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2 days agoI can’t understand why Rayleigh Scattering is presumed to be the only reason our sky is blue.
Oxygen’s blue!
Isn’t there enough oxygen in our atmosphere to affect its apparent-color??
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No you don’t run-out:
Factionalism will always provide more “enemies” for that-Way.
“Corps Business: the 30 Management Principles of the US Marines” identified something in our nature, in 1 of the principles:
IF you just keep accumulating people, in say a village, or orgnaization, there is a point around 150-people, where factionalism sets-in.
Al Gore & Associates ( Goretex ) intentionally limits the parking-lot size, so that when it’s visible that there are now enough people working at a site, that some are parking on the lawn, then they need another site.
Militaries all 'round the world have a 150-person “company” or equivalent, but not a 200-person one…
Even if some rabid ideology exterminates all “others”, then it’ll fractally divide-up & begin its civil-war, because factionalism is intrinsic to our unconscious-minds…
That’d be true for all except people who trained to dismantle unconscious-narcissism from their unconscious-mind’s ruling-of-their-life…
& nobody I’ve encountered has earned that, except perhaps the Society of Believers ( the Shakers ) community it the US ( @ Sabbath Day Lake, iirc: Christians: they identify that THE primary cause of people not-staying is “too much community” ).
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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369118X.2024.2445637#abstract
Males bullying females is the “wedge” that they use to get far-right totalitarianism’s basis in…
It’s consistent, through different cultures, & it may be hardwired in our limbic system: bullying women is the basis for male-fascism-totalitarianism.
Counter it XOR fail the Great Filter, humankind…
Having-exterminated-ourselves is a “valid” choice, in Universe’s Natural Selection’s eyes…
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better, more sensical translation, by DeepL.com, I’m doing it piece by piece, with a couple of comments thrown-in:
It is “in the interests of the United States and Europe” that the European Union be dissolved. That is what Nile Gardiner, director of the European branch of the Heritage Foundation, told Nieuwsuur. This conservative think tank is known as the main architect of US President Donald Trump’s second-term policy.
( converting countries to oligarchy, then… https://www.project2025.observer/en which may no-longer be getting updated, for whatever reason, & https://www.factcheck.org/2024/09/a-guide-to-project-2025/ gives a little taste of the ideology-policy )
The Trump administration supports “movements and political leaders in Europe” who are “pro-American and believe that Europe must take a different direction,” Gardiner said. These include leaders from Italy, Poland, and Hungary, whom the conservative thinker sees as “important allies.”
In February, Vice President J.D. Vance already voiced sharp criticism of Europe. This summer, further indications emerged that the US is seeking a change of power.
( political-interference in national politics? isn’t that illegal? )
I cannot see any future scenario in which Europe would be better off with the European Union than without it.
Nile Gardiner
According to the new US security strategy, published this month, Europe is in danger of “losing its civilization through immigration and the erosion of national identities.” The document praises nationalist parties “that seek to preserve the individual character and history of European countries” and supports patriotic parties in their struggle to dismantle the EU from within.
( notice that a strengthening EU-identity is unthinkable to these agents )
In response, European Commissioner for Human Rights Michael O’Flaherty called for courage in the face of US criticism of the EU. European government leaders responded with remarkable silence. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz was fierce, calling the plan “unacceptable and inadmissible.”
( silence is accommodation, among humankind… dangerous method to use )
The chair of the European Parliament committee that maintains contact with the US called the security strategy “a frontal attack on the EU.” According to him, the White House’s words amount to interference in European elections.
( THAT one gets it. )
‘Warning for Europe’
Right-wing parties have also responded positively to the American policy document. MEP Mieke Andriese (PVV) called it a “clear strategic warning for Europe” this week. “Mass immigration threatens our European identity.”
( sigh half true: immigration isn’t handled correctly: you have to have people sign their agreement that the country outranks their-religion, & that they’re NOT going to try highjacking the country for their religion, something like that, & then you’ve got leverage to deport the country-highjackers )
MEP Sander Smit (BBB), member of a committee for strengthening European democracy ( I think that is this link: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/committees/nl/euds/home/highlights ), also agrees with parts of the American criticism. “BBB does not support abolishing the EU, but believes that the EU urgently needs internal reforms due to a democratic deficit, declining legitimacy, and excessive bureaucracy,” he told Nieuwsuur. Read his full response here.
https://bijlagen.nos.nl/artikel-24247524/Reactie_Sander_Smit_op_uitspraken_Nile_Gardiner.pdf
Nile Gardiner is now going a step further with his plea for the abolition of the EU. “I cannot see any future scenario in which Europe would be better off with the European Union than without it.”
