News Briefs – 07/07/2019

I always see lots of r/K related stories I think might interest the readers here, but I only have time to blog about a few, so here are some additional news stories that might be of interest. You can skim the titles and summaries, and click the links if they are of interest. Keep in mind, many of these reports are products of the Fake News, so although they will be what people are hearing and talking about, there is no guarantee any one of them is necessarily correct, and we have had cases of outright lies make it onto these pages, especially about President Trump.

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Explosion at a shopping mall leaves 21 injured. ruptured gas lines found, though they won’t say that was the cause.

It comes on the heels of an explosion at a dormitory in the University of Nevada.

Which comes on the heels of a house explosion due to a gas leak.

Turkish media calls for Turks to fund, support Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar’s campaign.

Police asked to leave Starbucks because customer felt unsafe. I used to think these things were real cases of snowflakes freaking out due to mental illness, but now I’m not so sure. We were penetrated by an intelligence operation using sophisticated psychological manipulation delivered by the media companies. It feels like things like this are a set up with some purpose in mind.

Antifa protesters harassed Trump supporters Saturday in the nation’s capital, shouting “Fuck the Police.” Again, the same message, and have no doubt these are Cabal ground forces. I don’t know what the game is, but I am sure there is one.

John Roberts knocked down the Citizenship question on the Census, and yet it was on it as recently as 2000. Obama removed it in 2010, otherwise we would still have it.

Chaos in DC courtesy of Antifa at the Demand Free Speech rally.

Stupid Belgian woman invited migrants to camp in her garden, they have gotten violent and threatening, and now she can’t get them to leave.

Kamala Harris proposes $100 billion of Federal money be allocated to federal assistance to promote black home ownership.

Where do you get most of your news? 2% Newspapers 4% Television 61% Internet sites, blogs, etc. >1% Word of mouth 32% A combo of above 1% None of the above. Think about this. Websites are not profitable, and their overhead is peanuts. Now look at the overhead on Newspapers, TV shows, and radio programs, and realize just how far they are all underwater.

The American media will be hit with nearly 12,000 job cuts in 2019, the highest number since the economic crisis of 2009. The economy is great, people are employed and buying things, so advertising should be good. And yet, the media companies have a fraction of the income they had just a few years ago under the Obama economy. Clearly they were getting a flood of cash from somewhere which has dried up of late.

Transgender reporter said Julian Castro and other Democrats running for president are not woke enough on abortion rights for “trans men.” Honk honk.

Four killed and dozens more shot, just since Wednesday in Chicago.

Rep. Veronica Escobar (D-Texas) has been sending staff members to Mexico to coach asylum seekers on a loophole in the immigration system.

Biden threatens blackmail – “I mean, I get all this information about other people’s pasts, and what they’ve done and not done. And you know, I’m just not going to go there. If we keep doing that — I mean, we should be debating what we do from here,” Biden told CNN in a Friday interview.

The odds that Southern California will experience another earthquake of magnitude 7 or greater in the next week are now nearly 11%, according to preliminary estimates from seismologists. Ground is still rumbling.

Deutsche Bank eyes huge restructuring drive that could cost billions of euros. Rumor is, several large hedge funds and other corporate clients have quietly been moving funds out of Deutsche Bank to other banks, creating a slow but steady run on the bank. They say Monday could be interesting.

Doomed Helicopter was taking billionaire Chris Cline’s daughter to the hospital. She suffered an unspecified medical emergency while at a party which he felt needed to be tended to by a US doctor.

Iran to lift uranium enrichment to 5%, above level in 2015 deal according to official.

Researcher claims animals will devour natural corn, but avoid GMO corn.

$72 million in nuclear weapons fuel found by Police in Turkey during traffic stop?

Imelda Marcos’ 90th birthday party cut short as 261 people are sent to the hospital with food poisoning. Sounds like somebody spiked something.

Indonesian government spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho dead at 49.

Raniere covered in Ringworm fungal infection. HIgh stress in a guy not accustomed to it.

