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The Hellenistic Origin of the Torah: A Review of Russell Gmirkin’s Books — Laurent Guyénot

Russell Gmirkin’s scholarship presents a radical reevaluation of the origins and composition of the Hebrew Bible, particularly the Pentateuch. His theories, which initially seemed extravagant to some, are rooted in rigorous academic investigation within the framework of “biblical minimalism,” a movement that advocates for a later dating of biblical texts than traditionally accepted. This school, exemplified by scholars like Thomas L. Thompson and Niels Peter Lemche from the Copenhagen International Seminar, has faced severe criticism for challenging the antiquity of the biblical narrative, often being branded as anti-Zionist or even anti-Semitic. However, Gmirkin’s work offers compelling arguments that suggest the Hebrew Pentateuch was conceived in the context of Hellenistic culture, particularly drawing from Greek literature and historical works available in the Library of Alexandria around 273-272 BC.

Gmirkin’s arguments hinge on the notion that the Pentateuch was significantly influenced by Greek texts, particularly works by Berossus and Manetho, who chronicled histories of Babylon and Egypt, respectively. He posits that the Hebrew authors crafted their texts not merely as translations of ancient traditions but as new compositions that cleverly disguised their Greek influences to present an ancient and authoritative Jewish narrative. This method of cultural and textual appropriation, Gmirkin suggests, was a strategic adaptation that allowed Jewish scholars to assert their identity and historical significance in a multicultural world dominated by Hellenistic thought and literature. He identifies the Elephantine papyri, dating from around 400 BC, as evidence that the Pentateuch did not exist in its current form at that time, thereby pushing the potential date of its composition further into the Hellenistic period.

In his first book, “Berossus and Genesis, Manetho and Exodus,” Gmirkin meticulously analyzes the similarities between the biblical creation narratives in Genesis and the writings of Berossus. He argues that rather than relying on ancient Mesopotamian sources directly, the authors of Genesis utilized Berossus’s compilation, which provided a cohesive Greek perspective on Babylonian creation stories. Gmirkin’s intertextual analysis reveals structural parallels that suggest the authors of Genesis were likely drawing from Berossus as a source, rather than from the fragmented cuneiform texts that precede it. This assertion simplifies the complex web of influences traditionally attributed to the creation of Genesis, suggesting a direct literary lineage from Berossus to the biblical text rather than a convoluted oral tradition.

Furthermore, Gmirkin’s work explores how the biblical narrative engages critically with Babylonian culture, notably through the depiction of the Garden of Eden and the Tower of Babel. He posits that the serpent in the Garden may reflect a Babylonian archetype, the apkallu Oannes, who represents the transmission of knowledge to humanity. This transformation of a benevolent figure into one of treachery symbolizes a broader critique of civilization itself, depicting knowledge as a source of corruption rather than enlightenment. The Tower of Babel serves as a polemical narrative against urban civilization, echoing sentiments found in other contemporary critiques of city life and cultural amalgamation. Ultimately, Gmirkin’s scholarship not only recontextualizes the origins of the Pentateuch but also sheds light on the cultural dialogues and tensions between Jewish identity and the surrounding Hellenistic world during a formative period in history.

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(The above is a summary of a longer article provided by the site it is posted on.)

If true, its analysis of the Torah deeply subverts the belief systems of all of the Abrahamic religions and sects based on it. I would maintain that the vocabularies (psycholinguistics) of all religions should be considered as being mere human attempts at understanding matters which are beyond our human capacities to fully understand, and especially to write down. If we do that, an adherence to any Abrahamic tradition can be understood as valuable insofar as it yields profound spiritual experience and good behavior commensurate with human reason and good morals, granting lots of room for variety of interpretations. This same style of interpretation can and should apply to Buddhism, which it sort of already does. The deep flaw in all of the Abrahamic religions and sects is their intellectually weak and vapid need to cling to ancient texts, even to the letter of ancient texts. This has produced a menagerie of competing adamancies that are so stupid that to this day they are still fighting to the death over what was originally mythic nonsense. Buddhism has always (largely) been deep enough to escape such obvious linguistic and psycholinguistic traps. Buddhism focuses on the morality, the experiences, and the wisdom of its traditions, not the words. Freeing religious believers from legalistic credos and beliefs concerning specific entities, words and events will go a long way toward raising human consciousness while preserving that which was truly good in the past. ABN

US set for largest mass visa revocation in history targeting up to 200,000 foreigners, officials say

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is preparing to revoke the business and tourism visas of up to 200,000 foreigners who have applied for or are currently seeking asylum status in the United States. If it happens, the move would be the largest single mass revocation of visas in U.S. history and would likely face legal challenges.

