The End Of Something
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The Honest Sorcerer, (Not "useful" without competent "users") The End of Science as a Useful Tool Quality of education, together with a capability to think through and solve complex matters, are all heading in the wrong direction; while science itself is becoming ever more sophisticated by the day. Is it any wonder then, that more and more scientists are needed to produce less and less breakthroughs? I’m not saying there were absolutely no progress made in recent decades, but the rate of discoveries are clearly pointing towards a decline. Based on the data presented here and in Sabine’s videos, a good case could be made that we are indeed at our limits when it comes to science and progress. And our prospects are not a tad bit rosier either.
Is it any wonder then, that scientific research activity has been slowly converting into a ‘paper mill’? Just like any other business past its innovative phase (Apple?), science has become a ‘cash cow’: feasting on grants and churning out publications no one reads or takes seriously. (Watch Sabine’s own account: it’s both heart breaking and revelating in so many ways.) Now add AI to the mixture — cobbling up papers at an even faster rate — and the only thing reaching warp speed will be the enshittification of the whole enterprise; turning science into an exercise in futility.
What we see here is perfectly normal, and has been repeated in various ways throughout history. Pushed beyond a certain point human rationality reaches it’s limits, putting an end to a civilization’s age of reason, and bringing back superstitious beliefs.
Terrence Howard has an unusual gift for re-synthesis of established concepts into a novel conceptual framework. This happens within his mind, where he holds this complex image for explanation to others. His ability is impressive and enchanting. His talent is remarkable. He does not quite comprehend science in a workable way, but most people don't. Be careful... I am most interested in his one minute explaining his awakening within his mother's womb, recounting that he made a mental note to remember. Also in this one minute are his recollections of being born, and circumcised. Terrence Howard Went On Joe Rogan And Spoke About His New Periodic Table, Gravity Being Fake, And His Memory From His Mother's Womb In An Absolutely WILD 3 Hour Podcast https://www.barstoolsports.com/blog/3514687/terrence-howard-went-on-joe-rogan-and-spoke-about-his-new-periodic-table-gravity-being-fake-and-his-memory-from-his-mothers-womb-in-an-absolutely-wild-3-hour-podcast
Simplicius has this Ukraine update: Ukrainian Streets Deserted as New Mobilization Hits [Only women go out in public now in Ukrainian cities.] The Russian Armed Forces are increasing their air force in the Republic of Belarus. They are also accumulating forces and resources in the southern (Ukrainian) direction. Recall that the only two real cities Russia could possibly use Belarus as a staging area and springboard for are either Kiev or Chernigov... ..It could all be maskirovka, of course—but it certainly is thought-provoking. It’s in Russia’s best interest to stretch the front as much as possible and totally break Ukraine’s ability to resist, exhausting their units. The only question is how much of the newly-raised forces does Russian command dare commit to such a long-term operation, and how much heavy armor and gear does Russia have to equip another such large force.
Interestingly, in the new NYTimes Oped by Rob Lee and Michael Kofman, they openly admit the latest tactic is exhausting Ukraine’s best brigades for precisely the reason I’ve outlined for months—they are being whisked willy-nilly to and fro to plug gaps because Russian logistics agility is superior.
(10 minutes) Empty Streets Of Ukraine | Klishchiivka Has Fallen. Military Summary And Analysis For 2024.05.22
[The Economist is a Rothschild-owned publication, like a "state mouthpiece".] Zelensky ‘yelling at generals’ – The Economist The Ukrainian president allegedly believes that he is being kept in the dark about the situation at the front Denis Yaroslavsky, a local commander who made national headlines for complaining that fortifications that were supposed to prevent Russian advances did not really exist, told The Economist that Zelensky “is being kept in a warm bath” – that is, being told comforting lies by his aides.
The Economist's anonymous government source said the president has been clashing with Ukrainian generals after allegedly sensing that he was not getting the whole truth about the frontline situation. https://swentr.site/russia/597968-zelensky-yells-generals-economist/
He's so impolite lately: Ukraine ‘a classic failed state’ – Medvedev Kiev is run by a lawless and criminal regime, the former Russian president has said Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky’s decision not to hold elections means his government has no legitimacy, according to Dmitry Medvedev, the head of Russia’s Security Council.
