'The Economic Safety League (ESL), an ad hoc group of business leaders from around the province, described #BibleBillAberhart & his followers as an “/omnium gatherum/* of political odds and ends, business failures, social misfits and imitating parrots.”' (*Brennan 2008*pp. 19-23)

On this day in 1859, American Lyman Cutlar shot a pig in his garden that belonged to Hudson's Bay Company employee Charles Griffin on San Juan Island. This sparked The Pig War between Britain and the United States. It lasted until October 1859. The pig was the only casualty.

Terrorism: - spraying paint on RAF planes Not terrorism: - shooting children in the head - creating largest cohort of child amputees in the world - leaving babies to die in ICU beds - starving an entire population - bombing hospitals and universities - assassinating journalists

"for 1st time in history, his bowed head lifted, he... begin[s] to ask why he must press his rags closer to his body, that he may not touch the rich man’s costly silks, that he himself produced... why it is that he must provide all the banquets of the world that he may not taste"

Godfather of capitalism says:

ANTI-GOVERNMENT PROTESTERS were on the streets in Indonesia this week. The rise of civil unrest was predicted by several sources, including journalist/ analyst Brian Berletic. Why was trouble inevitable? The leadership of the world’s fourth most populous country has shown signs of independent thinking, as it struggles with economic pressures. Indonesia recently refused to sign a promise to give US jet bombers blanket permission to use Indonesian airspace in a future war on China. The Pentagon was not happy. . THE NED IS ACTIVE Furthermore, President Prabowo Subianto last year criticized foreign NGOs, claiming to “promote democracy”, for interfering in the politics of sovereign countries and weaponizing human rights. This was seen as a reference to the infamous US National Endowment for Democracy (NED), a CIA spin-off which has been active in creating street protests in Indonesia. The NED has been thrown out of Venezuela, Egypt, Mainland China, Hong Kong, Russia and other places for financing, fomenting and training anti-government movements. The resultant civil unrest has often led to loss of life and property, sometimes on a large scale. The rise of independent thinking in Jakarta means (from the US point of view) that Indonesia may need a little “people power” push to usher in alternative leaders. The appearance of civil unrest is always the first step in the regime change system. . LIST OF GRIEVANCES As usual, the protests are said to be based on genuine grievances. The illegal US-Israel attack on Iran caused oil import prices to soar. The Jakarta government maintained some subsidies on fuel to shield citizens and runs a school meal program to ensure children don’t go hungry, but both have been targeted by critics. The local currency has fallen against the dollar, making it harder for Indonesians to travel abroad—but it has lifted the value of remittances family members overseas send home. Still, all this is par for the course. US agitators work quietly to build civil unrest on top of local grievances. Civic society in the country is riddled with US infiltrators. Also, US agents are discreetly financing outlets in Indonesia’s media—using the same “democracy and freedom” mantras they used in Hong Kong and scores of other places. . WEAPONIZING HUMAN RIGHTS Indonesian President Prabowo has been trying to keep the US appeased (he donated to Donald Trump’s absurd “Board of Peace” for Gaza) but has also tried to maintain the country’s independence from foreign troublemakers. “We must not be manipulated by any country,” he said on Pancasila Day, last year. In response, NED, the CIA and related outfits have apparently stepped-up operations. NED is advertising for staff for operations in East Asia. . HIT PIECE Brian Berletic, Angelo Guiliano and the present writer were targeted in a hit piece three weeks ago. Jakarta-based Tempo accused us of being Russian or Chinese agents. Their evidence was that we had falsely indicated that western political groups, like the NED and Internews, were active in the country. But the Tempo report was funded by a western political group: Internews! The very existence of their report proved we were telling the truth. Yet our warnings need to be louder. How to get the truth about US interference more widely known? It’s difficult. Narrative creation is the US’s super-power. It’s clear that that a significant portion of Indonesian media, like Tempo, is serving the US, not Indonesia. International journalists are no help. Mainstream media such as the BBC and Reuters routinely maintain secret news blackouts on references to western political interference operations, even if their presence is blatant. . ASIANS NEED TO WISE UP So Asians have to wise up and fix their own problems. “Nations need to secure their information space,” Berletic said on X yesterday. “Stop allowing US-based social media platforms and their algorithms to determine what YOUR people see, hear, and ultimately THINK.” In the long run, the US wants Indonesia’s government to be allied to them or controlled by Washington—as are many places, including Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, the Philippines, and Taiwan. The US is busy in Asia, “politically capturing Asian states along China's periphery - Indonesia being one of them,” Berletic said.

Dr Walter Rodney was assassinated on June 13, 1980, by a bomb planted in a walkie talkie. He was 38. His key work, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, exposed the roots of global inequality and the violence of colonial underdevelopment.