“We are coordinating with DHS to identify and revoke the nonimmigrant visas of foreigners who have come to the United States claiming to be short-term visitors, but then file for asylum to stay here permanently,” said State Department spokesman Tommy Pigott.

In a social media post on Monday, Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau called out people who he said try to use tourist and business visas to get into the United States and then apply for asylum.

“People in the US and all over the world are fed up with bogus asylum claims,” Landau wrote on X. “Asylum isn’t supposed to be a loophole to circumvent immigration law.” Landau cited the case of a Colombian citizen who came to the U.S. in 2015 on a tourist visa and then applied for asylum.

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“We are coordinating with DHS to identify and revoke the nonimmigrant visas of foreigners who have come to the United States claiming to be short-term visitors, but then …

…have babies in order to gain US citizenship.” That would be another good way to interpret visa fraud, imo. ABN

Stress limits speech so much, the obvious is often shrouded

Historically, in most if not all, cultures, the inherent stress of speaking has been dealt with by forming hierarchies which define what kinds of speech are acceptable.

Every culture I know of still does this still today, including small subcultures wherever you find them.

Mind control, which is a covert hierarchy of dominant definitions, functions most of all by tagging words and concepts as stressful or not.

No culture anywhere throughout all of history has ever discovered the FIML technique due to the ubiquitous human allergy to stressful speech.

Once you get the hang of it, FIML is the opposite of stressful. FIML removes speech stress at its most basic level.

That’s also why it is hard to see and do at first.

Mind captioning: Evolving descriptive text of mental content from human brain activity

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A central challenge in neuroscience is decoding brain activity to uncover mental content comprising multiple components and their interactions. Despite progress in decoding language-related information from human brain activity, generating comprehensive descriptions of complex mental content associated with structured visual semantics remains challenging. We present a method that generates descriptive text mirroring brain representations via semantic features computed by a deep language model. Constructing linear decoding models to translate brain activity induced by videos into semantic features of corresponding captions, we optimized candidate descriptions by aligning their features with brain-decoded features through word replacement and interpolation. This process yielded well-structured descriptions that accurately capture viewed content, even without relying on the canonical language network. The method also generalized to verbalize recalled content, functioning as an interpretive interface between mental representations and text and simultaneously demonstrating the potential for nonverbal thought–based brain-to-text communication, which could provide an alternative communication pathway for individuals with language expression difficulties, such as aphasia.

…Fig. 2. Generating viewed content descriptions.

Descriptions were generated using features from all LM layers decoded from whole-brain activity. (A) Evolved descriptions during the optimization (see https://horikawa-t.github.io/MindCaptioningProject/ for more results with the original videos). (B) Descriptions after 100 iterations for all subjects (see fig. S3A for more example). In (A) and (B), the color indicates accuracy [inverse document frequency (IDF)–weighted BERTScore-P]. A reference caption of the video is shown below frames. (C) Feature correlations between features of generated descriptions and those decoded from the brain, as well as those computed from correct references. (D) Cohen’s d of discriminability (see fig. S4B for raw scores). Feat. corr., Feature correlation. (E) Video identification accuracy with varying numbers of candidates. (F) Effects of word-order shuffling on video identification accuracy and discriminability. (G) Scatterplot of the correlation distances (one minus feature correlation) between the original and shuffled descriptions against the difference in feature correlations to target features between original and shuffled descriptions. Each dot indicates a shuffled description. Shades in (C) and (E) and error bars in (D) and (F) indicate 95% confidence intervals (CIs) across samples (n = 72). Shades in (D) and (F) indicate 95% CI across subjects (n = 6). See fig. S4 for individual results.

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The content of sensory consciousness gropingly captured by machines but not the consciousness itself. This is no match for FIML depth, artistry or soundness, but interesting nevertheless. It may well be that in the future when machines can do almost everything, the only thing humans will be able to do that machines cannot will be FIML practice. Is it ironic or poetic that the one thing humans have not widely understood before the advent of AI is the one thing AI will never be able to do? (FIML predates AI by many years, but very few understand it even to this day.) One reason, among many, FIML is hard to understand is due to Sapir-Whorf ‘cognitive blindness’, if you will. People can’t see it because no one has ever seen it until relatively recently; it’s not in the language. FIML is described from many angles in many posts on this website. If you are a smart person, it’s easy to understand once you remove your Sapir-Whorf sunglasses. If you are a bold thinker, go for it. You will come to understand something very deep that few others can see. If you just want to be psychologically much healthier, FIML will do that for you as well. ABN

