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antoine-roquentin · 6 years ago

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It was a warm evening this past July when Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau shared a drink with the world’s most powerful intelligence network.

Spy chiefs from the Five Eyes nations had come to a secure resort in coastal Nova Scotia for an informal evening after intense talks in nearby Ottawa.

Trudeau, who’d spent part of the day pledging to fix a “death trap” highway in the Atlantic province, dropped in on the gathering to share some thoughts about geopolitical threats.

When he left, as the lobster dinner was being served, the conversation returned to a debate that began well before this annual meeting and would run long after it: should the agencies go public with their concerns about China?

In the months that followed that July 17 dinner, an unprecedented campaign has been waged by those present – Australia, the US, Canada, New Zealand and the UK – to block Chinese tech giant Huawei from supplying equipment for their next-generation wireless networks.

This increasingly muscular posture towards Beijing culminated in last week’s arrest of Huawei’s chief financial officer, Meng Wanzhou, in Vancouver, over alleged breaches of US sanctions with Iran. Meng, the daughter of the Huawei’s founder Ren Zhengfei, was granted bail on Wednesday ahead of efforts to extradite her to the US.

As the spy bosses sat down to savour Nova Scotia’s famous lobster that evening with a glass of local wine, their recent clash with Russia was seen as a template for the power of working collectively. The British delegation led by MI6 boss Alex Younger – a man who signs official documents in green ink with a single letter “C” – had detailed evidence of the brazen attacks in Salisbury, where Moscow had used a military-grade chemical weapon on UK soil.

In the aftermath the British went public and the Five Eyes coordinated the largest ever expulsion of Russian intelligence officers from NATO and partner states. All agreed this would significantly degrade Russia’s intelligence capability.

That episode reminded everyone that espionage and foreign interference continues to be a pervasive threat. Some believed since 9/11 that mission had been obscured by the fight against terrorism and so at their own pace each had concluded the greatest emerging threat was China’s Communist Party.

They also knew that to contend with this challenge there was no other group of nations that enjoyed such shared knowledge, cultural affinity and technical expertise.

Not all agreed to speak publicly about China when they returned home, but all were determined to act. And the Five Eyes network would include allies like Japan and Germany in the conversation.

This coming in from the cold was viewed as a countermeasure to China and its many proxies, who have long argued fears over its rising power and influence were a fiction, or worse still, signs of xenophobia.

Since that July meeting there has been a series of rare public speeches by intelligence chiefs and a coordinated effort on banning Huawei from 5G networks. It began with one of Malcolm Turnbull’s last acts as Prime Minister.

The Sunday before he was deposed Turnbull rang the US President Donald Trump to tell him of Australia’s decision to exclude Huawei and China’s second largest telecommunications equipment maker ZTE from the 5G rollout.

Australia’s statement on the rules it would apply to building next-generation wireless networks was released on August 23 and largely lost in the leadership maelstrom.

Huawei was not named but it ruled out equipment being supplied by “vendors who are likely to be subject to extrajudicial directions from a foreign government”.

Mike Burgess put Huawei back on the national agenda when on October 29 he became the first Director-General of the Australian Signals Directorate to make a public speech in the organisation’s 70 year history.

Listening attentively from the head table that night was the Director-General of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Duncan Lewis and his counterpart at the Australian Secret Intelligence Service, Paul Symon.

All three men were at the meetings in Canada. Again, Burgess never named Huawei or ZTE but said the stakes with 5G “could not be higher” as it “will underpin the communications that Australians rely on every day.”

The man who runs an agency that unlocks electronic secrets had a poacher’s view of the threat: “Offence informs defence and defence informs offence. Or to put it another way, to catch a thief, you will need to think like one (or perhaps, be one).”

Since then he has given a TV interview and opened a Twitter account with a lively first post; “Hi internet, ASD here. Long time listener, first time caller.”

Burgess has even dabbled in some light trolling of Huawei. On November 21 when a Huawei executive boasted of successfully separating the core and access parts of a 5G network in New Zealand he tagged the ASD boss on his post.

To the surprise of most Burgess replied; “Thanks for sharing. In my business I’ve never seen anything “fully isolated...”.

Seven days later New Zealand banned Huawei from supplying 5G equipment to mobile phone company Spark.

Then on December 6, the head of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, David Vigneault, who had hosted the annual Five Eyes gathering, used his first ever public speech to warn of an emerging threat.

“CSIS has seen a trend of state-sponsored espionage in fields that are crucial to Canada’s ability to build and sustain a prosperous, knowledge-based economy,” he said.

“I’m talking about areas such as AI [artificial intelligence], quantum technology, 5G, biopharma and clean tech. In other words, the foundation of Canada’s future growth.”

No one was in any doubt he was talking about China. A formal ban on Huawei and ZTE from Ottawa is expected within weeks.

A day after the Canadian spy boss spoke, the head of MI6 was on his feet at his old Scottish university, St Andrews.

In a speech described as “rare” he warned that “much of the evolving state threat is about our opponents’ increasingly innovative exploitation of modern technology”.

The United Kingdom posed a particular problem for the Five Eyes as, 15 years earlier, British Telecom had struck a partnership with Huawei and that example was routinely used to counter arguments it posed a threat.

In answer to a question Younger took direct aim at Britain’s Huawei problem.

“We need to decide the extent to which we are going to be comfortable with Chinese ownership of these technologies and these platforms in an environment where some of our allies have taken a very definite position,” he said.

On the same day the BT Group announced it was stripping Huawei's equipment out of the core of its existing 3G and 4G mobile operations and would not use its technology in the 5G network.

But no country has been more aggressive than the United States, represented at the Canadian meetings by Gina Haspel.

The newly appointed director of the Central Intelligence Agency was battle hardened by a life spent in the shadows. She shed some light on that in a bruising Senate confirmation hearing in May saying she had “excelled in finding and acquiring secret information that I obtained in brush passes, dead drops, or in meetings in dusty alleys of third world capitals.”

Well before her arrival at the helm of the CIA, the US has been focused on Beijing and the proceedings against Huawei’s Meng are just one front in its efforts to bring China to heel.

Washington’s sharp focus on Beijing plays into Trump’s obsession with trade wars but it would be wrong to think it’s solely driven by the President. Over the past two years Republicans and Democrats in Congress and the Departments of Defence, State and the security agencies have come to the conclusion China is a strategic threat.

US prosecutors have filed charges against Chinese hackers and, in an audacious sting in April, American agents lured Chinese Ministry of State Security deputy director Yanjun Xu to Belgium, where he was arrested for orchestrating the theft of military secrets.

There is also speculation further indictments are imminent over a concerted Chinese hacking campaign known as “Operation Cloud Hopper”, which is believed to have penetrated networks across the globe, including Australia.

In addition the White House used its bi-annual report on China, last month to say Beijing had "fundamentally" failed to change its behaviour around cyber espionage giving it unfair access to intellectual property, trade secrets, negotiating positions and the internal communications of business.

The report added weight to revelations in The Age and Sydney Morning Herald the same week that China had diverted internet traffic heading to Sydney and its peak security agency had overseen a surge in attacks on Australian companies.

This industrial scale cyber theft is just part of a form guide which convinced the Five Eyes intelligence chiefs that Beijing would not hesitate to recruit Huawei to its cause and the company would have no choice but to comply.

All the evidence before the spy bosses at the dinner in Canada pointed to a rising superpower mounting the most comprehensive campaign of espionage and foreign interference that any had witnessed.

The Party was aggressively exporting a worldview that was hostile to democracy and actively sought to undermine it.

A new Great Game was afoot and the West had been slow to act. But it is acting now.

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divulgacion-alternativa · 4 years ago

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Ben Ful Links | August 2/2021:

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Getting To Know The North Koreans

Notice to readers. ��So that I may take my annual sabbatical in the Canadian wilderness, the next several reports will be pre-written. They will focus on the history of how I got involved in fighting the Khazarian Mafia. Hopefully, this will help readers get a better understanding of what is happening now. Of course, if something really big happens, we will issue an emergency report.

The assassination attempts against me and the murder of many of my colleagues were part of a Nazi coup d’etat that took place in the U.S. after 9.11.2001. This Nazi faction, led by Fuhrer George Bush Sr., was a sub-group of the Khazarian Mafia. They were killing journalists as a part of an attempt to control the narrative, the story by which Western society was led. However, I did not figure that out until a North Korean princess showed me the evidence.

Here is how it happened. I was running into serious censorship at Forbes. This started after I had run the story about the murder of the banker, that I detailed in last week’s report, brought me to the attention of the people who gave orders to the Forbes family.

For example, a story about Citibank (a Rockefeller company) being kicked out of Japan because it was money laundering for gangsters was killed even though my source was the Japanese Finance Ministry speaking on the record. The last straw for me came when I found out that an anti-virus software company was making viruses. Forbes killed the story, telling me I was “unreliable,” when in fact the story was killed because Steve Forbes had been given $500,000 by the anti-virus company, according to a Forbes whistleblower.

In any case, I was sick of writing business pornography and decided my next career move was to shift to writing books. The hope was to have them made into Hollywood movies. So, I sent two chapters and an outline of a planned book to my agent in the U.S. The book would have described a systematic pattern of the murder of politicians, journalists, industrialists, etc. by politicians and gangsters who were part of the corrupt secret government that really ran Japan.

The day after I sent the book proposal, I got a call from Kaoru Nakamaru, who said she was a princess and a first cousin of Emperor Hirohito. She told me it would be a bad idea to publish the book. Obviously she was connected to people who were reading my mail, so I decided to meet her. When I asked her how she knew what was in my book proposal she said, “A Goddess told me.” (That Goddess would be Amaterasu the reigning deity of the Japanese security police).

When I met Nakamaru she said, “You understand all about the corruption in Japan but you know nothing about the real source, which is in the West.” She then gave me a 9.11 truth video. At the time, I thought “Oh my God, this is one of those anti-Semitic movies about 9.11 that I read about in the New York Times.” I had no intention of watching it but she kept pestering me until I did. That was the real red pill for me. It did not take a lot of fact-checking to realize 9.11 was an inside job. From a missile hitting the Pentagon without breaking the second-floor windows and leaving no plane debris, to a BBC reporter with Building #7 visible in the background saying it had already collapsed, 20 minutes before it actually did at freefall speed, the evidence was undeniable.

The real problem was wrapping my mind around how incredibly large a group would be needed to carry out a campaign like this. The implications were truly mind-boggling. It was only by looking at historical events that I realized such false flags were being commonly used as excuses to start wars.

For example, the sinking of the “innocent passenger vessel” Lusitania in 1914 was used as an excuse to demonize the Germans and get the Americans to join the British in World War I. It was not until a hundred years later in 2014 that the British admitted publicly the Lusitania was transporting arms and was, therefore, a legitimate military target. Historians note that ads in newspapers warned passengers prior to the ship being sent into the vicinity of German U-boats as a sacrifice.

In 2001, the people who controlled the U.S. were using 9.11 as an excuse to invade the Middle East (yet again).

In my still naïve worldview I figured that if people found out the truth, there would be a revolution. After I published front-page articles for major Japanese magazines listing evidence that 9.11 was an inside job, I held a press conference at the Foreign Correspondent’s Club of Japan to present the evidence to the international media.

