Month: August 2018

https://www.infowars.com/sources-china-hacked-clintons-private-email-server/

To my mind, it is worth wondering if allowing herself to be hacked was part of the deal, and if soliciting support on various fronts from the Chinese was also part of the deal.

Has ANYONE asked to what extent the Chinese tried to interfere in the 2016 election, how much they donated to her campaign, what assets they offered?

There are patent illegalities on so many fronts here that I will again ask: what did she do that WAS legal?  It is quite possible the answer is NOTHING.

With all the focus of how many classified emails Hillary sent and received, I think the larger question has been ignored.  The question is not what she did that was wrong, but what she did that was RIGHT.

Did she make ANY effort, any at all, to comply with Federal laws requiring public servants, the people who work for and on behalf of the American people. to comply with record keeping requirements?  There are laws which require all Federal employees to keep their work in the public domain so it can be audited if needed, so that there is a trail, if one needs to be followed.

I read on InfoWars, from a source I can’t recall, that there was one claim she never even HAD a State Dept., .gov or whatever it is, address. 

It is possible that not only did she send EVERYTHING over her Walmart level server, but that she sent NOTHING any other way.  Ponder this for a moment. 

Ponder someone who is in, roughly, the top ten rank order to President, someone who is a senior official, literally ignoring EVERY standard of protocol, not to mention the law.  Is it POSSIBLE there was ANYONE who did not know about this, if it is true she never used her other address, or worse, that she never even bothered to pretend she was going to follow the rules, and so never got one?  No, of course not.

The classified emails are felonies.  But the whole ENTERPRISE was criminal too. It was willful.  It was knowing.  She knew what she was doing.

And I will say again that the felony emails may be the BEST of it.  She may have been wheeling and dealing with all sorts of creeps, crooks and Commissars.  She may have been selling information to the highest bidders.  She may have weird sex habits. 

It is really astonishing that someone who ordered evidence destroyed–there can really be no doubt of this, among intelligent people who are not naive–GOT AWAY WITH IT. 

She sent and received classified emails.  We know this.  Each one is a felony.

We know she destroyed evidence after having been subpoenaed to provide it, which is obstruction of justice.  We know this too.

And we also know, I suspect, that she never had any intention of even trying to pretend to comply.  This, too, is a crime.  It is a violation of the Federal Record Keeping Act, or whatever they call it.  This is not just the level of arrogance, but the level of COMFORT she felt with the DoJ, with Obama, and with the FBI.  Her confidence was justified.  The long arm of the law did not reach to her, and she knew it.  It still hasn’t.  Not even close.

This should scare the shit out of anyone with half a brain.  What else is possible in such a world, in a world where the FBI simply ignores crimes when committed by connected people?  And what is the degree of complicity with crimes we don’t know about, yet?  What has been hidden so completely we can’t suspect it?  What was in those 30,000 emails?

What is on Anthony Weiner’s server?  I read yesterday that most of the emails have not even been evaluated by the FBI.  They were in a hurry to issue an exoneration, apparently, and the end result was never in question.   A claim was made by Eric Prince, just before the election that massive amounts of child pornography were on there, some of it linked to the Clintons.  I have looked and waited for follow ups, but I don’t know if Prince was lying, or if some really, really fucked up shit is going on.

Until she is arrested, there is no justice in this country.  Maybe Trump should declassify the whole investigation. I can’t speak intelligently on that topic.

That many dishonest, greedy, and evil human beings occupy high places in our government, though, is to my mind established beyond any reasonable doubt.

It might be helpful to create a matrix which includes a series of boxes comparing both to a Constitutional Republic.

Commonalities would be insecure property rights, universal healthcare and “free” education and other benefits (Hitler offered greatly subsidized vacations, for example, and built a massive vacation complex on the Baltic), the lack of individual rights, the “Allmacht” of the government, the extensive use of secret police and informers, economic stagnation outside of imperialism.  This is a short list.

I will note that even taxation is not a power granted directly to the Federal government, if memory serves, by the original Constitution, outside of, I believe, tariffs.  The power to force people to buy something, or to reallocate wealth, is categorically antithetical to everything all the Founders believed in.