Survival of the wittiest (not friendliest): The art and science behind human linguistic and cognitive evolution

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There are several previous findings, both theoretical and experimental, that have paved the way toward the view of human evolution as the “survival of the wittiest,” subject to sexual selection, offering better explanatory power than the “survival of the friendliest.” While research on language evolution has largely neglected the artistic dimension, the fitness in humans is correlated with linguistic eloquence, including humor. This is one of those cases where science can only explain a phenomenon by considering its artistic dimension, and in which linguistic creativity and genetics come into direct contact. My argument is that selection for quick-wittedness (using and combining words in a clever and funny way), specific to language and unique to humans, needs to be added to the complex picture of human evolution, relevant from the earliest stages of language/grammar. Wittiness is a trait that allows competition (by “outwitting” others) while at the same time favoring “friendliness” in that it provides an excellent platform for replacing physical aggression with verbal behavior and cognitive contest, the hallmarks of human nature. This proposal is based on a precise linguistic reconstruction of the earliest stages of grammar, providing linguistic detail (“living fossils”) necessary for hypothesis testing, including neuroimaging experiments.

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A good deal of reasoning about humans requires considering its artistic dimension. Birth-control has surely negated the evolutionary advantage of being the wittiest, as overall, intelligent couples have been most likely to use it. Where there is wittiness and artistry, there is also nastiness and ugliness. The importation of civilization-ending numbers of nasty invaders whose behavior is known to be ugly is an example happening before our eyes. While the nasty humans at the top, those in positions of controlling the invasion, may be clever, even witty, they are ugly people. In human societies sh*t all too often rises to the top. As for, considering the artistic dimension of things human, I would like to emphasize two topics which, to be understood, require that of us: 1) FIML and 2) the covert war the West has been subjected to for over 100 years and especially since the nominal end of WW2. That covert war has been extremely violent, almost invisible, gruesomely successful, nasty and ugly, and, as of today, seemingly unstoppable. ABN

Emotional Expressions Reconsidered: Challenges to Inferring Emotion From Human Facial Movements

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It is commonly assumed that a person’s emotional state can be readily inferred from his or her facial movements, typically called emotional expressions or facial expressions. This assumption influences legal judgments, policy decisions, national security protocols, and educational practices; guides the diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric illness, as well as the development of commercial applications; and pervades everyday social interactions as well as research in other scientific fields such as artificial intelligence, neuroscience, and computer vision. In this article, we survey examples of this widespread assumption, which we refer to as the common view, and we then examine the scientific evidence that tests this view, focusing on the six most popular emotion categories used by consumers of emotion research: anger, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness, and surprise. The available scientific evidence suggests that people do sometimes smile when happy, frown when sad, scowl when angry, and so on, as proposed by the common view, more than what would be expected by chance. Yet how people communicate anger, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness, and surprise varies substantially across cultures, situations, and even across people within a single situation. Furthermore, similar configurations of facial movements variably express instances of more than one emotion category. In fact, a given configuration of facial movements, such as a scowl, often communicates something other than an emotional state. Scientists agree that facial movements convey a range of information and are important for social communication, emotional or otherwise. But our review suggests an urgent need for research that examines how people actually move their faces to express emotions and other social information in the variety of contexts that make up everyday life, as well as careful study of the mechanisms by which people perceive instances of emotion in one another. We make specific research recommendations that will yield a more valid picture of how people move their faces to express emotions and how they infer emotional meaning from facial movements in situations of everyday life. This research is crucial to provide consumers of emotion research with the translational information they require.

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Maybe it’s just me, but I have always thought these findings were extremely obvious. What is obvious is not just facial expressions. The same rough analysis applies to tone of voice, word choice, gesture, body language, perceived meaning, pragmatics of speaking and everything else involving interpersonal communication. For these reasons, I developed the FIML technique. FIML reduces the ‘irreducible complexity’1 of human interactions by examining small bits of interpersonal communications in real-time, real-world situations. Perfect communication between two humans (the smallest unit) is not possible. BUT, much better communication IS. FIML is not hard to do if you have a good partner who can understand why it is necessary. The world is a lonely place and good partners are rare mainly because interpersonal human understanding is really bad, frightfully so. If you do FIML, everything will be better for you. ABN

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Manifest Destiny, Middle East-style

It might work. Trump is reorganizing global energy distribution routes in a way that renders the Strait of Hormuz ‘just another body of water’ and no longer a critical chokepoint controlled by Iran and the City of London (through insurance rates and the fomenting of violence in the Middle East, which raises them). Iran appears to have overplayed a weak hand, only to lose even more power. ABN

It is not true that – ‘Jewish values lie at the very bottom, the very core of Western civilization’ — Ricardo Duchesne

(1) The Judaism that entered the West and shaped Christianity was a Hellenized version. From the 3rd century BC onward, Greek language, culture, education, and philosophy deeply penetrated even Palestinian Judaism.

