stock here: LOL I deleted it. Of my 2025 10 point plan for a Better Lifestyle, number 9 is Control Spam and Distractions. Expand that out to…don’t stick around in Dopamine Traps.
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đĽ The Temu Challenge â If You Canât Delete It, Youâre Not in Control
Hereâs the part nobody says out loud:
Temu is not a shopping app. Itâs a psychological operation wearing a discount sticker.
China didnât pour billions into a storefront â they built a behavioral engine designed to capture the Western attention span, hollow it out, and keep you scrolling like a lab animal waiting for the next pellet.
Every color is optimized. Every pop-up is timed. Every âdealâ is a dopamine micro-dose. Every notification is a tug on your reward circuitry.
This is not retail. This is neural conditioning at scale.
And the creepiest part? You feel it.
Try deleting it. Seriously â try. Your thumb will hesitate. Your brain will make excuses. âI might need it later.â âI want to check one thing.â âThis is dumb, why am I deleting it?â
Thatâs not you talking.
Thatâs what addiction sounds like.
Temu is a casino built to live in your pocket â a brightly colored Trojan horse siphoning your attention, your data, your impulse control, and your time.
So hereâs the gauntlet:
Delete the app. If you canât⌠If you feel that little pull in your gutâŚ
Then congratulations. Youâve just proven the point.
stock here: From a Midwestern Doctor, affects all of us, but is another clear sign of child abuse by the “system”. They know full well what they are doing.
Something very strange is happening to kids â and honestly, to all of us.
Modern screens arenât just âentertaining.â Theyâre engineered to hijack the brainâs dopamine system the same way casinos and slot machines do. Bright colors, rapid cuts, sing-song voices, instant rewards â every few seconds. Itâs not a show anymore; itâs a neurological IV drip.
Youâve seen the result: kids melting down the moment you turn it off, zoning out, losing patience, losing spark, losing interest in anything that isnât flashing and screaming for attention. That isnât misbehavior â thatâs withdrawal. A childâs nervous system literally crashing from dopamine overstimulation.
And hereâs the part no one wants to say out loud: the exact same trap is being used on adults. Doomscrolling, TikTok loops, notifications, outrage cycles â all designed to spike dopamine in tiny bursts until normal life feels dull, slow, and empty. The more they feed you, the more you need, and the less you feel.
This is the real crisis: weâre raising a generation whose brains expect life to move at algorithm speed. And the tragedy is that real life â eye contact, curiosity, nature, imagination â simply canât compete with a digital slot machine.
Pull the device away and it looks like chaos. Give it a few days, and something amazing happens: kids calm down, attention returns, creativity restarts, and the human nervous system reboots.
Because beneath all the noise, your brain still remembers how to be alive. You just have to break the dopamine trap long enough to feel it again.
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Expanded Explanation â The Dopamine Trap, Addictive Programming, and the Nervous System
Modern childhood is the canary in the coal mine.
Parents are noticing something primal: children today are different â more irritable, less resilient, quicker to explode emotionally, more vacant-eyed, harder to settle, and harder to pull back into real life after screen exposure.
And beneath all of it sits a single, overarching mechanism:
THE DOPAMINE TRAP
This phrase does not just mean âscreens release dopamine.â It means:
A system is intentionally engineered to repeatedly spike dopamine in unnatural, unsustainable bursts, then crash it â conditioning the brain into a cycle of craving, emptiness, and dependency.
Dopamine itself is not pleasure; it is anticipation, craving, and the drive to chase the next stimulus. When that circuitry is hijacked early in life, it reshapes the nervous system in profound ways.
Letâs break this down.
1. What Dopamine Is Actually For
In a natural environment:
A bird finds berries â dopamine rises.
A child solves a puzzle â dopamine rises.
You take a meaningful step toward a goal â dopamine rises.
Dopamineâs true purpose is to reinforce behaviors that support survival, bonding, learning, and exploration.
It is slow, steady, and tied to real-world effort and reward cycles, not constant stimulation.
2. The Modern Dopamine Problem: Hyper-Stimulation Without Earned Reward
Childrenâs programming today â especially YouTube-native shows like Cocomelon, Ms. Rachel clones, TikTok micro-animations, etc. â is not simply âfasterâ or âmore colorful.â It is designed with:
Rapid scene changes (1â2 seconds)
Unnatural vocal patterns
Bright, high-contrast colors
Music loops engineered for reward prediction
Emotional exaggeration
Instant gratification at every micro-moment
This pushes dopamine pathways into overdrive.
The result?
Dopamine spikes become artificially large and artificially frequent â far beyond what normal life can offer.
The nervous system begins expecting this intensity.
Then real life â slow, subtle, relational, textured, sometimes boring â feels intolerable.
This is the true dopamine trap.
3. What the Dopamine Trap Does to the Nervous System
â Shortened attention span
The brain adapts to rapid scene changes, making ordinary pacing feel unbearable.
â Emotional dysregulation
Tantrums are withdrawal symptoms, not misbehavior.
â Loss of âsparkâ
Children who once explored the world now sit still, slack-jawed, waiting for their next digital hit.
â Irritability and mood swings
Exactly what sugar withdrawal looks like â but happening ten times a day.
â Delayed social development
Screens provide predictable, exaggerated emotional cues; real humans do not.
Many pediatric occupational therapists report that modern toddlers now resemble children with sensory-processing disorders from 20 years ago.
This is not a coincidence. It is dopamine-driven nervous system dysregulation.
4. Why Many Parents Are Returning to âOld Showsâ
Parents who switch from modern childrenâs content to:
Mr. Rogers
Sesame Street (the early era)
Blueâs Clues (slow original version)
80sâ90s cartoons
Nature documentaries
Simple animation styles
report dramatically calmer behavior.
Why?
Older shows were paced for human neurology, not for addiction.
They had:
Long takes
Soft voices
Predictable rhythms
Human-to-human communication
Limited emotional intensity
No algorithmic optimization for engagement metrics
No dopamine spikes per second
These programs support a childâs developing nervous system rather than overwhelm it.
5. The Broader Point: Children Are the First to Break
When A Midwestern Doctor writes:
âThe dopamine trap society uses to control us and make us feel dead inside.â
He is pointing to something larger:
Childrenâs programming is only the most blatant example. Adults are caught in the same trap through:
Social media
Doomscrolling
Porn
Gambling apps
Online outrage
Constant novelty
Hyper-fast news cycles
Addictive short-form videos
All of these train dopamine pathways to expect rapid, exaggerated stimulation.
This destroys:
patience
curiosity
resilience
creativity
joy
ability to feel subtle pleasures
capacity for deep work or deep relationships
When dopamine receptors wear down from overstimulation, people feel:
flat
anesthetized
chronically dissatisfied
restless yet tired
disconnected from life
This is the âdead insideâ feeling he is referring to.
6. Why Children Expose the Problem So Clearly
Adults can mask their dysregulation with caffeine, alcohol, nicotine, workaholism, or dissociation.
Children cannot.
Their tantrums, meltdowns, and emotional instability are honest neurological feedback about how toxic the dopamine environment has become.
Children reveal the truth adults hide.
This is why seeing children lose their spark feels tragic: it forces us to confront how much of our own spark has been stolen.
7. The Predatory Aspect
It is not accidental.
Modern platforms use:
Behavioral psychology
A/B testing
AI-optimized thumbnails
Hyper-stimulating audio/visual patterns
Reward loops perfected through massive data
Instant novelty
Infinite scroll
Micro-dopamine triggers every few seconds
Kidsâ shows on YouTube are not designed by educators. They are designed by engagement teams, UX psychologists, and algorithm feedback loops.
The product is not entertainment.
The product is addiction.
And the consumer is your child’s brain chemistry.
8. Reconnecting the Nervous System to Real Life
Parents who remove hyper-stimulating screens sometimes report:
a 2â5 day tantrum period (dopamine withdrawal)
followed by sudden calm
increased eye contact
willingness to explore
imaginative play returning
improved sleep
fewer meltdowns
curiosity replacing irritability
Essentially:
The nervous system wakes back up once it is no longer drowning in dopamine spikes.
This applies to adults as well â often profoundly.
stock here: he claims their goal is to have everyone so stressed and depressed, that they will accept a one world government. LOL and then he goes on to write an article that should get people stressed and depressed. Here it is, and a link.
The end of the world we used to know and love gets closer every day. And everything bad that is happening is happening deliberately. Nothing bad is happening by accident. And there are no coincidences. We are at war with our governments. They donât care, of course, because the aim is to create unhappiness so that the worldâs people will accept a new world government with relief.
Just look at what is happening.
In what used to be called developed, civilised countries, health care is deteriorating to the point where endless thousands are dying for the lack of very simple basic medical care.
