BlueOak

The Top general taken out. Second in command of the military. Xi's purge continues. Chinese troops reinforce the capital. Following the Putin playbook. Kill all opposition. Kill all dissent. Kill everyone with a different opinion. Sad world we live in.

I was going to post something else and I read this. Stay safe. Keep your head down. They'll need people like you in the future to rebuild. Surviving this what you will offer will ripple out to thousands. As we all do over our lifetimes, only you will have a perspective that others will need to hear about what happened, put in a way that will assist all of them.

No it will take you understanding 1+1 doesn't equal 57. But instead you'll see what you want to see that suits your world vision. Cooperation and alignment on certain issues does not translate into a world ruled by three cities as a single power, especially when they compete on other issues and do not have the influence you assign to them. We live in a world where some Individuals have more money than countries, and those are just the ones you see publicly listed, the outrageously rich families or royals are not even on those lists. Where Catholics as a percentage of the world religion are: Islam — ~25.6% Unaffiliated (no religion / atheist / agnostic) — ~24.2% Catholic Christianity — ~17.7% Hinduism — ~14.9% Protestant Christianity — ~9–12% Eastern Orthodox Christianity — ~3.8% Buddhism — ~4.1% Folk / Traditional Religions — ~1.9% Other Christians (e.g., Latter-day Saints, Jehovah’s Witnesses, independent churches) — ~0.3% Sikhism — ~0.3% Judaism — ~0.2% Baháʼí Faith — ~0.1% Jainism — ~0.05% Taoism — ~0.05% Confucianism — ~0.05% It all depends if you think influence is control over the world. Undoubtedly Catholics, and those following Islam or Hinduism have some control. I think combined christians are at roughly 28%, but how much this is due to the central authority of the church or their own personal influence would be the line of argument to take. How much Christians, say of different churchs, agree the world should be run, structured or led is another line of argument. On the military front, this is your main objective truth. There is a lot of military control from America but you may have noticed its slipping and faster than ever under Trump as he turns his allies against him.

I've found the Enforcer channel one of the best out there, as they source everything. They've got things wrong and admitted them, but they've done the most detailed sourcing and analysis i've seen anywhere on the details of the war(s) they cover. They have an obvious bias in commentary towards Ukraine and Israel, but not in analysis or sourcing the details themselves. The only channel I would put close would be: https://www.youtube.com/@UkraineMatters Ukraine Matters. Obvious Ukraine biased but very honest when things are going badly, and has a good meta analysis of the front lines often. I've never seen a pro Russian channel be honest when things are going badly for Russia, though i've seen a few I used to watch with good analysis, they would gloss over or ignore when things were going badly, whereas these two the Enforcer, and Ukraine matters do not, also https://www.youtube.com/@arturrehi has been honest but doesn't have the same strategic overview of the war. The Business Basics channel exaggerates, no doubt, but often drops things I hadn't considered or noticed. The Purge in the Chinese military has been ongoing for years however. But your indication to watch mainstream media for accuracy is quite honestly ludicrous and has been for about 30 years. They post what is politically advantageous to their chosen political party, be that the America parties or the Russian parties, or whatever country you are watching. There is almost no independent mainstream analysis available. Also going to drop: https://www.youtube.com/@INSIDERUSSIA Inside Russia, for a steady approach from a russian economist, with friends in businesses still back in Russia. Through him i've understood the Russian mindset more on a day to day level.

Influence isn't control. Financial control is in the hands of multiple countries, companies and individuals. Military power yes, to an extent but this has been in deep decline. Religious control, no, there are so many different churches and religious bodies influencing the world. Most Christians are not catholic. The city of london is a district with special governance. It is not independent of UK law or sovereignty. Washington DC is not sovereign at all, congress can override its laws. These groups will often disagree and compete for influence; they share no easily identifiable coordinated strategy or consistently unified goals. Sure they may agree sometimes, just like other powerful groups.

There are many reasons for the fear. You've seen me post my understanding of how the mindset has come about and how the situation has shaped it. But. How many government institutions and groups are doing their best to quell the fear, and how many are doing their best to exaggerate or grow it. Asking this of any country will give you how reliant on fear they are to govern or maintain their legitimacy. To me it is the primary disagreement at a fundamental level I have with authoritarian or hard-right powers

Suppression. Maintaining Levels of Fear Maintaining Levels of Division. Maintaining artificial prices on essentials like medicine. For financial and political gain. Additionally people have increasingly less wealth, influence, or power relative to those with power.

Sure. Trump uses ICE as his personal paramilitary force, it makes him feel good to use them in this way. By doing this he also strokes the ego of some of his personal thugs back home. Collectively any country's people have a responsibility for who is in power; its not a significant one but its there. When weighed against the serious day to day issues of running Italy, all of this is a relatively minor thing. However, there is increased international risk. What is undeniably stupid is anyone from the government defending it publicly. You'll have to visit the link, its a relatively balanced comment but is trying to defend the decision: No wonder its blocked offsite though lol Here is why they try damage control for the event.

Welcome to the world of socialists from 2013 onward. Where speaker after speaker was simply blocked, videos hidden or buried, posts or comments just disappeared, and users were blacklisted. I believe similar things were happening to aethists awhile back but I stopped being political when everything I was saying was simply deleted. Only now the screws are tighter on what is allowed to be spoken. Now liberals get the same treatment. The response I used to get was, "Well, you don't own the platform." I won't repeat it to you here as an answer because its innane, but maybe someone will be inspired to make a platform worth using, because the current ones don't cut it.

