News Briefs – 12/23/2018

I always see lots of r/K related stories I think might interest the readers here, but I only have time to blog about a few, so here are some additional news stories that might be of interest. You can skim the titles and summaries, and click the links if they are of interest.

An interesting insight was on Q’s board. Trump was pictured at Arlington here (click for full size):

Anons thought the picture might be significant because of the infinity symbol at the top of the headstone in front of him, what with Q’s board being on Infinity Chan. The Marine passed on January 19th. January 19th is national popcorn day, and Q does keep saying to get out the popcorn. The anon’s proof follows:

So Jan 19th may be a big day.

Then there was this flashback:

Amazon patent combines Ring camera doorbells with their Law Enforcement facial recognition program, meaning they are about to wrangle every internet-connected Ring doorbell installed, into service to the surveillance state, for tracking everyone everywhere.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg voted from the hospital to block Trump’s asylum restrictions. Some are wondering if she is beginning a McCain.

?BREAKING: According to multiple sources Arizona Senator Jeff Flake is the John McCain associate that illegally gave the uncredited dossier to Buzzfeed…..developing pic.twitter.com/jy8EQ5CIfD

— ??Josh Cornett?? (@therealcornett) December 22, 2018

Krakatoa blew underwater, triggering a tsunami that killed at least 20 in Indonesia. Geologic action is still ongoing.

During the Iran deal, someone was spying on Israel and pro-Israeli groups on behalf of Cabal’s/Obama’s side.

Facebook is allowing a terrorist who beheaded two Canadians to keep his facebook page up and continue to post on the social media site.

Gay San Francisco Pastor arrested on child pornography charges.

EFF finds details on massive phone surveillance system set up between the government and AT&T. All calls going over AT&T switches on the telecommunications backbone saved and logged, going back to 1987. No court order to access it, information gathered is used to construct a false story about how the data was obtained another way, which is what is given to a court, making all evidence which came from that initial data, potentially entire cases, fruit of the poisonous tree. The problem with getting this far afield is there is no going back. If this all comes out, we can adhere to the rules and invalidate maybe 50-60% of the major criminal convictions of the last thirty years for prosecutorial misconduct and let all those bad dudes go free, or we have to decide to invalidate the rules for that period, and allow known prosecutorial violations of the rules to imprison people. Terrible decision to have to make, and worse, practically, there is no stability to the system. Either you go back to the rules fully and free prisons full of savages into society, or you will drift even farther from the rules until you have government doing whatever it wants to whoever it wants. It is one reason I wonder if the Storm can really change the major problems we face, or if it will just try to stem the worst abuses, gloss over the reality, and hope nobody looks too closely.

India passes massive surveillance law forcing “a subscriber, service provider, or any person in charge of a computer to “extend all facilities and technical assistance to the agencies.” Failure to comply with the agencies could result in seven years of imprisonment and an unspecified fine.” How much of our medical data, financial data, and so forth is in India, so that technical support can service us from their call centers? How much is stored there to save funds? Could Cabal be in India, and be getting a backdoor to American data?

Venezuelan Navy menaced an Exxon Mobil survey ship off the coast of Guyana in waters Venezuela is trying to claim as their own for the oil resources.

British Special Boat Service takes back a Cargo Ship in the Thames which had been hijacked by four migrant stowaways trying to get to Britain.

Khashogi was working with Qatar and Turkey to destabilize Saudi Arabia.

Rio De Janeiro is now training two-man Police sniper teams, whose sole purpose will be to go out and shoot on site anyone who has a gun, and videotape the killing. The end result of gun control, and the only way it can possibly work. Far better would simply be to arm the populace, and let it sort things out. But inherent to the r-strategy is an inability to see how things could go badly in the future. Don’t fall afoul of the political machine in Rio.

Study links early puberty to chemicals in soaps, shampoo, and toothpastes. Could be, though I think nobody has looked at the effect of r-ifying humans, which is clearly a phenomenon. Switch toward an r-selected reproductive model to exploit a resource glut, and you’d expect earlier reproduction to be a part of it. Plus I will bet use of expensive shampoos and soaps correlates with smartphone usage.

Could Alzheimer’s be reversed with ultrasound to break up plaques?

An analysis of the equipment used to counter the Gatwick Drone attack. Basically an operator triangulator, a drone detector/controller, and a jammer as a backup. Nothing you wouldn’t expect, aside from the system costing $15-25 million roughly.

Rundown of several political studies which show Conservatives tend to be more believing of threats and hazards, which then tries to segue into Conservatives tend to believe more in conspiracies even when their party is in power, and ends with Donald Trump is dangerous because he exploits the Conservative tendency to believe in dangerous conspiracies which his followers tend to believe even despite the honest fact-checking of the completely unbiased media we should all trust.

SpaceX cancels the launch of an Air Force Navigational satellite, supposedly due to winds. Trump may have created a Space Force for a reason – the battle has already begun there.

Ocasio-Cortez sticks a finger in the eye of the establishment, from the left:

Next time we have a gov shutdown, Congressional salaries should be furloughed as well.

