NATO starts deploying troops as Russia races to win

Way too late here folks.  The Ukraine has burned up its manpower reserve and the russians have only started and have also learned to be careful.  And war is about numbers when the hardware is pretty well common.

I suspect that the ukrainians cannot handle another major loss of manpower.  And throwing up missles does little except to turn over the mud.

I am also sure that NATO knows this and sending in volunteers to stiffen the Ukrainians is about all that can be done now.

NATO starts deploying troops as Russia races to win

The plan to try and ward off disaster seems to be to fill in gaps in Ukraine’s forces by importing ‘advisors’

By STEPHEN BRYEN

APRIL 26, 2024

https://asiatimes.com/2024/04/nato-starts-deploying-troops-as-russia-races-to-win/

Dutch Minister of Defense Kasja Ollongren on April 17, 2024, tries out the cockpit of a Dutch F-16s, three of which were delivered to the European F-16 training center in Romania. Training of Ukrainian pilots reportedly is going slowly, suggesting that experienced non-Ukrainian pilots may be needed to fly the sophisticated planes against the Russians in the Ukraine War. Photo: X

NATO is starting to deploy combat troops to Ukraine. Soldiers from Poland, France, the UK, Finland and other NATO members are arriving in larger numbers.

Although Russia says there are over 3,100 mercenaries in Ukraine, these newly arriving troops are not mercenaries. They are in uniform, home country proclaimed via insignia. They mostly are concentrated in the western part of the country, although in some cases they are close to the actual fighting in the east.

NATO is putting out the word these are not combat soldiers but are in Ukraine to operate sophisticated western hardware. But if they are firing at the Russians the only proper way to interpret their presence is that they are playing an active part in the shooting war.

More or less this is the same pattern that the US used when it sent “advisors” to Vietnam. In fact, they were US Special Forces who engaged in combat.

The Biden administration, at least for public consumption, says it opposes sending NATO soldiers to Ukraine. But Biden in truth may be waiting for his reelection before he gives the order for US soldiers to fight in Ukraine. After Biden is reelected, he will have a free hand. The recent passage of the $60 billion air bill for Ukraine signals that Congress will go along with whatever the Biden administration wants to do “fighting the Russians.”

The national security establishment fears a Russian victory in Ukraine. It would constitute a major setback in America’s security strategy and would be a blow, even a fatal one, to NATO.

Reportedly the Russian army is now 15% bigger than it was before the Ukraine war. It is also far more experienced, and the Russians have found ways to deal with US high tech systems, such as jamming and spoofing.

Meanwhile NATO is far behind Russia in weapons, manpower and industrial might. Furthermore, stockpiles of weapons are very low and equipment supposedly for national defense has been sent to Ukraine, leaving defenses wanting.

The consensus opinion in the US National Security establishment is that Ukraine is losing its war with the Russians and could potentially face the collapse of its army.

There already are reports that some brigades in the Ukrainian armed forces refused orders from their commanders. Those include the 25th Airborne Assault Brigade; the 115th Brigade; the 67th Mechanized Brigade (which abandoned positions in Chasiv Yar) and the 47th Mechanized (which demanded rotation after more than a year on the front lines). These are top Army brigades and not territorial defense units.

The Russians know what is going on and they are targeting foreign forces while also grinding down Ukrainian fighting units, inflicting heavy casualties. The Russians say Ukraine has already lost almost 500,000 troops in the war, and the numbers destroyed in combat grow on a daily basis.

Ukraine is desperate to find new recruits, and it is getting some help from countries where Ukrainian draft-age refugees are hiding out. Lithuania is planning to send Ukrainian draft-age men home. So is Poland.Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky and Lithuania’s Defense Minister Laurynas Kasciunas meet in Kyiv on April 10, 2024. Photo: Ukraine Presidential Office

A report on training of Ukrainian F-16 pilots also is revealing. According to some of the western officers working with the Ukrainians, progress even after a year teaching pilots to operate F-16s has been less than a success. Language barriers and unfamiliarity with western systems and combat tactics, has proven to slow the learning process. Rumors have it that when the F-16s finally begin arriving in Ukraine this summer, the planes are likely to be handled by “retired” pilots from European air forces.

NATO’s plan to try and ward off disaster seems to be to fill in gaps in Ukraine’s forces by importing “advisers,” waiting for the US to commit its army to the battle after the election in November. The Russians know this and are in a race to try and collapse Ukraine’s army before Biden returns to office, if in fact he does. If the Russians are successful, a bigger war in Europe will be avoided. If not, with the introduction of US forces, Europe will be plunged into World War III.

Stephen Bryen served as staff director of the Near East Subcommittee of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and as a deputy undersecretary of defense for policy.

The US imperialist hegemon, in his quest to be the undisputed dictator and tyrant of the globe, is totally reckless and infinitely dangerous; and the spectacle of a hideously servile Europe in its effort to satisfy His Master’s wishes is truly deplorable. I wholeheartedly wish for Russia to prevail against her abominable foes…

China unveils world’s 1st diesel engine with 53.09% thermal efficiency

We all forget that over sixty percent of fuel energy is lost as exhaust and as jacket heat forever.  Of course sixty percent of grid energy is lost just getting to to you.  Not precise of course, but that is certainly the order of magnitude.

which is why mobile energy storage through battery storage is so attractive.  It will allow our energy production and distribution to be optimised by ridding ourselves from on demand 24/7 systems we now rely on.

In the meantime a better engine is welcome provided wear and tear does not degrade it too quickly.

China unveils world’s 1st diesel engine with 53.09% thermal efficiency

The team concentrated effort into optimizing four vital systems: fuel supply, air intake, combustion, and friction reduction.

ETIENNE DE LA BOETIE2

APR 24, 2024

Since the invention of the diesel internal combustion engine 127 years ago, engineers and scientists have strived to improve its thermal efficiency.

In a markable advancement, the first diesel engine in history with an intrinsic thermal efficiency of 53.09 percent was unveiled by Chinese firm Weichai Power.

The firm showcased its new technology at the 2024 World Congress on Internal Combustion Engines, which commenced in Tianjin, China.

The accomplishment was recognized by TÜV SÜD, an internationally respected testing organization, and the China Automotive Technology & Research Center, a specialized testing entity for Chinese internal combustion engines.

Leading efficiency innovation

The percentage of diesel combustion energy transferred into useful engine output work without needing a waste heat recovery mechanism is known as the base engine’s thermal efficiency. The engine’s economy improves with the base engine’s increased thermal efficiency.

Weichai Power achieved a noteworthy milestone in this regard on September 16, 2020, when it unveiled a diesel engine that set a new record with a body thermal efficiency of 50.23 percent.

On January 8, 2022, the business made even more progress, raising the engine’s thermal efficiency to 51.09 percent. The company most recently achieved 52.28 percent thermal efficiency on November 20, 2022, surpassing its prior records.

The firm compared to mainstream products, which typically achieve an average thermal efficiency of 46 percent for diesel engines on the market. Deploying thermal efficiency technology in base engines with a 52.28 percent thermal efficiency can lead to a significant 12 percent reduction in both fuel consumption and carbon dioxide emissions.

Fine-tuning existing technologies

Weichai Power’s research team built on its prior successes by investing over 500 days of concentrated effort into optimizing four vital systems: fuel supply, air intake, combustion, and friction reduction.

The team effectively advanced high-expansion combustion, mixed-flow pressurization, high-efficiency fuel injection, and low-resistance friction-reducing technologies.

World's largest marine reptile gives blue whale a run for its money

Another reminder that fossils are a poor way to determine species maximal size..