Russian official accused of directing Natalia Veselnitskaya, the lawyer who set up the Trump Tower meeting, has plummeted to his death in a helicopter crash. He was a Deputy Attorney General, and an agent of Cabal in Russia, apparently. You wonder why Putin was paranoid about being poisoned? They had a Cabal problem too.

Trump hired a lawyer who once worked for google as his top antitrust enforcer, and he appears to be gearing up to break it apart.

Jeffrey Epstein arrested on federal charges for sex trafficking of minors.

Epstein once bragged he cofounded the Clinton Foundation. Meaning he set it up as a money laundering operation? Was Epstein an employee and child sex trafficking a part of its income stream?

Team of federal prosecutors, some of whom are with the public corruption unit, assigned to Jeffrey Epstein case. So, team of federal prosecutors, sealed indictment, and possibly multiple defendants in the same indictment. Is this the first of the 105,000 to be unsealed?

Kevin Spacey grilled by Scotland Yard over sex assault claims.

Yellow Vests still going, into week 34.

Trump says mass arrests and deportations will start fairly soon.

The left freaks out over Trump’s assertion of why he needs the citizenship question:

Spread r/K Theory, because just one unsealed indictment looks like it will be huge.

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Rabbits Want to Kill Wolves
Rabbits Want to Kill Wolves
4 years ago

“Historically, we know what has happened when there is conflict between a traditional society and a progressive socialist movement that has or is in the process of gaining the reigns of power in government. Every progressive liberal socialist movement eventually goes full-on Pol Pot (Cambodia). What should be a shock is that the United States is destined to be one such nation.

We are in the middle of the very beginnings of this in the United States. When the American second civil war occurs, it will be an ideological genocide. Genocide can only happen once the citizens are disarmed.

Today in America, these are the enemies…
White people. Anyone who is friends with white people. Climate change deniers. Traditionally-minded people. Gun owners. People from a predominantly ‘red’ state.
Religious people with the exception of Muslims. Heterosexual people and traditional marriages. Anyone or anything associated with traditional America.

When the new progressive socialist government takes control, the first thing that can be expected is mass disarming of the populace. Then they hunt down and slaughter their opposition. Urban youth, armed with fully automatic weapons and RPG’s (and trucks) (given to them by the government) will burst forth and stream out of their protective enclaves. Enclaves where their ideology has been nurtured for decades (by the media, education and government) to hate one type or class of person.

You will not know you are in danger until it is too late. Most of the men will be killed immediately. All of the women will be dehumanized, raped and sent off to ‘collection centers’.

Avoid the cities. (The regular military is usually used to guard and control the cities. All people of the hated group are killed in the cities.)

Do not allow yourself and family to be disarmed. Hide your guns in three places; [1] Family house; easy to find. [2] Family hidden (hidden to everyone except family members), and [3] Hidden to everyone (including family members) but you. Only you know where the guns are. Tell no one.”

https://metallicman.com/laoban4site/what-the-progressive-liberals-have-in-store-for-conservatives/
This is part 1 of 6 parts. It is excellent.

TRX
TRX
4 years ago

> nuclear weapons fuel

[following through to the original Russia Today article]

Californium isn’t used in any kind of “nuclear weapons fuel.” Not in reactor fuel, either. Its main use is in Non-Destructive Testing as a neutron emitter.

That article is pretty bad, even by “journalism” standards.

I’m much more interested in why Turkish police suddenly decided to search the car, right down to cutting up the upholstery, to find a package somewhere in size between a pencil eraser and a sugar cube, depending on what form the metal was in. Also note that most Californium is produced in the USA or Russia, and while there’s the usual paperwork with anything mildly radioactive, it’s sold without restriction in consumer products.

As is often the case, the article is of more interest for what it doesn’t say than for what it does.

TRX
TRX
4 years ago

> This is effort to deny political representation to non citizens.

Such a flash of blinding insight, I feel faint…

What will Orange Man do next? Deny voting for the dead? Disenfranchise family pets? My word, won’t anyone think of the TREES!

