’s ally and fellow Chicagoan Cardinal Blase Cupich [I doubt it -ed.] said the pattern is intolerable and demanded action.

“We must also cry out for action to prevent even one more such tragedy,” he wrote, arguing that common-sense limits have too often been rejected “in the name of a freedom not found in our constitution.”

Detroit’s Archbishop Weisenburger matched that shift, urging legislative action.

While calling the violence a wound to “the entire Body of Christ,” he urged that prayer be “matched by firm endeavors to end the superabundance of handguns and assault weapons.”

The moral through-line was explicit: treasure every child — and change the laws to protect them.

This is not a new posture for the bishops, but it is a sharper one.

Minneapolis has gun control!

Nice try, lefty bishops. You already have what you want and just look at the place.

Pope Leo, by contrast, seems to have prudently stayed out of the U.S. policy debate. He's made pro-gun control statements in the past, but this time sent only a compassionate note, seemingly written by himself, and quite swiftly, to the main bishop in Minnesota, without getting into political policy prescriptions.

What strikes me, as someone who still considers Minneapolis-St. Paul my home in many ways, is Leo XIV' usage of the "Twin Cities." There are people on the east coast who don't know what the Twin Cities are. The fact that the Pope does underscores his closeness amidst this tragedy https://t.co/jPeIskacJc

— Jonathan Liedl (@JLLiedl) August 27, 2025

Yes, it would have been nice if he had gotten into the root causes of this increasing danger to the Church, but not today. The pope kept it classy.

No such luck with these bishops, though, who repeated the same tired policy prescriptions that aren't going to happen, not the least of which is that they aren't going to work.

What's ignored here is the transgender rage that propels these mass shootings, and it often has an unusual degree of hostility toward Catholics and other Christians. We do know there's a lot of crazed hostility among trans individuals towards the Catholic Church in particular.

That may be because Church doctrine does not recognize that anyone can change their gender any more than rigorous science does.

The other propellant may be that just as transgender individuals desecrate their bodies, which are viewed as sacred in Catholic doctrine, they also seek to desecrate other sacred places, such as churches and Masses.

We saw that last year at the sickening specter of a transgender funeral at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City, where the holy name of St. Cecilia was defiled as "the queen of all whores" and transgender advocates danced in cathedral aisles.

Should it surprise anyone that the next enraged individual at war with God and nature would target a church during a sacred ceremony?

That's what the bishops are too cowardly to admit.

In Minneapolis, the mass shooting was not directed at a city street or shopping mall as previous attacks by others have been, but at the sacred Mass itself, in a church full of praying schoolchildren starting their first days of school.

That location was specifically chosen because of trans rage which is consuming these disturbed people. By no surprise, the attack had many earmarks of the demonic, something that ought to interest these bishops, but it doesn't.

The church has been desecrated by the evil act and will now have to be re-consecrated. Whether anyone will want to go back to that church if they do is still another question.

It's high time that the Church get assertive about its doctrine against transgender ideology instead of deflecting to the useless cause of gun control which isn't going to happen.

The Trump administration is showing leadership on this matter, but not the Catholic bishops.

The Department of Justice investigating the shooting as a hate crime against Christians, while the Department of Health and Human Services is investigating the problem of issuing hormonal drugs to underage youth and its deleterious consequences.

That leaves the hollowed-out bishops with nothing to offer, even from the Catholic faith itself. It's a sad commentary on how weak the Church is in these days of wokesterism and NGOs.

Meanwhile, the Left blames Christianity.  @@

Nassim Taleb, "The World in Which we Live"

Notes from video:

0) Skin in the game isn't a deterrent, it's a filter.

1) Concentration - Winner take all effect.

2) History is a process (not a point in time).

3) There is an S-curve in life

4) Immigration (to fill the bottom of the S-curve)

5) We trade information now (media)

6) Government % GDP up

7) Size/ Scale matters as a central element as a description of everyday life:

Proper Proportions (Ordo Amoris): 

Libertarian Gov - Federal/ National level

Republican Gov - State level

Democratic Gov - Municipal level

Communist Gov - Family level

City-state model (small) governments best

Multi-Culti Labour Commodification FAILS!