(2) Judaism on its own evolved into Talmudism in isolation and contradistinction to Christianity.

(3) As Christianity spread in the Greek-speaking Hellenistic and Roman world, it was transformed by Greek philosophy (Platonism, Stoicism, Aristotelianism, Neoplatonism).

Christianity became a sophisticated theological system through its fusion with Greek philosophy and Roman legal principles.

(4) The Christianity that actually shaped medieval and Western European civilization was further transformed by Germanic (Indo-European folk) worldviews.

Christianity’s absorption of Germanic cultural elements produced a hybrid “Germanized” Christianity that shaped European institutions, ethics, and identity for centuries.

(5) Finally, the real (millennial) foundation of Western civilization was the Proto-Indo-European cultural package (roughly 4500-2500 BC) consisting of horse-riding, mobile pastoralism, a tripartite social ideology of priests, warriors, and producers. This came with an aristocratic warrior ethos centered on personal glory, loyalty to the war-band, reciprocal gift-exchange, and sky/storm gods.

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Duchesne is well-informed and thus able to make his case using few words. His rebuttal of the speaker, Melanie Phillips,—who surely must know she is rubbing salt in the wounds of a West which has been deeply undermined by Talmudic Jewish Supremacy—should be committed to memory by all who care about the West and want it to survive. ABN

They killed Charlie Kirk in public as a terrorist warning. Many more are quietly dispatched with no publicized clues to cause of death. We can only speculate about much of what happens in our world, but pattern recognition is real and it is always good to keep in mind that terrible forces are operating both glaringly in public and quietly in private. Many are disabled and not killed. Those are often the people you see going off the rails for no clear reason, though the stress of being quietly disabled frequently leads to drug abuse, suicide and overdose, which hides everything. Kill the strongest, kill the weakest who might talk, kill the best, kill the least, kill anyone you want. They are not us, is the thinking. It’s the code of the invaders. ABN

TPUSA was NOT providing information on Charlie Kirk’s assassination to people who reached out in good faith

I am not sure who this person is. The clip was posted by Aubrey Laitsch, who I assume is the speaker. This very much appears to be authentic testimony. This is yet another insight into the very dubious manipulation occurring throughout the investigation into Kirk’s murder. Incidentally, imo, Candace performed very well in the debate and Wilson did not. ABN

Is Israel Planning to Assassinate President Trump?

“When you read Jewish law in many places, you might understand that gentiles can be killed freely without any problems.”

— Rabbi Yitzhak Shapira, Radio Kol Hai (July 2011)

In January 2012, Andrew Adler, the owner and publisher of a small weekly newspaper called the Atlanta Jewish Times, sparked considerable controversy when he penned an article titled ‘What Would You Do?’ in which he put forth three possible responses Israel might pursue if Iran were to acquire a nuclear weapon. The first two — pre-emptive strikes on Hezbollah and Hamas and disobeying the US Secretary of Defense to destroy Iran’s nuclear facilities — failed to raise any eyebrows. Adler’s third suggestion, however, would result in his immediate resignation as editor and the subsequent sale of his newspaper:

“Three, give the go-ahead for U.S.-based Mossad agents to take out a president deemed unfriendly to Israel in order for the current vice president to take his place, and forcefully dictate that the United States policy includes its helping the Jewish state obliterate its enemies. Yes, you read “three” correctly. Order a hit on a president in order to preserve Israel’s existence. Think about it. If I have thought of this Tom Clancy-type scenario, don’t you think that this almost unfathomable idea has been discussed in Israel’s most inner circles?… You have got to believe, like I do, that all options are on the table.“

Almost immediately, the article became headline news around the country forcing major Jewish organizations like the ADL and AJC to feign indignation, and within a week the US Secret Service had launched an ‘investigation’ into the matter while a teary-eyed Adler appeared on the Atlanta Interfaith Broadcasting network’s cable TV show to disavow his column and explain that he actually held a favorable view of President Obama!

Adler’s straight-talk, shocking though it may seem to some, provides crucial insight into the mentality of God’s chosen people and the candor they often use when speaking amongst themselves. Killing a foreign or domestic head of state who presents a perceived obstacle to the preservation of fragile little Israel is not unknown to history, as any reader of Laurent Guyenot’s indispensable book The Unspoken Kennedy Truth or Ronen Bergman’s 2018 bestseller Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel’s Targeted Assassinations can assure you.

