Dave Walsh Highlights The Amount Of Energy It Will Take To Sustain Artificial Intelligence


Posted originally on Rumble By Bannons War Room on Nov 25, 2024 at 7:30 pm EST

Pentagon Claims, without a Scintilla of Evidence, That DPRK Troops are On the Ground in Kursk Region


Posted originally on the CTH on November 19, 2024 | Sundance

For very obvious reasons I don’t believe them.  However, that said, take an elevated position on the issue for a moment and ask yourself, ‘what are the implications if the United States Pentagon are fabricating claims about North Korean troops on the ground in Kursk, Russia?’

The United States Defense Department asserted today that DPRK troops are on the ground in the Kursk region.  Actual North Korean troops on the battlefield fighting against Ukraine.   Has anyone seen any single physical attributable example, a picture, a photograph, a video, a satellite image, a drone video, a declassified field report; heck, anything – anything at all – to support such a claim?

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This claim, and the total lack of evidence for it, is really nuts if you think about it.

Where are the journalists who look at these officials and say, “prove it.”  I mean, the path we are traveling ends in a very dark place for the U.S-NATO and Russia.  Shouldn’t someone, anyone, ask some very pointed questions?  Where the heck is Biden?

New York Times – Early this morning, Ukraine’s military launched a volley of American-made ballistic missiles into Russia for the first time. The attack came on the 1,000th day of the war and less than a week after President Biden gave the Ukrainians permission to do so in a major shift of American policy.

The strike targeted an ammunition depot in the Bryansk region of southwestern Russia, causing explosions, Ukrainian officials said. Russian officials claimed to have shot down five of the six missiles. The use of long-range American weapons was a show of force that demonstrated how continued Western support could help Ukraine more easily degrade Russian forces.

The pre-dawn attack struck an ammunition depot in the Bryansk region of southwestern Russia, Ukrainian officials said. Russia’s Ministry of Defense said that Kyiv used six ballistic missiles known as ATACMS, for Army Tactical Missile System. A senior American official and a senior Ukrainian official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss ongoing operations, confirmed that ATACMS were used.

The strike represented a demonstration of force for Ukraine as it tries to show Western allies that providing more powerful and sophisticated weapons will pay off — by degrading Russia’s combat capabilities and relieving pressure on Kyiv’s overstretched forces.

The attack came on the same day President Vladimir Putin lowered Russia’s threshold for the use of nuclear weapons. He declared that Russia could use nuclear weapons if its sovereignty is threatened, even against a nonnuclear state so long as that state is backed by a nuclear power — similar to the situation in Ukraine. The timing of the long-planned move was clearly meant to send a message to Europe and the U.S.

The White House said it had observed “no changes to Russia’s nuclear posture” and played down Putin’s new doctrine. The reaction was telling, my colleague David Sanger wrote. Over nearly three years, the war in Ukraine has inured Washington and the world to the renewed use of nuclear weapons as the ultimate bargaining chip. (read more)

Comrade Suspicious Cat remains, well, suspicious.

President Trump and Elon Musk Attend 6th SpaceX Test Flight – 5:00pm ET Livestream


Posted originally on the CTH on November 19, 2024 | Sundance 

President Trump flew to Texas to attend the 6th launch of the massive SpaceX Starship 6th flight.  The target launch time is 4:00pm CT / 5:00pm ET Livestream Links Below:

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Saturday Speculations


Posted originally on the CTH on August 24, 2024 | Menagerie

If you are a man, I’m sure you’ve reflected on the men who influenced your life. We automatically think of dads, of course, who have such profound and critical importance in not only the development of children, but continue to provide us with wisdom and role models as we age and face the challenges of life.

Las week I witnessed a small, almost unnoticeable incident that illustrated this for me again, and made me think a lot about it this past week.

I am homeschooling my autistic grandson for the third year. My husband is retired now, and often helps out, which has been great for the little guy. Last year when he was studying work, energy, levers, wedges, etc. in his science class, there was a lot of time in the garage using things like a hammer and nail, drill and screws, to illustrate the lessons.

Last week I took him to the track and playground for exercise. He used to love the playground, and was adventurous, but at nine, he’s decided he’s too old. I told him he has to play, or do exercise videos. Very reluctantly, he decided to put minimal effort into the climbing wall, swings, ladders, and other equipment there. My encouragement had no influence.