Another thing we lack is a real eyeball system for sorting things out in the DEEP or well below the top layer of actve surface waters.

Not least, all this water contains sufficient biologically available oxygen to keep everything cold blooded alive and happy.  

Thus super fish who are likely uncomfortable with the surface region can live down there and never be noticed.

my point is that this critter could be alive and well and never show up to be sampled.  We have had rare sightings that at least suport this possibility and that includes sea serpents..

World's largest marine reptile gives blue whale a run for its money

By Michael Irving

April 22, 2024

https://newatlas.com/biology/worlds-largest-marine-reptile-ichthyotitan-ichthyosaur/

An artist's impression of Ichthyotitan severnensis washed up on a beach, while some curious dinosaurs investigate

A newly described species of marine reptile could be the largest to ever swim the world’s oceans. The “giant fish lizard” lived more than 200 million years ago, and may give the blue whale a run for its money, size-wise.

Ichthyosaurs are a diverse group of marine reptiles that patrolled the seas during the age of the dinosaurs. They kind of look like a cross between a fish and a dolphin, and could grow anywhere from around 2 to 20 m (6.5 to 66 ft) long. But now, that upper limit may need to stretch, as two separate discoveries suggest that a much bigger creature was roaming the ancient oceans.

The new species has been named Ichthyotitan severnensis, which means “giant fish lizard of the Severn” (a river near the site). And it sure earns that title, with researchers estimating that it may have measured up to 25 m (82 ft) long. That puts it in blue whale territory, making it comfortably the largest marine reptile ever known and up there with the largest known animals.

Of course, length isn’t the only measure of size – Patagotitan is thought to be the largest land animal, and at 37 m (121 ft) it’s much longer than Ichthyotitan. But it’s mostly neck and tail, and tips the scales at “just” 70 tons, or less than a quarter of a blue whale. Our new fish lizard friend has a bulky body shape closer to that of a whale, so it could also be a contender for heavyweight champion.

A size comparison of Ichthyotitan severnensis and a human

SlvrHwk/CC BY-SA 4.0

That said, the researchers haven’t yet estimated its weight, and caution that its length is also still debatable, pending the discovery of more fossils. So far, Ichthyotitan is only known from two jawbone specimens – the first was discovered in 2016 on a beach in Somerset, UK, by fossil hunter Paul de la Salle. It was scientifically described in 2018, but the scientists resisted the urge to name a new species until more data came to light.

A few years later, their wish came true when a father/daughter fossil-hunting team, Justin and Ruby Reynolds (the latter of whom was only 11 years old at the time), stumbled on a similar giant bone just a few miles away from the first. Collected in fragments between 2020 and 2022, this new jawbone measured more than 2 m long – that’s as long as the entire body length of some other ichthyosaur species. With that, the researchers were finally confident enough to declare a new species, although of course more fossil finds are needed to get a clearer picture of the creature.

“This new specimen is more complete, better preserved, and shows that we now have two of these giant bones (called a surangular) that have a unique shape and structure,” said Dr. Dean Lomax, an author of the study. “These jawbones provide tantalizing evidence that perhaps one day a complete skull or skeleton of one of these giants might be found. You never know.”

For now, the team estimated the length of the Ichthyotitan using a simple scaling factor formula, essentially comparing the length of this bone to the total body length in a range of ichthyosaur species. The researchers found that it was about 25% larger than the same bone in Shonisaurus, another giant ichthyosaur with a body length of around 21 m (69 ft). Using that ratio, as well as that of other species, the team calculated a body length of between 20 and 26 m (65.6 and 85.3 ft) for Ichthyotitan.

An artist's impression of Ichthyotitan severnensis frolicking

Gabriel Ugueto

The colossal creature would have lived about 202 million years ago during the Late Triassic period, the culmination of about 50 million years of evolution for ichthyosaurs. But its reign didn’t last long – giant ichthyosaurs disappear from the fossil record at the beginning of the Jurassic, about 200 million years ago. Smaller species persisted until about 90 million years ago, before they lost out to competition from long-necked plesiosaurs, superpredator mosasaurs, and other marine reptiles.

We can only hope that more fossils turn up, and scientists are able to zero in on just how big these things were.

Savor the Taste of Independence, Grow Your Own!

What is interesting here is that the vietnamese experience is actually the Chinese experience on steroids and certainly because China brought in their reforms piecemeal and plausibly are still incomplete, while the Vietnamese offloaded their ideology across the board and pretty quick as well.  and no sign of goast cities as well.

It pretty well appears that the regime dumped that sheme first chance for the same reasons we will not touch it.  And it ahs worked out wonderfully.

Beside this take on tomatos which is aimed even at your sundeck, i also saqw an item in which a city in finland offered three hens per household to anyone who cared.  A thosand takers eliminated 100,000 tons of household waste and gave stats that told them that doing this neutalized egg demand.  that was easy  Who thought?

So what is wrong with a neighborhood plot operated to provide eggs, veggies and microgreens in particular?  Beats a typical corner store and one could even stock raw milk and have it all on demand.


I threw in some pictures of beefsteak tomatoes here.  when i has a kid, i would go out into the garden and grab a nice big ripe one, cut it open and sprinkle salt or sugar on the cut surface.  all the aromatics hit you when you eat this and those are long lost otherwise.

right up there with drinking raw milk.

Savor the Taste of Independence, Grow Your Own!

By George F. Smith

April 13, 2024

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/04/george-f-smith/savor-the-taste-of-independence-grow-your-own/

Growing your own tomatoes can be rewarding far beyond the sweet taste of your crop.

The traditional extra benefits keep bringing many of us back season after season. If you’re a gardener, you know the great feeling of acting directly on nature to produce the food you eat. Raising tomatoes gets you outside and sweating, and usually provides a sense of accomplishment. It encourages discipline and planning, and demands a bit of knowledge and a ton of patience.

And when you finally harvest those juicy edibles and carry them into your home — without once leaving your property — you can almost hear the fife and drums. You’re gripped by a feeling virtually unknown in today’s world: independence. This is what our ancestors fought for!

Any extras you have you can give away with pride. If the haul is sufficiently large, you might even can some for off-season. Gardeners everywhere have done this for ages.

Recently, though, I’ve taken pleasure in what gardening doesn’t involve.

What it doesn’t involve is the government, at least not in the meddling, bleeding sense. The tomatoes I grow are as valuable to me as money if not more so, since it is so hard to find good ones. Yet I have no intention of reporting them as “income.“

I take great satisfaction in not needing a license or any kind of certification to create a garden. I don’t have to join a union or seek some bureaucrat’s zoning approval to devote part of my land to raising vegetables. I don’t have to devise, then get blessed, any sort of warning label for my tomatoes. If I get sick when I eat them, tough. If the wage I pay myself is the market value of the tomatoes themselves, then I stand guilty of running a sweatshop. Even the most bountiful harvest doesn’t translate into a living wage.

If bugs are attacking my Better Boys, I can kill the pests without having the government jail me for murdering insects.

Most years I have by far more tomato plants than any of my neighbors, yet I live without fear of prosecution for my monopolistic tactics. They are free to grow more or grow none, as they wish, and I am free to harvest as many of the red devils as I can, or let them all rot on the vine.

Not one of my tomatoes will be confiscated for “social“ needs. I give some to others as an act of volition, not an act of Congress. And I give them from a sense of pride, not pity; to share, not from my “duty“ to serve others.

