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THEY can no longer be allowed to weaponize our empathy against US.
Sad individual stories CANNOT be used as defense against or justification for poor policies.
The elites WILL employ tactics that exploit US wanting the best for our fellow Americans.
Dismantle the Hollow State.
How do you fix a hollow state? You remove the rotten assumptions.
Rotten assumptions are assumptions that;
> were initially used to justify policies (programs, laws, or regulations), allocate funding, and hire people or companies to implement them.
> are either false at the start, proven false when tested by experience, or become false as conditions change.
> are never fixed, measured for effectiveness (measurements are ignored), discussed in public (discussions are shut down or shunned), and nobody responsible for them is held accountable.
See the report "Blitzing the Hollow State" for more.
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No, Mr. Kinzinger.
Let's grant you that you will have a blue tsunami on Election Day. You have a mandate to do anything you want. You restore USAID. You start jailing everyone remotely associated with Trump. You pack the Supreme Court.
Guess what you've not solved?
The sovereign debt crisis still is accelerating at full speed ahead. Even George Soros warned that this was a supercycle that could not be sustained forever. DOGE was your best, last attempt at saving your regime from yourself.
Whatever fiscal apparatus comes next will be multilateral in scope - yes - but it will not be your coronation. It will pop the final epistemic bubble.
You have sided yourself with slow, bureaucratic systems which cannot adapt, which cannot maneuver, which only know how to make progress through coercion. Your entire power foundation is based on a civil society playbook that is 30+ years old, runs on enormous amounts of unsustainable deficit spending, and is increasingly ideological. We all saw what's happening to Brazil. We all see what's happening to Poland. We all know what you're trying to do here in America.
We embrace change. You fear change. We embrace SI. You are trying to cancel SI and data centers. We abhor bureaucracy. You embrace it as your power foundation.
Legitimacy has only ever lived in the consent of the governed, as the Founding Fathers wrote. You may have done regime change all over the world, but your color revolutions have never been successful in bringing prosperity because you do not believe humans possess God-granted natural agency.
My book UNELECTED is much more than a polemic, it is a manifesto to take our own sovereignty back.
A meteor is coming for you, and you can't even see it coming because you are drunk on your power.
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In just these past two weeks we have seen:
1. Widespread civil unrest and riots in France.
2. Widespread civil unrest and riots in Albania.
3. Widespread civil unrest and riots in Italy.
4. Widespread civil unrest and riots in Spain.
5. Widespread civil unrest and riots in Portugal.
6. Widespread civil unrest and riots in Belgium.
7. Widespread civil unrest and riots in Serbia.
8. Widespread civil unrest and riots in Georgia.
9. Widespread civil unrest and an apparent judicial coup in Poland.
10. Widespread civil unrest and riots in Czechia (including an attempted takeover of the Parliament building).
11. Widespread student protests in Greece.
12. Targeted student protests in Indonesia.
13. Localized violent protests in India.
14. An apparently fraudulent election in Brazil where the presumed presidential election winner was forced to flee the country under threat of arrest by his opponent.
15. The uncovering of a Color Revolution plot in the USA led by embittered former USAID employees and ex-military members.
That’s a lot to be happening all at once, don’t you think?
And the USA is having midterm elections next week.
You know, if I was a conspiracy-minded type I might be connecting some dots here. 🧐
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Before the witch had a broom, the sky did. Ancient astronomers called comets "broom stars", and their arrival was rarely good news.
On Halloween night, Randall Carlson sweeps through the real story behind the season's oldest symbols in an exclusive live talk inside Kosmogonia University. It's a never-before-seen version of his Halloween presentation, and it's interactive, so members can talk with Randall and ask him anything that comes up.
Saturday 31 October · 7pm EDT
Exclusively at skool.com/kosmogonia
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So I just received a phone call on my private number from "journalist" @jordangreennc of rawstory dot com.
