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A contrarian view on China and the BRICS.
Brendon O’Connell sees them failing and collapsing;
Which suggests that this will only push them even faster into the arms of the "World Economic Forum" in Davos and the UN globalists.
So it makes sense that the BRICS and especially China, would be enthusiastically endorsing the plans of global Big Pharma, global Big Tech and NATO's psyops industrial complex.
Which suggests that this will only push them even faster into the arms of the "World Economic Forum" in Davos and the UN globalists.
So it makes sense that the BRICS and especially China, would be enthusiastically endorsing the plans of global Big Pharma, global Big Tech and NATO's psyops industrial complex.
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Inflation (debasement of the coinage) = Rome’s Decline
Nothing is as destabilizing, demoralizing and damaging to any economy as inflation.
In the Roman world, paper money was never widely in use, except as IOUs.
Money was almost always in the form of coinage: gold, silver, bronze, copper.
Over time, and especially during the "Crisis of the 3rd century", the gold and silver content of coinage was reduced; with the effect of debasing the value of coins and undermining confidence in their worth.
This in turn did long term damage to the economy , triggered revolts by the legions, and contributed to a sense of "decline and fall". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoninianus
In the Roman world, paper money was never widely in use, except as IOUs.
Money was almost always in the form of coinage: gold, silver, bronze, copper.
Over time, and especially during the "Crisis of the 3rd century", the gold and silver content of coinage was reduced; with the effect of debasing the value of coins and undermining confidence in their worth.
This in turn did long term damage to the economy , triggered revolts by the legions, and contributed to a sense of "decline and fall". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoninianus
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Re: Liberalism
Farmers: Please do your homework and join the dots
https://robwillson.substack.com/p/farme ... irect=true
The anti-Communitarian
https://robwillson.substack.com/p/farme ... irect=true
The anti-Communitarian
...When the government announced the inheritance tax policy in the November budget, they would have already anticipated backlash and protests, factoring these into their plans. They are adept at managing dissent, whether by infiltrating protests to discredit them or steering them into ineffectiveness through false leadership. A brief review of historical protest movements reveals this pattern.
The government also exerts significant influence over the media, including so-called 'controlled opposition' outlets. Take care with sources like GB News, which are unlikely to reveal the deeper origins of this policy and distract people with semantics.
What are the real origins of this policy?
Firstly, farmers need to understand the true purpose behind this policy, alongside the rising costs of red diesel and fertiliser and the tightening grip of oppressive regulations. It’s not about the revenue generated which is an insignificant sum in the overall context of government spending. Instead, this is a very deliberate strategy to drive small, independent farmers out of business.
Secondly, Farmers need to fully understand the system which has brought about this sinister policy and where it has come from; 405E 45th St, New York, NY 10017, USA, better known as the United Nations headquarters. Here’s a sobering reality: we no longer live in a democracy. The rules they operate by are not the rules we once knew, and they’ve conveniently rewritten the laws to enable their agenda.
Just days before the government announced its punitive inheritance theft on family farms, a measure likely to force the breakup of farms that have taken generations to build, the Climate Change Committee piled on further insult. It advised the government that the UK must cut meat and dairy consumption by 50% to meet Net Zero targets. Thanks to the Climate Change Act 2008, these recommendations, made by unelected globalist change agents, are legally binding.
So much for democracy. This is communitarian governance in plain sight. And as for the so-called consensus on Net Zero? We’ve all agreed don’t you know!
Obviously, Starmer is a vacuous shell of a person and a clear wrong-un. However, he and Reeves are merely ‘useful idiots,’ executing the UN’s Agenda 2030. This is the foundation of the communitarian governance system, which I’ve explored in greater detail in my article, Communitarianism for the Distracted.
The UK is fully committed to achieving the 17 Sustainable Development Goals outlined in Agenda 2030. The ones most relevant here are:
This collectivist agenda views small, independent farmers as obstacles to sustainable development. The preference is for agriculture to be centralised and controlled by a few favoured Big Ag corporations.
- SDG 2 – Zero Hunger
- SDG 15 – Life on Land
- SDG 17 – Partnerships for the Goals
As Henry Kissinger famously said: “Control the food, and you control the people.”