No official will seize any for my future well-being. If I want to eat my homegrowns after my plants have died it’s up to me to can some. I can limit myself to grow tomatoes of a single cultivar and not worry about charges of racism or lack of diversity. If I choose to grow some of every variety, no beefsteak supremacist can stop me.

I don’t have to tolerate congressional double talk of a gardener’s bill of rights, allowing me to sue any and every one for lousy vegetables. The only right I have is the freedom to grow them or not. If I have a poor crop I can blame whomever and whatever I want, but nobody’s going to listen except me.

In spite of a friend’s comment that garden-fresh tomatoes are almost as good as you-know-what, there are no interns around to wipe sweat from my brow. The most sensational event of the previous growing season happened when the handle of my shovel cracked after hitting a rock.

But in every personal undertaking there’s always the State to consider.

Gretchen’s decree

Deeply concerned for the safety of her state’s residents owing to a presumed virus invasion from a Chinese lab, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer issued a short-lived decree in early April, 2020 that prohibited “all stores larger than 50,000-square feet to cordon off their garden centers and plant nurseries, blocking customers from shopping in those sections through April 30.” (Michiganians were still allowed to buy necessities such as liquor and lottery tickets, of course.) In short, home gardening was put on hold for many people. But Governor Whitmer, a reflective politician, canceled that order a week later in the name of “economic re-engagement.”

What possible threat could home gardens pose to public health or politicians that seem eager to do away with them?

Perhaps Governor Whitmer and others have heard of what happened in Vietnam. In a May 2024 Reason article, author Rainer Zitelmann reports that

In 1990, with a per capita gross domestic product (GDP) of $98, Vietnam was the poorest country in the world, behind Somalia and Sierra Leone. Every bad harvest led to hunger, and Vietnam relied on food aid from the United Nations and financial assistance from the Soviet Union and other Eastern Bloc countries. As late as 1993, 79.7 percent of the Vietnamese population was living in poverty.

By 2020, the poverty rate had fallen to 5 percent. Vietnam is now one of the most dynamic countries in the world, with a vibrant economy that creates great opportunities for hardworking people and entrepreneurs. Once a country unable to produce enough rice to feed its own population, it has become one of the world’s largest rice exporters, and a major electronics exporter too.

What happened? A communist miracle? You know better.

Like Lenin before them in the 1920s Soviet Union, the Vietnam communist regime decided to back off from their ideology somewhat. Their reforms in the early 1980s amounted to making legal certain “spontaneous developments” that had been long ongoing in several villages.

Farmers refused to work in collectives and concentrated their work on the little land they owned themselves, because they could sell the goods they produced here at market prices.

Farmers were giving CPR to the market.

“Without such illegal or pilot procedures,” Tran Thi Anh-Dao wrote in the 2022 book Rethinking Asian Capitalism, “there is evidence that market mechanisms could never have emerged so rapidly.”

The market movement gradually mushroomed.

The reforms adopted in the next couple of years included permission for private manufacturers to employ up to 10 workers (later increased), abolition of internal customs checkpoints, elimination of the state foreign-trade monopoly, reduced restrictions on private enterprise, elimination of virtually all direct subsidies and price controls, separation of central banking from commercial banking, dismantling major elements of the central planning and price bureaucracies, the return of businesses in the South that had been nationalized in 1975 to their former owners or their relatives, and the return of land seized in the ’70s collectivization campaign if it was “illegally or arbitrarily appropriated.”

Moral for American home gardeners: Keep at it.

Even if you live in an apartment or a condo, you can grow tomatoes in big pots on your deck, but be sure to pick the right variety. This year, treat yourself to some good eating while savoring the taste of independence — and remember those brave Vietnamese.

Is time travel really possible? Here’s what physics says

So far, when we look into the universe,we observe that the universe had some sort of beginning and that consciousness played a part in imagining that beginning.  Thus our 3D physical existence is a cause and effect consequence of consciousness itself and produces a binary idea of our existence.

Now add in the knowledge that empirical infinity is just a very large number and the intuitive idea of continuity which depends of mathematival infinity disappears as well.  effectively the idea of matter is imposed upon what mathematicians call the 3D manifold which is really an idea of space with no rules except dimension.  This imposition is the SPACE TIME pendulum as particle which provides measure and time.  both are created with that act of creation.  this then induces a succession of particle creation in a sphere just like the BIG BANG.

It helps to imagine a crystalline expansion setting up decay opportunities that cascade into more complex particles until we see our own existence.  and as number scale increases, particle size spials downward reflecting higher ordered pythagoreans and cyclic functions as desribed in my paper.

All this means is that a wormhole in the 3D manifold allows us to jump back and forth in terms of our experienced causual time without damaging the math   Understand consequences though as it does have real dangers.

Our  own consiousness has the capacity to reach forward in time to sense danger.  It is sort of like experiencing an information distribution and we ignore this at our own peril.  It is something AI can never do.

We will learn to wormhole to our past and certainly recover extinct biomes because we want to.  We will also be able to recover past written knowledge considering just how much has been lost.  Those are two huge gains for humanity and our present..

We have had eye witness reports confiming the apparent existence of such wormholes, but have not made them yet.  my point is that they are theoretically plausible and we have had rare confirmation of the future touching us as well.

Is time travel really possible? Here’s what physics says

12 November 2023

By Michael Marshall,Features correspondent

Is time Travel Possible

The ability to jump forward and backwards in time has long fascinated science fiction writers and physicists alike. So is it really possible to travel into the past and the future?

Doctor Who is arguably one of the most famous stories about time travel. Alongside The Time Machine and Back to the Future, it has explored the temptations and paradoxes of visiting the past and voyaging into the future.

In the TV show, the Doctor travels through time in the Tardis: an advanced craft that can go anywhere in time and space. Famously, the Tardis defies our understanding of physical space: it's bigger on the inside than it appears on the outside.

Time: The Ultimate Guide

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While time travel is fundamental to Doctor Who, the show never tries to ground the Tardis' abilities in anything resembling real-world physics. It would be odd to complain about this: Doctor Who has a fairy-tale quality and doesn't aspire to be realistic science fiction.

But what about in the real world? Could we ever build a time machine and travel into the distant past, or forward to see our great-great-great-grandchildren? Answering this question requires understanding how time actually works – something physicists are far from certain about. So far, what we can say with confidence is that travelling into the future is achievable, but travelling into the past is either wildly difficult or absolutely impossible.

Let's start with Albert Einstein's theories of relativity, which set out a description of space, time, mass and gravity. A key outcome of relativity is that the flow of time isn't constant. Time can speed up or slow down, depending on the circumstances.

"This is where time travel can come in and it is scientifically accurate and there are real-world repercussions from that," says Emma Osborne, an astrophysicist at the University of York, in the UK.

For example, time passes more slowly if you travel at speed, though you need to start approaching the speed of light for the effect to be significant. This gives rise to the twin paradox, in which one of two identical twins becomes an astronaut and whizzes around in space at close to the speed of light, while the other stays on Earth. The astronaut will age more slowly than their Earthbound twin. "If you travel and come back, you are really younger than the twin brother," says Vlatko Vedral, a quantum physicist at the University of Oxford, in the UK. Twins Scott and Mark Kelly did this for real when Scott spent months in space, albeit not at speeds close to that of light.

Similarly, time passes more slowly for you if you are in an intense gravitational field, such as a black hole. "Your head is ageing quicker than your feet, because Earth's gravity is stronger at your feet," says Osborne.