The next day, my husband was able to come with us. The grandson was a different boy, simply due to the presence of his grandfather. He threw himself into things, and even attempted crossing the hand over hand bars, which he was unable to do, but made a few swings. My husband explained to him that he would easily be able to do this, and other activities, by the end of the year.

I suspect several things happened here. Just the presence of a strong, respected man made Conner feel safe. Perhaps he also felt it important to make an effort to impress his grandfather, or be more like him. And undeniably, as my husband walked beside him and encouraged him to step off the safe platform and swing out into the air, he needed the security of a strong man he trusted, not holding him, but just there.

We fight battles politically, economically, and using our influence to change minds. But this is how we win.

As you go about your day, a simple action like this will change the world more than all the other things. Be there for a kid, whenever you can.

The Intolerance of Intolerance


Posted originally on Aug 11, 2024 By Martin Armstrong

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When Immoral is Moral and Evil is Good


Posted originally on Aug 11, 2024 By Martin Armstrong 

Logical Fallacies


Posted originally on the CTH onAugust 11, 2024 | Menagerie | 201 Comments

Wikipedia says a logical fallacy is the use of invalid or otherwise faulty reasoning in the construction of an argument. We used to be taught this in school. My first formal exposure to deductive and inductive reasoning was in science class in junior high school. Later I studied mathematical logic in college.

Inductive reasoning is a method of drawing conclusions by going from specific observations to general observations.


Often we tend to think of inductive reasoning as bad, or sloppy reasoning, but that is not the case. Inductive reasoning is the base for the scientific method, for how research is conducted. We use it every day to help us figure the world out, to make sense of things, to make decisions.

That being said, I think it is too often misused.

Before I throw dirt at others, let me come clean with my own worst tendency to use it. Bear with me please, it involves some ideas and conflicts specific to Catholicism, but it’s my best example of where I let my own logic fail me, and emotion take over, and that’s the whole point of this post. If you are Catholic, I’d ask you, no matter which side of the divide you might be on, or perhaps even not relate at all, to look for the point here and not get sidetracked.

The last decades have seen an increasing number of Catholics be just as divided into camps as we are in politics. Catholics who prefer to attend Mass in the Ancient, also called Extraordinary Form, commonly known as the Latin Mass, have become known as Trad Catholics. Some self identify with that term, and some use it, and see it, as an insult.

Most Catholics, including me, choose to attend the Ordinary Form, or Novus Ordo. Little or no Latin is spoken, although there are a number of important differences in the two forms of the Mass.

I have had the unfortunate experience of having a number of bad encounters with Trad Catholics. Indeed, the worst I’ve ever been attacked for one of my posts on this blog was by several Trads, and it was really vicious.

Consequently, I tend to not give Traditional Catholics the benefit of the doubt in my encounters with them. In spite of the fact that theologically my beliefs are almost identical to theirs. My values almost always align with theirs. We have much in common politically and in lifestyle choices.

But because my own specific encounters have been difficult, I often form opinions about their actions and motivations based on a very minute set of facts, and contrary to many other things I know to be true.

So, on to other examples I see, specifically here, that concern me.

Everyone who differs in opinion in some way from commonly held MAGA doctrine, whatever that might be, is not necessarily failing to support President Trump.

Everyone who expresses a dissenting or unpopular opinion here is not necessarily a troll.

Everyone who agrees with the choice of Vance for Vice President or disagrees with the choice is not necessarily a subversive deep state enemy or a brilliant thinker who never fails to connect the dots, or listen to good counsel.

If I have a moral and religious belief or value more closely held than my opposition to abortion, I can’t think what it is. Yet, I will say, not everyone who gets an abortion is evil. There are young, ignorant and uninformed girls and women who are often pressured into this terrible choice. There are sex trafficked victims for whom this is just one more terrible abuse.

There is an awful lot of talk right now, given the British cop who wants to, haha, extradite Americans for exercising freedom of speech. We need to think about what that means, freedom of speech.

If we believe in the right, then we believe in it for everyone. I don’t have to approve of what you say, and I should not therefore decide that you are a bad person, a lazy thinker, or even not just a supporter of President Trump because you said something I don’t believe.

Over the years, some of my most important choices in life have been based on information I obtained by talking to people I thought were wrong, or people I disagreed with. Sometimes those discussions led me to clarify and temper my own thoughts, improving my position and my opinions. Sometimes, they led me to investigate a different path.