And “Socialism” is not a new idea.  The Romans had their version of it.  It bankrupted them, and it corrupted their people.

there is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the average
human being to supply any given army on any given day

and the best at murder are those who preach against it
and the best at hate are those who preach love
and the best at war finally are those who preach peace

those who preach god, need god
those who preach peace do not have peace
those who preach peace do not have love

beware the preachers
beware the knowers
beware those who are always reading books
beware those who either detest poverty
or are proud of it
beware those quick to praise
for they need praise in return
beware those who are quick to censor
they are afraid of what they do not know
beware those who seek constant crowds for
they are nothing alone
beware the average man the average woman
beware their love, their love is average
seeks average

but there is genius in their hatred
there is enough genius in their hatred to kill you
to kill anybody
not wanting solitude
not understanding solitude
they will attempt to destroy anything
that differs from their own
not being able to create art
they will not understand art
they will consider their failure as creators
only as a failure of the world
not being able to love fully
they will believe your love incomplete
and then they will hate you
and their hatred will be perfect

like a shining diamond
like a knife
like a mountain
like a tiger
like hemlock

their finest art


Charles Bukowski

When I speak of a shit show, what I mean is an organized, well funded effort to USE our system to abuse our system, to get Trump out of office despite doing nothing wrong, for the one and only reason that large elements of our government fear and despise him.

In a normal election cycle, the Democrats would react to national losses by moderating.  That is more or less the intention underlying our system.  Our system is supposed to reward and encourage moderation on all sides.  It is intended to avoid the violent swings which have done so much to fuck up Europe and other places.  And by and large this has worked.  We have avoided hard core socialism.  We have avoided the Fascism that the Germans, who want to lecture us on political policy, were not able to.  We have never had kings and queens.

But the very possibility that they can avoid the cost of their radicalism by using allies in the system Obama left behind has caused the Democrats to shift BACK to the hard Left which Obama was building his whole time in office.  Rather than moderating, they are becoming more radical.  Rather than becoming more reasonable they are losing their collectivist fucking minds.

I have argued in the past that the violence in Israel will only end when the refugees lose their hope that they will be allowed to move back into the homes their great-grandparents lived in.  They have not lost this hope, that of the so-called “Right of Return”.  The media are willing to lie for them continually. They are willing to demonize Israel for common sense measures, and to commend and support the refugees no matter how insane their actions and demands are.  As long as this continues, there will be some level of violence, although it is OBVIOUS that the wall the Israelis built WORKED, very, very well.

And as long as the hope of impeachment–even if conviction and removal from office by the Senate remains a pie dream–remains, they feel they can be as crazy as they want.

We need to squelch that dream, hard.  We need them to come back to Earth.  Not all Democrats are lunatics, but their leaders plainly are.  The American people need them to come back to Earth, to show some self restraint, some respect for the American people, for the rule of law, for common sense, for our history, for common decency.

I spent a good while this morning dreaming about a large corporate client I have worked with quite a bit.

Here is the thing: the economy is growing the way it is ONLY because of Trump, because the business community trusts they have someone in the White House who has their back, who repealed thousands of stupid regulation, rolled back much of Obamacare (the Individual Mandate disappears next year, and that is the enforcement lynch pin), cut taxes, and overall created a pro-growth climate.  Trump has done vastly more in 18 months to help business than Obama did in eight years.  Obama, in fact, spent the bulk of his time criticizing business, criticizing the profit motive, denigrating free enterprise, and growing government at every opportunity, on every pale excuse.

If the goons who are willing to crash the economy to “stop Trump” get their way, they will, in fact, crash the economy.  New hires will be laid off.  Expansion plans will be halted.

And what does it even mean to “stop Trump”?  This is the salient question.  What do they oppose?  Crassness?  Surely that hurts no one but the stupidly oversensitive, and the professionally offended.  His economic policies?  They are working.  The fact that he won the election unfairly?  We have proven that not to be the case.

It is astonishing that large numbers of Democrats, simply through a Goebbelsian repetition of the Big Lie, have come to accept as a commonplace that only through massive Russian interference did their corrupt, lazy, unlikeable bitch of a candidate fail to win the Presidency she so deserved.  This is ludicrous.  This bullshit should fool no one.  We have a production head at CNN saying “we got nothing.  We do this for ratings.”  We have Peter Stzrok saying “there is no there, there”, in the one place where he seemingly felt no need to lie.

