Tuesday, October 18, 2022

Can Mushrooms Keep Your Brain Young?

Compelling Camera Angle

Good Review of the Events of Last 30 Years Leading to Nuclear Threat

First time I've watched the Tulsi Gabbard Show. She's a good host, raises important points, and is a good listener.  I can imagine she'll do well in this role.  Though I could be wrong, I don't think politics suits her even though she has the bonafides for high office.  Jeffrey Sachs, a Keynesian economist, and Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University and President of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, who comes on at the 22:30 mark, is very good.  He said he played an advisor for the U.S. back in the days of Gorbachev.  

Protesters in Italy demand an end to Italy's involvement in NATO


Ask yourself why are they pushing those 2 options on you?  

Why are they trying to restrict nuance, why are they trying to put you in one camp versus the other and taking all the other options away?    

Whenever someone gives you an ultimatum, it's because they're in a weak position.  By saying, "You're either with or against us," "You're either pro-Putin or anti-Putin," you're either this, or you're that, by doing this they're giving you an ultimatum.  You have 2 choices: you can either submit to what I say, or you're going to oppose me.  And by defining everything that is not their position as wrong, it takes away all possibility for negotiation, resolution, and everything else.  And diplomacy is the art of negotiation.  Diplomacy is the art of "Alright, I hear what you want, you hear what I want, let's work out an agreement that no one is happy with."  That's what diplomats are supposed to.  That is the mechanism of a bully, the mechanism of a tyrant, and the mechanism of someone with an opposing agenda which is just not going to be tolerated.  So now they have their goal, and now it's just a question if they can beat into our heads long enough and hard enough until we go along with their goal.  I've got news for you.  F@#$ you.  I'm just going to keep saying, no, there are other options.