Open Thread - 4-23-2026 - Deeper Understanding

Morning
The week certainly passed quickly. A few bits of informaton to ponder.
Maybe this interview reveals a primary reason as to why no individual nation who is a member of the UN Security Council has directly acted to assist Gaza, West Bank and Southern Lebanon. It appears Jonathan Pollard has little regard for other humans on the planet.
Jonathan Pollard: My plan for Gaza, the PA, and Israel’s future (39:22 min starts at 25:38) The Jerusalem Post Sep 21, 2025
25:38 to 28:47 Auto Transcript
Judith Segaloff: Well, I think also our leaders have had their necks in a vice grip by other countries who
Jonathon Pollard: Well, let me let me give you an example of that. Um, I was criticized very heavily for opposing the ceasefire, the American imposed ceasefire in Lebanon on us. And um I was told by certain people in the government, look, we didn't have choice because uh we were being threatened with a complete cut off of arms. So I listened to this and uh the individual telling me this uh said, "You don't believe this or what?"
I said, "No, I believe that the Oiden administration, as I called it, did threaten us." But I said, "You're mistaken if you think there's never a choice." There was a choice. He said, 'Well, what is it? To have our weapons cut off?
I said, 'No, let me bring you back to October 1973 during the Yam Kapour war when Henry Kissinger instituted an arms embargo against us. He he stopped the aerial resupply of our army at that point to extract uh diplomatic concessions from us.
And what happened? What happened was um an A4 Skyhawk was parked at uh Telnof Air Base with some interesting weapons under the its wings and uh we told the Americans, "Take your eye in the sky and take a good look at the airplane that's on that runway."
And the next day the airlift started. So the guy that I was talking
Judith Segaloff: Which airlift
Jonathon Pollard: to the to Israel the arms airlift.
Judith Segaloff: So in other words we threatened their um
Jonathon Pollard: we threatened to use unconventional weapons. I'll leave it at that.
And so he said is this what you're want us to threaten now. I said absolutely except this time I want us to go forward with it if necessary. If they think we're bluffing we go forward with it. look in.
Judith Segaloff: Wait, some people might look at this and hear you saying these things and say he's a dangerous dude. You know, he's he could, you know, blow up the entire Middle East.
Jonathon Pollard: Well, I guess people really haven't been keeping their eyes open since October 7th because the whole Middle East has blown up. And as far as I'm concerned, when we are faced with an
existential threat, we have the right to use any and all weapons in our disposal to eliminate that existential threat.Look, a lot of people don't know anything about um academically speaking nuclear weapons at all, what they are, how they can be used responsibly. And I'm I'm tired of using euphemisms. I'm tired of saying, "Well, we have something, you know, in the basement, but we won't be the first to introduce u nuclear weapons in the Middle East." Its enough already.
My second visit to China was 2001 just prior to their admission to the World Trade Organization (WTO) Dec 11, 2001. One of the members in the group was head of a NGO involved in foreign relations. During one of our many conversation she mentioned the US planned to control mainland China using our major technology companies and international economic investments. 25 years later we can evaluate the results of those attempts.
Those same tools were turned towards the US population.
Data Harvesting in the Classroom Armstrong Economics April 23, 2023
Studies have now confirmed that roughly 90% of commonly used school apps are transmitting tracking data, even when they are not actively being used, and many contain hidden third-party trackers operating in the background.
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I see this as no different from what we witnessed with Pokémon Go, where people believed they were simply playing a game, but in reality, they were contributing to a massive data collection operation.From my perspective, this is how control expands, not through force, but through normalization. When data collection is embedded into something like a game, people participate willingly, but when it is embedded into education, it becomes institutional. That is a very dangerous shift, because it removes the ability to opt out without consequence.
We are moving into a system where data is the new currency, and the earlier it is collected, the more valuable it becomes. Starting that process in childhood creates a lifetime of behavioral data that can be used to predict, influence, and potentially control outcomes in ways that most people do not yet fully grasp.
Repeat of a comment I made earlier in the week. The subject appears to be in the watch and wait stage.
Federal Grand Jury Charges Southern Poverty Law Center for Wire Fraud, False Statements, and Conspiracy to Commit Money Laundering Department of Justice press release Tuesday, April 21, 2026
Between 2014 and 2023, the SPLC secretly funneled more than $3 million in donated funds to individuals who were associated with various violent extremist groups including the Ku Klux Klan, Aryan Nations, and National Socialist Party of America
A Grand Jury in Montgomery, Alabama, today returned an indictment charging the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) with 11 counts of wire fraud, false statements to a federally insured bank, and conspiracy to commit concealment money laundering. The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Alabama Northern Division filed two forfeiture actions to recover alleged proceeds of the organization’s fraud scheme. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) investigated this case with assistance from the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI).
“The SPLC is manufacturing racism to justify its existence,” said Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche. “Using donor money to allegedly profit off Klansmen cannot go unchecked. This Department of Justice will hold the SPLC and every other fraudulent organization operating with the same deceptive playbook accountable. No entity is above the law.”
The civil case regarding the murder of Mulugeta Seraw in Portland, Oregon effectively put the brakes on the white supremacy movement regionally. The presence had been growing with the extended economic hardship beginning in the late 1970's across the state.
In October 1990, Mulugeta's father and son, represented at no cost by the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Anti-Defamation League,[9] won a civil case against White Aryan Resistance's operator Tom Metzger and his son John Metzger for a total of $12.5 million.


Comments
Wish SPLC success in its battle with justice
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If the PTB fail to neutralize opposing voices using
economic warfare tactics, then they will sic the courts
on us. Resistance is not futile. Mucking-up the treads
of the bulldozers used against us has its value.