There are “deep-rooted concerns in the US capital Washington about what is seen as the suppression of freedom of expression within the European Union,” says Gardiner. The EU has too much power over its member states, he argues.
The conservative thinker points, among other things, to the fines imposed by the European Commission on social media platform X, owned by tech billionaire and former Trump advisor Elon Musk. The fines totaled €120 million and were imposed for violations of an internet law. With these kinds of “attacks on American tech companies,” the EU is undermining American security.
( so, it’s actually EU-sovreignty-from-the-US that is offensive/intolerable to the US? … Gaslighting, as usual )
Furthermore, the Union would not listen to the voice of the people and would limit the power of right-wing radical parties such as the AfD. And the EU would open its doors to mass migration. Gardiner fears that this would lead to the increasing influence of Islam. “All of this means that the EU is doomed.”
( LMAO: highjacking by far-right is obliged, but highjacking by Islam isn’t?? Only others’ highjacking, not their highjacking, that’s problematic, then, I see! )
( here’s a grey block of text )
‘Europe’s response is too weak’
According to leading Irish researcher Judy Dempsey (Carnegie Institute), the European Union’s response to the Trump administration’s attacks is too weak and too slow. “Europeans are not looking at themselves, but simply saying: don’t you dare criticize our democracy.”
Dempsey, who researches international relations, argues that the EU is not making sufficient use of its large internal market as a geopolitical instrument. “The EU is not confident and does not know how to sell itself.”
Trump is capitalizing on this by influencing and dividing Europe politically, says the researcher. “The idea that a divided EU would be to the advantage of the US is at odds with the transatlantic vision that has prevailed since 1945.”
“The weakness of Europeans is that they do not confront far-right populist parties, whether in France, the Netherlands, Germany, or Italy.”
( spot-on, Dempsey! )
According to Gardiner, the plan to turn the EU into a defense force conflicts with American interests. “This undermines the NATO alliance while diverting military resources,” he says. “NATO will hopefully exist for centuries to come, but the EU will eventually disappear.”
( notice how this sets-up the destruction of the EU when Trump GUTS NATO: Russia will then have a more completely unprepared EU to butcher, as Trump wants…
Here is evidence that the Trump-regime’s gutting/ditching NATO isn’t just my belief, for the last decade or so: https://www.lee.senate.gov/2025/6/lee-introduces-withdrawal-from-nato )
Under Trump, the US supports right-wing nationalist parties in Europe that “insist on more sovereignty and self-determination,” says Gardiner. He mentions, among others, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, Polish President Karol Nawrocki, and the party chairman of France’s Rassemblement National, Jordan Bardella. Gardiner emphasizes that this is political support; there is no question of financial aid.
( interesting: I hadn’t understood that the right had already-won in some countries )
some links from that last bit…
https://nos.nl/artikel/2563896-meloni-bezoekt-trump-met-hoop-dat-goede-band-helpt-tegen-heffingen
https://nos.nl/artikel/2581156-nieuwe-poolse-president-nawrocki-trekt-eigen-plan-en-zegt-veel-nee
( if anybody here can communicat in Dutch, please ask the site that this article is of, if they could please use DeepL to INCLUDE the entire English-speaking-world in their readership??
They’re pointing-out important things, & it isn’t only Science which is balkanized by language, it is civil-rights, too! )
( here’s the last grey-text-block )
Discussion within the Heritage Foundation
The Heritage Foundation is an independent right-wing conservative think tank in Washington. They developed ‘Project 2025’, policy proposals that the government is now implementing. Nile Gardiner is the director of the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom, the European branch of The Heritage Foundation.
The extreme course that the Heritage Foundation has been pursuing since this year has led to ideological discussions within the institute: in recent weeks, some fifteen employees have left the institute. Differences of opinion included the cessation of support for Ukraine and President Trump’s controversial tax policy. Heritage director Kevin Roberts also initially refused to condemn statements made by the far-right, anti-Semitic influencer Nick Fuentes.