Zelensky’s five-year mandate expired on Tuesday but he has argued that the Ukrainian constitution does not allow him to call new presidential or parliamentary elections during martial law, which he declared in February 2022.
“All these manipulations with laws mean only one thing – the death of the failed state of Ukraine, its transformation into a classic failed state, to use American vocabulary,” Medvedev told TASS news agency on Monday. https://swentr.site/russia/597954-ukraine-failed-state-zelensky/
Gilbert Doctorow (Russia "Not bluffing", he says.) WION, Indian global television, on the Russian nuclear weapon drills at the Ukrainian border In a six minute interview this morning on India’s premier English-language global broadcaster, I was given the opportunity to talk about video coverage of ongoing Russian military exercises using nuclear capable missiles at the Ukrainian border. In particular, Russian state television yesterday drew attention to their MIG31s carrying nuclear armed hypersonic Kinzhal missiles. The Kinzhals have a 500 km range, carry a 5 kiloton punch and are virtually unstoppable, as their use in the destruction of American Patriot air defense installations near Kiev demonstrated some months ago when only conventionally armed. Let us have no illusions. This end game phase of the Russian-Ukraine war, when the Ukrainian forces are being battered on the ground and forced to retreat with heavy losses, is fraught with dangers of escalation to hot war between NATO and Russia. The United States, Britain and France have been throwing caution to the wind and are escalating madly to prevent disaster on the field of battle and Ukrainian capitulation. Moscow’s tactical nuclear weapons exercises represent an attempt to bring the West to its senses. Whether they will succeed in doing so is an open question. https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2024/05/22/wion-indian-global-television-on-the-russian-nuclear-weapon-drills-at-the-ukrainian-border/
Russia ready to help Iran investigate Raisi’s helicopter crash — Putin , The Russian leader described Raisi’s death as a big loss https://tass.com/politics/1791403
Iran to hold presidential elections on June 28 , to appoint a new president for the country on July 8. https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/iran-to-hold-presidential-elections-on-june-28
US Navy Warships In Red Sea Targeted By Never Before Seen Ballistic Missiles, During a media briefing on Monday, Cmdr. Jeremy Robertson, the captain of the guided-missile destroyer USS Carney, said that never-before-seen ballistic missiles targeted U.S. Navy warships in the Red Sea. https://greatgameindia.com/us-navy-warships-in-red-sea-targeted-by-never-before-seen-ballistic-missiles/
American Doctors Stranded in Gaza Ask for the US to End Support for Genocide
The doctor credited for saving Senator Tammy Duckworth’s life in Iraq, Adam Hamawy, and other American doctors say they are shocked by the cruelty of Israel’s war https://news.antiwar.com/2024/05/17/american-doctors-stranded-in-gaza-ask-for-the-us-to-end-support-for-genocide/
Norway, Ireland and Spain say they will recognize a Palestinian state, deepening Israel's isolation https://www.yahoo.com/news/norways-prime-minister-says-norway-064201208.html
Outraged Israel Recalls Ambassadors From Spain, Norway, & Ireland Over Recognition Of Palestinian State https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/outraged-israel-recalls-ambassadors-spain-norway-ireland-over-recognition-palestinian
ICC chief prosecutor seeks arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Hamas leaders
Israel’s PM and defense minister as well as Hamas leaders, are suspected of committing war crimes, Karim Khan has said https://swentr.site/news/597912-court-arrest-warrant-netanyahu/
EU Members Will Have To Arrest Netanyahu After ICC Warrant: Borrell https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/eu-members-will-have-arrest-netanyahu-after-icc-warrant-borrell
Paradoxically... ICC decision rescues Netanyahu’s political career — Politico According to the newspaper, "just when it appeared Benjamin Netanyahu’s days in power might finally be numbered, up steps the International Criminal Court to save him." The news outlet insists that accusing the Israeli leadership of war crimes in the Gaza Strip will not result in "a pause in the fighting, accusations of war crimes will cause Israelis to rally around their embattled prime minister." https://tass.com/world/1791355
Israel’s war on Gaza updates: ‘Hell on Earth’ as Israel intensifies attacks https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/5/21/israels-war-on-gaza-live-40-of-gaza-population-displaced-in-two-weeks
War on Gaza: Israeli forces attack two Jabalia hospitals as Rafah offensive intensifies
Israel's blockade on aid and intensified assault on Rafah have forced a UN agency to halt food distribution https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-attacks-jabalia-hospital-bombs-rafah-camp Gaza aid piles up in Egypt, US pier delivery falters [The Israeli military "delivers" the food from the US pier.] UNITED NATIONS, May 20 (Reuters) - Food and medicine for Palestinians in Gaza are piling up in Egypt because the Rafah crossing remains closed and there has been no aid delivered to a U.N. warehouse from a U.S.-built pier for two days, U.N. officials warned on Monday.
