"It is often easier to manipulate smart people than stupid people...The less smart people can see how manipulated the smarter people are. They also see that the smarter people look down on them and attack their motives and intellects." https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2017/12/simple-theory-moores-law-social-media.html

Outrageous as it currently sounds, I bet that RFK will be the next American President. https://drpippa.substack.com/p/2024-why-its-rfk-vs-suarez-two-green

Excommunicate demotivators

The Russian "Civil War"

Nasdaq-listed Fingerprint Cards claims it is the first biometric company to become a member of the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) New Champions Community, an organization of mid-sized businesses.

The company aims to use its membership to promote biometric technology, showcasing how it can promote social inclusion, according to an announcement. The New Champions Community is set to have a meeting during the WEF Summer Davos meeting in Tianjin, China from June 27 to 29.

“As a proud member of the WEF New Champions Community program, we want to be recognized as a purpose-driven company that contributes positively to the changes needed to operate in the new digitalized world,” says Charles Burgeat, Senior Vice President of Strategy at Fingerprint Cards. “By joining this Community, we look forward to brainstorming and exchanging ideas with peers, and bring our expertise of the biometrics industry.”

The Swedish biometrics company has recorded a tough first quarter of 2023, recording a loss of 70 million Swedish krona ($6.4 million) on revenue of SEK 117 million ($10.8 million). Despite this, the company has achieved some significant milestones within the past year.

Fingerprint Cards announced this year that it has so far included its fingerprint biometrics in 700 Android smartphone models and shipped 1 million biometric sensor modules for biometric payment cards. Among the most recent integrations of its sensors was with the Xiaomi Redmi K60, the first phone to utilize Fingerprint Cards’ under-display technology.

In May, the firm said it received an order from an unnamed client outside of Asia for modules valued at more than $1 million.

The WEF performs various advocacy activities related to biometrics and digital identity. Yoti joined an affiliated coalition last year. https://www.biometricupdate.com/202306/fingerprint-cards-joins-world-economic-forum-community

Machiavelli on mercenaries.

Simplicius is worth follwing for his takes on the Russian-Ukrainian War: https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/prigozhins-siege-ends-postmortem?publication_id=1351274&post_id=130789627&isFreemail=true

This signifies a cardinal shift in the Russian handling of tactical nuclear arms away from their traditional separation of the warheads kept in a central storage far from the delivery carriers to the method used by the U.S. military with respect to its tactical nuclear weapons in Europe. The Americans, he said stored the nukes just under the jets that would be used to deliver them. Now in Belarus, the warheads will also be just next to the planes and Iskander missiles that will carry them. This means that the time to launch will depend only on the time for approval from the Boss. And with respect to that, Lukashenko told Skabeyeva that he had just to make a phone call to Vladimir Vladimirovich and approval would be instantaneous.

Why such a hair-trigger mechanism for unleashing nuclear weapons to defend Belarus? For an answer to that, go to today’s article in The Financial Times on how Poland is now preparing hundreds of Belarus fighters to go across the border and overthrow Lukashenko. https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2023/06/19/tactical-nuclear-weapons-latest-news-from-russia/

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Plato's Rave #DracoAlchemicus

What happens when a sturdy railroad tanker car implodes under the pressure of 1 atm impinging on a vacuum inside.
https://youtu.be/Zz95_VvTxZM

So, basically, the sinister establishment (e.g. The Atlantic) is saying that anyone who questions them is analog to raw sewage and nasty infectious disease...a "Great Stink"! And that "ugly voices" need to be shut off via "pipes, valves, and pumps." 💩 ☣️ https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/06/germ-theory-digital-platforms-internet-metaphore/674458/

The true villain is as far from the stereotypical depiction of ‘left-wing’ as it is possible to go without coming full circle: he wears a $10,000 suit and flies on private jets; he travels in tinted motorcades with a security detail and a police escort; he owns mansions on every continent and high-end town houses in New York, London, and Paris; he has a stock portfolio worth a hundred times more than the accumulated earnings of your entire ancestral line; he passes international borders without a passport and is immune from prosecution; he may appear on television from time to time to dispense reassuring endorsements of the status quo, and can often be seen at A-list sporting and entertainment events. https://jjdawson.substack.com/p/we-must-stop-saying-the-left