Thanks for the OT.
Zionism is a social disease
Simply increasing understanding
provides more insight how influence efficiency of the treads.
thanks for stopping by
Still yourself, deep water can absorb many disturbances with minimal reaction.
--When the opening appears release yourself.
Good morning...
I've got hired help coming today, so just a quick drive-by to say "Hi!".
Hope all is well on your homestead. always something to do. Thanks for the OT!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Yep always something to do
irrigation season is starting. Hope the helpers get some of the project done.
Still yourself, deep water can absorb many disturbances with minimal reaction.
--When the opening appears release yourself.
Good morning soe, et. al. A couple of items that may be
of interest. Excerptd from RT
of course, the current DOJ is DJT's handmaiden and can be expected to favor and help RussiaGate victims, so it will be arbued that these two concessions prove nothing, but. The underlying facts that many were investigated, prosecured, harrassed, spied upon and whatever based on (illegal) misuse by the government of some wild fabrications bought and paid for by the Clinton election campaign will slowly seep into the consciousness of more and more people.
Also, food for thought: https://www.rt.com/news/639014-french-tv-christian-cross-nazi-symbolism/
What really is the difference between ideology and religion? France took steps a couple of decades ago to try to reduce violence and other interreligious strige and is maybe a slightly special ase, but why does "religion" get special tgreatment? Certainly Christianity's record is no better or different from the NAZI's in too many respects to ignore and it is not the only religion with such a track record.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Christianity is not a single belief system.
My Christian belief structure could be considered ideology by your Christian belief structure. We live in a Western world where the flavor of Christianity practiced by settlers at the time period of colonization migrates to the new lands. The cycle keeps repeating. Simply looking at the various regional differences in the United States they were shaped as much by the migration of belief systems (ideology) as geography and climate. Then new Evangelical movements keep arising and die out as if they have a life cycle of their own.
Intense wars and population suppression has been done across Europe for centuries for the "Proper" religious beliefs. European monarchies and the supporting noble families were either granted the right to rule by The Roman Church or made the effort to become the head of their own state with a unique Christian belief system often anointing the current Monarch also leader of their Church.
The short version God appoints who has the right to rule Europe and by extension any area which has been colonized in the past or is actively being recolonized. "My beliefs" are sacred religious beliefs and all others are false ideology. Sometimes it is difficult to identify where the "My" is originating.
Still yourself, deep water can absorb many disturbances with minimal reaction.
--When the opening appears release yourself.
Another push back by China to minimize
using investment funds for control.
China Curbs US Investment In Tech Companies After Meta Acquisition Of Manus ZeroHedge April 24, 2026
Still yourself, deep water can absorb many disturbances with minimal reaction.
--When the opening appears release yourself.
AI not up to snuff
MOA’s lead article today takes a dim view of AI….
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2026/04/those-scary-ai-models-are-still-on...
Anya
one useful bit found in the replies
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To disable googles' AI add: &uom=14 at the end of the URL.
I am not a programmer and don't use goog but might help
someone that does and wants to avoid LLM slop.
Zionism is a social disease
Identifying errors in AI responses require
an educated end-user.
In the 1990 I was working on advanced algorithms optimizing the benefit of drug therapy and minimizing harm. A professor at medical university expressed his concern future practitioners would take the easy route simply follow computerized instructions and become unqualified to challenge computer generated errors. At the time I could not imagine such a scenario.
10 years later I could see the pattern showing up in end-users. Potential new customers were wanting a fully automated analytical system where they did not need to utilize their expert skills. I closed down the project, no longer participate in replacing human thought process and interaction with machines.
This week I went to pay a couple of annual invoices at local business. Some interest should have been calculated so the check had not been prewritten. The bookkeeper mentioned she had not calculated interest though the accounting software so ignore late fees. I was too lazy for strict mental work and used a scrap of paper to write the numbers down to add together. She look at me, said "you did that manually, I can't". Grabbed a calculator added the numbers, "you are right". She appeared to be in her 30's.
Still yourself, deep water can absorb many disturbances with minimal reaction.
--When the opening appears release yourself.
Good afternoon, soe!
I have been reading about data being collected on school kids. That data will be in a government data base all their lives. Insidious.
I can't write what I think about Pollard. I will let you folks guess my opinion of him.
Thanks for he Ot, friend!
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
There is a growing number of parents using
homeschooling to minimize government monitoring of their children. Interesting future trends.
Still yourself, deep water can absorb many disturbances with minimal reaction.
--When the opening appears release yourself.
I can't find it now but...
...the contention that the use of nuclear weapons, and here it is implied that it would be preemptive, could be seen as "reasonable" is absurd.
It is also argued that people who don't think so, just don't know enough about nuclear weapons. Wrong again. The BAS article I posted within the last few days, was written by a former US Air Force ICBM officer, who personally was in a silo under high alert during the 1973 war. Although the article was about six years old it's still applicable. I knew a pilot who flew A-4s, who flew one over to Israel in that war. Mr. P is full of it.
I bring up the Failsafe scenario frequently since the mideast aggression began. The future in not bright for any country that starts a nuclear war.
Edited to add link to BAS article-
Loose Cannons
己所不欲,勿施于人。
The lack of comprehension
of the interrelation of the world's natural systems and believing nuclear explosion could be totally localized. Other nations have to respond to protect their citizens. It appears at the moment economic destruction is a major method.
Thanks for reposting BAS article article. I found it very good.
Still yourself, deep water can absorb many disturbances with minimal reaction.
--When the opening appears release yourself.