Belgium On Lockdown And Other Widespread Attacks Threatened

Talk about K-stimulus:

Brussels was effectively on terror lockdown Saturday after “precise” warnings of a Paris-style bomb and gun attack forced the closure of the subway system and citizens were warned to avoid public spaces.

As the manhunt continued for at least one suspect from last week’s massacre in France, the Belgian government raised the capital’s terrorism alert level to its highest status — indicating a “serious and immediate threat.”

Heavily-armed police and soldiers were deployed across the city and all soccer games were canceled.

The country’s crisis center urged people in Brussels to avoid concerts, airports, public transportation and crowded shopping centers.

And now this:

Anonymous, the loose collective of online activists, said Saturday it has uncovered information about Islamic State group attacks in Paris as well as on locations in the U.S., Indonesia, Italy and Lebanon, all apparently set for Sunday. OpParisIntel, a group within Anonymous, released a statement saying it had collected information about imminent attacks by the militant group — aka Daesh, ISIL and ISIS — on the French capital a little more than a week after a series of coordinated attacks there left 130 dead and hundreds injured.

There are indications that the US government is deploying as if this is legit, though they might do that anyway, just to be safe. It is tough to see how terrorism gets off the ground in the present surveillance state, but then our border is quite porous.

This leads to amygdala exercise:

Riding the Paris Metro to the city’s Grand Mosque for prayers, Samia Mahfoudia says people shoot sideways looks at her ‘almost as if they were saying ‘Get off.

Ahmed El Mziouzi, a Moroccan who has called France home for 42 years, says he’s seen people staring at Muslims like him “a bit bizarrely” since attackers claiming to be acting in the name of Islam massacred 130 people, traumatizing the city.

Every time your brain does something, it shoots signals along specific neural pathways, like a single electrical charge traveling along one thread-pathway of the myriad of thread-pathways it could choose in a spider web. As that specific pathway is used, it will develop, like a muscle. Subsequent usages require less stimulus to trip the signal shooting down the pathway, the signal sent is stronger, and the result of that signal will grow larger.

As this happens in the amygdala and the structure develops, it affects in unison all of the behaviors that the amygdala drives – aggression, sex drive, parental rearing, protectiveness of children, loyalty, and intolerance. It affect all of the r/K traits. The most obvious manifestation is in in-grouping and out-grouping.

Now, the threat has become palpable all over, and it isn’t about to diminish. Each time somebody walks into a room, sees Muslims, and feels a slight apprehension as they size them up, subsequent encounters will require less threat to trigger the apprehension, and the apprehension will grow stronger. As the pathways involved develop, it will become easy to apply them to other similar situations. Suddenly Germans view Italians with suspicion, Greeks want to compete with Spainards, everyone is back in a K-selected state of mind, and the EU is history.

It’s always the things you don’t expect that get you. After banking scandals, currency issues, and a Greek/Portugese/Spanish debt crisis just about every six months, the economic and political partnership that is the European Union seems much more likely to fall apart for an entirely different reason after all…

The direct cause is actually an extremely divisive and growing dispute about open borders, immigration, and refugee resettlement.

This is the mechanism. This is r/K Selection Theory.