Butler, the most decorated Marine in US history, came to the conclusion that he'd been used as a paid thug to enforce American corporate interests against the locals in a variety of nations.
The Military-Industrial-Congressional (the term Ike originally planned to use in his retirement speech) has been around a long, long time.
Thank you for posting this, placekicker17. The description of the three types of evil in this substack made perfect sense to me, and I really enjoy the author's thinking, writing, and -- elsewhere -- his morbid sense of humor. (Here's how he describes his substack on the subscription page: "Occasional meditations on depressing topics").
But enough of that. Here's what got me hooked:
Professor Bruce Charlton, on his blog Charlton Teaching, has written extensively about the nature of evil. According to Charlton, there are three types of evil. Luciferic, Ahrimanic, and Sorathic. As he explains,
This ordering is reflected in several ways, which are related.
First it describes the ordering of dominance in history, secondly the degree of evil-ness, and thirdly it reflects the societal hierarchy of The Masses, The Establishment, and The Satanic powers.
By societal hierarchy I mean that Luciferic evil dominates the Masses - who are evil in impulsive, short-termist ways; Ahrimanic evil is typical of the Global Establishment and its managerial-class servants - who regard Men as merely human resources towards abstract goals; and the Sorathic evil of negation, value-inversion and destruction of The Good is characteristic of the demonic overlords.
Let’s explore each a bit.
Except MOAB will stand for Mother of All Bail-Ins, with OUR money and stocks and bonds being used to make the banks and other Elite-connected wealth centers whole.
To paraphrase an earlier meme, "All our wealth are belong to them"
they cant name them?
There are tens of thousands of PFAS compounds (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) and they are EVERYWHERE.
It will do what it is programmed to do, and will never do what it is not programmed to do.
Even the far simpler and smaller programs + hardware of the 1980s did not always "do what they were programmed to do" -- thus the need for beta testing, which continues in the modern era. Programming languages themselves have bugs and unknown, unexpected elements (which can lead, for instance, to vulnerable points of entry for hackers), as does the hardware (a broad range of CPU chips over the years have been discovered to have vulnerabilities and other flaws).
Today's Large Language Models and other forms of AI are vast, complex systems almost beyond comprehension.
A complex system is a system composed of many components which may interact with each other. Examples of complex systems are Earth's global climate, organisms, the human brain, infrastructure such as power grid, transportation or communication systems, complex software and electronic systems, social and economic organizations (like cities), an ecosystem, a living cell, and, ultimately, for some authors, the entire universe.[1][2]
Complex systems are systems whose behavior is intrinsically difficult to model due to the dependencies, competitions, relationships, or other types of interactions between their parts or between a given system and its environment. Systems that are "complex" have distinct properties that arise from these relationships, such as nonlinearity, emergence, spontaneous order, adaptation, and feedback loops, among others.
OP's recounting of his interactions with the Meta AI show exactly how that can play out, and I think is a good reminder that AI -- like even your word processor -- will sometimes do things neither you nor its designers wanted or expected. The difference is that an AI is so much larger and more complex than a word processor that precisely predicting its behavior in a given situation is often impossible, including for the programmers. For that matter, there are likely hundreds to thousands OF programmers for a modern AI, and the AI itself (along with other AIs, perhaps) is already doing some -- and eventually perhaps all -- of the programming. No single person or entity has the entire zillion lines of code (in all the various modules) in mind, much less the constantly changing data it has to work with and the unpredictable queries the program must respond to.
I have a book on my shelf about olive leaf from 1997 titled Olive Leaf Extract: Nature's Antibiotic by Dr. Morton Walker. Printed on the cover:
The natural way to treat:
Vital invections
The common cold
Arthritis
Skin diseases
Heart trouble
And more!
Chapter 12 is titled How to Expel the Parasites Living Within Us.
My personal experience is that olive leaf extract is helpful (as an anti-viral and anti-bacterial, as a help in lowering blood pressure, and for other things) but seldom the full answer to any given problem.
My doctor, who is far from woke, who never even mentioned the jab to me or my wife, and who is always willing to talk with me about alternative treatments for anything, told me recently that after prescribing Ivermectin once, he "got into trouble" with state regulators and medical boards and it was made clear to him that if he did that again he might lose his license to practice. This is in a Blue state (with a largely Red population, but that's mail-in-voting for you), and even in Red states I hear that can happen.
Thank you, ashlanddog. This is important material. It's not new to those who have been following financial issues since before the last melt-down, but it is particularly important right now, as the next and final financial crisis before Whatever Comes After the Precipice arrives.
Yes, [they] plan to take everything we have, and they set the pseudo-legal framework to DO that in place years ago.
America is actually well situated geopolitically for isolationism; we've got everything we need to sustain ourselves without much commerce with other nations at all.
Dunno if that's actually the answer, but it IS one of the reasons America became so powerful in the first place.
Is there ANYTHING BAD the jabs won't do to you?