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  42. <p>The messaging app, with over 1 billion users, plans to use $955 million to buy back existing bonds and the remaining $745 million for growth. What to know: Telegram has secured $1.7 billion by issuing five-year convertible bonds, aiming to refinance existing liabilities and push out repayment deadlines. The messaging app, which now counts over [&#8230;]</p>
  43. <p>The post <a href="https://www.activistpost.com/telegram-raises-1-7b-via-convertible-bonds-bloomberg/">Telegram Raises $1.7B Via Convertible Bonds: Bloomberg</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.activistpost.com">Activist Post</a>.</p>
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  48. <p>The messaging app, with over 1 billion users, plans to use $955 million to buy back existing bonds and the remaining $745 million for growth.</p>
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  52. <h4 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-what-to-know">What to know:</h4>
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  57. <li>Telegram raised $1.7 billion by issuing convertible bonds.</li>
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  60.  
  61. <li>$955 million will be used for bond buyback and $745 million for operations and growth.</li>
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  63.  
  64.  
  65. <li>Investors can convert bonds to equity if Telegram goes public before maturity.</li>
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  69.  
  70. <p>Telegram has secured $1.7 billion by issuing five-year convertible bonds, aiming to refinance existing liabilities and push out repayment deadlines.</p>
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  73.  
  74. <p>The messaging app, which now counts over 1 billion users, will use $955 million of the new funds to buy back bonds maturing in 2026,&nbsp;<a target="_blank" href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-29/telegram-raises-1-7-billion-convertible-bond-to-fund-debt-swap?sref=3REHEaVI" rel="noreferrer noopener">Bloomberg reports</a>. The remaining $745 million gives the company fresh capital to bolster its operations or invest in growth.</p>
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  77.  
  78. <p>Investors in the new bonds will have a shot at converting their holdings into equity if Telegram goes public before the notes mature. In that scenario, they would be entitled to redeem at 80% of the initial public offering price.</p>
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  80.  
  81.  
  82. <p>The tender offer closed May 28, with settlement expected on June 5. CoinDesk previously reported the<a href="https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2025/05/28/telegram-to-raise-15b-through-bond-sale-backed-by-blackrock-and-citadel-wsj" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"> round drew interest from </a>from both returning investors such as the world’s largest asset manager BlackRock and Abu Dhabi’s sovereign wealth fund Mubadala, as well as new entrants including hedge fund Citadel</p>
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  85.  
  86. <p>The notes carry a 9% coupon, two percentage points above Telegram&#8217;s previous $2.35 billion bond issued in 2021.</p>
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  89.  
  90. <p>Telegram passed $1 billion in revenue last year and holds over $500 million in cash reserves, excluding crypto, Bloomberg’s report adds.</p>
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  94. <p><strong><em>Disclaimer: </em></strong><em>Parts of this article were generated with the assistance from AI tools and reviewed by our editorial team to ensure accuracy and adherence to </em><a href="https://www.coindesk.com/ethics" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">our standards</a>. <em>For more information, see </em><a href="https://www.coindesk.com/coindesk-news/2023/04/14/how-coindesk-will-use-generative-ai-tools" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CoinDesk&#8217;s full AI Policy</a>.</p>
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  102. <title>Hegseth Says US Ready to ‘Fight and Win’ a War With China Over Taiwan</title>
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  106. <pubDate>Sat, 07 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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  112. <description><![CDATA[<p><img loading="lazy" width="1280" height="721" src="https://www.activistpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/211012130640-china-taiwan-flags.jpg" class="attachment-full size-full wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" srcset="https://www.activistpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/211012130640-china-taiwan-flags.jpg 1280w, https://www.activistpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/211012130640-china-taiwan-flags-300x169.jpg 300w, https://www.activistpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/211012130640-china-taiwan-flags-1024x577.jpg 1024w, https://www.activistpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/211012130640-china-taiwan-flags-768x433.jpg 768w, https://www.activistpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/211012130640-china-taiwan-flags-1024x577-560x315.jpg 560w" sizes="(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px" /></p>
  113. <p>China slammed Hegseth for having a &#8216;Cold War mentality&#8217; and &#8216;playing with fire&#8217; on the Taiwan issue The Chinese Foreign Ministry on Sunday slammed US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth for a “Cold War mentality” in response to his remarks about China at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, which included him warning that the US is ready [&#8230;]</p>
  114. <p>The post <a href="https://www.activistpost.com/hegseth-says-us-ready-to-fight-and-win-a-war-with-china-over-taiwan/">Hegseth Says US Ready to ‘Fight and Win’ a War With China Over Taiwan</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.activistpost.com">Activist Post</a>.</p>
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  119. <p>China slammed Hegseth for having a &#8216;Cold War mentality&#8217; and &#8216;playing with fire&#8217; on the Taiwan issue</p>
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  123. <p>The Chinese Foreign Ministry on Sunday <a href="https://apnews.com/article/china-us-hegseth-foreign-ministry-041de97b52e9a6efa56cb9dea178ba75" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">slammed US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth</a> for a “Cold War mentality” in response to his remarks about China at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, which included him warning that the US is ready to “fight and win” a war over Taiwan.</p>
  124.  
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  126.  
  127. <p>During his speech on Saturday, Hegseth took aim at China over a range of issues, including Taiwan and the South China Sea. “China seeks to become a hegemonic power in Asia. No doubt. It hopes to dominate and control too many parts of this vibrant and vital region,” he said.</p>
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  130.  
  131. <p>Hegseth accused China of wanting to “fundamentally alter the region’s status quo” and said Beijing’s “behavior towards its neighbors and the world is a wake-up call.”</p>
  132.  
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  134.  
  135. <p>Regarding Taiwan, Hegseth claimed that it was “public” that Chinese President Xi Jinping had ordered his forces to be prepared for an invasion by 2027. However, that claim is based on comments from US officials and has never been confirmed by Beijing. In 2023, Xi reportedly <a href="https://www.defensenews.com/pentagon/2024/05/07/how-dc-became-obsessed-with-a-potential-2027-chinese-invasion-of-taiwan/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">raised the issue with President Biden</a>, saying there were “no such plans.”</p>
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  139. <figure class="wp-block-image aligncenter"><a href="https://news.antiwar.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Hegseth-Shangri-La.jpg"><img loading="lazy" width="1024" height="682" decoding="async" src="https://news.antiwar.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Hegseth-Shangri-La-1024x682.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-157311"/></a><figcaption class="wp-element-caption"><em><sup>Hegseth at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore on May 31, 2025 (Pentagon photo)</sup></em></figcaption></figure>
  140.  
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  142.  
  143. <p>The claim that China will be ready to invade by 2027 has helped the Pentagon secure more funding from Congress for its military buildup in the Asia Pacific, and Hegseth is also looking to prioritize the region. According to <em>The Washington Post</em>, <a href="https://news.antiwar.com/2025/03/30/hegseth-orders-pentagon-to-focus-on-preparing-for-war-with-china-over-taiwan/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Hegseth sent out a memo in March</a> that ordered the Pentagon to put its focus on preparing for a war with China over Taiwan despite the obvious risk of nuclear war.</p>
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  147. <p>In his speech on Saturday, Hegseth said the US was “reorienting toward deterring aggression by Communist China.” While pushing the claim that China will be ready to invade Taiwan by 2027, Hegseth also suggested it could happen sooner.</p>
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  151. <p>“Any attempt by Communist China to conquer Taiwan by force would result in devastating consequences for the Indo-Pacific and the world. There’s no reason to sugarcoat it. The threat China poses is real,” he said. “And it could be imminent. We hope not. But it certainly could be.”</p>
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  155. <p>Hegseth said the US would focus on deterring a Chinese invasion of Taiwan, although recent US efforts to increase support for Taipei have only raised tensions in the region and led to an increase in Chinese military activity around the island. Hegseth said that if deterrence fails, the US would be ready to fight.</p>
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  159. <p>“But if deterrence fails, and if called upon by my Commander in Chief, we are prepared to do what the Department of Defense does best – fight and win — decisively,” Hegseth said.</p>
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  163. <p>US military officials have been <a href="https://news.antiwar.com/2024/09/18/us-navy-chief-unveils-plan-to-be-ready-for-war-with-china-by-2027/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">openly preparing for a war with China over Taiwan </a>for years now, but for the US secretary of defense to make such comments in a Southeast Asian nation marks a significant provocation toward Beijing.</p>
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  167. <p>“Hegseth deliberately ignored the call for peace and development by countries in the region, and instead touted the Cold War mentality for bloc confrontation, vilified China with defamatory allegations, and falsely called China a ‘threat.’ The remarks were filled with provocations and intended to sow discord,” the Chinese Foreign Ministry <a href="https://www.mfa.gov.cn/eng/xw/fyrbt/202506/t20250601_11638402.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">said </a> <a href="https://www.mfa.gov.cn/eng/xw/fyrbt/202506/t20250601_11638402.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">in a statement.</a></p>
  168.  
  169.  
  170.  
  171. <p>“No country in the world deserves to be called a hegemonic power other than the US itself, who is also the primary factor undermining the peace and stability in the Asia-Pacific,” the ministry added.</p>
  172.  
  173.  
  174.  
  175. <p>Regarding Taiwan, the ministry said the US was “playing with fire” on the issue. “The Taiwan question is entirely China’s internal affair. No country is in a position to interfere. The US should never imagine it could use the Taiwan question as leverage against China,” it said.</p>
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  183. <title>Russia’s Largest Bank Sberbank Launches Structured Bonds Tied to Bitcoin</title>
  184. <link>https://www.activistpost.com/russias-largest-bank-sberbank-launches-structured-bonds-tied-to-bitcoin/</link>
  186. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Editor]]></dc:creator>
  187. <pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2025 22:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
  188. <category><![CDATA[Crypto]]></category>
  189. <category><![CDATA[CoinDesk]]></category>
  190. <category><![CDATA[Francisco Rodrigues]]></category>
  191. <guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.activistpost.com/?p=17263</guid>
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  194. <p>The structured product gives exposure to BTC price changes and USD/RUB exchange shifts. What to know: Sberbank, Russia’s largest bank, has introduced a new structured bond that tracks the price of bitcoin BTC$105,033.01 and the dollar-to-ruble exchange rate. Initially available over the counter to a limited pool of qualified investors, the bonds let holders earn based on [&#8230;]</p>
  195. <p>The post <a href="https://www.activistpost.com/russias-largest-bank-sberbank-launches-structured-bonds-tied-to-bitcoin/">Russia’s Largest Bank Sberbank Launches Structured Bonds Tied to Bitcoin</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.activistpost.com">Activist Post</a>.</p>
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  198.  
  199.  
  200. <p>The structured product gives exposure to BTC price changes and USD/RUB exchange shifts.</p>
  201.  
  202.  
  203.  
  204. <h4 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-what-to-know">What to know:</h4>
  205.  
  206.  
  207.  
  208. <ul class="wp-block-list">
  209. <li>Sberbank introduced a structured bond tracking bitcoin and the dollar-to-ruble exchange rate.</li>
  210.  
  211.  
  212.  
  213. <li>The bond is available to qualified investors over the counter, with transactions processed in rubles within Russia.</li>
  214.  
  215.  
  216.  
  217. <li>The bank plans to offer a BTC futures product on June 4 that will be listed on the Moscow Exchange.</li>
  218. </ul>
  219.  
  220.  
  221.  
