Mark Anthony Hoffman

Borrowing from Nancy Reagan....

@NHPUKOfficial If you are familiar with Clif High, then this short talk might be of interest. He says his webbot predicted this 20 years ago and that it is the trigger for even bigger events. clifhigh.substack.com/p/knob-boys

Proper kicking off in Ireland. Could this be the spark that erupts Europe.

@JanJekielek More and more it appears our path forward will be to either choose nature, its Creator, and heart, OR the arrogant, untamed mind. To me, that choice is obvious - nature. Apparently though, that is not obvious to everyone.

Wynton Hall says that Silicon Valley billionaires believe they’re creating an “actual deity” in the race to build AI. Not only that, but they’re convinced that a transhumanist future where humans integrate with machines is “not only inevitable, but preferable.” This conversation will shock you: “Gary Tann, who’s the billionaire, Christian, head of Y Combinator… said, there are so many people in Silicon Valley ready to make AGI into an actual deity.” “He’s not saying that’s a good thing.” “He’s a person of faith, a Christian.” “But what he’s saying is there is this belief that humans have had their run, and we’re just on the way of evolution.” “And we’ve got to evolve into a transhuman and the… singularity, as it’s known, this point at which human and machine will fuse, is not only inevitable, but preferable.” “Here’s where it’ll get very interesting and very, very scary.” “If you look at things like brain chips and augmenting people with AI … we already have our phone.” “If you were on a trip with your family or your friends, and you left your phone at home… you would turn your car around.” “The next step is, now we have the AI glasses.” “Now it’s a little closer.” “And we already have, with Neuralink, the chip.” “There will be a point in the future… where parents are gonna have to decide, do I chip my child so they’re competitive in the workplace and school or are they a natural human who has no way to cognitively zoom through billions of tokens of information?” “The back door is always there, and who’s on the other side of that control?” @wynton_hall

RE: Islamic Culture in the Middle East and Central Asia I sense that too many Americans do not understand the public face-saving that is integral to Islamic culture in the Middle East and Central Asia. I recall numerous times I dealt with government or military officials in the region where they let me know that what was being said publicly was in no way related to what was actually going on. A leader or politician in these countries will never, ever publicly say the truth if the truth suggests weakness or vulnerability. Never. It just does not happen. They will lie publicly with outrageous bombast, knowing full well that what they are saying is untrue, because their culture demands it. Additionally, they respect the strongman. The strongman who speaks with ferocity and then backs it up with deeds is always respected (or feared, depending on the situation). These are vital concepts to understand when analyzing the public pronouncements of the Iranian regime and the Truth Social declarations of President Trump. The Iranians must save face no matter what. Literally none of their public pronouncements can be trusted as being accurate or truthful. At the same time, when Trump posts things like “ending a civilization,” he is NOT TALKING TO YOU. He is talking to the mullahs in the only language they understand. In fact, as the Democrat/Media Complex derides Trump as an idiot for such pronouncements, HE is the one who is culturally attuned in a very profound way that totally flies over the heads of his critics. These are vital concepts that must be understood to accurately interpret the very public exchange of declarations between Trump and the mullahs.

@EricLDaugh If this video is accurate, why is the person videotaping not grabbing a fire extinguisher to put out the fires when they are still this small?

🚨 UPDATE: The man accused of lighting a MASSIVE warehouse fire in California is Chamel Abdulkarim, and he has been arrested on arson charges "Abdulkarim," huh? Typical "California man" name. 🙄 Lock him up!

@LeadingReport So, retire as a fraudster at 35 or work like the rest of us?

BREAKING: America’s new retirement age is 85- or 35, per Business Insider.

@AllieJade1 I thought for a minute she would pull a raccoon out of that thing.

I'll admit it. I'm one of those weirdos from the 90s who loved her central vac! Mine was so strong that it would syphon up anything! The thing a lot of people disliked about it though was the weight of the hose and how it seemed to always get tangled. Also - Cleaning it, yeah dust cloud! I decided one weekend to actually move the cannister and piping from the basement and reinstalled the whole thing into the garage so that it was easier to clean and maintain! Do you have one? Did you have one? Love it, or hate it?

