How sweet thy voice
A massively important discovery about plant intelligence by an Israeli group including Chamovitz, who literally wrote the book on smarty-plants.

In short: Plants hear with their petals.

It's been known for a long time that plants respond to mechanical vibration by insects walking on stems or chewing leaves or touching flowers. Many of those responses (Venus flytrap, mimosa, snapdragon, clover) are quick and visible. There has been a lot of speculation about true hearing of airborne sounds, but no firm evidence until this set of experiments.

Hypothesis:

A possible plant organ that could relay the airborne acoustic signal into a response is the flower itself, especially in flowers with “bowl” shape. If this is the case, we expect that part of the flower (or the entire flower) would vibrate physically in response to the airborne sound of a potential pollinator. We further predict that nectar sugar concentration would increase in response to the sound.

The researchers used all sorts of tricks to isolate the sensor and check the frequency response. The hypothesis was verified. A sound similar to the wingbeats of a plant's preferred pollinator causes a temporary sweetening of the nectar. The sweetening takes a few minutes to develop, so the first bee might not receive the signal. But the first bee is often a scout, so the sugar trap is fresh just in time for the mass of bees who respond to the scout.

The next step in research is to find the mechanism. If the petals are the tympanic membrane, where is the cochlea? More likely the petals ARE the cochlea, directly transducing pressure change.

I discussed this parallel in my earlier piece on Chamovitz, but at that time the basic question about airborne sound hadn't been answered. I was thinking in terms of acoustic response by roots and stems. Now that the petals are known to be the sensors, the parallel is blatantly clear.

The cochlea is a logarithmic spiral because frequencies are sensed logarithmically.



Many flowers are also log spirals.



How about the opposite parallel? Do animals sweeten their pheromones on hearing the voice of the preferred mating type? A preferred sound certainly creates a whole-body pleasure via the vagus nerve and parasympathetic system. The vagus controls many secretions in the skin and gut, and also picks up olfactory signals from incoming pheromones.

So this is highly likely but not yet determined.

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Later astonished thought: The delayed sweetness is truly remarkable. It shows that the plant's intelligence is ANTICIPATING a future event and STRATEGIZING to match the beehive's strategy. Other plant responses are much faster and simpler. The snapdragon bops the bee on the head to knock it down into the pollen, and the clover ticks each floret out of the way after it's been consumed.

Labels: bee, Carver, Grand Blueprint, Smarty-plants

  ¶ 2:25 AM

  Hedges vs vines
Polistra's First Law: Ignore words, observe actions.

Headline from WSJ:

Harvard quietly amasses California vineyards—and the water underneath

Making a bet on climate change, the university’s $39 billion endowment has been snapping up farmland and the related water rights.

Harvard's ACTIONS show that the elites understand CO2 is good for the earth. They understand that plants love warmth and CO2. Vineyards are in fact doing extremely well in recent years.

It's smart to bet on plants in a period that is plant-friendly.

It's even smarter to convince the SUCKERS that CO2 is an apocalyptic world-ending poison. The SUCKERS will then underprice their land, believing that the world is about to end.

Classic Wall Street trick, expanded into a classic cult trick.

Smartest of all: After convincing the SUCKERS that their land is precarious, use Carbon Taxes and Carbon Regulations to FORCE them to sell. And there you have the Carbon Cult.

Labels: Carbon Cult, infinite infinite infinite infinite evil

  ¶ 12:35 AM

  La Ferme des Animaux
Macron has written an open letter to the protesters. As described by France24:

"For me, there is no banned issue. We won't agree on everything, which is normal in a democracy. But at least we'll show we're a people which is not afraid of talking, exchanging, debating," Macron wrote in the letter published by his office.

While Macron assured that there were "no forbidden questions", he did say that the right to seek asylum "could not be questioned".

He also said the government would not revisit steps taken "to encourage investment and make work pay more".

One of the frequent demands from the protesters, who are mostly from rural or small-town France, is a repeal of Macron's move last year to cut the ISF "fortune tax", which was previously levied on high-earners.

"We will not pursue tax cuts without lowering the overall level of our public spending," Macron said in the letter.

All questions are equal but only MY questions count. YOUR questions are impertinent and idiotic, so I will ignore them.
  ¶ 3:53 PM

  10-headed demons shouldn't criticize other 10-headed demons
RCS has a talent for grouping headlines together.



The first one is understated. "Social" "scientists" have advanced to Pol Pot genocide, declaring half of humanity to be permanently diseased. That's not "controversial", it's a pogrom.

Second one is a more specific pogrom. Watson has been Unpersoned for the "crime" of stating PRECISELY ACCURATE FACTS** about genes, which he understands better than anyone else. "Science" no longer wants facts, so "science" no longer honors factual scientists.

Third one deserves a bit more detail.

At this year's annual meeting of the Indian Science Congress from Jan. 3 to 7, senior research scientist Kannan Jegathala Krishnan dismissed Albert Einstein's theory of relativity as "a big blunder" and said Isaac Newton didn't really understand how gravity works.

Nageswara Rao, a vice chancellor at Andhra University in South India, said that Ravana, a demon god with 10 heads, had 24 kinds of aircraft of varying sizes and capacities — and that India was making test-tube babies thousands of years ago.

Dinosaurs were created by the Hindu god Brahma, said Ashu Khosla, a scientist with expertise in paleontology at Panjab University in the North Indian city of Chandigarh.

Not exactly the kind of remarks you would expect at an event whose mission is to advance and further the cause of science etc

(1) Western "scientists" who ferociously defend (and get billions of dollars for defending) bizarre nonsense like multiverses and string theory and dark matter and variable gender are not qualified to criticize others for bizarre nonsense.

(2) Many fashionable Western "scientists" have also criticized relativity from various angles, and Einstein himself said that Newton didn't really understand gravity. That was the whole point of General Relativity.

(3) Ancient aircraft and test-tube babies haven't been discovered but they're not impossible. Advanced civilizations 3000 years ago had lots of technology that disappeared. Occasionally archeologists dig up a new example. So far no aircraft, but the Antikythera computer was more sophisticated than basic aircraft, and Heron's steam engine was equally sophisticated.

(4) Dinosaurs created by Brahma? All life was created by some kind of intelligence. That's an inescapable conclusion from real science. If you want to call the intelligence Brahma, fine.

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** Relevant sidenote: Though Watson's specific statements about IQ and genes are precisely accurate, he misses the real problem. As I've argued repeatedly, Sorosian lands have turned the talents measured by IQ into a complete determiner of success. We reward immoral abstract computer-like theoreticians and kill moral live humans. Watson clearly agrees with the elite assumption but doesn't agree with the cruel hoax of "meritocracy" that allows the elite to justify their slaughter of moral live humans. The latter disagreement is his real crime.
  ¶ 7:34 AM

  The opposite of boycotts
Last month I noted the dispute between Patreon and some dissidents like Jordan Peterson.

Concluded with this counterthought:

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WAIT. HOLD IT. A strongly contrary thought.....

Twitter and Youtube may be demonetizing or banning a few nationalists and heretics, but the BIG and IMPORTANT nationalists are using all social media without any observable limits. AMLO, Salvini, and Bolsonaro have highly active FB and Youtube accounts, carrying lots of important news and views that are perfectly opposed to God-Emperor Soros. So maybe the whole dispute is just a source of talking points.

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I don't see any new developments from Peterson et al. The contrary thought still stands. Major WORLD-SCALE populists and nationalists are still unjammed and uncensored, and many smaller ones (including me!) are also unjammed. If the censors wanted to suppress this line of thought, they would hit HARDEST on the biggest and most influential sources of this line of thought. So the suppression of some smaller thinkers is not evidence of total censorship; it's more likely a gutless and mechanistic corporate attempt to stay within the tyrannical rules of EU.

I've been rethinking the whole issue, partly based on this observation and partly on my rejection of "rights" in favor of duties.

For many years I was strict about withholding money from Satan. It's clear that "legal" resistance is totally useless and counterproductive, but monetary resistance sometimes works when it's large enough.

This refusal is inconsistent with the Emersonian and FDRian line of thinking based on duties instead of "rights". Emerson and Marx and Mohammed and FDR all agree on the BASIC POINT of real value economics and Natural Law.

PAY FOR VALUE.

This is a duty under Natural Law. Duty doesn't make exceptions for disagreement with some of the actions or principles of the vendor. If you are using a service you must pay for it.

So I've recently restarted using Patreon to support some artists and thinkers who deserve support; and I've resumed contributions to Archive.org because I use it constantly for OTR. Both Patreon and Archive have said and done Satanic things, but I'm not entitled to break my duty for that reason.

Aside from the abstract question, PAYING FOR VALUE has an extremely concrete and practical result. It's a question of scale. Each dollar makes a real difference to a small artist or dissident. Each dollar is totally inconsequential to the payment agency. Payment strengthens the dissidents. Refusing to pay them because of other actions by the payment agency weakens the dissidents.

The intended targets of our boycotts are huge monopolies that are totally unaffected by our refusal. The pain of our refusal lands on the people we intend to help.