We’ve lost Venezuela. We might lose Cuba. The condition of Palestine is desperate. Global climate action is dead. Technofascists are running everything. The US “left” is Magafied populist trash in possession of zero brain power.

That ain't what #1CompradorDave is threatening

Trita's crime is telling too many hard truths about the catastrophically stupid Iran war. So the Trump regime goons, egged on by their neocon brain trust (FDD, Laura Loomer, etc), are looking to deport him, to silence his painfully accurate analyses. x.com/tparsi/status/20655098…

#ShadowBoxing #Compradores is how .@realDonaldTrump wins #abpoli

The man who leaked the Pentagon Papers spent the rest of his life sitting on something far darker, and the book he finally wrote about it scared me more than anything I have ever read. His name was Daniel Ellsberg. The book is called The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner. Most of you know Ellsberg as the analyst who in 1971 handed 7,000 pages of classified Vietnam War documents to the press and almost went to prison for it. That story has a hero arc. A man of conscience, the system exposed, justice eventually served. What almost nobody knows is what he did not leak. When Ellsberg copied the Pentagon Papers at night on a photocopier borrowed from an advertising agency, he also copied something else. Thousands of pages about America's nuclear war plans. He had carried the same security clearance for both files. He intended to release them next. He never got the chance. While the FBI was closing in after the Pentagon Papers went public, he transferred the nuclear documents to his brother, who buried them near a trash dump. A tropical storm hit. The papers dissolved into mud. For decades, Ellsberg reconstructed what he remembered from notes, Freedom of Information Act requests, and interviews with people who had been in the same rooms. The Doomsday Machine is what came out of that reconstruction, and it is the most honest account of American nuclear policy that any insider has ever published. The thing that hit me first is this: everything you believe about who controls nuclear weapons is wrong. The official story, the one presidents repeat in press conferences and diplomats repeat in treaties, is that the American nuclear arsenal answers to a single chain of command ending at the desk of the President. The launch codes. The football. One person. One decision. Ellsberg had a "go anywhere, ask anything" research mandate from RAND Corporation in 1959 and 1960. He traveled to air bases across the Pacific. He asked the question directly. What he found was that the authority to launch nuclear weapons had been delegated far down the military hierarchy, to generals, to base commanders, to fighter pilots sitting in cockpits on remote runways. Not secretly. Not illegally. Deliberately. The military had decided that waiting for a presidential order in a world of supersonic bombers and thirty-minute missile flight times was tactically suicidal. So they had quietly built a system where dozens of people, in dozens of locations, could start a nuclear war on their own judgment. The lock codes designed to prevent unauthorized launches at nuclear missile silos had been set to 00000000. All zeros. To make them faster to enter. Nobody told the public. Nobody told most of the government. The President's control was, in Ellsberg's word, a hoax. The second thing that stopped me cold was the plan itself. In spring 1961, Ellsberg was at the White House when a general briefed Kennedy's national security team on what would actually happen if the United States executed its nuclear war plan against the Soviet Union. The general showed a graph. The vertical axis was deaths. The horizontal axis was time, measured in months. The curve flattened at 100 million Soviets dead from radioactive fallout alone. Not from the initial blasts. Just from the dust that floated back down. Someone asked what would happen to China. There was a second graph. China would lose roughly 300 million people. When Ellsberg followed up and asked the total, accounting for fallout drifting into Western Europe, into neutral countries, into American allies, the number came back as approximately 600 million dead. In the Pentagon's own estimate. From a first strike the United States was planning to execute in response not to a nuclear attack, but to any conventional military confrontation that involved more than one American battalion. Six hundred million people. A hundred holocausts, Ellsberg wrote later, by their own accounting. And that estimate was made in 1961, before scientists understood nuclear winter. The actual death toll from the same strike, calculated with modern climate models, would have been the near-extinction of the human species. The third revelation is the one that kept me awake. The Soviet Union built a mirror of the same system, called Perimeter, sometimes referred to as the Dead Hand. It is a semi-automated retaliatory network designed to launch the entire Soviet nuclear arsenal if it detects that Soviet leadership has been destroyed and communication has gone dark. It was built to ensure that no American first strike could prevent retaliation. It still exists. Russia never dismantled it. Both countries built machines that can end civilization on their own. Both machines are still running. Ellsberg spent the final years of his life trying to make people understand that the threat had not diminished, that the fundamental architecture of the nuclear age had not changed, that a fraction of the existing arsenals could still kill everyone alive today. He testified. He gave interviews. He filed lawsuit after lawsuit under the Freedom of Information Act. He died in June 2023 at 92, still trying. The strangest thing about the book is what it does to you after you put it down. You go about your day. You check your phone. You argue about ordinary things. And somewhere underneath all of it sits this fact, verified and documented, that the species has built and maintained and continuously upgraded machines capable of ending itself, that those machines are controlled by systems far more fragile and distributed than anyone is allowed to officially admit, and that the people who designed them considered 600 million deaths an acceptable outcome of a conventional conflict. Ellsberg called it ordinary insanity. Madness so widely shared, so institutionalized, that it stopped looking like madness at all. He said that was the most dangerous thing about it. The book is available everywhere books are sold. It will be the most important 400 pages you ever read and the most difficult ones to finish. What book has genuinely scared you? I want to build a list.

