Concepts and Practices:
"The Dynamics of Nuclear Power Diplomacy: Russia and China vs the
Neo-Malthusians" Matthew
Ehret - The Duran
"In 1975, an influential Stanford biologist named Paul Ehrlich (author of
the misanthropic 1968 Population Bomb) stated that in his view, humanity’s
acquisition of fusion energy was “like giving an idiot child a machine
gun”. Ehrlich’s views were shared widely among the peculiar sect of
scientists that have come to be known as neo-Malthusians.
Ehrlich’s
colleague John Holdren ruminated that developing fusion energy was
undesirable because it would only enflame mankind’s “pave the planet and
paint it green’ mentality.” Third Industrial Revolution author and
fringe activist-turned-international climate advisor to the UN named Jeremy
Rifkind stated “the prospect of cheap fusion energy is the worst thing that
could happen to the planet.” Across the many voices of this neo-Malthusian
landscape, the mantra has been the same:" fusion energy is always 30-40
years away "and since the world will boil over long before this day arrives
anyway, why bother dreaming about it when we could start covering the globe
with solar panels now in order to de-carbonize society and stop the new
Armageddon? Today’s Green New Deal and G7 Green anti-BRI vision have at
their heart this profound misanthropic view of humanity weaved into their
programming. While many are attracted to the concept of a clean earth,
the
consequences of global decarbonization to pre-industrial levels as outlined
by modern technocrats will be the unfortunate, albeit planned kill off of a
large proportion of the world population… unless clean and abundant nuclear
power with a focus on both fission and fusion processes drive that global
energy transition. As soon as a Malthusian attains a position of economic
or scientific policy influence, these ideologues loose no time in
sabotaging government support for all energy programs which would render
their abiding faith in “human overpopulation” irrelevant and wrong. Holdren
himself lost no time in cancelling the few dwindling U.S. fusion research
initiatives during his time running U.S. Science Policy under Barak Obama.
But Holdren was merely following on a long tradition of sabotage. Take for
instance the slashing of fusion power research begun under the Trilateral
Commission controlled Presidency of Jimmy Carter which has continued
unabated until the present day. [...] Not only did actual funding
fall far below the minimum requirements to build and activate prototypes of
new designs, but starting in 1977 the funding was increasingly redirected
towards “zero-technological growth” forms of energy like windmill and
photovoltaic cell technology. Even conventional domains of nuclear energy
research like the closing of the fuel cycle using fast breeder reactors
which the USA once championed were killed under Executive Order and buried
under moratoria during the 1970s. One of the key figures in this attack on
fusion was RAND Corp Energy czar James Schlesigner who amplified regulatory
laws and cut funding in fusion despite milestones being reached in Los
Alamos and Princeton in 1976. (cont'd) [...]" |
"Superconducting Magnets Could Unlock Plentiful Fusion Power" Principia
Scientific
"Here, the BBC reports on the latest work to develop nuclear fusion power
stations." |
"The
Strategic Hour: Multipolar Fusion Power or Assimilate to a Neoliberal Borg
Dystopia" Matthew
Ehret - The Duran
"[1:03:05] In this week’s edition of the Strategic Hour on Rogue News, we
discussed topics ranging from the science and geopolitics of nuclear power
with a focus on fusion energy, as well as the deeper story behind the
Lukashenko-Putin meeting, the upcoming Putin-Biden meeting and of course
advances on Chinese-Russian military cooperation." |
Commentary:
"Bacterial
Communities Have Memory, New Study Shows"
Sci-News
"Collectives of bacteria, or biofilms, stimulated with light remembered
the exposure hours after the initial stimulus, according to new research.
Reported in a paper in the journal Cell Systems, the discovery reveals
surprising parallels between bacteria and neurons that process memory in
the human brain. [...] Following recent discoveries by Professor Süel’s
team that bacteria use ion channels to communicate with each other, the new
study suggested that bacteria might also have the ability to store
information about their past states. The study authors were able to encode
complex memory patterns in bacterial biofilms with light-induced changes in
the cell membrane potential of Bacillus subtilis. The optical imprints,
they found, lasted for hours after the initial stimulus, leading to a
direct, controllable single-cell resolution depiction of memory. “When we
perturbed these bacteria with light they remembered and responded
differently from that point on,” Professor Süel said. “So for the first
time we can directly visualize which cells have the memory. That’s
something we can’t visualize in the human brain.” The ability to encode
memory in bacterial communities could enable future biological computation
through the imprinting of complex spatial memory patterns in biofilms.