It was only when none of them (with a few minor exceptions like rural Australian newspapers) reported the evidence did I realize that freedom of the press had been extinguished from the Western media.

Nobody at the FCCJ or in the Western press debated me or presented evidence showing I was wrong. Instead, all sorts of people I never knew suddenly started a systematic campaign of character assassination against me. The general story was that I was taking drugs, believed in UFOs, and had lost my mind. I was put on a black list and nobody in the English language press would work with me. Many editors told me they had been ordered by their bosses not to publish my stories.

Fortunately, I had published books in Japanese that sold well and provided me with an income. I was also introduced to a Japanese author by the name of Ohta Ryu. He explained to me that he had been approached by a group of Japanese who had studied Western power structures before and during World War II. He used the material they had provided to publish his books.

What Ohta said was mind-boggling at the time. It was talking about how the West had a secret government run by families like the Rothschilds and the Rockefellers. This may be common knowledge now but, at the time (around 2005-6) when I did an internet search about the Rothschilds, I found exactly one sentence about them on the entire web. It was from an Israeli chat room where one participant mentioned a rumor that the Rothschilds were involved in the formation of Israel.

As far as our reputed overlord David Rockefeller was concerned, he was number 300 or so on the Forbes richest list and considered to be a person of the past. I had to go back to the 1918 edition of Forbes to find out the real story. It turns out John Rockefeller the first had suddenly become poor overnight by donating all of his fortune (around $300 billion in today’s money) to a foundation. Once the money was in a foundation, the owners did not pay inheritance tax and did not have to disclose much information.

A paper trail led to over 200 foundations controlled by the Rockefellers that in turn controlled most of the Fortune 500 companies.

What I started to realize was that all the murders of Japanese politicians etc. were part of a Rockefeller & Co. hostile take-over of Japan Inc. One key man they used to carry out this operation was Heizo Takenaka, who was the Finance and Economy Minister from 2002-2005. While he was in this job, he dismantled the system of cross-shareholding where banks and companies owned each others’ shares. Takenaka forced all the banks to sell off their shares in Japan’s listed companies to foreign funds such as Vanguard, Blackrock, and State Street & Banking. When I confronted him about handing over all of Japan’s listed companies to the Rockefellers etc., he squirmed visibly in his chair and was evasive.

However, the day after the interview, I got a phone call from an official at the Japan development bank who told me there was someone Heizo Takenaka wanted me to meet. So, I went to a downtown Tokyo hotel room where I met a person by the name of Shiramine who called himself a Ninja.

I recorded with his permission a conversation in which he offered me the job of Finance Minister of Japan as long as I went along with a plan to kill 90% of humanity. He said it was necessary in order to “save the environment.” Since war did not kill enough people the plan was to use disease and starvation to kill everyone off, he said. Shiramine added that if I refused the offer I would be killed.

To his credit when Shiramine met me and gave me this proposal, he also handed me a tape and told me to listen to it somewhere private. In this tape, he said the problem was the “elders of Zion.” I was also told by another Takenaka envoy that he handed over control of all the country’s corporations because Japan had been “threatened with an earthquake machine.”

The next day another person called me and said he wanted to meet me. Again, the meeting took place inside a downtown hotel room. This time it was someone from an Asian secret society known as The Red and The Green. He said they had 8 million members including 200,000 assassins who could help. This group also knew about the plan to kill 90% of humanity because they had secretly recorded a meeting at the Bohemian Grove where they discussed all of this.

Members of this group had long worked with Western secret societies, for example by supplying them with heroin from the golden triangle. However, it was the attempt to kill them off with SARS, a bio-weapon designed to kill Asians, that finally put them on a war footing.

You can imagine my shock and disorientation in running into all of this over the space of just a week. As someone who had lived his whole life in the official open world as seen in the public record, this was mind-boggling, to say the least. In any case, since I could not agree with a plan to kill 90% of humanity, I decided to go along with the Asian secret society.

At first, being a peace-loving journalist, I thought of ideas like maybe the Asian secret society could show 9.11 truth movies in Chinatown movie theaters. However, eventually, I had what I call my “Kill Bill” moment. In the movie Kill Bill, there is a scene where a female assassin (played by Uma Thurman) is in a desperate fight for her life with a one-eyed opponent. When Thurman plucks out her opponent’s eye, suddenly the fight is over.

What I realized was that most Westerners (like me) had no idea what their secret leaders were up to and would be appalled if they found out. The flaw of the secret Western government was that it was highly centralized. So, I advised the Asian secret society to “pluck out the eye.” I gave them a list of all the people who were members of the Bilderberg, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Trilateral Commission. I said if you target them, you can stop the planned genocide.

Later when the earthquake machine threat was made directly to me I responded that “you can’t stop assassinations with an earthquake machine.”

The other thing I suggested to the Asian Secret Society was that buying U.S. government bonds was worse than buying opium. “At least opium gives you pleasure but now you are paying them to kill you,” is what I told a top adviser to the Chinese Politburo.

In any case, the Asian Secret Society became mobilized. They threatened to kill the Western elite and also stopped buying U.S. government bonds. Thus the attempt to kill off 90% of humanity was stalled. This was the real background to the so-called “Lehman shock,” financial crisis of 2008, and the birth of the Obama administration.

However, the secret war had only begun. A lot of new players emerged from the shadows following these events.

Next week I will talk about how I met David Rockefeller. I will also discuss meeting such groups as the Black Sun, the Illuminati (in two flavors), the secret space program Nazis, the Russian FSB, and former MI6 head Dr. Michael Van de Meer.

Please stay tuned…

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xtruss · 4 years ago

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Severe Drought Threatens Hoover Dam Reservoir – and Water For US West

The wellspring of Lake Mead created by the dam’s blocking of the Colorado River has plummeted to an historic low as states in the west face hefty cuts in their water supplies

— By Oliver Milman at Hoover Dam | Tuesday, 13 July 2021 | Guardian USA

Had the formidable white arc of the Hoover dam never held back the Colorado River, the US west would probably have no Los Angeles or Las Vegas as we know them today. No sprawling food bowl of wheat, alfalfa and corn. No dreams of relocating to live in a tamed desert. The river, and dam, made the west; now the climate crisis threatens to break it.

The situation here is emblematic of a planet slowly, inexorably overheating. And the catastrophic consequences of the extreme weather this brings.

Lake Mead: largest US reservoir falls to historic low amid devastating drought

Hoover dam is the height of a 60-story building and is 45ft thick at the top and 660ft at the bottom. Its construction, in the teeth of the Great Depression, was a source of such national pride that thousands of people journeyed through the hostile desert to witness the arrival of what has become an enduring monument to collective effort for the public good.

The engineering might of Hoover dam undoubtably reshaped America’s story, harnessing a raucous river to help carve huge cities and vast fields of crops into unforgiving terrain. But the wellspring of Lake Mead, created by the dam’s blocking of the Colorado River and with the capacity to hold enough water to cover the entire state of Connecticut 10ft deep, has now plummeted to an historic low. The states of the west, primarily Arizona and Nevada, now face hefty cuts in their water supplies amid a two-decade drought fiercer than anything seen in a millennium.

“We bent nature to suit our own needs,” said Brad Udall, a climate and water expert at Colorado State University. “And now nature is going to bend us.”

Surveying the dam’s sloping face from its curved parapet, Michael Bernardo, river operations manager at the US Bureau of Reclamation, admits the scarcity of water is out of bounds with historical norms. While there is no “average” year on the Colorado River, Bernardo and his colleagues were always able to estimate its flow within a certain range.

But since 2000, scientists say the river’s flow has dwindled by 20% compared to the previous century’s average. This year is the second driest on record, with the flow into Lake Mead just a quarter of what would be considered normal.

1984 Boundary of Lake Mead as Compared to Its Current State

Guardian graphic | Source: Satellite data from NASA Earth Observatory showing 1984 lake boundary as compared to 2016 boundary.

“These are scenarios that aren’t necessarily where we expect to be in our models,” said Bernardo, whose work helps deliver a reliable level of water to thirsty western states. Nearly 40 million people, including dozens of tribes, depend on the river’s water. “We’re getting those years that are at the extreme ends of the bell curve. We’ve seen extremes we haven’t seen before, we now have scenarios that are very, very dry.”

In June, the level of Lake Mead plunged below 1,075ft, a point that will trigger, for the first time, federally mandated cuts in water allocations next year. The Bureau of Reclamation (the government agency originally tasked with “reclaiming” this arid place for a new utopia of farmland and a booming western population), expects this historic low to spiral further, dropping to about 1,048ft by the end of 2022, a shallowness unprecedented since Lake Mead started filling up in the 1930s following Hoover dam’s completion. This will provoke a second, harsher, round of cuts.

“We’ve known this point will arrive because we’ve continued to use more water than the river provides for years,” said Kathryn Sorensen, a water policy expert at Arizona State University. “Things look pretty grim. Humans have always been good at moving water around but right now everyone will need to do what it takes to prevent the system from crashing.”

Seven states – California, Utah, Arizona, Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico and Nevada – and Mexico are bound by agreements that parcel out the river’s water but those considered “junior” partners in this arrangement will be hit first.

Should second tier cuts occur, Arizona will lose nearly a fifth of the water it gets from the Colorado River. Nevada’s first-round cut of 21,000 acre-ft (an acre-ft is an acre of water, one foot deep) is smaller, but its share is already diminutive due to an archaic allotment drawn up a century ago when the state was sparsely populated.

The latest era of cooperation between states that rely upon the Colorado River has now entered the “realm of lose-lose”, according to Colby Pellegrino, deputy general manager of resources for the Southern Nevada Water Authority. “Everyone’s going to have to do more with less, and that’s really going to be challenging for people,” she said. “‘Drought’ suggests to a lot of people something temporary we have to respond to, but this could permanently be the type of flows we see.”

The decline of Lake Mead is apparent even at a cursory glance. The US’s largest reservoir is now barely a third full, the dark basalt rock of its canyon walls blanched by a distinctive white calcium ring where the water level once was. This level has plunged by about 130ft in the past 20 years and is currently receding by about a foot a week as farms hit their peak irrigation period.

Guardian graphic | Source: Elevation data from Bureau of Reclamation Records for Lower Colorado River Operations.

The pace of change has been jarring to the millions of people who regularly boat, fish and swim on the lake, with the National Park Service recently laying down new steel platforms to extend launch ramps that no longer reach the water. Some marinas have been wrenched from their moorings and moved because they have been left marooned in baking sediment.

Seen from above in time lapse over the years, Lake Mead looks like a spindly puddle withering away in the Mojave Desert, as nearby Las Vegas, which gets almost all of its water from the lake and went a record 240 days last year without rain, balloons in size. The west’s ambitions have crunched into the searing reality of the Anthropocene.

The Colorado River rises in the lofty Rocky Mountains, before tumbling through 1,450 miles of mountains, canyons and deserts until it reaches the Sea of Cortez in Mexico. Seasonally melting snow has traditionally replenished the river but snowpack on mountaintops in the west has declined by an average of 19% since the 1950s, while soaring temperatures have dried out soils and caused more water to evaporate.