  222. <p>Sberbank, Russia’s largest bank, has introduced a new structured bond that tracks the price of bitcoin <a href="https://www.coindesk.com/price/bitcoin" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">BTC$105,033.01</a> and the dollar-to-ruble exchange rate.</p>
  223.  
  224.  
  225.  
  226. <p>Initially available over the counter to a limited pool of qualified investors, the bonds let holders earn based on two variables: the future performance of BTC in U.S. dollars and any strengthening of the dollar relative to the ruble.</p>
  227.  
  228.  
  229.  
  230. <p>Investors can access these instruments without opening a crypto wallet or using foreign crypto exchanges, with all transactions being processed in rubles within Russia’s “legal and infrastructure systems.”</p>
  231.  
  232.  
  233.  
  234. <p>The bank plans to list similar structured products with cryptocurrency exposure on the Moscow Exchange, according to a recent&nbsp;<a target="_blank" href="https://www.sberbank.ru/ru/sberpress/all/article?newsID=75600ba9-38b3-4a30-a5e4-7cd58946f5fb&amp;blockID=1303&amp;regionID=77&amp;lang=ru&amp;type=NEWS" rel="noreferrer noopener">announcement</a>.</p>
  235.  
  236.  
  237.  
  238. <p>Sberbank, per the announcement, is also launching a bitcoin futures product via its SberInvestments platform on June 4, aligning with the launch of the product on the Moscow Exchange.</p>
  239.  
  240.  
  241.  
  242. <p>The announcement comes just after the <a href="https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2025/05/29/russia-says-financial-institutions-can-offer-crypto-linked-instruments-to-qualified-investors" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Bank of Russia said </a>financial institutions in the country can offer cryptocurrency-linked instruments to qualified investors.</p>
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  250. <title>Smell the Roses: Positive Trends and Western Accomplishments</title>
  251. <link>https://www.activistpost.com/smell-the-roses-positive-trends-and-western-accomplishments/</link>
  253. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Editor]]></dc:creator>
  254. <pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2025 20:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
  255. <category><![CDATA[Solutions]]></category>
  256. <category><![CDATA[Brownstone Institute]]></category>
  257. <category><![CDATA[Gigi Foster]]></category>
  258. <category><![CDATA[Michael Baker]]></category>
  259. <category><![CDATA[Paul Frijters]]></category>
  260. <guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.activistpost.com/?p=17202</guid>
  261.  
  262. <description><![CDATA[<p><img loading="lazy" width="1536" height="900" src="https://www.activistpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Shutterstock_1029299632-1536x900-1.avif" class="attachment-full size-full wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" srcset="https://www.activistpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Shutterstock_1029299632-1536x900-1.avif 1536w, https://www.activistpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Shutterstock_1029299632-1536x900-1-300x176.avif 300w, https://www.activistpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Shutterstock_1029299632-1536x900-1-1024x600.avif 1024w, https://www.activistpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Shutterstock_1029299632-1536x900-1-768x450.avif 768w, https://www.activistpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Shutterstock_1029299632-1536x900-1-1024x600-560x328.avif 560w" sizes="(max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px" /></p>
  263. <p>The doomsayers of the 1890s saw our cities drowning in horse poop. The doomsayers of the 1930s saw a final battle between freedom and fascism. The doomsayers of the 1950s and 60s saw the Cold War ending in nuclear apocalypse. The doomsayers of the 1980s saw the world about to boil with global warming. The [&#8230;]</p>
  264. <p>The post <a href="https://www.activistpost.com/smell-the-roses-positive-trends-and-western-accomplishments/">Smell the Roses: Positive Trends and Western Accomplishments</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.activistpost.com">Activist Post</a>.</p>
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  267.  
  268.  
  269. <p>The doomsayers of the 1890s saw our cities drowning in horse poop. The doomsayers of the 1930s saw a final battle between freedom and fascism. The doomsayers of the 1950s and 60s saw the Cold War ending in nuclear apocalypse. The doomsayers of the 1980s saw the world about to boil with global warming. The doomsayers of 2001 saw a final reckoning between 1.5 billion Muslims and 2 billion Christians. The doomsayers of 2020 saw a rerun of the Black Death.</p>
  270.  
  271.  
  272.  
  273. <p>They were all wrong. Terrible wars and huge losses did occur, but in spite of them, human progress has been relentless. Every decade of the modern era has ended with more people living longer on this planet. Threats were real, but underneath it all we humans still kept making headway, improving life on average for the masses.</p>
  274.  
  275.  
  276.  
  277. <p>What was feared was averted, in short, by competition. Every region stupid enough to regress towards stagnancy or destruction was taken over by those who instead chose progress, helped by the technological advantages that came with that progress. The Austrian and Ottoman Empires thereby met their ends. Every ideology arrogant enough to challenge too many neighbours with too much hatred and oppression was eventually taken down a peg by those neighbours, as was seen with Nazi Germany or colonial-era France and England.</p>
  278.  
  279.  
  280.  
  281. <p>Today, those in power are once more on a destructive rampage in most countries of the world. We live in a time of neo-feudalism, with the powerful hanging on to their privileges and harvesting new ones by starting wars, announcing health crises, and surveilling the hell out of us. It would be easy to cry doom again and say times are terrible.</p>
  282.  
  283.  
  284.  
  285. <p>Yet even in the midst of horror, it is vital – if we wish to find the hope and courage to fight on – to stop and smell the roses. What good things are happening in the world, and what is still truly good about the West? Settle in for a joyful reckoning that we hope will put a smile on your face.</p>
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  287.  
  288.  
  289. <h4 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-five-positive-trends">Five Positive Trends</h4>
  290.  
  291.  
  292.  
  293. <p>World agriculture is in rude health, easily accommodating our growing population, in spite of large shocks to trade routes. The <a href="https://www.fao.org/worldfoodsituation/foodpricesindex/en/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">world food prices</a> that peaked in early 2022 have fallen back to levels seen (in real terms) in 1973, whilst per-person real incomes <a href="https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/global-average-gdp-per-capita-over-the-long-run" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">have risen over 250% since 1970</a>. That is amazingly good news, driven essentially by an abundance of spare agricultural land that can and will be cultivated when food prices rise. The untapped potential of land not under cultivation has risen over time, as yields have risen and climates have become more favourable for growing. Canada, Central Asia, Brazil, and elsewhere still have enormous spare agricultural capacity.</p>
  294.  
  295.  
  296.  
  297. <p>Increases in yields since the early 1960s have resulted in 18.1 million square kilometres of cultivable land being <a href="https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/land-sparing-by-crop?time=2023" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">left idle</a> by 2023. Increased agricultural production has been a global phenomenon for the last 40 years, though the increase is slowing down. One factor driving this has been new technologies, including new crops and new farming methods. Another driving factor is more CO<sub>2</sub> in the air, courtesy of massive and increasing fossil fuel burning. The good news, therefore, is that humanity is not remotely in danger of producing inadequate food for itself any time in the next 50 years. We can confidently predict that food will remain cheap and abundant over the coming century.</p>
  298.  
  299.  
  300.  
  301. <ol class="wp-block-list">
  302. <li></li>
  303. </ol>
  304.  
  305.  
  306.  
  307. <figure class="wp-block-image aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" width="800" height="534" decoding="async" src="https://brownstone.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Screenshot-2025-05-28-at-5.58.19-AM-800x534.png" alt="" class="wp-image-54821"/></figure>
  308.  
  309.  
  310.  
  311. <p><br>Globally, nature is thriving in terms of leaf coverage and raw local diversity. Tree rings and leaf coverage are up almost 40% globally, tracing a near-continuous upwards line over the last 50 years. This global greening is, again, the gift of fossil fuel usage, which has released fertilising CO<sub>2</sub> from its geological depths. As shown in the map below, the greening dividend has been highest in China, India, and Europe, which is where half of humanity lives and grows food. Barring political intervention, humans will dig up a lot more fossil fuels in the coming 50 years, so this positive trend should also be expected to continue: we will see more plants and more animals.</p>
  312.  
  313.  
  314.  
  315. <p>Even the deserts are greening, thanks to the extra CO<sub>2</sub>&nbsp;and extra rain. So ‘nature’ as a reasonable person would define it is going very well and with little realistic endangerment on the horizon, except of course if you choose to define ‘nature’ as the specific types of living things that were around 50 years ago, because that definition allows/compels you to claim that all change is bad, even if that change is to have more living things (i.e., more nature).</p>
  316.  
  317.  
  318.  
  319. <figure class="wp-block-image aligncenter"><img src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=%27http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%27%20width='800'%20height='445'%20viewBox=%270%200%20800%20445%27%3E%3C/svg%3E" loading="lazy" data-lazy="1" width="800" height="445" decoding="async" data-tf-src="https://brownstone.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Screenshot-2025-05-28-at-5.58.55-AM-800x445.png" alt="" class="tf_svg_lazy wp-image-54822"/><noscript><img decoding="async" data-tf-not-load src="https://brownstone.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Screenshot-2025-05-28-at-5.58.55-AM-800x445.png" alt="" class="wp-image-54822"/></noscript></figure>
  320.  
  321.  
  322.  
  323. <p><br>Water <a href="https://news.mit.edu/2023/desalination-system-could-produce-freshwater-cheaper-0927" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">desalination</a>, <a href="https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/solar-panel-prices-have-fallen-by-around-20-every-time-global-capacity-doubled" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">solar power</a> generation, and small nuclear power generation have all become a lot cheaper over the last 20 years and look set to continue to become even cheaper. This is great news for humanity as a whole, because it means our energy-intensive way of life can likely continue indefinitely, even if the fossil fuels were to run out. Cheaper desalination furthermore guarantees that coastal cities are no longer reliant on rainwater or rivers for their water needs, making them more sustainable and independent. Better yet, the combination of cheap water and energy promises the ability to fertilise desert inlands in Australia, Arabia, and other places, unlocking yet more of the natural potential of the Earth. </p>
  324.  
  325.  
  326.  
  327. <p>The poorer regions of the world are catching up with the richer regions in terms <a href="https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/daily-median-income?time=2023" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">of living standards</a> and <a href="https://datatopics.worldbank.org/world-development-indicators/stories/tracing-global-trends-in-education.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">basic education levels</a>, which in turn reduces their fertility levels. As a result, the runaway global population we were invited to worry about as children is no longer a realistic worry. Despite a recent reduction in life expectancy in some regions due to lockdowns and Covid vaccines, humanity as a whole is still on a longer-term trajectory of living longer and getting healthier.</p>
  328.  
  329.  
  330.  
  331. <p>New <a href="https://www.bcg.com/publications/2024/brics-enlargement-and-shifting-world-order" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">geopolitical power blocs are forming</a> that provide a counterweight to the US and the West, promising a more balanced future wherein no country or bloc of countries can boss the rest of the world around. While the transition phase toward that longer-term balance is fraught with dangers, the longer-term political picture looks navigable. </p>
  332.  
  333.  
  334.  
  335. <ol class="wp-block-list">
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  337. </ol>
  338.  
  339.  
  340.  
  341. <p>In sum, the world is more fertile and the basic conditions for human thriving (water, food, energy, and power balance) are looking favourable. Put in perspective, the worries of our generation (fascism, neo-feudalism, nuclear wars, totalitarianism) would seem but blips towards a bright future, just as WWI and WWII proved little more than local skirmishes in the longer-run forward striding of humanity as a whole.&nbsp;</p>
  342.  
  343.  
  344.  
  345. <p>Over the next 80 years, what do we expect? Consider the growth predicted for leaf coverage, which is shorthand for ‘food and diversity abundance,’ from 2081 to 2100:</p>
  346.  