K
K
Reply to  Anonymous
4 years ago

Your four articles are interesting, particularly the last one. In it the author opposes fitness selection v. genetic selection and uses smoking as a so-called “classic example.” He assuming that smoking reduces genetic selection as if increases fitness/cultural/hedonic selection. I recall reading that smokers actually reproduce at a higher rate than non-smokers, which seems intuitive if you think about it.

What really interests me, however, is his confused take on r and K, as AC has defined it, our standard. This is his definition of r : Cultural r-selection takes place when a group has substantial opportunities for political and cultural expansion, i.e. to defeat other groups and impose its ideology or culture on them, but at the same time has a great risk of falling victim to the expansion of other groups. In other words, the group is dominated by external conflicts and wars. By group I mean a cluster of people bound together by the feeling of a common collective identity, such as a tribe, a nation state, or a religious sect. Group membership is usually defined by religious, political, or ethnic belonging and is often symbolized by certain distinctive marks (Hogg & Abrams [15]).

(I defer to AC, of course, but it seems that K, not r, is defined by external conflicts and the bonding of collective identity, particularly religion, but also nationalism.)

He goes on: Cultural r-selection results in the allocation of a high proportion of the group’s resources to the fighting of external wars or conflicts or other collective dangers. The group with the strongest military force and the most effective strategy will win in the process of cultural group selection. In other words, r-selection leads to armament.

(Again, I’d put this under the K column.)

And here’s his description of K: The opposite of cultural r-selection is cultural k-selection, which takes place when a group has no opportunities for cultural expansion and is not threatened by aggression from other groups. … the only conflicts that are significant in selection processes are group-internal conflicts between leaders and subjects, between subcultures, or between individuals.
A strong military force would be a waste of resources in the absence of external conflicts. The population will not accept a despotic government that unifies and disciplines. They will rebel against powerful leaders, and the fights for freedom for everybody will be the dominating conflicts. This will lead to an ideology where society exists for the benefit of the individual, and not vice versa. There will be more freedom of choice for the individual and higher tolerance towards individual differences. The leaders will regard the life and welfare of any individual as important.

(Doesn’t this sound like r, not K, according to AC? In group competition, if any, isn’t really fatal, just humiliating. Individualism run amok without need for the collective seems very r, to me.)

So, this author is so paranoid about being called a cultural imperialist — a big downer in academe — that he jettisons the terms r and K for the silly terms regal and kalypso ( a nymph in Gk mythology). He goes a step further by positing the lowercase r and K are used as cultural markers, and R and K used as genetic markers. And in this way, he waves off peer criticism …

Regal is r, lower case. Kalypso is k, lower case.

He’s inverted r and K! Why?

I wonder if he inverted it because he can’t admit his own r-ness, as AC defines it, and wants to be on the winning team? The guy’s an academic, not exactly K-selected (again, using AC’s meaning). I wonder if r’s have the self-introspection and lack of self-delusion to identify themselves as the weak, emotionally needy … etc. What this guy is doing, not very subtly, is re-defining r and K so that he can identify with the team he admires.

Weird psychology going on here.

Hey, AC, if you have the time, could you parse this?

K
K
Reply to  Anonymous Conservative
4 years ago

I should have checked the date – sorry. Stupid me.

In that article, I saw a blurry inversion of rK, not just a few misplaced or misinterpreted aspects.
Was this blurriness purposeful or delusional? Was that “scholar” so embedded in an r- worldview/orientation that he couldn’t see outside of it? Was he unable to position himself the distance needed for critical relfection? The corollary, of course, is that “we,” too, could be so K-blinkered that our ideas are similarly warped. That’s a frightening thought.

When I looked at his sources, I laughed. Heartily. His source selection certainly jives with the idea that he simply doesn’t know anything outside his mental bubble. Similarly, the fora in which rK is discussed is populated by people who think like the article’s author. Theirs is a hive mind. Group think. Academe. They’ve got the same, cookie-cutter minds. They think and look at the world through a similar lens even as they believe, sincerely perhaps, they’re individualists. The irony is deep. That’s why the comments were so uniformly silly.