Doctor Who used this as the setup for season 10 finale World Enough and Time, in which the Twelfth Doctor and his friends are trapped on a spaceship close to a black hole. At the front of the craft, closer to the black hole, time passes more slowly than at the rear. This means the small group of Cybermen at the rear of the craft are able to develop into a huge army in, from the Doctor's point of view, a matter of minutes. This effect of gravity on time also features in the plot of the film Interstellar.

Getty ImagesAccording to Albert Einstein's theories of relativity, you can compress time if you are able to travel fast enough relative to those around you (Credit: Getty Images)

In our everyday lives, these relativistic effects are too tiny to be noticed. But they do affect the satellites that we use for global positioning system (GPS). "The clocks above click faster than the clocks on Earth", and must be constantly readjusted, says Osborne. "If we didn't, Google Maps would be wrong about 10km (six miles) a day."

Relativity means it is possible to travel into the future. We don't even need a time machine, exactly. We need to either travel at speeds close to the speed of light, or spend time in an intense gravitational field. In relativity, these two acts are essentially equivalent. Either way, you will experience a relatively short amount of subjective time, while decades or centuries pass in the rest of the Universe. If you want to see what happens hundreds of years from now, this is how to do it.

In contrast, going backwards in time looks far, far harder.

"It may or may not be possible," says Barak Shoshany, a theoretical physicist at Brock University in St Catharines, Canada. "What we have right now is just insufficient knowledge, possibly insufficient theories."

In theory, it is possible for space-time to be folded like a piece of paper, allowing a tunnel to be punched through

Relativity offers some options for backwards time travel, but this time they are much more theoretical. "People tie themselves up in knots trying to find ways to rearrange space-time in order to make time travel to the past possible," says Katie Mack, a theoretical cosmologist at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Canada.

Sanctuary AI Humanoid Bots Will Be Used in Magna Car Parts Factories on Path to Solving All Work

The drive is on to produce humanoid robots able to master a huge range of tasks.  Much of our material universe will now become ubiquitous and available to be used.  we are now in a general phase of design enhancement.

The ultimate reality is that everything needs robotic support.  Understand that no robot will be a genius at driving a nail but will tirelessly drive a nail forever and anon.  there is a difference.  Once a robot is picking raspberries, i am happy to get lost and look for other issues.

picking bugs out of crops is useful.  actually doing it is not. We have billions of trees needing to be groomed at our direction.  this alone is hugely beneficial but we really cannot do it that well.  We actually need a taller robot.

Yet the human mk i eyeball needs to be on the job to forsee issures.

Sanctuary AI Humanoid Bots Will Be Used in Magna Car Parts Factories on Path to Solving All Work

April 11, 2024 by Brian Wang

https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2024/04/sanctuary-ai-humanoid-bots-will-be-used-in-magna-car-parts-factories-on-path-to-solving-all-work.htm

Sanctuary AI, a company on a mission to create the world’s first human-like intelligence in general purpose robots, has announced a strategic partnership with global mobility technology company Magna.

Sanctuary’s CTO Suzanne Gildert explained their mind and hands first approach. Sanctuary AI views humanoid robots as a means to an end, where the end is human-like general intelligence.

They want to master the entire lengthy alphabet of actions and then compile them into full tasks and then jobs.

They are identifying who the customers are and the demand. They will be low order of numbers of robots for each trial.

They will simulate all of the robots to thousands of robots.

They think they will have millions of robots by 2030. Roughly scaling by tens each year.

They want to mimic the entire human form. Trying to take shortcuts will paint yourself into a corner where the system is no longer fully general.

This collaboration features:

Sanctuary AI’s development of general purpose AI robots for deployment in Magna’s manufacturing operations; a multi-disciplinary assessment of improving cost and scalability of robots using Magna’s automotive product portfolio, engineering and manufacturing capabilities; and a strategic equity investment by Magna.

Magna, one of the largest automotive suppliers in the world and a significant buyer of industrial robots, aims to leverage Sanctuary AI robots’ unique capabilities across multiple applications within automotive manufacturing processes. The partnership aims to catalyze the scaling of Sanctuary AI’s robots while maturing the technology for use in challenging manufacturing environments for Magna and other industrial and automotive customers.

“We founded Sanctuary AI with the goal to become the first organization in the world to create human-like AI,” said Geordie Rose, CEO and Co-founder of Sanctuary AI. “World-changing goals like these require world-changing partners. Magna’s position as a world leader in the use of robots today makes this partnership an essential advancement for our mission. We’re privileged to be working with Magna, and believe they will be a key element in the successful global deployment of our machines.”

Sanctuary AI has developed a number of cutting-edge technologies set to transform the manufacturing industry and beyond. This includes its industry-leading dexterous human-like hands, developed for its humanoid general purpose robot, Phoenix™, and their pioneering AI control system, Carbon™. With essential patents covering visual and tactile servoing, integration of language models, and AI training, Sanctuary AI paves the way for commercializing humanoid general purpose robots capable of performing hundreds of diverse tasks.

“Magna is excited to partner with Sanctuary AI in our shared mission to advance the future of manufacturing,” said Todd Deaville, Vice President, Advanced Manufacturing Innovation at Magna. “By integrating general purpose AI robots into our manufacturing facilities for specific tasks, we can enhance our capabilities to deliver high-quality products to our customers.”

Magna has been an investor in Sanctuary AI since 2021.

Solving All Human Labor

Machines with human-level intelligence should be able to do most economically valuable work. This aligns a major economic incentive with the scientific grand challenge of building a human-like mind. Here Sanctuary AIs CEO Geordie Rose and CTO Suzanne Gildert describe their approach to building and testing such a system. Their approach comprises a physical humanoid robotic system; a software based control system for robots of this type; a performance metric, which they call g+, designed to be a measure of human-like intelligence in humanoid robots; and an evolutionary algorithm for incrementally increasing scores on this performance metric. They introduce and describe the current status of each of these. They report on current and historical measurements of the g+ metric on the systems described here.

What problems would the world present to a humanoid robot faced with the problems humans might be inclined to relegate to sufficiently intelligent robots of this kind?

Most of the tasks that humans perform for pay could be automated… Machines exhibiting true human-level intelligence should be able to do many of the things humans are able to do. Among these activities are the tasks or “jobs” at which people are employed. We can replace the Turing test by something the “employment test.” To pass the employment test, AI programs must be able to perform the jobs ordinarily performed by humans. Progress toward human-level AI could then be measured by the fraction of these jobs that can be acceptably performed by machines.

The Employment Test aligns a major economic incentive (automating labor is by definition the largest market possible) with the scientific grand challenge of understanding the human mind.

An Employment Test for Robots

In 2019 Sanctuary AI began developing an approach to measuring the capability of a robot to do work derived from the O*NET (Occupational Information Network) system (Gildert, 2019). O*NET is a source of information about work and workers developed and maintained by the U.S. Department of Labor/Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA) (ONET, 2023).

This approach is predicated on the notion that economic activity forms a hierarchy of goals that overlaps significantly with the set of all human goals. In their framing of the problem of building a human-like mind, thye make the non-trivial assumption that a machine that can do anything we value enough to pay for must possess a mind with many, perhaps all, of the properties of out own minds. For example, Marcus provides a threshold for a system to be considered AGI, which would easily be passed by a system that could do all work (Marcus, 2022).

Currently there are 19,265 identified tasks (ONET, 2023b). Each task in O*NET is labeled by an integer, ranging from 1 (“Resolve customer complaints regarding sales and service”) to 23,955 (“Dismount, mount, and repair or replace tires”). Some integers in this range are not associated with tasks.

