Better in their words…

AI – who is really behind it, and are we/you ready? The truth of covid and jabs keeps pouring out. Preaching “misinformation”: that is exactly what the USSR did while and because citizens knew they were being hood-winked.  Will NATO be Ukraine’s reserves when they run out of men?

Source: WHETHER WARS ☙ Sunday, May 19, 2024 ☙ C&C NEWS

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🔥🔥 Brett Weinstein is one of the key members of the “Intellectual Dark Web,” a loosely defined group who rose to prominence in the late 2010s, pushing back against the liberal excesses of that time, which seem like child’s play these days. During the pandemic, Weinstein questioned covid orthodoxy around vaccines and alternative treatments. Like many of us, Brett got canceled on YouTube and other social media platforms for “spreading misinformation.”

CLIP: Bret Weinstein’s concerns about A.I. (2:11).

In this recent short clip, Brett explained his concerns about AI and made a few quick points that you’ve heard many times here on C&C, and I’m delighted they’ve pollinating across these broader forums.

Brett covered three points that should get a lot more attention. His first observation was about AI’s questionable provenance. Like me, Brett finds it super sketchy that the AI designers don’t understand how AI works:

“The AI stuff is terrifying. They actually have figured out how to do this, even if they don’t understand what they’re doing. They sort of stumbled into it, by trying to train a machine to do something just by predicting the next word. And lo and behold, it seems to be able to do something similar to thought.”

When was the last time they didn’t completely understand how a technology worked but it still became ubiquitous? At least, when in real life? It’s happened a lot outside of real life — it’s the setup for nearly every dystopian sci-fi horror movie: “Doctor, what’s the alien cell doing now?” “We don’t exactly know, Janet, but this technology is just too important to keep in a lab.”

At this point, we are literally living in a sci-fi/horror cliché and nobody’s talking about it. Which is why I appreciated Brett bringing it up. This needs more discussion.

Brett also seemed to agree with us that the danger from AI is not so much that it will literally take over the planet like the rogue AI in the Terminator franchise, but that it will deceptively manipulate us into mental oblivion, more like the Matrix:

“That technology is extremely dangerous. Its capacity to derange us is utterly profound. The capacity to render you unable to figure out which way is up is here, more or less, today. And if it’s not here today, it’ll be here three years from now. I don’t know what we’re going to do about that.”

Brett might not know what we’re going to do about it, but the problem is that somebody has plans for AI.

Somehow, Brett swiveled straight from problematic AI to the World Economic Forum. The unexplained segue betrayed an unspoken or maybe unconscious belief in a dark connection between AI’s surreally speedy development and the WEF’s Agenda. Anyway, like me, Brett questioned whether the ridiculous caricature Klaus Schwab is any kind of proper villain:

“I wonder if we are not falling into a little bit of a trap focusing on Klaus Schwab and Noah Harari. They’re a little bit too cartoonish. That cartoon villain thing is a little bit over the top. I think it’s a bit of a trick. The people who are really wielding impressive levels of power aren’t on stage. I think we ought to be wondering a lot about the man behind the curtain.”

Exactly. Who’s behind the curtain? Who’s pulling Klaus’ puppet strings? If the bad guys could operate in the sunlight, they would. It’s important to realize that Klaus is just a powerless, fat nazi buffoon and not an evil mastermind, because if we could locate and expose the real bad actors — the ones pulling Klaus’s strings — then our problems would nearly be over.

🚀🚀 $61 billion later, and that impossible-to-satisfy comedian, Zelensky, is still complaining. The UK Telegraph ran an uncharacteristically gloomy Proxy War story Friday, headlined “Out of the slaughterhouse, into the ‘meatgrinder’ for Ukraine’s recruits.”  The story, packed with plaintive personal interest anecdotes, is advocating for something — but it wasn’t clear whether that was an end to the war or rather the need for NATO troops in Ukraine, stat.

I suspect it’s the latter, since the Telegraph was clearly given free rein to interview fresh Ukrainian recruits, and to talk about how badly the war is going. The latest recruits are not exactly the cream of the Ukrainian crop.

“Some recruits,” the Telegraph explained, “are men in their 50s who should be contemplating retirement and struggle to do more than a few press-ups.”

Biden pledged to fight to the last Ukrainian, and it looks like the war train will soon arrive at its terminal station. The Telegraph quoted none less than Kirilo Budanov, Ukraine’s spy chief, who is probably really running things at this point. Propaganda expert Budanov admitted to the Telegraph the country has no spare men left: “All our forces are either in Kharkiv or in Chasiv Yar. We don’t have any reserves.”

I’m no military expert, but I’ve been assured that having no troops in reserve is bad. It also seems like a bad strategy to tell the newspaper, but I digress.