Senior U.N. aid official Edem Wosornu said there were insufficient supplies and fuel to provide any meaningful level of support to the people of Gaza as they endure Israel's military onslaught against Hamas militants. https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/no-us-pier-aid-un-gaza-two-days-after-truck-incident-2024-05-20/
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The Israeli military is providing far-right activists and settlers with information on the location of aid trucks heading to the Gaza Strip, which they use to vandalize and block the vehicles, The Guardian reported on Tuesday, citing multiple sources. https://sputnikglobe.com/20240521/israeli-military-leaking-information-about-gaza-aid-trucks-to-radicals---reports-1118568935.html
US, Israel undermining Palestinian statehood talks — Lavrov
The Russian foreign minister reiterated that it is impossible to ensure stability in the Middle East without creating a Palestinian state https://tass.com/politics/1791271
In Texas: WATCH: College Admins Tell Texas Students They'll Be Arrested for Saying 'From The River to the Sea' https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=64457
Alastair Crooke, Why are Israel and the West unravelling in tandem? "In effect, for 57 years Israel has been living in a recurring loop of the seventh day of the Six-Day War. That reality, which in the 1970s was termed “protracted temporariness,” has become a permanent feature of Israel’s political and geopolitical ecosystem”.
It is a framework that has become Israel’s trap.
So why are Israel and the West unravelling in tandem? Well, it is firstly because they have become so inter-connected at the level of power structures (in both U.S. and Europe) to a point that it is difficult to know who has more heft within these power and media structures: Tel Aviv or the White House.
This means interdependency in terms of each’s international standing, and by extension, vulnerability to any collapse in Global standing.
So, whilst the West today ostensibly eschews literal settler colonialism (other than that practiced by Israel), it nonetheless has pursued a form of rent-seeking, financialised colonialism since WW2. That process also has become a permanent framework to the western political and geopolitical ecosystem.
The consequence is that as settler colonialism in Gaza moves starkly and darkly into view, the global majority sees both Israel and the West as explicitly colonial. No distinction is made – the Rules-Based Order is seen as just another iteration of the colonial eco-system. Thus, events in Gaza, amongst other things, have sparked a new wave of anti-colonial sentiment across the globe. https://strategic-culture.su/news/2024/05/20/why-are-israel-and-the-west-unravelling-in-tandem/
Hope? Massie Taunts AIPAC After Demolishing Primary Challengers https://www.zerohedge.com/political/massie-taunts-aipac-after-demolishing-primary-challengers
India does not make much that Russia can use, but everybody needs oil. India-Russia trade deficit widens eightfold as crude imports surge New Delhi’s trade deficit with Moscow has increased by 33% to over $57 billion in the 2023-24 financial year, Mint reported on Monday, citing India’s Commerce Ministry’s data. The trade deficit has grown eightfold since 2021-22, when India started ramping up oil purchases from Russia, while its exports during the same period increased by about 32%.
During last fiscal (India’s financial year is April 1 to March 31), the South Asian nation’s imports from Russia have increased by 33% to $61.4 billion, largely on the back of crude oil purchases. Indian exports to Russia stood at $4.2 billion, up by 35% and driven mainly by pharmaceutical products, telecom instruments, metals, and machinery. https://www.rt.com/india/597996-india-imports-russian-crude-trade-deficit/
Maybe India can get BRICS credits for helping Sri Lanka out of its financial crisis. Sri Lanka Wishes to Join BRICS, Looks for India’s Support BRICS was established in 2009 as a cooperation platform for the world's largest emerging economies, bringing together Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. On January 1, 2024, the bloc was expanded to include Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran and the United Arab Emirates.