...vs. Techno-Orientalism

How the Guilt-Pride Infected West (Occident) hates Japan (Orient)

for having Insufficient Post-Colonial Guilt-Pride Spirit

Truth v Power: Round 2

Vijay Jayaraj, "Climate Inquisition Silenced a Generation of Scientists"

When researchers abandon empirical observation in favor of predetermined conclusions, science transforms into propaganda -- something far more dangerous than the simple ignorance perpetuated. In climate sciences, funding agencies and international political bodies have dictated outcomes while authentic scientists faced systematic marginalization for questioning the prevailing narrative.

The issue of climate change generates fierce debate among scientists, yet the public mostly gets a sanitized representation of nearly unanimous agreement. This is a pernicious deception given the high stakes: Climate science influences public policy that drives huge sums in public and private expenditures across industries -- from energy to agriculture -- and affects billions of lives.

Much of our world’s economic fortunes have been damaged by computer simulations of climate models that regularly fail testing against real-word observations. These models, which serve as the foundation for multi-trillion-dollar "net zero" policies, have a well-documented history of overpredicting warming. They are programmed with a high sensitivity to CO2 while systematically downplaying the powerful roles of ocean cycles, solar variability, cloud absorption of radiation, carbon sinks, and volcanic activity.

Dr. Judith Curry, professor emerita at Georgia Institute of Technology, exposes the reality behind this manufactured consensus: “What climate scientists actually agree on is very little. Everyone agrees that it's been warming since about the middle 19th century. Everyone agrees that we're adding carbon dioxide (CO2) to the atmosphere… But scientists do not agree on the most consequential issues, such as how much of the recent warming has been caused by humans.”

Initially embraced by advocacy groups for her research on hurricane intensity, Curry later faced backlash when she questioned the overstated links between warming and extreme weather.

Curry critiques the rush to attribute warming solely to human activity, questioning the reliability of climate models. Because fundamental questions remain unanswered with any certainty. “How much warming can we expect for the remainder of the 21st century?” she asks. “Is warming dangerous? Will humanity benefit overall from rapid fossil fuel transitions?”

Earth burning global warming climate changeDr. Curry is far from an isolated case. Dr. Peter Ridd, a physicist who spent more than three decades studying the Great Barrier Reef, was subjected to a modern witch hunt and ultimately fired from James Cook University in Australia for the supposed crime of questioning the prevailing narrative about the reef's purported imminent demise.

Dr. Ridd had the audacity to point out that much of the institutional "science" regarding the reef suffered from poor quality research. Claims of catastrophic damage were exaggerated, he said.

Recent surveys have shown the Great Barrier Reef with record-high coral cover, directly contradicting the alarmist reports Ridd was fired for questioning.

The goal of climate alarmist was no longer to understand the natural world but to produce data supporting a political agenda. Any scientist refusing to play along became a target. Peer review, once a guardian of scientific quality, changed to a weapon for enforcing ideological conformity.

Curry describes this transformation: “It's not science anymore. It's become a pseudoscience. You know, the hardcore, physics-based climate dynamics, such as what we had in the 1980s, that's just a small sliver of what we now define as climate science.”

Thankfully there’s a window of opportunity for making climate science great again. Dr. Curry was one of the five authors in the July U.S. Department of Energy report "A Critical Review of Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emissions on the U.S. Climate." The selection of Curry and her coauthors shows that there are sections of the government apparatus now open to honest scientific discussion.

The DoE report -- whose formulation is a rare instance of skeptical scientists being allowed to evaluate climate data on its merit for a federal document -- suggests we don’t fully understand how much warming lies ahead or even if it would be damaging.

Furthermore, the analysis reveals that "most extreme weather events in the U.S.A. do not show long-term trends. Claims of increased frequency or intensity of hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, and droughts are not supported by U.S. historical data."

