I can now report that Swiss Miss also leaves a magnetic residue tracing the outlines of magnets attached to my porcelainized metal cup; not just the Walmart hot chocolate. None of the coffees I tried left any traces.

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Disintegration

One of the reasons I selected Martyanov’s book on military supremacy for the Library series is that he’s considerable more perceptive than the average geopolitical observer. I’ve been reading his book on the ongoing breakup of the United States, and it was intriguing to see that he’s one of the few observers who understands that […]

https://voxday.net/2024/01/17/disintegration/

🚢 🇺🇸 🌍 We got too accustomed to peaceful seas

Say goodbye to the global ‘conveyor belt’

🔶️ Such intensively globalized supply chains are a somewhat recent invention. There once was a time where you could not buy tangerines in Minneapolis in January or receive South Korean face wash through free, next-day shipping. Little, if anything, that we use or eat everyday did not spend some amount of time in a shipping container. “In 1956, the world was full of small manufacturers selling locally; by the end of the twentieth century, purely local markets for goods of any sort were few and far between,” wrote economist Marc Levinson in his seminal book “The Box.”

🔶️ It’s somewhat ahistorical that the world’s oceans have been relatively painless to navigate in the second half of the 20th century, permitting trade to flow around the world. That was not the case for much of human history. “Pirates, predatory states, and the fleets of great powers did as they pleased,” wrote Jerry Hendrix, senior fellow at the Sagamore Institute, in The Atlantic last year. “The current reality, which dates only to the end of World War II, makes possible the commercial shipping that handles more than 80% of all global trade by volume — oil and natural gas, grain and raw ores, manufactured goods of every kind.”

🔶️ Such peace can no longer be assumed. It’s unclear whether ongoing diversions from the Suez Canal will become the norm going forward, but it’s clear that things are shifting — and it’s not in the favor of frictionless trade or a U.S. hegemony.

🔶️ “It was almost like you had a conveyor belt from the shoe factory in Bangladesh to the shop in Chicago,” said Simon Sundboell, founder and CEO of Copenhagen-based maritime intelligence company eeSea. “That’s just not happening anymore. You’re in a world that’s going increasingly from American-controlled unipolar to multipolar globally. You’re going to have a much more fraught supply chain, and every BCO [beneficial cargo owner], importer, exporter, and logistics provider is going to have to deal with that going forward. The Houthis are just one step in that.”

https://freightwaves.com/news/we-got-too-accustomed-to-peaceful-seas

"For many years, the United States has been effectively a technocracy, run by unelected “experts.” Former Harvard president Claudine Gay’s fall from grace may mark the end of that era."

https://brownstone.substack.com/p/the-collapse-of-credentialism

War on Us — by Hans Vogel

“For some time now, prophets of doom have been asserting that 2023 was “the warmest year in recorded history.” Assorted financial experts have warned the current year will bring economic Armageddon. Finally, there are the rumors of an imminent nuclear exchange between the US and Russia, which would spell the end of Civilization “as we know it.

The establishment media and state outlets have been duly feeding the public with these and other alarming prophecies. All things considered, it amounts to a giant PR campaign to gain sympathy and acceptance for the annual meeting of the international crime syndicate that thinks it is running the world.

Of course, we are talking about the World Economic Forum (WEF), which is holding its annual Davos convention from January 15 to 19, and where thousands of brothers and sisters in crime will be feasting, boozing and fornicating for a week.”

Read more: https://arktos.com/2024/01/14/war-on-us/

This has become my most viral tweet ever. https://twitter.com/AetherCzar/status/1747465095985107329

"What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy.
As Huxley remarked in Brave New World Revisited, the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny "failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions."
"In 1984", Huxley added, "people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure."
In short, Orwell feared that what we hate will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we love will ruin us."
~Neil Postman

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"RINO Senator Mitt Romney (UT) trashed ‘out of touch’ voters who still support Trump even though ‘a jury found Trump raped a woman.’

"CNN’s Manu Raju on Wednesday said he asked Mitt Romney about the Iowa caucus entrance polls showing that a “majority of GOP caucusgoers didn’t believe that Joe Biden was elected legitimately.”

"President Trump handily won the Iowa caucus tonight by over 30 points over the next tow closest Republicans.

"78 percent of the Monday caucus goers believe the Democrat lawfare charges against President Trump are politically motivated."

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/01/romney-unleashes-nasty-tirade-trashes-touch-voters-who/

Leftist outlet Politico faced backlash online after it declared sex trafficking by friend to the elite Jeffrey Epstein to be a “conspiracy theory.”

https://modernity.news/2024/01/10/politico-blasted-for-labelling-epstein-sex-trafficking-a-conspiracy-theory/

Improving Democracy with Technology

Klaus Schwab and Sergey Brin of Google discuss the possibility of replacing voting with AI at the World Economic Forum: World Economic Forum (WEF) founder and chairman Klaus Schwab has called for members of the general public to be excluded from election processes, arguing that voters could be replaced by artificial intelligence (AI). Schwab made […]

https://voxday.net/2024/01/18/improving-democracy-with-technology/

🚀 Zhurong Rover's Martian Breakthrough: Unearthing Geometric Secrets!

China's Zhurong rover, using ground-penetrating radar, has uncovered deep geometric structures on Mars. These polygons, up to tens of meters wide, are hidden 35 meters below Utopia Planitia's surface. This discovery, from China's landmark Mars mission, offers a peek into the planet's ancient climatic shifts, suggesting a history of dramatic environmental change

The Science of Female Competition

I wasn’t planning to post more than once a week on Sigma Game, but given the high level of interest demonstrated combined with my Cernovichian philosophy which dictates reinforcing success and starving failure, I’ve had to rethink my plans. So, today Sigma Game reviews an old Alpha Game post from 2011 in light of two […]

https://voxday.net/2024/01/18/the-science-of-female-competition/

"Uncensored AI is a Manhattan Project for the truth against the disruptors of reality. No longer will they be able to assert total control over narrative formation. No longer will they have full-spectrum dominance of what everyone assumes to be true and real. We are entering an epoch just as revolutionary as the printing press and the internet."
https://news.gab.com/2024/01/ai-as-the-information-war-superweapon/#:~:text=Uncensored%20AI%20is,and%20the%20internet.

"A fair hero rarely wins his laurels by compromising his morals. Out of all the heroes in Watchmen, only Rorschach maintained his zealous pursuit of justice. Only he thought the best course of action was to bring a horrific criminal to pay for his horrifying crime. Some might say Ozymandias would be a hero by that metric since he, too, never wavered. However, Ozyamandia’s arrogance and strong belief that only he knew best led him to take major action on behalf of the world. Ultimately, Ozymandias remained dedicated to world peace at any cost, while Rorschach remained dedicated to fighting evil at any cost."

https://fandompulse.com/2024/01/18/literature-devil-rorschach-truly-is-the-hero-in-alan-moores-watchmen/