And for fucks sake we have a former CIA Director who, more or less on his own account, as we can see now, ADMITS he tried to throw the election, that he used Disinformation (Dezinformasiya) to try and interfere domestically in our political process, which is ILLEGAL, and for obvious reasons.  AND HE KEEPS DOING IT.  This traitor had the audacity to call TRUMP a traitor on the Bill Maher show.

This shit show needs to stop.  Maybe I don’t know the legalities.  Maybe there are factors I am unaware of.  But it would seem to me that senior officials in the government are At Will employees, who can be let go with or without cause at any time for any reason.  You can remove Army officers, can you not?  At a minimum, you can move them from the front line to Alaska or Montana, can you not? 

Sessions has been AWOL more or less since he took office.  Where the big questions are concerned, he has done nothing.  He has punted.  He has removed himself from the fray.

I personally don’t see how it could or can get more psychotic.  There has been nothing like this in American history I can think of, with the exception perhaps of the Civil War itself.

And as one article put it, we really only have two parties: the Party of Trump, and the Party of corrupt elites, who exist on both sides of the aisle.  The louder the shrieking, we can assume, the more threatened they feel their fiefdoms are, the more they fear their secrets will be exposed.

These are not my ideas, but Trump should fire Sessions–my gut instinct is he had this conversation with him last week, that if he would not step down he was going to be fired, and Sessions, for reasons apparently of cowardice, chose to be fired.  His psychological motivations–they are not legal motivations, since Mueller walked right in with better reasons to recuse himself than Sessions–remain opaque to me.  I have not studied the man.  I can only guess that he feels, on the one hand, a sense of pride, and on the other an emotional paralysis which prevents him from making decisions likely to cause controversy, or personal attacks on him.  That he is sustaining such attacks anyway seems not to matter.

Rosenstein, who specifically and personally authorized the fishing expedition at Cohen’s, for the naked purpose of digging up dirt on Trump, and nothing else, should be fired.

Mueller should be given until early September, Labor Day I think is what Trump supposed, then asked summarily to present his evidence.  If he won’t do it, then he should be fired.  If the Democrats heads explode: how will we know?   They have exploded so many times already that I have lost count.  If there were any rational brain cells remaining, it seems likely they were destroyed long ago.  We can’t expect more shouting than we already have.  We have been at peak boil for a while. And if they take to the streets, we can too.  They may then realize they are fucking with much more capable people than they are.  This is not a game to us.

And I’ve seen this idea of Trump declassifying data: on himself, on Hillary, etc.  I can’t speak intelligently on this, other than to say I am absolutely in favor of him airing the dirty laundry of the FBI, and doing all he can to expose the crime syndicate linking the CIA, FBI, Department of Justice, the NSA possibly, and anyone else who may be attached.

And I have been calling for a purge for some time.  A decimation.  A ten percent reduction in force, starting with all known hard core Obama supporters who, it can be assumed, are sabotaging things to the extent they can.

America voted for Trump.  I said we were kicking over a beehive, and boy was I right.  This is unbelievable. 

I found this quite interesting (I will add, perhaps patronizingly, that a standard line in my home with the kids was that the best way to be interesting is to be interested.  And I must say that by and large they listened to me.  I didn’t come up with that, but I like it.  It’s a sound life philosophy.  Curiosity is good for the brain.): https://www.infowars.com/theres-life-after-google-big-techs-achilles-heel/

(Quoted at length because I don’t feel like editing it).