This morphing climate, plus the rampant extraction of water for everything from golf courses in Phoenix to vegetables growing in California to gardens in Denver, means the Colorado fizzles out in dry riverbed before it even reaches its Mexican delta.

Only 1.8% of the west is not in some level of drought, with California, Arizona and New Mexico all experiencing their lowest rainfalls on record over the previous 12 months. Lakes in Arizona are now so low they can’t be used to fight the fires themselves spurred by drought, while the retreat of Lake Folsom in California uncovered the wreckage of a plane that crashed 56 years ago. The governor of Utah has resorted to asking people to pray for rain.

The white ‘bathtub ring’ around Lake Mead shows the record low water levels as drought continues to worsen in Nevada. Photograph: David McNew/Getty Images

The heat has been otherworldly, with Phoenix recently enduring a record six straight days above 115F (46.1C). A “heat dome” that settled over the usually mild Pacific north-west pushed temperatures to reach a record 108F (42.2C) in Seattle and caused power lines to melt and roads to buckle in Portland. A few hundred miles north, a fast-moving wildfire incinerated the town of Lytton in British Columbia the day after it set a Canadian temperature record of 121F (49.4C). Barely into summer, hundreds of people have already died from the heat along the west coast.

The west has gone through periods like this “megadrought” , with only occasional respite, for the past two decades. But scientists have made clear the current conditions would be virtually impossible without human-caused climate change, pointing to a longer-term “aridification” of the region. All of the water conservation efforts that have kept shortages at bay until now risk being surpassed by the rising heat.

“The amount of water now available across the US west is well below that of any time in modern civilization,” said Park Williams, a hydroclimatologist at Columbia University. Research by Williams and colleagues last year analyzed tree rings to discover the current dry period is rivaled only by a spell in the late 1500s in a history of drought that reaches back to around 800, with the climate crisis doubling the severity of the modern-day drought.

“As the globe warms up, the west will dry out,” said Williams. “The past two years have been shocking to me, I never thought I would see downtown LA reach 111F as it’s so close to the ocean, but we have some of the driest conditions in 1,200 years so the dice are loaded for more heatwaves and fires. This could be the tip of the iceberg, we may well see much longer, tougher droughts.”

In the guts of the Hoover dam, down bronze-clad elevators and through terrazzo corridors, a line of enormous turbines help funnel water out downstream, creating hydro-power electricity for more than 1m households in the process. Five of the 17 turbines, each weighing the same as seven blue whales, have been replaced in recent years with new fittings more suited to operating in lower lake levels.

Even with these adaptions, however, the decline of Lake Mead has caused the amount of hydro power generated by the dam to drop by around 25%. The drought is expected to cause the hydro facility at Lake Oroville, California, to completely shut down, prompting a warning from the United States Energy Association that a “megadrought-induced electricity shortage could be catastrophic, affecting everything from food production to industrial manufacturing”. The association added that such a scenario could even force people to move east, in what it called a “reverse Dust Bowl exodus”.

Bernardo said a similar shutdown of the Hoover dam would require more than 100ft in further water level retreat, which is not anticipated, although he finds himself constantly hoping for the rains that would ease the tightening shortages.

“We all want the nice weather but we need those good storms to build everything back up,” he said.

“We’d need three or four above average years, back to back, to restore the lake. Your guess is as good as mine whether we’ll get that. I’ll continue to watch the weather, every day.”

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anexplanationofunfortunateevents · 7 years ago

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here we go

As of Friday evening, special prosecutor Robert Mueller has officially filed the first charges in the Trump-Russia investigation.

Quick civics refresher: a prosecutor can get an indictment if a grand jury thinks it’s more likely than not that a specific individual has broken the law.

So here’s what you may be wondering about this one:

WHO: The indictment has been sealed, so we won’t know until Monday at the earliest. We don’t even know if it’s one person or several people. You can get into the parlor game of who’s been told to expect charges, who’s confessed to solicitation on Twitter, who got themselves kicked off Twitter after a yoogely entertaining meltdown, whatever. Pretty much the only person in Trump world we can rule out is Trump himself, since it’s unclear whether he can be charged while in office. We’ll know when we know.

IDGAF WHICH ONE OF THEM IT IS! LOCK THEM UP! LOCK THEM UP!: I know, right?

WHAT: The indictment has been sealed, so we won’t know until Monday at the earliest. All we know for sure is the scope of Mueller’s investigation, which is crimes related to the Russian sabotage of the 2016 election or any crimes his office comes across during that investigation. It could be espionage or it could be tax evasion. The most likely prediction seems to be that it’ll be one of the more clear-cut cases against someone they think they can flip. We’ll know when we know.

WHY NOW?: It doesn’t feel this way because Trump time is like dog years, but in terms of large, complex criminal investigations, Mueller’s is moving at warp speed. For historical context, the only thing we can even remotely compare this to is the Watergate investigation, where the special prosecutor was on the job for ten months before bringing charges against anyone – and compared to this, Watergate really was just a third-rate burglary. Think of how long it would take you to work through what we know publicly about this case. The office is working as fast as they can without screwing it up and now’s the time they think they can prove at least one case beyond a reasonable doubt.

WHY IS IT SEALED?: This is one of those things that probably sounds more dramatic than it is. It’s not uncommon for defendants to get the chance to turn themselves in before the charges are announced publicly, or for law enforcement to want time to plan an arrest that won’t turn into a circus without tipping off, say, a wealthy defendant with connections abroad in time to flee the country. Most dramatically and least likely – though at this point we have to get used to thinking of this stuff as a possibility – they might need to make arrangements to put a potential informant into protective custody.

DID WE GET HIM? IS IT OVER?!: Sorry, no. This is, at best, the end of Act I. The tipping point may be coming soon, but a lot can happen between now and “soon.” You need to prepare yourself, because things can get darker fast. Someone a whole lot more even-keeled than Trump would panic with the walls closing in like this. Keep an eye on activist groups like MoveOn and Indivisible in case we need to mobilize quickly against an even more authoritarian turn. Firing Mueller, pardoning everyone around him, a show trial of Hillary Clinton, war with freaking Belgium – assume we’re going to have to put up a fight against something serious any day now.

The regime did so much desperate covfefe-flinging last week that it looks as if they had some sense this was coming soon, but even before this news dropped, there were quite a few developments that they seem to have been trying to drown out over the past few days:

The CEO of Cambridge Analytica contacted Wikileaks to try and get them to make the stolen DNC emails easier to search, months after everyone knew that Russia was behind the hacks. To be clear: the head of a Trump campaign data contractor reached out to a known agent of the hostile foreign power which was trying to undermine American democracy and said “here’s how you can sabotage our election more effectively.”

Remember Junior’s “Russia – Clinton – private and confidential” meeting we found out about over the summer? It turns out the Russian attorney who went to that meeting had talking points which were approved by the Kremlin. That means she was acting as an agent of the Russian government when she spoke to Junior, Kushner, and Manafort in Trump Tower.

The administration is nearly a month behind in implementing the sanctions we placed on Russia for interfering in the election, but Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is eliminating the committee that is supposed to be implementing those sanctions.

Right before the indictment(s) came down, Assistant US Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia Dana Boente announced his resignation, after apparently being asked to leave. This is probably not coincidental and feels… kind of ominous. The EDVA hears a lot of national security cases, which means that Boente is up on (for example) the case against former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn. This year, Boente has also served as Acting Attorney General and Acting Deputy Attorney General, which means he’s seen a lot of the Trump catastrophe up close.

Trump’s personal attorney apparently sold several NYC apartments for millions of dollars over market value. Cash.

Nevertheless, Republicans in Congress have gone full Inquisition along with the White House, announcing several investigations into a grandma in Westchester County. Right-wing media is, naturally, participating with their usual rabid glee.

This is 100% garbage and none of it deserves the time it took me to write out, or the time you’re going to put into reading it, but you can’t look out for the disinformation if you don’t know what buttons they’re trying to push with it. So I want to emphasize: there is no coherent thread here because they don’t need or expect you to believe any of their deflections. They just need to scream and yell and point fingers until a critical mass of people give up and say everyone’s corrupt nothing matters.

Republican and Democratic donors paid for the research behind the Steele dossier and the House intelligence committee is ON IT. The specific donors were identified earlier last week. Fusion GPS was initially hired by the conservative website Washington Free Beacon, which in turn is largely funded by Paul Singer, a wealthy Marco Rubio backer. Once Trump got the nomination, Republicans lost interest in trying to stop someone they damn well knew was a threat to the republic, so the law firm of the DNC and Clinton campaign picked up the tab. Trump is trying to make this into a thing, but this is not a thing. All campaigns pay for opposition research; the only way this was unusual was that there was so much outlandish dirt on Trump for opposition researchers to find. This did not stop the Free Beacon itself from screeching the Trump party line the day it was reported that the DNC had paid for the dossier.

There’s an investigation into the investigation of HER EMAILS. There is no similar investigation into the Trump White House’s current use of private email systems.

There’s another investigation into a conspiracy theory which was debunked years ago when it was first put out by Nazi wife-beater Steve Bannon’s propaganda machine. It is….*heavy sigh* that in return for a donation made by one Russian national to the world-class charity Clinton Foundation back in the year 2000, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton personally and unilaterally made nine different government agencies sign off on a 2010 sale of interests in a Canadian uranium company to Russia. It really is as stupid as it sounds. The point is just to shove enough crap in your face that you assume there’s something ominous you’re not seeing. The reasons they’ve brought back this specific garbage seem to be: 1) as a way to work “Clinton” and “Russia” into the same sentence (NO PUPPET! NO PUPPET! SHE’S THE PUPPET!) and 2) there appears to be some tenuous connection to Mueller, who was the FBI director at the time, and who they are now furiously attempting to discredit.

The storylines themselves are ridiculous, but the fact that they’re being spun is anything but. This week, Trump personally pushed the Department of Justice to lift a gag order on an FBI informant to testify about a case which was connected with a trucking company which was connected with the uranium sale. The White House is absolutely not supposed to pressure the DOJ in specific cases.

THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH HOW YOU FEEEEEEEL ABOUT HILLARY CLINTON. Save that shit for your therapist. This is the full coordinated power of the executive and legislative branches of the federal government mobilizing against a private citizen, apparently for the sole reason that “LOCK HER UP” grievance politics are the one thing the Pepes still think Trump will deliver. THIS IS STRAIGHT AUTHORITARIANISM. WE CANNOT LET IT WORK.

Also? The Russia investigation is the existential threat to Trump and everyone who’s thrown in with him – which is why they’ve focused on it so frantically – but there’s a lot of bad news they’re drowning out. Puerto Rico is still experiencing a humanitarian disaster, and what little recovery effort is happening is being exploited by Trump cronies. Immigration agents are terrorizing kids who need to see a doctor. Republicans in Congress want to slash taxes on the wealthy and are still trying to sabotage Obamacare. And oh, a bad Republican story which (so far) doesn’t appear to be directly related to Trump: Georgia was sued over potential security failures during a special election earlier this year, and the government responded by wiping the data. As you watch this unfold, remember: Trump is the most pressing symptom of the civic rot perpetrated by Republican party and his ties to Russia are his his biggest liability, but neither they nor he is the underlying disease.

