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What is the difference in feeling between a full lot and an empty one?

I’m not offering answers.  I am simply offering open questions.

I have one, but I refuse to plug it in, much less connect it or my XBox to the internet.

Anything connected is hackable, and if it is hackable, it probably has been hacked.

I use a paper planner for the same reason.  It is not paranoia to question the wisdom of putting your every last idea in the public domain.  Certainly, I put a LOT, but not all.  Not even close.

Edit: I’m not sure I agree with this.  It may be wrong or incomplete.  Take it as a Provocative Operation in the spirit of Edward de Bono.

The longer I live, the more I see curiosity as the precursor of all other virtues.  You can infer much of what you would need to know practically about a person by knowing if they are curious and regularly learning, or if they spend all their time shouting out loud what they already “know”.  Likewise with cultural orders.  Curious societies have to be free societies, and societies filled with curious people continually discover things.  This is likely the principal cultural advantage of the Israelis, and the main cultural disadvantage of all Muslims.

Larger curiosity we term mystery.  Ponder the term “religious mystery”.  Then ponder the feelings evoked by the phrase “the mystery of. . .”.  For me, it evokes the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew.  What is a mystery?  Something unexplained, perhaps unexplainable, but fascinating and fluctuating in our imaginations.  It is the sense of a train whistle and the nostalgia for distant lands brought into being in front of us, emotionally.  What do we make of it?  Do we need to make anything of it?

Mysteries frighten many people.  This is why they seek from life simple and simplistic explanations, which they cling to even if they are wrong.

But curious people are attracted to mysteries, even ones they can’t explain.

Within the last day I saw some supposedly intellectually competent scientist say something like “if it existed we would know about it.  Since we don’t know about it, it must not exist.”  Much of our world is governed intellectually by such people.

Curiosity does not tell you where you are going when it takes you on a journey.  It merely shows you the next step, and its only promise is of a journey somewhere new.

BUT, what if the Russians DID hack the CIA, and WERE the source of the Vault 7 leaks?  That, to me, would be a game very well played.

They can’t outspend us, but since, particularly under Obama, we were not smart, there is no reason to think they could not outfox us.  They ran circles around us in the Cold War, and only lost because Communism is an inherently malicious and ineffective creed, politically and economically.

I am no friend of Putin, but I am likewise no friend of war, the global elite, or policy which is contrary to America’s interests. I am a friend of leaving things and people alone, rather than feeling a continual compulsion to shape them to our image, often to the financial benefit of people who will work across lifetimes without ever being known by name to the public, which is often forced to speak in generalities, when they are even that awake.

The Left is the enemy of this nation, here, and around the world.  Ironically, it may be an ex-Communist doing the most to prevent their eventual victory.

Lo and behold, that same obvious idea occurred long ago to the CIA, which seems to be “wire-tapping” (yes, I get the anachronism of this phrase, but that does not mean the basic idea is not entirely and substantively correct) people SOLELY to gather dirt.  After all, the fucking NSA is ALREADY doing that work.  The CIA, for its part, was doing it with even less transparency, and for no apparent valid intelligence purpose.  After all, is the CIA not FORBIDDEN from working inside the United States?  Does that prohibition not go back to the Church hearings in the mid-1970’s?

The CIA was founded to combat Communism, and it appears to have been instead infiltrated BY them.  Perhaps its useful time is done.

I wonder if we could get rid of the CIA entirely, by folding it, person by person, into the NSA and/or the DIA, trickling them through carefully to weed out all people suspected of totalitarian loyalties.

1) Stephen Hawking says that a global government may be needed: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/stephen-hawking-world-government-stop-technology-destroy-humankind-th-a7618021.html

2) Stephen Hawking has been to Pedophile Island: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/stephen-hawking/11340494/Stephen-Hawking-pictured-on-Jeffrey-Epsteins-Island-of-Sin.html

3) Russia says it has placed “mole” nuclear weapons off our coast or coasts: https://www.memri.org/reports/russian-military-expert-we-are-quietly-seeding-us-shoreline-nuclear-mole-missiles

This last prompted me to share on Facebook an idea I had a while back.  Logically, if nuclear explosives can be made smaller and smaller–and we are well into the era of nanotechnology even in the public domain–then at some point they can be fitted onto warheads which would fit on model rockets, or which could be carried by a small drone.

