You may not be familiar with the meaning of 'drinking the Kool Aid', but that is a reference to the mass suicide in Jonestown, where the leader of the 'Peoples Temple' cult served his followers a 'Flavor Aid' drink laced with cyanide and various drugs, misrepresented as 'Kool Aid', when he found him…
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We do not have a destiny as a species
Many decades ago, researchers ran experiments in a lab with colonies of mice. As expected, colonies of mice provided with plenty of food and comfort began to expand rapidly. Until they reached an invisible barrier. Reproduction stagnated, fertility dropped, and they began to attack other mice, inclu…
Sounds great, but is not going to happen
Larry Fink of 'Black Rock' is now also running the World Economic Forum. 'Black Rock' is a 'Whale' on the global 'market'. A 'Fund' which attracted plenty of capital from wealthy individuals, pension funds, state funds and what have you, earning money through 'managing' the money of those interested…
Playing to destroy the world
In the run-up to the 'Credit Crisis' I sold my house, bought an apartment, and dumped all of my stocks, a very limited affair anyway, while warning people of what I 'saw'. Including the people running the company pension fund, which had published its intention to invest more money in 'Credit Default…
Secrecy in the service of what?
While serving my country as a military officer, I received the highest formal clearance, 'Nuclear Top Secret', and I handled all kinds of documents related to Soviet military strength and planning, as well as NATO capabilities, briefing fellow officers on what I found. I took that clearance serious,…
The Signs are on the Wall
Schools are valuable institutions to teach children, and eager adults, all kinds of stuff they may use to enhance their prospects in life. It always comes with a 'code' attached to it, reinforced by responsible media. An age old 'code' developed by generations, 'codifying' demands related to our beh…
How did we even get ourselves in this pickle?
After the Second World War, the former British Empire was cooked. The US was the new boss in town, and it told their British friends to let go of their colonies. The war had drained the UK, and it was in no position to resist. The US territory itself came out of the war unscathed, save for some remo…
Look at what the cat dragged in
If you allow your domesticated cat to prowl around the garden and neighbourhood, there is a fair chance that it will bring home its catch, and lay it on your doorstep. Generally interpreted as a sign of gratitude. Payback for serving it this delicious food out of cans and bags of hyper-processed cat…
An avalanche of ceasefires
The short lived Easter-ceasefire in the war between Russia and NATO on Ukrainian, and Russian soil, didn't pave the way for a settlement. And most commentators I trust do not expect that peace will fall from the sky in the Middle East, after the ceasefires agreed upon. In fact, both 'sides' are usin…
Printing gold, silver and oil
In THIS video the concept of 'Modern Money Theory' is explained in an easy to understand format. I do not know whether you studied it yourself, or that you never heard of it. But the explanation in that video is sound. The political reality may be anything but. Especially as the Money Issuing Author…
Way too smart for your own good
A Dutch 'Christian Democratic' party, part of the ruling coalition, is proposing a new law to make it obligatory to add a hashtag saying you are not an 'expert' in comments on social media, if you lack the conditioning provided at universities, concluded with a title to mark you as an 'expert'. Anot…
Uprisings everywhere
Martin Armstrong is a professional geopolitical 'forecaster', with an extensive, multimillion business spanning the globe, advising world leaders since the days of Margareth Thatcher and Ronald Reagan, and catering to financial services. He claims that the computer program his company developed pred…
'Denial' is not a river which flows through Egypt
Way too much time and energy are lost these days to set the record straight. I've been lied to by politicians and the media all my life, but the amount of total fabrications today, and utterly incoherent stories, in our part of the world, in the media, and on 'social media', is off the scale. Clear …
Law-Based, Rules-Based, or total Chaos?
A Law is fixed, and applicable to all equally, with punishment if you break the Law. Save for exceptional circumstances, which are relatively rare. A Rule refers us to a 'Standard', a 'Norm' within a community, observed by most, but not enforceable. 'My Home, My Rules'. But not my Laws. You may ente…
'Daddy' is not a person
To end a complex war with multiple participants engaged in the fight is far from simple. The present, temporary, relative stalemate in the war against Iran is evidence of that. Though the US agreed to a 'ceasefire', even quoting a ten point plan offered by Iran as the basis for further negotiations …
Slippery Slopes
To speak truth to power requires courage, or conviction. The very 'Jewish' Karl Marx wrote that religion is like opium for the people. I did read his work, and rejected those parts which advocated the creation of a dictatorship of the 'Masses', emerging from the 'Workers', to create an egalitarian '
Spinning out of control
Out of the blue, a ceasefire was announced in the war between the US and Iran. There is some doubt about Israel, since that country immediately announced that it would go on with its attempt to add a large part of Lebanon to the Jewish State. Why was this a surprise? Because Trump effectively demand…
Too smart for your own good
If opportunity comes knocking, offering great rewards, but acting on it is immoral, or unethical, what do you do? Acting in a moral, ethical sense, is encoded in a civilised upbringing. It comes natural to some. Others need a fair bit of discouragement to take them off the path to savagery.
In …
Failure is not an option
That story about one US F-15E shot down over Iran, with both pilots eventually rescued, but with millions upon millions lost on damaged and destroyed aircraft, never made a lot of sense. Professional analysts like 'Armchair Warlord' (Armchairw), and Will Schryver (imetatronic), or Arnaud Bertrand (R…
The Devil is in the Details
The past two days were disastrous for the US Air Force, with the loss of multiple aircraft. Another F-15E was lost to enemy fire, confirmed. The search and recovery of the pilots saw two Black Hawk helicopters being hit, and two 'C-130 Hercules' aircraft used to extract the second pilot from an impr…