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TIL that historically, syphilis was treated by infecting patients with malaria to induce fever. About 15% of patients died from malaria, but this was considered better than the near-certain death from syphilis.
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Russia Forced to Sharply Raise Taxes to Continue War Financing, — British Intelligence
It is reported that the Russian Federation expects tax changes to provide additional budget revenues of about $29 billion in 2025. To achieve this, the corporate income tax rate will increase from 20% to 25%, and the top income tax rate will rise from 15% to 22%.
It is reported that the Russian Federation expects tax changes to provide additional budget revenues of about $29 billion in 2025. To achieve this, the corporate income tax rate will increase from 20% to 25%, and the top income tax rate will rise from 15% to 22%.
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ALASTAIR CROOKE: European mutiny at the illiberal order
The mutiny has arisen because many in the West see only too clearly that the western ruling structure is an illiberal mechanical ‘control system’.
"In 1970, Zbig Brzezinski (who was to become National Security Adviser to President Carter) published a book ennoscriptd: Between Two Ages: America’s Role in the Technetronic Era. In it, Brzezinski argued:
“The technetronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society…dominated by an élite, unrestrained by traditional values…[and practicing] continuous surveillance over every citizen … [together with] manipulation of the behaviour and intellectual functioning of all people … [would become the new norm].”
Elsewhere he argued that “the nation-state as a fundamental unit of man’s organised life has ceased to be the principal creative force: International banks and multinational corporations are acting and planning in terms that are far in advance of the political concepts of the nation-state”. (i.e. Business cosmopolitanism as the future.)
David Rockefeller and the power brokers around him – together with his Bilderberg grouping – seized on Brzezinski’s insight to represent the third leg to ensuring that the 21st century would indeed be the ‘American Century’. The other two legs were control of oil resources and dollar hegemony.
Then followed a key report, Limits to Growth, (1971, Club of Rome (again a Rockefeller creation), which provided the deeply flawed ‘scientific’ underpinning to Brzezinski: It predicted an end to civilization, owing to population growth, combined with depleting resources (including, and especially, depleting energy resources).
This dire prediction was imputed to say that only economic experts, tech experts, leaders of multinational corporations and banks had the foresight and technological understanding to manage society – subject to the complexity of Limits to Growth.
Limits to Growth was a mistake. It was flawed, yet that did not matter: President Clinton’s adviser to the UN Rio Conference, Tim Wirth, admitted the error, yet cheerfully added: “We have got to ride the global warming issue. Even if the theory is wrong, we will be doing the ‘right thing’ in terms of economic policy”.
The proposition was wrong – but the policy was right! Economic policy was upended, based on faulty analysis.
The ‘godfather’ to the further pivot to totalitarianism (apart from David Rockefeller), was his protégé (and later, Klaus Schwab’s ‘indispensable adviser’), Maurice Strong. William Engdahl has written how “circles directly tied to David Rockefeller and Strong in the 1970s birthed a dazzling array of élite (private-invitation) organizations and think tanks”.
“These included the neo-Malthusian Club of Rome; the MIT-authored study: ‘Limits to Growth’, and the Trilateral Commission”.
The Trilateral Commission however, was the secretive heart to the matrix. “When Carter took office in January 1976, his Cabinet was drawn almost entirely from the ranks of Rockefeller’s Trilateral Commission – to such an astonishing degree that some Washington insiders called it the ‘Rockefeller Presidency’”, Engdahl writes.
Craig Karpel, in 1977, also wrote:
“The presidency of the U.S. and the key cabinet departments of the federal government have been taken over by a private organization dedicated to the subordination of the domestic interests of the United States to the international interests of the multi-national banks and corporations. It would be unfair to say that the Trilateral Commission dominates the Carter Administration. The Trilateral Commission is the Carter Administration”.
“Every key U.S. Government foreign and economic policy post, since Carter, has been held by a Trilateral”, Engdahl writes. And so it continues – a matrix of overlapping membership that is little visible to the public, and which very loosely may be said to have constituted the ‘permanent state’.
Did it exist in Europe? Yes, branches across Europe.
The mutiny has arisen because many in the West see only too clearly that the western ruling structure is an illiberal mechanical ‘control system’.
"In 1970, Zbig Brzezinski (who was to become National Security Adviser to President Carter) published a book ennoscriptd: Between Two Ages: America’s Role in the Technetronic Era. In it, Brzezinski argued:
“The technetronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society…dominated by an élite, unrestrained by traditional values…[and practicing] continuous surveillance over every citizen … [together with] manipulation of the behaviour and intellectual functioning of all people … [would become the new norm].”
Elsewhere he argued that “the nation-state as a fundamental unit of man’s organised life has ceased to be the principal creative force: International banks and multinational corporations are acting and planning in terms that are far in advance of the political concepts of the nation-state”. (i.e. Business cosmopolitanism as the future.)
David Rockefeller and the power brokers around him – together with his Bilderberg grouping – seized on Brzezinski’s insight to represent the third leg to ensuring that the 21st century would indeed be the ‘American Century’. The other two legs were control of oil resources and dollar hegemony.
Then followed a key report, Limits to Growth, (1971, Club of Rome (again a Rockefeller creation), which provided the deeply flawed ‘scientific’ underpinning to Brzezinski: It predicted an end to civilization, owing to population growth, combined with depleting resources (including, and especially, depleting energy resources).
This dire prediction was imputed to say that only economic experts, tech experts, leaders of multinational corporations and banks had the foresight and technological understanding to manage society – subject to the complexity of Limits to Growth.