This summer, Nieuwsuur investigated how the Trump administration was already actively interfering in the political future of the European Union:
( then there’s a video )
I used https://www.deepl.com/en/translator to give me sensical English rendition of the article, because some Asian Redditor identified that it was the ONLY choice which worked for the languages that they knew, & I figured they’d be more competent to judge its effectiveness than I, an English-only person would…
Since then, years ago, it’s helped clarify things that other translators botch, badly.
( Firefox’s translation can be … incompetent )
This all brings-up a point:
IF the EU isn’t willing to oppose the far-right, THEN the EU’s going to be ruled by far-right.
Same as 1930’s Germany & 2024+ US…
in which case the population-reduction happening in The Great Filter, throughout the rest of this-century, is going to … cut-down more Europeans … than I’d assumed.
( you can’t earn your viability/survival, when you’re allowing narcissist-nihilists to rule )
That it was going to be cutting-down people among the Americas, among Asia, & among the Middle-East & Africa, was obvious.
But I’d wrongly presumed that the EU would be certain to stand for its life against narcissist-nihilism.
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The Trump-cult ones, not all Albertans, want this, so they can join Trump’s rampaging of the “woke” Canada, after Trump annexes Canada, using Alaska & Greenland to cut-off all trade-by-ocean to us ( NO food imports to Canada, by land or sea, … how long will Canada live?? )
It’s part of Putin’s & Trump’s & CCP’s divide-and-conquer imperialism…
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Worse, if ONLY they vote: they win.
( same as how the Democrats “won” the election of Harris by sitting-out the election in droves )
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India’s betting on having time, then, before China “gets physical” against India??
Foolish…
China’s military-spending massively outclasses India’s…
gambling in that way, on that scale, can have bad costs.
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How does 40-yo somehow mean “teenager”??
Thank you for causing me to understand more of what’s going-on.
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Here’s what’s going-on re WW3:
Once Trump & Putin clue-in that they may exterminate “wokeism” from the entire planet, completely, by collaborating/dividing-and-conquering, they’ll stop jamming each-other, & act “with 1 mind, against their combined Western enemy”, ie Canada & the EU.
Trump’s unconscious-or-conscious strategy: owning Alaska / Pacific ( navy & airforce ) / mainland / Atlantic / Greenland.
Then Canada’s got ZERO trade left, right?
NO food-import, no NOTHING.
Trump’s annexation of Canada … has to work, then, unless Canada comes-up-with some super-innovation-machine, or something, to mutate the odds…
That liberates Putin ( backed by BRICS ) to be rampaging on the now-abandoned EU.
Russia’s only a “shell company”, now: China being the “hand inside the glove” more…
…but that’s what Putin accepted, & what China wants
( let Russia have the losses of that war: China needs to vanquish Asia, right? )
WHILE that’s going-on, who of the West is going to be backing anybody in Asia OR in the Middle-East??
Nobody?
China gets its Asian empire, &
Saudi gets its Empire, then: all of the Middle-East, all of Africa…
Should take only about 7y to establish, give or take ( this goes for ALL of the imperialism-rampaging that’s going to be going on, once the “fuze” now lit, reaches the powderkeg )
Then, once the world has been consolidated into 3 empires, & whatever’s left of TrueNATO, …
( I expect Putin & Trump will have been discarded by humankind’s collective-unconscious, by then:
their national-right regimes discarded roughly 2032?
the individuals aren’t needed: only “avatars for the zeitgeist”, so they can have replacements, & I’m certain Musk wants to succeed Trump )
… then the BIG/TOTAL war can begin, in the early 2030’s, between the 3x empires & the TrueNATO-remnant alliance …
These last few years have clued me in to just how long it takes for world-change to happen…
I’d been misunderstanding everything because of calibrating to human-timescale…
- Conquering ( regional ), for about 7-ish years
- WAR of attrition, between the regions/empires, for some decades
- then the food-chains should die, & the challenge of survival gets more fundamental, while the war continues grinding on …
The Great Filter ( that naive-fools believe we’ve “already” survived ).
Absolutely inevitable: it is the species-equivalent to individual-puberty: NO mere-believing can prevent it from overthrowing us, to its process.