Occupations typically require the performance of 20-30 different tasks in order to do everything the job requires. Selecting for example the Retail Salespersons occupation, we obtain 24 tasks (see Table 1) (ONET, 2023c). O*NET contains similar breakdowns for every occupation tracked.

In the O*NET taxonomy, there are 33 skill types, 52 abilities, and 35 categories of knowledge; all of these are scored on a scale from 0 (none) to 7 (near the top of human performance). Lists of O*NET skills, abilities, and knowledge are included in the O*NET Skills, O*NET Abilities, and O*NET Knowledge tabs.

The g+ Score

A work fingerprint is a 120-dimensional vector of integers, each in the range 0 to 7. While this is the fundamental vector we track, we additionally define a scalar that is useful for tracking progress over time. They call this scalar g+ (pronounced g plus).

To compute g+, first note that as we have subtask fingerprints for all occupations in O*NET, it is straightforward to first compute the sum over all 120 dimensions for each of these (giving a number between 0 and 120*7 = 840) and then take the average over all 1,015 occupations (doing so results in a mean value of 267.3).

They then define g+ to be the sum of all 120 scores in either a work or subtask fingerprint multiplied by 100/267.3. This normalization makes it so that a score of 100 is equal to the average value across all occupations. g+ ranges from 0 to 314.3. The standard deviation of minimum g+ scores required for occupations is 15.4 (see O*NET Occupations Ranked by g+ in (Data, 2023)). This makes the distribution of g+ required to perform occupations very similar to IQ, which has a defined mean of 100 and standard deviation of 15.

The subtask g+ scores for Producers and Directors; Poets, Lyricists and Creative Writers; Cooks, Restaurant; Computer Programmers; Mathematicians; and Models, are 102.0, 84.5, 91.3, 91.7, 100.9, and 44.7 respectively. The Model g+ score of 44.7 is the lowest across all O*NET occupations. This means that a person or humanoid robot with a g+ score of less than 44.7 is not capable of performing any full occupation, regardless of distribution of strengths and weaknesses.

A person who successfully performs all five of the Producers and Directors, Poets, Lyricists and Creative Writers, Cooks, Restaurant, Computer Programmers, and Mathematicians subtasks would have a g+ score of 143.9.

Brian Wang

Atlantis,1159 BCE and Rainer Kuhne

Destruction of Atlantis in 1159 BCE

Following up on my recent posting on the remarkable 1159 BCE climate break that was likely driven by an unusual northern volcanic event, I came across this paper by Rainer Kuhne.

When the site of Tartessos was put forward as a possible site for Atlantis over twenty years ago (or at least when I became first aware of the idea) I dismissed it. Since then many lines of investigation have converged to support the concept.

In my own book I argue forcefully for the acceptance of a Bronze Age trade carrying copper and other metals from the Andes and Lake Superior over a thousand year span ending about 1000 BCE. Since I wrote those words, a whole world of infrastructure has begun to be dug up, including the huge terra preta based societies in the Amazon. We can expect to find it all.

Key to this hypothesis was a strong seagoing society based on the Atlantic seaboard of Europe including the Baltic. Da Vinci’s book showing that Homer’s world fitted like a map overlay to the Baltic provided superb cultural support. This was the literature of the ‘Sea Peoples’

The perfect place for the major trading city of such a mercantile confederation would be by Gibraltar.

All of a sudden, Plato’s tale makes sense and becomes very believable. We have a classic Bronze Age confederation centered on its effective capital at Tartessos (later Iron Age name) commanding access to the Mediterranean and the primary port for the American copper trade.

Their heyday came in the centuries before 1159 and saw perhaps the largest single urban center of its time. From there they first encouraged colonies such as Athens, Gaza and Tyre to be set up along the Mediterranean coast. These grew and prospered over the centuries and ultimately triggered major wars with the parent to maintain tribute.

I propose that we have grossly underestimated the extent of this maritime based trade empire. The fact that they could move and were able to land sufficient forces to challenge the powerful Egyptians speaks volumes.

It ended in 1159 BCE. A massive eruption in Iceland likely, but along the mid Atlantic ridge in any event, triggered massive earthquakes. These generated huge tsunamis that inundated Atlantis and its principal plain or delta region. The casualties were massive and northern survivors fled to the colonies throughout the Mediterranean, firming up the emergence of the Greeks. The copper trade collapsed then or at least quickly enough to prevent any rebuilding of the original society in either Europe or the Americas.

In its last decades, Atlantis could deploy thousands of ships carrying thousands of combatants. That allowed them to demand tribute from almost everyone with impunity.

The near simultaneous collapse of the copper trade and the destruction of the capital left behind a shell without the cohesion and wealth to avoid spinning apart. Centuries of consolidation led then to the rise of Tyre and Athens and eventually Rome.

April 2024.  added image. we now understand that this culture was extended globally and centered upon the Azores and Bahama bank .both of which abruptly subsided in all liklihood.  the land area of the azores approached Great Britain and that of the Bahama Bank was close to France.  All Bronze age culture.

Earlier by several thosands of years we had the original Atlantis in North West Sahars that we are now mapping.  likely antique Stone age society but urban complex not unlike Mexico city on the Rachat structure with well watered hinterland draining past it.

It is amusing to see the story so enlarging itself.

Antiquity Vol 78 No 300 June 2004

A location for "Atlantis"?

Rainer W. Kühne


The location and reality of Atlantis continues to invite speculation - reasoned or otherwise. Some recent scientific articles have argued for historical elements in Plato's Atlantis tale. For example the possibility that it may have referred to Troy has been raised and rejected (Zangger 1993, Renfrew 1992, Bloedow & Spina 1994); while for others the place mentioned by Plato is simply fiction (Nesselrath 2001a,b). In two recent articles (2001, 2002), Professor Collina-Girard of the University of Aix-en-Provence suggests that this Atlantis can be identified with Spartel Island which is located at 35°E55' N and 5°E58' W, 50 kilometres to the west of the present Strait of Gibraltar at a depth of 56m below the surface. Professor Collina-Giraud had planned an expedition to Spartel island which was briefly noted in the press. This short note questions the identification of Spartel with "Atlantis" but proposes that nevertheless the place mentioned by Plato does not have to be entirely fictional. The Platonic accounts may have been referring to events which took place in the SW of the Iberian peninsula at the end of the Bronze Age.

Atlantis as Spartel

In his dialogues "Timaios'' and "Critias'' Plato described the island state of Atlantis which was defeated by the Athenians in a war (Crit. 108e) and which soon afterwards sank into the sea as a result of earthquakes and floods (Tim. 25c - d, Crit. 108e). Atlantis lay in front of the pillars of Heracles (Tim. 24e) and from it one could travel to other islands (Tim. 24e). It had sunk into the sea approximately 9000 years before Plato's dialogue (Crit. 108e; Tim. 25d). There existed three islands in the neighbourhood of Spartel Island, one to the north and two to the east. The tops of these islands are now 50 to 100 metres below sea level. These islands disappeared underwater in about 9000 BC as a result of the eustatic rise in the level of the sea. There are a number of problems identifying Atlantis with Spartel. For example, at the former location of Atlantis the sea was described as unnavigable and impenetrable (Tim. 25d), because of thick mud (Crit. 108e - 109a). Today, shoal water exists for some 40 kilometres in the north-west of Spartel Island. The size of the plain of Atlantis was said to be 3000 stades (550 kilometres) by 2000 stades (370 kilometres) (Crit. 118a, c) and lay on the southern part of the island (Crit. 118a - b) surrounded by mountains (Crit. 118b) which reached to the sea (Crit. 118a). Apart from this, the country was very high and had a steep coast (Crit. 118a). The Atlantean capital is described as lying on a flat hill (Crit. 115c) on the edge of a smooth and even rectangular plain (Crit. 113c) 50 stades (9 kilometres) distant from the sea .