My choice to support President Trump in his initial run for president was greatly influenced by Sundance and some of you. I was initially curious, open to learning more and supporting him, as I hated the other choices, but it was not a done deal based on emotion. I had a lot to think about.

I actually never intended to convert to Catholicism, the most important choice of my whole life. I was pursuing knowledge for a different reason entirely. Life is like that, if you set out to learn things.

Do not tell people they don’t belong here because they disagreed with you.

Do not call them a troll because they disagreed with you.

If you only ever go to the library looking for books by one author because you really, really like him, you sure are going to be a stunted, uninformed person throughout your life. And the one who will have lost the most is you.

Does a Near Death Experience Change You?


Posted originally on Jul 17, 2024 By Martin Armstrong

Trump is alive, for he turned his head to his right just a couple of inches. Had he not done that, the first shot of this patsy would have killed Trump. He said he “‘feels very fortunate” to be alive. Already I am hearing people what independent balisticsand the bullets. With the FBI investigating, there is just no credibility left anymore after what people have seen with the investigation into the JFK assassination.

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What I hear is that people are claiming it is Trump’s fault for his rhetoric. Now I hear that Trump will realize he is wrong and will suddenly repent and become a Democrat, I suppose. Let me explain something since I have personal experience with being the target of assassination. This is nonsense!

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Many assume that near-death experiences completely alter a person’s views regardless of how devout they may have been. I can say after the attempt on my life that I survived, to their dismay, when I awoke from a coma days later; it did change me, but not in the way I have read that people assume. In my case, it took the fear of death from me rather than making me more devout and afraid of death. But it also strengthened me as I knew my purpose was to stand up and fight.

Near Death Experience

There has been a recent review of the research into near-death experiences. The most common result seems to be a loss of fear of death, a reinvigorated sense of purpose, and increased compassion for others. Where I had restricted our services mainly to institutional pre-1999, it did make me realize that to create world change for the better; I had to share what I had learned and try to demonstrate to the world that there is a better way if we live with the cycle instead of trying to manipulate it for political gain.

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I went to dinner at President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago, and I posted about it on March 13th, 2020. However, it was at that dinner when Trump said he wanted to withdraw the troops from Afghanistan. He was the first head of state ever to really impress me from a human perspective. He said he was tired of writing letters to the parents of a soldier who had died there. He said:

“What are we doing there? These people have been fighting over borders for a thousand years. What difference are we going to make?” 

I find CNN and MSNBC vile. All they ever do is demonize Trump. I was told that people at CNN were upset because this suddenly “humanized” him after so many years of deliberately trying so hard to dehumanize him.

I got to see that Trump was concerned for the soldiers who were dying only because the Neocons, like John Bolton, constantly wanted to convert the United States into an imperial power that dominated the entire world with his endless wars. Let’s make this very clear about Bolton. John Bolton was a fervent supporter of the Vietnam War, yet he managed to avoid combat through a student deferment followed by enlistment in the Maryland Air National Guard. He is always willing to send American boys to their deaths but sought a deferment for himself.

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Bolton openly supported the United States’ interference in other countries under his philosophy that, somehow, we have the right to carry out regime changes worldwide. That is precisely what got JFK assassinated by the CIA because they were engaging in regime change, assassinating leaders, and he wanted to terminate the CIA.

Nevertheless, Donald Trump said on his social media site Truth Social on Sunday that ‘it was God alone who prevented the unthinkable from happening.’ He was already against war. I believe he will take the path I did and see that he is here for a purpose. Perhaps that purpose is to try to mitigate this mad rush into World War III.

This is more than just the hatred of Rachel Maddow and all the LEFTIST that should be expelled to some island where they can create a world of communists. They seem to prefer where nobody may say or do anything that they disapprove of. These people are outright traitors to everything that America was intended to be. They espouse nothing but hatred, and this is the very reason the United States will break up.  These people have no respect for civilization, and I refuse even to call my “mother” and birthing person because the term “mother” offended them. They will NEVER change their ideology; any call for unity will quickly fade as the days pass. They will NEVER live under Trump, who they have so demonized with raw hatred.

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These comments of having Trump killed have been worldwide by the LEFT. David Aaronovitch, who presents Radio 4’s Briefing Room show, and the Daily Mail reported that on July 4th, he put out on Twitter: “If I was Biden, I’d hurry up and have Trump murdered on the basis that he is a threat to America’s security.”

