[The Pipeline] The Great Reset is like an Anonymized Religious Movement
Creating a morally guided war-footing bureaucracy to remake the world is quite an undertaking. As a BBC summary of the Great Reset concept noted with British understatement, it is less an engineering manual than a sweeping vision. “The scope is huge—covering technology, climate change, the future of work, international security and other themes—and it’s difficult to see precisely what the Great Reset might mean in practice.”
At the very least it will mean specifying the moral code that will guide the enterprise; a compass defining what is “holy, sacred, absolute, spiritual, divine, or worthy of especial reverence…or attitudes towards the broader human community or the natural world,” to quote Encyclopedia Britannica’s definition of religion. Since the only way to solve the pandemic problem is to solve everything, the Great Reset becomes a blank check to do everything deemed good while avoiding evil. The obvious problem is identifying what is good and evil.
It would seem the first place to look for answers would be in our civilizational legacy, particularly in the great religions with millennia of evolutionary experience in trying to resolve these issues. These religions have evolved in the forge of schism, persecution, social collapse, and even pestilence, and hence their doctrines possess an evolutionary toughness that ideologies like political correctness have yet to demonstrate.
In fact, this was the way it used to be, but using the great religions as moral reference is problematic for the giant bureaucracies that need to create their own absolute justifications for their expansive agendas. Without a time-tested belief system to fall back on, governments must find a source of legitimacy to rearrange—i.e., “reset”—the world.
The most popular candidate for the next holy writ is science. After all, popular culture often assumes science can make the moral choices for us, an expectation often associated with the phrase “trust the science.”
After all, if science tells us the “truth” about the natural world, why can’t the “experts” also have the last word on moral questions such as whether and when to disconnect life-support systems and whether molecular biologists should be free to unravel the entire human genome without any intervention. Why can’t science tell us what virtue is?
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Blindly trust science without questioning or challenging theory. Light a votive candle before your statues of Gore and Fauci. Hang a tampon dispenser in the men’s bathroom. Sing the Tomas Dolby classic. Shun the unbeliever. Proceed to Candy Mountain.
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String Theory, Muon "wobble", Chaos Theory and the God Particle, more fun than Harry Potter Meets Robert Heinlein. Every discovery leads to more evidence that the universe and reality have a fabric reflecting intelligent design far beyond our hubris.
Desiderata excerpt:
"And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be. And whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul. With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy."
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Loose lips sink ships. Unless he is deliberately sowing fear, uncertainty, and doubt... ignoring the possibility of triggering a hot war between Russia and America.
The CIA is working with an unnamed 'NATO ally', according to Jack Murphy
Murphy was a former senior trainer and adviser to an Iraqi SWAT team
He said the CIA and President Biden are personally authorising missions
The clandestine campaign is behind many unexplained explosions and fires that have hit strategic or prominent facilities in recent months, says US expert Jack Murphy, an eight-year Army Special Operations veteran.
Separately other European intelligence services have allegedly been 'running operatives into Russia to create chaos without CIA help', as has Ukraine.
His claims follow as a new fire struck a shopping mall in Krasnodar region, in southern Russia, the latest in dozens of such incidents. It comes as Putin issued another chilling warning to the West on Christmas day.
In Ukraine today, air raid sirens have been going off around the country as some decide to move their Christmas day to avoid celebrating on the same day as Russia.
Oil and gas facilities, railways, fuel depots, power plants and shopping malls have been hit across Russia by mysterious explosions, with rumours of sabotage.
'The campaign involves long standing sleeper cells that the allied spy service has activated to hinder Moscow's invasion of Ukraine by waging a secret war behind Russian lines,' said Murphy in a post.
'The campaign is responsible for many of the unexplained explosions and other mishaps that have befallen the Russian military industrial complex since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February.'
He cited anonymous US sources including three former intelligence and two military officials, and a sixth source 'who has been briefed on the campaign'. "I talk to a lot of people"
The CIA has denied the allegations. The CIA's Publication Review Board (PRB) has evidently, approved the author's release of the story to the media.
The former officials declined to identify specific targets for the CIA-directed campaign, but railway bridges, fuel depots and power plants in Russia have all been damaged in unexplained incidents since the Kremlin launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February,' wrote Murphy on his website.
No US officials were involved on the ground, he said, but the strikes had used an 'allied intelligence service' and were approved by US president Joe Biden, he asserted.
'While command and control over the sabotage program resides with the CIA for legal reasons, the NATO ally has a strong say in which operations go forward since it is their people taking the risks.'
List of things that happened can be read at the link.
'The NATO ally's campaign overseen by the CIA is only one of several covert operations efforts being undertaken by Western nations in Russia,' said Murphy, attributing his claim to two former US special operations officials.
He claimed European intelligence services have activated long-dormant resistance networks, who in have been 'running operatives into Russia to create chaos without CIA help'.
Mick Mulroy, a former CIA paramilitary officer, reportedly said the value of these attacks is 'substantial' and serves multiple purposes.
He cited problems for Russia in keeping up with logistical supply lines and supplying its soldiers.