Hell-bent on suppressing challenges to the status quo like DoE’s report is a climate industrial complex of high-profile academics, professional societies and politicians whose careers and status are dependent on fearmongering or buying into the narrative that feeds it. Little wonder that they resort to character assassination, vapid rhetoric, and shoddy research.

The historical norm in academia was vigorous, respectful disagreement over scientific questions, which facilitated advancement in human knowledge. Let’s hope DoE’s report returns us to that standard.

America: A Nation Trapped in Collective Stupidity

Post-Colonial Guilt-Pride

and the Individualist's Schizo-Consumerism

מנא מנא תקל ופרסין  

MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN

-Daniel, Chapter 5

Turn up the Signal?

...or Wipe OUT the Noise?

Immanentize?  Or Katechonize?

You Decide, America

NPR: A Progressive Recipe for Boiled Frogs

Peter Boghossian (New Media Ideological Usurper and More Spicy Boiled Frog Recipe Content Creator)

Russia Built Domestic MIC Institutional Support Coming Online?

Backstory:

Japanese Industrialization under the Meiji Restoration circa 1868

Wes Moore (D-MD) Starts Positioning for 2028... Starting as a Moderate, Now Moving Left, Lefter, Leftist

Troops Un-Constitutional? In DC?  Did You See the Biden Inauguration in 2021?

Searching for a (D) Gerrymander Sweep

Great War Stories w/ John Kiriakou

The "known" Trump-Epstein-Maxwell Timeline:

Via CNN

1985
Donald Trump purchases Mar-a-Lago, an oceanfront estate in Palm Beach, Florida. It is renovated and opens as a private club

1987
Trump and Jeffrey Epstein’s relationship begins, according to Trump in a 2002 profile on Epstein in New York Magazine.

1989
Trump attends a party on a yacht called the “Lady Ghislaine,” owned by billionaire Robert Maxwell. His daughter Ghislaine Maxwell, a British socialite, is among the guests at the party, according to newspaper reports.

September 1990
Epstein buys a mansion in Palm Beach, Florida, about two miles from Mar-a-Lago, according to property records.

1991/1992
After the death of Maxwell’s father, she and Epstein begin their public association, according to The Evening Standard, which described him as “a mysteriously wealthy New York money manager.”

November 1992
A video from NBC – released in 2019 – shows Trump and Epstein partying at Mar-a-Lago with Buffalo Bills cheerleaders and other guests. The two men talk while watching women on the dance floor. Trump appears to say to Epstein, “Look at her, back there ... she’s hot,” while Epstein smiles and nods.

December 1992
Epstein attends a Christmas party thrown by Trump at the Plaza Hotel, according to swimsuit model Stacey Williams, via the New York Times last year. Williams told CNN in 2025 that she began dating Epstein after that party.

ALLEGATION
January 1993
Trump has a “calendar girl” party at Mar-a-Lago with just two other male guests, Florida businessman George Houraney and Epstein, according to Houraney and his girlfriend at the time, Jill Harth. Later, Harth said in a 1997 lawsuit that during a business dinner at Mar-a-Lago, Trump took her to a private area, forcibly kissed her, fondled her, and restrained her from leaving a bedroom. Trump settled the lawsuit and has denied the allegations.

ALLEGATION
1993
Epstein and Williams visit Trump at Trump Tower in Manhattan, according to Williams. Williams told CNN this year that, as they stood outside his office, Trump groped her. “His hands were all over me. They were on my breasts. They were on my butt. They were on my hips, up and down while the two of them just kept having a normal conversation.” Trump’s campaign denied in 2024 that this happened and told the New York Times the allegations are “unequivocally false” and politically motivated. Williams described Epstein and Trump as “very close,” and said Trump “was his bro... his wingman. It was clear.”

1993
Trump flies with Epstein and Maxwell on Epstein’s private jet four times — on April 23, April 26, October 11 and October 17 — between the Palm Beach and Teterboro, N.J., airports, according to flight logs made public in 2021 during Maxwell’s sex-trafficking trial.

October 1993
Trump and his children Eric and Ivanka are photographed with Epstein at the Harley Davidson Cafe opening in New York City.