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This is totally-blind to the motivation to butcher the “woke” from their world, because the values of the root-guru of the Christians, benJoseph, emotionally/spiritually burn their-kind…
This also is totally-blind to the Negative-Sum-Game motivation of making absolutely-certain that nobody is “important” or “significant” after one has finished one’s mass-shooting/dictatorial-equivalent.
It isn’t mere-narcissism: multiple of the dimensions of human-evil are in-play…
- narcissism
- machiavellianism ( does need to be intentional )
- sociopathy( induced )/psychopathy( brain-intrinsic )
- sadism/cruelty ( whomever pretends that this isn’t a motivation of them, is gaslighting us )
- nihilism ( the dishonest “glory” of mass-shooters )
- systemic-dishonesty, possibly including gaslighting ( doesn’t need to be intentional )
- displacing objectivity ( an instinct-level NEED, for ideologues )
- displacing correct-reasoning from lives ( huge with cults, ideologues, & conspiracists, & many “religions”, too )
- displacing uprighting/evolution from lives, jamming them in ignorance/dysfunction, which is instinct in bullies
I may have forgotten or missed 1 or more dimensions, but those I’m certain of, now.
The “Dark Triad” obviously is only 1/3rd of those…, & some psychologists accept sadism’s being a dimension of human evil, so they have the “Dark Tetrad”…
but understanding all of the motivations in an enemy-of-our-lives is wiser than just having a convenient oversimplification.
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Damn-good article, but it’s missing an angle, from what I can see…
WHEN Trump finally SNAPS, & annexes Canada, seizes Greenland, uses
Alaska, navy+airforce, mainland+army+airforce, navy+airforce, Greenland,
… to completely seal-off Canada from all international trade, & severs all terrestrial Canadian international-comms, for his enforcing war-of-aquisition against us,
WHILE beginning Civil War Part2 ( all he has to do is “de-naturalize” all non-Republicans, & then there ARE NO non-Republican judges, enforcement, lawyers, doctors, ANYthing: it’s the perfect coup: he’s got the legal-leverage to do it right-now, & it’s only a matter of time, before he “fires that round” of legislative-artillery into the US’s legal definition ),
WHILE beginning war against Mexico, Panama, Venezuela, etc…
What happens to Europe, the second that personality snap happens?
Suddenly, … it’s the EU against BRICS through Russia, with zero help, or trade, from the Americas…
Putin, backed by the rest of BRICS, can butcher-up Europe, profoundly, in the following 7-ish years, before finally imploding.
People aren’t understanding the perpetual-escalation of Trump, & how it can play-out, if a “stroke” takes-out his empathy, his compassion, his honesty, his consideration, etc ( I’m not being facetious: the personality-change I’m expecting to happen in him will leave him as “human” as a crocodile-on-meth, but effective in enforcing totalitarian fascism against all lives that are foolish-enough to stand in his way ), leaving the resultant brain completely unconflicted: ONLY Dark Triad remaining…
& given the absurd probabilites that have been happening, lately, … that looks likely, now.
Wait & see, though, wait & see, & let the evidence decide if this is all nonsense, & his demise happens shortly, XOR … if this is spot-on, & it is the “status-quo will protect us, like it always has” position that “saved” so many Jews who got shipped to the concentration-camps
( in the documentary “Anne Franke Remembered”, a Jewess told us directly:
The nazis made a new rule, & we just said “oh, it’s Just One More Thing…”
then they made another…
and another…
then they made a rule making it illegal for Jews to go anywhere … & then … they knew it was too late.
Their unconscious-assumption that Status Quo would protect them, got them slaughtered, wholesale.
That history is repeating itself, under a different mask, right now, here.
Civil War Part2: confederate Reverse-Takeover™
will “get even” against all the non-confederates, once that “de-naturalization” law gets used to the degree they intend to exercise it.
It’s a classic case of "going along with the sociopath/psychopath, to the secondary-crime-scene, assuming that social-pressure will make them let-go-of their captive, & then, at the secondary-crime-scene, the captive discovers all the butchering-tools are ready & waiting, & … they can’t escape, now: it’s too late.
Whatever, the people whose roles oblige them to prevent what’s happening, won’t do-so,
so all this is … mere idiotic “blowing in the wind”, isn’t it?