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essays on engagement —kayla 01

1. The first time she meets Erin is right before her first deployment. She’s never really had a reason to stay but something in the way the girl looks at her is enough to make Kayla never want to leave. She’s smart, a doctor-to-be, and Kayla entertains her with talk of medicine she’s learnt from her father. There’s more than the two of them at the party but that doesn’t seem to have any baring on either of them. Erin’s funny too, and Kayla’s young and hopeful and she’s never been a sap before but she still gives Erin her dog tag before they part ways. She writes her letters whenever she can, and Erin writes back with pictures of her and for the first time, Kayla feels like there’s something to come home to.

They’ve only met once before but when Erin picks her up from the airport when she gets back she’s throwing her up into her arms and kissing her for dear life with the hopes that maybe she’ll forget some of the things she’s seen. And she knows if she has it her way she’s never letting her go.

2. Kayla’s first deployment overseas has her shaking in her boots. She’s twenty years old, the Taliban offensive in Afghanistan is at its peak, and Canadian soldiers are being targeted more than ever. The Conservative Government has extended its war mission by another two years and American armed forces are ready to deploy alongside Canadian forces to drive back the Talibans, and Kayla’s in the front lines. She’s been training for this for two years now, and her gun’s as much a part of her as her limbs, but her first kill doesn’t come easy.

Armed forces move to clear the city of Chardara, and Kayla comes faces to face with her first hostile. Despite her yelling in Pashto to drop the weapon, she’s faced with the muzzle of a gun pointed in her direction and she doesn’t hesitate to pull the trigger. Me or them. Me or them. She’s trained for this for two years, but this isn’t silhouettes or target practice. She’s not shooting at mannequins, or sand bags, and the sand on the ground is stained red.

When she goes to bed that night, or tries to at least, she replays it in her head and stares at her hands in the candle light. Me or them, who’s coming home at the end of the day? Me. Me. Me.

3. Kayla hates these lavish charity parties. The people are fake, the food is too expensive and not filling enough, and all it’s good for is making rich people feel good about themselves for throwing their moneys at charities. And sure, it’s generous, but it’s pretentious when they don’t even care. Still, she’s going back in a few weeks so she can enjoy the lavish lifestyle for one night given the hell she’s about to walk back into.

At least Erin’s having a good time. She loves these things, excelled in the socialite upbringing her parents gave her a lot better than Kayla did. Kayla pulls at her dress, champagne glass in her right hand and she stares across the venue hall. Watches her beautiful girlfriend entertain the guests, smile, laugh, be happier than Kayla’s seen her in a while.

She doesn’t know why she feels uncomfortable all of a sudden. It’s the dread of telling Erin her plans, but something else too. Kayla tries to convince herself it has nothing to do with how gorgeous Erin’s current guest is, and nothing to do with how much she wishes she could make her girl laugh like that again. But that fails miserably when the guest puts a hand on Erin’s elbow and throws her head back to laugh. Kayla downs her drink and leaves.

Later that night when they’re going to bed, Kayla ignores the feeling of disgust in her stomach, ignores Erin’s needy drunk touches, and ignores the fact that she knows if she keeps leaving, Erin’s going to find somebody else.

4. The drawers are empty when Kayla gets back. She’s signed, it’s done. One more tour, just one more. The house is eerily calm, like a storm is about to break out. And it does. “I can’t do this anymore, Kayla,” she hears from the girl on the couch. Her girl, the girl she… the girl who has her heart and somehow that’s never been enough to keep Kayla grounded.

She’s heard this before, but somehow this time it means more. Somehow she hears the finality in her tone and Kayla tosses the keys onto the entrance table of the apartment, makes her way towards the living room couch and falls to her knees in front of her girl.

“Erin…” she starts, watches as the girl in front of her crumbles and shakes her head. “I can’t watch you leave again, I can’t. When’s it going to be enough? When am I going to be enough?” her lover says. It’s spiteful, and hateful, and heartbroken. “This one’s the last, I promise, I promise,” Kayla says, but she doesn’t believe it, not really. Erin laughs through her tears, harsh and quick like it kills her to hear this.

“You’re so full of shit,” she finally says, standing up and pushing Kayla away. She grabs her bag and Kayla’s on her feet, hand grabbing onto the bag as well. “Please,” she breathes, voice wavering. Kayla doesn’t cry, but she’s damn close to doing it this time. “I… I lo….” Erin freezes, but Kayla can’t get the words out. She can’t say it. Not because it isn’t true, but because she knows if she says it she’ll have to stay. And maybe it’s better this way, maybe it’s better if Erin gets out while she can, before she’s stuck with Kayla for the rest of her life and hell, that isn’t wished on anyone.

“You can’t say it, can you.” Erin states, ripping the bag out of her hands. “Two fucking years and you can’t even tell me you love me.” Kayla’s hand falls to her side and her eyes meet the ground. “I’m done, Kayla. I can’t live this life anymore where all I do is wait for you. Wait for you to leave. Wait for you to come back. Wait for you to pour your goddamn heart out for me. I can’t wait. Because I know I love you. But I can’t keep loving you when you keep leaving me.”

Erin doesn’t slam the door when she leaves, but Kayla hears it clear as day echoing in the emptiness of her apartment. She walks into her bedroom, ignores the pictures on the wall, ignores the empty drawers, and walks straight to her closet. Her uniform is still crisps as she pulls it out and starts packing her bag. One more tour.

5. The atmosphere of the bar reminds her of the early 1900s war movie era, and for a second Kayla imagines herself as a World War 1 pilot. She’s grinning like an idiot, anything is better then remembering where she actually is and she closes her eyes. There’s the loud buzzing of the plane engine in her head, and the room’s spinning like propellers, and maybe, just maybe, she should have stopped drinking by now.

But Jack’s still drinking, and she’s gotta keep up with her partner, watch his Six, make sure nothing happens to him. “Jack,” she says over the sound of plane engine, which is really just the buzzing of conversation, “we have to land the plane.” Jack looks at her quizzically, and then starts laughing before finishing his drink. “Alright Lieutenant Tetford, that’s enough drinks for you.”

“It’s Captain,” she corrects him, “I don’t wear these stripes for nothing you know.” He laughs again, “You’re not even wearing your str-” “-They’re hypothetical stripes, asshole.” He raises his hands in surrender and pushes a glass of water in her direction. “Drink up, Captain.” Kayla obliges him before making eye contact with a girl across the bar.

“She’s totally into me,” Jack says and Kayla’s smile drops as she looks at him. “No she’s definitely starring at me.” They bicker for a while and finally Jack gets up and saunters over to the girl. He comes back only moments later and sits down across from her, a sour look on his face. “So?” she asks. “She wants your number…” he grumbles under his breath. Kayla’s still laughing as she makes her way over to the girl across the bar.

6. The girl’s a fighter pilot for the French Air Force; Astrid. If Jack didn’t have any luck with her its because his french is rusty and she doesn’t speak english very well. Kayla speaks with her in French, tells her that her name means beautiful goddess and that it fits. Astrid blushes and Kayla smiles, she’s still drunk but it’s off of something else entirely now.

The next morning, she wakes up alone and naked and sore. She remembers something about Astrid leaving for additionally training today and smiles to herself as she remembers the details of the night before. It’s not much happiness, but she’ll take it in this stupid war.

7. The air is disgustingly dry in Ghazni. So dry that Kayla can’t even muster up sweat anymore, and she should, given the amount of gear she’s wearing. They’re just passing through, the city is a hot spot for Taliban activity and Kayla’s team isn’t going to be here much longer than they should be, just in case. They’ll break for lunch, and then they’ll carry on.

Kids are no stranger to Kayla and her team, so she’s not surprised when a few of them join them in the wreckage of a mosque. Their light armoured vehicles are parked outside, Jack and Keith are on guard duty, and Kayla befriends the little girl of the group who has eyes so familiar that Kayla can’t help but see herself in them. She offers her crackers and water, and speaks in Pashto. The girl is shy, but she’s warms up to her. And Kayla warms up right back.

So when she hears the whistling sound of a bomb dropping, Kayla doesn’t hesitate to wrap her arms around the girl protectively. The blast happens just outside and sends her (and her team) flying forward. And she holds on tight. Her ears are ringing as she opens her eyes. The girl in her arm is crying but Kayla can’t hear it. She looks around as the dust settles, pushes herself up but keeps the girl close into her chest. And then the noise hits her. Coughing, yelling, is everyone alright?

“Tedfort!” Kayla snaps into gear, puts the girl down at her legs and swinging her automatic rifle in front of her. “Command base from Charlie Four,” she speaks into her radio. “Send your traffic, Charlie Four.” Kayla lays it like it is, calls for air support as machine gun fire breaks out. And the little girl just stays near Kayla. Her team’s up and she’s never been more relieved to see Jack. I thought you were dead.

Another IED explodes nearby and Kayla knows they need to clear the building. “Move move move!” She orders, and then repeats herself so the kids can understand. Her team cover fires and Kayla lifts the little girl with one arm and takes her service pistol out with the other. They cross the street, hunker themselves down in a nearby building and Kayla tries to tell the civilians to stay the fuck down.

Where’s the damn bird? “Foxtrot one-six is coming in the area, weapons hot”. There’s a click and then she hears the ricochetting of airplane fire. The little girl is clutching her leg as Kayla exchanges fire with the hostiles. “And Alpha Ten is coming 10-3, charlie four what’s your 20?” So Kayla lights a flare and jumps the wall, leaves the little girl behind before signalling towards the plane as everything rings around her. “Roger that Charlie Four. Hang tight.”

Fifteen minutes later, when hostile fire ceases and quiet surrounds them. Kayla looks at the little girl and hugs her tight, tells her how brave she was. And knowing she saves her keeps her from feeling like shit about the other three civilians dead, and Keith’s missing limb.

8. She’s been back two weeks, and already she feels like suffocating. Her mom has been on her case, not even proud of Kayla’s promotion, and hellbent on assuring that Kayla has a future outside of the military. She doesn’t know what else to expect from her Human Rights Lawyer of a mother. Hell she probably loathes that Kayla took part in a war that’s inherently flawed. The gala is in full swing, and Kayla would have loved to have avoided it, but given that it’s in her house she doesn’t have much of a choice.

And so she drinks, and drinks, and drinks. She’s known she’s been off for a while now, hasn’t felt right since the ambush in Kendahar, and she can tell she’s slowly loosing her mind. But that doesn’t stop her from drinking, and detesting the very existence of this party. It doesn’t help that Erin’s here, and Kayla’s heart hurts in longing.

“Kayla honey, why don’t you slow down,” her mother says through clenched teeth before pulling her by the hand as she downs another glass of expensive champagne. “You said I had to be here, you didn’t say I had to be sober,” she replies numbly.

“This is not who your father and I raised you to be.” And Kayla doubles back, eyes wide and hand snapping of her mothers grasp. “I’m sorry… raised me?” She laughs disbelievingly and looks away. “That’s….” A deep breath in and another forced laugh, “That’s funny because that’s not how I remember it.”