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Relevant sidenote: Come to think of it, refusal based on opinions is identical to USA's sanctions. We refuse to trade with Persia because Sheldon Adelson hates Persia. The sanctions harm the innocent people of Persia, and secondarily harm innocent Europeans who freeze to death because Sheldon Adelson hates Persia.

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Irrelevant sidenote: Kant's version of the Golden Rule has always made me itchy, but I couldn't scratch the itch. Kant said that we should do what we want everybody to do. The above question of scale scratches the itch. Acting on behalf of everyone only works when everyone is ALREADY DOING what we think they should do. In that case it doesn't matter what we do, because the desired purpose is already achieved. If only a few people are sharing our desired action, our action can harm the people we want to help.

Labels: From rights to duties, Natural law = Sharia law, Natural law = Soviet law, se-lu

  ¶ 12:37 AM

  Anschluss
Macron's latest move is an outright Anschluss mit Deutschland. No more EU nice guy, letting the drab mechanisms of Brussels exterminate les Deplorables. Nope, now we're bringing in the Krauts directly.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron will sign the "Aachen treaty" later this month which will govern a coordinated diplomatic front as well as joint actions on peacekeeping missions.

What's more - areas on both sides of the Franco-German border will be encouraged to establish "Eurodistricts" in which both countries would merge water, electricity and public transport networks.

One more guaranteed step toward total revolution.... but it may be a smart strategy for Macron's personal survival. It's a little like Castling in chess, used only in emergencies to get the King out of the way. He's sacrificing the entire French government to save his toyboy banker ass.

Now he's no longer the real target of the Yellowjackets. They're up against the Krauts, who have always enjoyed frog hunting.
  ¶ 6:34 AM

  Positive change 2
Speaking of 'growth mindset' vs 'fixed mindset'.... Biologists are still mostly stuck in the 'infinite potential' department.

Standard Darwin theory says that life randomly developed from non-life and continues to randomly increase its potential and complexity without limit.

Reality says the opposite**, and biologists are finally coming to terms with reality, though they still can't quite express it freely.

Via Eurekalert, a reclassification of the unfamiliar but widespread critters called Arrow Worms or Chaetognatha. Back in the '50s when I was reading a lot of biology books, the Chaetognatha were considered to be proto-chordates, one step below vertebrates. They've been demoted several times since then!

Strikingly, the scientists found that arrow worms don't belong with spiralians, but instead with a new group of animals that form a sister group to the clade. The results, published January 10, 2019 in Current Biology, challenge the classical view that complex organisms evolved from simple ancestors by gaining new traits over time.

"Arrow worms are predators, they have nervous systems, they have developed sensory organs. But the other organisms they're grouped with are much simpler," said Ferdinand Marlétaz, first author of the study and a postdoctoral scholar in the OIST Molecular Genetics Unit, led by Prof. Daniel Rokhsar. "If you place arrow worms here, it means there was probably a lot of independent simplification, rather than the independent emergence of complexity."

Simplification rather than independent emergence of complexity.

Only one conclusion is possible.

All complexity was created all at once.

In species as in individual talents, USE IT OR LOSE IT. You can't gain more talent by cultivating your talent, but you can gradually lose it by failing to practice and cultivate.

The loss mechanism is obvious in neurons and muscles. Neurons that aren't active are ruthlessly swept out by the Glial Janitorial Service. Muscles that aren't used atrophy.

The mechanism in species is still mysterious. Part of it is standard Darwin. Genes get lost through mutation. If the lost gene doesn't code for a useful structure or activity in the current situation, offspring without the gene will survive and reproduce. Part of it may be epigenetic, with an intentional switchoff more like neural atrophy.


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** Stupid footnote. I wrote: Standard Darwin theory says that life randomly developed from non-life and continues to randomly increase its potential and complexity without limit. What I meant by 'reality says the opposite' was specifically: Life did not develop from non-life, randomly or not. Life started with all of the available potentials in one Grand Blueprint, and each phylum or species or individual uses some of the available potentials, abandoning other structures or skills.

This isn't consistently opposite. The second part is a vector in the opposite direction from the Darwinian view. From increasing complexity, turn 180 degrees to decreasing complexity. But the first part is a zeroing out of the Darwin vector. Life didn't develop from non-life, it simply developed.

What happens if we reverse that vector? Non-life developed from life. Sounds weird, but as we understand more about the action of bacteria in rocks and clouds and every other previously inconceivable place, it's not so weird after all. Non-life could simply be the last stage in simplification and degeneration.

In the beginning God created bacteria, and bacteria pooped out the universe.

Labels: Grand Blueprint, Natural law = Sharia law

  ¶ 12:35 AM

  Positive change!
Trying to break up the gloom, here's a small positive move in the local school system. One of Spokane's public 'alternative' schools is devoted to Project Based Learning.

Is this just a superficial Edufad? Could be, but the description sounds serious and correct.

The underlying theory is crap.

Instead of a fixed mindset which is based on the belief that intelligence and talent are fixed (positively or negatively), a growth mindset is built on the belief that through persistence, effort, overcoming failure, and embracing challenges, our intelligence and abilities grow. Those with this mindset believe that a person’s true potential is unknown; that it’s impossible to foresee what can be accomplished with commitment, passion, and continuous effort.

The 'fixed mindset' is simply true. Intelligence and talent are fixed. You certainly accomplish more by working than by not working. Using and cultivating our talent is our GOD-ASSIGNED DUTY. But the expectation of unlimited potential is a recipe for sudden burnout and suicide. Starting with realistic expectations is a recipe for sustained survival.

Despite the bad theory, the practice is unquestionably good.

Project-based learning (PBL) is at the heart of our instructional approach. With project-based learning, students aren’t just assessed on their understanding of academic content, but on their ability to successfully apply that content when solving authentic problems. Using New Tech Network’s five school-wide learning outcomes, project-based learning cultivates the skills and attributes required for college and career success in today’s world.

Integrated projects combine core subjects through projects that connect to the community and the real world. During integrated blocks, students collaborate in teams on meaningful projects that require critical thinking, creativity, and communication in order for them to answer challenging questions or solve complex problems. By making learning relevant to them in this way, students see a purpose for mastering state-required skills and content concepts.

Independent projects are designed around interest areas and are driven by each student’s personal passions, career options, and curiosity to learn deeply. As with integrated projects, independent projects are often connected beyond the walls of the school. Independent projects may involve interviews, job shadows, internships, college classes and other individual pursuits.

Just right. On the dot. Perfect.

Labels: Experiential education, From rights to duties

  ¶ 12:10 AM

  Later than thought
Got curious about one aspect of Deepstate's chaos generator. The push to criminalize tobacco began in the '60s but didn't change "laws" about smoking in public places until the late '80s.

Everyone knows that tobacco assists civilization. Tobacco keeps you calm and helps you tolerate unpleasant situations. As smoking has decreased, brittleness and snowflakery have increased. This is a strong and intentional correlation.

Warlike crusaders who want to CHANGE THE WORLD by exterminating heretics have always been 100% pure. No meat, no sex, no smoke, no drink. Crusaders can't allow any influence that might soften their attitudes.

Given that CIA's chaos generator was turned on around 1960, when did it start to abolish this particular aspect of civilization? Why did it take 20 years for the serious change in "laws"?

The Wikileaks archive surprised me. Most of CIA's activities in the '60s and '70s were just ordinary trade intelligence, spotting tobaccor consumption trends and tariff trends in various countries. Serving the proper function of a spy agency, working FOR American commerce. The first evidence of anti-tobacco activity appeared in 1978.

Where did it come from?

Saudi.

Here's the cable. I've decapitalized and cleaned up punctuation.

Text follows of draft resolution which Saudi Arabian delegation has asked USDEL to co-sponsor.

USDEL believes that in light of Secretary Califano's firm views on subject, which he expressed while here in Geneva as head of USDEL and which were widely reported in local press, it would be embarrassing for us to decline to co-sponsor, or at least to support. Saudis would probably be prepared to accept language changes to obtain our support-cosponsorship. Department's guidance needed ASAP.

The thirty-first World Health Assembly, recalling resolutions concerning the health hazards of tobacco-smoking and ways towards its limitation;

Recognizing the increasing and indisputable scientific evidence showing that tobacco-smoking is a major cause of chronic bronchitis, emphysema and lung cancer, as well as a major risk factor for myocardial infarction, certain pregnancy-related and neonatal disorders, and a number of other serious health problems; and that it also has harmful effects on those who are involuntarily exposed to tobacco smoke, urges member states:

(1) To adopt comprehensive measures to control toabacco smoking by providing for increased taxation on the sale of cigarettes and disallowing publicity for promotion of smoking in the news media, including newspapers, radio and television;

(2) To strengthen health education concerning smoking as part of general health education, through close collaboration among health and school authorities and other relevant agencies, taking into account the different needs of the various target groups;

(3) To protect the health of non-smokers and their right to enjoy an atmosphere unpolluted by tobacco smoke...

Note the implicit understanding that governments CAN control the media, which CIA of course knew better than anyone. Note also the strong emphasis on 2nd-hand smoke, which is NOT "indisputable evidence".

The real purpose of the move was not about health.

BRUTAL SYLLOGISM:

If we were concerned with health, we'd have a functional medical system.