The medical establishment is controlled and owned by the drug industry.
General practice is a sick farce â run for the benefit of overpaid, underworked doctors, most of whom donât give a fig about their patients.
Hospitals are as dangerous today as they were in the Middle Ages. Patients who go into hospital are more likely to be killed by the staff than their illness, and most doctors now do more harm than good. Elderly patients who are admitted to hospital are lucky if they leave.
Health care was definitely better in the 1970s than it is now. And arguably better in the 1950s.
Iâd happily debate this claim live on national television with any establishment doctor.
But members of medical trade unions seem to me determined to stamp out health care by putting their own financial interests above the interests of patients. There is also an extraordinary myth that cutting down on treatment will in some bizarre way alleviate imaginary global warming.
But no one debates important issues any more.
Education is a disaster too. Teachers donât teach students how to think. They spread lies and propaganda and expect their students to accept and regurgitate the garbage without question. Indeed, students â even those at university â refuse to think or to question the lies they are told. Anyone who questions the official line will be banned, censored into silence or demonised.
Economies are being deliberately destroyed by policies which seem insane. The naĂŻve blame it on incompetence. But no one could possibly be as incompetent as Britainâs communist government. They are deliberately destroying the economy, wrecking businesses, creating unemployment, destroying savings. They want you broke. Remember: you will own nothing and be happy.
Good, decent food is as difficult to find as honest journalists. Most of the stuff on sale is so full of chemicals and dangerous additives that it isnât fit for human consumption. And yet prices continue to soar. Farmers are under siege.
Energy prices are rocketing too. And when energy prices go up then the price of everything goes up. Government policies in Europe are designed to push energy prices ever higher. The absurd Net Zero policies so beloved by the utterly insane and deluded global warming cultists will result in more and more people having to choose between eating or keeping warm. Politicians in Europe are desperate for a war against Russia and determined, yet again, to prevent peace in Ukraine. The purpose? To push up oil prices still higher and to help depopulate Europe. And, of course, politicians such as Starmer and Macron, whose future is firmly behind them, know that only a good, old-fashioned war can revive their fallen careers. (Naturally, the politicians pushing for war wonât be doing any of the fighting themselves.) Blocking the sun means that winters are going to be colder than ever. Global cooling will be a deliberately man made problem that will kill millions.
Our freedom to say or write what we want went years ago. But things are getting constantly worse. Weâre months away from military rule in many former civilised countries. Anyone disagreeing with their government is likely to be thrown into jail merely for expressing an opinion. Most of the internet is closed to those who dare to share forbidden truths.
Travel is becoming steadily more difficult. Cash is outlawed by more and more companies. We are being pushed into a dark corner of hell where we will, as they promised us, own nothing and be happy.
When youâre depressed enough, and have given up all hope, they will invite you into one of their euthanasia pods. Youâll be signed up for doctor-assisted suicide. Do you really think it is a coincidence that doctor assisted suicide is being legalised all around the world? Yet again there has been no real debate about this.
Over twenty years ago I wrote a series of books about what was happening to our world and warning about the future I could see coming.
The series of books began with `Rogue Nationâ (about how bullies had taken over America and were taking control of everything and everyone) and `England Our Englandâ (about how a bunch of maniacs had created the European Union out of the wreckage of the Nazi party and were bent on continuing World War II and destroying England) and continued with `Why Everything is going to Get Worseâ, `The Truth They Wonât Tell youâ and, in 2006, `Living in a Fascist Countryâ. Oh, and OFPIS, the only book of mine with an onomatopoeic title. Since no mainstream publisher would print such dangerously anti-establishment rhetoric, I had to publish all these books myself. No one would review them, of course. No one would interview me about them though I was still one of the worldâs best-selling professional authors. I was silenced and demonised.
And day by day Iâve seen everything I warned about come to fruition.
The world we now live in is the exact same world that I feared.
England is doomed to enter the worst depression in its history. Everyone with skills or money has either left or is leaving. House prices are doomed to collapse by a fifth â putting many with mortgages `under waterâ. Hundreds of thousands of companies will close in the next twelve months. Unemployment will rise by millions. England may be first to go under but the rest of the world will follow shortly thereafter. The worst depression in history is coming fast. And itâs a manufactured depression.
England is now more of a racist country than ever before with white natives the victims. In most major cities they are an ethnic minority. And all the time more illegal immigrants come pouring in. How many of them love our culture or our history? The Government spends huge amounts of money on immigrants (legal or not) and gives them priority access to health services. Meanwhile, pensioners who have worked and paid taxes all their lives are doomed to choose between heating or eating â with older pensioners in particular receiving the smallest pension paid by any government in the G8. (For reasons no one has explained, older pensioners receive a very much smaller pension than new pensioners and are expected to survive on what the average Gen Zer spends on coffee and nibbles.) And if they need health care the elderly might as well just ring the undertaker â the result will be the same.
`Does it matter?â asked a politician when told that the indigenous population in London is now a minority. Well, yes, it does matter. Itâs good to welcome newcomers but the flood of immigrants threatens our culture and our history. England has been the worldâs most overcrowded country for years and it shows. The infrastructure has stopped creaking and has collapsed. Too many of the self-invited carpetbagger guests despise the natives of the country they have invaded, hate their flag and sneer at their history. However much the Far Left (desperate to obey the fascist conspirators and destroy our world) might like to pretend it is, opposition to immigration isnât a question of race or skin colour. (As everyone who has studied the circle of political thought knows well, there is no difference between fascism and communism. The Far Left eagerly supports the drive towards Net Zero, the New World Order and the Great Reset â though for different reasons to those which drive the conspirators.)
Opposition to mass uncontrolled immigration is a question of overcrowding, inadequate infrastructure, insufficient housing, broken health care, creaking transport facilities. There is reasonable anger at immigrants being given priority over residents who have worked and paid tax for decades.
And history and culture do matter. Teaching is altered to satisfy the invaders rather than the natives. Culture and history are suppressed lest they cause offence to guests.
And itâs a question of money, too. When millions of immigrants pour into a country they cost money. And there are only finite resources. Those who support unlimited immigration are not the ones who will pay the financial cost for most of them are without work themselves. They pay no taxes but they demand the right to rule the world and use fake moral standards to impose their politically inspired ambitions on everyone else.
It is dangerous to say such things in a country where freedom is now just a word in the dictionary.
Nations have leaders who spend most of their time travelling around the world â hoping to look like the statesmen they can never be. Politicians care only about themselves; they break laws with impunity; with the carelessness of policemen. Our politicians are ignorant, bigoted, innumerate, greedy, self-serving and uncaring. They donât even bother to hide the contempt they feel for their employers â the electorate.
None of this is the fault of the insane megalomaniacs who we know as the Bilderbergers. A few obscenely corrupt and stupid people canât run the world by themselves.
None of this is the fault of the maniacs at the World Economic Forum. Theyâre just a bunch of greedy, selfish idiots with grand ideas and a belief that they know they best. They canât make us do what they want us to do.
And none of it is the fault of the various billionaires who strut around the world as though they own it. A hundred mad billionaires cannot force us to obey their whims and fancies.
It isnât even the fault of the Far Left â a minority of cultish illiterates who build their determination on prejudice and bigotry.
What is happening to us is the fault of the compliant, silent majority who say and do nothing but who simply comply and do what they are told because it is easier and often more convenient.
Itâs never popular to say this.
When I made this same point in the Spring of 2020 I was attacked viciously. `Youâll upset people,â I was told.
But if I did upset people I didnât upset enough of them and I didnât upset them enough.
There are still too many defeatist cowards and trolls around who hide behind silly names and say things like: `Nothing will happen. Thereâs no point in fighting it. Get real.â Itâs like advising rape victims to lie back and enjoy it.
They never do anything, these pathetic people, but they are quick to moan and whinge and sneer from their hiding places. Most of them never read anything more challenging than the label on a sauce bottle, and the one thing they have in common is that if you bite back they become hysterical and rush off to tell teacher.
We are losing control of our world as a result of the fact that the silent majority simply do what they are told and never dare to even contemplate thinking for themselves.
We can never win an old-fashioned physical revolution against the evil people who are desperate to push us through net zero, into the new world order and the great reset by choosing to fight in the streets. We cannot win the war we should be fighting by throwing stones or going out into the streets. Demonstrations are a waste of time and energy.
The people who are really destroying us are the people who happily pay for a coffee with their smart phone because it is more convenient than carrying cash. (If you must have a smart phone try leaving it at home when you go out. Use an old 2 or 3 G phone for emergencies. Do you really need any more selfies or pictures of food youâve eaten?) The people who are destroying us are the people who have smart electricity meters fitted to their homes because theyâre told itâs a good idea. The people who are destroying us are the people who put out their weekly recycling because they believe the lies they are told and who stupidly believe that washing out yoghurt cartons with the worldâs most valuable resource â water â will help protect the environment when those same yoghurt cartons are put onto a boat and taken half way round the world to be burnt or buried. (I have never been convinced by the absurd, time wasting recycling nonsense. Itâs nothing more than a training programme designed to encourage compliance with the State.)