December 20, 1993
Epstein attends Trump’s wedding to Marla Maples in New York at the Plaza Hotel.

May 15, 1994
Trump flies on Epstein’s jet twice, per flight logs, with his then-wife Marla Trump, daughter Tiffany Trump, and a nanny from Palm Beach, Florida, to Washington, D.C., then later with one additional person from D.C. to Teterboro, N.J.

ALLEGATION
1994/1995
In a lawsuit filed against Epstein's estate in 2020, a woman who accused Epstein of sexual abuse and exploitation said that when she was 14 years old, he took her to Mar-a-Lago and introduced her to Donald Trump, saying, “This is a good one, right?” Trump “smiled and nodded in agreement,” the suit alleges. The lawsuit, which does not accuse Trump of any abuse, is later dismissed. The White House did not respond to a request for comment on the allegation.

1995
Maria Farmer, an artist who worked for Epstein, told CNN that Trump once “stood over me in a very imposing way” outside Epstein’s office. She said Epstein then told Trump, “She’s not here for you,” and Trump joked, “Oh, I thought she was 16.” A White House spokesman denied Farmer’s account to the New York Times, saying “the president was never in his [Epstein’s] office. Farmer, who later accused Maxwell and Epstein of sexually assaulting her, also described Trump and Epstein as “best friends.”

March 19, 1995
Epstein is photographed with another guest at a reception at Mar-a-Lago.

August 13, 1995
Trump and his son Eric accompany Epstein, Maxwell and others on a flight from Palm Beach to Teterboro, according to Epstein flight logs.

1995
Epstein and Maxwell are photographed with other guests at a party at Mar-a-Lago.

January 5, 1997
Trump flies with Epstein, Maxwell and four others from Palm Beach to Newark, New Jersey, on Epstein’s private jet, according to flight logs.

February 22, 1997
Epstein is photographed with another guest at Mar-a-Lago.

April 28, 1997
Trump is photographed with a model at the Victoria’s Secret Angels event in New York with Epstein in the background.

October 1997
Trump pens a personal note to Epstein inside a copy of his book “Trump: The Art of the Comeback,” which reads, “To Jeff — You are the greatest!” according to The New York Times.

October 30, 1997
Trump is photographed with Maxwell at a Ford Modeling Agency anniversary party.

1997
Epstein and Trump are photographed together at Mar-a-Lago.

February 3, 1999
Video shows Epstein and Trump chatting before a Victoria’s Secret fashion show in New York. They later sit near each other in the front row.

April 1999
Trump attends a dinner at Epstein’s Upper East Side mansion, with Maxwell serving as Epstein’s hostess, according to the New York Post, which says Prince Andrew was also in attendance. An ad for Trump's Atlantic City casino appears on the same page.

UNDATED 1990s
Trump and Epstein are seen with James Brown, possibly in Atlantic City in the 1990s, in a photo published by the New York Times.

February 2000
Prince Andrew and Maxwell fly on Trump’s jet to Mar-a-Lago, according to the British tabloid The Mail on Sunday.

February 2000
Trump, Epstein, Maxwell and Melania Knauss — the future first lady — are photographed at Mar-a-Lago.

June 2000
Virginia Roberts Giuffre, a 16-year-old working as a spa attendant at Mar-a-Lago, is approached by Maxwell to give Epstein a massage at his mansion. Giuffre alleges that over the next two years, Maxwell and Epstein groomed and sexually assaulted her. She alleges that they forced her to have sex with other men, including Prince Andrew, who denied the allegation and later settled a lawsuit she filed against him. In July 2025, Trump would tell reporters that part of his falling out with Epstein was because Epstein “stole people that worked for me” from Mar-a-Lago. Giuffre died by suicide in April 2025.

September 2000
Trump and Maxwell are photographed sitting next to each other in the front row of a fashion show in New York.

October 31, 2000
Trump and Melania Knauss join Maxwell and Prince Andrew at Heidi Klum’s annual Halloween party, per newspaper reports.

December 2000
Trump and Epstein attend a birthday party. Melania Knauss and Maxwell are also in attendance, according to newspaper reports.