  347.  
  348.  
  349. <figure class="wp-block-image aligncenter"><img src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=%27http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%27%20width='800'%20height='438'%20viewBox=%270%200%20800%20438%27%3E%3C/svg%3E" loading="lazy" data-lazy="1" width="800" height="438" decoding="async" data-tf-src="https://brownstone.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Screenshot-2025-05-28-at-5.59.51-AM-800x438.png" alt="" class="tf_svg_lazy wp-image-54823"/><noscript><img decoding="async" data-tf-not-load src="https://brownstone.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Screenshot-2025-05-28-at-5.59.51-AM-800x438.png" alt="" class="wp-image-54823"/></noscript></figure>
  350.  
  351.  
  352.  
  353. <p>Large areas of the world, including the most populous ones, are predicted to double their plant life over the next 80 years. Every human who steps into a car or plane with a combustion engine is contributing to this future.</p>
  354.  
  355.  
  356.  
  357. <p>On the scale of humanity as a whole, we have done great and we are still looking good for at least as long as the lifetimes of our children. Even the last 5 years saw net progress: the destruction caused by lockdowns and Covid vaccines does not take away from the upward trajectory of the number and longevity of all humans on the planet.&nbsp;</p>
  358.  
  359.  
  360.  
  361. <p>We estimate that something on the order of 60 million people needlessly died or were prevented from being born because of lockdowns and vaccines, but some 400 million new humans were born anyway in the last 5 years, increasing the world’s population by about 200 million. Incomes and consumption even increased in poorer regions, like India and Southeast Asia.</p>
  362.  
  363.  
  364.  
  365. <p>Wars would have to be far worse than WWII to make a dent on these broad positive trends. They would have to be worse than a <a href="https://clubtroppo.com.au/2019/01/22/the-logic-of-the-inevitable-nuclear-apocalypse-can-the-gods-save-us/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">minor nuclear exchange</a>. The current conflicts in Ukraine, Palestine, and elsewhere are just not deadly enough to be noticeable at the world level. While every death is tragic, <a href="https://clubtroppo.com.au/2019/04/30/six-tough-institutional-challenges-this-century/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">humanity as a whole will continue to thrive</a> in spite of present conflicts. </p>
  366.  
  367.  
  368.  
  369. <p>The world as a whole is doing fine, in sum. To widen our smile, let us name and acknowledge five Great Accomplishments of the West that we are honestly proud of, and feel honoured to cherish and defend in these times.</p>
  370.  
  371.  
  372.  
  373. <ol class="wp-block-list">
  374. <li><em>The brilliant invention of the separation of powers.</em> Everywhere in the West, you see the belief – and sometimes the practice – of a separation of powers. No other culture hit upon this idea, and powerful people everywhere hate it because it limits them, which is why it is so infrequently practiced. Despite being universally hated by powerful people and quite absent de facto from most of the West today, the idea is alive and well. Everyone in the West seems to believe in it in their hearts. It is in all our books on the benefits of democracy, and in all the stories we tell ourselves and our children about how our modern societies function. After the current round of neo-feudalism by those in power is over, we expect this idea to be implemented once again: the West will return to pitting groups of powerful people against each other as the winning method for keeping the powerful in check. Incidentally, we think that this idea should be taken further: that national power should be split into <a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/a-vision-for-a-new-liberalism/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">four rather than three</a> parts. An active citizenry is needed to keep the executive, the legislative, and the judiciary de facto separated and informed. Rather than the corporate media as a viable “fourth estate,” we see active citizens as the fourth power needed to keep the other three powers apart by appointing top public-sector officials and judges, through <a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/government-by-the-people-is-it-possible/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">a citizen jury system</a>. This fourth power of citizens should also become what modern media companies are not, by <a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/media-by-the-people/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">providing the population with citizen-gathered information</a> to keep the citizenry and the three other powers independently informed.</li>
  375.  
  376.  
  377.  
  378. <li><em>Hitting upon the huge gains available from investments in, and harvesting of, diversity in science, markets, and large organisations</em>. The great trick of the human body is to harvest the efforts of thousands of different species in our bodies without having the body overwhelmed. We use other species to digest food, keep our skin supple, optimise our teeth and internal lubricants, and so forth. The West has hit upon the same trick in its methods of societal organisation, via competitive markets wherein different people and their organisations go in totally different directions, finding out experimentally who has the better ideas that benefit all of society. Western scientific knowledge too has come from lots of scientists trying different things, with the users of science slowly (often painfully slowly, as in, over many decades) finding out who was less wrong than whom. Large Western organisations sow and harvest diversity within themselves too, via functional divisions, R&amp;D units that stimulate diversity, and an internal tolerance for experimentation by many managers who draw on the resources of the whole.</li>
  379.  
  380.  
  381.  
  382. <li><em>The universality of Western artistic expression.</em> Today’s woke, self-obsessive norms notwithstanding, top art in the West openly tries to step away from the present and the local and speak to humanity as a whole. We do this in music, sculptures, paintings, architecture, poetry, and books. To be fair, Buddhism also tries to do this, and much of the rest of the world does this in some of its artistic forms (most often in architecture and sculptures, and sometimes in great epic stories) but the West has made it an artistic philosophy to aspire to step out of “here today” and speak to everyone, everywhere, across time.</li>
  383.  
  384.  
  385.  
  386. <li><em>The offer of grace.</em> The great gift of Christianity to the West has been the idea of grace, inclusive of mercy and benign tolerance for human ‘weaknesses.’ Most other cultures and even some strands of Christianity do not adopt this forgiving, compassionate attitude. The true humanistic perspective in which we lovingly embrace our own natures and our mortal enemies as simply human – warts and all – is not only kind, but offers people the emotional security needed for self-love, honest self-reflection, development, and self-improvement.</li>
  387.  
  388.  
  389.  
  390. <li><em>The creation of public spaces where the heart and the mind can speak. </em>From village squares to town markets; from happy hour after work to parent night at school; from museums of art to public footpaths in the city centres; from interruption microphones at conferences to debating societies in academia: Western people consciously create space for citizens to speak their minds and display their hearts. As with the separation of powers, the present weakness of implementation of this phenomenon does not diminish the continued potency of the idea. Abusers of power often shut down public spaces to prevent open dissent, but the idea that we should have such spaces is alive and well in the West. Even the totalitarians in charge know that their intolerance has taken over and hope for a future in which the open spaces are again truly open (i.e., once everyone agrees with them, out of their own volition naturally!).</li>
  391. </ol>
  392.  
  393.  
  394.  
  395. <p>Of course, the West is no stranger to all the ills of humanity, from industrialised murder of the enemy to institutionalised oppression of its own population. Of course, Western culture and institutions owe a huge debt to non-Western cultures, with contributions ranging from the Chinese idea of a meritocratic bureaucracy to the useful plants of the Andes (potatoes, cacao, corn, etc.).</p>
  396.  
  397.  
  398.  
  399. <p>Of course non-Western cultures have their own beautiful distinguishing traits, like the penchant of the Chinese to value social harmony above all, and the notion of lotus-like morality (a shining flower amidst the muck) in India. Of course there is great diversity within the West, from the dour Lutherans of the North to the ruthlessly selfish of the ultra-West, and not all incarnations of Western life display all of the great five accomplishments in equal measure.</p>
  400.  
  401.  
  402.  
  403. <p>Still, we encounter the fruits of all five in every Western country, and far less of them anywhere else. Outside the West, there are few public spaces to be seen and heard in, little grace towards our true nature and that of our neighbours, little in the way of universal art that speaks to us all and thereby reminds us of our common struggles in this world, little investment in and harvesting of diversity, and no true belief in the separation of powers that motivates power-sharing.&nbsp;</p>
  404.  
  405.  
  406.  
  407. <p>It is because of the benefits available from the five accomplishments above that the rest of the world migrates to the West and stays there, while few Westerners opt to live outside of the West unless those places are themselves more Westernised, like Hong Kong was for a while. These five elements define what it means to be of the West: stunning historical accomplishments to cherish, to nurture, and to expand in our hearts and minds.</p>
  408.  
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  410.  
  411. <p>The West is great because it has successfully charted a path of inherent tension that acknowledges, yet separates, two core ingredients needed for human thriving that appear to be in conflict. The first is a brutally honest intellect that determines how things actually work and is realistic about the corrupting influence of power. The second is acceptance of human nature and allowing that nature to spill out into open places where soothing lies, beauty, and ideas can be shared with one another. To this point in history, these unlikely bedfellows of cold reason and warm love have shown themselves to be an unbeatable combination for producing human thriving.</p>
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  419. <title>The Narcissism Of Tribalism</title>
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  430. <p>&#8220;A nation divided against itself cannot stand,” said Abraham Lincoln. Sadly, I think that’s precisely the point.  I recently flew with my friend Bill Maher to DC, where he was to have dinner with the Bad Orange Man. I was not attending the dinner, I was just along for the ride…but I was wholeheartedly in [&#8230;]</p>
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  434.  
  435.  
  436. <p>&#8220;A nation divided against itself cannot stand,” said Abraham Lincoln. Sadly, I think that’s precisely the point. </p>
  437.  
  438.  
  439.  
  440. <p>I recently flew with my friend Bill Maher to DC, where he was to have dinner with the Bad Orange Man. I was not attending the dinner, I was just along for the ride…but I was wholeheartedly in support of my friend exhibiting the courage to set an example and communicate to his audience (consisting of tens of millions) a desire to dampen the vitriol and rhetoric, and to telegraph that it accomplishes nothing to reside in our bubbles and hurl insults at each other from 3,000 miles away.&nbsp;</p>
  441.  
  442.  
  443.  
  444. <p>Instead, he felt strongly that the way to heal the divide in this country was to talk, and listen, to each other…even if we disagree to the point that it makes our blood boil. Starting with himself. That didn’t mean Bill’s senses left him and he suddenly agreed with Donald Trump about every issue or even most issues. But it also didn’t mean that he was dug in on some unhinged ideology or was unwilling to table the vitriol in pursuit of moving forward and having a conversation with someone with whom he mostly disagreed.</p>
  445.  
  446.  
  447.  
  448. <p>The plane ride from LA to DC was tinged with anticipation but also uncertainty. How would it go? Bill had been largely misrepresented as distinctly not supportive of anything Trump does or says which is false; he has agreed with him about the border, and the lost-the-plot-woke crap, as well as other issues.&nbsp;</p>
  449.  
  450.  
  451.  
  452. <p>But he knew that those things not only never made it through the algorithm to the mainstream or the public…they also never made their way to Trump. He knew, too, that Trump is a loyalist, and that he could believe the worst about Bill because he had never seen anything else.&nbsp;</p>
  453.  
  454.  
  455.  
  456. <p>We have it on good authority that Donald Trump was feeling the same way at the same time, about Bill. We took bets that the dinner was either going to last 3 minutes or 3 hours but was not going to be somewhere in between and there was not going to be an “eh” outcome (and that on the way home we might be rerouted to Gitmo).&nbsp;</p>
  457.  
  458.  
  459.  
  460. <p>It lasted 3 hours.&nbsp;</p>
  461.  
  462.  
  463.  
  464. <p>The plane ride home was an entirely different frequency. Bill is always capable of finding the humor in things, so the comedy was not suddenly absent…and he believes (as most rational people do) that Trump has done some things right and some things wrong, and agreed with him about some things and not others.&nbsp;</p>
  465.  
  466.  
  467.  