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It only just now occurred to me that the gory public execution of Charlie Kirk was also meant to terrify Donald Trump, which it seems to have done very profoundly. Ofc, there are many other motives for having murdered Kirk. Recall that Netanyahu publicly presented Trump with an Israeli cell phone, which everyone with brains read as an ostentatious threat on Trump’s life. The topmost levels of world power are always Kill-Or-Be-Killed (KOBK), pure savagery, winner take all. Deep infiltration and apex parasitism are brutal KOBK strategies. This is precisely how the West has fallen and continues to fall. This is manifestly obvious in every single Western government there is, and it includes all of the West’s major institutions and many of its lesser ones, which are frequently used as training grounds for KOBK infiltrators. Consider the chutzpah of Netanyahu to have proposed shotgun marriage to USA’s military, and the timid acquiescence of US Congress to his power-move. ABN

Netanyahu calls UK the ‘Islamic Republic of Britain’

Netanyahu used the term ‘Islamic Republic of Britain’ in a recent interview. 

 ‘Someone said – you know – that the first Islamic republic with nuclear weapons will be the Islamic Republic of Britain.”

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Jewish Supremacists are a major factor in the migration invasions into UK, Europe and the collective West. It’s classic Jewish rhetoric to humiliate their victims further by blaming them for their demise. ABN

Trump signs Executive Order to maximize parental choice over vaccinations for their children

DELIVERING GOLD STANDARD CHILDHOOD VACCINE RECOMMENDATIONS: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order to recognize Gold Standard Childhood Vaccine Recommendations that maximize parental choices over vaccinations for their children and align three categories of childhood immunizations with scientific evidence and best practices from peer, developed countries.

• The Order provides recommendations that give parents more information and options when making immunization decisions for their children.
  • The Order recommends all children get immunizations to provide protection for 11 diseases – a decrease from the 18 diseases recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2024. Immunizations no longer recommended for all children are now recommended for shared clinical decision-making, ensuring that parents have all options available to them. 
  • The Order recommends separating out the combined MMR vaccine into three single-disease shots and recommends administering all vaccines during separate medical visits to give parents more options regarding the timing and frequency of this vaccine administration.
  • States that enact school vaccine requirements are advised to consider the Gold Standard Childhood Vaccine Recommendations and consider updating their laws to reflect the recommendations.
  • All Federal agencies are advised to advance the Gold Standard Childhood Vaccine Recommendations based on their relevant authorities to ensure Americans have the best scientific information. 
• The Order maximizes parental choice over childhood vaccines by promoting State compliance with constitutional and Federal law related to parental authority, religious freedom, disability accommodations, and equal protection under the law, including States’ obligations to provide religious and medical exemptions from childhood and adolescent immunization requirement.
• The Order directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the HHS Task Force on Safer Childhood Vaccines, to present plans to the President to improve vaccine research and options for American parents, including continuous evaluation of the risk and benefit profiles of all childhood vaccines based on U.S. and international data. 

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Looks like a good start.

When you consider the vaccine topic from a vague ‘national’ and ‘science’ POV, it can appear complex, leading to individual resignation or stubborn belief based on unthinking habituation. When you consider it from a state’s POV or a schoolboard’s, the absurdity of government coercing medical treatments for children is easier to see for what it is. The smaller the state or the dumber the schoolboard, the more obvious it becomes. USA local and state governments are filled with people entirely unqualified to rule on matters like this. When ‘national standards’ are blindly followed, anyone who can read and think understands relevant agencies have all been captured by Big Pharma and Big Money. ABN

This is what it looks like when you have pre-arranged crisis actors planted to control the media narrative, but the exploding mic malfunctions, sending shrapnel through the neck instead of blowing a hole through the chest

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A violent public murder is an act of terrorism and should be recognized as such. The Kirk murder was staged to cause fear and despair. A dead giveaway is the concerted, frantic attempt to convict Tyler Robinson before he has had a fair trial and answered the evidence against him. How often does that happen in the real world? If Charlie were your brother or friend wouldn’t you want to be certain the accused is guilty? The JFK assassination is still being covered up. Many of the same deceptions were used in that case — lone gunman, selective evidence, an immediate falsified story backed by media and elite perpetrators. That playbook is not working so well today. ABN

Paradise Lost: How African Migrants Made Millions on Filthy Medicaid Homes Where Disabled Mainers Were Abused

State records show Paradise Residential Services, an autism agency run by “New Mainers” from Central Africa, violated disability rights while earning $25 million under MaineCare.

