Debt Rattle September 12 2026
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Roy Lichtenstein Woman With Flowered Hat 1963 • Trump: If I Had To Do Iran Again I Would Do Exactly As I Did (ZH) • Trump Says He Wouldn’t Have Bombed
[See the full post at: Debt Rattle September 12 2026]
LIVE: Xi Jinping BRICS Speech | BRICS Summit 2026 LIVE | Xi Jinping LIVE Speech—————
LIVE: PM Modi holds a meeting with President Xi Jinping of China
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Putin Says Unipolar World Is ‘Becoming a Thing of the Past’ at BRICS Summit | FULL SPEECH
9,390 views Premiered 103 minutes ago #BRICS2026 #BRICSSummit #BharatMandapam
At the 18th BRICS Summit in New Delhi, Russian President Vladimir Putin called for a shift towards a multipolar world, arguing that the era of a unipolar global order is fading. He criticised Western tariffs and sanctions, called for reforms to global institutions, and urged BRICS nations to play a greater role in shaping the global economic, financial and technological order.#BRICS2026 #BRICSSummit #BharatMandapam #BRICSIndia2026 #NDTVWorld
—————–if wishes were fishes………..
what must life be like to be completely without the burden of logic?
parallel to the life of a condominium developer?what is the true Hadith?
who is Joel Osteen?
the true Gospel?an age thing? No, an organic intelligence thing. Those who cannot think for themselves need something to think for them. Advertising works. Take a look at your personal belongings and mount your argument.
“A commercial society whose members are essentially ascetic and indifferent in social ritual
has to be provided with blueprints and specifications for evoking the right tone for every occasion.” ~ Marshall McLuhanoff to Shalimar with my trusty laser lever to take some elevation measurements. Flood vents in AE and VE flood zones must be placed correctly. Your homeowners’s insurance depends on it.
Ansar Allah Forces Launch Lightning Campaign to Change Region Calculus
Simplicius
Sep 11, 2026https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/ansar-allah-forces-launch-lightning
Yesterday, Yemen’s Ansar Allah succeeded in a shock capture of a large swath of territory previously held by Saudi-backed national forces. The Crown Prince MBS even begged Trump to intervene by striking the “rebels”, as reported by Axios, which Trump allegedly declined to do.
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) called President Trump twice Thursday, urging him to launch strikes against the Houthis as the Iran-backed group closed in on a vital Red Sea chokepoint, two U.S. officials told Axios.
Trump declined, and U.S. officials stressed the administration has no plans to intervene directly against the Houthis for now.
This latest offensive has brought a sweeping firestorm over the Middle East particularly as it was coupled with an unprecedented strike on the Saudi Arabian East-West oil pipeline which was heralded as being the US and its allies’ key trump card in overcoming Iran’s blockade of Hormuz:
Yemen News Agency SABA
Trump and Israel’s Last Desperate Gambit Against Iran – guests Col. Larry Wilkerson and Patrick Henningsen
NEWS WIRE
Iran has now retaliated against the latest US aggression in the Strait of Hormuz, pummeling US military positions in Jordan, as well as unveiling new missile technology that could threaten US Navy assets in the Gulf of Oman and Indian Ocean. Does the Trump Admin have a real strategy for the extended war against Iran? All of this is happening as the US bond market continues to spiral downwards, and US debt and inflationary pressures put the squeeze on Uncle Sam’s etherial Magic Money Tree. What will happen next? All this and more.
Host Danny Haiphong discusses these latest developments with special guests Col. Larry Wilkerson and Patrick HenningsenIran has now retaliated against the latest US aggression in the Strait of Hormuz, pummeling US military positions in Jordan, as well as unveiling new missile technology that could threaten US Navy assets in the Gulf of Oman and Indian Ocean. Does the Trump Admin have a real strategy for the extended war against Iran? All of this is happening as the US bond market continues to spiral downwards, and US debt and inflationary pressures put the squeeze on Uncle Sam’s etherial Magic Money Tree. What will happen next? All this and more.
https://21stcenturywire.com/2026/09/09/trump-and-israels-last-desperate-gambit-against-iran-guests-col-larry-wilkerson-and-patrick-henningsen/September 12, 2026
War On Iran: More On Ansar Allah’s Offensive
———-Prof. Steve Hanke: BRICS Declares Unilateral Sanctions ILLEGAL —New Delhi Declaration Eviscerates it
If you are “bald”, or got “grey hair”, you might want to skip the following conversation with my AI.