October 28, 2002
In a New York Magazine profile of Epstein — “Jeffrey Epstein: International Moneyman of Mystery” — Trump describes him as “a terrific guy,” saying he’s known Epstein for 15 years. “It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side,” Trump said.

November 2002
Trump, Maxwell, Melania Knauss and model Naomi Campbell are photographed at the opening of Dolce & Gabbana in New York.

January 2003
Maxwell collects letters from dozens of Epstein’s friends to create a 50th birthday album. One of the messages, according to the The Wall Street Journal, bears Trump’s name. The letter contains an outline of a naked woman and a typed note that ended with the line: “Happy Birthday — and may every day be another wonderful secret.” In July 2025, Trump denied authoring the letter and sued the Wall Street Journal for defamation.

March 2003
Trump attends a dinner party at Epstein’s New York townhouse, according to a Vanity Fair article and a New York Magazine gossip piece.

2004
In his 2004 book, “Trump: How To Get Rich,” Trump wrote about taking a call from a man he named “the mysterious Jeffrey.”
Source: "Trump: How to Get Rich"

November 15, 2004
Epstein tries unsuccessfully to block Trump from participating in an auction for a foreclosed property in West Palm Beach. Trump wins the property with a bid of $41.35 million.

November 2004
Trump leaves two messages for Epstein, according to message pads seized from Epstein’s Palm Beach property.

March 2005
Police in Palm Beach open an investigation into Epstein after the parents of a 14-year-old girl say he paid her for a massage.

July 19, 2006
A grand jury in Palm Beach County indicts Epstein on one state felony charge of solicitation of prostitution.

July 2007
Prosecutors reporting to Alex Acosta, then-US Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, negotiate a deal with Epstein to plead guilty to two state charges, serve a prison term, and register as a sex offender. In exchange, federal prosecutors agree to drop their investigation and sign a non-prosecution agreement granting Epstein and “any potential co-conspirators" immunity against future federal charges. Prosecutors also agree not to inform Epstein’s victims about the plea deal, which is filed under seal. Trump would appoint Acosta as his Labor Secretary in 2017.

October 2007
Epstein is removed from the membership roster at Mar-a-Lago, according to the 2020 book, “The Grifter’s Club,” written by four investigative reporters from the Miami Herald and the Wall Street Journal. In 2025, Trump maintained that he broke with Epstein after he “stole” Mar-a-Lago workers around the year 2000. But the book reported that Epstein remained a member for several years after that purported break, and for more than a year after he was indicted on state prostitution charges. The Trump Organization acknowledged Epstein spent time at the club but denied that he was a member, the authors said.

November 30, 2007
Acosta, the US attorney handling Epstein’s case, emails Epstein defense attorney Kenneth Starr, stating, “I am directing our prosecutors not to issue victim notification letters.”

June 30, 2008
Epstein is sentenced to 18 months in a minimum-security prison after pleading guilty to state charges of solicitation of prostitution and of solicitation of prostitution with a minor under the age of 18. Despite Epstein registering as a sex offender, the deal allows him to leave prison each day for 12 hours on a work-release.

July 22, 2009
Jeffrey Epstein is released from prison after serving 13 months.

2009
Attorney Brad Edwards, who represents many of Epstein’s victims, said in a 2018 interview that Trump gave him helpful information in 2009. “He is the only person who picked up the phone and said, ‘Let’s just talk. I’ll give you as much time as you want. I’ll tell you what you need to know.’” Edwards said that Trump “gave no indication whatsoever that he was involved in anything untoward whatsoever, but had good information that checked out and that helped us."

March 17, 2010
In a videotaped deposition filed in state circuit court in Palm Beach, Epstein refuses to answer many questions about his association with Trump, including when asked, “Have you ever socialized with Donald Trump in the presence of females under the age of 18?”

March 2011
The Mail on Sunday publishes Giuffre’s account of being sexually abused and trafficked by Epstein and Maxwell. The report describes Epstein as a “Wall Street money manager who once counted Bill Clinton and Donald Trump among his friends.” Maxwell and Epstein deny Giuffre’s allegations.