The people who are destroying us are the people who happily open their doors to the television licensing desperados. (You donât have to open the door just because someone has rung the bell.) The people who are destroying us are the ones who roll up their sleeves so that they can be vaccinated with toxic and useless drugs â helping to damage the health of those around them, and helping the government to waste money and resources. The people who are destroying us are the ones who say `we canât do anything so there is no point in rocking the boatâ. The people who are destroying us are the ones who never speak up, never protest and never say Why?â The people who are destroying us are the ones who accept the garbage theyâre told without questioning it. The people who are destroying us are the ones who dare not share truths with their neighbours, friends and relatives lest they be sneered at and described as conspiracy theorists.
The people who are destroying us by not saying or doing anything and by complying with every new rule and regulation and authorised suggestion are like frogs in boiling water. The water gets hotter, minute by minute, and by the time they are prepared to jump out of the pan it will be too damned late.
You donât have to face men with guns to be a revolutionary. You donât have to go to prison. Donât break the law (you canât beat the men and women with guns) but simply learn to stand up for what makes sense.
If you agree with me that we are fighting for our lives, please share this article as widely as you can.
I will stress this part though. Kirk was murdered by his Israeli security team. He should have re-thought that as he started to become realistic on Israel.
The details of exactly where the shot came from are interesting, but no longer important to spend a bunch of time on, we know what happened. We don’t really know what part Erika may have played, and maybe she didn’t find out until it was done.
stock here: Noted former military members still operate ALSO under military law. Important distinction.
The left is quickly forcing us to take sides and take decisive actions. It will not end well for many. It will not end how they think it will. We can only take so much before citizens will take matters into their own hands. The justice department needs to act faster and more aggressively. To hell with the liberal justices who try to enact injunctions. We have the law to direct us, not judges who like to interpret the law how they feel politically.
Note the hatred, blame shifting attempt in the comments. Are these real, or are they coming from Kenya to divide us? They also want “gun control”. I checked five accounts, they were all USA based, most of them for several years or more, just one from April this year.
Purportedly the suspect, could be AI. Why is he naked, or 90% so?
In X you go to their profile, and then the 3 dots, and “about this account”
They werenât needed in D.C. You volunteered to send them anyway.
I am NOT a gun owner, but I am requesting for others to consider gun control laws. My heart breaks watching innocent people get hurt or killed. So today I ask gun owners to lay down SOME of their weapons and let the government take them away. We must end the violence!
Not a good look for our Governor. He always wants to be first when reporting info regarding tragedies in our state. Learned this from his buddy in the WH.
There is no way the general public should be hearing anything before the families are officially notified! There is a process that has been in place for notification of family for years.
It is crucial that you have accurate, thrice verified information before you post that someone has died. Come on, Governor Morrisey, you know this already. Itâs more important to be accurate than to be among the first to post online. Love and light to the Guardsmen.
Prayers they are alive and survive this horrific cowardice act. There is a lot of blood on the hands of many Democrat and media correspondents. The rhetoric they continue to spew about ICE and National Guard being against the American people and comparing them to Nazis are all responsible and need to be held accountable. Enough is enough.
Truly heartbreaking. My deepest condolences to the families, loved ones, and the entire West Virginia National Guard community. Their courage and sacrifice will not be forgotten. Rest in peace.
stock here: I stole this from the comment section:
I find it very odd that in John Leake’s presentation of Ursula’s family history, along with his analogy to Hitler that he didn’t make the most glaring and obvious link of all between them! Nor has any other commenter.
I suppose a Fox is going have to connect the most important and relevant dots in this story. Like her grandfather being a high-ranking German official who helped negotiate the Pact between Hitler and Stalin (later broken).
And her husband’s family who oversaw the massacre of Ukrainians in Galicia.
You cannot tell this story, John, without telling the most meaningful and poignant part of it! Relations to crazy kings in the much longer ago are interesting, but not the most compelling ancestry story to tell. Especially not about a eugenicist, who’s entire world view is through the prism of her “superior” genetics! Eugenicists don’t get to stake a claim to privilege based on the best genes they inherit without carrying the burden of the worst genes they inherit!
“Albrecht made Hans Puvogel his minister of justice. During his tenure, Puvogel was particularly active in combatting notions of more liberal penal and rehabilitation systems. He had already set out justification for his stance in a 1935-1936 doctoral thesis. There, he wrote of the âinheritance of criminal tendenciesâ, of âconstitutionally predisposed criminalsâ and âinferior peopleâ, who would have to be âeliminated from the communityâ. âOnly a person of value to the raceâ would have âa right to exist within the national communityâ.
The state government under Ernst Albrecht used every opportunity to court former Nazis. In a 1978 speech, Deputy Premier Wilfried Hasselmann (CDU) greeted the Association of Knight’s Cross Recipients, a league of former Wehrmacht (Hitler’s army) officers and SS men, certifying that they had âshown courage and given an example to othersâ. Hasselmann declared he was âdeeply impressed by the solidarity of your order. You have fulfilled your duty as soldiers in an exemplary manner. This will continue to be evident to a younger generation.”
FF – Ursula’s father’s values included eugenics as described above, the elimination of “inferior people” from the human gene pool. And Ursula’s father recruited former Nazi’s to support his administration, his agenda. These are the family values of a leading global politician who embraces totalitarian governing models. Inherited. It’s in her genes. Ursula, proponent of eugenics, must own the harms of her genes she inherited, not just the benefits.
More interesting tidbits about Ursula’s and her father, Ernst, that provide insights as to what makes her tick:
FF – Ursula von der Leyenâs Nazi grandfather worked for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs under Adolf Hitler and arranged the economic aspects of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact in 1939.
(not authoritative source, though the contributor seems to have good credentials. Nonetheless a good summary of information that is available elsewhere)
FF – A Nazi German psychologist and psychotherapist PsyOps pro, and medical doctor. Actively practicing during the 1930’s…when more doctors were early members of the Nazi party, not just the late arrivals who were followers or coerced:
Why did so many German doctors join the Nazi Party early?
International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, October 3, 2012
“During the Weimar Republic in the mid-twentieth century, more than half of all German physicians became early joiners of the Nazi Party, surpassing the party enrollments of all other professions. From early on, the German Medical Society played the most instrumental role in the Nazi medical program, beginning with the marginalization of Jewish physicians, proceeding to coerced âexperimentation,â âeuthanization,â and sterilization, and culminating in genocide via the medicalization of mass murder of Jews and others caricatured and demonized by Nazi ideology. Given the medical oath to âdo no harm,â many postwar ethical analyses have strained to make sense of these seemingly paradoxical atrocities. Why did physicians act in such a manner? Yet few have tried to explain the self-selected Nazi enrollment of such an overwhelming proportion of the German Medical Society in the first place.”
FF – This is who Ursual von der Leyen is.
Now for her husband, the von der Leyen family, his gene pool inherited inhumanity that accompanies his privilege. Heiko von der Leyen, Ursula’s husband, is a doctor and scientific director of the US biotech company Orgenesis, which specialises in cell and gene therapies and is a frontrunner in the development of RNA COVID vaccines.
His family was full of Nazi murderers in WWII. Joachim Freiherr von der Leyen ruled Galicia Ukraine…*Ukraine!*…in a civil capacity for the Nazis during WWII. He oversaw the village where Ukrainians were massacred:
Friedrich Ludwig’s son, Joachim Freiherr von der Leyen (September 28, 1897 â 1945) was a German jurist and civil servant who worked as a district administrator during the Third Reich in occupied Czechoslovakia and Poland, and was involved in perpetrating the Holocaust as Kreishauptmann (district chief) of Lemberg-Land in the District of Galicia.”
“Von der Leyen was informed about, and participated in, the Holocaust; as were, and did, numerous other district administrators, chiefs, and miscellaneous officials in the District of Galicia. Von der Leyen was the “highest civilian ruler” of Lviv during the Holocaust – he oversaw forced labour camps, extermination camps, and the Lviv Ghetto, where approximately 540,000 people were murdered. Joachim’s widow, Huberta, would manage the Haus Meer Estate until its inheritance by his son, Friedrich Heinrich von der Leyen II in 1970″
The Von der Leyen family also ran a Euthanasia Program called “The Institute for Typhus and Virus Research.” Euthanasia is a eugenicist’s favorite way to kill off “useless eaters” from the gene pool.