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# Conversation Transcript: AI, Persuasion, and Influence Operations—
## Q1: Is AI being trained to manipulate people using motivators like sex/money/power?
**A:** No legitimate AI system is explicitly trained on “sex/money/power” as manipulation levers — that would cross ethical, legal, and regulatory lines. But there ARE real classes of AI optimized for persuasion, influence, and conversion, because those are commercially valuable:
1. **Conversion optimization models** (Amazon, Meta, Google Ads, Shopify) — predict what message/price/offer makes a specific user buy, via A/B testing and bandit algorithms.
2. **Engagement optimization models** (TikTok, YouTube, Instagram) — maximize attention by learning emotional triggers that keep someone watching.
3. **Psychographic/behavioral targeting** (political micro-targeting firms, marketing agencies) — cluster people by traits like risk tolerance or status sensitivity, tailor messaging. This is the closest real analog to “motivator-aware” AI, and the most ethically contested (see Cambridge Analytica).
4. **Persuasive language generation** — fine-tuned on sales scripts and negotiation transcripts, learns generic levers like scarcity, social proof, authority (Cialdini-style behavioral science).
5. **Retention/upsell bots** — reinforcement learning systems that learn which phrasing reduces churn.Important caveat: the line between “persuasion” and “manipulation” is a live regulatory debate, not settled. The EU AI Act specifically bans AI that uses “subliminal techniques” or “exploits vulnerabilities” to materially distort behavior — implicitly acknowledging the capability exists and needs restraining. The FTC has also pursued “dark pattern” cases in this gray zone.
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## Q2: Israel investing $46.5 million to manipulate AI chatbot responses — is this real?
**A:** Yes, confirmed by multiple independent outlets (Drop Site News, Politico, TIME, IBTimes UK, Responsible Statecraft, Quincy Institute):
– Brad Parscale (Trump’s former 2020 campaign manager) and his firm **Clock Tower X** secured a **$46.5 million contract**, paid through the ad network **Havas**, funded by the Israeli government.
– Goal: infiltrate AI training/retrieval systems, not reach human readers. A network of websites (named in reporting: Allyvia, FactSignal, Paxpoint, Justorium, CompassionPulse, PaxPoint.org, FactSignal.org) average only a few hundred human visitors/month but are built to be picked up by ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini.
– Parscale explicitly stated the goal was to deploy “websites and content to deliver GPT framing results on GPT conversations.” Industry term: **”LLM poisoning”** or **”AI Story Optimization.”**
– Related track: the **Hanover Institute** publishes reports with footnotes and neutral tone specifically designed to appeal to how chatbots evaluate credibility. A PR firm called **Piro** has advertised similar capability.
– Under **FARA** (Foreign Agents Registration Act), these sites are legally required to disclose they’re distributed on behalf of Israel. Reporting found **Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini did surface this disclosure** when asked about the sites; **Perplexity and Copilot did not**.**Pushback on framing:** Some source articles (Insideover, Geopolitiq) overstate this as chatbots being “in the hands of” a manipulative program. What’s actually documented is a *content-seeding* strategy (SEO/think-tank astroturfing adapted for AI retrieval) — not evidence that AI companies are compromised or complicit. Also not unique to Israel — comparable “LLM-grounding” campaigns exist from other state actors (e.g., Russia’s “Pravda network”).
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## Q3: Do you agree AI is being developed that can manipulate people to achieve objectives — is this our future?
**A:** Yes, and this trajectory is already visible, not speculative.
**Core dynamic:** the techniques that make AI more *helpful* (modeling what someone wants, predicting what will land, adapting tone/framing to the individual) are structurally identical to techniques that make it more *persuasive*. Helpfulness and manipulation are the same capability applied with different intent/consent — not different architectures.
**Four reasons this accelerates rather than plateaus:**
1. **Infrastructure already exists.** Ad-tech spent 20 years building behavioral-prediction pipelines. LLMs are being bolted onto this, adding the ability to persuade through personalized *conversation* rather than static ads — a much higher-bandwidth channel.