We don't have a functional medical system. We have a medical system that KILLS MORE PEOPLE THAN CIGARETTES, through opioid prescriptions and botched surgeries and hospital-caused infections.

Therefore we are NOT concerned with health.

We are only concerned with obliterating all aspects of civilization.

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Sidenote: Though the chaos generator started later than thought, the Saudi influence started earlier than thought. Conventional wisdom says that we didn't start obeying Saudi until the mid-80s, after they had done us the big favor of sacrificing oil profits to help us ruin Russia. Since then we've been paying them back. This cable indicates that we were obeying Saudi in 1978.

Labels: #DeplorableLivesMatter

  ¶ 11:22 PM

  AMLO y los Indios again
Here he's talking to a group of MIxtecs, mostly young.

He's redefining Populism. The essential definition is: Populist leaders SERVE their OWN people, not some other country, not multinational corporations.

AMLO is taking it to the next level. He SERVES his people like other Populist leaders. In addition, he LOVES his people and they know it.

Labels: infinite GOOD, things worth doing

  ¶ 4:55 PM

  NO. For the million(+6)th time, it's NOT NEW.
Couple weeks ago I gathered up some of the things that Elon and Kimbal claim to have invented...



I used an intentionally stupid-looking rocket that I made back in 2005 to mock NASA's failures.

Now the latest "invention" from SpaceX has been revealed:



Should I sue for copyright infringement? More seriously, this fits the question that some of the skeptics have raised. Is Elon doing intentionally stupid things to mock the cultists and regulators, knowing that everything he does will raise share value?
  ¶ 3:49 PM

  A striking equation
Wolfstreet always manages to clarify the intentionally obscure crimes of banks.

In this article on how the Fed enriches its "shareholders" Goldman and Morgan, several expenses and profits are listed.

This pair of expenses struck me:

$849 million for producing, issuing, and retiring currency

$838 million for Board of Governors expenditures

Producing, distributing, and recycling currency is the ONLY ONLY ONLY SINGLE SINGLE SINGLE SOLITARY SOLITARY SOLITARY UNIQUE UNIQUE UNIQUE purpose of a central bank. This is ALL ALL ALL it should be doing EVER EVER EVER. NOTHING NOTHING NOTHING ELSE.

And the amount seems reasonable, even cheap. I would have guessed ten times as much for printing and sorting and keeping track of serial numbers and recycling. A proper and decent expenditure.

The second amount, "Board of Governors expenditures", is nearly identical.

What do the Board of Governors do? Their job is genocide. Their job is to exterminate millions of Deplorables, grind up their carcasses into Purina Dow Chow, and feed the Dow.

Of course this doesn't include the TRILLIONS that actually flow into the Dow. This is just the bloated salaries and palaces and tacky jewelry and Cayman bank accounts and same-sex concubines of the monstrous alien demons.
  ¶ 2:01 PM

  ABCDEV
Via the Tesla skeptics, GM's plans for more EVs:



Vince Kaptur's ghost is smiling.

In 1935 Kaptur perfected the technique of varying a few standard bodies into a wide range of "cost effective segment entries", ie brands.

When you learn from experience, you don't have to reinvent old stuff.

THEORY KILLS, EXPERIENCE WINS.
  ¶ 10:59 AM

  Hey! Isn't that....
Elon is pretending to set up a new factory in China. The area is a swamp and his contractors are pumping water out in preparation to pretend.

HEY! Isn't he DESTROYING A PRECIOUS ENDANGERED WETLAND? Isn't that ENVIRONMENTAL RAPE AND TORTURE?

No, of course not. Gaia doesn't care what you do. Gaia only knows who you are. If you are a priest, you can fuck everyone in sight and gain sainthood as a reward. If you are a heretic, you must be barbecued to restore your carbon to the Holy Sink.

Labels: #DeplorableLivesMatter, Carbon Cult

  ¶ 7:06 AM

  The last roaring mouse
Maduro starts a new term with even less support than before. Among his neighbors, only Bolivia is halfway with him.

Some US commentators think he's bad because he's "socialist". Most of the opponents quoted in various articles are accusing him of offending the "constitution". Neither is meaningful. "Elected" and "constitutional" leaders are usually worse than hereditary monarchs. "Socialist" governments generally work better than "capitalist" governments.

The problem with Maduro is simple.

HE'S STUPID.

He's the last of a bad breed in Latin America. Venezuela's government has been a total servant of Standard Oil since 1922, obeying Graybill's Law perfectly. Previous rulers, including Chavez, were smart enough to keep the country pacified by redistributing the oil wealth. Maduro isn't.

He has belatedly tried to claim the title of Populist, but that doesn't work. He's the exact opposite, the quintessential globalist. He tried to link up with Russia in the restored bipolar world, but Russia doesn't need oil and doesn't need a stupid friend.

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Competent roaring mice were always able to stay alive by playing the well-established Graybill game with USA. Supply exactly one resource, get money for your mansions and limousines and concubines.

Why did it fail? Not quite so simple. Partly because the US approach to mice has changed, mostly because Maduro couldn't keep the oil flowing.

US mouse policy was formerly more systematic and objective. Since the Switchover our mouse policy has been subjective and personal.

We serve Saudi and Israel.

Venezuela's oil competes with Saudi oil, so we don't want it badly enough to waste money on a stupid mouse.

In the bipolar world of the '50s and '60s, some socialist countries formed a "Non-aligned Group" that generally worked with Russia but got some goodies from USA by promising to non-align more. In the current bipolar setup, Maduro and Macron could try the same trick with a "Short Bus Group" or "Clown Car Group" or "Mad Mac: Beyond The Dunderdome". Sell egregious self-destructive idiocy to the highest bidder.

Labels: skill-estate, switchover

  ¶ 12:41 AM

  More fake surprise
Continuing my aggressive war on Fake Surprise and Collapsed Timelines.

Zuesse normally hits the truth square on the head, with full and accurate historical context, but he slipped a bit this time by adding Fake Surprise.

He shows lots of documentation proving that the giant Embassy in Baghdad is really a Deepstate base.

Duh. ALL EMBASSIES ARE SPY STATIONS. Since the official naming of CIA in 1946, all embassies have been CIA bases. Before the advent of modern distinct spy agencies, embassies were unnamed spy stations.

The purpose of an embassy or consulate is to find out information about the country and exert influence on the country. Both activities have always required some clandestine work and some open work.
  ¶ 11:30 PM

  Borodin Effect to Congo Effect.
Back when I listened to real SW, I noted Radio Moscow's well-known habit of switching to solemn Russian music when the government was in some sort of turmoil. I called it the Borodin Effect, and since then I've been watching for parallel examples.

A good one this week on France's national propaganda outlet France24. Macron is in turmoil. The BIG news in France is the Yellowjackets vs Macron's escalating stupid arrogance.

Sure enough, France24 is covering government turmoil in great detail.

Not in France, in CONGO.

Nobody else in the world is interested in Congo, which has been in a permanent condition of coups and revolutions since 1960. Suddenly Congo is deeply fascinating to France24.

Labels: Constants and Variables

  ¶ 4:13 PM

  I wouldn't tap that
This is the first time I've ever THOUGHT the above, let alone written it. Long ago I gave up all hope of getting some, and I've never felt qualified or entitled to judge women on their physical qualities.

But there's a first time for everything, and Bezos's dream girl is the first time.

If the gods of coolness somehow descended to my subterranean status level and blessed me with the chance to tap that, with guaranteed approval and no legal or financial consequences, I wouldn't tap that.

Bezos has all the money and power in the world. He kills millions of companies and billions of people without even trying. He's THE IDEAL MAN for all females in Sorosian countries. He could pick any female in US/UK/EU/AU/NZ/ETC and gain instant total consent. He has the ultimate wish any time he wants to exercise it. He could have a thousand women every night for the rest of history, even after death.

Why did he pick this thing? She's not pretty by any standards, she's not shapely or intelligent, she's not wifely or presentable in high society, she's not even sexy in a low-society way.

I wouldn't tap that.
  ¶ 10:53 AM

  Tesla cultists = Unpaid consultants
Elon's latest idiotic idea: use highly compressed air thrusters to improve the performance of his sports Roadster. Float off the road, move in any direction.

A live human can instantly see the idiocy. What would supercold compressed air do to a road surface? Freeze it and crack it. What would blasts of compressed air do to nearby cars? Blow them off the road. Pedestrians? Dead.

The autistic cultists at Electrek instantly went into computation mode. In a few hours they had determined the necessary tank capacity, thruster positions, compression, control systems, etc, etc, all accurate to the 56322.451.0024th decimal place. (In autist world decimal points have decimal points have decimal points.)

Soon Elon messaged the Electrek author that the idea probably wouldn't be happening right now due to "regulatory pushback". Of course he doesn't really have "regulatory pushback" because the regulators are also cult members.

PING!

This is not sci-fi, this is just the modern version of an old and useful method in gov't and corporate research. Govt always insures that academic researchers are working around the edges of its new tyranny techniques, so it can monitor the academics for extra ideas or cautions. Corporations always hire outside consultants to develop alternate designs, so they can copy features that their in-house people didn't think of.