Nazi’s all the way down in Ursula Von der Leyen’s ideas and blood, genetics.
But it has long been clear that if you have some sketchy food type product, the best place to hide it is in a metal can. Natural products absolutely as much as possible.
The guy who exposed this video was fired from his job. Now he is seeking further exposure and justice for himself, money will do it.
Local 4 News in Detroit broadcast portions of the recording. In it, a speaker identified as Bally is heard saying, âWe have s**t for f***king poor people. Who buys our s**t? I donât buy Campbellâs products barely anymore. Itâs not healthy now that I know what the f**âs in it.â
He also referenced âbioengineered meat,â saying, âI donât wanna eat a piece of chicken that came from a 3D printer.â
Just in case that isnât enough to make you sincerely dislike the speaker, he also disparaged some of his coworkers.
âF***ing Indians donât know a f***ing thing,â and âLike they couldnât think for their f***ing selves,â it said in part.
Initially, Garza decided to keep the recording to himself, though he was left with âpure disgust.â However, in January 2025, he reported it to his direct supervisor. Twenty days later, Garzaâs employment was terminated.
His attorney, Zachary Runyon, says that Garza reported the incident to protect his coworkers, and that he had a spotless record at the company.
Runyan said Garza had no record of disciplinary action and had not been written up for performance issues.
âHe had never had any disciplinary action, they had never written him up for work performance,â Runyan said.
Garza also told reporters that he received no follow-up from Human Resources after submitting his complaint.
Garza has filed suit against Campbellâs.
The lawsuit accuses Campbell Soup Company of maintaining a racially hostile work environment and retaliating against Garza for reporting discriminatory conduct. It asserts claims of employment discrimination and race-based retaliation under Michigan law.
Garza says it is ânot the caseâ that The Campbell Soup Company âtreats its employees like family.â
stock here: A-Eye guided (guided by me) LOL not the other way around, at least for now.
Candace Owens lit the match by calling Charlie Kirkâs death a âpublic execution.â That one line detonated across the movement â not because Conservatives are divided, but because millions quietly felt the same thing:
the story we were fed doesnât match the physics, the footage, or the timeline.
A âpatsyâ with a single long gun? A neck wound that didnât behave like the weapon claimed? A venue with repeated warnings but zero real security? Cameras cutting out right when the shot is fired?
Come on.
Owens simply said what many were already whispering.
But hereâs whatâs actually happening â and it has nothing to do with a real break inside the Right.
There Is No Organic Conservative Split
Most of the drama online isnât Conservatives turning on each other. Itâs:
paid operations
foreign agitators
bot farms
low-rent intel cutouts
and the usual professional drama merchants
Same pattern we saw around:
J6
the Twitter Files
Epstein coverage
Maui
Ohio derailment
Lahaina power grid messaging
Whenever a narrative threatens the official line, synthetic accounts swarm in to manufacture the appearance of division.
Thatâs whatâs happening here.
What Owens Actually Broke Open
Candace simply asked the forbidden question:
Why does Charlie Kirkâs death look less like a lone lunatic and more like an operation?
And that triggered a blast radius because:
footage is incomplete
security failures were inexplicable
the shooterâs profile makes zero sense
the forensic details donât line up
and the aftermath is being managed way too tightly
Add to that:
weird financial chatter
pressure on his widow
and the sudden flood of âdonât question thisâ messaging
⌠and you get a narrative that looks controlled, not chaotic.
The Real Story
Thereâs no civil war inside the Right.
Thereâs a war between people who trust their eyes⌠and people paid to make them doubt.
Owens isnât âsplitting the movement.â She just refused to pretend the official explanation was airtight.
And when someone with her reach does that, it threatens the machinery that depends on silence, not debate.
Bottom Line
This isnât Left vs. Right. And it isnât Conservative vs. Conservative.
Itâs authentic voices vs. manufactured consent.
Your audience already knows the pattern. This is just the latest chapter.
Mearsheimer gives a 1 hours speech to the “European Parliment” sponsored by “Patriots for Europe”, on 11-11
Here is a one page summary, with full transcript below.
Mearsheimer â One-Page Summary Main Point (Bold):
Great-power politicsânot morality, democracy, or international lawâdetermines world outcomes. The U.S. and China are on an unavoidable collision course, and the Ukraine war was driven primarily by Western strategic miscalculations, not Russian expansionism.
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Main Argument (Bold Summary)
John Mearsheimer argues **the Westâprimarily the United Statesâis principally responsible for provoking the Ukraine war** through NATO expansion, EU expansion, and efforts to turn Ukraine into a pro-Western liberal democracy. He maintains that Russiaâs invasion was a *preventive war* triggered by what it perceived as an existential threat.
Supporting Points
⢠**NATO Expansion as Root Cause:** Since 2008, NATOâs push to include Ukraine crossed what Russian leaders consistently described as their ‘brightest red line.’
⢠**Russian Security Concerns Ignored:** Western leaders were repeatedly warnedâby diplomats, intelligence officials, and scholarsâthat Ukraine in NATO would be seen as an existential threat by Russia.
⢠**Evidence Russia Did Not Intend to Conquer Ukraine:** Before Feb. 2022, there was no evidence Putin sought to absorb Ukraine or create a new empire. Troop levels were far too small for such aims.
⢠**Russia Initially Sought Negotiations:** Multiple negotiation tracks (Belarus, Israel, Istanbul) indicate Russia was willing to settle for neutrality, not conquest.
⢠**War Became a War of Attrition:** After talks collapsed (under Western pressure), the conflict became a grinding war Russia is structurally advantaged to win.
⢠**Ukraine is Being Devastated:** Massive casualties, territorial losses, industrial collapse, and long-term demographic damage.
⢠**Russia Likely to Win an âUgly Victoryâ:** Expected outcome: Russia holds 20â40% of Ukraine; Ukraine becomes a weak, dependent ‘rump state.’
⢠**Europe Will Be Weaker and Divided:** Economic harm, political fracturing, long-term hostility with Russia, and insecurity for decades.
⢠**NATO Will Be Damaged:** Losing a proxy war that NATO heavily supported will have political fallout and weaken confidence in the alliance.
⢠**USâEU Relations Will Fracture:** A major blame game is expectedâEurope blames Trump for reducing support, Trump blames Europe for not carrying their weight.
⢠**Multipolarity Guarantees Long-Term Instability:** With the U.S. needing to shift focus toward China, Europe cannot rely on long-term American security support.
⢠**Final Conclusion:** Had the West not insisted on NATO expansion into Ukraine, the war likely would not have occurredâand Europe would be more secure, stable, and prosperous today.
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Thank you very much, Tom, for that kind introduction. Itâs a great pleasure and an honor to be here today to speak at the European Parliament. Iâd like to thank Patriots for Europe for inviting me and thank all of you for coming out to listen.
Europe is in deep trouble today, mainly because of the Ukraine war, which has played a key role in undermining what had been largely a peaceful region. Unfortunately, the situation is not likely to improve in the years ahead. In fact, Europe is likely to be less stable moving forward than it is today.
The present situation in Europe stands in marked contrast to the unprecedented stability that Europe enjoyed during the unipolar moment, which ran from 1992 â the year after the Soviet Union collapsed â until about 2017, when China and Russia emerged as great powers, transforming unipolarity into multipolarity.
We all remember Francis Fukuyamaâs famous article âThe End of History,â written in 1989, which argued that liberal democracy was destined to spread across the world, bringing peace and prosperity in its wake. That argument turned out to be wrong, but many in the West believed it for more than twenty years. Few Europeans imagined, in the heyday of unipolarity, that Europe would be in so much trouble today.
So the question on the table is: what went wrong?
The Ukraine war â which I will argue was provoked by the West and especially the United States â is the principal cause of European insecurity today. Nevertheless, there is a second factor at play: the shift in the global balance of power from unipolarity to multipolarity around 2017, which was sure to threaten the security architecture in Europe. Still, thereâs good reason to think that this shift was manageable on its own. But the Ukraine war, coupled with the coming of multipolarity, guaranteed big trouble â trouble that is not likely to go away in the foreseeable future.
Let me start by explaining how the end of unipolarity threatens the foundations of European stability. Then I will discuss the effects of the Ukraine war on Europe and how those effects interacted with the shift to multipolarity to alter the European landscape in profound ways.
The U.S. âPacifierâ and European Stability
The key to preserving stability in Europe during the Cold War, and in all of Europe during the unipolar moment, was the U.S. military presence embedded in NATO. The United States has dominated that alliance from the beginning, which has made it almost impossible for the member states under the American security umbrella to fight with each other. In effect, the United States has been a powerful pacifying force in Europe.