“Bacteria are the dominant form of life on this planet,” Professor Süel
said. “Being able to write memory into a bacterial system and do it in a
complex way is one of the first requirements for being able to do
computations using bacterial communities.” [...]" |
Commentary:
"Google
Scientists Are Creating an Artificial Intelligence That Evolves on Its Own"
Act Post
"One of the biggest global players in artificial intelligence (AI) is
Google and their high-tech Brain division has been pushing the envelope for
years. Now scientists working for their AutoML project have a new paper in
which they claim to be developing algorithms that can evolve on their own
without human input. Even more stunning is their claim that they can induce
“mutations” into new generations of algorithms, which mimics principles of
Darwinian evolution, namely “survival of the fittest.” The team started
with one of the most basic ideas in modern AI: machine learning. Machine
learning tools allow us to use algorithms to search through massive troves
of data and quickly identify patterns. But the traditional problem with
this method is the element of human bias. [...] To bypass this problem, the
team wanted to develop a system by which AI can grow on its own. The team
used simple math equations to develop machine learning algorithms that
author 100 “candidate algorithms.” These candidates compete using basic
machine learning tools like neural network image differentiation tests and
the best-performing algorithms then mutated, or evolved, via random code
alteration. [...] The system can cull through tens of thousands of
algorithms each second in search of a solution while dismissing
“evolutionary dead-ends” and duplicates. Over multiple generations, the
process grows a library of high-performance algorithms. According to the
Google team, these new algorithms have already reproduced decades worth of
human-led AI discoveries in only days. [...] Perhaps most astonishingly,
the new AI algorithmic evolution is able to eliminate the problem of human
bias that is often introduced during data input. The AutoML-Zero can
essentially “automatically discover” unknown algorithms and develop new
previously undiscovered AI programs without any human intervention, using
only basic mathematical concepts. [...]" |
Commentary:
"From The CDC, May 2020: More Evidence Face Masks Don't Work"
Jon Rappoport
"Alert
to citizens, governors, mayors, presidents, prime ministers, and public
health officials— You want science. You always state that. Well, here is
your very own science. The reference is: “Nonpharmaceutical
Measures for Pandemic Influenza in Nonhealthcare Settings—Personal
Protective and Environmental Measures.” and
PDF Version. Published in: “Emerging
Infectious Diseases, Vol.26, No. 5, May 2020.” (That journal is
published by the CDC.) [...] From the abstract:
“Here, we review the evidence base on the effectiveness of
nonpharmaceutical personal protective measures and environmental hygiene
measures in non-healthcare settings and discuss their potential inclusion
in pandemic plans. Although mechanistic studies [*] support the
potential effect of hand hygiene or face
masks, evidence from 14 randomized controlled
trials of these measures did not support a substantial effect on
transmission of laboratory-confirmed influenza.
We similarly found limited evidence on the
effectiveness of improved hygiene and environmental cleaning.” [...]
Here are quotes from pages 970-972 of the review: “In our systematic
review, we identified 10 RCTs [randomized controlled trials] that reported
estimates of the effectiveness of face masks in reducing
laboratory-confirmed influenza virus infections in the community from
literature published during 1946–July 27, 2018.
In pooled analysis, we found no significant
reduction in influenza transmission with the use of face masks…”
[...] “Disposable medical masks (also known as surgical masks) are
loose-fitting devices that were designed to be worn by medical personnel to
protect accidental contamination of patient wounds, and to protect the
wearer against splashes or sprays of bodily fluids…
There is limited evidence for their
effectiveness in preventing influenza virus transmission either when worn
by the infected person for source control or when worn by uninfected
persons to reduce exposure. Our systematic review found no significant
effect of face masks on transmission of laboratory-confirmed influenza.”
“In this review, we did not find evidence to support a protective effect of
personal protective measures or environmental measures in reducing
influenza transmission.” “We did not find
evidence that surgical-type face masks are effective in reducing
laboratory-confirmed influenza transmission, either when worn by infected
persons (source control) or by persons in the general community to reduce
their susceptibility…” [...]" | So there you have it. [*]
In case you want to quibble about the value of
what the authors refer to as “mechanistic studies,” the authors are
correctly setting those studies off to the side, in favor of the material
they preferred to examine: randomized controlled trials—which are widely
considered to be more valuable, relevant, and meaningful. .[...]"
"Never argue
with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level
and
then beat you with experience" - Mark Twain
Commentary:
"Inner Terrain vs. Outer Terrain: Which Do You Emphasize for Good Health?"
Makia Freeman
"THE
STORY: There are 2 main theories about disease and infection.
Pasteur's germ theory emphasizes pathogenic germs; Bechamp's host theory
emphasizes the inner terrain or microbiome of the host.
