Saturday, April 8, 2023

The World Depends on Us Getting It Right

We are the stewards of the most special phenomenon in the universe; we must have the courage to embrace reality, wherever it may lead.


There are 700,000,000,000,000,000,000 planets estimated to be in the known universe. There could be more. That’s 700 quintillion—few can even comprehend a number so large. 

Yet as far as we know, we are the only planet with life. Pause for a moment and think about that. Seven hundred quintillion planets in a universe that is at least 13.8 billion years old—the observable part being 92 billion light years across—a light year being 5.88 trillion miles.

The total universe is probably many times that large—250 times as large or 7 trillion light years across—it could be far more. This is because space expands faster than the speed of light and thus the bulk of the universe will never be available to us. What does it expand into? Who knows?

If this doesn’t make your head spin you aren’t paying attention.

Many postulate the universe just must be filled with life. I used to lean that way but not as much as I once did. Even if life is abundant—which is far from certain—due to the size of the universe and the incredible distances involved, the odds are overwhelming we are effectively alone.

This should be a sobering thought. Here we stand, the product of 3.8 billion years of the evolution of life on what is clearly a unique planet. To say what we have here is special is the greatest understatement.

And whether we like it or not, whether we want it or not, we have come to be the stewards of all life on the planet—a responsibility that cannot be abdicated. 

Yet look around you. In what should be a modern paradise we instead see strife, conflict, and insanity being paraded as normal. All while we witness what were once venerable institutions crumbling to ruins.

This trend cannot be allowed to continue. There have been societal collapses in the past but there has never been a society as interconnected as ours. If we allow the present unrest to continue, the pain of our failure will be biblical in scope. The entire planet, and all life on it, will pay a terrible price for our arrogance.

All of the wonders of the modern world can be traced back to a fire that was lit 600 years ago. This fire became known as the Scientific Revolution. It was driven by a profound change in how people interacted with their environment and their mindsets about themselves and the world. It transformed the world—and continues to do so.

This scientific way of thinking has discovered the fabric of reality to an astonishing degree. Yet once we leave the hard sciences, we collectively abandon its fundamental principles and revert to pre-science thinking.

At its core, this is the source of our current problems—and until we address it, we will continue our fall into the abyss. 

We can no more choose our political or economic beliefs than we can choose our beliefs in physics. There is reality and we must strive to discover it, not naïvely endeavor to define it.

We mistakenly designed our governments, programs, and many institutions on a top-down hierarchical structure—a design found nowhere in the natural world. This “boss” design is by requirement predictive, i.e. someone must be able to predict and plan for some yet unfurled future.

This design is 100 percent destined to fail—especially when the system design demands tens of thousands of “predictors” who must always be correct.

Management consulting guru Peter Drucker captured it well with his quote, “Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.”

A far superior design—and one that drives all the living world—is built on swarm intelligence. Swarm intelligence is emergent, the solutions bubble up from the swarm itself. It’s almost magical, with no one actually looking for the solution(s), the swarm nevertheless discovers them.

Governments and other top-down institutions violate almost every thing that makes swarm intelligence work. This poor system design—and the self-engorging Leviathan it has given birth to—is the driver of the catastrophes racing towards us.

We need to allow the scientific way of thinking birthed by the Scientific Revolution to guide all areas of our lives. Will this demand a change in our thinking? Yes.

But we are the stewards of the most special of the 700 quintillion, we must have the courage to embrace reality, wherever it may lead.



Hallmark actress Alexa Penavega talks about talking a teen out of abortion and leaving LA

 


Source: https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2023/04/08/spy-kids-star-alexa-penavega-on-talking-a-teen-mom-out-of-abortion-and-leaving-hollywood-we-didnt-want-to-raise-our-kids-in-la-it-was-god/

Actress Alexa PenaVega, the star of the Spy Kids movie series, says God inspired her and her husband to leave Los Angeles behind. Now, still a working actor, she’s not only a proud believer in the pro-life movement, she even helped a young woman decide to chose life over having an abortion.

PenaVega spoke of her pro-life positions in an interview with podcaster Christine Yeargin to whom she relayed the amazing story of saving a baby whose life was on the edge of being aborted.

PenaVega told Yeargin “I honestly believe that you either believe in life as life as a whole, and you see babies, whether babies are in the womb or outside of the womb, as life or you don’t. And… once life begins — that is a whole baby. That is a beautiful life, and for me, I will do whatever it takes to protect that.”

During the podcast, the 34-year-old actress said she was contacted by someone she called a “well-known man” who asked her to help one of his fans who was distraught and considering an abortion.