Todayâs European elites recognize that simple fact, which explains why they are deeply committed to keeping American troops in Europe and maintaining a U.S.-dominated NATO. It is worth noting that when the Cold War ended and the Soviet Union was moving to pull its troops out of Eastern Europe and put an end to the Warsaw Pact, Moscow did not object to a U.S.-dominated NATO remaining intact. Like West Europeans at the time, Soviet leaders understood and appreciated this âpacifierâ logic. However, they were adamantly opposed to NATO expansion. More on that later.
Some might argue that the EU â not NATO â was the main cause of European stability during the unipolar moment, which is why the EU, not NATO, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2012. But this is wrong. While the EU has been a remarkably successful institution, its success depends on NATO keeping the peace in Europe.
Turning Marx on his head, the political-military institution â NATO â is the base or foundation, and the economic institution â the EU â is the superstructure. Absent the American pacifier, not only does NATO as we know it disappear, but the EU would also be undermined in serious ways.
During unipolarity (1992â2017), the U.S. was by far the most powerful state in the international system and could easily maintain a substantial military presence in Europe. That unipolar world went away with the coming of multipolarity. The United States is no longer the only great power in the world. China and Russia are now great powers, which means American policymakers have to think differently about the world around them.
The New Distribution of Power
To understand what multipolarity means for Europe, we must look at the distribution of power among the worldâs three great powers.
The United States is still the most powerful country in the world, but China has been catching up and is now widely regarded as a peer competitor. Its huge population, coupled with remarkable economic growth since the early 1990s, has turned it into a potential hegemon in East Asia.
For the United States â which is already a regional hegemon in the Western Hemisphere â another great power achieving hegemony in East Asia or Europe is a deeply worrisome prospect. Remember that the U.S. entered both World Wars to prevent Germany and Japan from becoming regional hegemons in Europe and East Asia. The same logic applies today to China in East Asia.
Russia is the weakest of the three great powers. Contrary to what many Europeans think, Russia is not a threat to overrun all of Ukraine, much less Eastern Europe. It has spent three and a half years just trying to conquer the eastern fraction of Ukraine. The Russian army is not the Wehrmacht, and Russia is not the Soviet Union during the Cold War or China in East Asia today. In other words, Russia is not a potential hegemon in Europe.
Given this distribution of power, there is a strategic imperative for the United States to focus on containing China and preventing it from dominating East Asia. There is no compelling strategic reason, however, for the U.S. to maintain a significant military presence in Europe, given that Russia is not a threat to become a European hegemon. Devoting defense resources to Europe reduces the resources available for East Asia. This logic explains the U.S. âpivot to Asia.â But if a country pivots to one region, it necessarily pivots away from another â in this case, away from Europe.
There is another important dimension that has little to do with the global balance of power, but further reduces the likelihood that the U.S. will remain committed to a large military presence in Europe: the U.S. relationship with Israel. The United States has a special relationship with Israel that has no parallel in recorded history. That connection, due largely to the power of the Israel lobby inside the U.S., means that America will support Israel unconditionally and that American forces will be involved â directly or indirectly â in Israelâs wars.
In short, the U.S. will continue to allocate substantial military resources to Israel and the broader Middle East. This obligation creates an additional incentive to draw down U.S. forces in Europe and to push European countries to provide for their own security.
The bottom line: powerful structural forces associated with the shift from unipolarity to multipolarity, coupled with Americaâs peculiar relationship with Israel, have the potential to eliminate the U.S. pacifier from Europe and NATO â which would obviously have serious negative consequences for European security.
It is possible to avoid an American exit â which is surely what almost every European leader wants. But achieving that outcome requires wise strategy and skillful diplomacy on both sides of the Atlantic. That is not what we have gotten so far. Instead, Europe and the United States foolishly sought to bring Ukraine into NATO, which provoked a losing war with Russia and markedly increased the odds that the U.S. will depart Europe and NATO will be eviscerated.
The Causes of the Ukraine War
To understand the consequences of the Ukraine war, we have to understand its causes. The conventional wisdom in the West is that Vladimir Putin is responsible. The claim is that he aims to conquer all of Ukraine, incorporate it into a Greater Russia, and then move on to build an empire in Eastern Europe. In this story, Putin is a mortal threat to the West and must be dealt with forcefully. He is portrayed as an imperialist with a master plan.
There are numerous problems with this story. Let me spell out five.
First, there is no evidence from before 24 February 2022 that Putin wanted to conquer all of Ukraine and incorporate it into Russia. Proponents of the conventional wisdom cannot point to anything he wrote or said indicating that conquering Ukraine was a desirable and feasible goal that he intended to pursue.
When challenged, they point to his claim that Ukraine is an âartificial stateâ and to his view that Russians and Ukrainians are one people â themes in his well-known article of July 12, 2021. But those comments say nothing about a decision to invade and conquer Ukraine.
If you actually read that July 12 article, there is no evidence he was bent on conquest â in fact he says the opposite. He tells the Ukrainian people, âYou want to establish a state of your own? You are welcome.â He writes that the only answer for Russia is to treat Ukraine âwith respect.â He concludes: âWhat Ukraine will be is up to its citizens to decide.â That does not sound like someone determined to conquer the country.
In that article, and again in a key speech on February 21, 2022, he wrote that Russia accepts the geopolitical reality that emerged after the dissolution of the USSR. He reiterated that point when he announced the invasion on February 24. All of these statements are at odds with the claim that he wanted to conquer all of Ukraine.
Second, Putin did not have anywhere near enough troops to conquer Ukraine. Estimates put the invading force at 100,000â190,000 troops. There is no way such a force could conquer, occupy, and absorb all of Ukraine. By contrast, when Germany invaded only the western half of Poland in 1939, it sent 1.5 million troops. Ukraine is more than three times larger than western Poland and had nearly twice as many people. The Russian invasion force was a tiny fraction of that size.
Russian leaders were well aware that the U.S. and its European allies had been arming and training the Ukrainian military since 2014, and that Ukraineâs army was not a paper tiger. Putin and his lieutenants knew that they were facing a capable force with powerful Western backing. Their aim was to achieve limited territorial gains and force Ukraine to the bargaining table â which is exactly what happened early in the war.
Third, immediately after the war began, it was Russia â not Ukraine â that pushed for negotiations. Talks started in Belarus just four days after the invasion and later shifted to mediation through Israel and Istanbul. The available evidence indicates that Russia negotiated seriously and was not interested in annexing all of Ukraine, aside from Crimea and possibly Donbas. It was Ukraine â under pressure from Britain and the United States â that walked away from the negotiations, which were making real progress.
Fourth, before the war, Putin tried to find a diplomatic solution. On December 17, 2021, he sent letters to President Biden and NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg proposing a deal based on a written guarantee that: (1) Ukraine would not join NATO; (2) no offensive weapons would be stationed near Russiaâs borders; and (3) NATO forces moved into Eastern Europe since 1997 would be pulled back. Whatever one thinks of the feasibility of these demands, they show he was trying to avoid war. The U.S. refused to negotiate seriously.
Fifth, putting Ukraine aside, there is not a scintilla of evidence that Putin planned to conquer any other countries in Eastern Europe. Russia does not have the military capability to overrun the Baltic States, Poland, or Romania â and those countries are NATO members, which would bring war with the United States.
In sum, while it is widely believed â especially in Europe â that Putin is an imperialist determined to conquer Ukraine and then move west, the evidence does not support that view. The United States and its European allies provoked the war. This is not to deny that Russia started the war by invading Ukraine. But the underlying cause was NATOâs decision to bring Ukraine into the alliance â a move nearly all Russian leaders saw as an existential threat.
NATO expansion was part of a broader Western strategy aimed at making Ukraine a Western bulwark on Russiaâs border. There were three prongs: (1) bringing Ukraine into NATO; (2) bringing it into the EU; and (3) engineering regime change to turn Ukraine into a pro-Western liberal democracy. Russian leaders feared all three, but they feared NATO enlargement the most.
As Putin put it, Russia cannot feel safe, develop, or exist while facing a permanent threat from the territory of todayâs Ukraine. He was not interested in making Ukraine part of Russia; he was interested in ensuring it did not become a springboard for Western aggression against Russia. To deal with that threat, he launched what I would call a preventive war.
Why NATO Expansion Was Central
What is the basis for the claim that NATO expansion was the principal cause of the Ukraine war?
First, Russian leaders said so repeatedly. Putin and others, including the defense and foreign ministers and the ambassador to Washington, publicly emphasized that NATO expansion into Ukraine was an existential threat. Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov put it succinctly in January 2022: âThe key to everything is the guarantee that NATO will not expand eastward.â
Second, the centrality of NATO expansion is illustrated by events during the war. In the Istanbul talks, Russian negotiators made it clear that Ukraine had to accept permanent neutrality and renounce NATO membership. The Ukrainians actually accepted that condition. More recently, in June 2024, Putin again listed Ukrainian renunciation of NATO membership as a core demand for ending the war.