Paradise Residential Services CEO Jocelyne Ininahazwe and her family enjoyed luxury Mercedes brands while the disabled Mainers who relied on the Medicaid agency for 24/7 care were living in squalor, subject to abuse and neglect by non-English speaking staff, including some who were untrained and never subjected to background checks.

That’s the chief takeaway from documents released Friday by the Maine Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), including a termination letter to Paradise that cited “violations [that] place the health and safety of MaineCare Members in immediate jeopardy.”

“[Paradise Residential Services] failed to ensure individuals are protected from abuse, neglect, and exploitation, specifically, lack of food, spoiled food, unsanitary conditions in the home, broken glass throughout basement, individuals have been repeatedly left without staff, staff not supervising or providing services,” according to the DHHS letter.

Records show Paradise Residential Services, terminated in March for failing to protect disabled Mainers from abuse, was founded by five investors: Jocelyne Ininahazwe, Juste Arakaza, Tresor Niyongabo, Enock Nijimbere Tshibungu, and Eric Nshimiyimana.

For a relatively small upfront investment, the crew of “New Mainers” hauled in $25M from 2022 to 2025. They were billing $400k per patient. That’s $800k in annual revenue for every middle class home they purchased..

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Aided and abetted by American politicians. Most glaring is who they stole the money from — not just tax payers but more importantly the rightful recipients of public care. ABN

Civil war in Britain is going mainstream

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The sooner the better. The longer you wait, the worse it will be no matter the outcome. These same conditions prevail throughout the West. ABN

Carrie Prejean Boller on the fraudulent worship of Israel

Worshipping Israel is a historically recent fraud foisted on unwitting Christians. The Charlie Kirk assassination has thrust this vile fraud to the forefront of many of the Christian sects which have fallen for it. The reasonable suspicion that Israel is somehow behind Kirk’s assassination adds enormous vividity to the exposure of this scriptural fraud and the foul infiltration of Jewish scammers who preceded and encouraged it. Many deluded and false Christians have also been part of the scam. Overall, it is one of the worst religious scams in US history, probably the worst.

For Buddhists, this scam is an example of the danger of worshipping texts, which can be changed. It’s yet another reason the Buddha warned against writing his teachings down. He did not want them to be worshipped, demonically altered or memorized rather than actually learned deeply. Incidentally, this is also a major reason Buddhism is difficult for non-Buddhists to learn. Westerners almost always just place a Christian Venn diagram over Buddhism and presume they are much the same. Not true. Not true at all. The best way to learn Buddhism is to spend time with Buddhists and learn from them. In a word, Buddhism has no absolute beliefs. It is an existential philosophy based on direct personal experience. ABN

What Caused the Post-WW2 Decline of Urban America? Part 2 – Dropping the Hammer

The Shelley’s home in St. Louis was ground zero for the 1948 ruling that struck down neighborhood Freedom of Association. That year, a weaponized Supreme Court invented a “right” of forced entry that a more sober and diverse Supreme Court had unanimously rejected in 1926. Urban chaos exploded when the Court got it wrong.

As detailed in Part 1, dozens of major U.S. cities experienced a cooling of growth in the 1930s and then suffered huge losses after WW2, reversing over a century of previous expansion and prosperity. Two big factors in that decline were the unprecedented federal assaults on the historical work/save/invest ethic via nationalizing home mortgages (instant bank credit) in the 1930s and the 1935 nationalization of unions triggering the downfall of urban manufacturing that froze millions of middle-class jobs.

A third and more devastating federal action was inventing the “right” of forced entry by blacks (or anyone else) into previously peaceful English, German, Irish, Polish, Italian and other diverse ethnic communities. This final act of reckless social engineering permanently chased away millions of established urban residents and replaced them with a new class of predominantly poor, rural, uneducated people who often had little or no experience with the rigors of owning and maintaining property.

The federal imposition that chased people out of stable urban communities was the Supreme Court’s 1948 Shelley vs. Kraemer decision that abolished Freedom of Association in American neighborhoods.

This radical decision reversed the 1926 Corrigan vs. Buckley ruling that had unanimously protected those community rights in a very similar case. Unfortunately, both rulings have been largely forgotten in today’s climate of extreme aversion to anything branded “racism.” That reflexive avoidance has left enormous gaps in the public record.