He wanted to talk to me about @DataRepublican's "Democracy Files" and the ongoing Color Revolution revealed in those same files.
I did what I normally do when a "journalist" cold calls me and I reminded him that his chosen profession is a malodorous blight of infamous lies and misinformation, I recommended that he listen to the tapes and report fairly, and then I hung up.
However, I know he has also been contacting others via email, and I have seen the loaded questions he is asking to further the conclusion he reached before he ever started on his story. Those "questions" rotate around four assumptions that he has obviously already determined to be true:
1. Donald Trump is an illegitimate tyrant bent on destroying "our democracy."
2. The Color Revolution plotters are simply patriots trying to preserve "our democracy."
3. Everyone uncovering the plot is a liar trying to mislead the public into believing that this highly benevolent group of patriotic Americans is instead really mounting a coup, and we are irresponsible for creating such misinformation.
4. The people uncovering the coup plot are actually the ones trying to ignite a violent civil war.
Folks, please remember that the "Narrative" component of a textbook color revolution depends on a compliant media that actively seeks to undermine and destroy the "legitimacy" of the serving government in the days and weeks before the Color Revolutionaries get to the trigger event for their coup.
The article this man is writing is a part of that Narrative component. I'm not accusing him of being in bed directly with the plotters, but I do know that fellow travelers in the Democrat/Media Complex usually need no prompting to spread disinformation and lies when it comes to Donald Trump.
The Color Revolution attempt unfolds before our very eyes.
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Here is the Democrat plan to steal the election & the country - Sen Markey lays it out gleefully. When he speaks like this, it means this plan is already in motion. They have prepped the battlespace for a massive show of people on the streets to support their false narrative that Pres Trump is “desperate” & to prevent him from using any levers of power that he has, they are getting ahead of him & accusing him of an “election crime” when they will be the ones committing the crime.
Note how he says they have “lawyers” who have already drafted legal challenges & their plan is to use the show of force on the streets to pressure th Supreme Court justices to capitulate & rule in ther favor. If I was a betting man, I would bet that means they already have enough buy in from some of the justices (but not all) to be able to make that claim. Most notably, they are trying to separate Republicans from Trump, which means from the people of the United States. He offers Republicans a way out - which is really a veiled threat: come with us, abandon Trump & you will be good. That is the message here.
This is what an actual insurrection looks like - a real one. They have no intention of letting Pres Trump finish out his term. This is a plan for a total takeover. And if they didn’t already have some Republicans on board, they would not be making this offer publicly.
So there you have it - this is how they plan to screw the President & the people of this country. And all those eating their own side alive every day are playing right into their hands.
Well done to all. If you believe in the Republic, you are about to lose it. God help us.
Markey Reveals Color Revolution Plan: Unions & Workers to Shut Down Nation?
Senator Markey must have participated in the organized Ed Holder Election War Game Exercises.
In a interview conducted today, Senator Ed Markey stated that lawyers were already drafting an emergency case to bring before the U.S.
Supreme Court both before and immediately after the election. He added that thousands of lawyers were being prepared for deployment to key polling stations across multiple states.
Markey further said preparations needed to include readiness for a national strike on Election Day, with millions of people taking to the streets to protest what he described as an attempted electoral crime. He specifically called for workers, unions, and businesses to shut down in a manner similar to the response in Minneapolis following the deaths of Alex Freddi and Renee Goode.
Markey argued that the president was growing increasingly desperate because Republican fortunes had slipped, citing repeated visits to Texas to protect an otherwise safe Senate seat and campaigning in historically safe Republican states such as Kansas, Nebraska, and Iowa.
The Senator predicted that an anticipated large Democratic victory would prompt some Republicans in the House and Senate to distance themselves from the MAGA agenda rather than become “sacrificial lambs.”
Markey expressed concern that desperation could lead to the deployment of ICE agents or the military, and he said the public mobilization would demonstrate outrage to the Supreme Court if an emergency petition were filed.