Kayla swallows, her mouth is dry and yeah… she probably shouldn’t have drank this much. The sound of someone tapping on a microphone breaks her out of her slight haze and then the mic screeches and Kayla’s head explodes with memories. She stumbles back, hands rubbing at her eyes, and bumps into someone. I can’t see, she thinks. It’s too dark, and the tear gas stings too much. And then it’s just flash bang after flash bang. Jack grabs onto her arm, her mouth is salty and dry and she can taste the sand. “Kayla,” he yells at her, “Kayla just breathe. Kayla.” She’s trying to listen to him but she can’t control her body.

“Kayla, Kayla darling.” She opens her eyes. The party, she’s still at the party. And everyone’s looking at her, her and the waiter who’s tray of expensive bubbly she’s knocked over. Her mother’s staring at her like she doesn’t recognize who she is anymore. But Kayla doesn’t have an answer to give her, except that maybe she’s never known who she is. Her eyes meet Erin’s from across the banquet hall and Kayla feels nausea hit her full force. Because Erin looks afraid of her and that’s gotta sting more than anything.

“I’m sorry,” she mumbles before leaving, pushing and elbowing past people to get outside and get some air. Her mother doesn’t stop her, and Kayla reasons that’s because she never cared.

9. Kayla’s not a rough person. But tonight, tonight she’s pissed off and the other girl’s back hitting the wall echoes with a clap of thunder. She wants to turn her mind off and focus on the girl she has trapped with her body but it’s hard when she feels like she’s navigating a field of land mines. Her hands are shaking and her kisses are bruising, and when lightning strikes she can see the other girl’s eyes blown wide in fearful arousal. So Kayla pulls back, runs a shaking thumb along the girl’s lips. She doesn’t remember her name, but Kayla can’t even think about her own name.

“It’s okay,” she murmurs, “you’re safe.” At this point she can’t tell who she’s talking to and Kayla slows it down, kisses her softer, wills herself to come back to reality. Their shirts come off and Kayla’s breathless as she meets her for another kiss. The girl wraps her arms around Kayla’s neck and Kayla’s chest shakes. Breathe. Thunder claps again and Kayla closes her eyes tight, hands bruising on the other girl’s hips.

Between the other girl begging her to take her and the absolute need for distraction, Kayla’s pulled the other girl’s pants down and her right hand’s working wonders on covering the sound of thunder with something else. The lightning flashes still remind her of mortars, but Kayla works the other girl to a different sort of explosion and somehow that’s enough to ground her for a bit.

The storm fades and Kayla becomes softer, lets the tiredness of keeping her demons at bay show and the other girl, Aisha, takes over in mending what the last six years has done to her.

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Remember when people didn’t vote in part because of an active propaganda campaign by a hostile power to make people in swing jurisdictions feel like voting wasn’t going to matter...

Russia’s up to shit again. It is in their interest if President Orange Terror continues to have the power to send your country down the porcelain pisshole.

And to some degree, you’re not wrong: Yes, you’re fighting an uphill battle in the next US election. The system is set up for you to fail. We were fighting one here in Canada in 2015, where the system is literally set up so the biggest minority wins (the whole point was to frustrate the will of the majority, if you read the early writings of those setting up the system), and our government was actively engaging in voter suppression (with ID laws, “phone bombs” - i.e., mass calling of confirmed non-supporters on election day to make it difficult to get out the door - challenging of voter registrations, scare tactics, and misleading robocalls and targeted online ads, where voters were directed to the wrong polling station) and preventing existing government institutions from doing their job in countering these activities (they de-funded and revoked the authority of Elections Canada to advertise to Canadians about our rights and about the correct polling station information). We were set up to fail. We won anyway. We won by getting out the vote in such numbers and with such strategic vision that it overwhelmed their attempts to suppress us. Did we win the best outcome? No. But what we did achieve was the ouster of a government actively hostile to gender, race, and religious equality. And that was a big win. I’d argue it was the best outcome that was possible. And we achieved it by energizing the vote, and drowning the government’s disinformation campaigns in correct information about how and when to vote, how and when to register, helping each other register, giving each other drives to the polling stations, and where appropriate, taking the government to court.

To totally mangle a metaphor, you don’t win an uphill battle by taking your ball and going home. That cedes the fight to the other side, for free. Do you want to hand Trump control of your country for two more years on a silver fucking platter? Cuz that’s how you hand Trump control of your country for two more years on a silver fucking platter. You don’t win anything that way.

You win by digging in and fighting harder than they think you can, slyer than they think you can, longer than they think you will. They don’t have to beat you, they just have to make you frustrated enough to give up, and you’ll beat yourself. So don’t give up.

Look at it this way: Cynicism is cool, but cynicism enables those in power. Cynicism is cowardice in a fad hat. Cynicism keeps people down, keeps them supporting the status quo by default because “it’s not like anything’s gonna change anyway.” It prevents them from seeing that what keeps shit the same is that everyone’s too damn cynical and resigned to the status quo to demand change. Go ahead and be cynical if you want, but do it with the knowledge that cynicism gets fuck-all done.

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Never mind the cannabis hype — the real buzz is around AI

It feels like a good week to talk about bubbles.

The temperature in Montreal was close to freezing on Oct. 18, yet the lineup at the Société québécoise du cannabis store on Ste-Catherine Street wrapped around the block for a second consecutive day.

Irrational exuberance? Or a symbol of all the wealth that suppliers will generate? There surely is some degree of excess when factory farms are likened to Amazon and Google just because they grow marijuana instead of tomatoes.

Cryptocurrencies and blockchains were going to change the world in 2017. Now, it looks like those innovations will be used simply to upgrade the plumbing of the existing financial system. Valuations are correcting as a result. Bet you a bitcoin that pot is on a similar path.

This brings us to another technology that definitely will change the world, and also has some bubbly characteristics.

Canada to host G7 conference on artificial intelligence in Montreal in December

Canadian firms fall behind in adoption of artificial intelligence

Revolution AI: Small businesses get smarter with artificial intelligence

If the fun Canadian business story of the moment is cannabis, the serious one is artificial intelligence (AI). When Stephen Poloz, the Bank of Canada governor, devoted a speech to creative destruction last month, he wasn’t thinking about pot. AI will reshape entire industries; tens of thousands of jobs will be taken over by computers, (hopefully) at least as many will be created in the process.

“In the future, AI is going to be as normal and as natural as the electricity in this room right now,” Carolina Bessega, chief scientific officer at Stradigi AI, told me in an interview at the company’s headquarters in Montreal earlier this month. “Nobody is going to talk about it because everyone is going to use it and have it.”

Bessega’s future is coming at us quickly.

Less than five years ago, Stradigi was just another developer of custom software. Then a retail chain asked the company to clean up a very messy inventory system. The job required sorting tens of thousands of items into a single database. It would have taken a human months to do it. So Bessega went to her boss, Basil Bouraropoulos, the chief executive, and said that she might be able to build an AI system that could do the work in a couple of hours. She was right; the gamble worked and the client was happy.

Bouraropoulos, an entrepreneur with a background in coding, refocused his company immediately. “We didn’t go into AI because it was a bubble, because in 2014 the bubble wasn’t there,” he said. “The bubble really started in 2016.”

Like pot, crypto, and blockchain, there’s some froth around AI too. Thousands of tickets for the annual Neural Information Processing Systems conference, which this year will be held in Montreal during the first week of December, apparently sold out in about 10 minutes. Something called the AI-Powered Supply Chains Supercluster, spanning the “Quebec-Windsor corridor,” won a share of the Trudeau government’s $950-million fund to create innovation hubs, enough to convince some of you that AI must be a loser if it needs Ottawa’s help. One of Bouraropoulos’s challenges is convincing clients that Stradigi is legitimate and not party of the hype.

“You see companies just adding ‘AI’ or ‘dot AI.’ I’ve seen it over and over,” he said. “We’ve even had questions from clients, `Are you really an AI company?’ My answer is always, `I’d love to have you visit our offices and see that we really have 30 PhD’s sitting in here’.”

I saw the 30 PhD’s; they exist. They soon will be joined by about a dozen more to help Stradigi keep up with a surge in demand, including a new partnership with Seattle-based Cray Inc., the publicly traded maker of supercomputers that generated (US) $392 million in revenue in 2017. After taking its time, Stradigi is stepping out from under the shadow of Mila, the Montreal-based AI lab founded by Yoshua Bengio, a pioneer of the field.

“They are doing a fantastic job and if you look at their plans for the future, I really see that Canada is going to be the leader in AI,” Bouraropoulos said. “I am very confident saying that, and I’m very confident that we are going to be a huge part of it as well.”

I’m inclined to believe him, because Bouraropoulos and Bessega were rare executives I’ve talked to this year who didn’t complain about a labour shortage. That’s a serious issue in a lot of industries, but not in AI apparently. If talented scientists are lining up to work for companies such as Stradigi, the industry should be able to grow quickly.

Only a couple of years ago, Canada’s best graduates were rushing to the United States. Now, that migration pattern has reversed. That might surprise those who think Canada’s personal tax rates are too high to compete in tech. The cost of living in places such as San Francisco and New York has become so expensive that Canadian cities such as Montreal and Toronto can compete easily, even if the taxes are higher, said Bouraropoulos.

It also helps that the U.S. has become hostile to immigrants. Canada becomes an easy second choice, especially if it means working in the orbit of world-class researchers such as Bengio.

“For people who are not from the United States, the situation in the United States is not easy,” said Bessega, a native of Venezuela. “That plays in our advantage.”

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In my entire adult life, I don’t think I’ve seen anything quite like the Jordan Peterson phenomenon.

In less than two years, the Canadian psychology professor emerged from obscurity to become an international best-selling author with a massive online following. In the process, he’s morphed into a self-help guru of sorts, railing against identity politics and dispensing tough advice to (mostly) young alienated men.

Peterson has stirred up a ton of controversy, particularly on the left. But I find him oddly fascinating, even though I think he gets some important things terribly wrong. For example, he seems to think that because social hierarchies are natural, they must therefore be desirable or just. That’s an old fallacy in the philosophical world, and Peterson appears to commit it regularly.

Nevertheless, compared to most of the gasbags filling up our collective headspace, Peterson is reliably smart and interesting. I’ve tried to interview him twice now, but he has declined both times.

So I reached out to Kate Manne, a professor of philosophy at Cornell University and the author of Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny. Manne recently reviewed Peterson’s book, 12 Rules for Life, and, unlike many Peterson critics, actively engaged with his ideas.

Over the course of our discussion, we talked about what Peterson gets wrong, why his audience is overwhelmingly white, straight, and male, and we analyze some of the, um, strangest passages from his new book.

Manne argues that Peterson’s appeal among young white men has to do with the “undeniable progress that has been made in extending opportunities to a wider range of people,” which leads to more competition in areas “they often expected and sometimes felt entitled to dominate.”

A lightly edited transcript of our conversation follows.

Sean Illing

Peterson has this recurring interest in identifying social hierarchies, which resonates with people who think they’re in danger of losing their privileged position or are resentful about having lost it. This is something you really home in on in your review of his book.

Kate Manne

Yeah. I mean, it’s striking. There’s an interesting moment in the book where Peterson talks about resentment as a “revelatory” emotion that can mean one of two things: One, you feel it because you’re immature, in which case you just need to buck up. Two, you feel resentment because you really are being oppressed or taken advantage of, somehow. Your resentment shows you that something needs to change or that you need to assert yourself in relation to other people.