  468. <p>But Bill truly and authentically had come to the firsthand conclusion that Trump was neither hero nor villain, merely an ordinary person with flaws in an extraordinary situation for which he was prepared in some ways and not in others. Bill’s honest assessment was that the humble and gracious man with whom he had just spent 3 hours exists and that we, as Americans and if we want to accomplish anything in the next 4 years, need to do everything we can to get to that guy.&nbsp;</p>
  469.  
  470.  
  471.  
  472. <p>By the time we landed back in Los Angeles there was a feeling of hope that this could possibly actually move the needle, if not of people’s view of Trump – which was never an intention – perhaps of each other and our fellow man. We felt hopeful that when Bill went on his show (which was not until the following week) to discuss the meeting, he could demonstrate how we can move past the dehumanizing nastiness flying around directed at each other for having different opinions, concerns, and experiences. That if he, Bill, could set down the sword in a public multi-year battle, maybe we could all do the same with each other.&nbsp;</p>
  473.  
  474.  
  475.  
  476. <p>That hope lasted exactly 10 days.&nbsp;</p>
  477.  
  478.  
  479.  
  480. <p>By the time we left the studio and arrived down the street at dinner the day Bill delivered his heartfelt monologue about reaching across the aisle and how Operation Olive Branch had played out…the left was apoplectic, and the vicious attacks were already relentless. They continue to date. As far as the left was concerned Bill might as well have been Nietzsche visiting the Vatican.&nbsp;</p>
  481.  
  482.  
  483.  
  484. <p>Following Bill’s reveal to his audience on his show, I later posted and commented about the visit on my own social media, praising my friend for his courage and openness. The level of attack was akin to that which I had experienced during the pandemic when I took a position and openly dissented.&nbsp;</p>
  485.  
  486.  
  487.  
  488. <p>What I encountered was nothing compared to what Bill endured, but even merely posting that I was proud of my friend after his show aired garnered angry comments and posts that were unrelated (and frankly insane). The message was clear: How dare I support this. People unfriended and unfollowed me after unleashing a diatribe of hatred at me.&nbsp;</p>
  489.  
  490.  
  491.  
  492. <p>I have a rule on my pages that I welcome discourse, and that disagreement and even expression of emotions related to that discourse is encouraged, but posts that are inappropriate, unproductive, contain ad hominem attacks, and are otherwise disrespectful will be deleted.&nbsp;</p>
  493.  
  494.  
  495.  
  496. <p>I lost count of the number of schoolyard-level posts I had to delete. I respectfully reminded everyone to adhere to the rules on my page; that if people wanted to make these kinds of comments on their own pages they were free to do so but that they would be deleted from mine. When that didn’t work I was ultimately compelled to block people.&nbsp;</p>
  497.  
  498.  
  499.  
  500. <p>Of particular interest to me, when looking at the psychology, is that I never once took a position. I did not say I agreed or disagreed with Trump, or his policies…in fact I did not mention Trump in my post at all. I said I was in support of ending the vitriol in this country and was proud of my friend.&nbsp;</p>
  501.  
  502.  
  503.  
  504. <p>Similarly, Bill never said he was switching allegiances that day, or that he agreed with Trump on every issue, or that he would have voted for him, or even that he wouldn’t continue to make fun of the blunders…merely that he was on board with ending the vitriol and dampening the rhetoric. AND that Trump had been too. He specifically didn’t try to convince anyone of anything…He didn’t say, “You all should love Trump now and go buy MAGA hats.” In fact, he didn’t mention politics at all. Only that if he and Trump could do it, maybe the rest of the country could start handling things like adults.&nbsp;</p>
  505.  
  506.  
  507.  
  508. <p>You know who had equal reason to attack? The right. You know who not only didn’t attack but instead said “You know what? This is cool, we applaud this, and we welcome our former enemy if not with open arms, with appropriate skepticism and a healthy dose of side eye?” The right. And fair enough.&nbsp;</p>
  509.  
  510.  
  511.  
  512. <p>Apparently though, this was a bridge too far for the left. As it turns out tolerance and lack of hate are not attitudes the Preach Tolerance and Hate Has No Home Here sign-wavers endorse.&nbsp;</p>
  513.  
  514.  
  515.  
  516. <p>Someone sent me the <em>New York Times</em> <a href="https://old.reddit.com/r/democrats/comments/1k57ycu/opinion_larry_david_my_dinner_with_adolf/mofryvp/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">piece</a> Larry David wrote as some sort of proof (?) that somehow Bill had done a bad thing. </p>
  517.  
  518.  
  519.  
  520. <p>Yes, I’m aware, thank you. I’m aware that the&nbsp;<em>NYT</em>&nbsp;decided it was a slow news day and ran a story about how Trump is Hitler…which doesn’t make them sound deranged at all. I’m well aware that someone who has a big platform and Trump Derangement Syndrome so badly he should probably be on lithium went on yet another rant about how we should definitely not stop going on rants and, what do you call it, DO something.&nbsp;</p>
  521.  
  522.  
  523.  
  524. <p>The thing is though, for all the (melo)dramatic hand-wringing about how this administration has “ruined my life” or “made me go through ‘fucked up shit’” (those are direct quotes) and how miserable everyone is under Trump…I can’t get even one drilled down example of what those things actually are. Literally not one. It’s only ever this generalized melodrama, yet try as I might, I can’t get anyone to cite ONE example of how their lives have even changed under Trump, much less worsened. They will site industrial strength propaganda with histrionic accompaniment like nobody’s business…but no one can give me one specific rational example.&nbsp;</p>
  525.  
  526.  
  527.  
  528. <p>When a friend answered my post with rants about policy issues, I pointed out that wasn’t the point of the post. When she persisted I (after deleting the inappropriate comments) said: I understand you’re frustrated and disagree with this administration on many if not all issues you are hearing, some of which are true and some of which are not true. But it seems to me, if you disagree with, for example, legislation, then there is something you can do about that.&nbsp;</p>
  529.  
  530.  
  531.  
  532. <p>Personally, I don’t find it useful to complain on social media; I prefer to do something about it. You don’t have to agree with me or my beliefs, but I am taking actions aligned with those beliefs towards what I would like to see accomplished. I am working on ballot initiatives, legislative reform, and fighting bad bills in my state and federally. I’m taking judicial actions. I am organizing grassroots and grassroots lobbying. I am talking to my senators and congresspeople as a constituent.&nbsp;</p>
  533.  
  534.  
  535.  
  536. <p>What are YOU doing? Besides posting memes on my wall and venting about things that may or may not be factually accurate in the first place? Her reply? She’s calling her friends who are “also suffering” and making sure they’re okay. Translation: She’s bitching and holding complain sessions. While condemning me for not wanting to do that. She’s unwilling to take action…but wants to complain about people like me who are taking action. So while I’m trying to affect change according to my beliefs and opinions – with which she may agree or disagree – she’s ranting to other people who agree with her and condemning people like me for trying to do anything about it…and further condemning me for wanting at the very least to end the vilification of people who disagree.&nbsp;</p>
  537.  
  538.  
  539.  
  540. <p>That sounds like mental disorder to me, especially when you consider that my post wasn’t supporting Donald Trump policies, or even Donald Trump. My post was about Bill and the hope to set an example for ending the hatred and the divide.</p>
  541.  
  542.  
  543.  
  544. <p>The pessimist complains about the wind, the optimist expects it to change, and the realist adjusts the sails. What are we going to do for the next four years – scream into the void? Rant? Why are these people so relentlessly committed to doing nothing? That’s taking your toys and going home which is fine…but then you don’t get to condemn or even judge those who are staying in the sandbox, and which tells me that resolution is distinctly not the objective.&nbsp;</p>
  545.  
  546.  
  547.  
  548. <p>If one has opportunized conflict to elevate themselves in a social system, such that their position and very identity within that tribe is contingent upon the conflict, and someone tries to resolve that conflict…that becomes an existential threat. It’s like a political party made up entirely of an NGO of divorce lawyers. “Good God no, don’t’ solve the problem! Don’t settle…he/she is evil and is deliberately trying to screw you over! You’re the one in the right here! They are wrong and bad and you have to fight! (And keep paying me for years to do it).”\</p>
  549.  
  550.  
  551.  
  552. <p>One friend had a meltdown over a subsequent post that was also unrelated to Trump or the administration, but she chose to comment anyway, and to reference my previous post about Bill. She ranted about how Trump is directly and dramatically “making her life hell.” I told her I was sorry to hear how much she was suffering and asked her to elaborate about the specifics – ANY specifics – to help me understand. She cited exactly zero examples, only ranted some more about how terrible he was.&nbsp;</p>
  553.  
  554.  
  555.  
  556. <p>Sorry, I asked, but HOW?&nbsp;How is Trump affecting your life directly right now? She’s a wealthy white American who owns her own business and lives in an affluent town in the Northeast. “Trump who?” is how I approximate the level of unaffected she is by Trump or this administration. Yet she was so dramatic about how this administration has ruined her whole life – again, her words. I submit that neither Trump nor his administration is affecting her life in any way except that she’s taking time out of her day to answer people’s posts about not-that-topic to complain about that-topic. I reiterate that the post on which she commented was unrelated to Trump or her, and was separate again from the Bill post.&nbsp;</p>
  557.  
  558.  
  559.  
  560. <p>That’s not to say there aren’t people affected by these changes, or that I’m unsympathetic to those whom these policies have legitimately hurt first and worst (though it’s also true that righting a ship that’s been adrift for so long doesn’t come without sacrifices, downstream consequences, collateral damage, optics problems, upheaval, and a certain amount of “readjustment,” but that’s an op-ed for another day)…that is only to say that this individual is not one of those people.&nbsp;</p>
  561.  
  562.  
  563.  
  564. <p>Similar to the hijacking of the #MeToo Movement, we didn’t hear about the ACTUAL victims, like the single mom with 2 jobs in Flint, Michigan who’s afraid to go to work because her boss gropes her but she can’t afford to lose the job…because we were too constantly saturated with the experience of an actress making millions who went to a hotel room (twice) only to (gasp) have her boss (ish) make inappropriate advances.&nbsp;</p>
  565.  
  566.  
  567.  
  568. <p>There ARE people suffering under the changes happening right now but we won’t hear about it because their authentic experiences are drowned out and hijacked by people who need to make it about themselves. (See: the entirety of women on the internet shaving their heads after the election). It’s this weird co-opting of victimization by the most able and the least victimized. I am all for empathy and activism but that’s not what this was, nor was it the argument anyone was making…the people attacking me were all merely making it utterly and only about themselves.&nbsp;</p>
  569.  
  570.  
  571.  
  572. <p>Do these people need the attention – for it to be about them personally? Like the people who, upon hearing an account, skip straight to some event in their life when they were a victim and that victimhood trumps (no pun intended) every other victimhood in the history of ever?&nbsp;</p>
  573.  
  574.  
  575.  
  576. <p>Remember AOC at the Capitol? It had to be about her. Was that so everyone would accolade her and give her sympathy? I don’t know but maybe. Never mind that it didn’t happen. It seems like these people live in the victim world because it’s the platform upon which they can stand to elevate themselves in some weird competition of victimhood. The TraumaDome.</p>
  577.  
  578.  
  579.  
  580. <p>Like the people who tell you about all of their nonspecific health problems on repeat, but when offered solutions never want to do anything about it, only complain. Give them an action item and they wave their hands and say “No no, that won’t work, it’s useless to even try, I’m just doomed to live like this.” And we’re all doomed to hear about it apparently. It’s as if they want “How awful, you poor thing, you win the award,” and anything short of that is an affront. Even if they have to create it out of thin air.&nbsp;</p>
  581.  