Limits to Growth was a mistake. It was flawed, yet that did not matter: President Clinton’s adviser to the UN Rio Conference, Tim Wirth, admitted the error, yet cheerfully added: “We have got to ride the global warming issue. Even if the theory is wrong, we will be doing the ‘right thing’ in terms of economic policy”.
The proposition was wrong – but the policy was right! Economic policy was upended, based on faulty analysis.
The ‘godfather’ to the further pivot to totalitarianism (apart from David Rockefeller), was his protégé (and later, Klaus Schwab’s ‘indispensable adviser’), Maurice Strong. William Engdahl has written how “circles directly tied to David Rockefeller and Strong in the 1970s birthed a dazzling array of élite (private-invitation) organizations and think tanks”.
“These included the neo-Malthusian Club of Rome; the MIT-authored study: ‘Limits to Growth’, and the Trilateral Commission”.
The Trilateral Commission however, was the secretive heart to the matrix. “When Carter took office in January 1976, his Cabinet was drawn almost entirely from the ranks of Rockefeller’s Trilateral Commission – to such an astonishing degree that some Washington insiders called it the ‘Rockefeller Presidency’”, Engdahl writes.
Craig Karpel, in 1977, also wrote:
“The presidency of the U.S. and the key cabinet departments of the federal government have been taken over by a private organization dedicated to the subordination of the domestic interests of the United States to the international interests of the multi-national banks and corporations. It would be unfair to say that the Trilateral Commission dominates the Carter Administration. The Trilateral Commission is the Carter Administration”.
“Every key U.S. Government foreign and economic policy post, since Carter, has been held by a Trilateral”, Engdahl writes. And so it continues – a matrix of overlapping membership that is little visible to the public, and which very loosely may be said to have constituted the ‘permanent state’.
Did it exist in Europe? Yes, branches across Europe.
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South China Morning Post
‘Rent a girlfriend’ industry booms in China for meeting parents, fake weddings
An undercover investigation has exposed China’s booming rent-a-girlfriend industry, which caters to single men needing a “girlfriend” to introduce to parents demanding they marry or show off to neighbours.
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Phobos: One of Mars’ Intriguing Moons
Phobos, one of the two moons orbiting Mars, presents a fascinating subject for scientific exploration. This celestial body orbits at a distance of 6,006 kilometers from the Martian surface and is gradually drawing closer to the planet. Over time, this proximity will lead to significant changes in its orbit, offering unique opportunities for study.
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Phobos, one of the two moons orbiting Mars, presents a fascinating subject for scientific exploration. This celestial body orbits at a distance of 6,006 kilometers from the Martian surface and is gradually drawing closer to the planet. Over time, this proximity will lead to significant changes in its orbit, offering unique opportunities for study.
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Two women buy cocaine in capsules from a dealer, Weimar Republic, Berlin, 1929.
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— 🇱🇧 NEW: Hezbollah now live broadcasting detailed video of the port of Haifa, including Israel's 'Sa'ar' missile ships
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Linux strikes again- My son's private school mentioned that they had some computers sitting on a shelf in a closet for the year because windows was too slow and didn't load. I asked if they would mind letting me see if I could find a Linux distribution that would make them operational again. Seven once useless windows computers are now revved and ready Zorin computers. Linux rocks- find a closet computer to revive today. (Note: Linux didn't turn the i3 CPU into a speed demon but it took useless computers to useful once again.)
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Aristotle understood the threat against modern western civilization more than most modern "conservatives" do
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"Simply put, I have worked for forty years to achieve the American dream of having a modest house, a little bit of land, a loving family and great friends. Is it worth the destruction of everything that is valuable to me; my family, my friends and my home, for people I don’t know, that live over 5,000 miles away, and in a country that was previously part of the former Soviet Union? As previously stated, this answer is a resounding no."
https://vigilantnews.com/post/are-there-saboteurs-operating-in-the-united-states/#:~:text=Simply%20put%2C%20I,a%20resounding%20no.
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Are There Saboteurs Operating in the United States?
Something strange is going on...
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🇺🇸 The West is aiming to transfer F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine this summer - Pentagon.
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Why I Hate the Killing Joke by The Legend Chuck Dixon
“The Shadow that bred them can only mock, it cannot make: not real new things of its own. I don’t think it gave life to the orcs, it only ruined them and twisted them; and if they are to live at all, they have to live like other living creatures.” That pretty much describes most […]
https://arkhavencomics.com/2024/06/19/why-i-hate-the-killing-joke-by-the-legend-chuck-dixon/
“The Shadow that bred them can only mock, it cannot make: not real new things of its own. I don’t think it gave life to the orcs, it only ruined them and twisted them; and if they are to live at all, they have to live like other living creatures.” That pretty much describes most […]
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TIL that the plastic cover on an emergency switch on devices is called a Molly-guard because the inventor's daughter (Molly) kept pushing the button.
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British TV presenter James May, most famous for being a part of motoring shows The Grand Tour and Top Gear with Jeremy Clarkson, is under fire for pointing out that the uniform rows and rows of Pride flags installed every year in central London look “oppressive.”
https://modernity.news/2024/06/13/grand-tour-presenter-stands-ground-after-calling-rows-of-pride-flags-oppressive/
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‘Grand Tour’ Presenter Stands Ground After Calling Rows Of Pride Flags “Oppressive”
"It may be seen as authoritarian, and therefore oppressive."
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General Electric Building, New York City, New York, United States of America
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