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How freedom of association died. Freedom of association is arguably one of our most important rights. Work where you want, employ who want, liver where you want — all based on who you want to associate with. ABN

At Marvelė in Kaunas there is a pagan horse cemetery with around 300 horses, most dating to the Viking Age. They had their own section, separate from nearly 1,600 human graves.

Some were buried with bridles, bells and riding gear, sometimes several in one grave. At least one horse had been brought across the Baltic, probably from Sweden.

Around 2,000 horse burials are known in Lithuania. The tradition lasted from roughly the 3rd to the 14th century, longer than anywhere else in Europe.

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Lithuania, a tiny country today, still carries some of Europe’s oldest genes, attributable to the earliest hunter-gatherers who populated Europe at the end of the last ice age, some 10,000 years ago. The Lithuanian language is the oldest still-spoken Indo-European language in the world; it closely resembles ancient Sanskrit, which indicates an Aryan creole admixture with Lithuanian hunter-gatherers approximately 5,000 years ago. Sadly, Lithuania has recently begun receiving and paying for ‘refugees’ from South Asia and Africa who will soon overwhelm the Lithuanian population, which stands at a mere 2.8 million souls. Lithuania survived two centuries of Czarist Russian occupation and decades of occupation under the Soviet Union. During those times, they steadfastly maintained their culture, language and genetic stock. Today, under the EU (a morphed version of the SU) Lithuania is facing cultural and genetic annihilation within a few generations. It’s a microcosm of what is happening to Europe and the West. Each Western nation and each Western region is being ushered to the chopping block by hostile forces they cannot stop or control. ABN

Japanese population falls below 120m for first time in 42 years

TOKYO (Kyodo) — The number of Japanese nationals fell below 120 million for the first time in 42 years to 119,736,483 at the start of this year, the government said Wednesday, underscoring the challenges faced by a nation battling declining birth rates.

The figure as of Jan. 1 showed a drop of 917,000 people from a year earlier, the largest fall since comparable data became available in 1968, according to data from the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications.

The number of foreign residents, meanwhile, rose 354,000 to a record 4,031,159. The ministry began compiling relevant data in 2013.

Despite government efforts to reverse the declining birth trend, the country recorded around 670,000 births, a record low, compared with around 1.59 million deaths.

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Let the population fall and deal with it. There are many advantages to a shrinking population. A nation should not be a population Ponzi scheme, wherein only a few benefit from the imported labor. Always wanting population growth even at the price of destroying your country is an argument ad absurdum. ABN

LEAKED: “Protecting Erika Kirk” Group Chat, Perez Hilton’s Public Breakdown. | Ep 372

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My one major concern with this very successful crowd-sourced investigation is the elites behind the scenes who pay for and direct their assassins will cease killing their enemies in public and do their executions quietly with less conspicuous weaponry. The garish spectacle-murder of Charlie Kirk appears very much to have been both a murder and a terrorist message to other up-and-coming young leaders and influencers. The elite’s message, however, has been a significant failure due to its being exposed and publicized by Owens and the many other researchers involved in this effort. The perpetrators are without doubt extremely angry. Hard to say what the future will bring. ABN

The most important right inadvertently left out of the US Constitution, because founders did not even see the possibility of needing it, is freedom of association. Such a basic right:: associate with whomever you want; hire whomever you want; work and live wherever you want based on who you want to associate with. ABN

Tyler Robinson is NOT suicidal — Candace Owens

Obviously, this looks like a classic setup before suiciding someone. The case against Robinson is a joke. By now, the real perpetrators apparently see no way out, save murder Robinson and claim case closed. It appears to many of us that the perpetrators did not expect and were not prepared for the relentless pursuit of the truth behind Kirk’s murder and the crowd-sourcing it has inspired. I cannot think of any other crime which has drawn so much attention from so many people, who have pooled their information into a very strong case that Kirk’s death involved some of the people closest to him, and Robinson was not one of them. It appears Robinson was intended to be the patsy. The weapon that killed Charlie Kirk malfunctioned, leaving the glaring clue of a neck wound that clearly was not an entry (or exit) wound caused by a 30.06 rifle. From that widely recognized observation, many many more clues and anomalies have come to light. ABN

Afghan arrested over death of British woman found in a suitcase ‘says he was angry with her because she wanted him to join Christian group’

An Afghan man arrested for allegedly killing a British woman and then stuffing her body inside a suitcase said he had become angry with her because she was trying to get him to join a ‘strict’ Christian group.

The body of Elisabeth Jane Ross, 38, who was also known as Lisa, was discovered inside the suitcase by a homeless man in an abandoned carpark in the Kypseli district of Athens on July 18.