THE IMPLICATIONS: Has Western Medicine
become too swayed by fear of germs? Are we looking too much outside of
ourselves to Big Pharma drugs and products to save us? Why are we not
cultivating our inner terrain to build strength so disease cannot arise?
[...] The whole debate of inner terrain vs. outer terrain goes back at
least to the days of Louis Pasteur and Antoine Bechamp in 19th century
France, so let’s take a closer look at what happened there to understand
where we are now. [...]
Pasteur vs. Bechamp: French scientists
Louis Pasteur and Antoine Bechamp became bitter rivals as they advocated
completely different theories of disease and infection. Pasteur proposed
the idea of germ theory which taught that disease was caused by
pathogenic microbes which invaded the body. He pioneered heating
substances like raw milk to very high temperatures to kill the germs
(this technique named pasteurization is still used today and named after
him). This approach went hand-in-hand with Western Medicine’s drug-based
approach, since it’s all about killing the germs before they kill you.
On the other hand, Bechamp proposed the idea of host theory which taught
that microbes are opportunistic and only attack and gain a foothold in
organisms which are already weakened. Bechamp saw germs as the footnote
to the disease, the end product of a longer process which started with
the person already weakening their inner terrain. This could have been
done through lack of nutrition, lack of exercise, lack of sleep, stress,
emotional imbalance, poor lifestyle choices and exposure to toxins.
Bechamp realized that people already have bacteria and viruses in their
bodies all the time, yet the balance of beneficial bacteria keeps the
harmful bacteria in check. [...] So, according to host theory, you don’t
‘catch’ germs that make you sick. Disease-causing germs arise
opportunistically and begin to thrive in you only after you have already
developed an internal weakness or imbalance in your body. They are a
byproduct of the disease, not the cause of the disease. Bechamp
theorized that germs were actually the chemical byproducts, dead tissue
and degenerative aspects of a body’s unbalanced state. He stated living
entities called microzymas (tiny enzymes) created bacteria in response
to host and environmental factors. I often avoid using the
heavily-biased Wikipedia for information (and in this area it is very
pro-germ theory, pro-allopathy and pro-vaccine), however in this
specific paragraph it does a good job summarizing Bechamp’s idea:
“Claiming discovery that the “molecular granulations” in biological
fluids were actually the elementary units of life, Béchamp named them
microzymas—that is, “tiny enzymes”—and credited them with producing
enzymes and were the builders of cells while “evolving” amid favorable
conditions into bacteria. Denying that bacteria could invade a healthy
animal and cause disease, Béchamp claimed instead that unfavorable host
and environmental conditions destabilize the host’s native microzymas,
whereupon they decompose host tissue by producing pathogenic bacteria.”
[...] Germ theory prevailed over host theory in the minds of many at the
time, especially within the medical community. Despite this, that it is
reported that, on his death bed, Pasteur renounced germ theory and
admitted that Bechamp had been right all along (“Le microbe n’est rien,
le terrain est tout.” [“The microbe is nothing, the terrain is
everything”]). In my opinion, the acceptance
of germ theory and the denigration of host theory has had disastrous
effects for human health. It has conditioned people to be fearful
of germs, to focus on the outer terrain and to look outside of
themselves to antibiotics, petrochemical drugs, vaccines, radiation,
chemotherapy and other allopathic interventions to "save them from
disease". Yes, there is a time and place for some of these measures, but
the side effects are horrible, including vaccine-induced damage and the
rise of antibiotic-resistant superbugs, a whole new class of microbes
which are on the verge of rendering antibiotics useless. [...] Béchamp
got the bigger picture. He understood it was all about balance. He
realized the importance of the inner terrain environments we create. As
mentioned above, there are many factors that go into the creation of
your bio-terrain, but the primary factor is the food you ingest. Food is
medicine. Food can either strengthen or weaken your bio-terrain, and
that means the difference between supporting health and ease – or
supporting sickness and dis-ease.[...]
Virus and Epidemic Hoaxes: The Fear Racket:
Over the last 2 decades or so, Big Government (via the WHO [World Health
Organization], branch of the UN) has hyped quite a few virus epidemic
scenarios, such as the swine flu hoax, the ebola hoax and the zika hoax.