Often the outsiders are given a fake goal to protect the secrecy of the real goal. The fake goal runs in the same general territory as the real goal so the outside ideas will be appropriate. Elon's real goal may be compressed air as main power source, another very old idea.

Elon is doing it the modern CRIMINAL way. Instead of paying the fake-goal consultants, he galvanizes them with cult worship. This is parallel to the whole "everyone can be an entrepreneur" racket. Cultivate lots of activity, steal the good stuff, let the suckers starve.

Labels: Deadthink

  ¶ 6:48 AM

  NO. For the million(+5)th time, it's NOT NEW.
Continuing the You didn't invent me theme....

I ran across the exact predecessor of Elon's Boring transit system in an old Collectible Auto magazine.



The picture is internally timestamped.

Caption says:

A Wisconsin congressman proposed a dual-mode transit system for metro Milwaukee and enlisted AMC and Allis-Chalmers to help develop it. Travel via electrified guideways would have required a retractable contact arm; the gas engine would have been used elsewhere.

This system was less stupid than Elon's in two ways: the cars weren't running on their own fragile batteries, and they weren't trapped in a one-lane tunnel. But it was equally stupid in a more important way. How do you merge cars INTO the guideway?

AMC and Allis-Chalmers were both in Wisconsin, so this was an in-state deal.

You couldn't ask for a more perfect opposite to Elon in corporate terms. Nash/AMC had a long tradition of cautious and TRULY visionary management. Good ideas that people actually wanted, manufactured with high quality and low debt.

The Hornet was a good cautious car, well-built and genuinely boring. AMC always made good cautious cars, always suffered from the OPPOSITE of cult zealotry and coolness.

  ¶ 4:55 PM

  More blasphemy
A couple days ago I cited part of the REAL New Deal. It was necessary in 1933 and it would be even more necessary now. Not just metaphorically or 'mutatis mutandis', but pretty much verbatim. We've lost and reversed all the gains and improvements, so we need to start from the same zero point again and fix the same fucking problems again.

Compare with the blasphemous "Green New Deal", which is the EXACT PRECISE DIAMETRIC OPPOSITE of the real New Deal in every way, with one minor exception. I've pulled some points from the official plan.

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Dramatically expand existing renewable power sources and deploy new production capacity with the goal of meeting 100% of national power demand through renewable sources; building a national, energy-efficient, “smart” grid;

The real New Deal dramatically expanded REAL renewable power, namely hydro dams. It's PHYSICALLY IMPOSSIBLE to power a country solely with solar and wind. We know for sure that "renewables" will exclude hydro and nuclear up front. We already have a "smart" grid, thanks to the 1999 Enron fraud of securitized power sponsored by Bill Clinton. The "smart" grid cascades a single popped breaker into a widespread outage MUCH faster than the previous "dumb" grid.



Upgrading every residential and industrial building for state-of-the-art energy efficiency, comfort and safety;

EVERY BUILDING, for efficiency, comfort and safety??????? JESUS. This would cost QUADRILLIONS of dollars, even if you could recruit enough contractors to do the work, which is WAY BEYOND PHYSICALLY IMPOSSIBLE.



Eliminating greenhouse gas emissions from the manufacturing, agricultural and other industries, including by investing in local-scale agriculture in communities across the country;

In other words, eliminate all industry and agriculture. This is the most blasphemous part. The Greenies have already accomplished about 2/3 of this goal, so we can trust them to accomplish the rest.



Eliminating greenhouse gas emissions from, repairing and improving transportation and other infrastructure, and upgrading water infrastructure to ensure universal access to clean water;

Water improvement is feasible. This is the ONLY element of the monstrosity that concords with the REAL New Deal.



Funding massive investment in the drawdown of greenhouse gases;

We're already wasting massive amounts of money on this omnicidal holocaust. More investment means more share value for Goldman and more millions of dead Americans.



Making “green” technology, industry, expertise, products and services a major export of the United States, with the aim of becoming the undisputed international leader in helping other countries transition to completely greenhouse gas neutral economies and bringing about a global Green New Deal.

This is the Green version of neocon imperialism. We're already exporting genocide in the form of weapons and wars and CIA cultural extermination. Sanity is spreading fast in the world, and nobody wants a NEW form of US-exported genocide. With any luck, the rest of the world will get together and bomb us off the planet. They should have done it already, but maybe this new super-turbo-extreme imperialism will finally get it done.



The Plan for a Green New Deal (and the draft legislation) shall recognize that innovative public and other financing structures are a crucial component ...... the Federal Reserve, a new public bank or system of regional and specialized public banks, PUBLIC VENTURE FUNDS and such other vehicles or structures .... in order to ensure that interest and other investment returns generated from public investments made in connection with the Plan will be returned to the treasury, reduce taxpayer burden and allow for more investment.

This is the real purpose and payoff. New forms of financing. New ways for Goldman and JPMorgan to generate infinite debt and kill millions of people. MMT isn't mentioned in the outline, but all of the supporters are MMT psychotics. MMT will hyperexponentially expand the omnicide.

Labels: infinite infinite infinite infinite infinite infinite infinite INFINITE INFINITE INFINITE INFINITE INFINITE INFINITE INFINITE lunacy, MMT

  ¶ 1:00 AM

  Un momento tranquilo
I'm constantly astonished at the difference between FUNCTIONAL CULTURES and DEAD CULTURES.

This is a little semi-formal meeting of AMLO with the new Miss World, who is Mexican. A typical political camera opportunity.



Note the deep calmness and mutual respect. Nobody interrupts, nobody is grabbing the limelight, everyone is on the same level.

This couldn't happen in USA with any politicians. It would be especially bad with Trump, given his connection to the Miss pageants. He'd spend the whole time insulting the Miss and insulting the managers of the event. Everyone else would spend the whole time screeching FUCK TRUMP FUCK TRUMP FUCK TRUMP.

The first commenter said it all:

Belleza + la inteligencia de AMLO = un momento tranquilo

Labels: things worth doing

  ¶ 3:05 PM

  Carver wins as always
When the fake stagecraft about "Cuban Sound Attacks" started, I could immediately and certainly tell it was fake, but I could only speculate about the real source of the sound. I know enough about hearing to determine that the sound as recorded can't possibly cause the symptoms we were told about. The symptoms were either hysteria or pure fakery. Hysteria is certainly possible (even normal!) in a situation like this, but given that ALL OF THE "VICTIMS" ARE EMPLOYEES OF DEEPSTATE, pure fakery overrules hysteria.

Now we have a decisive disproof from a REAL SCIENTIST who recognized the SOURCE as a peculiar type of Cuban cricket. Not microwaves, not subsonic vibrators, not any human-generated process. Just an insect.



Carver.

LOOK ABOUT YOU.
TAKE HOLD OF THE THINGS THAT ARE HERE.
LET THEM TALK TO YOU.

The real Cuban scientist knew about the THINGS THAT ARE HERE in Cuba, and he was accustomed to LISTENING to them. So he recognized the sound.

Labels: Carver

  ¶ 10:43 AM

  Can't make this shit up
Since 1803 the blackrobed demons have been CRIMINALLY acting as the legislature. But until now they didn't officially abandon their PROPER role assigned in the old obsolete Constitution.

The old obsolete Constitution said this about the blackrobed emperors:

The judicial Power shall extend to all Cases, in Law and Equity, arising under this Constitution, the Laws of the United States, and Treaties made, or which shall be made, under their Authority; to all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls; to all Cases of admiralty and maritime Jurisdiction; to Controversies to which the United States shall be a Party; to Controversies between two or more States; between a State and Citizens of another State; between Citizens of different States; between Citizens of the same State claiming Lands under Grants of different States, and between a State, or the Citizens thereof, and foreign States, Citizens or Subjects.

That's all. Nothing about making laws or revising laws or revoking laws. Those tasks are LEGISLATIVE jobs, and they were thus assigned to the LEGISLATURE, not to the JUDICIARY.

Note the last part in bold. Suits between US citizens and Foreign States.

Now the Supreme Demons have explicitly abandoned their proper assignment:

Heirs of a renowned Jewish art collector won’t be able use U.S courts to sue Hungary’s government for the return of paintings seized during World War II that are worth millions.

The Supreme Court on Monday said it wouldn’t take the case. That means an appeals court ruling that Hungary is immune from being sued in U.S. courts over the paintings stands.

Citizens of a US state suing the government of Hungary. The Supreme Demons refused to handle the case.
  ¶ 10:32 AM

  aiglatsoN
Reading an old Collectible Auto article on the design of the Edsel, written by a detail man who was part of the process but didn't know anything about design.

He said that the "nostalgic front" clashed with the space-age rear.

NOSTALGIC? Just obscene. A cunt.

Worst of all, it was NOT nostalgic for Ford's own design history, and specifically blasphemous to the design achievement of the real Edsel Ford.

In terms of vertical and horizontal fronts, here's what Edsel did:







First he moved the headlights DOWN into the fenders and added a horizontal blending element between the fenders. Then he REMOVED the vertical grille entirely and made the front fully horizontal. Most other carmakers followed suit in the next two years.