Setting aside the excellent question of why reclusive spy chief Budanov would tell a newspaper reporter about Ukraine’s lack of reserves, what caused this manpower shortage? Three basic reasons were offered, and I don’t blame you if they seem to contradict all the previous euphoric rhetoric over Ukraine’s military acumen:

For one, life expectancy is short in front-line infantry units, where casualty rates can be as high as 70 percent dead or wounded. For another, an end to the war now seems further away than ever, with Russia intensifying its Donbas campaign and opening up a new front line last week on the northeast border around Kharkiv.

Last week, Ukrainian troops stationed in Chasiv Yar said that despite the US military aid tap being turned back on, they were still being outgunned both in terms of drones and artillery.

Add it up: a seventy percent casualty rate, they’re outgunned and outmanned, and there’s no end in sight. No wonder they’re running out of reserves and drafting fifty-year-old retirees. The reality on the ground is probably even worse than what Budanov and the Telegraph admit.

As we prophetically observed over a year ago, it doesn’t matter how many high-tech toys we send Ukraine, if there isn’t anybody left to fire them. There’s been a lot of talk about genocide lately. Well, Joe Biden is single-handedly engineering a Ukrainian genocide. Soon, there won’t be enough Ukrainian men left to rebuild the population.

💉💉 Add another official voice to the growing jab-injury chorus. The Epoch Times ran a story this week headlined, “Ex-CDC Director Says It’s High Time to Admit ‘Significant Side Effects’ of COVID-19 Vaccines.” On Thursday, Chris Cuomo interviewed former CDC Director Robert Redfield, in Chris’ NewsNation series calling for a 9/11 style Covid Commission. Like many others, Dr. Redfield lamented the loss of public confidence in public health agencies. He argued “those vaccines saved a lot of lives” — arguable— “but also,” he conceded, “we have to be honest, some people got significant side effects from the vaccine.”

CLIP: Chris Cuomo interviews former CDC Director about jab injuries (0:51).

Oh, now “we have to be honest.” Thanks a lot, doc. He wasn’t just speaking hypothetically. “I have a number of people,” Dr. Redfield said, who “are quite ill, and they never had covid; they are ill from the vaccine.”

The numbers are adding up. At this point, we all have a number of people who are ill from the vaccine. Feel free to send that link to anyone you know still in jab denial.

Worse for the faltering narrative, Dr. Redfield also conceded that the government deliberately covered up jab risks to improve uptake rates, or in other words, it tricked people into taking the shots:

“No one wanted to talk about the potential that there was a problem from the vaccines, because they were afraid that would cause people not to want to get vaccinated.”

“Fraud by omission” is a legal doctrine in which someone who has a duty to disclose an important fact conceals or withholds that fact, intentionally deceiving some poor sucker into doing something stupid they might not have done, if they’d known the omitted facts.

You’ll wonder whether Redfield’s admission means we can sue the government for fraud. Suing the government for lying isn’t anywhere near as easy as it should be. This is the major reason for eroding public trust in institutions. When citizens conclude that officials can lie to them with impunity, whether about proxy wars, public health, inflation rates, employment levels, or any other important issue, it breeds cynicism and suspicion faster than rabbits on Tinder.

The government’s refusal to admit its mistakes while maintaining a “we know best” attitude exposes a dangerous paternalistic mindset detached from transparency, democratic accountability, and ultimately, from reality.

During the Soviet era, Russians were skeptical about everything the government or media said. They assumed they were being lied to or manipulated. Instead, citizens relied on independent, underground samizdat publications and whisper networks — the social media of the day — trying to glean the truth. But a pervasive sense of powerlessness blanketed society, a forgone hopelessness that the system could ever be changed or the powerful ever held accountable.

The result was no one believed the institutions that governed their lives.

Like the rise of underground publishing networks in the Soviet Union was a symptom of the government’s stranglehold on information, our society’s reliance on social media as the primary source of truth is also a symptom. It’s the entirely predictable side-effect of the breakdown in trust between citizens and our government’s official institutions.

Whenever government officials decry online “disinformation,” they only condemn themselves. Absent profound distrust of those officials and their agencies, nobody would pay any attention to social media conspiracy theories.

Warren Buffet famously advised, “It takes 20 years to build a reputation, and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.” The disinformation warriors should think hard about doing things differently. Once trust has been lost, it cannot be regained by fiat or force. Lost trust must be earned back, through humility, transparency, and a mechanism for accountability.

Apart from pathetically crying about misinformation and arrogantly bleating about people failing to respect their authority, what is the CDC doing specifically to earn back its squandered trust?