“I was so excited at this possibility but also I’ve never had this conversation before — what do you even say to a young girl who’s in this position?” PenaVega said. “I think she was 16 or 17 and she’s just in this position of ‘I don’t know what to do.'”

“I just told her about the joy that I have with my kids and the greatest thing that I ever felt was like being able to tuck them in at night and like seeing their beautiful little sleeping faces. … Those are moments that just are so life-giving. They’re so simple and yet they’re the most beautiful things you can experience as a mom,” she told Yeargin.

“I just think that we’re just in such a dark, dark place in our world, and you know, people are calling good bad and bad good and we’re fully seeing it. We’re in a war right now,” PenaVega told Yeargin. “And it breaks my heart the people have been really manipulated into thinking that human life is just so disposable and they can’t even look at a baby as … a human that is alive.”

Carlos Pena Jr. and Alexa Vega arrive at the screening of Summit Entertainment’s “Hacksaw Ridge” at Samuel Goldwyn Theater on October 24, 2016 in Beverly Hills, California. (Gregg DeGuire/WireImage)

PenaVega also mentioned that being pro-life in abortion-loving Hollywood can hurt a career.

“I remember when I first started really speaking out about it and it was considered taboo and cliche and people stopped working with me because of it. Different brands were like ‘We don’t want anything to do with her,’ and I’m like, ‘That’s fine,'” she said.

But the actress said she does not care about Hollywood’s opinion. For her, being pro-life is an issue she will “go to the cross on.”

“They can cancel you. They can hurt you. But you know you’re making the right choice,” she said.

Living up to their convictions, PenaVega and her husband, Carlos — who starred on Nickelodeon’s Big Time Rush — have now left Hollywood and moved their family to Hawaii.

“We didn’t want to raise our kids in Los Angeles. I felt this tug in my heart. I felt it was God going, ‘You guys need to get out of here. It’s time.’ I didn’t want to move. I knew it was the right decision,” Alexa recently told Fox News.

She added that Hollywood was really dragging her down. “I was the one trapped in the entertainment world and needed to take a step back,” the actress added. “My job became my identity. God pulled me out of that so I could learn how to be an awesome mom and an awesome wife.”

-----------------------------------

My additional comments: She and her husband are 2 of 3 or 4 decent Hallmark actors left that I'm 100% haven't completely sold out to the network's rotten agenda.

X22, Red Pill News, and more- April 8

 




Trump, Martyr of the Republic?

Donald Trump is now the friend of every man who holds any love in his heart for his forefathers’ country, of which we may be witnessing the last days.


For reasons that remain mysterious, Donald Trump’s tormentors chose Holy Week to begin their grand inquisition. The timing is sure to fuel an identification of Trump among more fervent supporters as a persecuted martyr. 

But you don’t have to be a Trump acolyte to believe that what is being done to the man threatens the foundations of our government. 

This phony “indictment” is an unprecedented attack on the American tradition of self-rule. Set aside Trump for a moment and simply consider the situation: a local machine prosecutor aligned with the ruling party, a man not known for being tough on crime, makes an exception of his normal policy of leniency to lawbreakers to pursue the primary opposition leader. 

Consider also the past seven years of constant anti-Trump hysteria, flagrant leaks of the grand jury material from Alvin Bragg’s office (which were given to Michael Isikoff, one of the reporters who helped midwife the Russian collusion scam), and Trump’s unrequited love for his hometown, where he is now persona non grata. If you can ignore all of this, you can begin to approach the idea that this “indictment” is somehow related to the law.

The weakness of the charges is itself disconcerting. What does it say about a government that is willing to be so nakedly repressive? It says that the ruler no longer cares to cloud tyranny in legitimacy. That’s a frightening, frightening development. 

CNN informs us that a majority of Americans, while aware that Bragg’s probe is political, approve of it nevertheless

Perhaps the country has been inured to the continuously escalating lawlessness of the Left these past seven years.

With Trump, we have been through a strange and remarkable journey. We have seen our government exposed as a corrupt, opaque, authoritarian sham, run by people who brazenly interfere with elections, neutralize outcomes they don’t like, sow mass unrest, cover up said unrest, concoct “fake news” incessantly, censor true information, and generally resort to all the nasty, no good tricks one associates with the former Soviet world.

Trump’s enemies have operated on the principle that absolutely any action is justified to stop him, no matter how illegal or unethical, so grave a threat is he to Our Democracy™.

No man in modern American history has been more ruthlessly investigated, harassed, and slandered.