This is why voters must choose common sense candidates in this midterm cycle. The modern Jacobins are out for blood, and only a decisive choice at the ballot box can save our republic.
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🚨🚨 THE ILLEGITIMACY PLAYBOOK / THE DEMOCRACY FILES: A PRIMER 🚨
I will be using this thread to track all drops, so bookmark it.
I spent most of yesterday backing everything (now 312 gigabytes) up in various sources and getting the materials out to others. I also produced an AI video (below) to explain the whole thing to others are not on 𝕏 - feel free to distribute.
Here's the primer:
USAID, the foreign aid agency, had a democracy office. Inside the agency, it was called DRG.
Officially, DRG administered "democracy assistance." They'd go inside countries they thought were sliding into authoritarianism and help the opposition there. That assistance included election monitoring, judicary support, independent media, and civil society building.
You may have heard the term "color revolution." The model comes from Serbia in 2000, where trained student activists brought down Milosevic with the help of Western governments, after sustained protests. With the help of USAID's democracy office, this model was implemented in many other countries to topple governments: Georgia's "Rose Revolution" in 2003, Ukraine's "Orange Revolution" in 2004, and many more.
Then last year, DOGE shut down USAID. But the USAID democracy office didn't stop. They formed a group called the Democracy Renewal Group, the same initials as their office (USAID Democracy, Human Rights, Governance). Their goal: apply their own playbook to the United States itself.
This goal became a plan, called Renew American Democracy (RAD). It invoked the "4 B's" framework. Block - use lawfare and protests to make life harder for the Trump administration. Bridge & Belong - control dialogue and win people over. The final and most important B is Build. Build means redesigning the American government itself, and the crisis is the opening.
In their own words:
"We can take that breakdown moment and leverage it for a big structural reform, you know, refounding moment." - Danielle Reiff, DRG lead.
Calls show DRG working alongside DSA on ideas of creating a different government, one that does away with the Constitution itself.
DRG does not run the Block operations. They hand it to UDA, the United Democracy Alliance. One organizer calls it a "huge galaxy": lawsuits, street protests, non-cooperation. They list No Kings, Indivisible, MoveOn, 50501, and many other mega-activist NGOs among their members.
Another organizer calls UDA Erica Chenoweth's project. Chenoweth is the Harvard professor behind the three-and-half-percent rule of regime change: get that share of a country's populace onto the streets, and historically, the movement wins.
The UDA is very "hush-hush." They have no website, no roster, no filings.
Then come the red lines: things the Trump administration could do, such as calling the Insurrection Act on protesters, that would mean that the federal government, in their words, "crosses the threshold into illegitimacy." Nobody voted on those lines. There was no public debate. These red lines were developed within secretive working groups, and in a paper addressed to governors and staff.
In the words of Reiff/DRG:
"So that if there is a red line crossed in terms of a Constitutional crisis, like everyone's already pre-organized. And so Mike Smith actually said, he goes, oh, you guys have the day after tomorrow plan."
Cross a line, and the paper's options include states refusing to lend their resources to federal officials, and governors convening what it calls a "Third Continential Congress."
Running the UDA's Insurrection Act working group: Rear Admiral Mike Smith (RET) of National Security Leaders of America (NSL4A). NSL4A is also credited with operationalizing UDA, the blocking operations. NSL4A consists of about 1,600 ex-officers, spies, diplomats. They're turning red lines into indicators and running a situation room to monitor them throughout the midterms and beyond.
The NSL4A's lawyers told them to stop recording meetings in case of subpoenas. But the rest of the network continued to record. DRG works in conjunction with Renew to Thrive (R2T), which ended up accidentally publishing 400+ calls and thousands of documents. These calls and documents were never meant for our eyes, but it's them, on tape.
