OK, this one is nerdy. For the non coding crowds, the sign: / (slash) means "end" in HTML computer language.
This said, the end has been near since the birth of civilization. We are, like everything else in nature, walking on the bleeding edge of evolution. There is no escaping our fate. The end has been near since the dawn of mankind and will accompany us until... the end! :-)
So in the end, the choice between joke and wisdom is yours!
Remember early in the Trump administration when we were told that ALL the information hidden by the Bidden administration would be made available? Covid? Check! Epstein? Check! UFO? Of course! Everything!
Then the months passed. They needed to "clean" the information from personal and confidential data... Understandable? OK...
And here we are now, 4 months later. UFO? OK, we can do without. Covid? Come on, it's history now. Kennedy? Haven't they made a fuss about the thousands of "new" documents released? Amazingly nobody found anything much in there. Go figure!
And now Epstein. Well, nothing to see here too. He really did commit suicide in a highly secure prison with sleeping guards and blind security cameras. It reminds me of the old joke from Chico Marx in the Duck Soup: "Who are you gonna believe, me or your own lying eyes?"
So Epstein did commit suicide. He wasn't working for the Mossad. And the list? What list? This indeed is what is called "transparency".
Now for the suckers who expected "something", may I remind you that this is already the second Trump administration. Were you really expecting something different? There is a good Einstein quote for the definition of stupidity about doing the same thing and expecting a different result!
PS: As for Guiffre, on of the victims, well, she did commit suicide, although she said adamantly before that she would not. But strangely, or maybe not, it looks like the press is surprisingly uninterested.
Via: The Hill:
FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino vowed to release a video showing that no one was around disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein when he died by suicide in a prison cell in 2019.
“I just want to be crystal clear on this. I am not asking anyone to believe me. I’m telling you what’s there and what isn’t, right,” Bongino told Fox News on Thursday morning. “There is nothing in the file at this point on the Epstein case, and there is going to be a disclosure on this coming shortly.”
The agency is reviewing the footage that will be released to the public, he added.
“Fox & Friends” co-host Lawrence Jones then asked, “There’s video of [Epstein] killing himself?”
“No, no, not the actual act, but the entire MCC [Metropolitan Correctional Center] bay. It was only one camera. There’s video that, when you look at the video — and we will release, that’s what’s taken a while on this,” Bongino explained. “We are working on cleaning it up to make sure you have an enhanced, and we’re going to give the original so you don’t think there were any shenanigans.”
“You’re going to see there’s no one there but him,” the deputy FBI director added.
His remarks come less than two weeks after he and FBI Director Kash Patel dismissed long-held conspiracy theories surrounding Epstein’s death, bluntly telling Fox News’s Maria Bartiromo that “he killed himself.”
Here's a real question: Who exactly are the elites controlling the world?
The "billionaires" have money but no real power. The politicians, especially in the West are mostly second rate intellect, put in place to implement a strategy. But who writes the strategy? Does it just happen? Concocted by accident in the obscure back offices of think tanks in Georgetown? Is looking for somebody behind the curtain a meaningless chase for conspiratorial ideas?
The quote “To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.” was apparently wrongly attributed to Voltaire. But if Voltaire didn't say it, he certainly should have!
When you own everything, what can be your goal in life except accreting and keeping power? And so the other quote: "When rich people meet, they conspire!" must be more than a parable. But how far are these people ready to go to achieve their goals? Nuclear?
Well, here's a last quote attributed to the Rothschilds: "Vice is nice, but incest is best, because it stays in the family!" If not nuclear, most certainly beyond the boundaries defined by our society.
OK, then as we are learning with AI lately, let's change the prompt
and reverse the context: Now "we" are seating on this controlling desk,
What would we do to retain control? How far are we willing to go? Do the "rules" apply to us? You must be joking, right?
Authored by Tuomas Malinen via Substack,
I have to say that I am rather glad that our first estimates on the timing of Peak Escalation missed their mark (in the ‘probability-mass’ sense).
These are the October 9 estimates of GnS Economics for the timing of escalation in and around Ukraine:
Our current likelihoods for the timing of Peak Escalation in Europe are:
Before the U.S. Presidential elections (November 5): 30%;
After the elections, but before inauguration (January 20): 40%;
After the inauguration: 20%;
There will be no Peak Escalation: 10%.
Note that these reflect also the fact that we currently expect President Trump to win in November. The likelihood of #4 (no Peak Escalation) is so low, because we consider it requiring a wide-spread (global) peace movement, which is nowhere to be seen currently.