Former Labour advisor and globalist agenda pusher, John McTernan, let the cat out of the bag by stating the real goal in a recent TV interview: “If the farmers want to go on the streets - we can do to them what Margaret Thatcher did to the miners.” He added: “It’s an industry we can do without. If people are so upset that they want to go on the streets and spread slurry then we don’t need small farmers.”
Sustainable Development is underpinned by the logical fallacy of the anthropometric global warming theory. Far from being a genuine environmental initiative, it is, at its core, a political agenda, and even its proponents admit as much:
And then, perhaps most tellingly:
- “It doesn’t matter what is true, it only matters what people believe is true.” – Paul Watson, Founding Director of Greenpeace
- “One must say clearly that we redistribute de facto the world’s wealth by climate policy. One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. This has almost nothing to do with environmental policy anymore.” – Ottmar Edenhofer, IPCC panellist and Director of the Mercator Research Institute, in a 2010 interview with NZZ Online.
- “The data doesn’t matter. We’re not basing our recommendations on the data. We’re basing them on the climate models.” – Professor Chris Folland, Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research
- “The models are convenient fictions that provide something very useful.” – Dr David Frame, climate modeller, Oxford University
- “We’ve got to ride this global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing in terms of economic and environmental policy.” – Timothy Wirth, President of the UN Foundation
These statements clearly expose the underlying motives behind the agenda: centralised global control and the concentration of wealth and assets for the elites...
- “You’ll own nothing and be happy.” – Klaus Schwab, Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum, a key strategic partner of the United Nations
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Re: Liberalism
HOW THE BRITISH EMPIRE BRAINWASHED THE WORLD
15 May 2015
This speech by Anton Chaitkin recorded in 1994 reveals in greater detail how England was overthrown by banksters and Britain became the centralized hub for crime syndicates, slavery, spiritual manipulation, and world domination.
Chaitkin is an co editor of Executive Intelligence Review and a member of the Lyndon LaRouche political movement.
Some of the high points mentioned are:
How Hollywood was set up by Aleister Crowley and the Golden Dawn.
How many "anti" organizations are actually the perpetrators of what they speak against.
The exact caretakers of slavery in the U.S. and abroad that continues until this very day.
How the so-called Jews brought Palestine.
Black bag jobs of the British Imperialist and how that has effected society.
The of MK-Ultra and mass mind manipulation.
The connection between the Nazis and the Mafia.
What the bootleggers, slave traders, and pirates do today.
The birth of modern science for malevolent means.
The origins of the music industry and the slave master relationship between it performers and originators.
Las Vegas and the raise of an entertainment based culture for hire.
The origins of "accepted" Freemasonry and its charter for the King.
Much Much More
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Residue and solid artifacts of reality.
Coinage, architecture and sculpture.
The Romans memorialized their sacrifices and victories permanently for posterity (and to honor the gods).
The golden candelabra sculpted was a literal representation of the trophies and plunder from their sack of the Temple in 70 C.E.
And they issued new coinage to make their power even more real.
The Romans memorialized their sacrifices and victories permanently for posterity (and to honor the gods).
The golden candelabra sculpted was a literal representation of the trophies and plunder from their sack of the Temple in 70 C.E.
And they issued new coinage to make their power even more real.
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Re: Residue and solid artifacts of reality.
Roman concrete: Indestructible, short of earthquakes.
https://www.neogaf.com/threads/scientis ... te.591531/
https://www.neogaf.com/threads/scientis ... te.591531/
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Collapse of late Roman monetary system
The legions kept demanding raises because of the decreasing amount of real silver in the Roman denarius: literal inflation through debasement of the currency.
When emperors or generals couldn't pay off the legions, they opted for rebellion or civil wars and coups. Recruitment of Gothic foederati, first as mercenaries and then as citizens and soldiers, was seriously destabilized by less and less silver in the money.
Immigrants felt cheated.
When emperors or generals couldn't pay off the legions, they opted for rebellion or civil wars and coups. Recruitment of Gothic foederati, first as mercenaries and then as citizens and soldiers, was seriously destabilized by less and less silver in the money.
Immigrants felt cheated.
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Re: Collapse of late Roman monetary system
In 406 AD, Roman troops in Britannia revolted, as a direct consequence of unprecedented disastrous inflation (debasement and shortages of coinage).