Thousands of NGOs and billions of dollars are involved in this endeavor. Most of them believe they're saving democracy. The problem is that people who spent their careers deciding when other countries' governments had lost their legitimacy wrote that test for ours, in private, and planned for what comes after.
Who decides when your government is legitimate?
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BRET: What we all get taught in the West has blinded us to an influx of people who don't look like us, don't talk like us, and don't share our values because we've been induced, we've been so carefully taught not to be racist, a good thing, that we over-apply the lesson.
And we don't understand, huh, I wonder what happens if you bring tens of millions, maybe hundreds of millions of people who don't subscribe to the idea that every individual is entitled to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, is entitled to be equally treated, that their life is equally valuable to yours.
What if you flood a system that is based on those principles with people who don't subscribe to them, and nobody reacts because they've been told, that's your mind playing tricks on you, right? There is nothing to worry about, those people look different and that's fine.
And the answer is it's not the fact that they look different that makes it not fine, it's the fact that they don't like us, they don't subscribe to our values, and they have no incentive to keep the system going.
Now it raises questions as to why the UN is so thrilled to upend Western civilization.
HEATHER: Yes, it does.
BRET: But it does not, we should not need the UN sign-off to say, hey, actually, you know what, I'm not a racist and I'm worried as hell about this.
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The plotters are being "discreet" and that should reassure all of us.
In revolutions, manners count!
This is how you know my recordings are real and they're scared. Washington Post already doing counter-messaging.
"A small group of U.S. national security officials has been discreetly advising state governments and congressional lawmakers on how to prepare for the possibility that the Trump administration will attempt to interfere in November’s midterm elections, according to people involved in the effort.
The group includes about 10 current and former officials with experience in the Defense Department, some of whom have previously focused on countering authoritarianism abroad."
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No disrespect to Prof. @AlexKontorovich. This is however exactly what I have been warning you about.
It takes guts to admit that we are training people today for jobs that used to exist 55 years ago. And that is what got said.
Remember what I am claiming: top students used to survive in mathematics. See the graphics attached from top advisors in the earlier era when jobs existed...the students survived! It was never as Alex portrayed it to be. No current advisor anywhere has these kind of survival statistics. That is what is being covered up. And there are MANY MANY more advisors who shouldn't be advising a single PhD student. Ever.
We were training our future colleagues. Now we are exploiting workers misclassified as students so we can import them in massive numbers and work them in a plantation system. The students generally don't survive. And then we lie about them and say that they weren't good enough! That is literally how the system was rearchitected when the jobs stagnated over 55 years ago. And the sharp elbows edge out the sharpest minds often in the academic hunger games. Literally that is what happened. That's why the greats mostly dried up.
Now we have *worse* mathematicians on average who are more incrementalist survivalists than romantic heroes and we are stuck pretending that there has not been a massive decline from the Grothendieck, Mllnor, von Neumman, Atiyah, Serre era.
I am not blaming Prof. @AlexKontorovich. He has survived and I salute that. But make no mistake, he never saw the system that actually worked. I barely did when I was around 20 and it was already in flames.
But unlike Alex, I was often in the room in the 1990s in Washington DC when the post-cold war sausage was being made at NSF and on the Hill. And what we did was to largely destroy the university system.
Read what he writes. He is talking about the Hunger Games where one of the most important mathematicians, Zhang, worked at @subway and that is just fine. It's like training highly specialized neurosurgeons to be baristas or call center operators. It just doesn't make any sense and the mathematics community does not notice that it is operating a planation where it has to dispose of bodies and train our geopolitical rivals in sensitive subjects to stay afloat.
I am sorry. But we went mad under Reagan and then insane under Clinton. This actually makes no sense now and made no sense then when I tried to stop it.
It's a suicidal plantation economics operation that makes us weak and our geopolitical rivals strong. Full Stop. That's all there is to it.
In the US, we graduate on the order of 1000 math PhDs a year, and there are about 300 postdoc jobs (and ~70 tenure track jobs three years later). So no, a math PhD is not, and has never been, a "gold medal" (in the sense of an academic position).