IF anybody survives this century, THEN they’ll not make the mistakes we are making, EVER again. )
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So, essentially, Canada must compliantly be a US-state-without-state-rights, systematically erasing our cultural & economic sovereignty, in order to be acceptable to the US’s Trump-regime…
Carney’s the financial intelligence we need, but he’s been too compliant with the US, from what the world’s remnant-of-journalism has been saying…
Is Oscar the Grouch … has he got any older & tougher relatives, whom we could hire, to be the “bad cop” half of a Carney+him duo?
Canada needs a grouch.
( :
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& I’m advocating for the removing of the obscenely-rich pensions given to his ilk, as an equally-effective means of reducing economic “waste”.
Notice how they’ll butcher those below them, but not tolerate their-own wealth to be even-reduced…
Narcissism’s nature is indellible.
Carve it in G-D’s eye, sociopath, let the world see the “soul” you commit…
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WHEN you bet your life that your threat-to-your-opponents DETERS them,
THEN you are betting your life that they will limit their actions, for fear of the harm you could do to them.
But WHEN you polarize them to the degree that they no longer care if they die: they ONLY care that you are annihilated …
THEN you don’t have any “deterrent” anymore, you have only … your own-children’s ashes, in your hands.
Netanyahu is apparently incompetent in understanding this concept, as all Zionists apparently are.
Karma will demonstrate exactly the principle I’m trying to point-out, here.
idiocy.
Competitive-nihilism, whether mass-shooters, or Netanyahu-types, do NOT “win” for their countries, they win only for hell’s dominion on our world’s lives.
“can’t see past their noses” morons.
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Pretending that Trump-regime’s intent is peace, is incompetence, at this point: the evidence ( including “Project 2025” ) falsified that, ages ago.
Quit living-in making-believe, & do actual Journalism, instead.
Appeasing may be more short-term moneymaking, but it is betrayal of the Journalism-principles required to HAVE civil-rights, in the following-years…
https://www.project2025.observer/en for evidence of their eradication of the basis of peace and its ruthlessly-effective implimentation.
Not systematically-reported-on, of course, by “journalism” appeasing-the-regime…
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Meaningless posturing: once Trump snaps, then Trump won’t care one single photon about China’s butchering of Asia into being its property, its subjugated empire:
the only thing that will be consuming Trump, is that there are still countries in the Americas which aren’t broken, under him, as HIS empire.
The non-Chinese are going to be as the Tibetans are, under Chinese rule: finished.
Trump’s US won’t back ANY US “ally”, when push comes to shove, in 2026: he’ll be waging war against them, instead…
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This is an incompetent waste-of-resources, worse than pointless.
That flight’s pilot had rehearsed turning once outside of land-radar, to prevent the crash-site from being discovered,
flying over the sea,
& then slamming into the sea,
on his home flight-sim, I’ve read.
Why bother pouring another few $million into pretending that the aircraft “went missing”, when it was intentionally destroyed by the pilot?
I don’t know what motivated his mass-murdercide ( “murdercide” term coined by New Scientist, for suicide-bombers ), but we need to stop pouring our finite-resources into pointless idiocies,
when there are such great needs for the living, here & now.
( XOR we’re pushing ourselves closer to a species-wide DarwinAward, this-century,
which may be what the real aim is…
obliterate our viability, then pretend that we’re “not responsible” for our non-survival, right?
Bah.
Make all such wasting-of-resources be paid-for by volunteer-financers, & then maybe there’d be moral-basis for it.
But when general taxpayer basis is either paying-for, or subsidizing, idiotic wasting-of-opportunity, then it’s abuse/wrong. )
Sorry for being bitter,
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& people insist that my claim that Trump is going to use his “denaturalization” citizenship-removal law, against all Democrats, is delusion…
Mere months, now, people, mere months, before US Civil War Part2 is begun, with the removal of civil-rights from all except Trump-worshippers, & then the butchering will begin ( while he launches war against Central America, northern South America, & Canada, to enforce his annexations, for his continental-kingdom dictatorship’s greed )
The ones who have the authority to prevent this won’t do-so, so prepare for the coming butchery, to improve your liklihood-of-surviving…
( EU, abandoned, will be rampaged by Russia, obviously, with China’s full backing )
See Trump’s progression, and its acceleration, & extrapolate it, … & understand it is WE who will be dying, soon.
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That is what national-narcissism is about, certainly…
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