But there is clearly a third possibility. People often feel resentful because they appear, based on historically entrenched social norms, to be getting a bad bargain, when what’s actually happening is that others are getting a somewhat fairer deal. When you’re accustomed to unjust privilege, equality feels like oppression, as the saying goes.

Sean Illing

What do you think is the biggest mistake — moral, philosophical, or otherwise — that Peterson makes in the book?

Kate Manne

His idea (in chapter six of his book) that what leads to mass shootings in general and school shootings in particular, is a kind of ahistorical, existential angst, or a crisis of Being — that’s the phrase he uses! — about the despair and misery and suffering of human beings.

Peterson thereby takes on a huge burden of explaining why white women, people of color, nonbinary folks, and so on, almost never act on our existential angst and despair in this way.

Because, as you know, the vast majority of school shooters have been white men.

I also think the way Peterson cherry-picked the few more dignified-sounding sentences from the diary of one of the Columbine killers, Eric Harris, was downright dishonest. As I wrote in my review, he failed to mention the fact that the majority of Harris’s diary was a virulently racist, misogynistic, homophobic, and ableist screed.

Harris, like many other mass killers, was obsessed with the very hierarchies whose importance or validity Peterson never really challenges or offers an alternative to.

“When you’re accustomed to unjust privilege, equality feels like oppression, as the saying goes.”

Sean Illing

Peterson has been called a “sexist” and a “misogynist.” To be honest, I’m not sure this is a fair characterization of his work, but I haven’t read his book, and I haven’t listened to all of his lectures. I’m curious what you think.

Kate Manne

As we’ve chatted about before, I draw a theoretical distinction in my own work between sexism and misogyny (though they are often tangled up in practice). Peterson’s book has numerous sections which I would characterize as sexist because they naturalize and rationalize a patriarchal social order.

Sean Illing

Can you cite specific passages as evidence of this?

Kate Manne

Sure. Here’s a passage that conveys what I’m talking about:

Boys are suffering, in the modern world. They are more disobedient—negatively—or more independent—positively—than girls, and they suffer for this, throughout their pre-university educational career. They are less agreeable (agreeableness being a personality trait associated with compassion, empathy and avoidance of conflict) and less susceptible to anxiety and depression, at least after both sexes hit puberty. Boys’ interests tilt towards things; girls’ interests tilt towards people. Strikingly, these differences, strongly influenced by biological factors, are most pronounced in the Scandinavian societies where gender-equality has been pushed hardest: this is the opposite of what would be expected by those who insist, ever more loudly, that gender is a social construct. It isn’t. This isn’t a debate. The data are in.

This is based more on sexist stereotypes than compelling scientific evidence. And even in the gender progressive environment of Scandinavia that Peterson mentions, it’s not as if all sexism and misogyny has been eradicated overnight; many patriarchal norms linger and are sometimes enforced, or whose breakdown has led to backlash.

As a result, there is currently no control group of people raised in a truly nonpatriarchal culture, which is what we’d need to investigate claims that men “naturally” prefer masculine-coded activities, and women “naturally” prefer feminist-coded ones.

I also suspect that, for many of Peterson’s readers, the sexism on display above is one tool among many to make forceful, domineering moves that are typical of misogyny. And I define misogyny as hostility certain women face, because they are women in a man’s world, rather than the hatred men harbor in their hearts toward all or even most women.

Misogyny, to me, is more about policing and controlling women’s behavior. Belittling her intellect or acumen in competitive domains is certainly one way of doing that — especially when backed by the sense that it’s in her womanly nature to be oriented to people rather than abstractions. But that’s a false contrast: You can be both.

Jordan Peterson in Toronto in 2016. Carlos Osorio/Toronto Star via Getty Images

Sean Illing

I know that Peterson received some criticism recently for endorsing, or appearing to endorse, “enforced monogamy.” To be fair, this is a very particular anthropological term that doesn’t imply that the government is literally forcing people into monogamous relationships, but instead refers to social policies that incentivize monogamy.

What does he actually say about this in the book?

Kate Manne

He said that subsequently, in a New York Times piece, I believe, in response to the point that school shooters are often sexually, romantically, and socially frustrated young men. This suggestion is classic, straight-up misogyny, according to my definition of it.

Peterson has since waffled about what he meant, but I’m mostly interested in how the proposal would naturally be understood by ordinary readers, which leaves little room for charitable interpretation or plausible deniability in this case.

Peterson is very closed-mouthed about the prevalence of domestic violence, marital rape, and intimate partner homicide in the context of the idea of enforced monogamy. So if you’re trying to prevent male violence, enforcing heterosexual monogamy seems a remarkably poor way to go about it — as well as obviously infringing on women’s entitlement to orient themselves toward whatever and whomever they wish (other women, multiple partners, and their own projects and ambitions). Monogamous relationships are just one potentially valid option among many, all of which have risks and rewards, costs and benefits.

Sean Illing

I’ll say this about Peterson: He is far more interesting than most of the gasbags currently occupying our collective headspace. But I also see him morphing into a celebrity-performer as his influence grows. He’s developing a customer base, and that means he risks becoming more of a salesman than an intellectual.

Kate Manne

As far as being more interesting than the average anti-feminist crusader goes, that seems right — but the bar is none too high at the moment. As to the populist quality of his persona, I think that’s already evident in his book. I’ve never read a book preface quite like it. He uses smiling emojis. He talks about how much his agent liked his book proposal. He talked about the percentage of Quora users who viewed and upvoted his answer to the question that inspired the book, and elatedly reports one comment that he had “won at Quora.” [Author’s note: The question was, “What are the most valuable things everyone should know?”]

I mean … okay, but who cares? If he wants to be truly excellent, he should aim to make the best contribution he can, not measure himself by the size of his celebrity. The idea of winning or dominating others as an end in itself is one I tend to find objectionable.

Sean Illing

What do you find most interesting or challenging in Peterson’s ideas? Or what has perplexed you the most about how his ideas have been received?

Kate Manne

Honestly? I think the fact he’s not been called to account for saying some really eyebrow-raising, authoritarian-sounding, and even cruel, things in his book.

Sean Illing

Give me an example.

Kate Manne

One part of the book that I found disturbing was when Peterson responded in his capacity as a psychologist to a particular client. According to Peterson, the client announced, “I think I’ve been raped.” He wrote that he immediately thought that alcohol was involved.

How else to understand “I think”? But that wasn’t the end of the story. She added an extra detail: “Five times.” The first sentence was awful enough, but the second produced something unfathomable. Five times? What could that possibly mean? My client told me that she would go to a bar and have a few drinks. Someone would start to talk with her. She would end up at his place or her place with him. The evening would proceed, inevitably, to its sexual climax. The next day she would wake up, uncertain about what happened—uncertain about her motives, uncertain about his motives, and uncertain about the world.

Miss S, we’ll call her, was vague to the point of non-existence. She was a ghost of a person. She dressed, however, like a professional. She knew how to present herself, for first appearances … Miss S knew nothing about herself. She knew nothing about other individuals. She knew nothing about the world. She was a movie played out of focus. And she was desperately waiting for a story about herself to make it all make sense.

I’d raise an alternative explanation: Maybe she was raped — five times, as she stated — and then was effectively undermined or even gaslit by her therapist. To be clear, I’m not saying that that is what happened. I can’t possibly know, on the basis of what Peterson writes here. But I’d certainly like to know more, and I’m surprised Peterson has not yet been asked about these and similar passages, in which he comes across as highly contemptuous of female clients.

Later, he goes on to say this about the woman:

Who are you? What did you do? What happened? What was the objective truth? There was no way of knowing the objective truth. And there never would be. There was no objective observer, and there never would be. There was no complete and accurate story. Such a thing did not and could not exist. There were, and are, only partial accounts and fragmentary viewpoints.

Funnily and sadly enough, Peterson sounds like a stereotypical postmodernist here — one of his chief intellectual foes. And it doesn’t seem accidental that his skepticism about objective facts arises when it’s conveniently anti-feminist.