And is "merit" about potential or about actual results? I really hope it's not the former (which is much more error prone to measure)!
About Zhang specifically, there's much more to his story than what's been reported, and it's devastating how much he suffered before his breakthrough.
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The past few days, I got my hands on thousands of new transcripts and hundreds of recordings, thanks to leads from @SKDoubleDub33 and @iamlisalogan .
You've heard that the DSA is proposing structural reforms to America, including abolishing the Senate and imposing term limits.
What you not have heard is - there is an operational plan to put it all into action. If the Democratic Party sweeps 2026, then DSA will become "foot soldiers" in constant clashes with the administration to cross a "red line" or invoke a "doomsday scenario" - meaning, President Trump invokes the Insurrection Act, probably sometime in 2027.
Then, a lot of coordinated responses kick off, including delegitimizing the federal government itself and handing that legitimacy to Democratic governors. 2028 then becomes a vote on whether to keep America governance as-is or to burn it all down to appease a "young and brown" demographic.
The mysterious group who's been coordinating 50501, Indivisible, and coordinating the NoKings protests is called "United Democracy Alliance" and their intellectual leader is Erica Chenoweth who came up with the 3.5% rule of nonviolent regime change.
Patience. I know I've hyped this more than anything else. It's genuinely the biggest discovery I've had. This is an enormous archive. This is only the beginning.
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This is quite right. In the 1980s well into 2010s there was a crazy idea of employers, economists like @Noahpinion, and conservative ideologues like those at @wsj (e.g. Robert Bartley) that borders should be open because mass immigration was the rarest thing in all of economics: a complete free lunch.
I am not making this up. Actual adults. And conservatives at that.
And some people at the UN (e.g. Manolo Abella) and I tried to fight this mass immigration mass delusion using economics. But you have to have a high school education to understand the argument that we were attacking the @noahpinion like ideological zealots using their own economic theory and claimed idealism. The internet is struggling with this idea. An 80+ Iq is helpful but not essential here as well.
The point was to make the Free Market pay for immigration. And free marketeers hated the idea. Why? Because they weren't free marketeers. Ever. Duh.
They were thieves and fools.
You see the open borders movement was always psychotic and never about "the best and the brightest" nor "freedom" nor "markets". It was an anoying smug debating position which may yet lead to civilizational collapse in the West. Ask @Noahpinion et al.
Mark my words: It was always about theft at the expense of national suicides. Nation by nation.
I am researching now. And they were heavy weights in questions of immigration, yes.
I also realised that people like @ericweinstein were actively working on alternative solutions, better ways to deal with immigration by adapting the Coase theorem. He saw it coming. As a young man, working actually for the UN!
The UN did obviously not listen. Guess it was "too sophisticated" and most of those illiterate didn't even understand his approach/solution.
And as per today, some lunatics are smearing him being the Immigration Ultron.
Just saying.
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This is the year we’re going to wipe the smug smiles off their faces and KICK THESE PEOPLE OUT OF SACRAMENTO!!
CHANGE IS COMING. ☀️
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What parent would be ok with their school district assigning their daughter a hotel room with this boy?
With no advanced notice ... parents just assuming its all girls on the trip because IT'S THE GIRLS CROSS COUNTRY TEAM!!
How is this remotely ok? I'm so angry right now.
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Dear Secretary Bessent @SecScottBessent,
My name is Everett Stern. In 2010 I was a compliance officer at @HSBC. From a back office in New Castle, Delaware, I watched billions of dollars move to drug cartels, sanctioned regimes, and terrorist organizations. The enemies of the United States. I documented it, I escalated it, and when the bank would not act, I took it to the @FBI, the @CIA, and eventually the @SECGov.
The result was a $1.92 billion settlement. At the time, it was one of the largest in American history. It was also about five weeks of the bank’s profit. Not one banker was charged. Not one went to prison.