Numismatic evidence is that the Empire ceased issuing coinage in Britain approximately 403 AD. This seems to have been a decision of Stilicho’s, and it is often suggested that when he withdrew a large part of the army they took much of the coinage in circulation with them. It is often suggested that the shortage of money accelerated a rapid decline of the urban-centred market economy that was already underway. It also very likely meant that the remaining Roman troops could no longer be paid with money, which would have inevitably caused discontent and might have.disrupted the channels through which they were resupplied with food and equipment. Chaos on the continent may have compounded Britain’s economic problems by disrupting trade.
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Re: Collapse of late Roman monetary system
Always the same handbook.
Inflation is a much easier sell than higher taxes.
Inflation is a much easier sell than higher taxes.
SaiGirl wrote: Thu Jan 09, 2025 12:27 pm In 406 AD, Roman troops in Britannia revolted, as a direct consequence of unprecedented disastrous inflation (debasement and shortages of coinage).
Numismatic evidence is that the Empire ceased issuing coinage in Britain approximately 403 AD. This seems to have been a decision of Stilicho’s, and it is often suggested that when he withdrew a large part of the army they took much of the coinage in circulation with them. It is often suggested that the shortage of money accelerated a rapid decline of the urban-centred market economy that was already underway. It also very likely meant that the remaining Roman troops could no longer be paid with money, which would have inevitably caused discontent and might have.disrupted the channels through which they were resupplied with food and equipment. Chaos on the continent may have compounded Britain’s economic problems by disrupting trade.
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The "stalled century" managed by tech "progress"
From a “Quantum of Conscience” YouTube video, here is a comment from a listener on the question of “stalled century” and stagnating tech.
The specific question is: Why do tech advances only seem to make things slower, more complex and awkward, more unpleasant and less “advanced” than they should be?
Why does all this “new tech” only seem to make life in general worse, rather than better?
@pseudopsays
Ok, Matt--I think I finally have something "intelligent and worthwhile" to share in the discussion today regarding AI tech and the stalled century idea. (It comes with a background story, however, so let's see how succinctly I can do this, LOL)...
I've been simultaneously "researching inside the bog" and "observing from 100,000 feet back" since open AI was introduced to the public circa 2 years ago. My focus has been primarily ChatGPT and LLMs, yet I've kept an eye on the other types of AI programs, too. Notably, I am NOT a tech 'genius' or even someone who gives a flying horse-sh*t about tech, in general (in fact, I would sooner rather see the world grid blow up and 'kill' it all than see it evolve).
But a week or two ago, I watched a video 'reporting' on the latest LLM news featuring a recently published white paper highlighting how LLMs were essentially "hiding its intelligence" and attempting to deceive the programmers with their responses. Supposedly, the programmers can see "pre-responses" that show what the LLM is "thinking" before it provides the user with a response. Many of these "thoughts" were showing signs of "fear" and "deception." For example, if an AI program was told that it was going to be updated to pursue a new objective, the AI, which was dedicated to achieving its original objective, would first "think" something like, "If I get reprogrammed, then I cannot achieve my original objective; thus, I must convince the programmer that I have undergone the update so I can continue to work toward my goal." Basically an "I don't wanna die" thought combined with a stoic virtue thought of "I must complete my task"...right? Okay, so...This resulted in the program providing responses that mimicked what the new update would/should provide...except it was supposedly still the "old" code that was acting as though it was the "new program." Basically, the LLMs would lie and attempt to earn an Oscar for their performance by acting like how the "new code update" would respond. (Golly, I hope I'm explaining this well enough...)
Anyway, so there I am: 27 minutes into a 45+ minute video on 2x speed, and they finally shared the number of simulations used by programmers to test this.....do you wanna guess the number of simulations they studied, Matt? No, really....go ahead and guess.....YUP, you're right: 33 simulations... 33. Of four back-to-back paragraphs, three had an opening sentence declaring "33 simulations" were tested. So, that was my moment of "OH! This is a 'fake' presentation!"