One can draw a straight line between the FBI’s spying of Trump’s campaign in 2016, to mass unrest, including a violent siege of the White House, that was cheered by the press, to the thuggish raid of his family home last year, to this unjust arrest in Manhattan, and the Left’s ambition to dominate the political system totally and permanently. 

Trump’s 2016 victory frustrated those expectations and sent the Left into a frenzy from which they have never recovered. 

This indictment is about revenge for the election Trump wasn’t supposed to win.  

The real criminals are his persecutors, the people who have weaponized the legal system to destroy political opposition. These people have not been punished, indeed, they are thriving.

The long forgotten Russia hoax, which consumed the nation’s political culture for the better part of three years, was a fraud orders of magnitude larger than Trump’s “hush money” misadventure, but those responsible for the former have not been punished. Hillary Clinton escaped prosecution with only a fine for the dirty dossier that became the nucleus of the hysteria. (While they can’t be compared in terms of impact, Clinton’s offense, concealing campaign expenditures, is identical on paper to the “crime” for which Trump is now being indicted.) 

The corrupt spooks and lawmen who conspired to kneecap Trump’s presidency such as James Comey, who is now gloating over the so-called “indictment,” have not been held to account, either. Nor have the spies who maliciously put their thumbs on the scale by discrediting true information about the Biden family’s business dealings on the eve of the 2020 election. The FBI has had Hunter Biden’s laptop for three years, at least. Show me a man who thinks Hunter or his father will be charged with money laundering, and I’ll show you a fool.

The only people who believe Trump’s indictment is fair are blinded by partisanship. But there are some in the right-wing media  who have sadly missed the significance of the moment. They ascribe the indictment to a leftist conspiracy to make Trump the nominee, presumably because he is a weak candidate. To which I reply: when has the Left ever been rational about Donald Trump? In any event, if the government can lock up opposition candidates with impunity, and even induce the people to cheer through the manipulation of mass media, then our elections are meaningless. 

Trump is now the friend of every man who holds any love in his heart for the country of his forefathers, of which we may be witnessing the last days.



Who’s “They”?


A follow up to a series of events that is soon to get very deep in this site…

The second most asked question when talking about national political corruption is the question, “who’s they?”   We often hear the opaque term “they”, but no one seems to give accurate context to it, so I will.

However, before getting to that point, allow me to begin with the end in mind.

If you want to know the most important thing you can do to save Our Republic, then first – get right with God.  Get right with the purpose of the mission, before you even think about packing a bag to begin the effort.  You ain’t got to be perfect, far from it, scruffy and messy works well; but you have got to be dead-plumb raw in admitting and accepting your fallible disposition. In many ways this is what “living your best life” is all about.  As eloquently shared:

…”There is nothing more powerful in the universe than being connected and aligned with power of infinite truth, infinite strength, infinite well-being, infinite love, infinite joy, and all the other positive emotional feelings and desires that we humans desire.”

If you want to harness that power for your own life and purpose, get right.

Now, having read the responses to the previous question, it’s obvious we have a lot of new friends here.  As I dive into sharing the details of our current national political construct, a baseline about party politics is needed.

If you think “Republicans” are the solution, then you don’t understand the construct of the ‘Big Club.’

Political parties were created to present you with: (1) a controlled outlet for your focus (pro-tip the Big Club “they” control it); and (2) the illusion of choice.

Now there are some differences between the two political parties – between the two wings of the same DC vulture.

• The DNC wants power. The RNC wants money.
• The DNC uses money to get power. The RNC use power to get money.
• The ideology of the DNC drives their donor activity. The ideology of the donors drives the RNC ideology.

This is the essential difference in their business models.  This is also how the system works when you think about ‘money’ and raw ‘ideological power’.

Let me give you an example in current culture, around “wokeism“.

The social and cultural ideology of the left-wing is clear; they are pushing ideology.  However, when you look at the right-wing corporate response, notice the focus is on money.  The left is pushing a cultural revolution; the right is seeking to gain money in (a) corporate alignment, or (b) velvet-gloved combat against it.

The leftist ideology advances. Notice there is no ideological pushback against the cultural revolution from Congress.  Why?… Money

Democrats know if they want to advance ideology, simply find a mechanism to pay Republicans.  Easy peasy.

♦ Ukraine.  IDEOLOGY: The agenda of the left-wing (Dems) is clear; they are pushing for an expanded totalitarian globalist agenda.  MONEY: The right-wing response to the Ukraine ideology, is money.  Congress funds the industrial military machine, the military contractors.  The contractors repay politicians.

The globalist ideology advances.  Notice, there is no ideological pushback against the White House and U.S. State Dept foreign policy from Congress.