I believe Trump has been stripped of any fear of death, and further, I think he now sees that his saying, Make America Great Again, will form an even more profound sense of purpose. Perhaps this will contribute to the political changes that must come post-2032. Yes, civilization requires unity. But the cancer is on the LEFT where they always present themselves as victims for they do not have what others have and so on. They constantly try to force their way of life upon everyone else right down to punish anyone who has more than they do. the LEFT will never change – it is in their DNA. That is why nations will no longer be able to stand united.

Saturday Speculations


Posted originally on the CTH on July 6, 2024 | Menagerie

Spoiler alert. That might be my $20 (inflation!) word for a rant. And open season, nothing is off limits guys. Whatever’s on your mind.

I will start with truth. After a few things I’ve observed lately, let’s start with the basics. Apparently people on both sides need a primer.

True

Inoun

1. The quality or state of being true.

2. That which is true or in accordance with fact or reality.

3. A fact or belief that is accepted as true.

Let’s discuss. 1. Too vague. 2. Okay, agreed. 3. Absolutely not.

I found something worth a little thought from Webster’s 1913 online.

1. The quality or being true; as: — (a) Conformity to fact or reality; exact accordance with that which is, or has been; or shall be.

It also goes on to expand the meaning of truth, and I’d like to come back to that later.

Fidelity; constancy; steadfastness; faithfulness.

There is truth, and it isn’t fungible. In the real world, we don’t have my truth and your truth. An orange is an orange and a man is a man. Vows are vows, and you don’t get to interpret them after the fact. If you make a commitment, pledge a vow, sign a contract, then you go into knowing and accepting the reality as is, not as you think it should be.

Everyone who has been married understands that we all bit off more than we thought, and reality is different from romance. Most of us buckle down, put in the work, and deal with that, with varying degrees of success.

But suppose your spouse decides they don’t like fidelity and want an open marriage. Nope. Not what you pledged. Suppose your husband decides he wants to be your wife. Again, no.

Those are the easy ones. Let’s do harder. Suppose you work at a low paying job, your boss is abusive, and you are really in desperate straits financially. You begin to take small amounts from the cash register, never really missed, and after all, you are underpaid, and asked to work off the clock.

Again, no. It is a truth that theft is wrong. A truth that is not subject to your interpretation.

I have had people I really do not like offer me good counsel, telling me things that might be difficult to take, especially from them. Some of them had my best interests at heart, and some of them had their own best interests at heart, but helping me in some way suited that interest. My feelings about them, and about whatever difficult truth I was being challenged to face didn’t change facts.

I like this person, it’s easier to agree with their course of action. I hate this one, therefore every thing they do is wrong. Not valid, nor is it productive.

Moving on.

Every American, right, left, Democrat or Republican, liberal or conservative, really ought to unite in digging through muck and filth and coverup for answers about why the government has been run by proxy, and who is running it.

And yeah, for us, we saw this way back, before Obama even, but let’s just deal with today and the “wink,wink” crowd who just got outraged. Okay, man up, own it, walk back from the brink and fix things.

I can’t calculate that infinitesimal percentage of chance.

For the love of little green apples, climate cultists, EVs are not immaculately conceived. They get here by way of petroleum based manufacturing. But before that, look into lithium mining. The process, the human labor, the precious CO2 emissions in the process, water used. You know, stuff.

Why aren’t parents trustworthy enough to teach reading, writing, and math to their own kids at home, but they know enough medicine and psychology to “understand” that their non verbal 18 month old baby is transgender?

And may I return, yet again, to one of my perennial questions.

Young ladies, why would you enter into a relationship with a man who is more effeminate than you, wears more jewelry, styles his hair, and, Great Aunt Gertie’s garters, wears skinny jeans. No man belongs in skinny jeans. And have you seen the suit pants men wear now? I don’t want them to look like leggings, and I don’t want to see your socks.

Someday life is going to slam you with a level 5 tornado you didn’t see coming, and man bun skinny jeans boys will fold and buckle.

If you’re using buttermilk, it should never be low-fat.

I’ll save the rest for another fine day. Your turn.

Oh yeah, big add. Okay, I consider liberals stupid, to say the least. But pass the popcorn. They finally have to own up, on the international stage, no less, to poor decision making and irresponsible, dangerous actions having unavoidable repercussions. Even for them, epic stupid.

LIVE: GLOBAL POPULISM SPECIAL WITH BEN BERGQUAM AND RAHEEM KASSAM


Posted originally on Rumble By Bannons War Room on: July 04, 2024 at 05:00 pm EST