#ShadowBoxing #Compradores is how .@realDonaldTrump wins #abpoli

AI machines acting autonomously killed humans for the first time, it was revealed today. Ten AI-powered drones were given full authority to choose human targets and kill them, New Scientist reported in its latest edition. The operation worked. The killings took place in Ukraine two years ago, but the information was never before publicly admitted, the journal said. . CLEARLY VISIBLE CORPSES “We just launch it and we know everything will be dead – everything that will be found there in this particular area will be dead,” drone-maker Alexander Kokhanovskyy told the publication. “There is no connection to the drone at all, you cannot see the video, nothing… Everything it sees will be killed.” Afterwards, the Ukrainians sent regular drones—fitted with cameras and piloted by humans—into the same area, to see if the AI had killed people. It had. There were clearly visible corpses and a disabled truck. . USED ON OTHER OCCASIONS This has probably happened on other occasions, the journal said. “Reports in 2023 suggested that Ukrainian attack drones equipped with artificial intelligence were finding and attacking targets without human assistance – but were being deployed against vehicles such as tanks, rather than infantry,” the journal said. Human casualties may well have been in the destroyed vehicles, but they wouldn’t have been visible. Why are the Ukrainians revealing this horrific fact so casually? With the massive demonization of Russia in the western mainstream media, they likely think that no one will care, since the victims were Russian. It’s worth noting that Ukrainian drone makers are working closely with the US and UK armed forces and doing shared tests in the area. And that warfare in both Ukraine and Iran are being used as training material for a US attack on China—more on that below. . WHO’S IN FAVOR OF KILLER ROBOTS? But seriously, we have to ask: are autonomous AI flying killer robots, with permission to kill humans of their choosing, a good idea? Most people don’t think so. In 2019, China and the majority of other countries of the world met at the UN to discuss a motion saying that killer robots are an obviously horrible idea and should be banned immediately. Guess who disagreed with the motion? You can guess the answer. Think of the four most ruthless nations. Correct. The US, the UK, Russia, and Australia disagreed. (Ukraine hadn’t gotten into drones at that time.) . LONDON HAS A TASTE FOR THEM The British leadership definitely likes the idea of robots killing people. In April last year (2025), the idea was floated in the Times of London, under the genteel headline "Drones may strike targets with no human input, says minister." The word "drones" sounds nicer than "killer robots" and "strike targets" sounds better than “humans”, right, British government? . BUT THE U.S. IS WAY AHEAD No one doubts that the Pentagon is well advanced into making flying AI robots who can choose which humans to kill. “The Pentagon has been trying to develop AI-powered autonomous drones for years,” said Katrina Manson, a US author who writes about AI weapons. The US is developing flying killer robots called Goalkeeper and jet-ski style killer robots called Whiplash. Both are AI powered and have the power and ability to destroy humans of their own choosing, she says. By putting AI into airborne or waterborne weapons and then giving them permission to kill humans, it means that the US can still keep killing people even when radio contact cannot be maintained. “The military is also working to put AI directly into its ‘one-way attack drones,’ so they can navigate, locate targets and carry out lethal attacks even when wireless communications have been severed,” Manson said in a recent book. . CHINA IS ULTIMATE TARGET They are being prepared for war on China, Manson says. “Starting in 2022 the Pentagon’s Maven team began collecting enormous amounts of imagery of Chinese vessels in the Pacific, which they used to enable the creation of algorithms that drones operating there could use for targeting.” The tragedy of all this is that many futurists, including author Isaac Asimov, saw this coming and warned against it. His “first rule of robotics” states that a robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. He believed that failing to follow this fundamental rule would doom the human race. Many people still agree. And there are some who will stand up and say so. In February this year, Anthropic, one of the world’s top AI companies, told the US government that it did not want its tech to be used for autonomous weapons that kill humans. The US Department of War immediately blacklisted Anthropic—and found an alternative partner, OpenAI, the same day.

Bloomberg is owned by the world's 18th richest man. Billionaires emit more carbon in one hour than a poor person does in a lifetime. This is propaganda.

"What we have done is take something that should never have established itself in human communities in the first place and have built a public health consensus around the concept of repeated mass infection. So, yes, this is what failure looks like." -Dr. Arijit Chakravarty