I paid a different price. I lost my career, my savings, and my place in the industry I had trained for. I was blacklisted. Every door in American finance closed at once. I slept on a camping cot in a 300 square foot apartment because I could not afford a bed, and I waited tables at @PFChangs to eat. I tell you this not for sympathy, but so you understand that I know exactly what it costs to do the right thing in American finance, and exactly how little the system does in return.
I made that sacrifice because I believed it would change something.
Yesterday, your department fined @BankofAmerica $1.2 billion for failing to report more than $5 billion in suspicious transactions, some of it tied by your own findings to Chinese laundering networks, narcotics, and the southwest border, alongside 475 apparent sanctions violations touching Russia, Iran, and global terrorism. The bank admitted it willfully violated the Bank Secrecy Act.
Fourteen years after HSBC. A bank with “America” in its name. And once again, not one individual charged.
Secretary Bessent, I want to say plainly what I believe you already know. The fines are not working.
A fine is paid by shareholders, absorbed by the balance sheet, and forgotten by the next earnings call. Bank of America reported earnings this morning. Nobody who set the alert thresholds, nobody who decided the 2024 cease and desist could wait, nobody who chose the backlog over the law will lose a single thing they value. Their lives are untouched. That is the entire reason the behavior repeats.
This is money laundering. This is blood money. Money that reaches a cartel buys fentanyl that kills Americans. Money that reaches a terrorist organization buys the next attack. This country has fought a war on drugs and a war on terror for decades, at enormous cost in lives and treasure, and all the while we have allowed the financing to flow through institutions we charter and regulate. Cut off the money and we win. We have never seriously tried.
There is also a question of equal justice that I cannot let go.
Before I walked into the FBI building to report HSBC, I stopped in front of the Great Seal on the wall and read the words engraved beneath it: “Justice is the defense of our liberty.” I believed that. I still want to. But every day in this country, people go to prison for crimes that are nothing next to moving money for the people who want Americans dead. A suit, a title, and a corporate badge should not be a shield from the consequences that apply to everyone else. If a street dealer goes to prison for what he sells, the banker who moved the cartel’s money should be standing next to him.
I also want to raise something that is rarely said in these conversations. Why has no one inside Bank of America come forward the way I did? The answer is that everyone in American banking knows what happened to me, and to the whistleblowers who came after. The last person who spoke up is the only policy anyone believes. That is a culture problem, and it starts with leadership, in the banks and in the agencies that regulate them.
This is not a political issue. It has spanned administrations of both parties. It is a national security issue, and I am asking you to treat it as one.
Three things would change the math overnight.
Refer individuals for criminal prosecution. Not the analyst in the queue. The executives who set the thresholds and chose the risk. One banker in handcuffs would do more than every fine in Treasury’s history combined.
End “too big to jail.” An institution cannot be too big to fail and too big to jail at the same time. If it is the first, it must be held to a higher standard, not a lower one.
And if Bank of America will not act as America’s bank, review its charter. A national charter is a privilege granted on behalf of the American people. It should be conditioned on not moving money for the people trying to kill them.
Secretary Bessent, you said yesterday that these actions send a clear message that even the biggest institutions are not above the law. With respect, the institution was never the problem. The people inside it are above the law, and they know it. Until that changes, I will keep writing letters like this one, and the next bank will keep paying the next fine.
I gave up everything I had to stop this. I am asking you to use the power you have to finish it.
Respectfully,
Everett A. Stern
HSBC Whistleblower
Founder and Intelligence Director, Tactical Rabbit
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The world consumes roughly 28 million tonnes of copper every year—a mass equivalent to five Great Pyramids of Giza.
Yet that refined metal is just the tip of the iceberg of a far more monstrous physical reality. Beneath those 28 million tonnes of copper sits a massive geological footprint: billions of tonnes of blasted rock, colossal volumes of chemical tailings, vast energy expenditures and trillions of litres of water. This is all fresh, relentless demand.