  582.  
  583.  
  584. <p>Everyone is starring in a Shakespeare tragedy and cannot be convinced it’s much ado about nothing (see what I did there). Oh, and it’s scored by Sondheim, too. It’s such a peculiar blind spot. It’s not just that it’s histrionic vitriol and nastiness…and it’s not even that it seems to be that people are not realizing that they’re ranting…it’s that they experience a level of unhinged rage at anyone who doesn’t want to rant with them, they tramp on that accelerator, and then they cling to it like it’s the last chopper out of Saigon.&nbsp;</p>
  585.  
  586.  
  587.  
  588. <p>While the right certainly has its own problems and disqualifiers of moral high ground, this particular phenomenon is unique to the left. One person said to me about the post: “I’m not ready to make peace, I have more to bitch about.” I mean okay…but we’re not saying you can’t disagree about issues…and this isn’t an “issue” or “disagreeing.” This is about the vitriol itself…and about supporting an attempt to bridge the divide. That was the whole point.&nbsp;</p>
  589.  
  590.  
  591.  
  592. <p>Our position was “start to heal by leading by example, extending an olive branch, and finding grace.” We can’t even catch that train? I guess you can’t fall out the basement window. The truth is they don’t want to make peace because peace discourages tribalism, and it’s the tribalism that allows them to make everything all about them. Without that, they’re not more important, their words don’t carry more weight….they’re just like everybody else.</p>
  593.  
  594.  
  595.  
  596. <p>Entitlement and victimhood are two sides of the coin of narcissism. Everything is about you, so when it’s positive it’s TO you and you’re entitled to it, and when it’s negative it’s also TO you. Not just “life” or “this happened, but “this happened TO ME.” “Why are you doing this to me?” is the favourite mantra. And it’s not enough to be a victim…they have to be the supreme victim.&nbsp;</p>
  597.  
  598.  
  599.  
  600. <p>Why does everything so exhaustively have to be all about Trump, even when it’s not? Why does everything so exhaustively have to be all about YOU, even when it’s not? It’s Trump’s fault! Definitely not just the ups and downs of life! Is it because it foments them as a pillar of their tribe? I submit that is exactly what it is. Which then makes anyone who would seek to alleviate that intensity the enemy, and a threat to their position as omphalos.</p>
  601.  
  602.  
  603.  
  604. <p>It seems to me that Trump Derangement Syndrome (I don’t mean disagreeing with him, or disliking him or even hating him, or fighting for your preferred candidate against him…I mean unhinged TDS to the point that it extends to anyone who disagrees with you) is a cross between narcissistic personality disorder and some weird form of Munchausen’s disease.&nbsp;</p>
  605.  
  606.  
  607.  
  608. <p>Bill is a comedian; not a journalist or a reporter. Additionally, the algorithm only amplifies confirmation biases, so while he has said positive things about Trump with which he agreed, and negative things about the left with which he disagreed, no one really saw that, so his unwillingness to pretend to be crazy was seen as betrayal.&nbsp;</p>
  609.  
  610.  
  611.  
  612. <p>Bill is not an ideologue. In my experience with him, which extends over 2 decades, he is open to new information and in fact consistently shifts his position with new or deeper information and understanding. He’s a nuanced thinker and isn’t married to a “side” unless you consider common sense and reality a side. You don’t have to agree with everything he says…I don’t…but I think it’s a wonderful quality when someone isn’t dug in about anything and gets some things wrong and some things right in their quest for the truth. All that being said…he also has a show to do and is an entertainer so people shouldn’t get too up in arms when he picks up this or that for fodder because, at the end of the day, he is an equal opportunity offender.</p>
  613.  
  614.  
  615.  
  616. <p>If we set aside conviction, usually, when we investigate people and their actions with fairness, (like Bill did with Trump) we find that there are no black or white characters in this script. No one is a hero or a villain; no one is twirling their mustache in the mirror every morning nor riding in on a white horse. Usually we find that, like us, everyone is just trying to figure it out and do the best they can with the information they have at the time. We are all just Bozos on the bus.&nbsp;</p>
  617.  
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  619.  
  620. <p>It is the accepted and normalized vitriol and rhetoric that is reminiscent of the tool the Nazis used: mainstream dehumanization. When the left does it, it’s the what-about-ism of “the right does it too!!” When the right does it it’s “tar and feather them,” and therein lies the distinction. The normalization on one side vs the condemnation and “see how awful they are” on the other. The implication is: there is a circumstance under which this kind of behavior is acceptable. Dehumanization in all its pernicious forms, while not illegal, only serves to fortify the divide and pours lighter fluid on an already raging fire. That dehumanization is vilified by one side and institutionalized by the other.&nbsp;</p>
  621.  
  622.  
  623.  
  624. <p>I was the target of such an incident in October, in which the far left thought-police tried to limit my use of guest facilities at the establishment where I was staying due to my “disgusting political views” (which they did not know – only overheard me say Trump’s name while talking to some good friends in the lobby about the upcoming election) and that “’you people’ cause problems” and the other guests needed protection from us. At that time, more alarming than the fact that the police were called because I refused to be confined to my room, was the NORMALIZATION of this kind of behavior.&nbsp;</p>
  625.  
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  627.  
  628. <p>The officers (as bewildered as I) and I had a lovely chat and together we were able to de-escalate the situation. The owner (who was mortified) profusely apologized and comped my stay. I will absolutely patronize them in the future, because they handled it beautifully and made it right, but mostly because my goal is resolution. I do not need to pour concrete on the confirmation bias that created this situation in the first place, and my impetus is towards ENDING conflict, not furthering it.&nbsp;</p>
  629.  
  630.  
  631.  
  632. <p>Nevertheless, all I could think was: if the roles had been reversed and the view-offending-party had instead been a Democrat…can you imagine the outrage? It would have been all over social media and regular media by morning and the collective national outcry would have been tremendous, 3 weeks before a federal election. I think I can say with confidence that de-escalation would have been neither intention nor the result had the shoe been on the other foot.&nbsp;</p>
  633.  
  634.  
  635.  
  636. <p>It’s never been about reality, or disagreement, or working out differences, or even conviction. If that were true, when they finally conceded (a multitude of) issues about which we were correct, their position and opinion about us should have then been altered, too, but it wasn’t. Instead, they pivoted positions but doubled down on hating the side that turned out to be right about it. There is no amount of talking that will resolve something that one-half has zero interest in resolving. It’s a bait-and-switch.&nbsp;</p>
  637.  
  638.  
  639.  
  640. <p>In true narcissist fashion the fury, gaslighting, and vitriol is an admission of guilt. It’s not about “both sides,” or “issues,” or even differing experiences or concerns…I was attacked for supporting cessation of the attacks, and received vitriol for being against vitriol. Brecht is currently rolling in his grave in envy. When it comes to ending the dehumanization of our fellow man one side is struggling more than the other with the concept. I’m not comparing trauma…one side is unwilling to submit THAT there is a problem that goes beyond their position or being “right.” One side is unwilling to even meet at the starting line. If that’s not unwillingness to acknowledge unity I don’t know what is.&nbsp;</p>
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  642.  
  643.  
  644. <p>The spirit of ecumenicalism clearly does not extend to political party lines in the sand. Discouragingly and worryingly, many would rather we continue to merely complain and rage at each other instead of attempting to find common ground with our fellow man…and they certainly don’t support finding a way to move forward. Actions would indicate that it’s more important to many people to escalate the hate.&nbsp;</p>
  645.  
  646.  
  647.  
  648. <p>People are angry with me because I don’t want to complain and do nothing for 4 years, and angry that I don’t think it’s productive to participate in the vitriol. And they’re REALLY angry that I support someone with a voice brokering peace. Even when I WAS the left, I never experienced attacks like this from the right. Not ever. I understand lunatic fringe on both sides…but the non-crazy right does not do this. The (previously known as) non-crazy left does it with impunity. It’s like a bad marriage with an alcoholic.</p>
  649.  
  650.  
  651.  
  652. <p>One side is against any attempt to make peace because the chaos is existential for them and their dynamic. I’m not talking about either extreme – the entire middle of the left now IS extreme, and specifically around the unwillingness of anyone who does not wish to also be extreme. The word for that historically is: fanatic.&nbsp;</p>
  653.  
  654.  
  655.  
  656. <p>A famous politician once said: “If you agree with 5 out of the 10 things I stand for you should vote for me. And if you agree with 10 out of the 10 things I stand for, you should seek professional help because that is just not reasonable.” RFK Jr., Tulsi Gabbard, Joe Rogan, Jimmy Dore, and now Bill Maher are refusing to wear the full uniform of crazy and are exhibiting a desire to be reasonable and rational. Democrats are running out of their best minds who no longer wish to perform Madam Butterfly in a vacuum. And to that they say good riddance. It’s Rachel Zegler in an entire political party.</p>
  657.  
  658.  
  659.  
  660. <p>If we continue to look at the framing as “Ourselves” as the centre of the universe and the evil “Other” “over there”…if we continue to dig in on our perceived superiority, supremacy, authority, or even just importance…if we allow the powers that be to make enemies out of each other…we’ve lost. We will splinter off into smaller and smaller factions, become weaker and more diluted, confirm and engrain our tribalism deeper and deeper, and make it further untangle-able in the future.&nbsp;</p>
  661.  
  662.  
  663.  
  664. <p>It makes narcissists of us all. It gives permission to intentionally wish harm, rationalizes naked lack of integrity, and excuses and institutionalizes unethical behavior. We all become witting Machiavellis and Svengalis. It appeals to and sanctions the very worst of our natures: to separate instead of unify; to make it all about us instead of making all of us one.&nbsp;</p>
  665.  
  666.  
  667.  
  668. <p>We need to stop seeking to be right and vilifying anyone who disagrees, and instead seek to be in the light of oneness. We have far more in common than that which divides us. If Donald Trump and Bill Maher can do it, surely there is hope for us all yet.</p>
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  680. <pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2025 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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  687. <p>Democrats are trapped by the toxic DEI ideology they created—too afraid to reform, too broken to survive without it. Afew Democrat officeholders, activists, and pundits are finally coming to their senses that their brand is toxic to a majority of the American people. The Biden administration killed what was left of it in a number [&#8230;]</p>
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  691.  
  692.  
  693. <p>Democrats are trapped by the toxic DEI ideology they created—too afraid to reform, too broken to survive without it.</p>
  694.  
  695.  
  696.  
  697. <p>Afew Democrat officeholders, activists, and pundits are finally coming to their senses that their brand is toxic to a majority of the American people.</p>
  698.  
  699.  
  700.  
  701. <p>The Biden administration killed what was left of it in a number of ways.</p>
  702.  
  703.  
  704.  
  705. <p>First, it serially lied to Americans about the cognitive decline and cancerous condition of President Joe Biden, both while in and after office.</p>
  706.  
  707.  
  708.  
  709. <p>Only when caught did the complicit media fess up that the Biden inner circle serially misled the American people about Biden’s inability to fulfill the duties of the presidency.</p>
  710.  
  711.  
  712.  
  713. <p>Second, left-wing politicos used Biden as a waxen effigy. His job was to pose as a&nbsp;“moderate” cover to push through the most radical and unpopular agenda in the last half century.</p>
  714.  
  715.  
  716.  