Within them, we have now entered the 30% likelihood range. I do consider that the likelihood of the No-Peak Escalation scenario is the same or even smaller now. Yet, we have to note that there were efforts to push the conflict to the next level, but those efforts failed in provoking Kremling (instead they replied with something new).
I envisaged the Peak Escalation hypothesis in August last year. However, the concept had been circling in my mind for about a year before that. On November 5, 2023, I wrote:
As a final notion, and stop us from drifting completely into the world of ‘sunshine and rainbows’ ;), I want to share a piece of information I received from a former (long-time) operative in the U.N. Middle East military intelligence. He said to me several years back that nothing that happens in and around Israel goes unnoticed by Mossad. He gave several examples, which I cannot repeat here due to confidentiality. This is not a conspiracy theory, but a observed fact from a high-ranking soldier, who served in the area several times.
Thus, I, for one, do not believe for a second that Mossad and the IDF were surprised by Hamas. They at least allowed the strikes to Israel to happen, if not worse. This adds a serious twist to all that has been written above, implying that there may be a major ‘powerplay’ going on in the background, surpassing the current geopolitical logic and increasing the likelihood that we may end up seeing a highly illogical outcome, i.e., a serious escalation.
Essentially, the Peak Escalation hypothesis assumes that there are strong background forces seeking to widen regional conflicts in Ukraine, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and, possibly, Asia Minor into a combined ‘global conflict,’ essentially a World War III.
This might sound preposterous, but when you apply Occam’s Razor to everything that has been happening (especially in and around Ukraine) rigorously, like I did in the Horsemen of the Apocalypse, it yields a rather definite answer. That is, the answer that requires the least amount of assumptions is that there is some powerful force pushing for the global escalation. It does not matter if you believe this or not. If you apply the Occam’s Razor principle in a truthful and honest manner, you will simply end up at this conclusion.
The motives behind such a force are much more difficult to come by.
The military-industrial complex naturally seeks profits, and the Deep State seeks control. However, we have to ask, would a nuclear war serve their aims, as this is an inevitable end-result of waging a war against Russia? We can state, with rather high confidence, that annihilation of a vast part of the human race would not serve the aims of military corporations, which would lose their source of income (and factories), or those seeking for wider government control of societies, because societies and government control systems would collapse. So, to find a deeper motive behind the escalation against Russia, we need to step beyond the standard logic and common sense.
In the Horsemen of the Apocalypse, I speculated that there exists some ‘group-over-groups’ seeking to Divide et Impera (to Divide and Conquer). I, for once, quoted former U.S. President Woodrow Wilson, who stated that
Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of somebody, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.
After the Occam’s Razor yielded the outcome of such a background force existing (I even checked with a student of philosophy whether I had applied it correctly), I extended my analysis to their aims. This is what it yielded:
If one applies Occam’s razor to everything described above, it yields one clear answer. There must be a very powerful group above parliaments, national elites and supranational organizations, like the World Economic Forum and the Bilberberg Group, pushing its own agenda of Divide et Impera. Moreover, the agenda must be exceptionally brutal, as it seems to attack all levels of human existence (physical, mental, emotional, spiritual). The existence of such a group would fit in with what President Wilson described in the early 20th century.
Based on this logic, the aim of such a group-over-groups is likely to be to subjugate the whole of human existence under some kind of global control. They seem to want people mentally disturbed, weak, undernourished and fearful. This makes sense, because such people are easy to control and push in different directions, like hating the un-vaxed, Russians or Palestinians.
A nuclear war might (might) fit into such a motive. If you want to turn humanity into a smallish slave-race serving the ruling elite, nuclear war would do just that (if you think that you can shield yourself from its consequences). That is, if you want humanity to blindly obey some “elite,” you need to greatly cut the number of people living on earth simply because smaller numbers are easier to control and it diminishes the likelihood of mutinies. Also, if your survival becomes tied to scarce resources shielded from the radiation and nuclear winter in ‘doomsday bunkers’ built by the elite, you will become submissive (see, e.g., this and this).
I know the above is extremely speculative. But I am an unyielding empiricist who believes in cause and effect and in logic, no matter how twisted, behind major decisions. If you think that our (mostly European) leaders have simply gone mad, then you can bypass everything written above. However, if you are like me, then I would recommend that you start to look behind developments for the (likely) true motive behind all that is happening. I don’t see a nuclear war igniting just now, but the direction of travel is clearly towards it.
If you also find it to be the likely aim of some of our leaders, I would urge you to write to your parliamentarian or congressperson immediately and demand that we step away from this path. I would also do this ASAP, because (currently) nuclear confrontation with Russia is inching closer each passing day.
In hoc signo vinces,
Tuomas
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