I agree. But there are several problems you'd have to overcome to get this to market effectively. Not least of which starts with the appeal of the product itself in modern culture. These sorts of things would create the barrier to a successful business.

140 times the amount of tonnage of protein that soybeans can produce per hectare. 45% Protein, doubles its mass every 2 days. Purifies water. Complex Protein, not needing additions to get what you need. Taste is mild, with no adverse effects. Classified as a weed and never taken seriously in developed nations. But its the same as corn or any major crop. You don't need seeds. It's too efficient. It gives too much protein, so people suppress it. But it should be in every nation, on every table, and in every hungry country or area. *And if your a farmer, use it to feed your chickens!

You define you.

I rarely blame the people in states. There is some collective blame for having a government that would tolerate idiocy, but in the grand scheme of things risking international incident to indulge a man-child so he can have his toy soldiers around him, and stroke some egos back home, isn't worthy of too much notice when running a country. However it does pose increased risk for the event as a result.

The economic downturn continues in Russia, and for me a collapse is becoming the more likely outcome if they don't give up on taking land they don't currently occupy. 2-3 more years of this? 1-2 Million more casualties? As drone attacks just continue to improve. Maybe but they'll lose a lot of civilians in the winters to come. Not unless Xi, Trump and Modi more directly bail them out. Apparently talks are ongoing right now, as I believe they are looking at this as I am and wondering if they will make it 2-3 more years. But as they get more desperate, the lies get more fantastical; now they are claiming they have taken settlements behind forward lines they are already losing. And some good news on the economic side, the Russian shadow fleet gets more restricted but the EU.

ICE is the American president's paramilitary force. It doesn't matter what they call themselves, that's what they are, the republicans own military force. However using them as bodyguards at a public event is idiotic with how badly trained most of them are. It'll also make them a target for anyone with a grievance, and so it's also idiotic that the Italians would allow it when 20 to 100 guys in suits or alternative military gear would do a better job. Stupidity all around.

Populations are not divided into war lovers and peace lovers. They are divided by institutions and groups that frame violence as necessary and populations that when under fear accept it. Fear is the tool of the dictator and the authoritarian. The only metric you could give me is, how afraid do the population of israel feel right now?

Its from the same model yes. Just as many religions follow a similar model. @Ramasta9 Things share similarities in design and concept, just as you can draw inferences that either subconsciously or consciously the human form or body was influential in many structures or systems because humans are designing them; moreover, human society, as it was, became a model for most things governing it. You are looking at the chicken and the egg concept. Which came first.

Isn't the question on Zionism? The answer is the same either way, look at their actions: Fear of the other is obvious in Zionists. The idealised supremacy of their religion is also obvious. War and conquest are present with their actions in Gaza, Syria, Lebanon, etc, and are also obvious. Its the ruling ideology and their actions toward other countries (and rarely any internal groups or cultures) are what is noticed or matter to foreigners looking in. If you mean does a Zionist who has little power conquer countries or want to conquer countries, all we can go by is their words.

Although it would get eaten, and we might get more fish. I imagine a great green tidal wave of GMO duckweed. It doubles every 24-48 hours. Nothing could eat all of that. Unless it somehow was engineered to perish quickly also.

It does not do well in saltwater.

Yes they say to grow them in clean water, not use it direct from pet shop tanks. I saw a comment on exactly that. So if you take them out of tanks, give them some time reproducing in clean water afterwards, clear most of it and then you've got a fresh batch. Here is a better guide: https://www.wikihow.com/Grow-Duckweed Disinfect the duckweed with potassium permanganate when you've first bought it. Apparently you can purchase it directly also. Yes people supplement their food sources with it and farmers are beginning to see the benefits also. Its perfectly possible to grow a lot very quickly in your back garden, turning it into shakes or using it as a meal supplement. I am considering launching a business using it, it's one option on my mind, but there are many hurdles to selling it, as the video mentions. @Jannes Here is an example recipe from a chef for a salad https://zareflytrap.com/duckweed-recipes/ Here is another for pasta: https://triplemethodrecipes.blogspot.com/2025/12/eat-well-recipe-duckweed-pesto-pasta.html And here is a shake: https://www.vinatura.store/blogs/articles/duckweed-shake-recipes

Okay let's explore that. If the mind is in an altered state enough to put the ego aside and give you a subconscious message, is this separated? Or If the mind is undergoing a simple processing dream about the day, we have many of these, is this separated? Or You are exploring a different version of reality to see if you can exist within it, or experience a more severe lesson of a problem you have so the 'real' one is not as hard to handle for your nervous system, is this separated? None of these, to me, are separated from the universe (You in a verse or your inner verse) or from what I would call the experience of life.

You can decide anything is separated or not.

What does it mean to create reality to you personally Leo? Thanks for sharing any insights.

Universally there is no separation between the me growing my hair and the me sweating now as I lift weights; the river running or air running through my hair, the me at work counting money, the light travelling to hit a rock ten billion lightyears away so I can see it a certain way, or the me reading this right now. There is no illusion. Just this.