By contrast, even during the Late Glacial Maximum, 21000 - 19000 years ago, the size of Spartel Island was only 14 by 5 kilometres. The site is also inconsistent with the reported activities of the Atlanteans, and with the historical period about which Plato appears to be writing. In general, whatever the truth of the story, he was probably referring to a different area than Spartel and a much later period than the end of the ice age.

Comparison of Atlantis and the Sea Peoples

In his account of the Atlantean war Plato gives a description of the Athenian acropolis (Crit. 111e - 112e), which can be equated with its appearance in around 1200 BC. For example, Plato mentions the dwellings of warriors north of the acropolis (Crit. 112b) and a spring which was destroyed during earthquakes (Crit. 112d), which might be identified with the spring, destroyed by an earthquake discovered by Oskar Broneer (1939) and dated to the end of the thirteenth century BC. Marinatos (1950) and Göörgemanns, (2000) have suggested that the Atlantean warriors can be identified with the Sea Peoples who were active in this period and are mentioned in inscriptions of the temple of Medinet Habu of around 1180 BC under Pharaoh Ramses III. This idea can be supported by comparison between Plato's description of the Atlanteans and the description of the Sea Peoples by Ramses III as given in the translations of Chabas (1872) and Edgerton and Wilson (1936) (see TABLE 1).

A location on the Iberian peninsula?

If an identification with the Sea Peoples is valid, then "Atlantis" should refer to their place of origin. There is some literary indication of where this might have been. Atlantis was divided under the ten sons of Poseidon (Crit. 113e). The first born, Atlas, obtained the largest and best territory, namely the region around the capital (Crit. 114a). The second born, Gadeiros, obtained the part at the most distant edge which reached from the pillars of Heracles (Gibraltar) to the Gadeirean country (the region around Cadiz) (Crit. 114b). The part of the country belonging to Gadeiros was a coastal region 100 kilometres long. The parts of the later born sons were probably even smaller. Thus, the part of the country belonging to Atlas cannot have been very far from Cadiz.

In fact, near Cadiz there is a rectangular, smooth and even plain which lies on the south coast at the mouth of the Guadalquivir River. It is the plain south-west of Seville through which the Guadalquivir river flows, and where the town of Tartessos was thought to have been located. Hennig (1925, 1927), Jessen (1925), and Schulten (1927, 1939) have all supposed that this was a possible location for Plato's Atlantis. In this respect, it is not without interest that large structures have been identified from recent satellite photos in this part of the lower Guadalquivir basin. One shows a rectangular structure with a length of 230 metres and a width of 140 metres. It could be a remnant of a temple of Poseidon, such as that whose length was one stade (185 metres) and whose width was three plethra (92 metres) (Crit. 116c - d). A further "quadratic'' structure of size 280 metres times 240 metres could equate to the temple of Cleito and Poseidon (Crit. 116c ). The geographical co-ordinates of the rectangular structure are 36E°57'25'' +/- 6'' N and 6E°22'58'' +/- 8'' W. The centre of the "quadratic'' structure is 500 metres in the south-west of the centre of the rectangular structure. These structures lie in a mud region named "Marisma de Hinojos''.within the Parque Nacional de Donana. of Andalusia

Conclusion

Plato's war between Atlantis and the Eastern Mediterranean countries finds echoes with the activities of the Sea Peoples around 1200 BC, and may be based on Egyptian reports and Greek traditions preserved in the Athens of his time. While a location on the sunken post-glacial island of Spartel is unlikely, there is a possibility that the city and society of Atlantis may refer to either Iron Age Tartessos or a Bronze Age culture in the same area of south-west Spain.

This is a list of claims. Go to the original paper online to locate the specific reference.
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The Atlanteans fought against Europe and Asia (Tim. 24e) and "every country within the mouth'', i. e. against the Eastern Mediterranean countries (Tim. 25b). The Sea Peoples destroyed Hatti in Anatolia, Qode and Qarkemish in northern Syria, Arzawa in south-west Anatolia, and Alasia on Cyprus (Plate 46.16 - 17) and fought against Egypt.

The Atlanteans lived on an isle (Tim. 24e, 25a, 25d, Crit. 113c) and reigned over several other islands (Tim. 25a). The Sea Peoples also came from islands (Pl. 37.8 - 9, 42.3, 46.16).

The Atlanteans reigned in Africa from the pillars of Heracles (Gibraltar) to the frontiers of Egypt (Tim. 25a - b). The war of the Sea Peoples against Egypt occurred simultaneously with the war of the Libyan Meshwesh. According to Ramses' report they appeared to be allied.

Atlantis consisted of ten countries (Crit. 113e - 114a, 119b). According to the Karnak inscription (Chabas 1872, de Rougéé 1867) written under pharaoh Merenptah around 1200 BC, the Sea Peoples consisted of the Ekwesh, Teresh, Lukka, Sherden, and Shekelesh. According to Ramses III their confederation consisted of the union of the countries of the Peleset, Theker, Shekelesh, Denen, and Weshesh (Pl. 46).

In the case of war the Atlanteans had more than one million soldiers (Crit. 119a - b). Ramses III claimed to have beaten hundreds of thousands of enemies (Pl. 18.16, 19.4 - 5, 27.63, 32.10, 79.7, 80.36, 80.44, 101.21, 121c.7). Occasionally, he spoke of millions (Pl. 27.64, 46.4, 46.6, 79.7, 101.21) and myriad (Pl. 27.64) enemies who were numerous like locusts (Pl. 18.16, 80.36) or grasshoppers (Pl. 27.63).

The Atlanteans had 1200 war ships (Crit. 119b). The ships of the Sea Peoples entered deep into the delta of the Nile (Pl. 42.5) and destroyed the Asian Arzawa, the Cypric Alasia, and the near-eastern Ugarit and Amurru.

The Atlanteans had chariots pulled by horses (Crit. 119a). The Meshwesh had horses (Pl. 75.37) and carts (Pl. 18.16, 75.27) which, however, were pulled by oxen (figures to Pl. 32 - 34).

The Atlantean kings reigned for several generations (Crit. 120d - e) and after this they lost their good attitudes (Crit. 121a -- b). Ramses III wrote about the Sea Peoples that they had spent a long time, a short moment was before them, then they entered the evil period (Pl. 80.16 - 17).

During a day and a night Atlantis sank by a earthquake into the sea (Tim. 25c - d). Ramses III wrote that he let the Sea Peoples see the majesty and force of (the God of water) Nun when he breaks out and lays their towns and villages under a surge of water (Pl. 102.21), moreover the mountains were in travail (Pl. 19.11).

America Is Hurtling Toward A Full-Blown Hot Civil War

 

Firstly, the so called left wing represents perhaps twenty percent of the voting electorate and declining as well.  Not a good look if you think to pick up a weapon to challenge the rest.

Certainly this was the long term plan before Trump got elected and derailed the general scheme.  So this item is not off the mark at all.  Unfulfilled plans are a blessing when the real plan calls for mass slaughter and full on depoulation as well.

Right now, this is end game times and the perps are neutralized.  .  