They also serve to sow doubt in Kremlin minds, because they show that Russian President Vladimir Putin 'does not have control over what is happening in his own country,' Mulroy said.
'Is it a covert program, is it disgruntled Russians sabotaging their own plant, or is it pure incompetence of the workers? I don't know, and perhaps the Kremlin doesn't either. This matters to paranoid autocrats.'
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No US officials were involved on the ground, he said, but the strikes had used an 'allied intelligence service' and were approved by US president Joe Biden, he asserted.
If Joe really is the one who is calling the shots without Baraq or Brennan whispering in his ear, that is about the scariest thing I've ever heard.
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Without further evidence, I remain skeptical on this one.
A bit more on the Twitter, Linked, Google, and FB 'Other Government Agency (OGA)' embeds here at home please.
Former employees current status, security clearance, compensation and benefits origination (pay stub), taxes, travel, contacts, email, lengths of assignment, rotations, that sort of thing.
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The fact that its being accomplished so effectively and quietly leaves out the CIA. Anyone acquainted with the repetitive and expansive exposure of American humint operatives knows how unlikely this is.
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Agree with Besoeker.
I am seeing a number of credibility flags.
If a person thinks Hillary cleans up leaks and dirt.
Then this guy either has a death wish, or is actually part of the mind game being played in Intel circles.
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Trying to improve the credibility of the CIA and deflect suspicion from someone else, (and damage Putin’s image and standing? Be careful what you wish for, and remember a cornered rabid dog is most dangerous.)
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More likely decades of poor maintenance and the sudden loss of trained personnel to the "war mobilization" plus a frosting of Murphy's Laws bakes this cake. Blaming the CIA for the milk souring in my refrigerator, forsooth...
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This eventuality must have Lindsey Graham more excited than when he watches the Men’s Olympic Diving competition. He seems to have a more thorough enthusiasm for causing chaos, death and conflagration than Ahmadinejad or Jack Nicholson’s version of the joker.
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Clausewitz: "War is the realm of uncertainty; three quarters of the factors on which action in war is based are wrapped in a fog of greater or lesser uncertainty."
Wilderness of Mirrors as every player has info ops underway in the public square. The Vizzini Iocaine Powder reasoning film clip comes to mind!
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Puerto Rico ought to take their lead. We are toothless woke team engaged only in the battle of pronoun enforcement.
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Procopius2K, there is far more history than that! Mimizuka: "The monument enshrines the severed noses of at least 38,000 Koreans and over 30,000 Chinese killed during Toyotomi Hideyoshi's invasions[1592 to 1598]."
'Ancient History, Dad!' someone might say, but this is the sort of events that cast ripples through a national psyche like the repeated invasions have on the peoples of China and Russia.
Turkey: either at your feet or at your throat, and now taking advantage of the fact that Joe Biden is the weakest American president since Jimmy Carter.
[Jpost] Turkey regards Greece as a peninsular state and points out that some of these islands are on the Turkish mainland’s continental shelf. "They breathe Turkish Air. Stolen oxygen. We shall take it back!"
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has taken a leaf out of his ally Vladimir Putin’s book and threatened Greece with a missile strike.
In a recent speech in Samsun, the president spoke of the progress made by Turkey’s defense industry, which is now 80% domestic. As examples, he gave the Bayraktar TB2 UAVs, which have revolutionized the face of modern warfare, and the development of the Akinci UCAV (unmanned combat aerial vehicle).
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NATO "ally". I thought their economy was in the shitter?
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They would just as soon give the Kurds the Armenian treatment, but if they can’t genocide the Kurds it looks they would be satisfied with whacking some Greeks. Erdogan is going Waffle House on somebody. I would send him an envoy to point out that Somalia was once part of the Ottoman Empire. If it wasn’t, just photoshop an old map. It is just to complicated to get him to invade Afghanistan.
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I would send him an envoy to point out that Somalia was once part of the Ottoman Empire
Somalia is grateful to President Erdogan for so generously training Somali police and army special forces, and funding schools, Super Hose. Quite possibly the schools were previously built and run by Gulenists, but our wannabe neo-Ottoman sultan gets credit now.
I would dearly love to see the Greeks beat the pants of the Gulenist-free Turkish army, deflating the legend as is happening to the Russian army, but I suspect Turkey won’t get beyond big talk.
[Gateway] "To be totally frank, almost every conspiracy theory that people had about Twitter turned out to be true. Is there a conspiracy theory about Twitter that didn’t turn out to be true? So far, they’ve all turned out to be true. If not more true than people thought."
Elon Musk has begun releasing Twitter files exposing what was really happening at Twitter.
Then-Twitter Deputy General Counsel James Baker was involved in the decision to suppress the Hunter Biden laptop story on Twitter.
This is despite the fact it was known the materials weren’t hacked.
Baker was fired by Elon Musk.
The Gateway Pundit previously reported:
One of the Twitter executives involved in the decision to suppress the Hunter laptop story in October 2020 was none other than former FBI lawyer James Baker.
Baker ’resigned’ from the FBI in 2018 and began working for Twitter in June 2020.