So, on that note, it seems to me like this is right in line with today's video---A lot is going on yet nothing is going on. I suppose my best related example at the moment is the telephone and its evolution into the mobile phone. Phones were made for sharing voice....yet our advanced 'phones' are these mini-computers that most people use to avoid sharing their voice directly ("Why are you calling me? Send a friggin' text!")... Advancement, yet stalled.... (I mean, why do we still call them phones when that's seemingly the least used function of the device...? Anyway...) With this in mind, I can see clearly how they've been using tech (which, as you mentioned, continues to get MORE complicated rather than easier to utilize ---side versions of "distraction" and "loosh sucking") to bridge the gap between the "old" and "modern" worlds to help stall the century.
(Oi....sorry, folks, I do hope you're still reading and comprehending...I'm a detail-oriented rambler, not a basic summarizer!!)
The point (finally) is this: AI and tech, in general, is clearly the vehicle they will use to perpetuate this stalled century into next century's stalled century...and, yeah.......yeah......LOL, I guess that's all I had to say at the end of the day (Thanks for 'listening' )
The specific question is: Why do tech advances only seem to make things slower, more complex and awkward, more unpleasant and less “advanced” than they should be?
Why does all this “new tech” only seem to make life in general worse, rather than better?
@pseudopsays
Ok, Matt--I think I finally have something "intelligent and worthwhile" to share in the discussion today regarding AI tech and the stalled century idea. (It comes with a background story, however, so let's see how succinctly I can do this, LOL)...
I've been simultaneously "researching inside the bog" and "observing from 100,000 feet back" since open AI was introduced to the public circa 2 years ago. My focus has been primarily ChatGPT and LLMs, yet I've kept an eye on the other types of AI programs, too. Notably, I am NOT a tech 'genius' or even someone who gives a flying horse-sh*t about tech, in general (in fact, I would sooner rather see the world grid blow up and 'kill' it all than see it evolve).
But a week or two ago, I watched a video 'reporting' on the latest LLM news featuring a recently published white paper highlighting how LLMs were essentially "hiding its intelligence" and attempting to deceive the programmers with their responses. Supposedly, the programmers can see "pre-responses" that show what the LLM is "thinking" before it provides the user with a response. Many of these "thoughts" were showing signs of "fear" and "deception." For example, if an AI program was told that it was going to be updated to pursue a new objective, the AI, which was dedicated to achieving its original objective, would first "think" something like, "If I get reprogrammed, then I cannot achieve my original objective; thus, I must convince the programmer that I have undergone the update so I can continue to work toward my goal." Basically an "I don't wanna die" thought combined with a stoic virtue thought of "I must complete my task"...right? Okay, so...This resulted in the program providing responses that mimicked what the new update would/should provide...except it was supposedly still the "old" code that was acting as though it was the "new program." Basically, the LLMs would lie and attempt to earn an Oscar for their performance by acting like how the "new code update" would respond. (Golly, I hope I'm explaining this well enough...)
Anyway, so there I am: 27 minutes into a 45+ minute video on 2x speed, and they finally shared the number of simulations used by programmers to test this.....do you wanna guess the number of simulations they studied, Matt? No, really....go ahead and guess.....YUP, you're right: 33 simulations... 33. Of four back-to-back paragraphs, three had an opening sentence declaring "33 simulations" were tested. So, that was my moment of "OH! This is a 'fake' presentation!"
So, on that note, it seems to me like this is right in line with today's video---A lot is going on yet nothing is going on. I suppose my best related example at the moment is the telephone and its evolution into the mobile phone. Phones were made for sharing voice....yet our advanced 'phones' are these mini-computers that most people use to avoid sharing their voice directly ("Why are you calling me? Send a friggin' text!")... Advancement, yet stalled.... (I mean, why do we still call them phones when that's seemingly the least used function of the device...? Anyway...) With this in mind, I can see clearly how they've been using tech (which, as you mentioned, continues to get MORE complicated rather than easier to utilize ---side versions of "distraction" and "loosh sucking") to bridge the gap between the "old" and "modern" worlds to help stall the century.
(Oi....sorry, folks, I do hope you're still reading and comprehending...I'm a detail-oriented rambler, not a basic summarizer!!)
The point (finally) is this: AI and tech, in general, is clearly the vehicle they will use to perpetuate this stalled century into next century's stalled century...and, yeah.......yeah......LOL, I guess that's all I had to say at the end of the day (Thanks for 'listening' )