In all of these cases, there was a massive amount of fear and
disinformation promulgated by the MSM to encourage people to buy the
latest Big Pharma product to supposedly ‘protect’ themselves from a
virulent virus. However, if you dug a little
deeper, you found suspicious behavior by the CDC (not accurately
counting all the cases), poisons being sprayed beforehand in the area
(authorities sprayed the insecticide pyriproxyfen beforehand in the zika
breakout areas) and even evidence of bioweapons (zika was a
Rockefeller-created virus). In this context, it’s important to remember
this quote: “Traditionally, the power of medical sciences has been based
on the fear of disease, particularly infectious disease.” - Peter
Duesberg, author of Inventing The AIDS Virus. [...] It’s also important
to consider host theory here. What if epidemics were not really about
the rise of a virulent virus but rather an indication of the
collectively poor inner terrain environment of a group of people? What
if they were evidence of mass poisoning? Jim West investigated these and
other issues and came up with some startling conclusions: “The
vaccination programs are irrelevant to the decline of polio, while
pesticides correlate perfectly with polio. The unfunded, ostracized
theory of poison causality far exceeds all other theories in simplicity,
exactitude, and directness regarding correlations within all data areas:
dosage, physiology, etiology, epidemiology, economics, and politics.”
[...] “Orthodox virology omits toxicology, and is thus void.
Toxicological causation is obvious and toxicology is avoided by the
media like the plague. Forget the intellectual, scientific intrigue of
virology. Without toxicology, virology is a mind-trap. Virology is the
deadly virus. Orthodoxy could claim that a “virus” has any number of
fearful characteristics, but those characteristics are meaningless if
the victims are poisoned. Without poisoning, perhaps the virus is
a nutrient. Perhaps there is no virus. Most
likely, the “virus” is harmless human nucleic acid, rearranged as a
response to poisoning, and thus always a test for said “virus” would be
positive during periods of poisoning.” “Epidemics
are biomarkers for pollution.” - Jim West [...]
Heal the Patient, Not the Infection:
(cont'd) [...] Parallels Outside the World of
Health: (cont'd) [...] Conclusion:
Time to Elevate the Importance of the Inner Terrain: It’s time to bring
back host theory into our understanding to counterbalance germ theory.
This doesn’t mean throwing out germ theory altogether, but rather
lowering it to its rightful position so that our focus can return to
building our health from within. According to current UN WHO stats, 71%
of all deaths globally are from NCDs (non-communicable diseases). These
don’t require synthetic drugs to wipe out a bug. That means over 7 out
of 10 people are dying from preventable disease! [...]"| "
Commentary:
"Survey:
Two-Thirds Of American Employees Regret Their College Degrees"
CBS
"A college education is still considered a
pathway to higher lifetime earnings and gainful employment for Americans.
Nevertheless, two-thirds of employees report having regrets when it comes
to their advanced degrees, according to a PayScale survey of 248,000
respondents this past spring that was released Tuesday. •
Student loan debt, which has ballooned to nearly
$1.6 trillion nationwide in 2019, was the No. 1 regret among workers with
college degrees. About 27% of survey respondents listed student loans as
their top misgiving, PayScale said. •
Two-thirds of employees report regrets about their advanced degrees, as
Americans question the high cost of higher education. • Student
loan debt has ballooned to nearly $1.6 trillion nationwide in 2019,
topping the list of regrets for employees. •
Science, technology, engineering or math majors, who are more likely to
enjoy higher salaries, were least likely to report regrets, while those in
the humanities were most likely.[...]" A college education is still
[mistakenly] considered "a pathway to higher lifetime earnings and gainful
employment" for Americans. Nevertheless, two-thirds of employees report
having regrets when it comes to their advanced degrees, according to a
PayScale survey of 248,000 respondents this past spring that was released
Tuesday. Student loan debt, which has ballooned to nearly $1.6 trillion
nationwide in 2019, was the No. 1 regret among workers with college
degrees. About 27% of survey respondents listed student loans as their top
misgiving, PayScale said. The findings illustrate why education loans
burdening millions of Americans have become a hot-button issue among some
Democratic presidential candidates. Most recently, Sen. Bernie Sanders on
Monday proposed a plan to impose a tax on Wall Street trading and use the
proceeds to erase that $1.6 trillion of debt. [...] About 70% of college
students graduated with student loan debt this year, averaging about
$33,000 per student. And as younger grads pay off student loan balances,
they're struggling to accumulate wealth or are putting off purchasing
homes — some millennials are even struggling to purchase groceries. [..]"
• Most satisfied: Those with science,
technology, engineering and math (STEM) majors, who are typically more
likely to enjoy higher salaries, reported more satisfaction with their
college degrees. About 42% of engineering grads and 35% of computer
science grads said they had no regrets. • Most
regrets: Humanities majors, who are least likely to earn higher pay
post-graduation, were most likely to regret their college education. About
75% of humanities majors said they regretted their college education.