Sri Lanka plans to join BRICS and seeks to gain support of India who is already a member of the organization, Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Ali Sabry told the country's Ani newspaper in an interview published on Monday. https://sputnikglobe.com/20240521/sri-lanka-wishes-to-join-brics-looks-for-indias-support--foreign-minister--1118559571.html
She was doing better on physician-ordered ivermectin. The hospital stopped it. She died. Court Lets Lawsuit Over Refusal To Give Dying Woman Ivermectin Proceed https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/court-lets-lawsuit-over-refusal-give-dying-woman-ivermectin-proceed
Sasha Latypova explains the peculiar Catch-22 whereby it is illegal to perform research trials on "countermeasures" and "informed consent" may not be legally provided. How the US Government (FDA, DOD) removed the requirement for informed consent for EUA Countermeasures. Criminals do not follow laws. They write them.
Meryl Nass MD, Criminals really need the liability protections and superpowers. What is the US global health security strategy and why does it look a lot like the WHO pandemic treaty? Some screenshots with commentary so you can see what the US government has in store with or without the WHO.
Meryl Nass MD, South African President writes to the rest of the African Union on the Pandemic Treaty. Good news. It looks hopeful that the 54-nation Africa block will not let itself be splintered, and will stand firm on getting the minimal demands for real equity, no blank check.
Meryl Nass MD, noting that medical decisions and laws constitutionally rest with the states. 24 Republican Governors in the US have spoken out against the WHO!
Peter McCullough MD , Clinical Evaluation of Central Nervous System Inflammatory Demyelinating Diseases after COVID-19 Vaccination
Steve Kirsch, The CDC and WHO claim that the MMR vaccine is the reason there are so few deaths and that the measles vaccines have saved millions of lives. The MMR vaccine is extremely dangerous. It’s the vaccine associated with the most autism in the US. [Delaying administration to 18 months of age would mostly fix this.] Is there a mortality benefit that outweighs the risk?
The answer is no.
Even if you believe everything on the CDC website as to the mortality benefit, the MMR vaccines would save fewer than 5 lives a year in the US at a cost of over 50,000 new autism cases.
Yet, all 50 states in the US require some form of measles vaccination for children. The parents are not given a choice. This is insane.
So autism rates continue to skyrocket while measles deaths hover at around 1 per year...
..If you could only stop the use of one vaccine to reduce autism rates, the MMR vaccine would be your #1 choice, no doubt about it. Over 65% of the ASD cases are associated with the MMR vaccines alone....
..If people stop vaccinating, there will be more cases because measles transmits rapidly (90% of people exposed to an infected person who are not already immune will catch it). The R0 is 12 - 18 which is very high. Also the IFR (infection fatality rate, higher in adults) for measles is estimated to be 0.1%. So there could very well be spikes in death if people do not get proper treatment. Predicting accurately what would happen would be difficult because the models have to be accurate.
DISEASE-X UPDATE: U.S. Bankrolling Creation of Deadlier, More Contagious Bird Flu Strains , Second Smartest Guy in the World
Kyle Young asks, "Is this the ultimate globalist weapon?" (See SBX-1 below) more on maui fires, dews, geoengineering, hurricane dora and otis
This thing might have a HAARP derivative system in that big dome. Nothing is said about such specifics. The Sea-Based X-Band Radar (SBX-1) is a floating, self-propelled, mobile active electronically scanned array early-warning radar station designed to operate in high winds and heavy seas. It was developed as part of the United States Department of Defense Missile Defense Agency's (MDA) Ballistic Missile Defense System. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea-based_X-band_Radar
Unweaponized Gardener (pictured Monday morning with tomatoes to can as salsa)
Moscow’s tactical nuclear weapons exercises represent an attempt to bring the West to its senses. Whether they will succeed in doing so is an open question. https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2024/05/22/wion-indian-global-television-on-the-russian-nuclear-weapon-drills-at-the-ukrainian-border/
I must say this is preposterous. Mutual Assured Destruction is real with Covid vaccinations globally in Lock Step. Russia and the Ukraine fight after Covid because the money masters make them. Putin could have ended this conflict years ago. No mistakes were made. Profit first and Patriotism (whatever that is post-USSR) clearly is third fiddle. Escalating to atomics opens the door for the H-Bomb.
It would be good to see info on HAARP and earthquakes.