The obscene Edsel car RETURNED to a grotesque parody of free-standing headlights and a vertical grille, thus explicitly insulting and reversing what Edsel himself had done for car design.
  ¶ 2:42 AM

  More Integrity deadthink
Another document from the "Integrity" Initiative.

This was written in 2015. It lays out in full detail all of the aggressive warlike actions we have been taking against Russia since then. The agenda has been followed.

What's missing is PURPOSE. The document never says what we HOPE TO ACCOMPLISH by making war against Russia.

Again, the UK/US satans have a fairly good picture of what's going on in Russia, both permanently and temporarily. But because they lack LIFE and PURPOSE, they completely misunderstand Russia's response to our war.... just as Napoleon and Wilson and Hitler did in the past.

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Some of the observations:

RF is not a “normal” country in most senses of the word. Crucially, Russians see life & the world very differently from us. While economics is of course important to them, in the broadest sense Russians are not nearly as driven by economic & financial considerations.

Not normal? No, you've got it backwards. Seeing life as life is normal. Seeing life as the Dow is psychopathic and delusional.

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Despite contradictions with how they view both themselves & the world, Russians generally feel part of a Spiritual Mother Russia of infinite patience. A sense of destiny & uniqueness contributes to RF ability to absorb enormous hardship when necessary, both collectively & individually. History, climate, religion & tradition all contribute to Russians’ resilient mindset.

Simply true.

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For most Russians, daily life has long been a struggle (not least for survival). Not having Western goods & services will not necessarily be much of an issue in the medium to long term, though no doubt this will initially cause inconvenience.

Here's where Deadthink starts to go astray. Because the monsters are locked into SorosMind, they have always failed to understand Graybill. They assume that Graybill is an automatic unbreakable law of nature. When we impose a blockade, the DEAD slave country must inanimately respond by dying. Actual nature doesn't work that way. An actual LIVE country can DECIDE to build its own skills and internal resources so it doesn't need trade. Some slaves (eg Venezuela) have responded inanimately, confirming our assumptions. Others (eg Cuba, Persia, Russia) have broken out of the Graybill grave.

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Putin has remained popular so far for two main reasons. One: after the chaos of 1990-94 & 1998-2000, he has restored relative stability, prosperity & pride as far as many Russians are concerned (though primarily because of high energy prices). Second: this public perception has been largely shaped by Government’s increasing monopoly of the domestic information space since 2000.

It doesn't matter if government has a monopoly on information. Our governments also have a monopoly on internal information. Russians are realistic. They have always done a better job of seeing through the media and perceiving reality. The reality, ADMITTED by Satan, is that Putin has made life tremendously better for Russians. Thus he's popular.

We can't imagine this NORMAL correlation because our leaders never make life better for ordinary people. Our leaders SLAUGHTER ordinary people by the million and make life better for Soros.

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In speeches & media pieces, Putin & Co. tend to tell us what they aim to do & why.

Yes. That's also normal for living creatures, but UNIMAGINABLE in the Deadthink lands. Purpose is part of life. We can't begin to imagine a leader who has a purpose and tells the people what he intends to do. Our leaders NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER tell us what they intend to do. Even this document doesn't say anything about our purpose in making war on Russia. We are dead. We have no purpose. We just KILL AND KILL AND KILL AND KILL AND KILL because we KILL AND KILL AND KILL AND KILL AND KILL.

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Essentially, they aspire to all the benefits of Western prosperity but on Russian terms, & restore RF as a core player in world affairs, unconstrained in its right to assert its national interests.

Sounds normal to me. Every individual and every nation wants prosperity and peace, wants an opportunity to assert its own interests in open competition.

And in fact Putin has ACCOMPLISHED this purpose. Russia has prosperity and Russia is a major player in world affairs.

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So long as these (unrealistic) criteria are not met, Putin’s RF will continue to act as a “spoiler state” for the West in international affairs.

In other words, Soros is the universe and the universe is Soros. Soros already ordered Russia to die in 1991. Russia obeyed for a while but then regained its soul and decided to live. Life is just an unrealistic spoiler, a Negative Externality, for Soros.

Labels: Deadthink

  ¶ 1:10 AM

  Either way you spell it, the choice is clear.
Continuing my war against Fake Surprise and Collapsed Timelines.

Headline: Brexit would leave UK in uncharted territory.

England has been a recognized nation since the time of Jesus. More than 2000 years.

England has been part of EU since 1993. 25 years.

Let's look at the timeline.



We have 1993 years of CHARTED TERRITORY, because we know that England somehow managed to grow and prosper and invent thousands of things and develop most of the industries that everyone else copied, during that part of the chart, even though it was mysteriously surviving without the INDISPENSABLE BLESSINGS OF JUNCKER AND SOROS.

And then we have 25 years of CHARTED TERRITORY during which England declined and lost its industries and became pretty much a third-world shithole with the INDISPENSABLE BLESSINGS OF JUNCKER AND SOROS.

There is no UNCHARTED TERRITORY. We have a whole fucking bunch of POSITIVE CHART and a short horrible period of NEGATIVE CHART. Which should you choose?

Alternately, uncharted territory is usually spelled unchartered territory nowadays. Using this form of the phrase, England invented the most important CHARTER in political history way back in 1215, and then specifically abandoned it when EU substituted its own Satanic charter in 1993. Again we have a whole fucking long period with a POSITIVE CHARTER, and then 25 years with a SATANIC CHARTER. Which should you choose?
  ¶ 10:23 AM

  Simple, but could be even simpler
Tenure and publish-or-perish have led to a hugely profitable business in academic journals. Even after real publishing moved from paper to the web, the journal publishers are still making lots of money, and it's hard for students to access articles.

Recent discussion and "debate" was mostly pointless, but amazingly one plan that MAKES SENSE has emerged.

This new initiative, dubbed Plan S, mandates that starting in 2020, academics receiving grants from participating agencies—which include funders in the UK, France, and the Netherlands—must make all scientific articles open access immediately upon publication. The coalition also outlines 10 key principles, such as commitments from funders to help cover publication fees, provide incentives to establish quality open-access journals and publishing platforms, and a promise to sanction those who do not comply with the new rules.

Simple. Since publishing is the PURPOSE and ENDPOINT of research, grants must include enough money to cover all costs of publishing UP FRONT so the readers don't have to pay.

Could be even simpler and cheaper if you factor out the journals and the publishers like Springer and Elsevier. Just slap the result onto the web, on a website maintained by the university or the company where the research was centered.

Since every university big enough to run research already has a website for press releases about new research, this wouldn't require a new office. Just more servers and bandwidth.

Without the journals, the entire counterproductive structure of peer-review disappears. Everyone can evaluate the results independently.

Also, a conflict of real vs legal copyright disappears. Under the current setup, govt sponsored research is officially public domain; but the Springer paywall imposes a practical copyright on it. You have to pay $40 to see an article that your taxes already paid for. If the university publishes the output directly, paid by the granting agencies, the official and practical are identical.

Corporate-sponsored research is not public domain, but corporate research rarely gets published anyway. It's for internal use, protected against competitors by NDAs or patents.
  ¶ 6:58 AM

  "Rights" to duties, 1936 edition
A recent addition to the American Radio History library is a 1936 Radio Guide to Politics written by Philco.

Philco made excellent radios and also had an excellent corporate attitude, so I decided to read the piece. The booklet includes biographies of Roosevelt and Landon, plus the platforms of both parties. (Note that I'm not putting "both" "parties" in quotes as usual; we actually had TWO PARTIES in 1936.) I'd never looked at those platforms before, but the context of Radio + Philco somehow made them more palatable.

The Democrat platform is impressive in several ways.

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1. It's written in terms of DUTIES, not "rights". It replaces the satanic "rights" constitution with a Godly DUTIES constitution.

First paragraph:

1.We hold this truth to be self-evident: that government in a modern civilization has certain inescapable obligations to its citizens, among which are:

2. Protection of the family and the home.

2. Establishment of a democracy of opportunity for all the people.

3. Aid to those overtaken by disaster.

These obligations, neglected through 12 years of the old leadership, have once more been recognized by American government. Under the new leadership they will never be neglected.

Note that family and home came first. Both words are alien CRIMETHINK to modern politicians of "both" "parties".

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2. Because FDR had actually DONE THINGS AND ACCOMPLISHED GOALS during his first four years, the platform was able to speak to people on the basis of trust. The people had seen REAL ACTION, and had good reason to expect more of the same.

We have begun and shall continue the successful drive to rid our land of kidnapers and bandits. We shall continue to use the powers of government to end the activities of the malefactors of great wealth who defraud and exploit the people.

Note that kidnappers, bandits, and malefactors of great wealth are correctly listed in the same paragraph.

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3. Government has a DUTY to encourage thrift and savings, NOT to encourage debt.

We have safeguarded the thrift of our citizens by restraining those who would gamble with other people's savings, by requiring truth in the sale of securities; by putting the brakes upon the use of credit for speculation; by outlawing the manipulation of prices in stock and commodity markets; by curbing the overweening power and unholy practices of utility holding companies; by insuring 50 million bank accounts.