About 73% of graduates who studied social sciences, physical and life
sciences, and art also said the same. • In the
middle: In between the other two categories were 66% of business
graduates, 67% of health sciences graduates and 68% of math graduates who
said they regretted their education. [...]"Broken down by generation,
older Americans were more likely to report that they have no regrets about
their education. Among baby boomers, or 51% said they have no college
regrets, making them the only demographic with a majority reporting no
regrets. In contrast, just 37% of Gen Xers and nearly 29% of millennials
reported no regrets.[...]"
Commentary:
"Anthony
Fauci: "There's NO Reason To Be Walking Around With A Mask"
CBS 60 Minutes
[1:28]
"Infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci tells CBS 60 Minutes
in March 2020.
Commentary:
"Study:
COVID-19 Infections Subside In 70 Days Irrespective Of Lockdown"
GreatGameIndia
"Results of a shocking new Israeli study
showed that COVID-19 infections subsided in 70
days irrespective of whether the country went into lockdown or remained
open. A prominent Israeli mathematician, analyst, former general
and Chairman of the Israeli Space Agency claims simple statistical
analysis demonstrates that the spread of
COVID-19 peaks after about 40 days and declines to almost zero after 70
days — no matter where it strikes, and no
matter what measures governments impose to try to thwart it.”[...]
Prof Isaac Ben-Israel is the chairman of the National Council for Research
and Development, head of the Security Studies program in Tel Aviv
University who also serves on the research and development advisory board
for Teva Pharmaceutical Industries. He plotted the rates of new
coronavirus infections of the U.S., U.K., Sweden, Italy, Israel,
Switzerland, France, Germany, and Spain. The numbers told a shocking
story: irrespective of whether the country quarantined like Israel, or
went about business as usual like Sweden, coronavirus peaked and subsided
in the exact same way. His graphs show that all
countries experienced seemingly identical coronavirus infection patterns,
with the number of infected peaking in the sixth week and rapidly
subsiding by the eighth week. The Wuhan Virus
follows its own pattern, he told Mako, an Israeli news agency.
It is a fixed pattern that is not dependent on
freedom or quarantine. “There is a decline in the number of
infections even [in countries] without closures, and it is similar to the
countries with closures,” he wrote in his paper. [...] “Is
the coronavirus expansion exponential? The answer by the numbers is
simple: no. Expansion begins
exponentially but fades quickly after about eight weeks,” Professor
Issac Ben Israel concluded. The reason why
coronavirus follows a fixed pattern is yet unknown. “I have no
explanation,” he told Mako, “There are all kinds of speculation: maybe
it’s climate-related, maybe the virus has its own life cycle.” [...] But
what about Italy and their staggering 12% mortality rate? “The health
system in Italy has its own problems. It has nothing to do with
coronavirus. In 2017 it also collapsed because of the flu,” Professor
Issac
told the Times of Israel. Indeed,
Italy’s exceptionally high coronavirus mortality
rate is eerily reminiscent of their unusually high flu mortality rates.
Supportive of this theory, Germany, has low flu infection and mortality
rates and similarly low coronavirus rates. Professor Israel
concludes in his analysis summary paper that the
data from the past 50 days indicates that the closure policies of the
quarantine countries can be replaced by more moderate social distancing
policies. The numbers simply do not
support quarantine or economic closure. [...]
Professor Issac Ben Israel has mathematically
shown that coronavirus lockdowns were a mistake. Meanwhile, another
study from California is investigating the possibility of California to
have already developed herd-immunity to the Coronavirus. If the case is
proven, the study would be a breakthrough in breaking the worldwide
lockdown. As GreatGameIndia reported earlier there is huge pressure from
the vaccine industry combined with the fear-mongering from media to extend
the lockdown until they come up with their vaccines, inspite of more and
more scientific evidence indicating against the effectiveness of a
nationwide-lockdown. Infact, past experience show this is exactly what the
World Health Organization (WHO) did a decade ago. In 2009, during the H1N1
outbreak the WHO not only faked a pandemic but also kept the identity of
their advisers secret from people. Eventually, when committees were setup
and it was found that WHO was following orders from the vaccine lobby, the
WHO officials were force to apologies for this crime against humanity.
[...]" |"
Commentary:
"The
“Fake” 2009 H1N1 Swine Flu Pandemic: Manipulating the Data to Justify a
Worldwide Public Health Emergency"
Michel Chossudovsky
"[...] Remember the unusual circumstances surrounding the April 2009
H1N1 Swine Flu Pandemic. An atmosphere of fear and intimidation prevailed.