February 2015
Trump, speaking with Bloomberg News after the Conservative Political Action Conference, brings up Jeffrey Epstein when attacking Bill Clinton. “Well, I think he’s got a problem... That Island was really a cesspool, there’s no question about it – just ask Prince Andrew,” Trump says, referring to a private island in the U.S. Virgin Islands owned by Epstein.

November 8, 2016
Donald Trump is elected the 45th president of the United States.

November 2018
The Miami Herald publishes a bombshell series of articles featuring Epstein’s victims on record for the first time. It reveals details about what the paper called “the deal of a lifetime” that Acosta negotiated with Epstein in 2007. It explains how Trump’s future labor secretary helped Epstein avoid major repercussions, even though a federal investigation had identified 36 underage victims.

July 6, 2019
Epstein is arrested and charged by the Southern District of New York with one count of sex trafficking of minors and one count of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking of minors. He is denied bail on July 18. FBI officials searching his New York mansion recover thousands of nude and seminude photographs of young women, including at least one minor, and binders of CDs containing the photos.

July 12, 2019
Amid a public furor over the 2007 plea deal with Epstein, Acosta resigns from his post as Trump’s labor secretary.

July 23, 2019
Epstein is found unconscious on the floor of his cell at a federal jail in Manhattan. The incident is described by authorities as a suicide attempt.

August 9, 2019
Hundreds of pages of court documents are unsealed from a civil lawsuit filed by Giuffre in New York federal court that allege new details of sexual abuse claims against Epstein and several associates.

August 10, 2019
Epstein is found alone and unresponsive in his prison cell, with a noose around his neck. He is later pronounced dead of an apparent suicide, the Bureau of Prisons says. A review from the Justice Department’s inspector general’s office in 2023 found no evidence that Epstein kept a so-called “client list” and found that Epstein died by suicide.

July 2, 2020
Maxwell is charged in New York with conspiracy to traffic minors, among other charges. When Trump is later asked about Maxwell’s arrest, he says, “I just wish her well, frankly.”

November-December 2021
A trial begins in federal court in New York with testimony from women who say Maxwell recruited and groomed them and was complicit in their sexual abuse by Epstein. On December 29, Maxwell is found guilty of five federal charges: sex trafficking of a minor, transporting a minor with the intent to engage in criminal sexual activity and three related counts of conspiracy. She has since appealed the conviction.

June 28, 2022
Maxwell is sentenced to 20 years in federal prison

January 5, 2024
A trove of documents from a 2015 civil suit against Epstein are unsealed by a court. They include detailed allegations by women who say they were abused by Epstein, and names of many prominent Epstein friends and connections – including a 2009 deposition in which an Epstein employee recounts having dinner with Trump in the kitchen of Epstein’s Palm Beach home.

June 3, 2024
In an interview with Fox News, Trump pledges to release more information from the Epstein files if reelected. But he added he is concerned with the possibility that there might be “phony stuff” in the government’s investigative files.

November 5, 2024
Donald Trump is elected the 47th president of the United States.

February 2025
Attorney General Pam Bondi authorizes the release of declassified files on Epstein, and the White House distributes binders of the files to right-wing influencers, who note that most of the information released is largely already in the public domain.

May 2025
The Wall Street Journal reports that sometime in May, Bondi told Trump at a briefing that his name appears multiple times in the Epstein files, including in potential instances of unverified hearsay about Trump.

July 2025
The Justice Department releases a memo that says its review revealed "no incriminating client list" and that Epstein committed suicide while in federal custody. The agency declines to release more records, causing public outcry.

July 16, 2025
In a post on Truth Social, Trump called the Epstein controversy a "Hoax" and "bullsh*t," denouncing "weaklings" in the GOP. He wrote that while he supports the release of “credible” information and “pertinent” grand jury testimony, he accused the media of focusing on old news.