James Baker, Twitter’s Deputy General Counsel at the time, advised Twitter execs to block access to the Hunter Biden laptop story even though they knew the materials were not hacked.
Twitter was in constant contact with the FBI over the content on Twitter.
[American Thinker] It has just been reported by Human Events that in 2022, big tech lost $7.4 trillion. Perhaps it has to do with the fact that many are leaving the platforms due to their tyrannical policies, or -- in Twitter's case -- are rebuilding. Many of these companies reported groundbreaking numbers of layoffs. In Twitter’s case, Elon Musk rightfully fired half of the staff that Jack Dorsey had.
Human Events also reports that not one of the fifteen tech companies in the United States made a profit in 2022. This is a great thing. Consequently, due to the loss of money by these companies, many of the CEOs apologized for one mistake or another. However, they never come out and apologized for censoring conservative opinions.
Concerning Meta, Facebook’s parent company, Human Events reports, "after spending billions of dollars on the largely failing metaverse project, and forcing revenue to nosedive, CEO Mark Zuckerberg was forced to layoff around 11,000 employees and admit "I got this wrong." Moreover, Amazon lost more than $1 trillion in market value, becoming the first company to reach such a number. Accordingly, Microsoft lost more than $889 billion, laying off 8,000 employees. Apple, whose products are made in China, did not suffer the same losses. But the company had to cut hundreds of jobs all the same. Lucky Twitter cut only around 3,500 jobs. Of course, the dichotomy with Twitter is that is has become a free-speech platform under the ownership of Elon Musk. Thanks to Musk, Twitter has seen a larger audience and more engagement now, than ever before. These tyrannical big tech companies should look at Twitter for success. Social Media companies should not become a front for the Democrat Party.
Approximately 210,000 employees were laid off by the fifteen tech companies. All fifteen have engaged in the surreptitious censorship of conservatives. In fact, in 2021, all these companies banned the sitting president of the United States, President Donald Trump. If they can do this to Trump, imagine what they can do to you. These parochial companies have demonstrated their will to "follow the money," and this year all that money went down the toilet. These companies sunk, and that is a fantastic thing on behalf of the American people. The next Congress should repeal Section 230, which offers legal protection regarding what appears on their platforms. Will the repeal occur? Probably not, since our politicians have a copious number of lobbyists associated with Silicon Valley. However, great steps should be taken immediately to strip big tech of their protections.
Any time that these left-leaning platforms lose money, it is a good thing. They censored a sitting president, deplatformed conservative thought, lied about January 6th, and lied about COVID-19. The Twitter Files have shed light on all the darkness that these companies kept hidden away from the world. In many ways, the loss of money these companies experienced this year represents justice for all the catastrophes they unleashed. Always remember that a bad day for Silicon Valley is a good day for America.
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A Social Media or business company may extensively utilize IT, but it is not an IT company in the sense of providing specifically IT products and services.
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I check everything I buy for "made in China" and try to buy something not made there . I have a very old Apple phone and will not replace it! I am waiting for Musk to offer something before I buy another!
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Maybe it's that the whole field was wildly overvalued to begin with, and a fad for investors, which led to too much money for the companies to use correctly.
The latest "shiny new thing". Yeah, it's important. But it's not a "can't lose" proposition.
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Papa Cooky, Samsung smart phones are made in either Korea or Vietnam. Of course, the OS is Google's Android. Wish I could figure out how to overwrite that with Linux. Supposedly, there are ways to run Linux like some kind of app under the auspices of Android but I want Android out of the picture altogether.
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[PakistanToday] What happened in Bannu CTD Centre has reaffirmed the skills and firepower of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) that kept engaging Pakistani security forces for over 48 hours fighting inside the building. This incident reminds us of what happened in GHQ Rawalpindi on 10–11 October 2009. Operation Janbaz cleared the building but left a sense that nothing is secure in Pakistan. Since then the Pakistan Army had been trying to establish a sense of security among citizens and the TTP has been engaging Pakistan in an unending fight that is still going on. That's because nothing is secure in Pakistan
Operation Zarb e Azb and Operation Raddul Fasad tried to defeat terrorism but it has never been defeated and the multi-headed serpent of terrorism is still alive. I fear that it will remain alive till Pakistan will keep engaging itself in Afghan issues and keep feeding Afghans.
I served in Afghanistan as a journalist during 1995-97 and then covered the so-called War On Terror from 2001 to 2006. This field assignment helped me to understand the currents and undercurrents of the Afghan war and the Afghan mindset. I believe the TTP could not be formed and could not be in the swing if it did not have support from the Afghan Taliban but the majority of writers had been claiming and blaming TTP as just an Indian product. Yes, it got financial as well as technical support from Indian intelligence agencies but its survival within Afghanistan was within the active support and cordial relations with the Afghan Taliban. TTP foot soldiers had been helping the Afghan Taliban to defeat the Afghan Army in the past.
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[The Pipeline] The Great Reset is like an Anonymized Religious Movement
As man's destruction of earth grows nearer, remember, you must NOT wear anything metallic that could interfere with the ship's tracker beam. 
Without further evidence, I remain skeptical on this one. 