It’s completely unacceptable that members of Congress can force a government shutdown on partisan lines & then have Congressional salaries exempt from that decision.

Have some integrity. https://t.co/BgueNNjf0f

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@Ocasio2018) December 22, 2018

Scott Adams says Trump is more aggressive because of Democrat threats of investigations which have put him in a high-risk/high-reward mindset. That could be. As a general rule I would not want to put Trump in high amygdala, because he is a thrill seeker, with little fear. He is probably spoiling for this anyway, but if you make him angry and amp his amygdala, he’s gonna press go because he sees no downside. All it is going to do is enrich his ride with excitement. It is a very different mindset from Pelosi and Schumer, who you could see in that Oval Office meeting do not like that amygdala-stimulation. As the heat increased, Trump straightened up and engaged even more, and he almost appeared to be holding back for the camera. By contrast, Schumer looked more and more deflated as it went on. Even worse Trump knows that, so he will punch full force every time. The big jump you can make in utilizing amygdala is shifting focus from how your amygdala feels in the moment (what most people are focused on), to focusing on how you are making your enemy feel. It is very easy to hit amygdala, and once you see the hits, you will become very focused on hitting more – and those hits add up on your opponent’s brain as it distracts you from your own amygdala. The only people it won’t work well on are people who like the excitement of conflict like Trump, but they tend to be rare.

A meme exploiting the different psychologies between Trump and Schumer, as seen in the White House meeting:

Nancy Pelosi was dancing with ecstasy when she thought Trump would sign a budget with no border wall funding. I think Trump is a real master of neurocognition. Nancy got a brief high from this as you can see from the dancing, but this level of easy, cost-less victory rapidly became normalized in her brain. She even expected this matter was behind her and she would win in the future this easily. Then Trump turned it around. He violated expectation by not only denying her future wins, but by taking back this win she thought she already had. He pulled her into the White House and sprung a violation of expectation with the sudden media presence on her, to further load her amygdala as she dealt with him. He may see brain function in some mechanistic way most do not, or this could be a trick he picked up in negotiation to turn up the pressure on an opponent, but it is very brilliant however he came up with it. Now Pelosi is in agony, she associates dealing with Trump with high amygdala, and she feels destabilized and stressed when dealing with him because he is like one big stressful violation of expectation in her mind. Even if she won something it will only make her worry he is about to take it back. In the future she will never be able to relax around him. For an amygdala-addled person, she will be much more likely to do anything to minimize her interactions with Trump to minimize the amount of time she spends under that level of uncertainty, fear, and amygdala. Which means she will give him a lot more just to get him to leave her alone.

Trump pulled out of Syria after John Bolton could not explain why they should stay, now that ISIS was decimated.

But it creates a peculiar circumstance that could be of note, as a poster on Q’s board noted:

Putin Goads Anti-Brexiteers: ‘Someone Disliked the Result, so Repeat It over and over? Is this Democracy?’ Putin is either playing a brilliant game, or he is genuinely a great ally of those who still love freedom in the West.

Yellow Vests Chase French Police Out Of Champs Elysees In Pre-Christmas Rumble

«#GiletsJaunes» : la tension est montée d'un cran sur les Champs-Elysées et l'un des fonctionnaires a dû sortir son arme pour éloigner les assaillants pic.twitter.com/0QrGxK38a5

— CNEWS (@CNEWS) December 22, 2018

Yellow Vests numbered 40,000 this Saturday.

Pro-Catlan independence protestors donned yellow vests and joined the French Yellow Vests at the border, shutting down traffic.

Yellow Vests are organizing meetups in Canada.

NGO ship picks up 311 migrants, try to enter Italy, and Salvini tweets to them, “My answer is clear: Italian ports are closed! For the traffickers of human beings and for those who help them, the fun is over.”

Brazil’s Bolsonaro looks to set up a global alliance of Anti-Socialists to fight Marxism around the globe, and especially in Latin America. K’s are not just rising – they are in-grouping.

Austria imposes strict new immigration rules, with no asylum for anyone who sneaks into the country.

Trump is looking at firing Fed Chief Powell after latest rate increase.

China’s markets end 2018 as the worst performing in Asia. Trump brings the pain.

Experts are saying the revelations about facebook and the myriad of lawsuits and regulatory actions against it may cumulatively prove to be an outright deathblow. Q did kind of predict this, before facebook showed signs of being in any danger.

Mass deportations are deterring MS-13 gang expansion in the US.

I am in the White House, working hard. News reports concerning the Shutdown and Syria are mostly FAKE. We are negotiating with the Democrats on desperately needed Border Security (Gangs, Drugs, Human Trafficking & more) but it could be a long stay. On Syria, we were originally…

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 22, 2018

….going to be there for three months, and that was seven years ago – we never left. When I became President, ISIS was going wild. Now ISIS is largely defeated and other local countries, including Turkey, should be able to easily take care of whatever remains. We’re coming home!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 22, 2018

I won an election, said to be one of the greatest of all time, based on getting out of endless & costly foreign wars & also based on Strong Borders which will keep our Country safe. We fight for the borders of other countries, but we won’t fight for the borders of our own!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 22, 2018

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