Tag: Parkinson
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On the end of ends
Cited in previous, worth a reprint. = = = = = WW2 ended precisely and meaningfully with VE and VJ day. Deepstate swore NEVER AGAIN to let a war end. From then on, all wars would continue forever, and the agencies and budgets needed to conduct the wars would go on forever. Korea wasn’t meant…
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Started later there
Worth reading! A detailed history from a former British government official in charge of science grants. Briefly: Until 1997, Britain made grants the right way, providing an annual ‘block grant’ to each lab or university to use however they wanted. In 1997 the Major admin adopted the US system of single grants awarded competitively for…
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Some good info
Lots of good info in this conversation. Why congress is totally useless, who really has the power, when things changed, who changed things. I appreciate people who start with reality. These guests don’t bother with the textbook crap about “legislation” and “branches” and “rights”. They simply talk about what happens in DC. Their overriding rule…
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More of the same
Continuing on previous item. This piece from 2019 is closer to the current problem than the techie stuff I reprinted earlier. = = = = = START 2019 REPRINT: Farage’s newly branded party needs to gather a BIG LESSON from what happened to Austria’s nationalist party. An obvious honeytrap sting by fake “Russians”, as always.…
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Same old game
Activists are still throwing fake outrage about new “laws” and “treaties”. This week they’re motivating us to fight the WHO “treaty” which will supposedly enable what happened in 2020. 2020 SHOWED FINALLY AND DEFINITIVELY THAT NO LAW CAN STOP OR ENABLE MONSTERS. If 2020 didn’t teach you, you’re either incurably stupid or playing a game…
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The answer
Ryan Grim seems like a plain vanilla commentator, sort of vaguely Libertarian but not unusually incisive. In this clip he shows a UNIQUE GRASP OF REALITY. No other public speaker has ever caught this basic fact of life. He’s talking about an international survey asking people if they feel their country has democracy. In US…
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Not just “elections”
I’ve been hammering for years on the FACT that all “elections” are rigged, and the rig is NOT in the votes or counting. It doesn’t matter who votes or how the votes are counted. The rig happens before the ceremony of voting, when parties carefully remove all candidates and referenda that could change government behavior.…
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Bloomberg clarifies the new change in the legal status of pot. This doesn’t make it legal at the federal level. The change allows it to be prescribed by “doctors”, but only if it’s approved by FDA, which is guaranteed not to approve it. Neat backflip of the old Anslinger gambit which criminalized pot in the…
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Occasionally the other way worked.
Reprint from 2017, tied to today’s theme. Later I realized that Desistance, trying to starve or bore the monsters, works far better than fighting them. Edited to include the better understanding. Nevertheless, the Harding breakup of Wilson’s monstrosities was a real-life example of excising the monster instead of starving it. So both paths can be…
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Branch farts
From previous item: = = = = = START REPRINT: In fact NSA and CIA don’t use “laws” and “courts” at all. Even ordinary police are not restricted by “warrants”. All police spy on everything** they find interesting, then apply for a “warrant” when they’ve finished spying. After the “warrant” is AUTOMATICALLY ISSUED by a…
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Radio in the walls
Looking up DeForest’s Unit Panel system, ran into an article in Gernsback’s Radio News from June 1928. Radio in the Ohio State Pen, by 52607. Conditions were definitely different when I was in Mansfield in 1969. If this article is accurate, the inmates of 1928 had far more latitude and trust. = = = =…
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Kucinich misses Parkinson
Kucinich is running for Congress again. I like and admire him, but he seems to have fallen behind the times. He wants to be a Unifier Not Divider by increasing discussion between the parties. This might have been useful before 1990. Parties aren’t the problem now. As I was saying in previous item, civilization depends…
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Reprint on elite influence
From last year. Linked in previous, worth a reprint. = = = = = START REPRINT: Most of our institutions are stuck in a Parkinsonian positive feedback loop, often without any real reason. Corporations and universities and media channels keep punching and torturing and strangling their customers, and then they wonder why their customers are…
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Immediate example
Here’s a good example of the defector rule I was discussing in previous item. This author is trying to say that Deepstate is not as powerful as we think. Specifically, Deepstate has been warning the rest of the government that the war in Ukraine is pointless and unwinnable. He starts with one blatant lie and…
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Prophecy about prophets
Bumped into this when looking for something else I’d written about the null hypothesis. It’s an observation about prophets, and turned out to be prophetic. = = = = = REPRINT FROM 2012: Found an interesting snippet from a speech by George Romney in 1959, showing that his prophetic vision was larger than just the…
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