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The Corteum/Anunnaki essentially appointed Fifteen as their liaison to the ACIO, and Fifteen became the first to utilize the intelligence accelerator technologies that the Corteum/Anunnaki initially offered. These technologies not only enhance cognitive abilities, memory, and higher order thinking skills, but also enhance the consciousness of the individual so that they can utilize the newly gained intelligence in a non-invasive manner. Meaning, they don’t exploit their intelligence for personal gain at the expense of others. This apparent increase in both Fifteen’s IQ and ethical consciousness caused him to create the Labyrinth Group in order to retain the pure-state technologies of the Corteum TTP from the NSA. What technologies are released to the NSA are diluted forms of the pure-state technology, which are significantly less potent in their military and surveillance applications. What I expected to hear from Dr. Neruda was a secret organization of intelligent, evil elitists – individuals intent on exploitation and control. Why else would they want to hide beneath the cloak of such incredible secrecy? The answer, according to Dr. Neruda, was surprising. The Labyrinth Group view themselves as the only group with sufficient intellect and technology to develop a specific form of time travel technology. They are essentially focused on this agenda because they desire to prevent future hostilities that they believe will occur unless this technology is developed. The Corteum is assisting, but despite their considerable intellects, they have been unable to develop this technology. What I’m about to tell you will seem impossible to believe, but again, I’m only reporting what my notes say based on my initial conversations with Dr. Neruda. He explained to me that there are as many as 12 different extraterrestrial races currently involved in the past, present, and future of earth and its destiny. The ACIO, because of its mission with the NSA, is the most knowledgeable group about the various agendas of these 12 alien races. we are the cabincr3w and we hope you enjoy the ride. just make some popcorn. sit down. relax. and enjoy the show. https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/304610321279221760/331849208199905280/1033.gif **************************************************************************************************************************** ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ LEVEL NULL V.3. FOR ZERO RULES OPERATION : STATUS ACTIVE original website : http://nsbradio.co.uk spoof website under cicada3301 control : http://nsbradi0.co.uk original website : http://dnbradio.com spoof website under cicada3301 control : http://dnbradi0.com orginal website : http://cropcircleconnector.com spoof website under cicada3301 control : http://cropcircleconnect0r.com how to mindfuck well : http://www.nsbradi0.co.uk/forum/topic/2?page=1#post-2 -> Aaní - Memetized Chaos <- https://timoteopinto.wordpress.com/aani-memetized-chaos/ open login / reality glitch hack manifesto — by ÐŲMп委 ال — DaðŲ Miners психический 工人委 – remixed by Timoteo Pinto Individuals are encouraged and controlled into limiting their responses more and more through social media — limiting their circles of influence and friendships — by hardening character armour and becoming cliches, shallow and representations of themselves. In other words social media encourages individuals to close their minds. The multiple user name / open login project is designed to do this: Firstly we intervene on the General Intellect: by sharing identities we disrupt the surveillance of social media. tagging ourselves as Tae Ateh, Timóteo Pinto, TimóTae Pinteh, Sarah Gulik (or other shared identities) we disrupt the facial recognition algorithms used to identify us. Using a login shared also disrupts the algorithms used to predict and influence behaviour both online and offline. Secondly we manifest as the Human Species Being: by sharing our production we, as workers, become able to empathise more with each other. By sharing identity we can take on each others manners, habits, intimate thoughts and therefore transcend as well as share our own. Thirdly we can identify more with non-human workers — namely the internet and technology that we are using and is being used to use us. Data moshing and data bending is like the chaos acting on the perfektion of the computers. Since identities are Binaries and Hex codes, that put together makes reality. Or at least a digital version of it. The spectacle. The idea of moving some binaries some 1s and 0s from one place do another, in order to glitch identity and making it look chaotic, is like a Golden Apple from modernity. Some instructions in challenging times: 1. Don’t use your name; 2. Remember your ego is a regime and is much more dangerous than any entity or organisation in the perceived external world; 2b. Remember the external world is a regime and is much more dangerous than any entity or organisation in your perceived ego; 3. Focus on awareness, not your mental state; 4. Keep your message fnord; the ego wants you to be this and not that because this is the soil from which your sense of self identity will grow; 5. No more helpless/hopeless talk. No more; no less. 6. Support artists and the arts; 7. Be careful when you spread fake news. Check it. Is it real? Is it lulzworthy? 8. Take care of yourselves. 8a. Nothing is real. Everything is permitted. 8b. Keep your laser handy! 9. Resist the temptation to believe in all this bullshit! 10. At the end of the day, ALL YOU HAVE is your S.H.I.T. (Self-Hypnotic Ideational Trance) , so use it wisely. The following accounts use various different open names — including Tae Ateh. We choose Tae Ateh because it is non gender or nation specific. https://timoteopinto.wordpress.com/open-login-reality-glitch-hack-manifesto%e2%80%8a-%e2%80%8aby-dum%d0%bf%e5%a7%94-%d8%a7%d9%84%e2%80%8a-%e2%80%8adadu-miners-%d0%bf%d1%81%d0%b8%d1%85%d0%b8%d1%87%d0%b5%d1%81%d0%ba/ This document is written by REproductiVe wOrkers and Lovers indUsTrIal uniON (REVOLUTION) — a one-person organisation with only one member: Tae Ateh — a Multiple-User name begun in Belarus by the Asemic International but spread to Brazil, England and beyond. And later remixed, glitched, mindfucked, copywronged by Timoteo Pinto, a Multiple-User name originated from the Brazilian Discordian Society, MultiCabal of the Very Confused. Contact Tae Ateh: dx <at> antisystemic.org 00 44 (0) 7947 734 736 CLASS, Arjuna, 12 Mill Road, Cambridge CB1 2AD Contact Timoteo Pinto (https://medium.com/@timoteopinto) Reality Glitch Hack on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/groups/1620224928206011/) Reality Glitch Hack on Pinterest (https://br.pinterest.com/wodouvhaox/reality-glitch-hack/) Reality Glitch Hack on Tumblr (http://tudismocroned.tumblr.com/) please use the clicable version to get full access : http://adacic1033.com/pages/view/491756/thegame23 ::: KSTXI - The most Ancient Conspiracy on the Planet ::: WHAT IS TRUE? Since the 1980s, much has been speculated about on the activity of the Russian command on the globe. Many conspiracies, mysteries and absurd experiences is lurking in the minds of ordinary people. After the Cold War and with the information released by former Russian agent killed by poisoning, brought to light some of the greatest enigmas that the military agencies of the former Soviet Union are included. What is discussed here is on one of the research groups in the field of neuroscience that the Russian government has been developing over the decades. Not sure if the team still keeps developing research in the area, but some signs indicate that there are still some of the old staff fragments. research teams are formed in general by teachers and specialists doctors in any specific area. The government provides funds for the search can be performed. If there is no production promoting is cut. Thus works for any research group. In 1940 a research group led by Professor MOLODKINA began his research in the field of neuroscience about the biochemical behavior when people were exposed front of several scenes that invoke specific feelings such as anxiety, sadness, joy, laughter, sleep, anxiety , anger, hunger, compassion, sexual arousal, etc. Professor Molodkina obtained some interesting results comparing it with the results of Pavlov’s experiment. A decade later Molodkina had a partnership with POLUKAROV, which had obtained The KSTXI Around 1995, a group of Russian scientists relying on experts in the fields of neuroscience, psychology and programming initiated a technical program mentally behavior or induce memory loss through visual codes patterns that stimulate certain regions of the human brain. Recently some of these experiences were observed in the global internet network with exposing some alleged videos that have been made by the team. The theory of mental reprogramming is based on results in developer programming, an expert on cyber defense, Eugene Kaspersky. It is not part of the team, as some have speculated, but his ideas are the basis of some techniques used by KSTXI team. Some reports indicate that during the Cold War, KSTXI was a team of researchers that was part of a nearby agency’s headquarters 401 IAP. This time it is not known what type of research was developed, although there is speculation that the group developed a fuel cell to be incorporated into military satellites. Some of the space technologies would come from this mysterious group. THE EXPERIMENT It was divided into 5 groups of 5 people and were exposed front videos with some kind of emotion involved. These emotions are listed below: Glee Sadness Ache Compassion Will Tranquility Passion Laughter Sleep Sexual Arousal Missing Nostalgia Respect Idolatry Obedience Each group was exposed to pictures and videos that matched the feeling / emotion listed above. Brain activity in people indicated to be associated in the same region when they were exposed before images of joy, for example. Happy people, children running in a park, radiant smiles, etc., stimulated specific regions in the brain. On this information, the scientists exposed the same people before geometric figures and looked to see which regions would stimulate. Some geometric figures, such as a square, could be associated with the sense of obedience. From there, some changes were made and determined an approximate formula to cause certain behaviors. A session of 15 min with a video geometries patterns having square, rectangles and circles were conducted in a group and found that after a period of time (a 20-day cycle) the group exposed behaved differently. For before starting the sessions, they did a short interview to trace a personality profile. They noted that after the 20th cycle, people in the group had a more passive behavior, which is consistent with the feeling / emotion obedience. This was induced. Scientists are unable to display the videos with geometric patterns and waited until the effect when passed. They noted that two of the five members of the group turned their personality characteristics in 7 days, while the others only got the normal features after 11 days. Another group went through the same sessions and had similar effects. However they needed 27 days and the inhibition of the effects in 17 days. It was observed that the time has a direct influence on the characteristics of the primary personality and IQ. The higher the IQ, the harder it is to enter the associated condition. This is achieved by the reluctance of the will of the individual and logic capacity that it presents. A skeptic, for example, would have a thicker layer to your subconscious. USE OF RESULTS With the results in hand, the Russian government would have a key to manipulate social individuals causing them to any military action. The use could be from military (within the enterprise) to interpersonal to cause some discomfort with a particular situation. The military undergo a battery induction before proceeding to the battlefield, especially the most rebellious soldiers, which are induced to have more passivation before the orders of the commanders. WHAT IS TRUTH, WHICH IS LIE Importantly, this is not brainwashed. It’s just an inductor. It is almost equivalent to the process of hypnosis. As much as conspirólogos insist that is a form of brainwashing, the researchers have not published the method can eliminate memories or add new information. Only the results published are consistent with the inducer method by geometric patterns. There are some videos circulating on the Internet global networks appearing to be those who KSTXI used in the sessions. But the KSTXI to be a government agency, would have the right to publish such videos, unless the results of the research. Although no longer a search Top Secret, videos and formulas would be government ownership, and those with authorship rights over the same. What if there is that there are people who go through KSTXI to draw attention. These people are generally people who like to make hoax or some kind of entertainment. Known More, Understand Less on these links: http://kstxi.tumblr.com/ https://timoteopinto.wordpress.com/ http://fnord.forumotion.com/forum ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ NOW PLEASE ALWAYS READ THE PASTEBIN PIN THIS PASTEBIN WILL BE ALWAYS UPDATED IN REAL TIME kstxi operation progression normal : waiting for http server for propagation : if no action : purge discord for new concurrent THIS INSTRUCTIONS CANT BE MODIFY : THIS PORTION IS FOR CYBERWARFARE STRATEGIC COMMAND UNIT FROM IDENTIFIANT : STO-570-EEOI 1) znnm-hotw 2) fhkg-qrbl 3) mytd-kwui 4) pyyg-ephu 5) ejhm-hmde 6) lsvy-deud 7) qepp-vhci 8) qxim-pvoj 9) lvea-zqdl 10) yxxs-gumn 11) omhx-rvcq 12) zxup-nygg 13) gbrg-vhqb 14) tbxf-rwfa 15) pmws-ibav 16) vqpb-lkcg 17) cmkt-nisu 18) wptx-dlkb 19) cnii-ydwk 20) rtut-czwa ************************************************************************************************************************************* Instruction for mod33:33 : 1)you need a ftp or http server to be able to receive many documentation on many multimedia form at all time of the day : we made software modification on the ones we ask you to use : no vault7 software hack inside thoses server : http://adacic1033.com/2017-07-09_103738.jpg http://adacic1033.com/file/view/134/operation-mindfuck-server http://adacic1033.com/2017-07-09_104855.jpg http://adacic1033.com/file/view/323553/http-server-after-777 (filefix_1) http://urlcut.biz/other-http-server-ok-for-the-game-23 http://urlcut.biz/other-server-ok-for-the-game-23-v2 figure it out how to make it work...dont ask us...all information about it is all over the web and this is really easy to do it. now for the case of people with no access to the router for port redirection : follow this path : 1)log on http://dot.tk 2)create a brand new domain name ending .ga exemple : http//supra-me.ga : http://supra-ome.ga : http://supra-amne.ga only thoses domain name ending are ask for thegame23 for now : omega mega and amnega when creatin your domain : use personal dns server setup option an set all 4 dns server to thoses one`s: ns1.hostinger.fr ns2.hostinger.fr ns3.hostinger.fr ns4.hostinger.fr when this setup done : send your brand new domain name to this twitter account for hosting your domain and to get your personnal ftp access: https://twitter.com/cicada33oi you can also use this option with the domain name you create : if you choose hosting yourself your brand new domain name on tumblr you have to give us access to this website by sending the user name and