July 24 & 25, 2025
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, formerly Trump’s personal attorney, interviews Maxwell over a two-day period at the US attorney’s office in Tallahassee, Florida. Six days after the interviews, the Bureau of Prisons transfers Maxwell without explanation to a low-security federal prison in Texas, nicknamed a “country club” prison. Trump says he was unaware that Maxwell was being transferred.

The Democrats Socialist Revival...

...Reviving a failed Ideology just because it's not the currently dominant one and its' too hard to think up a better one.  The "anti" strategy (ala - anti-Trump).

I know.  How Anti-Anti to point out the lazy rationality of it!

Wes Moore Catches a Few Lumps....

Anirbar Basu, "America’s most disappointing governor"

Maryland Governor Wes Moore was inaugurated on Jan. 18, 2023. Enough time has passed that we can now ask, “Is Wes Moore America’s worst governor?” Admittedly, such comparisons are difficult. Each state has its idiosyncratic challenges, political dynamics and success metrics. But based on our state’s trajectory, the question is a reasonable one.

Of course, some will undoubtedly wonder if it is reasonable. After all, Governor Moore’s approval ratings remain lofty. According to Morning Consult, Maryland’s governor registered a net approval rating of 31 as of mid-July, meaning that the share of voters who approve of his performance exceeded the share who disapprove by 31 percentage points. While several governors have higher approval ratings (e.g., Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania, Josh Stein of North Carolina and Andy Beshear of Kentucky), Wes Moore remains among America’s most popular governors, though a new poll conducted late last month showed signs that his approval is slipping.

A lot goes into such ratings, including items largely unrelated to performance like charisma, favorable media coverage and lags in perception. Rather than consider those things, let’s focus on outcomes.

In 1973, Moody’s Investors Service assigned Maryland a AAA bond rating. Since that year, Maryland managed to maintain this rating from all three major rating agencies despite oil embargoes, global financial crises and COVID. But in May 2025, Moody’s downgraded our state’s financing rating to AA1.

Rather than accept accountability, Gov. Moore quickly blamed someone else. On May 14, the governor, along with other state leaders, declared, “To put it bluntly, this is a Trump downgrade.”

Here’s the thing. Roughly a year earlier, on May 31, 2024, Moody’s had reaffirmed Maryland’s AAA rating but downgraded its outlook from stable to negative. Donald Trump was not president then. Maryland’s financial situation was deteriorating before Trump’s recent assault on Maryland’s economy. Perhaps Gov. Moore can at least accept some responsibility for that. Maryland enjoyed a universal AAA rating for more than five decades. It took the Moore administration fewer than three years to undo that.

Let’s broaden the discussion by analyzing state budget dynamics. Having overspent during Moore’s first two budgets, Maryland faced a $3.3 billion fiscal shortfall during its most recent General Assembly.

While the governor insisted that he had a high threshold for tax increases, that standard thawed into a dew during his most recent budget. The governor signed a Fiscal Year 2026 budget that rains additional taxes on many Marylanders, including two new higher income tax brackets, increased excise taxes on sports wagering, table games and motor vehicles, an expanded local income tax rate cap of 3.3%, and a 3% sales tax on data and IT services. In total, this represents a $1.6 billion annual increase in state taxes for Marylanders, who were already among the most heavily taxed people in America.

But Maryland’s malaise extends beyond economics and finance. Recently, three top Maryland officials overseeing Maryland’s juvenile detention facilities were fired. A recent report alleged numerous issues inside those facilities, including illegal drugs, concerns regarding food quality, staffing shortages and assaults. As the Washington Post reported, the report was based on “observations from the first six months of the year, when former juvenile services secretary Vincent Schiraldi was still leading the department.” The report firmly laid blame for the problems “at the feet of Schiraldi’s team.”

As is well known, it took Gov. Moore months before Secretary Schiraldi handed in his resignation. Meanwhile, Marylanders have been plagued by juvenile crime. According to the Baltimore City State’s Attorney’s Office, juvenile crime arrests increased 146% in 2024 compared to 2023. In Baltimore City, juvenile robbery cases surged to 246 during the first six months of 2024, up from 56 cases during the same period one year prior and just 17 two years earlier.