The data was manipulated. Based on incomplete and scanty data, the WHO
Director General nonetheless predicted with authority that: “as many as 2
billion people could become infected over the next two years — nearly
one-third of the world population.” (World Health Organization as reported
by the Western media, July 2009). It was a multibillion bonanza for Big
Pharma supported by the WHO’s Director-General Margaret Chan. In June
2009, Margaret Chan made the following statement: “On the basis of …
expert assessments of the evidence, the scientific criteria for an
influenza pandemic have been met. I have therefore decided to raise the
level of influenza pandemic alert from Phase 5 to Phase 6. The world is
now at the start of the 2009 influenza pandemic. … Margaret Chan,
Director-General, World Health Organization (WHO), Press Briefing 11 June
2009) What “expert assessments”? In a subsequent statement she confirmed
that: “Vaccine makers could produce 4.9 billion pandemic flu shots per
year in the best-case scenario”,Margaret Chan, Director-General, World
Health Organization (WHO), quoted by Reuters, 7/21/09). A financial
windfall for Big Pharma Vaccine Producers including GlaxoSmithKline,
Novartis, Merck & Co., Sanofi, Pfizer. et al. The same Big Pharma
companies are also behind the coronavirus pandemic: [...]
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of
Europe (PACE), a human rights watchdog, is publicly investigating the
WHO’s motives in declaring a pandemic. Indeed, the chairman of its
influential health committee, epidemiologist Wolfgang Wodarg, has declared
that the “false pandemic” is “one of the greatest medicine scandals of the
century.” (Forbes, February 10, 2010) [...]" |
"The
Old Swine Flu Vaccine Caused Permanent Brain Damage; Will The New
Coronavirus Vaccine Do The Same?"
NN
| False Pandemics and Systemic Fraud :
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Commentary:
"Model Explains
Perspectives Of Many Cultures In The World"
"A world traveler who speaks ten languages, British linguist Richard Lewis decided he was qualified to plot the world's cultures on a chart.
He did so while acknowledging the dangers of stereotypes. "Determining national characteristics is treading a minefield of inaccurate assessment and surprising exception," Lewis wrote. "There is, however, such a thing as a national norm."
Many people think he nailed it, as his book "When Cultures Collide," now in its third edition, has sold more than one million copies since it was first published in 1996 and was called "an authoritative roadmap to navigating the world's economy," by the Wall Street Journal.
Lewis plots countries in relation to three categories: [...] • Linear-actives — those who plan, schedule, organize, pursue action chains, do one thing at a time. Germans and Swiss are in this group.
• Multi-actives — those lively, loquacious peoples who do many things at once, planning their priorities not according to a time schedule, but according to the relative thrill or importance that each appointment brings with it. Italians, Latin Americans and Arabs are members of this group.
• Reactives — those cultures that prioritize courtesy and respect, listening quietly and calmly to their interlocutors and reacting carefully to the other side's proposals. Chinese, Japanese and Finns are in this
group (SEE Cyclic Time in the related article below) . Some more details on the
categories. [...] He says that this categorization of national norms does not change significantly over time:
"The behavior of people of different cultures is not something willy-nilly. There exist clear trends, sequences and traditions. Reactions of Americans, Europeans, and Asians alike can be forecasted, usually justified and in the majority of cases managed. Even in countries where political and economic change is currently rapid or sweeping (Russia, China, Hungary, Poland, Korea, Malaysia, etc.) deeply rooted attitudes and beliefs will resist a sudden transformation of values when pressured by reformists, governments or multinational conglomerates."
[...] Here's the chart that explains the
world cultural situation in this regard. [...] The point of all of this analysis is to understand how to interact with people from different
cultures, "By focusing on the cultural roots of national behavior, both in society and business, we can foresee and calculate with a surprising degree of accuracy how others will react to our plans for them, and we can make certain assumptions as to how they will approach us," Lewis writes.
Related: "How Different Cultures Understand
"Time"
"Time is seen in a particularly different light by Eastern and Western cultures, and even within these groupings assumes quite dissimilar aspects from country to country.
In the Western Hemisphere, the United States and Mexico employ time in such diametrically opposing manners that it causes intense friction between the two peoples.
In Western Europe, the Swiss attitude to time bears little relation to that of neighboring Italy.
Thais do not evaluate the passing of time in the same way that the Japanese do. In Britain the future stretches out in front of you. In Madagascar it
' flows into the back of your head from behind'. • Cyclic Time:
Both the linear-active northerner and the multi-active Latin think that
they manage time in the best way possible. In some Eastern cultures,
however, the adaptation of humans to time is seen as a viable alternative.