People who are stupid and obsessed with fighting the last war better, rather than the next war adequately, seem to have reduced their imaginations to the idea that smaller warheads simply means more warheads on a MIRV.  Add to that some zigging and zagging to avoid missile defenses, and you have the current state of the art.

But what if Russian (or other) submarines could launch small drones off the coasts, infiltrate small land vehicles, and drive them, eventually, to all our inland nuclear launch sites, or within a few miles of them.  What if some of these could burrow in to be undetectable until; activated by a small antenna which remains barely above the surface?

What if the still unexplained radiation which began in northern Norway, which shares a border with Russia in the north, is a series of delivery vehicles which are being staged to create instantaneous havoc across the continent in the event of war, in ways which could not possibly be stopped by any possible missile defense system?

Here are the thoughts which came to me.  There exists a global elite which wants a global government.  They don’t believe in global warming because they are not stupid, but they do believe there are far too many people, that there are far too many moving parts, that deforestation, or oceanic disaster, or nuclear terrorism, or global pandemic, or who knows what makes it certain that a global disaster will happen at some point from which we may not recover.

The United States has been sufficiently indoctrinated that its people could be made to bend to a global government, or enough of them that the rest could be killed, locked up, or psychologically tortured into compliance in secret camps with Smiley Faces on the outside.

Europe.  Need I say more?  The rest of the world?  Please.

China, in this world view, would be the logical head of the global government, since they are already the most populous nation, and have already enslaved their people for over half a century.

Who is the fly in this ointment?  The unabashedly nationalist head of a once great but still formidable nation in the far north of the world. Putin no doubt saw Communism as it existed in the USSR as an extension of Russian nationalism.  And the people who now want global government are the very “capitalists” and power hungry oligarchs which the Communists once hated and fought, and who constituted the only real, valid, enemy that ever faced them.

Thus, any global government has to go through Russia, and the only way to take down Russia is a global war which destroys both the United States and Russia, in Mutual Assured Destruction.

Even before Trump got accused of working with the Russians, people were working behind the scenes to foment discord.  Mike Morrell seems to have killed Putin’s chauffeur.  Hillary was openly talking policy which would have led to war with Russia.  Obama apparently threatened Putin over the Red Phone (note the spin in that duplicitous news coverage).  Obama sent Marines to Norway.  Putin sent a flotilla past Britain.

And the unrelenting anti-Russian coverage has continued.  It is certainly intended to try and marginalize Trump, but it is also intended to create the climate for hostilities with Russia.

I have been saying for several months now that OBVIOUSLY somebody wants war with Russia.  But how fucking stupid would that be?  We spent over half a century of the nuclear era trying to AVOID war with them, because of the absolutely catastrophic costs both sides would pay.  What has changed?  Nothing.

But the Russians continue to stand in the way.

And what if they WON a nuclear war with the United States?  Would the power elite then, as they climb out of their bunkers, have created the possibility of a global government?  No.  It would still be a divided world, and frankly I would bet on the Russians against the Chinese.  It would be very important for these plans that Russia, for all intents and purposes, be destroyed.

For my part, I think Stephen Hawking, as awful as it is to say, is part of all this.  I think many people you would think beyond such considerations have in fact bought in.  It is much like the movie The Kingsmen, where the corruption is so vast it is nearly beyond belief.  They buy the idea that human beings are a virus on the Earth, and that our destiny is to either kill the host, or be killed in numbers sufficient for regeneration.

For my own part, I continue to believe people are not fucking lunatics.  It is an astonishing fact that these elites have sought not to make people smarter–and thus better able to make and support wise decisions–but rather stupider, and thus more susceptible to propaganda and bad ideas.

Thus, even if the Russians have developed these technologies, we should welcome them, because they make the risk of war on our side so much higher that it becomes much more unlikely, especially with Trump in the White House.  For his part, it’s hard to see why Putin would want to destroy his oil and natural gas markets, or global trading partners, unless forced to.

I do believe that if Hillary had won the plan was to use the wiretaps on Trump to charge him with treason, arrest him, and at least discredit him, and ideally imprison him.  If it was Hillary’s AG doing the work–much of the details of which would have been kept from the public because “national security”–that would have likely happened.  The war drums would have beat relentlessly, we would have had military battles in Syria, and who the fuck knows what would have happened.