There’s more. As The Baltimore Sun recently reported, the governor’s office, state budget departments and several individual state agencies don’t even know how much money the state or their own agencies spend on nonprofits.

This is not to suggest that Maryland is deteriorating along all dimensions. For instance, the governor’s mansion is improving nicely. More than $2.3 million in state-funded repairs have been made to the structure since Gov. Wes Moore and his family moved in. “The most expensive repairs were a $737,000 project to replace the conservatory room windows and a $359,000 elevator replacement,” The Sun reported. “Other costs included $302,000 to renovate four of the mansion’s 12 bathrooms.”

While it may be unfair to say that Wes Moore is America’s worst governor, an argument could easily be made that he is its most disappointing.

...while, the Left reluctantly declaims Trump an Usurping Prophet of the Great Caucasian God (aka - Government)!

Who will be THEIR new Messiah?  Zohran Mamdani?  Wes Moore?

The Art of the Deal, China Edition

Excerpt from video above:

There we go. The Supreme Leader is back. Okay. 

So, here's Mr. Woo, one of the dissident living in the US. And so, on August the 15th, he posted what he called "The Four Point Consensus" of the Beidaihe meeting. So these are the agreements, or temporary agreements, that Xi Jinping had reached with his rivals, or this is the temporary agreement that all factions have reached. So there are four points: 

The first one is to maintain the stability of the Party's central leadership. Xi Jinping will remain in his post and continue to play the role of the top leader. State propaganda should stay consistent about his status, but excessive personal worship will no longer be allowed. 

Point number two, Xi Jinping will not be permitted to serve in another term. 

Number three, Party, government, and military powers will be relatively separated. 

Number four, the party's coordinating bodies will oversee preparations for the Fourth Plenum and begin laying the groundwork for the 21st Party Congress in 2027. 

So to me, this consensus looks like a deadlock. It basically says Xi will step down eventually, in 2027 at the 21st Party Congress, but until then, no one knows what to do with him. So, for now, we'll keep him in place until figuring out the next move.

Xi Gets 3!

Last Stop... the 21st Party Congress in 2027... then Bye-Bye Xi!

Hail Columbia!

"Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication"

-Marshall McLuhan

from Google AI:

Nietzsche viewed journalism and newspapers critically, seeing them as symbols of a societal "debasement" driven by mass media and "slave morality" that prioritized superficiality and the "permanent false alert" of fleeting news over true wisdom. He condemned the journalist as a "paper slave of the day" who epitomizes the intellectual shallowness of Alexandrian culture. However, his critiques are not an outright rejection of media but a call for suspicion towards its power and a deeper consideration of its role in shaping modern life and truth.

Mike Benz Enters the USIP Chamber of Secrets....

China Watch: "Oh say can you Xi"

If You're Going to Have a Military Parade, You'll Need a few Tanks...

Can the Jews Spiritually Handle Wielding the Power of 'Mastery' over the State of Israel?

...or Will they Lose Their Struggle with their Better Angels to Catastrophe and Re-Enslavement?

A Civilization without Scapegoats.  Is it Possible?

w/o Guilt and/ or Shame?  Can the Jews Ever Again Take PRIDE in Mastery, ala "Prince" Judah Ben Hur, and as an EQUAL to Rome?

There are no "Final Solutions", merely Katechons for the Eschaton.  Persistence, NOT Victory.  "The Struggle is Eternal". Israel, such is your name.

Starring Bibi Netanyahu as Col. Kurtz, Scapegoat of the Righteous..

...and Fighting Instrument Against "the Horror"!

...only to Be Judged, once his Usefulness is Over, by a Few 'Good' Men, as "Angels" are in Short Supply.

"Judge not, lest ye be judged."

Mathew 7:1

“There is no such thing as collective guilt or collective innocence; guilt and innocence make sense only if applied to individuals.”

–Hannah Arendt, "Personal Responsibility Under Dictatorship"

As for me, I'll rely on faith, and let G_d decide.  Fortunately I believe that He already did, long, long ago.