You have to credit Chris Cuomo for one thing. At least he’s out there calling for some kind of accountability. Maybe only someone like Cuomo can do the job; democrats will reject out of hand any conservative who tries.

🔥 One thing I like most about Sunday’s supporter-only bonus post is the freedom to speculate a little more than I can in the regular posts. A few days ago, the New York Times ran a non-paywalled, long-form, multi-media story headlined, “As Insurers Around the U.S. Bleed Cash From Climate Shocks, Homeowners Lose.”  The story described the skyrocketing numbers of fantastically expensive weather events over the last few years.

I am aware of the various theories about extreme weather, that DARPA, HAARP, and the DOD are causing it through weather manipulation. But I’d like to know what you guys think about this alternative theory. I’m not the only one who’s noticed a weird pattern emerging:

BRICS! In other words, the very same countries trying to boot up an alternative to the dollar, and also the very same countries aligned against the U.S. in its ongoing world war by proxy. I bet you’re probably willing to consider those countries’ historic, economy-crushing extreme weather a military event.

But let’s draw out that logic a little further.

Regular folks are looking at all this weather wreckage and are asking legitimate questions:

Now, I’m just asking this question. My public theory is that high solar activity combined with record-low magnetic shielding might be creating extreme weather conditions. But is it possible — I’m only asking — is it possible that we are also experiencing tit-for-tat weather attacks alongside the tit-for-tat infrastructure attacks?

Historic floods in BRICS, historic floods in the United States:

Granted, there’s very little concrete evidence for this theory. Instead we have abundant circumstantial evidence from the timing and locations of unprecedented and extreme weather. Unlike with the infrastructure attacks, we don’t have any reliable information about the technologies that could be used to manipulate extreme weather events. But it seems logical that, if the U.S. could flood Saudi Arabia, then an enemy could flood Houston, too.

It would be very interesting to start tracking the timelines, like we successfully did with the mysterious fires and explosions sabotaging oil refineries and commercial chicken farms. In other words, is there a temporal relationship between wildfires, earthquakes, and storms in enemy territory, which is immediately followed or preceded by the same types of events here?

From a timing perspective, it’s fascinating that the Ukraine war — as evidenced by that remarkable Times article about the CIA’s vast networks built there — really started back in 2014, around the time the world’s extreme weather also started heating up:

Note that mushrooming “other” category, which includes earthquakes. As far as I know, carbon can’t shake the Earth.

Whatever it is, it’s clear something new is happening. And unlike the Times, I — along with lots of real climate scientists — do not believe it is caused by carbon dioxide.

What do you think? Is it possible the world is reeling from a secret weather war? It is undeniable such weapons exist, even if we don’t know much about them.

He wasn’t making that up. It only took a moment to find this 1972 article by none other than Seymour Hersh:

That was back in 1972. Our enemies have had more than fifty years to catch up. Why would we believe that we are the only ones with militarized weather technology at this stage?

Again, I’m not advocating for or against this fascinating thought experiment.  But the argument in favor would be that deniable military techniques amounting to economic attacks — like sabotage — are in vogue during this present world conflict. Weather weapons are deniable military techniques amounting to economic attacks, as evidenced by the Times article.

Why wouldn’t weather weapons be on the proxy war gaming table?

🔥🔥 Finally, a literally heart-warming story ran this week on local Sioux Falls KeloLand.com, headlined “Sioux Falls teen now a citizen hero for saving family during a fire.”

Alert Sioux Falls resident Kaitlyn Sundby, 17, woke up “with the sound of like wind at my door, and I thought it was a storm.” So, “I got up, and I looked at my door, and I saw the fire,” the teen explained.

About an hour before the fire started, Marlys Sundby had just left for her overnight shift. Thinking fast, young Kaitlyn grabbed her phone, ripped out the screen of her bedroom window, and leapt outside. She called 911 and then ran to the neighbor’s house for help. When the firemen arrived at the scene, it looked bad. “We pulled up and we knew right away that there was going to be a victim,” SFFR firefighter Natalie Minihan said.

But Kaitlyn helped them quickly locate and extract the rest of the family, including her two-year-old baby brother, mother, and sister. The baby, Carter, spent about a month in the St. Paul Burn Unit being treated for injuries from the fire. But thanks to his quick-acting older sister, he’s now doing fine.

Kaitlyn is now officially a Sioux Falls hero. On Wednesday, the Sioux Falls Fire Rescue Team presented the teen with an award for her bravery and quick thinking. We are thankful for Kaitlyn’s outstanding character and for the safety of her family.

Have a blessed Sunday! Coffee & Covid shall return tomorrow morning to kick of what promises to be another astonishing week of momentous events and good news.

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