In these cultures, time is viewed neither as linear nor
event–relationship related, but as cyclic. Each day the sun rises
and sets, the seasons follow one another, the heavenly bodies revolve
around us, people grow old and die, but their children reconstitute the
process. We know this cycle has gone on for 100,000 years and more.
Cyclical time is not a scarce commodity. There seems always to be an
unlimited supply of it just around the next bend. The Chinese, like most Asians, “walk around the pool” in order to make well- considered
decisions, but they also have a keen sense of the value of time. This can be noticed especially in their attitude toward taking up other people’s time, for which they frequently apologize. At the end of a meeting in China, it is customary to thank the participants for contributing their valuable time. Punctuality on arrival is also considered important—more so than in many other Asian
countries. Indeed, when meetings are scheduled between two people, it is not unusual for a Chinese to arrive 15 to 30 minutes early “in order to finish the business before the time appointed for its discussion,” so not stealing any of the other person’s time! It is also considered polite in China to announce, 10 or 15 minutes after a meeting has begun, that one will soon have to be going. Again, the worthy aim involved is to economize on their use of your time. The Chinese will not go, of course, until the transaction has been completed, but the point has been made. [...]
The Japanese are more concerned not with how long something takes to happen, but with how time is divided up in the interests of properness, courtesy and tradition."| "Hiking
Story Reveals Cultural Differences Between Finns, Italians, And Japanese"
"Mary's College, Bangor, North Wales, for English language summer courses, we came up with a different nationality mix every year; after a few years we decided some mixes were better than others and began to experiment in our recruiting.
One year we decided to recruit in just three countries speaking languages so different that they would be obliged to communicate socially in English, and which were so far apart geographically that there would be no “bad neighbour” problems. [...]" | "Cultures
Without Concepts Of 'Time'"
| "The Challenge of Cultural Relativism"
Wild Card: "Russian
System Blocks NATO Electronics Inside 600 Km Bubble" Webster
Tarpley
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... From the combat zone in northern Syria comes news of the deployment of a new Russian electronic jamming system which can reportedly blind radar, disrupt electronic guidance systems, and interfere with satellite imagery as well. As a result, NATO is effectively blinded inside a bubble of 600 km in diameter centered on the Russian base at Latakia, reports, Thierry Meyssan from
Damascus.[...] The technology in question seems similar to the KRET Richag-AV system, although it apparently functions on a larger scale. A tactical version of this system was presented to journalists in the Russian city of Back in April 2015. As Sputnik reported then:
“The Richag-AV system, mounted on the Mi-8MTPR1 (a variant of the Mi-8MTB5-1 helicopter) is said to have no global equivalent. Its electronic countermeasures system is designed to jam radar, sonar and other detection systems in the aims of defending aircraft, helicopters, drones, ground and naval forces against air-to-air and surface-to-air defense systems within a radius of several hundred kilometers. It can be mounted on units from any branch of the armed forces, including helicopters and airplanes, as well as ground and ship-based forces. The
Mi8-MTPR1-based
Richag-AV
platform, using multi-beam antenna arrays with DRFM technology, is designed to actively jam and thus ‘blind’ radar systems in order to defend against radio-electronic guided weapons systems. In a combat situation, the system would operate as part of an aviation shock attack group aimed at breaking through virtually any defense system, blinding everything up to and including the US MIM-104 ‘Patriot’ anti-aircraft missile
system.” NATO supreme commander and US Air Force General Philip Breedlove was probably talking about this new KRET system when he addressed the German Marshall Fund on Monday, September 28. Here Breedlove had warned that Russia was creating an “A2/AD bubble” over the Syrian coast, and the eastern Mediterranean.
A2/AD is the abbreviation for anti-access and area denial. Breedlove pointed out that
Russia has already established such bubbles over the Baltic Sea at the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, and also over the Crimea and the black
Sea.
[...]
MSM: "Researchers
Find Inexpensive Way To Turn Seawater Into Drinking Water"
"Researchers at the Alexandria University in Cairo have put forth a cheap, cost-effective technology to desalinate seawater to turn it into drinking water -
within minutes. The published research paper titled “Desalination of Simulated Seawater by Purge-Air Pervaporation Using an Innovative Fabricated Membrane" can be
found
here. The purification of water for consumption purposes has long been a cumbersome and expensive process. In what may prove to be a significant milestone in researching cheaper, efficient ways to desalinate sea water, researchers in Egypt may have found a solution, according to
a report in
Scidev. The lack of access to clean drinking water results in over 840,000 deaths every year. A staggering 750 million people around the world do not have the fundamental human right and need to clean drinking water, according to estimates by
Water.org.