He explained in an interview with WND that the brilliant entrepreneurs who formed Google, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, and other tech innovators have a vision that goes far beyond profits and technological progress, noting they speak of their aims in prophetic and religious terms.
Their ultimate objective is to create a new “system of the world,” Gilder said, in which all of its data is compiled in a single “place” to be analyzed by increasingly sophisticated algorithms that transcend the human mind’s capabilities.
But Gilder contends this “flat-universe theory of materialism” is the fundamental flaw, describing it as a deterministic “neo-Marxist political ideology” that considers the universe sheer matter, ruled by physics and chemistry, leaving little room for human consciousness and creativity.
“Marx essentially believed that humans had solved the problem of production back in the 19th century with the first industrial age, and in the future the challenge would be distributing wealth rather than producing it,” Gilder explained to WND.
I see Google making the same error in the 21st century, imagining they’ve solved the problem of production in the future with robotics and machine learning and artificial intelligence, and in the future the only problem will be redistribution of wealth.”
Gilder said Google’s “arrogance even exceeded Marx, because Marx didn’t imagine that the new technology would eclipse the human mind.”
“But Google imagines that its architecture will achieve a singularity that will eclipse human intelligence,” he told WND, referring to the concept promoted by futurist Ray Kurzweil and others of a technological, artificial “superintelligence.”
“But we shouldn’t mind,” Gilder added in jest, “because we can all leave for the beach and collect a guaranteed annual income while Brin and Page, and Elon Musk fly to other planets in a winner-take-all universe.”

He affirmed that if carried out to its logical conclusion, Google’s future is “dystopian to the extent that they eclipse the creativity of human beings and imagine that essentially their new machines make humans obsolete.”
“They really don’t grasp information theory,” he said, noting it’s a central theme of the Discovery Institute.
“The creation of the universe is really beyond our grasp,” he said. “Intelligent design is just a way to show that the universe is created, and human beings in subsets are creative in imitation of their creator.”
He points to a set of propositions underlying the internet articulated by Claude Shannon, the American mathematician known as the “father of the internet.”
“The computer and all these great information technologies relies ultimately on a definition of information as surprise, as unexpected bits,” Gilder said.
Gilder also cites the 20th century German-born economist Albert Hirschman.
“He said creativity always comes as surprise to us. And if it didn’t, we wouldn’t need it,” said Gilder.
And, Gilder added, if it didn’t, “socialism would work.” 

I got to thinking about all this.  If “information” is defined absolutely as the novelty of some new piece of information in a given chain, with 4 in 1 2 3 4 having zero information, and “pink unicorn” in 1 2 3 Pink Unicorn having considerable informational value, then anything which breeds out the unknown and randomness inherently acts to reduce “information”.

And in large measure, this is the Socialist vision, in which chance is bred out of life.  You don’t need to worry about losing your job, because you can’t lose your job.  You also can’t lose your home.  Your health care is paid for automatically.  Your car drives itself to prevent unnecessary accidents.  Your internet protects you from “unsound” ideas.  Your library is digital and sanitized to prevent exposure to unsafe ideas.

If we posit, as I do, that the point of life is learning, and if learning is regularly being exposed to unknown stimuli of all sorts, then the aim of Socialism is to prevent life.

And picture a perfect, hermetically sealed system, with no breaks, no flaws, no Robert de Niro in Brazil: creation is impossible.

I need to go to bed, but in my understanding that Kurt Goedel, or someone applying his ideas, noted that no qualitative novelty can be found within a formally bound system.  Creation must take place outside of it.  Matter itself, it was argued, does not contain enough information to form itself as it manifestly has, which implies something outside the system ordered it into life.

This, by the way, is what I believe.

But applying this to a hermetically sealed Socialist paradise, we come up with the Talking Heads Heaven, where “nothing really happens”.

If you cannot learn without risk, then risk must be introduced in order for learning to happen.  And if risk is introduced, then the system is no longer fully safe.  And if it is no longer fully safe, can we not ask what the original objective was?  Is it to give us more life?  Can we not do that without totalitarian control?

This is all perhaps a bit foggy, as I have had a couple beers, but please consider.

It is my sense that, say, Mark Zuckerberg may, possibly, have within his heart something truly generous.  Maybe he really does want to improve people’s lives.  But the system of control he and Google and others are building can be used by ANYONE.  There were a lot of genuinely good people in the French Revolution.  They were guillotined.  There were genuinely good people around Lenin.  They were shot.  Same with Mao.  Same with Ho Chi Minh.  Same with Castro.  Same in Nicaragua.  Same pretty much everywhere. 