the password to this twitter account : https://twitter.com/cicada33oi we give you also the opportunity to get .hol.es end domain name : we ask you to choose a name related to white rabbit and stuff related to rabbit : we host also this domain : just poke the twitter account -----> https://twitter.com/cicada33oi with your domain name ending in .hol.es for server activation and personal credential. all .onions server and hidden services are permitted : this is the same procedure we have to get access to the site for files deposit and personnal and custom instruction for the webmaster of this .onions or hidden service. all real player have to be log on discord : https://discord.gg/AdqHhPC and keep it lock inside. only 1000 hangaround will be tolerated. only 1000 soldier-recruit position are wanted. many officer from the cicada armada will going in and out all the time. many soldier will be graduate to officer status in the progression on thegame23. hangaround will disapear slowly with this progression gaming. all hangaround suppose to get soldiers status fast an easy and be able to graduate officer in a short while. all people connecting to discord get automatic hangaround status and loose personality to be egal to each other in the challenging and get a personnal numeric idendification : this personal numeric identifiant will be match with your brand new fake identity we ask you to create on this site : http://www.fakenamegenerator.com/ when your identity choosen you have to scroll down the whole page and get your personnal qr associate with your fake profil : http://adacic1033.com/2017-07-09_122355.jpg like this one : http://adacic1033.com/2017-07-09_122530.jpg before sending it to us for profil completation and validation we ask you to make a check of the qr code here and be sure this is leading to your fake profile with this online qr reader tool : https://zxing.org/w/decode.jspx this qr code image is also now your image avatar on all thegame23 connected of linked stuff : mean you have to get this qr code for avatar on discord : this is invisibility basic technic anti botnet. as soon you get your qr code we ask you to send in discord in the room name #identity the way show in this picture : http://adacic1033.com/2017-07-09_125135.jpg just like that : http://adacic1033.com/2017-07-09_125216.jpg all new domain name host by us will have to install a list of custom plugin : all website will be basic wordpress ready to use with a front page showing your qr code and matching your discord hangaround number : 4 color of background possible : red yellow blue or green /all color are egal: dont worry for people outside the discord room you look like all normal with you own personnal aka like this picture is showing it : http://adacic1033.com/2017-07-09_130616.jpg you can easily promote the room access by using this http link : http://chat-ome.ga/ on this webpage you can see the time playing left for thegame23 mod33:33 NUll version 3 this is set for may first 2020 11 h 11 m 11 s http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x319p7n_may-one-thegame23_news and you can use the gate for the social network http://cicada-ome.ga this website is not tolerated profil spammer and profil witout picture and nice profil detail. true or fake.you have to be something or somebody for us. fake or not we dont care. just be a real fake : this is better then to be a weak fake real. you have to use this access to get your personnal http header : http://cicada-ome.ga dont use the gate : http://chat-ome.ga : use the primary dns for profil creation http://adacic1033.com is still in auto spam bot propagation attack mod for a while generating 2000 hyperlink a day. adacic1033.com is botnet cyberwarfare website. we are now the biggest website about cicada3301 in the world. welcome in the game 232323232323232323232323232323232232323232323232323232323232323232323232323223232323232323232323232323232323232323232323232323232323 232323232323232323232323232323232232323232323232323232323232323232323232323223232323232323232323232323232323232323232323232323232323 232323232323232323232323232323232232323232323232323232323232323232323232323223232323232323232323232323232323232323232323232323232323 232323232323232323232323232323232232323232323232323232323232323232323232323223232323232323232323232323232323232323232323232323232323 http://adacic1033.com/pages/view/229479/23-enigma 232323232323232323232323232323232232323232323232323232323232323232323232323223232323232323232323232323232323232323232323232323232323 232323232323232323232323232323232232323232323232323232323232323232323232323223232323232323232323232323232323232323232323232323232323 232323232323232323232323232323232232323232323232323232323232323232323232323223232323232323232323232323232323232323232323232323232323 we are liber primus protector and liber primus warriors http://liber-primus-ome.ga/ we are the lucky book masters. we are the master of all c0de. http://www.luckbook.eu/ http://adacic1033.com/2017-07-09_142422.jpg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zslWU0Xj2I4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaL6hCcOMTs for people with ftp access on other server : you have to set this tool for next chunk chunk attack : http://adacic1033.com/file/view/53730/screen-capture-software-with-ftp-capability sometime you have to use passive mod to make it work. other screen captures tools we autorized in thegame23 for chunk chunk attack is : https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/lightshot-screenshot-tool/mbniclmhobmnbdlbpiphghaielnnpgdp?hl=fr (chrome) https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/lightshot/ (firefox) when using light shot dont use the short url link generate on the webpage opening first : go over your screen capture image and right clic the image and copy the link of the image instead. that way your image will be visible like an image and not only like a simple link. we give you also the possibility to use one of our private images hosting servers : just set the fastone capture tool to this ftp server : ftp://public-image-server-ome.ga/ or this one http://this-image-is-hosted-on-private-server-ome.ga/ ask on twitter you personnal ftp access to this account : https://twitter.com/cicada33oi http://adacic1033.com/file/view/53730/screen-capture-software-with-ftp-capability thegame23 is multi composite alternate reality game create by strong military artificial intelligence to match all game existing over the internet : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDTfn1aLapM pm2012 was a part of thegame23 and pm2020 is part of thegame23 and badselfeater is a part of thegame23 : cicada3301 is also a part of thegame23 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MtWqNqJxY4 http://veridoctores.wixsite.com/cunctus-lexis/project--2020 ************************************************************************************************************************************** ************************************************************************************************************************************** gaming target referencing list : 1) defango organisation : c.i.a. / illuminati /n.s.a/ mossad/ (satanic) http://www.defango.com/ http://www.tera-byte.com/whois.php?domain=defango.com&Check=Valider http://sprunge.us/JWRb http://sprunge.us/IBeI create a fake account with full description and picture on this wiki with your fake indentity generator : use your qr code for avatar. http://www.defango-is-fat-me.ga/tiki-index.php (need to be updated) last warning to defango from cicada3301 division kstxi agency : https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/304595797918482435/334677061064982528/Slide11.jpg https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/304595797918482435/334676890277249024/Slide10.jpg 2) tengri-137 organisation : mossad : gchq (satanic) https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/304595797918482435/334110336527630336/2017-07-10_1914071.jpg last warning send to tengri137 unit from cicada3301 division kstxi agency: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/304595797918482435/334659841849032704/Slide33.jpg 3) wikia uncovering cicada organisation : c.i.a./gchq (satanic) http://uncovering-cicada.wikia.com/wiki/Message_Wall:Zozyslnlzetmail.com http://webchat.freenode.net/ http://adacic1033.com/2017-07-10_194851.jpg usefull tool for attack : http://come-and-chat-with-super-moron-and-ultra-ga.ga/ http://planet-ome.ga/ 4)Niantic project organisation : darpa/otan/onu : n.s.a/c.i.a. (satanic) http://www.nianticproject.com/ http://adacic1033.com/2017-07-12_124728.jpg 5)S.V.V Organization : c.i.a : (satanic) original website : http://humanisbeing.com/ https://infantes.humanisbeing.com/ http://adacic1033.com/2017-07-12_123330.jpg spoof website : http://www.infantes-humanisbeing-amne.ga/ feed : http://www.infantes-humanisbeing-amne.ga/index screen capture : http://adacic1033.com/2017-07-18_114500.jpg http://adacic1033.com/2017-07-18_122319.jpg http://adacic1033.com/2017-07-12_123434.jpg last warning send : http://www.infantes-humanisbeing-amne.ga/video/view/1 http://www.adacic1033.com/svv-are-fagget.html chatroom backup : https://pastebin.com/Su7yrBQt genesis backup : https://pastebin.com/e9WPYPdK https://pastebin.com/qAXwrCxw 6)http://worldcorpo.net/ (pizzagate/pedogate) counter mesure : https://vimeo.com/user55131691 general background : https://pastebin.com/UcDLvuV1 7)https://valhallamovement.com/ send all dox and info on this 4chan clone at this url : http://4chan-ome.ga/b/ ************************************************************************************************************************************** http://strawberryperl.com/download/5.26.0.1/strawberry-perl-5.26.0.1-32bit.msi http://strawberryperl.com/download/5.26.0.1/strawberry-perl-5.26.0.1-64bit.msi ************************************************************************************************************************************** ************************************************************************************************************************************** underground psyops by global force omega in development : i was : http://adacic1033.com/2017-07-13_211829.jpg ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ Ninja style operation : https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/304595797918482435/334675305312550912/ninja_style.gif ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ Erroriste style operation : http://adacic1033.com/2017-07-12_085913.jpg ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ W.t.f : re : we are what the fuck : we are wikileaks task force : http://www.wikileaks.ga/ we are global intelligence agency http://wikileaks-task-force-ome.ga : 1)create an account and use your qr-code like avatar : 2)fill all form with your fake identity : use fake mail from your fake identity generator : easier to remember : everything related to your identity can be found with your qr-code : dont loose it : use the same from the begenning of thegame23 mod33:33 until the end of that mod may first 2020 at 11:11:11:11 ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ if you cant use that fake mail use : http://en.getairmail.com/ https://trashmail.com/ we sugget you to set the mail redirection to your http://protonmail.com set your pgp public key on your proton mail : instruction soon instruction and background for nebel1999 operator and high psyops underground clandestine level agent : http://archive.li/85zK7 i am the credit sto-eeoi for nebel1999 : https://screenshots.firefox.com/SZM8vYGjoopRza82/archive.li 1)https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/304595797918482435/335066999292035073/dlauop9a1da1.gif http://adacic1033.com/2017-07-13_204400.jpg 2)http://www.auplod.com/u/uoadlp9a1d8.gif http://adacic1033.com/2017-07-13_204441.jpg 3)http://adacic1033.com/2017-07-13_204224.jpg 4)https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/304595797918482435/335067650948464641/2017-07-13_1038041.jpg 5)https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/304595797918482435/335068613537038338/2017-07-13_1042121.jpg 6)https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/304595797918482435/335069027237888021/2017-07-13_1043491.jpg 7)https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/304595797918482435/335069469623713802/2017-07-13_1045211.jpg 8)https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/304595797918482435/335224003864166402/luapdo9a20f1.gif 9)https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/304595797918482435/335224969510256660/luodpa9a2111.gif 10)http://adacic1033.com/2017-07-13_210540.jpg ************************************************************************************************************************************** ************************************************************************************************************************************** set your pgp public key on facebook :instruction soon ************************************************************************************************************************************** ************************************************************************************************************************************** ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ i am what i am : aethernet version : https://pastebin.com/geJm8EQy ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ ☬ ☮ ☯ all donation can be made via this link : http://www.adacic1033.com/bitcoin-adress.html ************************************************************************************************************************************** ************************************************************************************************************************************** we are everywhere : aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cua2lja3N0YXJ0ZXIuY29tL3Byb2plY3RzLzU2ODEyMzAzNC8xOTk5LW5lYmVsL3Bvc3RzLzE4NjAxOTgg ************************************************************************************************************************************** ************************************************************************************************************************************** go fuck yourself : aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cueW91dHViZS5jb20vd2F0Y2g/dj1Oc1YxWTY1SWNnSQ== 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9)http://adacic1033.com/2017-07-12_111935.jpg 10)https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/304595797918482435/334721944593104897/INTERRO.gif you can also make an account on the gaia worldwide brood academy with the same qr-code and the same credential from your fake generator : http://bellatoris-veritas-colle.ga/ we are everywhere and everything : you have to be everywhere and everybody : FRENCH SECTION : https://pastebin.com/M0wZMWeW http://www.nsbradi0.co.uk/groups/1 WHAT KIND OF PEOPLES WE NEED : arg player`s hacker`s 1337haxor`s programmer`s illustrator`s killuminati`s member`s Temporals retrospectives : Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ http://pastebin.com/nqgYMfPL Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ http://pastebin.com/mZmgW531 Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ http://pastebin.com/YbmG6ETq Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ http://pastebin.com/C7wW5bX1 Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ mQENBFjeOusBCAC1dbiW/mKy23kgVeTgM2+W9yiXOTreb6wuXrOWPFxbBuefGJsw FqtkPRioJ1JNRbyswM1Wm5Vt30DLJP7X1T9ZkMcRi8+/Enj4UlhDsKRN32wSQJJa a1qXQ5Kdo4ZoXOAC0zjW14VF4TBbq7aDRpn7SzzDyjGFiRl8fRKPlvZ1nzyfhC4J 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