America Is Hurtling Toward A Full-Blown Hot Civil War

SATURDAY, APR 06, 2024 - 08:20 PM

Authored by Justin Smith via The Burning Platform blog,

It never ceases to amaze me at how little so many people in this country have done to train their minds to critically analyze information. They have eyes to see and ears to see, and yet, somehow the truth of any major issue still seems to evade them, or they simply refuse to recognize the truth with it standing right in front of them, slapping them in the face.

So many things are currently plumb damned fouled up by this Biden regime and going awry on their own through the dynamics set in motion by this anti-American, lawless regime, that it’s nearly impossible to properly address them all in a single commentary. But I’ve tried to give the Reader as comprehensive an assessment as I possibly can with this piece.

Michael Savage, a longtime renown radio host, was fond of noting that “liberalism is a mental disorder” and we’re witnessing the result of its heavy utilization for far too many years without being grounded in common sense and a certain amount of pragmatic realism. And so here we are, on the cusp of the final fall of America, short of a miracle from God or true patriots taking a firm stand with rifles in hand and refusing to give an inch of ground and any further movement towards the new world order desired by our amerikkan commies.

It might sound quaint and out of touch with what some have now accepted as “the new normal”, but I say we should all wrap ourselves in the American Flag and send out the clarion call for a rush of strong, capable men to come to the aid of their country, in a manner as never before.

~ J.O.S.

“I may be crazy. But it’s no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society.” ~ Ivor Browne, Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at the University College Dublin [2017]

In an ideal and perfect world, all Americans would be following a righteously guided conscience and their better angels, and they could trust that their elected leaders were doing likewise; but, we live in a far from perfect world or society, and the fools of the country have abandoned Christian kindness, the Golden Rule and humanity for the evil of trans-humanism. Heartwarming words advocating for true freedom and liberty are far and few between in today’s society and political arenas, in a manner not too unlike the years between 1850 and 1860 that led to the Civil War; and tho’ some on both side of the political aisle still exude goodness in a way that makes each day seem a bit brighter, by and large, the Democratic Party has been completely infiltrated by Marxist-Maoist Communists, who are driving the nation towards the darkest tyranny and bloodiest days ever witnessed in America, as they attempt to stamp out the tenderness and beauty in each person’s soul and reduce us all to mere mindless cogs in their authoritarian machine.

Look around. Half or more of America’s citizenry have lost their minds and are six steps or more removed from reality, either due to the mind-numbing communist indoctrination they have absorbed from their “education” in the public school system, something genetic or a trauma from their life, some new maniacal drug that has them hooked and out of their minds, or a combination of all three.

Some would suggest that we set about immediately reforming public education to promote and defend the ideas that originally built America, but we don’t have time to change hearts and minds to counter a movement that started over a hundred years ago and now sits on the cusp of being able to solidify its current stranglehold on America, if the tide swings its way in the 2024 Election or they are able to steal the election through current fraud facilitating mechanisms. Although we can still move to properly educate the next generation in a newly reformed education system or through homeschool, now is the time to organize and assemble those within the country who already know and hold to the truth of American principles and all the freedom and liberty that follow — time to gather our like-minded American patriots and those Lions of Liberty who have had enough of witnessing this America we love so well so sorely abused, put upon and assaulted.

It doesn’t help when we have self-serving, corrupt people in high office promising to save the gullible and ill-informed from their hell and the misery it brings, if only they will support more madness to be placed in U.S. code. Vote for more economy killing “climate change” change regulations and initiatives and “we’ll put more money on your EBT cards, courtesy of Uncle Sam and the American taxpayer”. “Help us make sure the government has the final say over everybody’s children and can kill babies as they exit the birthing canal, and we’ll make certain you get privilege over all other Americans”, one can almost hear Traitor Joe whispering in some dimly lit concert hall. “You can be a champion among champions”, they say — “Let us help you change your gender”.

And if anyone stands in your way in the pursuit of any evil, it is they who will be called evil and fallen upon by the full weight of the U.S. Federal Government.

Oh yea. And as if that isn’t bad enough, Biden is now moving as fast as he can to forgive $144 billion more in student loans. He plans to announce this on Monday, April 8th 2024, and for anyone with eyes to see, this is simply corruption at its worst and Biden buying votes in the upcoming presidential election. What a slap in the face of Americans who couldn’t afford to go to college but now will be forced to bear the tax burden this move will bring.

I see the immorality growing every day, the people who revel in its evil, freaks from some futuristic sideshow that bodes ill and speaks to the destruction of humanity. and with each passing day, I find myself moving farther and farther away from those with whom I have little or nothing in common with, adrift from most of humanity too. Not in any manner that lends itself to any sadness over my situation, but rather as if to say “whew” in a realization of the relief that has come by way of my separation from those I despise most.

It’s sort of like I’m standing on the river bank watching the “ship of fools” sailing over the river falls in denial of their own mortality, thinking their crazy ideas will save them and hold them invincible, or worse, knowing they are going to die and not caring who they drag to Hell along with them. They think we’re crazy for defending America’s righteous and true founding principles and virtues and the liberty associated with them, and we think them mad for denying God, reality and the best mankind has to offer in exchange for an evil, unrestrained, immoral freedom that is no freedom at all, a bringer of Death.

Since 1965, the communists within the federal government, Congress and many state and local governments have essentially separated us and pitted us against one another as one aggrieved group or another, some special interest and through identity politics and racial hatred. They broke us into tribes and acted as if the represented each, all the while setting in place mechanisms that made us serfs to the government, The Leviathan, and reducing us all to poverty as they have gradually destroyed the bulk of the middle class in our country. The Constitution is so degraded and eroded now that any tyrant can impose his will by way of one flourish of a pen, which Traitor Joe has done through 118 executive orders, bypassing Congress and the U.S. Supreme Court.

We have a national debt that’s rapidly approaching $35 trillion and counting, that to be sure rests on the shoulders of both parties, but it couldn’t have arrived to this abysmal point without both Marxist-Maoists and RINOs accepting the tenets of the Marxist-Keynesian Modern Monetary Theory and the notion that any one nation could print and borrow an endless supply of money forever without any terrible consequence, which is currently being proven wrong. Our people struggle to pay for food and rent and new high mortgage rates have put home ownership out of reach for this new Generation Z that is coming up and expecting a successful way of life to be attainable in some form or fashion, even tho’ many of them are a great part of the problem, some thirty percent claiming to be either queer themselves or supportive of the LGBTQ sickness running rampant through American society, advocating for every known sexual perversion and deviancy one might care to mention.

Several decades ago, I realized every government in the world was using a Keynesian debt-based system, printing money as if there was no end to real assets or backing for it. Basically, the world had gone mad, as the greed of its so-called “leaders” knew no bounds, and the various governments of the world basically accepted the use of monopoly money. The charade is ongoing and the casino open, that is, ’til those at the very top decide to call in their markers and usher in the final forced phase of The Great Reset.

In 2008, as I watched the near total collapse of our economic system and heard George [Bush] say that we had to temporarily abandon the free market capitalist system in order to save it, I received a strong sense that America may have peaked and was as good as it was going to get from there on out. I had a feeling that things were only going to continue to decline, especially as one major corporation after the next receive a taxpayer funded bailout after being deemed “too big to fail”.

In unbelievable fashion, when the largest economic collapse in U.S. history hit in March 2020, to be followed by the Covid Lockdowns, pushed and kept going for years by traitors to America, such as Dr Anthony Fauci and Dr Deborah Birx, many of us saw it for the fraud it was. Still, whole swaths of our cultural freedoms and norms were very nearly destroyed, as a timid American people complied, by and large, because they couldn’t simply stand on their hind feet and tell the government despots “NO”. Even now, as many careers no longer exist and jobs are disappearing like cotton-candy on a rainy day, far too many, especially the communists among us, hold to the delusion that all is well and deny that out-of-control spending and massive national debt really do matter for the health of the nation’s economy.