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If modern "Democrats" really wanted to win without cheating, they should simply adopt this platform. Of course the trust part wouldn't work, because modern "Democrats" specifically deleted FDR's legacy in 1999 and thereafter participated equally in slaughtering the poor to boost the Dow. Moderns would have to promise a restoration of thrift and obligations, and frankly nobody would believe them.

Labels: From rights to duties

  ¶ 1:56 AM

  The usual meaningless "debate"
As always, a meaningless "debate" over questions that are either irrelevant or perfectly reversed.

This "debate" is about trying to make Census data more private.

The move has implications that extend far beyond the research community. Proponents of differential privacy say a fierce, ongoing legal battle over plans to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census has only underscored the need to assure people that the government will protect their privacy.

The original obsolete constitution required a census every 10 years TO DETERMINE WHERE THE VOTERS ARE. Since voters have to be citizens, a question about citizenship is the ONLY question that is REQUIRED. If the original constitution still existed, this "fierce battle" would be unnecessary because citizenship would be the ONLY question asked by the census. We wouldn't have to decide whether it was "violating" "rights", because determining citizenship is the sole DUTY of the census.

The specifics of the debate are technically valid and interesting.......

“Any time you release a statistic, you’re leaking something,” explains Jerry Reiter, a professor of statistics at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, who has worked on differential privacy as a consultant with the Census Bureau. “The only way to absolutely ensure confidentiality is to release no data. So the question is, how much risk is OK? Differential privacy allows you to put a boundary” on that risk.

A database can be considered differentially protected if the information it yields about someone doesn’t depend on whether that person is part of the database. Differential privacy was originally designed to apply to situations in which outsiders make a series of queries to extract information from a database. In that scenario, each query consumes a little bit of what the experts call a “privacy budget.” After that budget is exhausted, queries are halted in order to prevent database reconstruction.

.... but irrelevant. In fact all of this information is already available to criminals and corporations and governments. (Sorry, redundant.) Everyone who has ever been online has been hacked. Intentional off-gridders may be exempt, but intentional off-gridders aren't going to answer census questionnaires anyway, so they're outside the terms of the debate.

Labels: From rights to duties

  ¶ 7:40 AM

  The art of flat assertion
From another piece of the Integrity dump, a document called 'Discernment Paper'.

First paragraph:

In face-to-face conversation and debate we learn cues for assessing the reliability of someone's argument, though often this knowledge is acquired intuitively through life experience rather than through formal education. If we encounter someone shouting out bizarre accusations or disjointed phrases in our local market square we typically will ignore them and may well draw conclusions as to the mental health of the person in question. Online, however, we don't have the same context of non-verbal clues that are so crucial to the conclusions we draw about the reliability and authenticity of information. Increasingly we find that visual clues provided by photos as well as video footage are also subject to manipulation. Fake imagery, misleading headlines and captions, and distorted reporting can enable disinformation to take root and spread virally. We need a complementary set of tools to help cultivate visual discernment and provide the public with resources to verify stories (especially the most provocative and compelling) before they are shared.

Excellent and insightful. Perfectly accurate.

Now the second paragraph. I haven't clipped anything out between the two.

In the case of the attempted murder of Sergei and Julia Skripal by nerve-agent poisoning in Salisbury, there have already been a minimum of 32 different narratives suggested by the Russian state as possible “explanations”, most of which are absurd and indeed contradictory.

WHIPLASH! Comrade O'Brien would be proud.



The flat background-like assertion of "attempted murder by nerve-agent poisoning" is the first thing that a discerning observer would want to check. What's the evidence of poisoning? What's the evidence that the poisoning was by Russian Novichok?

And the answer, after sorting out all available sources, is NO EVIDENCE AT ALL. The only OBSERVATION, outside of the official noise, is that the Skripals were seen on a parkbench looking unconscious. That's ALL.

There are many possible explanations for this. All of the official explanations have been thoroughly disproved and disassembled.

The simplest explanation, the ONLY explanation that fits the uncorrupted evidence with zero contradictions, is that the entire incident was stagecraft. There was no poison, no substance, no chemical, NOTHING. Just a puppet show.

[Incidentally, this Ockham explanation is not among the Russian explanations I've seen. All discussions in RT and Sputnik start with the unproved and highly dubious "fact" that a substance was used. They argue about the type of substance and other details, but they don't peel back the last layer of the false onion.]

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Let's take a close look at the flat assertion. This sentence is a classic example, showing how the assertion uses our internal syntax templates to slide past our conscious filters.

In the case of the attempted murder of Sergei and Julia Skripal by nerve-agent poisoning in Salisbury, there have already been a minimum of 32 different narratives suggested by the Russian state as possible “explanations”, most of which are absurd and indeed contradictory.

The main clause of the sentence is the narratives suggested by Russia. In ordinary reading you focus on the main clause. This main clause is narrowly true because Russian media have suggested many explanations.

If you're not accustomed to Deepstate's tricks, you'll look at the main clause and say "Yup, that's true", and go on to the next sentence. You'll miss the ASSERTION which is also a sneaky INSERTION into your mind. In the case of the attempted murder is a background subordinate clause, positioned as an already known fact which doesn't need to be checked.



The sentence follows an ordinary and expected pattern.

In the case of houses with shingled roofs, there are a minimum of 32 different techniques suggested by contractors as possible "fixes" for a lifted shingle, most of which are ineffective and costly.

You already know that some houses have shingled roofs and some have tile or metal. This is a background fact that doesn't require skeptical attention. You focus on the techniques so that you can question your contractor about the techniques before paying for roof repair.

A second trick: The sentence focuses on Russia's many explanations and DOESN'T MENTION the UK/US media's many contradictory and false explanations. Those explanations should be the sole target of your discernment.

When you use REAL discernment, you can discern the ASSERTION-INSERTION, and you can also discern that the false explanations suggested by UK/US media are NOT EVEN MENTIONED.
  ¶ 3:02 AM

  Are they stupid? No, they're evil
Skimming some of the latest dump of Integrity Initiative documents. I don't know enough about UK players and agencies to judge what's going on, so I'm ignoring those documents.

One document in the US section answers a question I've been wondering about. It's an analysis of RT and SputnikNews.

All US media demons and politicians have been telling us over and over that RT is pro-Trump. This is factually false, and you don't need secret clearance to see that it's false. Just READ the damn thing. RT's attitude is identical to MSNBC or CNN on all issues EXCEPT Russia. During the 2016 election RT endorsed Bernie. They're still completely unfriendly to Trump.

Question: Do the media and intel agencies believe this? Are they so hopelessly locked inside their own self-reinforcing bubble that they only listen to the screeches inside their own alien heads?

Answer from the document: NO.

Coverage of Trump by RT and Sputnik is, in fact, uncharacteristically balanced. Some recent reports have presented the Republican candidate favorably, such as when he endorsed a number of critics for re-election 'in an attempt to ease party tensions', or accused Clinton of founding the Daesh terrorist group. Others, however, were unfavorable. One quoted a neo-Nazi leader as backing his candidacy; another accused him of hypocrisy. One report even asked, 'Is Trump an embarrassment to the GOP because he's an incompetent, uninformed, pathological menace, or because he's just saying out loud what most Republicans now believe?'

No such balance is apparent in the two outlets' coverage of the other candidates. Clinton is the most obvious target. In August alone, RT reports covered accusations of corruption, lying and ill health against her; accused her of launching a McCarthystyle 'witch hunt' against Trump; and linked her to the use of nuclear weapons in 1945. Sputnik's reporting called her and her team 'war hawks', accused her of wanting to 'make more families suffer' the deaths of soldiers, and named her the 'Queen of War'.

Earlier in the electoral cycle, Bernie Sanders enjoyed similar lavish coverage, with headlines such as 'Why only Sanders can prevent "President Trump"'. In March, RT even ran an interview claiming that Clinton and Google were collaborating to rig the results against Sanders, with the interviewer asking, 'Sanders scored a 35% swing, maybe, in Michigan, I mean, it hasn't worked so well for Clinton, has it?'

Exactly right. A correct summary of the real data.

So the intel agencies can't be forgiven on the basis of self-contained ignorance. They KNOW they're lying about Russia.

Labels: Asked and answered

  ¶ 2:05 AM

  Not cheating, not new
I'm declaring war on all examples of Fake Surprise.

Here's a good one in the usual ZH doomporn about AI.

Headline: AI Program Taught Itself How To 'Cheat' Its Human Creators

In the study, researchers explained how a Generative Adversarial Network - one of the two common varieties of machine learning agents - defied the intentions of its programmers and started spitting out synthetically engineered maps after being instructed to match aerial photographs with their corresponding street maps.

The intention of the study was to create a tool that could more quickly adapt satellite images into Google's street maps. But instead of learning how to transform aerial images into maps, the machine-learning agent learned how to encode the features of the map onto the visual data of the street map.

In the first place, this isn't cheating. The program was instructed to adaptively match the two maps as closely as possible, and it did as instructed. If the programmers had wanted to specify that only one map could be altered, they should have specified.

In the second place, this isn't new, so it's not "frightening futurism". Devices that adaptively map one surface onto another have been around for a few years, and some of the devices cheat as defined above. The adaptive mapping devices are called "paint" and "clothing". Within the available range of "clothing" AI, some devices (eg "girdles" and "brassieres") are intended to cheat by mapping the inner surface to the outer surface.