Greek police arrested a 26-year-old man on Sunday night with graphic details emerging about the crime and the testimony his wife provided that led to his capture.

And police sources revealed that the man – who had converted to Christianity – told his wife that he had argued with Ms Ross because she wanted him to join her ‘stricter’ Christian group.

Ms Ross, 38, who was from Edinburgh, had been a regular visitor to Greece over the past seven years volunteering with NGOs helping refugees, homeless people and other vulnerable groups.

It has emerged that Ms Ross had previously volunteered with the One Heart organisation when in Greece which specialises in providing medical support to refugees, particularly those from Afghanistan or Iran.

Elisabeth Jane Ross was found dead with her body stuffed inside a suitcase in Athens, Greece

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A very large downside of all of the Abrahamic religious sects is their adamancy about ‘belief’ and their adamancy about their interpretation of scripture. Belief is always dubious in general and in its particulars. Few if any humans can be sure of any of it. Religions which do not recognize this obvious philosophical condition tend to become rigid, even fanatical. The psychologies engendered by Abrahamic beliefs are neither intellectually open and honest nor wholesome. They are not ethically or rationally sound. Buddhists can always get along with Christians or any Abrahamic sect, but the reverse is not always possible. I have a Christian friend, a good friend, who honestly believes Jesus loves me so much I will go to hell for all eternity if I don’t love Him back. This friend is a good person and has backed away from his rigid framing of Christianity, but still, it’s still in there. Overall, Abrahamic rigidity blinds adherents by preventing psychological and spiritual development. This lack of development within all of the Abrahamics is right now contributing to the rapid downfall of the West because: 1) the Christians cannot embrace the possibility and thus defend themselves against the invasion and infiltration of other Abrahamics who hate them; and 2) the other Abrahamics rigidly believe it is God’s Will that they must infiltrate, conquer and destroy the West. Virtually all of them are delighted to be part of the downfall of the West; it is their rigid belief that that is God’s Will. Guys, all of that that is stone age nonsense. Virtually all Western atheists who have left Christianity, even hate Christianity, very often retain a crazy species of adamancy because that is the basic mindset inculcated in them from their experiences of the world around them. In place of Christianity they substitute, identity politics, woke, climate change, communism, welcome the invaders, anti-religious fanaticism, or,, worst of all, a dull sense of meaninglessness because they cannot find a way to fill the vacuum of non-belief. Guys, you not not need to have a rigid belief to experience spiritual joy and indescribable contentment. ABN

Dumbest country in the world

Plus they outbreed citizens and are paid to have children. This is asymmetric war being conducted by infiltrators and traitors. It is not something else. ABN

Owens on Timpanogos Hospital ER allegedly emptied of patients TWO HOURS before Charlie Kirk was murdered

This is an interesting clip on its own but it is also worth viewing because it shows how this investigation has been conducted — through crowd-sourced tips. Crowd-sourcing is one way we the plebs can regain some control of our nations and lives. With the power of crowd-sourcing, corrupt law enforcement will find it much more difficult to gaslight the public or railroad innocent patsies. ABN

Highest-paid podcasters in America revealed: Here’s how much Alex Cooper, Mel Robbins and Charlamagne make

Podcasting is a bigger business than ever, and now the best-paid podcasters in the industry have been revealed.

On Thursday, Forbes ranked the 20 highest-paid podcast stars of 2026 from the worlds of entertainment, sports, business and tech.

Many of the stars selected focus on blockbuster interviews, like Call Her Daddy host Alex Cooper, while Charlamagne tha God takes a more traditional shock-jock radio approach with his main show The Breakfast Club.

Others, like the author and eponymous host of The Mel Robbins Podcast, have managed to succeed with a winning self-help formula. 

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Just do find with a $ sign, to get the goods quickly. This is alternative Big Media. I have only heard of a few of these podcasters. Many of them surely have been promoted as replacements for failing legacy Big Media. Propaganda, lies and lies by omission are always part of Big Money propaganda, including alternative outlets. Always look for it because it usually shows. ABN

Long-term and short-term memory are obviously connected

And also, they are separably analyzable, and fundamentally one in the same thing working on different percepta1, at different speeds and at different and combined times. They have different capacities, become conscious at different times or at the same times in different measure. They hold or embrace all we know of our bodies and minds. Are they existential YOLO solipsisms? Or are they connected to something else, as time and space are connected, God and man, the Buddha mind and the ordinary mind? Are they beyond time or do they manufacture it or simply dwell in it?

1. Percepta is the plural form of the Latin noun perceptum, meaning “something perceived” or the objects/aspects apprehended during the act of perception.  ↩︎

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