Who could have possibly known at the time — other than those Deep State bad actors behind the curtain — that this was a dire harbinger of things to come and but one of the first precursors to a validation of this current system of economic fascism as the preeminent and defining feature of what everyone still mistakenly calls our “free market capitalist system”. Who knew that — if one believes Obama and now Biden — the cure for debt was more debt; the cure for greed was more greed, and that envy of the neighbors’ possessions was perfectly acceptable, even if one easily walked on over to take them by force, through armed robbery. And who could have foreseen that every Marxist-Maoist of the Democratic Party would become modern day Jezebels, condemning the innocent by way of one false accusation after another, paving the way for a vile new phenomena and way of life for the misguided youth of America.

But never in my wildest imagination did I expect to see every single government institution corrupted to its very core and heavily infiltrated by men and women seeking to destroy traditional America — to “transform America” — and bring great harm to all Americans in the process, as evil was called “good” and good was called “evil”, turning the world upside down as foretold in Isaiah 5:20, as we all witnessed in 2020, driven by the Democratic Party Communists and fascists and globalists of the country, for the most part. Never did I expect to see U.S. science so corrupted and in denial of real science, reality itself, as supposedly “educated” people were soon trying to convince the entire nation that men could really become women and women could become men — that men actually have periods and can have babies.

And as the American people continue to fail to mount a strong and passionate rejection or effective defense against the current climate change directives from the Biden regime, the Biden regime has just recently [January 26th] ordered our international export of natural gas and natural gas extraction to be placed on hold; and it’s still on hold as of this writing [April 5th], while its impact on the environment is further scrutinized. And in the meantime, the movement towards greater control over our society by way of a digital currency is gaining momentum.

I don’t think the Biden regime is going to be able to control much of anything once they completely destroy America’s energy infrastructure and our efficacy as an worldwide energy powerhouse, as we were under the Trump administration. It’s going to be damned difficult to control anything without electricity, fossil fuels or heat, and all hell will be unleashed once Americans start being forced to sit in the dark, shivering in the cold or sweltering in the heat.

When I hear Rachel “Mad-Cow” Maddow and Chris “Cry-baby” Matthews talking about Republicans who support Trump being members of a cult with “crazy ideas”, I think how ironic, that they are perfectly describing themselves and their ilk. They are so insane that they don’t even recognize themselves in that description or what it is that they don’t know; they call themselves “the normal people” as their despot leader, Traitor Joe, dismantles and tears the American republic down around the shoulders of all Americans.

In listening to many proponents of the Democratic Party Communist platform and agenda — Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Senator Nancy Pelosi and Senator Chuck Schumer for three in particular — I cannot help but wonder when did the wards for the mentally ill release all the inmates. And so here we are in America, where the inmates of mental institutions, federal prisons, Illegal Aliens, drug dealers and sexual deviants and child predators are running the country and the Oval Office today.

I have noted in several past articles, I do believe the “united States” is currently hurling down a path on a fast track to a full blown, hot civil war. What will emerge will either be a nation squashed under an iron-fisted communist government or a people united in freedom and liberty under a limited government, restrained from ever growing or overreaching as the current Federal System has allowed and the Biden regime has done, trampling on the entire Constitution and our Inalienable God-given Rights in the process.

Although I refuse to accept any excuse for the far-reaching, incredible and massive ignorance of so many of my countrymen in this day of the internet and information, with books aplenty in every public library too, there are an unbelievable number who accumulate scores, even hundreds, of bits and pieces of the bigger picture without the ability or the will to put them together to reach any worthwhile conclusion aimed at formulating a proper course of action to resist this current totalitarian-minded movement and save themselves, their families and communities and America herself. They do not currently seem to have any real sense of urgency, unless one looks at leadership in Texas and Florida and the current manufactured border crisis.

Twenty-five state governors stood alongside Governor Abbot of Texas in the border dispute with the Biden regime, and the Governor of South Carolina sent his own National Guardsmen to the border to assist the Texas National Guard and Texas’s various law enforcement agencies who are in this struggle for America’s survival. So although I was speaking of the average citizen in the preceding paragraph, there are some holding key positions who see the rapidly approaching existential threats to all America and are reacting with a high level of urgency and accordingly, using everything within their power to stop this one segment of the madness emanating from the Biden regime.

America has been cleaved into two separate and antithetical ideologies — two opposing worldviews — with the communists and radical takers of the country supporting a dark vision of tyranny and the conservatives and independent producers supporting the light of truth and a vision of freedom and liberty. They are both hanging in the balance and waiting for gravity or some monumental event to throw the lever that moves them to act and take the country by storm, with the Democrats willing to use every illegal means imaginable.

The heavy infiltration of Illegal Aliens from many foreign countries that are unfriendly or outright enemies of America is one more dynamic and issue of concern for all who love America, since they will certainly come down on the side which is trying to destroy America. No one should be oblivious to the fact that various “sleeper cells” of Hamas and Hezbollah have been in America for several decades now. Taken in conjunction with thousands of military aged Chinese men entering the country illegally the coming chaos will be Biblical in proportion to anything we have witnessed in all American history.

Nineteenth century French economist and writer, Frederic Bastiat could have been speaking of America today and the situation She currently finds Herself, as he once stated:

“When misguided public opinion honors what is despicable and despises what is honorable, punishes virtue and rewards vice, encourages what is harmful and discourages what is useful, applauds falsehood and smothers truth under indifference or insult, a nation turns its back on progress and can be restored only by the terrible lessons of catastrophe.”

Americans from all across the country have either been complicit in this current treason to “fundamentally transform America”, into something strange and foreign to the Founding, or they have simply been so complacent as to allow the country to fall to her enemies-from-within, in a manner that’s proving fairly damned tough to counter for the moment due to a litany of reasons, from lawfare against conservative and independent patriots to the outright targeting of American patriots by the FBI and the DOJ. But basically, the nation is just about to reap the full, terrible consequences of what was sown so many decades ago, and everyone had better prepare as best as they can.

We can’t stop what is headed down the road towards us, no matter if we stopped all unnecessary spending or the invasion at the border today — not if we outlawed all deviancy, abuse of children through gender assignment and men competing in women’s sports, or started drilling for oil and gas like crazy overnight. The die has been cast, and no one single man or woman, sitting in the Oval Office, can change what is coming, not Trump or RFK, JR or anyone else who wants to give it a try.

All good and decent Americans, who can still remember what America used to be or who have been well taught from childhood and know what a great nation — an exceptional nation — She has been in years gone by, will soon be forced to fight against enemies-from-within and foreign enemies supported by the World Economic Forum and the United Nations, so that our friends, families and communities can survive this period and freedom and liberty shall not perish in our land. And as we fight, we must pray and hope that our side emerges victoriously from the din and cacophony of the conflagration and chaos, in order that we may purge the land of those who hate America and restore Her to a land that truly understands what “equality under the law” actually means, to be governed in a manner that actually defends and protects the Inalienable God-given Rights for all, restoring America as something better than She has been in a long, long time.

This is the war that lays ahead of us, looming just over the horizon, and our very lives and the lives of our loved ones depend on our success. The death of America as She has stood is guaranteed, unless liberty-minded patriots rise from the ashes of the next civil war. That is the reality and the future we now must face.

Keep ringing the bell … the Liberty Bell and the sound of Freedom from sea to shining sea.