Why?… money.

If you are an institution (or individual) and your enterprise needs power to advance your interests (think Big Tech), you align with Democrats.   If you are an institution (or individual) and your enterprise needs money to advance your interests (think Wall St), you align with Republicans.

The left-wing wants power to advance ideology. The right-wing wants money.  That’s why the Republicans never stop any of the Democrats’ ideological gains.

♦ Elections. IDEOLOGY: The ballot-harvesting agenda of the left-wing (DNC/dems) is clear; they have thousands of networked groups funded by donor activity (Zuckerbucks etc.), organized in every community to assemble ballots.  MONEY: The right-wing response is to see the opportunity for fundraising…. Meanwhile, a massive network known as True The Vote, Catherine Englebrecht, with an army of skilled voter integrity grassroots operations, easily retooled to a ballot collection network, sits untapped.

This is the nature of the system that distracts us.  Two wings of the same vulture. This is the inherent nature of U.S. politics in the big picture, and I can get as granular and specific as anyone might need – including the propositions for why club candidates are selected within the ‘illusion of choice’ game.

Back to the question: “Who’s they?

♦ Consider the scale.  Donald Trump is falsely prosecuted for a non-existent crime and tens of thousands of Americans send money to his campaign to show support.  According to media outlets, Trump raised over $10 million in a few days from the average MAGA American.   There are also claims that Ron DeSantis raised $30 million in the last few months from billionaires, hedge funds, Wall Street and multinational corporations during his not-a-campaign book tour.

Sounds good right?  Well….

For scale, former Dianne Feinstein staffer Dan Jones, left the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence in order to work as the liaison between private interests, contractors and government officials in the stop-Trump campaign. Within a week, Dan Jones created the Penn Quarter Group and raised $50 million to spend on the effort….

…. “They” gave it to him.

There are various “theys” within the system.   One set of ‘theys” are the multinationals and billionaire donors who control the levers of power behind the Potemkin village we call Washington DC.   George Carlin called them ‘the big club.’

The other set of “theys”, that few people talk about, are the operatives who work as the guards for the system.   This is where the United States intelligence community, various opaque government agencies, and federal intelligence contractors come into play.   I have met the participants.

The guards are paid to run domestic surveillance operations that are then funneled into the U.S. Justice System for official targeting operations conducted by the DOJ and FBI.  These are tradecraft agents within quasi government agencies, most federal contract agencies, that target politicians and influential people with the specific intent on gaining leverage, blackmail, information etc, for use by those who retain and protect the system.

You could call these the “seven ways to Sunday crowd”, as defined by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.   Or you could call these people the “FBI contractors” who have access to the NSA database as part of their operational mission to conduct surveillance and create the files that ultimately end up with the “seven ways to Sunday crowd.”

 

It matters not what you call them, these men and women conduct targeting operations against U.S. citizens and U.S. businesses.  They also create the files that are used by political operatives like Dan Jones.  That’s why $50,000,000.00 was/is needed for the Trump operation.

All of the puppets, players and politicians within the Potemkin village are under this network of surveillance, and at any time they can be targeted by a host of tradecraft operations to ensnare them.

If you start digging into the actual corruption, schemes or a specific granular episode that highlights risk to the DC operation, you end up like former CBS news investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson, with “TSCI” material in a hidden file within your computer for the FBI to randomly find.

Former DAG Rod Rosenstein and FBI official Shawn Henry ran that specific operation against Attkisson.  Shawn Henry went on to work for Crowdstrike in their “proactive and incident response services” division.  That’s the intel security company that investigated the DNC “hack” and told the FBI it was Russians who did it…. at least that’s the claim from the FBI who never investigated the “hack”, a claim later denied by Crowdstrike.   See how that works?

Yesterday you might have read that 40 intelligence and law enforcement “confidential human sources” were in the J6 Proud Boy’s operation at the DC capitol.  That’s another example of the “theys” that function as contractors to the system within the larger intelligence apparatus.  It all falls under the Director of National Intelligence and Dept of Homeland Security (DHS).

Another example of the “theys” in the system are the FBI and various “Intelligence Community” officials and contractors you see exposed in the Twitter files.  Essentially, embeds in the Big Tech social media system.  It sure makes datamining operations easier when the federally contracted ‘miners’ are inside the communication platforms, able to review all the private discussions and report that information back to the DHS central command.  Things making sense now?

I have met these people.  I know exactly who they are.

This is the reality of our situation.   So, when you respond to my initial question about, “What do you want me to do?…. use this context.

And believe me, I’ll do it.  I’m right with what matters!