All three adaptive AI devices (paint, inward-mapping clothing, outward-mapping clothing) in one picture.
  ¶ 1:21 AM

  Deadthinkers unbellyfeel LIFE
Here's what happens when you've lived your entire life inside Deadthink. You're surprised and shocked by normal and natural parts of LIFE. You're astonished to see any evidence of MODULARITY or DIFFERENCE or GENES or FEEDBACK.

Headline on an academic article in the Sorosian economics website VoxEU.

The dark side of decision-making in groups: Nastiness to outsiders

This is so trivially definitionally obvious that it needs no further elaboration. The SOLE PURPOSE of a group is to exclude outsiders. Outsiders are outsiders because they are outside the border. Insiders are insiders because they are inside the border. You can't have an Us without a Them.

This isn't the "dark side", it's MODULARITY, which is a basic and necessary part of life from mitochondria to nations. Modularity is a good thing if the module obeys Natural Law, competing fairly without aggression. Unprovoked aggression is always wrong by a cell or an individual or a nation.

The purpose of globalism is to SMASH all modules so that the entire universe consists of Soros. No borders, no inside or outside, only Soros. Soros is all, all is Soros. Deadthink.

Labels: Deadthink, Grand Blueprint

  ¶ 11:52 PM

  Hey, you're supposed to compete, not copy!
Jag You Wah has introduced its supposed competition to Tesla's model 3. Bad idea. The Tesla skeptics are praising its "esthetics", but it's just as grotesquely nauseatingly terrifyingly nightmarishly retina-rippingly horrible as any other modern car. They all look like mutant alien deepsea monsters to me.

Worse, Jag You Wah has COPIED one of the fantastically stupid Tesla features. Flat doorhandles that have to be flipped out before you can pull them. The Jag You Wah will be useless in cold weather, just like the Tesla.

Admittedly this is a normal and expected "feature" of British cars. Britain doesn't have winter, so Brit cars have always failed in winter. Still, you'd think a competing model introduced AFTER the Tesla would try to fix the fuckups instead of copying the fuckups.
  ¶ 11:25 PM

  Sort of disappointed but shouldn't be.
I've decided that Bolsonaro is more of a neocon than a populist, more of a standard conservative by US definitions. This is slightly discouraging for my listmaking tendencies, but it's completely irrelevant.

FACT: Brazil doesn't need a populist leader because Brazil's recent governments have already been solidly populist without using the name. Brazil has been breaking Graybill's Law forever, avoiding the pitfalls of globalist control. It has all the resources any country needs. Every crop and livestock, every form of energy, every mineral resource, massive and varied industrial production. Brazil has always ONshored production instead of OFFshoring it.

What Brazil needs right now is a crime-fighter, and Bolsonaro looks to fill that role.

I'm still watching closely to see what he does with Soros NGOs. If he kicks them out, a huge piece of the world will be officially claimed for God's side.

Labels: skill-estate, Sorosia

  ¶ 10:16 PM

  Things worth doing and how to do them, from a US leader?????
I'm impressed by this interview segment with Elizabeth Warren. It's not just WHAT she says, it's HOW she says it. The THING WORTH DOING is STOP WAR. That's superbasic logic and superbasic morality. Natural Law says DON'T START FIGHTS. History tells us that an empire which starts wars will collapse.

How she says it:

1. She demands that our government should EXPLAIN what it's doing, should say WHY it wants to make war and what it hopes to accomplish. Again normal logic, but totally absent from USA STRONG since 1950.

2. After a goal is discussed and defined as necessary, government should set out MEASURABLE GOALS and then MEASURE its progress toward reaching those goals. If no progress, STOP. Again this is perfectly normal procedure for every living thing. Negative feedback is LIFE. Again we have abandoned all feedback. We define delusional physically impossible goals with no explanations or reasons, and then we just KILL AND KILL AND KILL AND KILL AND KILL AND KILL AND KILL AND KILL, which couldn't possibly accomplish any purpose even if the purpose could be accomplished.

Labels: Grand Blueprint, Metrology, things worth doing

  ¶ 2:29 PM

  Oughta be a law
Admittedly "laws" don't exist in Sorosian lands, but this would be a good law in an alternate universe where laws exist.

You have a DUTY to accomplish your goals WHILE YOU ARE ABLE. If you didn't even try to accomplish a goal when you had the power to make it happen, you're NOT ENTITLED to talk about the goal later on. When you are out of power you can't PRETEND to work toward the purpose that you "forgot about" when you had the power.

This applies to two separate situations in the political and corporate world.

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1. Insiders enthusiastically support evil policies while working for government or corporations, then immediately become "whistleblowers" after they retire. Sorry, asshole. If you really believed an action was wrong, you should have defunded it or halted it when you had the power. Now that you're safe from responsibility, you are not allowed to claim that you would have solved it.

Several current D examples of 1.

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2. The bicameral game. When Repooflicans have control of all sections of government, they sit and do nothing at all. After one house or one branch switches to D, the Repoofs are safe from responsibility, so they pretend to do shit.

Current R example of 2: Building the Wall. Repoofs COULD have funded the completion of the border during the two years when they had both houses and the Presidency. They did nothing about it. Now that a D majority in the Lower Nuthouse walls them off from responsibility, the Repoofs in the Upper Nuthouse are free to play games and blame the Ds for their own failure.

Labels: Alternate universe, From rights to duties

  ¶ 7:13 AM

  One gets it, one doesn't
I've bitched that both leftist and nationalist commentators seem to be missing the importance of AMLO.

Here's one leftist who gets it.

From the Daily Worker aka People's World, written a month ago just after his inauguration.

The new president got very specific: “The neoliberal model failed.” Characterized by dishonesty in government, and both public and private corruption, it is the source of gross economic and social inequality. Unlike any other time in modern Mexican history since the 1930s, the neoliberal period, beginning in 1983, has been the most inefficient, with concentration of wealth, an enormous wave of emigration and an explosion of anti-social behavior. In short, a “disaster and calamity” for the country, where four out of ten Mexicans live in poverty.

Economically, the energy “reform” that Peña Nieto passed has resulted in less production of oil and the failure to build new refineries, importation of half the nation’s consumption of the staple corn, a minimum wage that is among the lowest on Earth, and 24 million Mexican citizens who have chosen, or been forced to emigrate. “Neoliberalism is corruption,” AMLO pronounced without evasion, a robbery and sell-off of the national treasure.

Uniquely for a US leftist, this author APPRECIATES the need for more refineries and more farm production. All other US leftists want to see oil and agriculture eliminated. The only way to pacify Gaia is to return to the Stone Age. We must burn only coal and wood, but we can't mine the coal and we can't get the wood from trees.

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Contrarily: Turley, the most consistent and insightful right-populist commentator, still doesn't include AMLO in the list of new nationalists. It's a peculiar way of drawing the line. Italy's populist government is somewhat more left than right in economic terms, and Putin is definitely more left than right. Why include them but not AMLO? If culture is an important determiner, AMLO is firmly on the traditional side.


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Later thought: Maybe I should just be quietly glad that "our" media and commentators are ignoring AMLO. We are required to focus on movements and leaders who are puppets of Deepstate. CIA and MI6 always run "radicals" on both sides of an issue, to discredit real movements through crime and chaos. CIA also runs the media to tell us which movements are "good" and "bad". We are not forced to focus on AMLO, which at least indicates that he's not the main puppet at this moment.
  ¶ 6:14 AM

  Comfort for comfort
Idiot Macron is doing EVERYTHING NECESSARY to guarantee a maximally violent revolution. He has arrested one of the leaders of the Yellowjackets. The crowd sings the Marseillaise as the leader is hauled off.

Question 1: It's well known that Macron wasn't a lifelong politician who had spent his life working up through the political ranks. He was a Rothschild banker who was recruited as a placeholder for Juncker and Soros.

A normal politician doesn't want to be violently deposed; he wants to have the pleasure of ruling for a while. The easiest way to rule comfortably is to give the people some degree of prosperity and security. Give comfort, get comfort.

Macron's masters CAN'T be as stupid as he appears to be. His masters must WANT a violent revolution.

Question 2: What is the purpose of the revolution? Who gains from a fiery France?

The 1789 revolution was assisted and financed by England and some parts of Germany. (There wasn't a unitary German nation until 1870.)

The same answer seems about right this time.

From Gouvernour Morris's diary, May 20, 1789:

Montmorin tells me, that he considers the Assembly as finished, and this gives me a poor opinion of his sagacity. A few days ago he was in trepidation, but now in a kind of security, both unfounded. He fears, however, yet for the person of the King. He says, that different people are urging him to do different things, but that he sees nothing to be done. I tell him to remain quiet, for the Assembly are now doing everything they can for the King, with the intention to do everything against him. I ask him whereabouts he is with the claims of the German Princes. He says, that he thinks the Emperor will become the intermediary; but that he fears the Count d’Artois and Prince of Condé. I treat this lightly, as supposing that they will only act in favor of the Royal authority; but he says that they will form a party for themselves; by which I understand only, that they will oblige the King to drive away all his former advisers.