Strikingly, a (the) water crisis is the most substantial global risk based on impact to society (as an indicator of devastation), according to the World Economic Forum. [...]
The new technology is primarily based on membranes. Specifically, membranes containing cellulose acetate powder that, along with other components, soaks up salt particles when water passes through them, resulting in desalination.
“The membrane we fabricated can easily be made in any laboratory using cheap ingredients, which makes it an excellent option for developing countries,” explains Ahmed
El-Shafei, an associate professor at Alexandria University and a contributing author to the study.
[...] Here’s how it works: Using ‘pervaporation’ - a technique wherein impure water is first treated and filtered through the membrane. As a result, larger particles are removed before the remaining water is heated until it vaporizes. The water-vapor is then condensed to get rid of small impurities, eventually leading to clean water.
“Using pervaporation eliminates the need for electricity that is used in classic desalination processes, thus cutting costs significantly,” contends
El-Shafei. The novel method can be used to desalinate and purify water contaminated with impurities such as sewage, salt and dirt.
Furthermore, the membrane along with the vaporization can be used in remote locations where electricity is hard to come by, making it an efficient method of desalination in developing and poorer countries with low resources.
“The technology implemented in the study is much better than reverse osmosis, the technology currently used in Egypt and most of the countries in the Middle East and North Africa,” says Helmy
El-Zanfaly, a professor of water contamination at Egypt’s National Research Centre.[...]
Commentary:
"India Won’t Suppress Tewari’s Free Energy Generator"
"India considers its own free energy program a matter of national pride, and is very much willing to risk antagonizing Petrodollar countries with its support on Reactionless AC Synchronous Generator
(RLG) invented by its own Paramahamsa Tewari, an electrical engineer and former Executive Director of Nuclear Power Corporation of India.
Years ago, Tewari has also proven the theories inside Bruce de Palma’s homopolar engine which first exposed this writer to the world of free energy technologies.
Obviously, a country cannot implement its own free energy program without considering all possible consequence including a military response from Petrodollar countries, e.g. Saudi Arabia, UK, US. That’s why India has been aligning its own military program with that of Russia which at present is standing up, together with the BRICS countries, against the Nazionist cabal imposing all sorts of sanctions to destroy it.
The BRICS alliance has in the past promised to release all suppressed technologies, e.g. free energy, for our responsible utilization. It looks like they are keeping their word. [...]"
Commentary:
"EM
Drive: Travel To The Moon In 4 Hours, Mars In 70 Days"
"Day trips to the moon could soon be a reality after scientists confirmed a new propulsion drive, once thought “impossible” to build, actually works and could take punters to the lunar world in just four hours.
The electromagnetic propulsion drive (EM Drive) was developed by British scientist Roger Shawyer in 2000, but considered scientifically impossible by his contemporaries.
NASA later revisited the design, suggesting it may be possible. Vindicating Shawyer’s findings, Dresden University of Technology’s Martin Tajmar this week revealed the EM Drive is capable of producing thrust several times greater than a photon rocket and could reach Mars within 70 days and Pluto in 18 months.
The drive produces thrust by harnessing solar power to fuel multiple microwaves which are enclosed in a chamber.
In theory, unless a piece of the motor breaks, the drive could keep going forever, without any fuel.
Tamjer presented his results in the 2015 American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics’ Propulsion and Energy Forum and Exposition
In July 2015. Shawyer, the original inventor, also claims he is months away from proving the capabilities of his drive in a peer reviewed journal.
Scientists remain baffled as to how the drive actually works.[...]"
Documentary:
"Afghanistan's Billion Dollar Drug War"
[25:45]
"Ground zero ... 3 million addicted in Afghanistan.
Commentary:
"Different
Brain Regions Are Infected With Fungi In Alzheimer’s Disease"
"The possibility that Alzheimer’s disease (AD) has a microbial
aetiology has been proposed by several researchers. Here, we provide evidence
that tissue from the central nervous system (CNS) of AD patients contain
fungal cells and hyphae. Fungal material can be detected both intra- and
extracellularly using specific antibodies against several fungi. Different
brain regions including external frontal cortex, cerebellar hemisphere,
entorhinal cortex/hippocampus and choroid plexus contain fungal material,
which is absent in brain tissue from control individuals. Analysis of brain
sections from ten additional AD patients reveals that all are infected with
fungi. Fungal infection is also observed in blood vessels, which may explain
the vascular pathology frequently detected in AD patients. Sequencing of
fungal DNA extracted from frozen CNS samples identifies several fungal
species. Collectively, our findings provide compelling evidence for the
existence of fungal infection in the CNS from AD patients, but not in control
individuals. [...]"
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