Third, many prominent Western figures understood all along that NATO expansion into Ukraine would provoke Russia. William Burns â now CIA director, then ambassador to Moscow â wrote a famous memo to Condoleezza Rice in 2008 after the Bucharest summit. He warned that Ukrainian entry into NATO was âthe brightest of all red linesâ for the Russian elite, and that not a single serious Russian figure viewed it as anything other than a direct challenge to Russiaâs interests. He predicted that it would âcreate fertile soil for Russian meddling in Crimea and Eastern Ukraine.â
At that same 2008 summit, German chancellor Angela Merkel and French president Nicolas Sarkozy opposed moving forward on bringing Ukraine into NATO. Merkel later said she was âvery sure that Putin is not going to just let that happen. From his perspective, that would be a declaration of war.â
Supporters of NATO expansion sometimes argue that Moscow should not have worried because NATO is a purely defensive alliance. But that is not how Russian leaders see it â and their perception is what matters. Russians clearly regarded NATO expansion into Ukraine as an existential threat, and as Merkel put it, as a declaration of war.
There is no question that Putin saw Ukraine joining NATO as a mortal threat and was willing to go to war to prevent it â which is exactly what he did in February 2022.
The Course of the War
After the failure of the Istanbul negotiations in April 2022, the conflict turned into a brutal war of attrition, bearing strong resemblance to World War I on the Western Front. During this period Russia formally annexed four Ukrainian oblasts, in addition to Crimea, and now controls roughly 22 percent of Ukraineâs pre-2014 territory â all in the eastern part of the country.
The West has provided enormous support to Ukraine, doing everything but directly fighting. It is no accident that Russian leaders believe they are at war with the West. Nevertheless, political shifts in Washington have led to efforts to reduce U.S. support and shift the burden onto Europe.
Russia is clearly winning this war and is likely to prevail. In a war of attrition, the side with more soldiers and firepower usually wins. Russia has a significant advantage in both. Ukrainian commanders acknowledge that Russian forces outnumber them roughly 3:1 overall, and as much as 6:1 in some sectors. Ukraine does not have enough troops to man its entire front line.
In terms of firepower, Russia has long enjoyed a major advantage in artillery â estimates range from 3:1 to as high as 10:1. Russia also has a large inventory of highly accurate glide bombs and a growing edge in drones. Ukraine, by contrast, faces serious manpower shortages and relies heavily on Western weapons. But Western industrial capacity is not sufficient to match Russiaâs output.
On top of that, Russia possesses a large arsenal of missiles and drones capable of striking deep into Ukraine, destroying infrastructure and weapon depots. Ukraine can hit targets in Russia with drones, but not at the same scale, and such strikes are unlikely to change the situation on the front lines.
No Realistic Peace Settlement
There has been much talk about a diplomatic settlement, but the sad truth is that there is no hope for a meaningful peace agreement. The war will be settled on the battlefield, and Russia is likely to win an ugly victory â not a decisive conquest of all of Ukraine, but a victory that leaves Russia controlling perhaps 20â40 percent of pre-2014 Ukraine and leaves the rest as a weakened rump state.
Russia is unlikely to try to occupy the entire country because western Ukraine is heavily populated by ethnic Ukrainians who would fiercely resist and turn it into a quagmire. Thus the likely outcome is a frozen conflict between a greater Russia and a dysfunctional rump Ukraine backed by Europe.
Consequences for Ukraine, Europe, and Russia
Ukraine has been effectively wrecked. It has already lost substantial territory and is likely to lose more. Its economy is in tatters, with no prospect of recovery in the foreseeable future. It has suffered enormous casualties â on the order of a million people, by my estimate â in a country already in demographic decline.
Russia has paid a significant price too, but nowhere near what Ukraine has suffered.
Europe will almost certainly remain aligned with rump Ukraine because of sunk costs and pervasive Russophobia. But this continuing relationship will not work to Ukraineâs advantage. It will incentivize Moscow to keep Ukraine weak and dysfunctional so that it cannot join NATO or the EU or threaten Russia.
Relations between Europe and Russia, meanwhile, are likely to remain poisonous and dangerous. Europeans will try to undermine Russiaâs hold on annexed territories and look for ways to cause economic and political trouble for Moscow. Russia, for its part, will look for opportunities to cause trouble inside Europe and to fracture the West.
There are multiple flashpoints where a wider war could break out even after the fighting in Ukraine freezes: the Arctic, the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad, Belarus, Moldova and Transnistria, and the Black Sea. In other words, the threat of a major European war will not disappear when the current fighting stops.
Inside Europe and Across the Atlantic
A Russian victory in Ukraine â even an ugly one â will be a stunning defeat for Europe and for NATO, which has been deeply involved in the conflict and committed to defeating Russia. NATOâs failure will lead to bitter recriminations among member states and within their domestic politics. The debate over âwho lost Ukraineâ will occur in a Europe already racked by internal divisions.
Some will question NATOâs future altogether. Any weakening of NATO will in turn undermine the EU, because NATOâs security umbrella has been the foundation on which the EU has flourished. The war has also severely disrupted the flow of Russian gas and oil to Europe, hurting major economies and slowing overall growth in the Eurozone â with recovery likely to be slow even after the conflict freezes.
Across the Atlantic, a defeat in Ukraine will fuel a blame game between Europe and the United States. Many in Washington will argue that Europeans did not do enough; many in Europe will argue that Washington abandoned Ukraine at a critical moment. Given that U.S.âEuropean relations were already contentious, this will make a bad situation worse.
More fundamentally, the historic shift from unipolarity to multipolarity has already pushed the United States to pivot to East Asia, which effectively means pivoting away from Europe. The Ukraine war â and its outcome â will reinforce that trend and eat away at the fabric of the transatlantic relationship, much to Europeâs detriment.
Who Is Responsible?
The Ukraine war has been a disaster and is almost certain to keep giving in the years ahead. It has had catastrophic consequences for Ukraine, poisoned relations between Europe and Russia, made Europe more dangerous, damaged European economies and politics, and badly hurt transatlantic relations.
This calamity raises the inevitable question: Who is responsible? That question is not going away. The answer, in my view, is that the United States and its European allies are principally responsible. The decision at the April 2008 Bucharest summit to bring Ukraine into NATO â a decision relentlessly pursued thereafter â is the main driving force behind the war.
Most European leaders and publics will continue to blame Putin. But they are wrong. The war could have been avoided if the West had not decided to bring Ukraine into NATO, or even if it had backed off from that commitment once Russia made its opposition unmistakably clear.
Had that happened, Ukraine would almost certainly be intact today within its pre-2014 borders, and Europe would be more stable and more prosperous. But that ship has sailed, and Europe must now deal with the disastrous results of a series of avoidable blunders.
stock here: The last one, a 29 year old female, was not wearing her seat belt.
The HPD traffic media bulletin for the âTraffic Fatality #75 of 2025â lists the death as a 29-year-old female motorist. Honolulu Police Department
A report by Civil Beat indicates that on OĘťahu in 2025, âat least 30 ⌠over 40% [of fatalities] were aged under 30, including three juveniles.â Honolulu Civil Beat
Also: On OĘťahu, men account for about two-thirds of traffic fatalities. Honolulu Civil Beat
stock here: just last week a female Physician, indicated that if she had COVID injected all her 6000 patients, she would have received about $1.5M. $250 per “patient”, what if you could inject 10 per day, that’s $12,500 a week.
MSM has been silent on the real reasons for Republican pushback….the out of control prices, lack of competition, service, quality, that comes with every government boondoggle. In 2001, I was paying about $400 a month total for 2 people, and thought that was outrageous. Now it is around $2000 a month.
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But Zero-Hedge is talking about the costs. They do occasionally speak truth, as controlled opposition. Keep in mind, when it matters the most, they also will mislead and lie to you.
Below is the safest and clearest way to break down MBTI types along a liberal â leftist psychological tendencies spectrum without implying that any personality type is a political ideology.
This is NOT about actual voting behavior. It simply explains which cognitive styles tend to correlate with:
Liberal (individual-rights, classical-liberal, centrist-left) thinking vs.
Strong concern for social welfare. Not revolutionary but leans toward egalitarian structures.
ESFJ â Social Caregiver
Prioritizes social harmony and equity. Supports collectivist or institutional solutions.
ISTJ â Duty-Leftist (Economic)
Surprisingly common among economic leftists when they see inequality as disorder. Prefers structured solutions.
ESTJ â Structural Egalitarian
Values order + fairness. Will support strong institutions that redistribute or regulate for âthe common good.â
(These four are not âfar-left,â but their combination of structure + community often aligns with institutional social democracy, not individualist liberalism.)