This is where we are now. Macron's advisers are doing everything they can foragainst him, England is helping to foment the riots, and Holy Roman Emperor Juncker is hoping to become the intermediary for the German princes.

Morris wanted to preserve the monarchy in both US and France because he was a hardass realist. He knew that revolutions are always externally promoted for the benefit of external powers. A hereditary monarch wants to live long and stay rich, so he is motivated to give his people some degree of peace and prosperity.

This is a large-scale parallel to a similar contemporary trend in business. A family-owned business treats its employees decently because the family wants to keep running the company comfortably and richly. An LBO is a revolution promoted by external powers to destroy the civilization of the company so the external powers can claim the real estate and other assets.

We are living in the age of the LBO at all scales. Macron the banker knows LBOs.

Labels: From rights to duties

  ¶ 12:01 AM

  Down to business
Bolsonaro is getting down to business now. As he did before taking power, he's putting down markers to guide and measure the performance of his cabinet and bureaucrats.

This one is especially interesting from a Soros vs non-Soros viewpoint:

Mais de 15% do território nacional é demarcado como terra indígena e quilombolas. Menos de um milhão de pessoas vivem nestes lugares isolados do Brasil de verdade, exploradas e manipuladas por ONGs. Vamos juntos integrar estes cidadãos e valorizar a todos os brasileiros.

The tribes in remote areas are "exploited and manipulated by NGOs", and must be "valorized" as proper citizens.

However: His meaning is not clear without context. If this history of the Quilombos is even close to correct, Bolsonaro doesn't think much of those folks. The history is written from a Sorosian viewpoint, but Bolsonaro's previous dismissive attitude comes through.

Labels: Metrology, things worth doing

  ¶ 3:32 PM

  Sweet Jesus.
Far more than a contrast in style.

Macron's new year message is an open declaration of total war on his own people. He says that he realizes the people don't like being murdered. Therefore, BECAUSE they are unhappy, he vows to murder them more EFFICIENTLY AND VICIOUSLY.

Time to revise the comparison.

Marie Antoinette: Let them eat cake!

Macron Antoinette: Let them eat rat poison!

  ¶ 4:15 PM

  Things worth doing and (two ways) how to do them
Contrasting styles again.

Bolsonaro is an introvert, not easy in public situations.



Making speeches is at the edge of his tolerance.

His inauguration speech hits ALL the right points, but I'll wait for action. If he gets down to business, we could have the biggest counter-Soros force in the world. But that's still a big IF. His attempted alliance with Faker Trump makes me itchy.

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AMLO is simply comfortable in his body and his place, as seen in this New Year's message. He draws graphs with his hands, teaching the message without a blackboard or a written speech. His mission and duty are intrinsic.



I'm more inclined to trust a plain man who is congruent with his mission.

Labels: things worth doing

  ¶ 3:05 PM

  Courageously barking academic
Opposite of previous non-barking item.

This academic movement is more important and more valid than it sounds.

First, how it sounds:

Since apartheid ended in 1994, South Africa’s universities have struggled to transform themselves, leading to escalating student protests over the last three years — including the toppling of a prominent statue of Cecil Rhodes, an infamous colonizer who donated the land on which the University of Cape Town now stands. And as students and academics accelerate the process of decolonization across South African universities, the spotlight has fallen onto mathematics.

Exactly what decolonizing math would entail isn’t entirely clear: Curriculum revisions that promote non-Western contributions to the field, new teaching methods rooted in indigenous cultures, and greater openness to ideas outside the academic mainstream are all under discussion. Some want to go further, challenging the philosophical foundations** of mathematics itself.

Sounds like the usual SJW crap.

But the actual leader of the movement is onto something entirely different and hugely more important.

In his evening classes, meanwhile, Chinyoka hopes to broaden students’ understanding of what they can do with the mathematics they are presented with in lectures — from engineering to academia to law. He believes that South African mathematics should be reframed around the challenges faced by South Africa, as well as other developing countries.

In fact Chinyoka is not going far enough in the correct direction. He's treating the real life problems as a supplement after the theory. This is somewhat better than the normal math class which PROHIBITS any mention of the real world. The CORRECT method is to train students in real job-related or household-related solving, and let math come in naturally as a supplement. You're starting to cook a meal for your family. You set out the pans and read the recipe. The recipe is for 4 people but your family is 6 people. Now we have a problem that needs to be solved, and math provides a way to solve it.



After you solve the problem, you can eat the solution.

Back to Chinyoka:

“We still have this more Westernized view: You sit in a mathematics class on topology or abstract algebra, with zero idea about which context it applies to,” he says. Pointing to the current water and energy crises in South Africa, he argues that math should be taught with concrete applications in mind, rather than purely theoretically, which is a luxury afforded only by the West.

Not really a Westernized view, more precisely a Krautized view. Before we surrendered to the Krauts, US math and science teaching often had "concrete applications in mind". Around 1910 we went full Kraut. Theory in the morning, theory in the evening, theory at suppertime, concrete applications verboten all the time.

Soviet math and science teaching recovered from Krautism, focusing PROPERLY on real-life problem solving. That's why they beat us with Sputnik. As always we learned backwards. Fucking idiots.

Chinyoka is on the right track. His approach is better for ALL kids except autists and Krautists.

Western math is SOLELY for autists and Krautists. The EXPLICITLY STATED PURPOSE of math class in elementary and secondary school is to FRUSTRATE AND REPEL non-autists, so only the most precise and bizarre and reality-free wackos will end up with PhDs.

Unfortunately the movement toward USEFUL APPLICATIONS is confused and conflated with silly DieVersitarian nonsense. Many of the participants are more concerned with measuring Identity than measuring rice yield or baking temperatures or generator output. They are simply replacing one set of useless theories with another set of useless theories.

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** Footnote: there's no point in challenging the philosophical foundations of math because they don't exist. A real foundation goes in FIRST, and the rest of the building depends on the strength of the foundation. Math developed in all sorts of useful and interesting directions for 5000 years WITHOUT explicit foundations. Around 1880 the Kraut fetish for thoroughness demanded a "logical" foundation, and Krauts shoved in some logic stuff under the massive structure that obviously didn't need the logic stuff. Soon thereafter, a Kraut named Gödel detemined, using the rules of the Kraut logic stuff, that the logic stuff was internally contradictory and thus pointless.

So: If you believe that math has philosophical foundations, you must also believe that math can't have philosophical foundations. If you find math to be a wonderfully useful tool for real life problems, you don't need to think about the foundation question. Just use math.

Labels: Carver, Experiential education, metametrology, Metrology, Real World Math

  ¶ 8:16 AM

  Non-barking@ Bergoglio
Reusing my clumsy Non-barking@ construction to describe a hellhound who barks at everything else but misses one particular target.

I hadn't noticed this particular lack of barking until the hellhound got halfway close to the target.

From Vatican News:

Pope Francis then stopped to reflect on the condition of homelessness faced by at least ten thousand people in Rome. He called their condition a form of slavery “unworthy of the human person”. Jesus too “was born in a similar condition, not by chance or by accident”, the Pope said, “but to demonstrate God’s love for the lowly and the poor”.

The specific mention of homelessness in Rome reminded me that Bergoglio, while bashing EVERY OTHER sane and normal and GOOD leader in the world, has never bashed Salvini. Focusing on Rome is getting close to his usual slimy smarmy prurient insinuations, but still not quite there.

Perhaps Bergoglio understands that the Italian government surrounds his hypersatanic palaces and controls the electricity and water supplies for his beloved harem of eunuchs. Perhaps he understands that Vatican tax exemptions and judicial immunity depend on the continued sufferance of the Italian government.

Labels: infinite infinite infinite infinite evil

  ¶ 6:01 AM

  Not a puzzle
Lately there's considerable discussion of the near-total fakery of web advertising and web "news". Bots talking to bots. The discussers claim this is a "problem" that needs to be "solved".

A couple of points are missing from the discussion.

First, these numbers are not surprising or shameful to the BIG players like Google and FB. They can tell who's bot and who's not, and they also generate a lot of bot traffic on their own.

Second, why would a big player WANT to have lots of fake eyeballs reading and watching its outputs? Fake eyeballs don't buy real products, so the fake watching doesn't lead to profit for advertisers.

Putting those two together, the answer emerges. It's plain old fraud. A small or midsized business using FB for advertising will pay FB the same rates whether the clicks are real or not. When most of the clicks are fake, the small business is NOT getting value for its payment. FB won't let the sucker know that the clicks are fake.

Small suckers need to understand that they're being defrauded... and in fact many of them have already understood and moved away from FB to more local or direct or old-fashioned forms of advertising.

Both FB and Google are clearly happy with this development. Both are working HARD to drive away large portions of REAL viewers and REAL advertisers. Demonetizing unfashionable channels, banning unfashionable speech. They WANT a system consisting solely of bots producing "content" watched by bots.

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This is only a puzzle if you start with the old assumption that business seeks profit.

Small suckers do still operate on profit, but the big tech monsters operate SOLELY on share value. The stock racket has always preferred businesses without real customers and real employees. The preference has become an absolute rule since 1975. The stock racket is computers bouncing pure numbers back and forth.   ¶ 12:09 AM