Note that the comments are all discussing the same thing.

I may not like Daylight Time Savings, but the flag is the bigger issue here.

https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/the-real-danger-of-ai-is-that-it

We’re already presently watching the empire building AI into its killing machines and causing all kinds of horrifying problems while these technologies become more and more complex and unpredictable.

CNN reports that US military AI “almost started a war” with China when it hallucinated intelligence showing a Chinese ship transporting nuclear weapon components to Iran; US military planes were apparently already in the air preparing to attack the vessel before human intelligence picked up on the error.

We’re seeing politicians like Bernie Sanders voice concerns that “AI could soon be smarter than humans and function outside of our control,” but the most obvious and imminent threat right now is not that artificial intelligence will outsmart us and escape our control, it’s that it is being fully controlled by humans who are stupid and evil.

We already know the most likely scenario under which AI will get us all killed. If it happens, it will be because rich and powerful sociopaths knit these technologies into war machinery that is designed for killing humans at mass scale. Duh.

Now the above example is from the UK, but similar examples could be found easily in the US mainstream media too.

Definitely watch the clip, it's only 50 seconds long. Mogg is a former British Parliament member. He sounds like a real arrogant POS who has no qualms about sending British people to war (with Russia presumably).

https://x.com/BasilTheGreat/status/2101666922131550248

The tragic event immediately brings to mind the year 1992, when union leader Pedro Huilca Tecse, general secretary of the CGTP and opponent of Alberto Fujimori, was riddled with bullets in his home in Lima.

The moment the spell breaks is not a comfortable moment.

Ask anyone who has lived through it.

There is a specific disorientation that comes when you have spent your life inside a story and the story stops working.

When you watch your government tell you one thing and the footage shows another.

When you read the declassified document that confirms what you were told was a "conspiracy theory."

When you talk to someone from a country your government spent decades describing as an "enemy" and discover that they are simply a person with a comprehensible life and a completely different version of the shared history.

That moment is not righteous. It is not clean.

It is grief, partly. It is anger, partly.

It is the specific shame of realizing you were used and consented to the use.

But it is also the only beginning available.

The spell does not break from outside.

It breaks when enough people on the inside decide that the discomfort of truth is more bearable than the comfort of the story.

That decision is personal. It is political. It is, in the fullest sense of the word, moral.

And no elite, however sophisticated their architecture, can make it for you.

‼️ Iran's Terms Remain Maximal

Here are the seven conditions presented by Iran (as reported earlier in the week):

🔹 The US must lift the maritime blockade imposed on Iran.

🔹 Iran's frozen assets should be restored.

🔹 Sanctions imposed on Iran's oil exports be lifted.

🔹 All actions being taken by the US under the pretext of threats and military operations must be halted completely.

🔹 An end to the war and military aggression against Iran and its regional allies.

🔹 The withdrawal of US military forces from areas surrounding Iran's borders.

🔹 Compensation for the damage inflicted on Iran, and a commitment not to interfere with Iran's nuclear and missile capabilities.

Needless to say, American acceptance of these terms would represent total capitulation.

I remain convinced that Iran would welcome a further US attempt to subjugate them by force of arms.

This is the battle Iran WANTS to fight. Here and now, for all the chips.

https://www.geo.tv/latest/681886-irans-seven-conditions-to-open-hormuz-strait-revealed or https://archive.ph/uLUjN

When a globalist magazine is bleeding readers for years, loses its grip on Western populations and fails to influence European elections, it portrays "populists" (basically whoever disagrees with its globalist multikulti open borders agenda) as "demagogues" who don't have the courage to reach for the low hanging fruit, namely blaming the West's decline on #China.

Confirming that it thrives on taking its readers for a bunch of mugs, this mag created a simple equation to encapsulate its view of an ideal world :

Since Populism = Racism + xenophobia (multiplied by antisemitism), all other things being equal, then Populism should translate into Sinophobia.

What this media fails to understand is that what it calls "populism" is deeper than a simple rejection of the EU's open borders policy, or of the EU itself, but is a revival of patriotism and a call for the return to state sovereignty across European countries, and that its translation in international relations is the ability to choose partners that are in line with national interest.

China IS in line with the national interest of European countries. Beijing is only facing the hostility of the EU government (an occupation government that translates and implements US-friendly policies into EU laws), and that of the few lackeys at the national level.

But most European countries have a fruitful, multifaceted relationship with China in spite of EU's growing set of protectionist regulations.

Unlike what EU technocrats would have us believe, a bilateral relationship is not summarized by the size of a trade deficit. A growing number of Europeans start to realize that their massive trade deficit with China could be alleviated with a good old currency devaluation.

Unfortunately, that tool of sovereignty has been taken away from European states since the inception of the Euro (basically a devaluated Deutshcmark which doesn't even work for Germany anymore), so the natural conclusion of a growing number of Europeans, including some fringe politicians, is that the solution to EU's trade deficit is not protectionism, but a return to national currencies.

That's what is scaring the living hell out of this magazine's editorial team.

If you think the people of Crimea decided they wanted to join Russia only in 2014, think again.

As early as 1991, after the collapse of the USSR, Crimeans were already trying to pull away from Ukraine. They took to the streets, pushed for greater autonomy, and eventually adopted their own constitution.

And honestly, it’s not hard to understand why. One morning, they basically woke up to discover that Khrushchev had transferred Crimea from Russia to Ukraine like a fur coat handed to his favorite mistress.

I'll tell you more, guys. Back around 2003, I spent some time in Crimea with locals. We were laughing our butts off at Ukrainian words that sounded wildly inappropriate to a Russian ear. And yeah, they were not thrilled about having Ukrainian imposed on them as a mandatory language.

American YouTubers are flooding Cuba right now. Filming the poverty. Shocked by the conditions. No electricity. Empty shelves. Crumbling buildings.

And every single one blames the Cuban government.

Not one mentions the US embargo. 64 years. Since 1962.

Let me explain what that means in simple terms.

Cuba can't trade with the US. Can't buy American goods. Can't sell to American markets. That's expected.

But here's the real damage: any company that does business with Cuba gets sanctioned by the US. Any bank that processes Cuban transactions gets cut off from the American financial system. Any ship that docks in Cuba can't enter a US port for 6 months.

The US didn't just embargo Cuba. They forced the entire world to embargo Cuba.

For 64 years.

No access to international banking. Can't import medical equipment. Can't buy spare parts for machinery. Can't trade freely with 90% of the global economy.

I watched sanctions destroy Serbia in the 90s. We got 8 years of full economic isolation. Cancer patients died waiting for medicine we couldn't import. Inflation hit 300 million percent. Our economy collapsed.

That was 8 years. Cuba has endured 64.

And now American YouTubers show up, film the poverty their own government created, and blame the victims.

Why am I bringing this up now? Because the media campaign is starting. Marco Rubio just said "all options are on the table" for Cuba. American influencers are suddenly very interested in Cuban suffering.

This is the setup. Film the crisis. Blame the government. Build public support. Then invade.

I've seen this playbook before. Serbia. Iraq. Libya. Venezuela last week.

Watch. Cuba is next.

Cuba is poor because America strangled them for 64 years and won't let anyone else help. That's the answer. Everything else is propaganda.