I’d like to believe that I have an advantage over them because I know both ways of thinking, r and K. I’ve been soaking in r all my life, to be honest, though I never fit in. Never. The fact that their thinking has always repulsed me suggests a biological origin of the K mentality, that some are born, genetically, with a K-inclination. Social pressure only enhances or undermines one’s genetic inclinations. One can will to be different, to be K-tougher, or fit in with the r-masses, but there’s a limitation to bending and self-denial. If I remember, you talked about this in your book.

Their tendencies, run amok, look like trannies reading to kids in libraries – moral and cultural perversion. Our tendencies, run amok, look like paranoia. Again, I worry that I’m so embedded in a genetically determined worldview that my ideas are framed and delimited by it. I don’t think it’s a powerful secret as much as I think it’s a powerful mentality. Having said that, the story of the academic who wanted your research is interesting. Please, never give up your stuff. Not to them. It’s important that you control your insights as much as possible because in the wrong hands, they’ll be distorted and watered down — as this guy did — or, worse yet, used against us. Live and learn, AC. I hope I’m not being paranoid here. Yes to the three parentheses.

K
K
4 years ago

Oh … I can’t stand it, I have to write more. LOOK at his source list at the end of his article! It’s so predictable.

They’re all hard leftists/progressivists/socialists: Adorno (Marxist social theorist), Eibl-Eibesfeldt (the guy who thinks humans are evolved animals dominated by primal urges), Lorenz, way back to Malthus (!), Padgett, Marxists Rosenberg and Rosenblatt, Schmid, Takada, and of course EO Wilson (who at least is fascinating).

This has got to be an undergrad reading list for year two sociology. Hard left. No contrasting opinions. Exactly what you’d expect from an cloistered academic.

Farcesensitive
4 years ago

The anti-cop campaign is meant to divide us, they get liberals and many libertarians to see all cops as the boot stomping on humanity’s face and get the cops to see the common man as an enemy not much better than a criminal.

They are afraid of local cops and National Guard siding with the citizens in a civil war even more than they are afraid of the military doing so.

Anonymous
Anonymous
4 years ago

Once again, nasolabial lines. This time on a perv connected with Epstein. AC, you’ve opened my eyes to a lot of things.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1147997409257164800.html

Farcesensitive
4 years ago

Did he know something?

Disney Channel star Cameron Boyce dies at 20

https://www.yahoo.com/gma/disney-channel-star-cameron-boyce-dies-20-060100265–abc-news-topstories.html

“He passed away in his sleep due to a seizure which was a result of an ongoing medical condition”

Farcesensitive
4 years ago

Bill Gates would like you to know that the reason his late rival was able to resuscitate Apple and take the iPhone maker from near-death to being the most valuable company in the world is that Steve Jobs was so successful at making people believe in an idea. Or, as Gates puts it, that Jobs was so good at “casting spells.”

https://bgr.com/2019/07/07/bill-gates-vs-steve-jobs-magic-spells-interview-with-microsoft-co-founder/

I see more and more cases of the elite trying to normalize the concept of magic.

And I keep thinking about those conehead skulls with tiny holes to connect the brain directly to the surface of the body………………..

Anon
Anon
4 years ago

If The Storm turns out to be Cerno bringing down Epstein, which takes out some key dems…

info
info
Reply to  Anon
4 years ago

Epstein needs to stay alive to expose the worse demons.

Farcesensitive
4 years ago

When Trump was invited to Epstein’s house he wouldn’t eat at the table and ate with the cook instead.

Was he making sure he could see that nothing “special” was added to his food?

https://twitter.com/DarnelSugarfoo/status/1147922063207759872

https://twitter.com/FOOL_NELSON/status/1147924083562229762

https://twitter.com/drawandstrike/status/1147955101186871301

https://twitter.com/drawandstrike/status/1147955857864437760

Farcesensitive
Reply to  Anonymous Conservative
4 years ago

I think Trump was raised to be what he is, his father was in the John Birch Society.
I think his father was part of an insurgent pro-America power faction (whether it was a splinter of the cabal or a separate group doesn’t matter) and he raised his son to save America and make it great again.