If a system which CAN be used for oppression is being built, it is not only reasonable but in my view NECESSARY to assume the worst.  If it is not being abused yet, it will be.  This is the nature of the world, and the nature of human kind as it exists at this moment, and as it has existed, indeed, for all the time recorded in our histories.

Have I mentioned, perhaps, that I have strange dreams?  I’m going to go with yes.

Last night I dreamed of a quantum helicopter, which was able, somehow, to make a direct connection with the Zero Point Field, and create “lift” from it, like a helicopter does.

Now, the Quantum Vacuum/ZPF is EVERYWHERE.  This is the concept.  Such a vehicle could be used in “empty” space, and could be used within an atmosphere of any sort.  It would depend for its “lift” upon Space which is to be found everywhere we can go, as far as we know.

And it had some sort of gravity cancellation device on it, for the passengers, such that it could easily enter and leave the atmosphere of Jupiter, or even the Sun, if it could handle the temperatures.

And I wonder: if “anti-gravity” cancels out the “gravity thing” (we still don’t really know what gravity is), is there an anti-heat/anti-cold something that could be built?  Could heat be “snuffed” back INTO the Zero Point Field? If we can connect with it, can we take things out of it, and put things back in?    I don’t have a fucking clue what I am talking about–somebody was trying to explain Quantum Tunneling to me the other day, and all I can say is they did not succeed in building a robust understanding–but I have never been afraid to speak even when I have no idea what I am saying.

I came across a fascinating, to me, idea.  The outset was this: https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/ciencia/ciencia_genetica04.htm

The net is that DNA seems to create lasting field of some sort not yet described, or contemplated by most academic biologists who came of age after the 1930’s or so, at least in this country, which I assume is pretty much everyone working.

Here is the idea: biophotons are coherent, not because light itself is the signalling medium, but because they REFLECT the field, because they interact with the field.  Photons become organized in the same way that iron filings do in the presence of a magnet.  You can’t see the electromagnetic field, but you can see the effects. 

So when, for example, Fritz Albert Popp’s people measured coherent light emission from what I will call biological systems, what they were measuring was not light that made the system coherent, but rather a system which made the light coherent.

Unbelievably rich field for research.  This is how we connect life to spirit.  If I am not mistaken, this field is called Quantum Biology.  At least, the research that truly interests me is apparently getting funded under this moniker.

I feel good tonight.  It is a beautiful night, nearly full moon, and the air is just humid enough to feel like I am connected to everything.  I feel my sKu.  I feel I am waking up within myself, and waking up within the world.

And it occurs to me that those who have a lot of spiritual wealth have little to lose, and those who have little have much to lose.  It is the opposite of economic wealth.

I have from time to time quoted a Sufi saying to the effect of “A Sufi begs to give you everything he has”.  This is because spiritual wealth doubles in the giving.  If I give you everything, we have both doubled.

And you cannot remain still.  I think this is one hidden meaning of the parable of the talents.  The one poor servant who hides his one talent–afraid he will lose everything–gets yelled at.  I always felt some pity for him, since his decision was not all that irrational.

But spiritually, the more you have, the easier it is to risk, and the greater the reward.  The less you have, the more afraid you are, and the less you risk.  When you risk less, you do not stay the same, you become smaller.  Perhaps the parable should have had the coin shrinking in size while buried.

All of us, I think, have either an expansion or contraction bias.  You can make different decisions in different contexts, but the underlying affective habits and overall Gestalt ultimately will move you bigger or smaller, wiser, or number.

What you want is to feel, deeply and directly, the connections between the movement of the world and the movement within you.  You are of the oceans, and you are the ocean.  There is no need to cry out for the distances: they are already here, all of them.  The gap is always within you, somewhere.

And inherently, an expansion bias is a risk bias.  It is a dance with the unknown.  How could anything which can only be seen through growth BEGIN as a known?  It can’t. Everything which will one day be good must first be a stranger, and at that perhaps a stranger who startles you from the shadows.

And the primary risk I mean is 1) not putting everything into fixed boxes, which creates the risk of confusion and feeling overwhelmed; 2) not shutting down emotions.  You have to allow everything, invite everything, WELCOME everything.  You cannot be defending a fixed conception of yourself.  You have to be willing to not know where things are going, not know what comes next.