  717. <p>Only that way could “Old Joe Biden from Scranton” and his backroom handlers ram down the throat of the American people unpopular policies that nearly wrecked the country: hyperinflation and $7 trillion in new debt, weaponization of the government, and partisan lawfare, an open border and 12 million illegal aliens, a racialist DEI commissariat, a crackpot Green New Deal, defunding the police, biological men competing in girls’ sports, and two theater-wide wars abroad.</p>
  718.  
  719.  
  720.  
  721. <p>Third, without either a functional president or viable initiatives, the new hard-left Democrats sought to brand Donald Trump as “Hitler” and half the country who supported him as “fascists.”</p>
  722.  
  723.  
  724.  
  725. <p>For nearly nine years, the Democrats launched one failed hoax after another on the American people: “Russian collusion,” “laptop disinformation,” and the lying so-called “51 intelligence authorities.” They proved quite willing to undermine the rule of law by manipulating the court system in efforts to destroy their bogeyman, Donald Trump.</p>
  726.  
  727.  
  728.  
  729. <p>Never had the American people seen a political party engineer 93 bogus indictments of a rival candidate and ex-president. Two dozen states tried to take Trump off their presidential ballots. And the Biden Department of Justice sicced an FBI SWAT team to barge into Trump’s home.</p>
  730.  
  731.  
  732.  
  733. <p>The people finally got tired of all the potty-mouthed Democrat videos, the congressional stunts and meltdowns, the pampered rich kids rioting on elite campuses, the knee-jerk obsessions with racial slurs, the firebombing of Tesla dealerships, the romanticization of left-wing political murderers—and always the adolescent tantrums over Donald Trump.</p>
  734.  
  735.  
  736.  
  737. <p>The Democrats had mostly given up on democracy some 13 years ago. That was the last time they transparently and democratically nominated Barack Obama a second time as their presidential candidate.</p>
  738.  
  739.  
  740.  
  741. <p>Ever since, their nominations have been rigged.</p>
  742.  
  743.  
  744.  
  745. <p>In 2020, party insiders—terrified of the left-wing crazy primary field—forced out all the leading contenders.</p>
  746.  
  747.  
  748.  
  749. <p>Then they coronated the debilitated but still supposedly useful moderate Joe Biden as their COVID-era candidate. Biden then bragged that he would pick his vice president on the basis of race and gender.</p>
  750.  
  751.  
  752.  
  753. <p>What followed was the most bizarre campaign in history.</p>
  754.  
  755.  
  756.  
  757. <p>Biden stayed put in his basement and outsourced his candidacy to the partisan media.</p>
  758.  
  759.  
  760.  
  761. <p>Party activists changed long-standing voting laws in the key swing states. For the first time in American history, 70 percent of Americans did not vote in person on Election Day—the majority of them by design Democrats.</p>
  762.  
  763.  
  764.  
  765. <p>Next, in 2024, they forced the now no longer useful Biden off the ticket, nullifying his 14 million primary voters.</p>
  766.  
  767.  
  768.  
  769. <p>Then, without a vote, they rammed in inept Vice President Kamala Harris as the nominee. As a failed candidate in 2020, she had never won a single delegate.</p>
  770.  
  771.  
  772.  
  773. <p>Some in the party now concede it must roust out its radicals.</p>
  774.  
  775.  
  776.  
  777. <p>But Democrats will not.</p>
  778.  
  779.  
  780.  
  781. <p>AOC and her Squad, the unhinged Jasmine Crockets of the party, and the ossified socialist Bernie Bros would demonize any Democrat who offered a sane reboot.</p>
  782.  
  783.  
  784.  
  785. <p>A&nbsp;few fossils in the party may think they know how to save it. But they are terrified that the medicine would be considered far worse than the illness that prompted it.</p>
  786.  
  787.  
  788.  
  789. <p>Would Democrats consider embracing measured and legal-only immigration?</p>
  790.  
  791.  
  792.  
  793. <p>No—the crazy base would scream “xenophobe!”</p>
  794.  
  795.  
  796.  
  797. <p>A return to meritocracy and the Martin Luther King notion of race as incidental, not essential, to who we are?</p>
  798.  
  799.  
  800.  
  801. <p>Again, that would be called “racist!”</p>
  802.  
  803.  
  804.  
  805. <p>Maybe reforms to fix failed schools with vouchers, school choice, and charter schools?</p>
  806.  
  807.  
  808.  
  809. <p>Again, “racist!”</p>
  810.  
  811.  
  812.  
  813. <p>How about developing gas and oil reserves and nuclear power to lower energy costs for the struggling middle class?</p>
  814.  
  815.  
  816.  
  817. <p>That would be condemned as “destroying the planet!”</p>
  818.  
  819.  
  820.  
  821. <p>Restore police forces, end critical race and legal theory, and deter criminals with tough sentencing?</p>
  822.  
  823.  
  824.  
  825. <p>Again, “racist!”</p>
  826.  
  827.  
  828.  
  829. <p>How about ceasing the whiny fixations with “white privilege” and “white rage?” Or quit seeing a “white supremacist” under every bed?</p>
  830.  
  831.  
  832.  
  833. <p>Again, “racist!”</p>
  834.  
  835.  
  836.  
  837. <p>The left created DEI—the use of race to adjudicate every political issue.</p>
  838.  
  839.  
  840.  
  841. <p>And like any addictive, toxic drug, they now can neither survive with DEI—nor without it.</p>
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  887. <title>CNN &#038; Risk of Fake News Promoting WW3</title>
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  891. <pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2025 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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  893. <category><![CDATA[Armstrong Economics]]></category>
  894. <category><![CDATA[Martin Armstrong]]></category>
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  898. <p>I distinctly remember 8th-grade history class, perhaps because of the Cuban Missile Crisis, as the kids’ war caught the headlines and everyone’s attention. I was about 11 years old at the time. I recall walking with my friends, and we were all discussing nuclear war. So, perhaps against that backdrop, in history class, the teacher [&#8230;]</p>
  899. <p>The post <a href="https://www.activistpost.com/cnn-risk-of-fake-news-promoting-ww3/">CNN &amp; Risk of Fake News Promoting WW3</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.activistpost.com">Activist Post</a>.</p>
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  904. <p>I distinctly remember 8th-grade history class, perhaps because of the Cuban Missile Crisis, as the kids’ war caught the headlines and everyone’s attention. I was about 11 years old at the time. I recall walking with my friends, and we were all discussing nuclear war. So, perhaps against that backdrop, in history class, the teacher brought up the Spanish-American War and how the media helped create that war to sell newspapers. That statement I always remembered. Perhaps she, too, made that connection because of the Cuban Missile Crisis. It was my first lesson in Fake News. Little did I know at that tender age that I would stumble upon a frequency that dictates life, that the&nbsp;<strong>New Yorker Magazine</strong>&nbsp;called –&nbsp;<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/10/12/the-secret-cycle" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><strong>The Secret Cycle</strong></a>. From that<strong>&nbsp;Cuban Missile Crisis</strong>, the target was the start of the&nbsp;<strong>War Cycle</strong>&nbsp;once again in 2014, with the Ukrainian Revolution, which the Neocons orchestrated.</p>
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  908. <figure class="wp-block-image aligncenter"><a class="fancybox image" href="https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Hillary-it-was-my-turn.jpg"><img src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=%27http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%27%20width='0'%20height='0'%20viewBox=%270%200%200%200%27%3E%3C/svg%3E" loading="lazy" data-lazy="1" decoding="async" data-tf-src="https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Hillary-it-was-my-turn.jpg" alt="Hillary it was my turn" class="tf_svg_lazy wp-image-65443" title="Hillary it was my turn"/><noscript><img decoding="async" data-tf-not-load src="https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Hillary-it-was-my-turn.jpg" alt="Hillary it was my turn" class="wp-image-65443" title="Hillary it was my turn"/></noscript></a></figure>
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  912. <p><br>The constant lies the press from RussiaGate to Russia’s interference in the 2016 election that Hillary claimed she really won, succeeded in convincing 70%+ of Democrats that Russia was our #1 enemy. All of that fake news has left a scar upon the United States that is still with us as the media continually bashes Trump and elevates Zelensky to the level of George Washington.</p>
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  916. <figure class="wp-block-image aligncenter"><a class="fancybox image" href="https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Lindset-Gracham-Joe-Wilson.png"><img src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=%27http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%27%20width='732'%20height='320'%20viewBox=%270%200%20732%20320%27%3E%3C/svg%3E" loading="lazy" data-lazy="1" width="732" height="320" decoding="async" data-tf-src="https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Lindset-Gracham-Joe-Wilson.png" alt="Lindset Gracham Joe Wilson" class="tf_svg_lazy wp-image-367107" title="Lindset Gracham Joe Wilson"/><noscript><img decoding="async" data-tf-not-load src="https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Lindset-Gracham-Joe-Wilson.png" alt="Lindset Gracham Joe Wilson" class="wp-image-367107" title="Lindset Gracham Joe Wilson"/></noscript></a></figure>
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  920. <p><br>There were even proposals to place a marble bust of Zelensky in the Capitol Building, alongside those of Washington and Jefferson. It was embarrassing to be an American and display such stupidity. Who made such a proposal? None other than the other Neocon from South Carolina, alongside Lindsey Graham, the Neocon Joe Wilson made the proposal for the bust of Zelensky.  The world would be a lot safer if South Carolina were expelled from the Union.</p>
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  928. <figure class="wp-block-image alignright is-resized"><a class="fancybox image" href="https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Spaniards_search_women_1898.jpg"><img src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=%27http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%27%20width='800'%20height='753'%20viewBox=%270%200%20800%20753%27%3E%3C/svg%3E" loading="lazy" data-lazy="1" width="800" height="753" decoding="async" data-tf-src="https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Spaniards_search_women_1898.jpg" alt="Spaniards_search_women_1898" class="tf_svg_lazy wp-image-61826" style="width:321px;height:auto" title="Spaniards_search_women_1898"/><noscript><img decoding="async" data-tf-not-load src="https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Spaniards_search_women_1898.jpg" alt="Spaniards_search_women_1898" class="wp-image-61826" style="width:321px;height:auto" title="Spaniards_search_women_1898"/></noscript></a></figure>
  929.  
  930.  
  931.  
  932. <p><br>It was the media that created the Spanish-American War. As with all cycles, we have returned to the trend of yellow journalism, which is based on sensationalism and crude exaggeration. Pulitzer and Hearst went head-to-head. I remember grade school history class blaming the Spanish-American War on fake news. There is one such story that male Spanish officials were strip-searching American woman tourists in Cuba looking for claimed messages from rebels. This was the front page of Hearst’s newspaper showing what has become known as “yellow journalism,” whereby the illustration was by Frederic Remington and published in the <strong>New York Journa</strong>l on February 12th, 1897.</p>
  933.  
  934.  
  935.  
  936. <p>Hearst’s <strong>New York Journal</strong> was called out for this fake news by its rival Joseph Pulitzer’s, <strong>New York World</strong>,  reporting that this story was erroneous and its graphically illustrated strip-search of a woman aboard a U.S. passenger steamer was fake. The<strong> Journal</strong> article was written by Richard Harding Davis, who reported that Spanish authorities boarded the U.S. steamer, the Olivette, as it prepared to leave Havana and searched several passengers for contraband. Among the passengers was a young Cuban woman named Clemencia Arango, whose brother was a leader in the insurgency against Spanish rule. The <strong>Journal’s</strong> article was ambiguous, implying the woman was strip-searched by men, which was created by the accompanying illustration of Frederic Remington.</p>
  937.  
