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Andrew Millison in Village Homes, Davis CA and Luisa in the Garden of the Gods

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See  Brad Lancaster Harvesting Water in Arizona . Subscribe to Andrew Millison . My comment : Isn't America amazing? I went there and I kept thinking "Where are all the people?" To a first approximation there's hardly anyone there! They have 38 people per square km, England has around 430.  Subscribe to Luisa the Scottish Geologist . But all that land isn't enough for them, so they have to fuck the entire world to get more money.  See The Only People Who Really Look After US National Security Interests . My comment : Wow, Matt Bracken is who Kevin Costner wanted to be when he grew up. Subscribe to Dialogue Works .

Alain Valette - Les mathématiques du transport optimal

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See  Transportation theory (mathematics) . But what about also optimising what you are transporting? This is what philosophers call practical reason . Looking at that I'm not sure the philosophers are going to be much help though! See  Afshin Rattansi interview with James Galbraith .  Subscribe to  Institut Henri Poincaré .

Financial Security Versus Communications Security

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My comment : 4:51 This is why it is surprising to me that the United Nations doesn't have any programme for enabling secure communications between member states and their people. It is pretty fundamental to the whole idea, but they seem to think that a handful of US corporations will do the best job. In 2019 the Russian government tried to set up international protocols to control international hacking but the United States, the UK and Europe were not interested and the CIA doubled-down on "cyber warfare" activities. Recently they passed a law permitting third-party contractors to engage in offensive cyber attacks on the government's behalf.  See  Angela Collier and Sage the Bad Naturalist Talking About the UK Government's "Protect and Survive" Pamphlet . Markus Kuhn once informed me that financial security is more important than telecommunications security. Well, he should know because he is a computer security researcher and he works for GCHQ in the U...

The Most Suspicious Thing About the Learjet Crash in Miami, ...

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The radio messages don't sound authentic.  Juan Browne hasn't said anything publicly and it's almost 24 hours ago. I reckon the FBI told him that he ought to think very carefully about what he says on YouTube the next few days. Subscribe to Blancolirio .

The Mysterious Process by which Flint is Created

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Here's Saskia's video:  Here's Rachel's skeleton video from last week: My question was about flint: That was great!! So the trick is not to become an extinct experiment. Gotcha. Now I am going to look at your videos to see if anywhere you explain this thing I never understood which is how flints form in chalk deposits. I used to live in England and there were some chalk deposits full of really beautiful white Dolomite, but with the globules of flint. If you find them before they break into sharp shards then they look almost organic: like they're some sort of fossilised jelly-blobs. But I guess its just the silica and calcite separating at some point. But does anybody have any ideas about when and where it happens? Is it early on in the deposition when these were all separate skeletons swishing around in a kind of slurry on the sea-floor, or was it later when they came under some pressure? It seems like a violation of the second law of thermodynamics though. Another...

Afshin Rattansi interview with James Galbraith

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See his book The Power to Destroy: How Bad Economics Drove America’s Decline . My comment : 22:30 Jevon's "law" is just a consequence of economics being complete BS. It is a consequence of people's belief that earning money is the only means by which human beings can survive. Justify that belief first before you start talking about laws of human behaviour.   And another : Unhooking from the US/UK financial system could be done in a matter of months. Subscribe to New Order . My comment : Economists are idiots! They don't know about anything real and so they think reality is economics. It's not. Economics is a load of hot air and economists have nothing useful to contribute to human knowledge. Subscribe to  World Affairs in Context . See  Hope - It's not Just France and Italy, ...  for half a clue about what a real economy needs to based upon.

Brad Lancaster Harvesting Water in Arizona

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Subscribe to Brad Lancaster . They could use some better water management in Los Cabos in Baja California too: Subscribe to On The Pulse with Silki . Subscribe to GrowTree Organics .

Glenn Diesen interview with Thomas Fazi

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42:49 You need to be motivated to believe this crap. The people in academia I have heard parroting it were people who had research contracts with government intelligence agencies.   44:10 You can also do censorship and call it bugs in the software.  So when the audio cuts out here, people say, well, that was just a coincidence. You know how many bugs there are in the Internet, .... My comment : Are you aware Fazi's audio cuts out at 44:51 until 45:31 ? and then again at the end.   Why is there no authoritative news source from, say, the United Nations? Because they can't afford it? Because the United Nations does not have access to journalists? Because such a thing would be of no value to member states? Or because the United Nations is just a stupid, disgraceful sham?  See  So Many Stupid Boring Ideas! ,  Francesca Albanesi Journalists Briefing and  Scott Ritter interview with Jacques Baud Part II - Sanctioning Truth . Subscribe to Glenn Diese...

Scott Ritter interview with Jacques Baud Part II - Sanctioning Truth

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You can support him by contributing to his legal fund: https://www.liberteexpression.ch/    My comment :  41:36 But if any European or British citizen were to go to Switzerland and apply for asylum there their case would be dismissed without a hearing because EU and Britain are considered safe countries.   See part I here:  Scott Ritter interview with Jacques Baud  and see Scott's recent interview with Nima Alkhorshid:  Scott Ritter on his Interview With Jacques Baud . Subscribe to Scott Ritter . 

So Many Stupid Boring Ideas!

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It's as if people were deliberately educated en masse to fail to be able to grasp the most basic premiss of actual human knowledge, which is how is it that we can ever actually know anything as individuals. As we learn to speak and understand each other, something each of does from a very young age, we solve this problem instinctively, but by the time we reach the level of post-graduate studies we seem to have been convinced otherwise. I have a great example of a post-doctorate researcher in "quantum foundations" and "quantum information processing" whose response to the idea that actual human knowledge is the invariant content of the different statements we can translate from one language to another (see Popper's 1978 Tanner lecture Three Worlds ) was "but where is it?" What is it that he wanted to know the location of? The actual human knowledge, of course! Why would one expect knowledge to have a physical location? Is this some demand that phys...