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  The Paradox of Turnkey Totalitarianism by aletho By Max Borders | AIER | September 10, 2021 Somewhere a brilliant but troubled biotech engineer is doing CRISPR in his garage. He has all he needs: a computer, a fridge, a centrifuge, some animal cages, and an assortment of microorganisms in tubes, which he has labeled and stored until he’s ready. Today he will use a gene-editing technique to make a deadly, fast-spreading bacterium. Oh, and he plans to unleash it upon the world tomorrow. He just needs to make a few finishing touches. Why is he doing this? Maybe he’s gone mad. Maybe he’s lonely and wants to get revenge on the world. Maybe he read Ted Kaczynski’s manifesto and thinks humans are a plague. In some sense, it doesn’t matter. Out of a thousand other brilliant gene researchers, he has broken bad. And nobody really knows what he’s working on in that garage. He is as invisible to his neighbors as he is to the girls he likes. What on earth are we going to do about this young m...

The Art of Doublespeak: Bellingcat and Mind Control By Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain | December 10, 2019 In the 1920s, the influential American intellectual Walter Lippman argued that the average person was incapable of seeing or understanding the world clearly and needed to be guided by experts behind the social curtain. In a number of books he laid out the theoretical foundations for the practical work of Edward Bernays, who developed “public relations” (aka propaganda) to carry out this task for the ruling elites.  Bernays had honed his skills while working as a propagandist for the United States during World War I, and after the war he set himself up as a public relations counselor in New York City. There is a fascinating exchange at the beginning of Adam Curtis’s documentary, The Century of Self, where Bernays, then nearly 100 years old but still very sharp, reveals his manipulative mindset and that of so many of those who have followed in his wake. He says the reas...

?What Are Cats Thinking Inside the mind of the world’s most uncooperative research subject. By DAVID GRIMM We did one study on cats—and that was enough!” Those words effectively ended my quest to understand the feline mind. I was a few months into writing Citizen Canine: Our Evolving Relationship With Cats and Dogs, which explores how pets are blurring the line between animal and person, and I was gearing up for a chapter on pet intelligence. I knew a lot had been written about dogs, and I assumed there must be at least a handful of studies on cats. But after weeks of scouring the scientific world for someone—anyone—who studied how cats think, all I was left with was this statement, laughed over the phone to me by one of the world’s top animal cognition experts, a Hungarian scientist named Ádám Miklósi. We are living in a golden age of canine cognition. Nearly a dozen laboratories around the world study the dog mind, and in the past decade scientists have published hundreds of ar...

The fields of international geopolitical competition and the "transparent borders" Bashir Mohiuddin The struggle between nations for the sake of their interests is legitimate and a pension, a natural right for states. However, conflict and competition have greatly affected peoples plagued with colonialism, plundering their wealth and lost their chances of renaissance by the powerful who were not deterred by conscience or values. Some geographical regions of the globe were areas of competition between forces The rules of the international order and institutions built by the first parents have been violated in a world of increasing population and the need to secure the livelihoods and well-being of peoples. Therefore, countries develop strategies in which their need for diminishing natural resources and the building of a force that preserves their national security, This competition leads to conflicts in various forms can evolve into conflicts and wars to use the armed for...

Frederick Ratzel is the first founder of modern geography Frederick Ratzell German scientist (1844 - 1904) The author of the book of geopolitics and the first founder of the science of modern geography, Ratzel studied in Heidelberg in 1868, Zoology, Geology and Anatomy, his book Geography of Man, wrote about the factors that control the distribution of man in the globe Ratzell in his book geopolitics Ratzell was influenced in his book Geography of Darwin's theory of natural evolution. This theory assumes that the survival and survival of an organism depends on its ability to adapt and that reproduction is the evidence of adaptation. Hence, living organisms struggle to survive. This process Darwin described as natural selection or survival The influence of Darwin has increased after the introduction of the sociologist Herbert Spencer interpretation of this theory or what is called social Darwinism and the interpretation on the assumption that there is a great similarity between...