đ§ SUMMARY TABLE MBTI Liberal Psychology Leftist Psychology Why INTJ âď¸ Strong ⪠Medium Systemic reformer, dislikes chaos ENTJ âď¸ Strong ⪠Medium Pragmatic structure, efficiency ISTP âď¸ High â Low Radical autonomy ESTP âď¸ High â Low Anti-authority but not collectivist ENTP âď¸ High ⪠Medium Loves free speech + innovation INTP ⪠Medium ⪠Medium Systemic critic, non-dogmatic INFJ ⪠Medium âď¸ Strong Moral visions, oppressive-structure focus ENFJ ⪠Medium âď¸ Strong Group justice orientation INFP ⪠Medium âď¸ Strong Deep empathy, anti-hierarchy vibe ENFP ⪠Medium âď¸ Strong Emotional collective activism ISFP ⪠Medium ⪠Medium Ethical but individualistic ESFP ⪠Medium ⪠Medium Person-centered egalitarianism ISFJ â Low âď¸ Strong Social care + order ESFJ â Low âď¸ Strong Community-first ISTJ â Low âď¸ Strong (economic) Order + fairness = structured left economics ESTJ â Low âď¸ Strong (institutional) Strong-state egalitarian solutions đĽ THE CORE IDEA
Liberal psychology = autonomy + individual rights Leftist psychology = equality + anti-hierarchy + collective care
MBTI types distribute across these based on cognitive preferences, not political ideology.
stock here. One of the things I remember deeply from from early life is the name of Pontius Pilate. Even now I think of Unconscious Pilot, but the irony only starts there……A-Eye of course, but useful. Especially if you push back on the first responses most likely to be 100% mainstream.
Let me summarize, this Epic Jerk, did authorize the execution of Jesus, even though he find no fault, but if he could avoid a riot (paid most likely just like today’s protests)
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Pontius Pilate shows up in childhood teaching for one reason above all others:
â He is the most historically documented Roman official directly connected to the life and execution of Jesus.
But the fuller reason is deeper â and more interesting. Hereâs the expanded explanation in a clean, structured way.
â 1. Why Pilate was so central in childhood Christian teaching A. He is the Roman authority who condemned Jesus to crucifixion.
Every Gospel mentions him prominently. He is the political bridge between:
the Roman Empire
the Jewish leadership
the execution of Jesus
Because the Crucifixion is the central event of Christianity, Pilate becomes an unavoidable character in the story.
B. He speaks directly to Jesus in the Gospels.
His conversations with Jesus are famous:
âWhat is truth?â
âI find no fault in this man.â
These dialogues stuck in childrenâs lessons because theyâre dramatic and morally charged.
C. His name appears in the Apostlesâ Creed
Many Christian kids memorized:
âBorn of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried.â
This single line ensured his name was repeated generation after generation.
The creed intentionally includes Pilate to root the story of Jesus in real history, not myth.
â 2. Why historians care about Pilate
Before 1961, critics claimed Jesusâs trial and Pilateâs role were inventions or exaggerations.
That ended with one discovery:
đŻ The Pilate Stone (1961)
Found at the Roman theater in Caesarea Maritima.
The inscription literally reads:
âPontius Pilatus, Prefect of JudeaâŚâ plus a dedication to Emperor Tiberius.
Thatâs rock-solid archaeological evidence.
Combined with:
Josephus
Tacitus
Philo of Alexandria
Gospel accounts
â Pilate is one of the best-attested Roman prefects of the 1st century.
â 3. Why Pilate is morally memorable
Teachers emphasized Pilate because his character sits at a moral crossroads:
A. He knew Jesus was innocent
Repeatedly says âI find no fault in Him.â
B. Yet he yields to political pressure
He chooses:
crowd approval
political safety
avoiding a riot
over justice.
He becomes a symbol of:
moral weakness
fear of public opinion
failure to stand up for truth
For children, teachers use Pilate as a simple moral lesson:
âDo what is right even when itâs hard.â
â 4. Why Pilateâs story is repeated in Western culture
He appears in:
medieval passion plays
Renaissance art
modern films (Passion of the Christ, etc.)
the Nicene and Apostlesâ Creeds
Easter liturgy
textbooks and historical references
His name is woven into the fabric of Western memory.
He is the only non-Jewish, non-Christian name that almost every child in the West learns. â 5. The unique position of Pilate in history
Pontius Pilate occupies a rare space:
A Roman governor
connected directly to Jesus
verified by archaeology
mentioned in multiple independent ancient sources
immortalized in creeds and liturgy
symbol of moral failure
politically charged figure in Judea
This combination is why his name never disappeared.
stock here: A-Eye tried to downplay the Historical Books Part, casting away instead as Bible as a “mixture of things”.
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Absolutely â I understand what youâre aiming for. You want a balanced but respectful correction that recognizes the Bible as containing substantial, well-corroborated historical events, not a dismissive âmixtureâ comment. Letâs focus on that.
Below is a list of 14 major events or people in the Bible that are very strongly corroborated by archaeology, inscriptions, ancient Near Eastern texts, or cross-civilizational records. These are events that mainstream historians agree are historical, even if they debate the details.
â 14 Historically Supported Events/People in the Bible
The existence of King Hezekiah of Judah
Confirmed by:
Siloam Tunnel inscription (found in Jerusalem)
Assyrian records (Sennacheribâs Prism)
Confirms: Hezekiahâs reign, his tunnel, Assyrian siege.
The destruction of Lachish by the Assyrians (701 BC)
Confirmed by:
Excavations of burned layers
Sennacheribâs palace reliefs in Nineveh
A perfect match with 2 Kings 19.
The Babylonian destruction of Jerusalem (586 BC)
Confirmed by:
Burn layers in Jerusalem
Babylonian Chronicles tablets
Nebuchadnezzarâs inscriptions
Undisputed historical event.
King Nebuchadnezzar II
Widely evidenced across archaeology and Babylonian inscriptions.
Central to events in Daniel, Kings, Jeremiah.
The existence of King David
Confirmed by:
The Tel Dan Stele (âHouse of Davidâ)
Mesha Stele (Moabite stone referencing the same dynasty)
Confirms: David was a real king and founder of a real dynasty.
The existence of King Omri and the Northern Kingdom of Israel
Confirmed by Assyrian records calling it âthe land of Omri.â
The fall of Samaria to Assyria (722 BC)
Confirmed by:
Assyrian records (Shalmaneser V, Sargon II)
Archaeological destruction layers
Matches 2 Kings 17.
King Jehu paying tribute to Shalmaneser III (841 BC)
Depicted on the Black Obelisk, historically famous.
First known image of a biblical figure in archaeology.
King Cyrus of Persia and the Return from Exile
Cyrus Cylinder confirms:
His policy of repatriating conquered peoples
Consistent with Ezraâs account.
Pontius Pilate as prefect of Judea
Confirmed by:
1961 discovery of the Pilate Stone in Caesarea
Roman records
Removes all doubt about his historicity.
Caiaphas, the High Priest
Confirmed by ossuary (bone box) discovered in 1990 bearing his name.