In 1907 a German chemist called Edwin Kayser walked into the offices of Procter & Gamble in Cincinnati with a patent and a proposition. The patent described a process for taking liquid cottonseed oil, bubbling hydrogen through it under pressure in the presence of a nickel catalyst, and producing a solid white substance with a long shelf life and no particular flavour. Procter & Gamble bought it immediately. They were not a food company. They were a soap company. Their interest in hardened cottonseed oil was that it could be turned into soap more cheaply than tallow, and tallow prices were rising. The hardened cottonseed oil made excellent soap. It also, the chemists noted, looked exactly like lard. It is worth pausing to remember what cottonseed oil actually was. For most of the nineteenth century, cotton seeds were industrial waste. The oil pressed from them was dark, foul, and used primarily in the manufacture of explosives, dyes, and roofing tar. Improvements in bleaching in the 1880s made it palatable enough to use as an adulterant in olive oil. Its chief virtue was that it was nearly tasteless and very, very cheap. Procter & Gamble looked at the hardened cottonseed oil sitting in their soap factory, looked at the lard market, and made a decision. They needed a name. They tried Krispo. Trademark conflict. They tried Cryst. Someone in management noted, delicately, the religious connotations. They settled on Crisco, derived from CRYStallised Cottonseed Oil, and launched it in June 1911 with one of the first modern advertising campaigns in American history. The campaign did not mention cottonseed. It mentioned purity. It mentioned modernity. It mentioned the marvel of factory production over the messy, old-fashioned business of rendering animal fat at home. It distributed free cookbooks containing six hundred and fifteen recipes, every single one of which called for Crisco. It paid railways to use Crisco in their dining cars. It targeted Jewish households on the basis that Crisco was kosher in a way lard could never be. By 1916, Americans were buying sixty million cans of Crisco a year. Three cans for every family in the country. Within one generation, lard had gone from the standard cooking fat in nearly every American kitchen to an old-fashioned ingredient your grandmother used. There was no health data driving this. There was an advertising budget and a soap company that had accidentally invented a food. The trans fats produced by partial hydrogenation, eventually banned in 2018 after killing an unknowable number of people, would not be flagged as a problem for another seventy years. The cottonseed oil itself, now joined on the shelf by soy and corn and canola and sunflower, is still the dominant cooking fat in the developed world. It is in your salad dressing. It is in the fryer at every restaurant you have ever eaten in that did not specifically advertise otherwise. It is the default. It started as soap. Then it was looking for something to do. Now it's the most-consumed fat in the Western diet, and the lard that built the American kitchen for two hundred years before it is the thing people are nervous about putting in their pastry. The marketing worked. It has not stopped working.

Bro 😭 Iranians 🇮🇷 are literally vibing in the nuclear power plant city of Bushehr which Donald Trump has threatened to blow up. These people fear absolutely nothing 👏

@Artemisfornow These people are truly on the wrong path.

Humanity is dying and we are running out of time to save ourselves. You know that right?

@mattvanswol The most discouraging aspect of this is that so many Americans are benefiting from the unaccountability and fraud but just don't care as long as they get what they want. That became crystal clear during Covid. I don't recall this country being that way when I was growing up.

Why does everything feel like theater? We have a Congress that won't pass something 83% people want. We have a judicial system that doesn’t hold criminals accountable. We have an education system that doesn’t educate. We have a non-profit system that profits from our tax dollars. We have a health care industry that profits from you staying sick. We have a financial industry that needs you to stay in debt. We have an insurance industry that fights every single claim. It just all feels so fake, so theatrical.

@sharinskaya_ @DDGSarah One of my college roommates had traveled much of the world and said the same thing about Iran.

@DDGSarah 1-Jewish American who's visited all 195 countries of the world, & Iran is his #2 favorite country 2-Luke Damant, who's also visited all countries of the world, & this is what he says about Iran & Israel

You could tell an American this was filmed in Williamsburg, Brooklyn and they’d believe you. It’s Tehran.

That 1919 Dodge v Ford case is still shaping how corporations behave today.

More than three million pages from the Epstein files are now public. Cannibalism. Rape. Murder. Pedophilia. Not a single arrest. Not a single investigation. How cruel world we are living in.

@wideawake_media How about multi-racial and monocultural.

@Ne_pas_couvrir In the 60s, shows like Bonanza were the opposite of this, but he is correct. By the late 70s and 80s, all the male TV figures that were previously solid citizens were either buffoons or unsavory characters.