  938.  
  939.  
  940. <p>The&nbsp;N<strong>ew York World</strong>&nbsp;attacked the&nbsp;<strong>Journal’s</strong>&nbsp;fake news, quoting Arango as denying that men had strip-searched her. That task, she said, had fallen to a matron, or&nbsp;<strong><em>“inspectress.”</em></strong>The Journalist Davis, in a letter to the World, then blamed Frederic Remington for having drawn&nbsp;<em>“<strong>an imaginary picture”</strong></em>&nbsp;and insisted his dispatch had not reported&nbsp;that men had conducted the search.</p>
  941.  
  942.  
  943.  
  944. <p>Nevertheless, this story of the strip search discredited the&nbsp;<strong>Journal</strong>&nbsp;as being unreliable and prone to publishing&nbsp;<em><strong>“fakes”</strong></em>&nbsp;and other thinly documented reports. Welcome to the present, where the&nbsp;<strong>New York Times</strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Washington Post</strong>&nbsp;seem to be carrying on in the same unreliable manner as well as&nbsp;<strong>ABC, CBS, NBC</strong>, and, of course,&nbsp;<strong>CNN</strong>. All we hear is how Russia invaded Ukraine “unprovoked,” and this time, they are cheering on World War III with every breath they take.</p>
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  948. <figure class="wp-block-image aligncenter"><a class="fancybox image" href="https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Trump-not-informed.png"><img src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=%27http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%27%20width='0'%20height='0'%20viewBox=%270%200%200%200%27%3E%3C/svg%3E" loading="lazy" data-lazy="1" decoding="async" data-tf-src="https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Trump-not-informed.png" alt="Trump not informed" class="tf_svg_lazy wp-image-367106" title="Trump not informed"/><noscript><img decoding="async" data-tf-not-load src="https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Trump-not-informed.png" alt="Trump not informed" class="wp-image-367106" title="Trump not informed"/></noscript></a></figure>
  949.  
  950.  
  951.  
  952. <p><br>Trump has come out and stated that Zelensky has lied, and they never informed the US before they attacked Russia’s nuclear bombers for the EU, so they can invade Russia, which has been the plan all along. I have explained that both Germany and Japan are two economies that are shrinking.  The risk of default in Europe is actually German, as is the case with Japan. Merz is gun-ho on war because he understands that Germany is in dire condition and is at risk of defaulting. This is why they have abandoned their austerity all for war.</p>
  953.  
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  955.  
  956. <figure class="wp-block-image aligncenter"><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/01/europe/russia-ukraine-peace-talks-trump-latam-intl" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><img src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=%27http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%27%20width='808'%20height='601'%20viewBox=%270%200%20808%20601%27%3E%3C/svg%3E" loading="lazy" data-lazy="1" width="808" height="601" decoding="async" data-tf-src="https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/CNN-Trump-Cheap-Talk.png" alt="CNN Trump Cheap Talk" class="tf_svg_lazy wp-image-367105" title="CNN Trump Cheap Talk"/><noscript><img decoding="async" data-tf-not-load src="https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/CNN-Trump-Cheap-Talk.png" alt="CNN Trump Cheap Talk" class="wp-image-367105" title="CNN Trump Cheap Talk"/></noscript></a></figure>
  957.  
  958.  
  959.  
  960. <p><br>CNN ran a story written by Gleb Garanich of Reuters. The anti-Trump pro-war attitude is so clear. He wrote:</p>
  961.  
  962.  
  963.  
  964. <p><em>When it comes to ending&nbsp;the war in Ukraine, President Donald Trump’s statements and social media posts have become meaningless.</em></p>
  965.  
  966.  
  967.  
  968. <p><em>Receding chances for a ceasefire and peace deal soon will depend instead on whether he finally finds the steel to reinforce his rhetorical&nbsp;lashing of President Vladimir Putin&nbsp;over the weekend with action.</em></p>
  969.  
  970.  
  971.  
  972. <p><em>The Kremlin is betting he won’t.</em></p>
  973.  
  974.  
  975.  
  976. <p><em>It dismissed Trump’s frustration with the most intense Russian drone attacks on Ukraine as a symptom of “emotional overload.” And experience suggests Putin can get away with calling the US president’s bluff. After all, Trump’s Truth Social critique of the Russian leader as “crazy” on Monday was leavened with a characteristic rebuke of the victim — Ukraine and President Volodymyr Zelensky.</em></p>
  977.  
  978.  
  979.  
  980. <p><em>Still, the intensifying Russian attacks on Ukrainian civilians appear to be a deliberate Russian test for Trump, a week after his hyped&nbsp;call with Putin, which made no progress toward peace despite the White House spin.</em></p>
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  988. <figure class="wp-block-image aligncenter"><a class="fancybox image" href="https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Cuban-Missile-Crisis-II.png"><img src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=%27http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%27%20width='744'%20height='528'%20viewBox=%270%200%20744%20528%27%3E%3C/svg%3E" loading="lazy" data-lazy="1" width="744" height="528" decoding="async" data-tf-src="https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Cuban-Missile-Crisis-II.png" alt="Cuban Missile Crisis II" class="tf_svg_lazy wp-image-367111" title="Cuban Missile Crisis II"/><noscript><img decoding="async" data-tf-not-load src="https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Cuban-Missile-Crisis-II.png" alt="Cuban Missile Crisis II" class="wp-image-367111" title="Cuban Missile Crisis II"/></noscript></a></figure>
  989.  
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  992. <p><br>The second wave of the Cuban Missile Crisis had a turning point on December 5th, 2022, which was the formal implementation date for the <strong>$60 per barrel price cap on Russian seaborne crude oil</strong> imposed by the G7, the European Union, and Australia. This was a significant economic measure aimed at limiting Russia’s revenue from oil exports to fund its war, while theoretically maintaining Russian oil’s flow to the global market.</p>
  993.  
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  995.  
  996. <p>We have pushed Putin into a corner. Either he gets aggressive, or he will be replaced. This is Russia’s Pearl Harbor. The youth will respond just as they did in the USA. This is what NATO has been praying for – WWIII, and they are praying that Putin attacks anything in NATO. They have crossed every red line Putin has drawn, trying to get him to attack. The media is cheering the destruction of the West as if we can obliterate Russia without ever suffering a single blow. Is this to sell advertising again? Or is this just brainwashed journalists thanks to Hillary’s lies?</p>
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  1004. <title>Metaplanet Acquires 1,088 More Bitcoin, Bringing Total Holdings to 8,888 BTC</title>
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  1008. <pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2025 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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  1015. <p>Metaplanet has purchased 1,088 Bitcoin. This acquisition raises the company’s total Bitcoin holdings to 8,888 BTC. Metaplanet, Japan’s leading Bitcoin treasury firm, has&#160;purchased&#160;an additional 1,088 Bitcoin for approximately ¥16.89 billion at an average price of ¥15,519,019 per BTC. This acquisition raises the company’s total Bitcoin holdings to 8,888 BTC, with a cumulative purchase cost of [&#8230;]</p>
  1016. <p>The post <a href="https://www.activistpost.com/metaplanet-acquires-1088-more-bitcoin-bringing-total-holdings-to-8888-btc/">Metaplanet Acquires 1,088 More Bitcoin, Bringing Total Holdings to 8,888 BTC</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.activistpost.com">Activist Post</a>.</p>
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  1021. <p><em>Metaplanet has purchased 1,088 Bitcoin. This acquisition raises the company’s total Bitcoin holdings to 8,888 BTC.</em></p>
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  1024.  
  1025. <p>Metaplanet, Japan’s leading Bitcoin treasury firm, has&nbsp;<a href="https://contents.xj-storage.jp/xcontents/33500/ecf0abd9/8e80/42de/b7d2/85b6fd49fd52/140120250602575945.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">purchased</a>&nbsp;an additional 1,088 Bitcoin for approximately ¥16.89 billion at an average price of ¥15,519,019 per BTC. This acquisition raises the company’s total Bitcoin holdings to 8,888 BTC, with a cumulative purchase cost of ¥122.27 billion at an average price of ¥13,756,658 per BTC.</p>
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  1029. <figure class="wp-block-image aligncenter"><img src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=%27http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%27%20width='658'%20height='220'%20viewBox=%270%200%20658%20220%27%3E%3C/svg%3E" loading="lazy" data-lazy="1" width="658" height="220" decoding="async" data-tf-src="https://bitcoinmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/AD_4nXcx7UBikk0XA2CqKg9DqGYuUIOav4zZG-x7FrJkIhtQDcUDIB2xntjjiq4sXQ2RW77wIcaKwADzkX0TetqzToT7nJDDG_77mi_Lam_d53B3mkI6NFtr4JTo6G85YOwGnCogLaa1.png" alt="Purchase of Additional Bitcoin." class="tf_svg_lazy wp-image-43996" title="Metaplanet Acquires 1,088 More Bitcoin, Bringing Total Holdings to 8,888 BTC 1"/><noscript><img decoding="async" data-tf-not-load src="https://bitcoinmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/AD_4nXcx7UBikk0XA2CqKg9DqGYuUIOav4zZG-x7FrJkIhtQDcUDIB2xntjjiq4sXQ2RW77wIcaKwADzkX0TetqzToT7nJDDG_77mi_Lam_d53B3mkI6NFtr4JTo6G85YOwGnCogLaa1.png" alt="Purchase of Additional Bitcoin." class="wp-image-43996" title="Metaplanet Acquires 1,088 More Bitcoin, Bringing Total Holdings to 8,888 BTC 1"/></noscript></figure>
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  1033. <p><br>The company continues to report gains under its BTC Yield metric, a proprietary KPI that measures Bitcoin accumulation per share. Quarter-to-date (QTD), as of June 2, 2025, Metaplanet’s BTC Yield stands at 66.3%, following previous QTD yields of 95.6%, 309.8%, and 41.7% over the last three quarters. Total BTC Gain for Q2 2025 is 2,684 BTC, translating to a ¥40.54 billion gain based on a reference Bitcoin price of ¥15.10 million.</p>
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  1044. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="550" data-dnt="true"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">*Metaplanet Acquires Additional 1,088 <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%24BTC&amp;src=ctag&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">$BTC</a>, Total Holdings Reach 8,888 BTC* <a href="https://t.co/X2clAIKNbR">pic.twitter.com/X2clAIKNbR</a></p>&mdash; Metaplanet Inc. (@Metaplanet_JP) <a href="https://twitter.com/Metaplanet_JP/status/1929373508926107960?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 2, 2025</a></blockquote><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
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  1054.  
  1055. <p><br>Metaplanet’s capital markets activity has been tightly aligned with its Bitcoin accumulation strategy. Since January 28, 2025, the company executed a series of zero-coupon, non-interest-bearing bond issuances and 0% discount stock acquisition rights to EVO FUND, raising over ¥35 billion and USD 121 million. These funds were used for Bitcoin purchases and bond redemptions.</p>
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  1066. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="550" data-dnt="true"><p lang="qme" dir="ltr"><img src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=%27http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%27%20width='72'%20height='72'%20viewBox=%270%200%2072%2072%27%3E%3C/svg%3E" loading="lazy" data-lazy="1" decoding="async" width="72" height="72" data-tf-src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/15.1.0/72x72/2694.png" alt="⚔" class="tf_svg_lazy wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /><noscript><img data-tf-not-load src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/15.1.0/72x72/2694.png" alt="⚔" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /></noscript><img src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=%27http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%27%20width='72'%20height='72'%20viewBox=%270%200%2072%2072%27%3E%3C/svg%3E" loading="lazy" data-lazy="1" decoding="async" width="72" height="72" data-tf-src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/15.1.0/72x72/1f1ef-1f1f5.png" alt="🇯🇵" class="tf_svg_lazy wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /><noscript><img data-tf-not-load src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/15.1.0/72x72/1f1ef-1f1f5.png" alt="🇯🇵" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /></noscript> <a href="https://t.co/QCkAmJ7c5k">pic.twitter.com/QCkAmJ7c5k</a></p>&mdash; Dylan LeClair (@DylanLeClair_) <a href="https://twitter.com/DylanLeClair_/status/1929416352764231792?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 2, 2025</a></blockquote><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
  1067. </div></figure>
  1068. </div>
  1069.  