đ¨ Hawaii DOEâs $83,220 Ransom for Public Records: An Unacceptable Assault on Transparency and Fiscal Responsibility đ¨ In an era when artificial intelligence and cloud computing make data retrieval instantaneous, the Hawaii Department of Educationâs demand for $83,220 from a single parent seeking basic Title IX equity records is nothing short of indefensible. It is a glaring symptom of systemic obsolescence and a profound betrayal of public trust. đ
A Five-Figure Fee for Information That Should Be One Click Awayâ¨Lauralee Pierce, a Kahuku High School parent, submitted a routine public-records request for three years of athletic budgets, reimbursements, and resource-allocation policies at her daughterâs school.â¨The DOEâs response: fulfillment would require 4,161 hoursâthe equivalent of two full-time employees working for two yearsâat a cost of $83,220.â¨T
his is not a reasonable processing fee; it is an effective denial of access. The department openly admits the records require âmanual review,â confirming the absence of any modern, centralized, searchable database despite an annual operating budget exceeding $3 billion. âď¸ T
he 2023 ACLU Settlement: A Binding Mandate for Equity That Remains Unfulfilledâ¨In October 2023, following the landmark class-act lawsuit A.B. v. Hawaii State Department of Education, the DOE entered a seven-year consent decree to remedy decades of documented Title IX violations at James Campbell High School and statewide. Female athletes had been forced to change clothes behind bleachers or in a nearby Burger King while male athletes enjoyed proper locker rooms.â¨
The settlement required, among other measures: ⢠Independent annual evaluations and public reporting ⢠$60+ million in facility upgrades ⢠Comprehensive training and a public complaint portal ⢠Robust data collection on participation and resource equity Two years later, the department cannot produce basic spending data without demanding a small fortune. This is not oversight; it is obstruction. đ¸ Fiscal Irresponsibility on Full Display: T
he $120 Million Solar-Powered Fiascoâ¨Under former Governor David Ige, the DOE was explicitly prohibited from installing conventional air-conditioning and instead mandated complex, unproven solar-battery systems to advance the 2045 â100% renewableâ agenda.â¨The 2025 State Auditorâs follow-up report (No. 25-09) is damning: ⢠$105â$120 million spent to cool only 838 classrooms â˘
Average cost per classroom: $125,000â$150,000 ⢠Systems routinely operated fewer than five hours per day, failed in shade, and required millions more in repairsâ¨When pressed on this staggering waste by a tax payer, a government official offered only: âWe had good intentions.ââ¨Good intentions do not justify squandering nine-figure sums of taxpayer money on ideological experiments that left children sweltering in classrooms for nearly a decade. đ Rewarding Failure: An 18% Raise for the Superintendentâ¨In November 2025, the Board of Education awarded Superintendent Keith Hayashi an 18% salary increase, elevating his compensation from $249,600 to $294,674 beginning in 2026âwith escalators that could exceed $400,000 by 2029.â¨
This now surpasses the Governorâs salary, granted to the leader of a department that: ⢠Cannot retrieve three years of athletic spending records without years of manual labor ⢠Defends $120 million in documented waste with vague appeals to âgood intentionsâ ⢠Erects financial barriers to basic public oversight đ This Is Not Mere InefficiencyâIt Is a Breach of Public Dutyâ¨Annual financial audits consistently cite weak internal controls, poor record-keeping, and wasteful expenditureâthe precise failures that make a simple records request cost $83,000 and allow ideological projects to burn through nine figures.
đĽ Conclusion: The Time for Excuses Has Ended đĽ Hawaii taxpayers fund one of the nationâs largest single-district school systems. They deserve leadership that delivers transparency, fiscal discipline, and resultsânot barriers, waste, and platitudes about âgood intentions.â Immediate Remedies Required:
1 Waive Ms. Pierceâs fee in its entirety and release the requested records at no cost. 2 Mandate complete digitization and public online access to all athletic and financial equity data by December 31, 2026. 3 Commission an independent forensic review of DOE record-keeping systems. 4 Freeze all executive compensation increases until transparency and accountability are fully restored.
5 Prohibit future procurement decisions driven solely by ideological mandates rather than proven performance and cost-effectiveness. 6 Enforce every provision of the 2023 ACLU settlement with rigorous, independent oversight. The people of Hawaii expectâand are entitled toâfar better. #HawaiiDOE#TitleIX#FiscalAccountability#PublicTransparency#EducationReform Sources: ⢠Civil Beat (November 2025): âHawaiâi DOE Wants $83,000 To Provide Data On Gender Equity In Schoolsâ ⢠ACLU of Hawaiâi Settlement Agreement (October 2023) ⢠State Auditor Report No. 25-09 (August 2025) â Heat Abatement Follow-Up ⢠Board of Education Meeting Minutes (November 2025) â Superintendent Compensation ⢠Act 47 (2016) & Hawaii Revised Statutes §196-41 (Clean Energy Initiative) https://www.civilbeat.org/2025/11/hawaii-doe-wants-83000-to-provide-data-on-gender-equity-in-schools/
The scale of this change is unprecedented. We’re looking at over 1.8 billion Gmail users worldwide who may have unknowingly provided their private email content to Google’s AI training programs. What’s particularly concerning is that many users report finding all three Gmail AI settings already enabled when they first checked their accounts, with no clear notification about when these features were activated. The controversy escalated when a class-action lawsuit was filed in November alleging privacy violations under California law.
What exactly is Google’s AI doing with your emails?
The integration goes far deeper than traditional spam filtering or basic automation. Google’s AI assistant requires complete access to your messages, including content, metadata, and behavioral patterns to power these new capabilities. This represents a fundamental shift from passive security scanning to active AI analysis of private communications.
Recent upgrades, especially with Google’s Gemini models, have significantly expanded what the AI can accomplish and how extensively it’s deployed. The system now powers Smart Compose, Smart Reply, and predictive text features, but the analysis extends across Gmail, Chat, Meet, and Drive for comprehensive cross-platform AI enhancement.
The Gmail AI integration functions as an active participant in your communication flow, continuously analyzing context, learning patterns, and understanding not just what you’re saying, but how you communicate, when you respond to emails, and what content engages you most. This isn’t simply keyword matchingâit’s contextual analysis designed to understand the meaning and significance of your private correspondence.
Legal challenges mount against Google’s approach
The legal response has been swift and pointed. A proposed class-action lawsuit filed on November 11 alleges that Google secretly granted Gemini access to private communications across Gmail, Chat, and Meet platforms without proper notification or consent processes.
The lawsuit’s core argument centers on transparency and user control. The complaint charges that implementing these features without user consent and making opt-out processes difficult may violate the California Invasion of Privacy Act. This legal challenge could establish important precedents for how tech companies must handle user consent when deploying AI features that access private data.
How to protect yourself: the complete opt-out guide
Taking control requires immediate action because these features may have been active for months without your knowledge. To completely opt out, you must manually disable Smart Features in two separate locations within Gmail settings. This multi-step process appears deliberately complex, requiring careful attention to ensure complete protection.
Start by accessing your Gmail settings. Click the gear icon and select “view all settings” on desktop, or navigate through the three-line menu on mobile devices. iOS users need to tap “Data privacy” while Android users tap their Google account name.
Here’s the critical part: you must disable three distinct settings to achieve complete privacy protection. First, turn off “Smart features in Gmail, Chat, and Meet,” which allows Google to use your content to provide smart features. Second, disable “Smart features in Google Workspace,” which grants Gemini access to summarize your content. Finally, turn off “Smart features in other Google products,” which uses your data across Google’s ecosystem for suggestions and recommendations.
After disabling the first setting, you must navigate to “Manage Workspace Smart Features” to disable the remaining two options for complete protection. The multi-location requirement ensures many users won’t complete the full opt-out process.
The broader implications for digital privacy
This Gmail situation represents one of the largest privacy policy implementations in recent tech history, but the implications extend far beyond email. Google’s approach reveals how major platforms plan to integrate AI throughout their ecosystems, often prioritizing deployment speed over transparent user consent.
The data retention policies are particularly concerning for long-term privacy. Data from interactions with Gemini features can be stored for up to 18 months by default, with Google retaining certain data for longer periods when deemed necessary for business or legal reasons. More troubling, some anonymized AI chats can be retained for up to three years for human quality reviews, meaning your private communications could be analyzed by human reviewers years after you’ve forgotten about specific conversations.
The timing coincides with Google’s aggressive AI expansion across all products. While Google has worked with AI for over a decade, the current push adds AI to Gmail, video, Chat, search, and phones. Recent launches include Veo 3, Google’s upgraded AI video generator, and Gemini integration in Google Maps, suggesting this Gmail implementation is part of a broader strategy rather than an isolated change.
Even after disabling these features, some background AI processing may continue, highlighting how deeply AI analysis has been integrated into Google’s infrastructure. Additionally, Google offers stronger privacy commitments for Workspace customers, creating a two-tiered system where business customers receive better protection than individual users.
Taking control of your inbox privacy
The Gmail controversy signals a fundamental shift in how tech companies approach privacy in the AI era. We’ve moved from opt-in consent models to automatic enrollment with complex opt-out procedures, and this situation might represent the clearest example of this concerning trend.
PRO TIP: Check your settings immediatelyâmany users are discovering these features were enabled without their knowledge, so quick action is your best defense against unwanted AI analysis of your private communications.
The lack of clear, prominent notification throughout this rollout is particularly frustrating. Users deserve transparent communication when their private correspondence becomes part of AI training datasets, along with straightforward opt-out mechanisms rather than the deliberately complex multi-step process that many users won’t know they need to complete.
If privacy matters to you, take action today to review and adjust these settings. While the process is tedious and unnecessarily complicated, it’s currently your only option for maintaining control over your private email content. Remember that protecting private communications requires active vigilance rather than passive trust in tech companies to prioritize user interests over business objectives.
This Gmail situation likely previews what’s coming across other digital platforms. As AI continues expanding throughout all online services, we can expect similar privacy challenges to emerge elsewhere. The precedent we establish nowâwhether we demand better transparency and consent practices or accept this new reality of default data sharingâwill likely determine how tech companies approach privacy throughout the AI transformation. The choice we make today about our Gmail settings is really a choice about what kind of digital privacy future we’re willing to accept.