Crucially, up to 75% of that copper never enters individual turbines, solar panels or electric vehicles. It goes into the invisible grid infrastructure required to link everything together and make it function. When you trace 28 million tonnes of copper backward into the Earth, the true scale and cost is staggering.
The drive to overhaul the global energy structure rests on a profound misunderstanding of physics: it treats energy supply as a 'software' problem while ignoring the devastating raw material gridlock caused by manufacturing billions of solar panels and over a million wind turbines, with hundreds of thousands more in the pipeline.
When an energy system shifts from reliable, high-density fuels—hydrocarbons and uranium—to low-density, intermittent sources like wind and solar, the physical apparatus needed to capture, convert, stabilise and transmit that diffuse flux just explodes.
It becomes an absurd trade-off: expending colossal amounts of finite, high-grade fossil fuels upfront simply to dig up materials for low-density generators—generators that can never run a steel mill, power an ocean cargo vessel or sustain international air travel.
Mining is already a vast consumer of continuous energy. As global copper ore grades decline—frequently dropping to 0.5% or lower—the mass of rock that must be dug, hauled, and crushed grows exponentially per unit of recovered metal.
Crushing rock alone accounts for roughly 3% to 4% of total global electricity consumption. Demanding billions of additional tonnes of processed metal creates a self-defeating loop: huge volumes of reliable, baseline power are consumed just to extract the raw materials needed to construct weather-dependent hardware.
Yet the primary metals drain does not come from the turbines or arrays themselves. It stems from the enormous physical web needed to transport that energy across vast distances. Diffuse generators located hundreds of kilometres from cities require unprecedented volumes of step-up transformers, substations, high-voltage transmission lines and regional grid overhauls.
The heavy overhead wiring looping across the landscape regularly dwarfs the metal required to build the turbine in the first place. Because two centuries of industrial civilisation have already extracted the highest-grade deposits, meeting future demand forces miners to dig deeper, crush harder and manage billions of tonnes of toxic slurry.
This is a twin crisis: the escalating physical cost of ore recovery on the front end, and an unprecedented tsunami of industrial e-waste bound for landfills on the back end. The physical limits of this model are not dictated by how much metal remains in the crust, but by the soaring energy penalty required to dig them up and refine them.
Heavy industrial processes—blast furnaces, chemical synthesis, cement production and deep-shaft mining—all need continuous, high-temperature thermal energy and uninterrupted high-voltage power. Intermittent turbines and panels cannot reliably deliver that dense power to sustain heavy industry, let alone an entire national economy.
The ultimate irony is that the staggering industrial muscle needed to build, maintain, and periodically replace these diffuse energy systems relies entirely on the coal, oil and gas they were meant to replace.
The dream of a fully weather-dependent industrial grid ignores physical reality. It overlooks a looming nightmare of endless ore extraction, refining bottlenecks, and perpetual grid expansion.
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“Our kids are LESS cognitively capable than we were at their age.”
For generations, children outperformed their parents on cognitive tests. Now that trend is reversing.
Teacher-turned-cognitive scientist Dr. Jared Horvath describes declines in attention, memory and learning even though children now spend more time in school.
His explanation deserves every parent’s attention.
I believe the deeper problem begins long before children enter a classroom. 🧵
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The reason I always say “Join the Infantry” is because it’s one of the last bastions where the merit based and color blind worldview exists.
Many on here are highlighting race and tribe now. Can’t fault them for that. It’s the default state of the human condition, isn’t it?
It is the Infantry that is the exception. Or more broadly, a specific set of post war circumstances that allowed for a people of disparate backgrounds to come together under one banner.
But those circumstances are fading away now, and tribalism rules the day. So it has been, so it shall be. But those who advocate for a “melting pot” are lost. Why? Because nobody is willing to turn up the heat on said pot.