Here’s Ben Stein in 1979 describing television as an engine of cultural demoralization. He argues that a small clique of producers and writers pushed a left-coded inversion of reality onto the public. They despised traditional power centers and hated figures like Buckley. They propagandized the nation into accepting a fake world where businessmen are villains, criminals are the good-guys, small towns are sinister, military officers are proto-fascists, and work barely exists.

@TKratman It doesn't help that Europeans, and I assume Brits and Aussies, get much of the summer off for vacation, while many Americans only get a couple weeks of vacation a year.

From Martin Iles, reposted: Having lived in the USA for nearly two years, I've realised something. The USA and the remainder of the Western world are no longer aligned. We all laugh and mock when the Americans say, "Freedom!" because we truly think we're as free as they are. Wrong. We're not. Not even close. The laws, the mindset, and the behaviour, is totally different in this regard. Most of all, the governments are totally different. The USA's convictions around core freedoms are on a scale we do not share. Meanwhile, Donald Trump wins the popular vote, the electoral college, the House, and the Senate... a man who, in every other Western country, is held in open derision, if not contempt. For these and other reasons, we are not the same. Yet the West, including Australia, fully expect to rely on the USA for our very survival. If the world turns bad (which will happen - only a question of time), then the whole West, without America, is toast. So, you may ask - if we're not very aligned ideologically, then it must be that we bring something to the party militarily? Well, no... actually... we don't matter that much militarily. The USA has about 470 ships in its navy, including 11 aircraft carriers, 69 submarines, 75 destroyers... plus 110 new ships in the pipeline. Australia has about 30, including 3 destroyers, 7 frigates and 7 outdated submarines. The UK does a little better, with about 60. Meanwhile, the US has over 14,000 military aircraft. A staggering number. Australia has 252 military aircraft. The UK has 556. The US army has just shy of 1,000,000 uniformed personnel in its military. Australia has about 45,000. The USA spends 3.4% ($968 billion) of its GDP on defence. Australia spends 2% ($36.4 billion). The US spends as much as the next 15 largest military-spending countries (including China) combined. The USA has a fighting culture. The men shoot things (a lot) and hunt things, the veterans get favoured in everything from parking spots to boarding planes. A uniformed young man is thanked in the street a dozen times a day. "Oh, the Americans and their guns!" we say, in our smug way. Yes, they have a warrior culture. We do not. We don't have to, because we're a leech on theirs. How many young British men are willing to fight for their country? Now ask the same regarding young American men. The difference is about as wide as it could be. Militarily, we don't offer squat. Meanwhile, look at the way Australia works against America's interests by loving on China. China made us rich and we stay close. This is a Marxist regime with expansionist aims. Again, you have to spend time in the USA to realise just how vast a gulf there is between us on China. Europe, too. They let China have their way everywhere from Germany to Greenland, all the while importing Islam and sending their own people to court for saying hurty words. Somehow, we have landed the deal of a lifetime with the USA that says, "when the baddies come, you'll save us ok?" Because we can't save ourselves. And we live in peace. But we keep gnawing away at freedoms, keep enabling China, and get flabby and disinterested about our military because Uncle Sam's got it. And, let's be honest, Americans are widely looked down on. To add insult to injury, we don't think that highly of our protectors. So, the USA is finally saying "enough." I am here, I can tell you what the vibe is, and that's it. Trump is doing what people want in this regard. They're over it. And we come across all shocked and hard done by. We behave like people with no self-insight at all. Yes, the global alliance system is all over the place now. From America's perspective, it's about time. And I must say, though I be a proud Australian, I am forced to agree. Something has to change.

@Miss_Royal73 Replace sick and vulnerable with psychopathic billionaires and he might be onto something.

De niet-gekozen #WHO-commissaris #BillGates heeft zijn aanwezigheid op de #G20-top in Bali, Indonesië, aangegrepen om een ​​discussie over '#doodspanels' op gang te brengen. Volgens Gates zullen doodspanels in de nabije toekomst nodig zijn om het leven van #zieke en #kwetsbare mensen te beëindigen vanwege 'zeer, zeer hoge medische #kosten'. Gates legde verder uit dat 'er een gebrek is aan bereidheid om te zeggen: is het niet beter om die tien leraren níet te ontslaan en die afweging te maken wat betreft medische kosten, als we een miljoen dollar uitgeven aan de laatste drie maanden van het leven van die patiënt?' Die man.... WTF 😵‍💫