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  1073. </div>
  1074.  
  1075.  
  1076.  
  1077. <p><br>In Q1 FY2025, Metaplanet <a href="https://bitcoinmagazine.com/news/japans-microstrategy-metaplanet-posts-record-quarter-numbers-now-owns-over-700-million-bitcoin" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">reported</a> its strongest financial results yet. Revenue increased 8% quarter-over-quarter to ¥877 million, while operating profit rose 11% to ¥593 million. Net income surged to ¥5.0 billion, complemented by unrealized gains of ¥13.5 billion from its Bitcoin holdings, further strengthening the company’s balance sheet. </p>
  1078.  
  1079.  
  1080.  
  1081. <p>Although Bitcoin prices dipped briefly at the end of March, causing a ¥7.4 billion valuation loss, Metaplanet swiftly recovered as BTC surged to new record levels. This strong connection with Bitcoin’s performance has led many investors to use Metaplanet as an investment vehicle to get Bitcoin exposure on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.</p>
  1082.  
  1083.  
  1084.  
  1085. <p>At the same time, Strategy <a href="https://bitcoinmagazine.com/news/strategy-buys-75-million-worth-of-bitcoin" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">acquired</a> another 705 Bitcoin for about $75 million, further expanding its position as the largest corporate holder of Bitcoin as more public companies continue to adopt Bitcoin treasury strategies.</p>
  1086.  
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  1096. https://twitter.com/BitcoinMagazine/status/1929508637778596012
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  1103. </div>
  1104.  
  1105.  
  1106.  
  1107. <p><br>According to their SEC filing on June 2, they bought Bitcoin at an average price of $106,495 each between May 26 and June 1, bringing their total holdings to 580,955 BTC. The acquisition was funded by selling some of their preferred shares through an at-the-market (ATM) equity offering.</p>
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  1115. <title>From Mundane Daily Routine to the Multidimensional Dynamic of Creation</title>
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  1119. <pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2025 02:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
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  1125. <p>As ‘universal beings’ we are not separate from any activity anywhere in the universe. The totality of existence exists within our psyche and is imprinted in our unconscious. Our ability &#8211; or inability &#8211; to experience the multidimensional levels of existence within which we knowingly &#8211; or unknowingly &#8211;&#160; participate on a daily basis, governs [&#8230;]</p>
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  1129.  
  1130.  
  1131. <p>As ‘universal beings’ we are not separate from any activity anywhere in the universe. The totality of existence exists within our psyche and is imprinted in our unconscious.</p>
  1132.  
  1133.  
  1134.  
  1135. <p>Our ability &#8211; or inability &#8211; to experience the multidimensional levels of existence within which we knowingly &#8211; or unknowingly &#8211;&nbsp; participate on a daily basis, governs the degrees to which we are able to embrace Life, or simply operate within a two dimensional plain of non awareness: non-life.</p>
  1136.  
  1137.  
  1138.  
  1139. <p>Look at it this way: you are standing in your kitchen making a cup of tea – and at that very same moment thousands of new stars are bursting into life at far distant parts of the universe; a shoal of krill is on the verge of being swallowed by a hungry dolphin; a serene faced human baby is just emerging from its mother’s womb; a giant sun flare is penetrating deep into surrounding space;</p>
  1140.  
  1141.  
  1142.  
  1143. <p>a spider is latching onto a fly caught in its intricate web; around five thousand cells in your own body are dying while others are springing into life; a tropical downpour is soaking the ground in parched Rajasthan; a mouse has been spotted by the sharp eyes of a wheeling sparrow hawk. A rising wind is rustling the leaves of a tree outside your kitchen window.</p>
  1144.  
  1145.  
  1146.  
  1147. <p>All this, while you are making yourself ‘a nice cuppa’</p>
  1148.  
  1149.  
  1150.  
  1151. <p>Of course this is only a tiny fanciful fragment of a few of the billions of dynamic events in mid-flow at any one moment of time, to give you the sense of the interconnected dynamic of the perpetual fluctuations of the force of nature and the universe.</p>
  1152.  
  1153.  
  1154.  
  1155. <p>We are part of this vast/infinite drama that was set in motion at some dot point in the infinite past.</p>
  1156.  
  1157.  
  1158.  
  1159. <p>We are both affected by and in turn affect the course of all these events. Even our thoughts take on material form at the subtlest levels of existence.</p>
  1160.  
  1161.  
  1162.  
  1163. <p>Within this energetic, ever evolving quantum field, the multiplicity of nature’s dance is centred around a singular Supreme Nucleus. Every thing that has ever been created moves around this absolute omega point of Supreme Consciousness.</p>
  1164.  
  1165.  
  1166.  
  1167. <p>Without this omnipotent central nucleus, all order would break down and the great electromagnetic holding force that keeps stars and planets in their perennial perfectly spaced orbits – would never come to be. There would be nothing, as maybe there once was.</p>
  1168.  
  1169.  
  1170.  
  1171. <p>Our largely mundane, materialistic existence appears to operate on a different plain/dimension to this universal theatre. There are not many who sense the importance of the roles they are playing in this great drama.</p>
  1172.  
  1173.  
  1174.  
  1175. <p>Most will regard its field of manifestation as separate from their dominant perception of life as an essentially flat and largely predictable materialistic chain of events, with emotional ups and downs as the main variants. Most ‘nine to fivers’ lives centre around fulfilling the needs and patterns of domestic and career centred daily routines.&nbsp;</p>
  1176.  
  1177.  
  1178.  
  1179. <p>But that’s because we have been indoctrinated to value the material and the mundane as far more important than the quantum. When it should be the other way around.</p>
  1180.  
  1181.  
  1182.  
  1183. <p>We are, in essence, children of the universe &#8211; equally at one with the quantum dynamic as with the necessary mundane tasks involved in managing our daily lives.&nbsp;</p>
  1184.  
  1185.  
  1186.  
  1187. <p>They are not separate experiences, but they are ‘different points of focus’&nbsp; and this can give the impression of separation.</p>
  1188.  
  1189.  
  1190.  
  1191. <p>Everything that has gone off course in mankind’s adventure on this planet, is due to the overwhelming emphasis placed on the mundane, to the almost total exclusion of the quantum.</p>
  1192.  
  1193.  
  1194.  
  1195. <p>That’s why ‘we the people’ so often feel bottled-up and agitated, without being able to identify the cause. It’s our continued state of mental imprisonment within a place where we do not belong.</p>
  1196.  
  1197.  
  1198.  
  1199. <p>Powerful forces of division and repression long ago settled for a three dimensional exclusivity to be the chains used to control humanity’s development, recognising the potential for the separation of the quantum and the mundane. Making them appear to be at odds with each other.</p>
  1200.  
  1201.  
  1202.  
  1203. <p>These early architects of control then established themselves as ‘authorities’ as to what one can and cannot have access to, in their strictly edited version of the true quantum state.</p>
  1204.  
  1205.  
  1206.  
  1207. <p>They invented rules and dogmas that sought to confine mankind’s evolution, to a tiny fragment of full human consciousness.</p>
  1208.  
  1209.  
  1210.  
  1211. <p>They taught us not to have ‘false notions’ of our true capacities. Not to ‘sin’ by going against the authority of their ‘order’.&nbsp;</p>
  1212.  
  1213.  
  1214.  
  1215. <p>They worked at narrowing our imagination concerning the true nature of life and death – and then parasited our resulting denatured emotions of fear, anxiety, uncertainty and pain for the sustenance of their own dark ends.</p>
  1216.  
  1217.  
  1218.  
  1219. <p>While in the modern era some institutions of repression have toned-down their rhetoric so as to appear less demagogic, their practices still carry exactly the same hallmark of division, power and control.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>
  1220.  
  1221.  
  1222.  
  1223. <p>Their aim remains to stop humanity emerging out of its mind, body, spirit prison so as to breathe the sweet unpolluted air of freedom and emancipation.&nbsp;</p>
  1224.  
  1225.  
  1226.  
  1227. <p>Now the chief tool of their choice for completing this job is the rolling out of artificial intelligence (AI) and information technology (IT) as the prime traps by which to hook mankind into complete submission.</p>
  1228.  
  1229.  
  1230.  
  1231. <p>But although on the surface things look grim – and mostly are – there is an energy shift underway that cannot be contained by the dark cult who press on with their goal to falsify reality to the maximum extent.</p>
  1232.  
  1233.  
  1234.  
  1235. <p>This ‘energetic shift’ is essentially an expansion of awareness and consciousness. However, it is also likely to manifest on a material plain, bringing significant upheavals in all areas of life: physical, environmental, social and not least economic.</p>
  1236.  
  1237.  
  1238.  
  1239. <p>There is an indivisible connection between mental and physical actions and reactions.</p>
  1240.  
  1241.  
  1242.  
  1243. <p>A tragic element one comes up against when working for positive change, is the ‘refusal of consciousness’ that so many erect as a barrier to their own self liberation. Preferring the false security of slavery to the effort required to bring about a transformation in the affairs of man and lasting world peace.</p>
  1244.  
  1245.  
  1246.  
  1247. <p>The refusal of consciousness is not a top down sickness, it is a voluntary act of submission to the relentless bullying which is the hallmark of the deep state status quo. That anti-life intent, which if unchecked, leads to a totalitarian take over.</p>
  1248.  
  1249.  
  1250.  
  1251. <p>But by opening ourselves up to the rudimental multidimensionality of life outside the neutered and digitalised matrix, we come back to our real selves, linked up with the underlying dynamic of existence and the boundless vastness of the infinite.</p>
  1252.  
  1253.  
  1254.  
  1255. <p>Here is where our true selves find their real homes, purpose and equilibrium. Our soul’s awakening amongst the omniscient forces of nature and the cosmos.</p>
  1256.  
  1257.  
  1258.  
  1259. <p>Our life on earth must be deeply infused with this greater quality, for it is this that will completely overcome the absurd abstractions of the current addictive obsession with AI/IT and the supposed bringing into being of the tortured transhuman aberration.</p>
  1260.  
  1261.  
  1262.  
  1263. <p>That is the challenge we all face; drawing inspiration and courage from the knowledge that the prize that lies on the other side – is fundamental redirection, rejuvenation and transformation – and the intense joy of coming out victorious!</p>
  1264.  
  1265.  
  1266.  
  1267. <p><em>Julian Rose is an early pioneer of UK organic farming, a writer, international activist and broadcaster. See website </em><a href="http://www.julianrose.info/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><em>www.julianrose.info</em></a> <em>for information about Julian’s acclaimed book</em> <em>Overcoming the Robotic Mind and other works. Books can be purchased by contacting Julian direct: see ‘contact author’ under ‘reviews’.</em></p>
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