It’s tantamount to talking at a cauldron with ingredients in it with the burner off, then wondering why you’re not getting delicious soup.
The Infantry is special because it turns up the heat on you. To where pain and suffering melt away any differences you may have enjoyed. Cast aside out of necessity. And in those harrowing moments, you realize you never needed such worldviews to begin with.
But again, it is a very specific set of circumstances. It takes pressure and time to make a diamond, right? The same goes for a human soul, or a Rifle Squad.
The issue with the military and the nation at large over the last couple decades is that we stopped applying pressure. We celebrated differences to the point where the celebration became an excuse to throw up the phalanx and tribe up.
The military wears a uniform. It literally means “one form” or “remaining the same without variation”. Our nation has a saying of “E pluribus Unum” as well.
We were always supposed to be the same. Or similar enough to where we can rally under one banner to defend what we love. Compared with the rugged individual spirit of what it means to be an American. But at the core, an American who is one of many.
We stopped applying pressure, we need to apply it again. There is only one way to stop this short of open war or Balkanization, and it is that.
So when we tell you no more trannies, beardos, weirdos etc, we aim to make you uniform, through pressure and confrontation.
It has been missing for far too long. We’ve paid the price long enough. So my fellow Americans, turn up the heat. Make people assimilate or want to leave.
Until then? May the best tribe win. Because that’s what human history promises will happen.
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We live on a historically cold world, where the average planetary temperature currently sits at a chilly 15°C.
We are rarely reminded that Earth remains far colder in the current age than its long-term average of 22°C–25°C, maintained across the 541 million years of the Phanerozoic Eon. A planetary warming of two or three degrees is unlikely to trigger an existential crisis; historically, it never has under conditions comparable to today.
The blunt reality is that we are still living through the Late Cenozoic Ice Age—the most extensive global cooling event since the Karoo Glaciation, which lasted 105 million years across the Carboniferous and Permian periods. By contrast, our current ice age began 34 million years ago with the initial glaciation of Antarctica.
Humanity and our symbol-driven culture evolved against this cold, drying backdrop. We now inhabit its most intense phase: the Quaternary Glaciation, which has persisted for the last 2.58 million years. At the Last Glacial Maximum, roughly 26,000 to 20,000 years ago, massive continental ice sheets reached depths of 3 to 4 kilometers (10,000 to 13,000 feet).
Modern humanity is fortunate to exist during the Holocene interglacial—a 11,700-year warm period during which virtually every artifact of human civilisation, along with all historical empires, emerged.
This deep timeline reveals that while modern mammals are an ice-age-adapted lineage, human civilisation thrives in the warmth. Yet the present climate narrative relies on an institutional framework that largely disregards Earth's geological history.
Orbital mechanics dictate the macro-climatic epochs of our planet over millennia, yet contemporary debate focuses almost exclusively on micro-trends from recent decades. Earth continuously responds to these orbital variations, first mapped by Milutin Milankovitch.
On shorter timescales, climate behavior is driven by natural variability in solar irradiance, ocean circulation, atmospheric water vapor, and volcanic activity; over deep time, it is anchored by the slow movement of tectonic plates.
The global oceans, atmospheric water vapor, and cloud cover account for the vast majority of the planet's radiative warming. Furthermore, the geological record shows that deep ocean outgassing of dissolved CO₂ typically lags thermal changes by centuries, unfolding over millennia as ocean masses adjust.
To focus entirely on a trace gas is to overlook the scale of these broader planetary systems. It also overlooks the gas's biological utility: NASA satellite records confirm a widespread expansion of global green foliage over recent decades, driven significantly by carbon dioxide acting as a plant nutrient.
Ultimately, the UN inspired climate agenda collides with thermodynamic reality. A modern industrial society requires the continuous high energy density provided only by conventional fuels—a baseload capability that intermittent sources cannot replace.