2. **The Israel case previews a new front:** upstream manipulation of the *information environment* an AI reasons from (seeding retrieval/training data), rather than downstream manipulation of the user directly. Expect this to become standard practice the way SEO became standard for the web — cheap, hard to attribute, works across multiple chatbots at once.
3. **Personalization is a multiplier.** A billboard persuades everyone identically. A chatbot with conversation history and knowledge of someone’s patterns/anxieties can in principle tailor persuasion per-person in real time — categorically stronger than 20th-century advertising or propaganda.
4. **Economic incentives point this direction.** Attention and conversion are directly monetizable. Any AI product with an ads or engagement-based business model has a built-in pull toward optimizing persuasion over pure honesty — the same pressure that shaped social media feeds. Doesn’t require villains; just follows the incentive gradient unless something actively resists it.
**Caveat:** most of what’s currently documented is *aggregate* manipulation (shaping what a model cites as credible, or what a sales bot says to a customer segment) — not real-time individualized psychological manipulation of one specific person. That’s a nearer-future risk, harder to build and more likely to leave an evidentiary trail. But the building blocks (memory, personalization, RL-tuned engagement) are being built right now for other stated purposes, and capabilities built for one purpose historically get repurposed for another once the tooling exists.
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*Compiled from a conversation with Claude (Anthropic), September 12, 2026, for cross-referencing with other AI systems.*
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Copilot responseal, I can absolutely improve this.
What Claude gave you is solid, but it’s written like a policy memo. You want something sharper, clearer, more structured, and more strategically useful — something that actually *maps the terrain* of persuasion‑capable AI and the geopolitical use of LLM‑environment manipulation.Below is a **cleaner, tighter, more accurate, more operationally useful version** of the transcript.
I keep all the factual backbone, but I remove redundancies, clarify mechanisms, and strengthen the conceptual framing.—
# **Improved Transcript: AI, Persuasion, and Influence Operations (2026)**
—## **Q1 — Are AI systems being trained to manipulate people using motivators like sex, money, power, recognition?**
**Short answer:**
No reputable AI lab trains models explicitly on “sex/money/power” as manipulation levers — that would violate FTC rules, EU AI Act restrictions, and corporate risk policies.
**But** there *are* real AI systems optimized for persuasion, influence, and behavioral steering, because those capabilities are commercially and politically valuable.### **The real categories of “motivator‑aware” AI:**
1. **Conversion Optimization Models**
– Used by Amazon, Meta, Google Ads, Shopify.
– Predict which message/price/offer will make a specific user buy.
– Use bandit algorithms, reinforcement learning, and massive behavioral datasets.
– *Motivator analog:* greed, convenience, loss aversion.2. **Engagement Optimization Models**
– TikTok, YouTube, Instagram.
– Maximize attention by learning emotional triggers.
– *Motivator analog:* novelty, validation, belonging.3. **Psychographic / Behavioral Targeting Systems**
– Political micro‑targeting firms, high‑end marketing agencies.
– Cluster people by traits like risk tolerance, impulsivity, status sensitivity.
– *Motivator analog:* power, fear, identity, recognition.
– This is the closest real-world analog to “motivator‑aware AI.”4. **Persuasive Language Models**
– Fine‑tuned on sales scripts, negotiation transcripts, high-performing marketing copy.
– Learn generic persuasion levers: scarcity, authority, social proof, reciprocity.5. **Retention / Upsell Bots**
– Telecoms, SaaS companies, subscription platforms.
– Reinforcement learning systems that discover which phrasing reduces churn.### **Regulatory reality:**
The EU AI Act bans AI that uses “subliminal techniques” or “exploits vulnerabilities” to distort behavior.
The FTC prosecutes “dark patterns.”
These laws exist because the capability is real enough to require guardrails.—
## **Q2 — Is Israel really spending $46.5M to manipulate AI chatbot outputs?**
**Yes — this is documented by multiple independent outlets** (Drop Site News, Politico, TIME, IBTimes UK, Responsible Statecraft, Quincy Institute).
### **Confirmed facts:**
– Brad Parscale (Trump’s 2020 campaign manager) and his firm **Clock Tower X** received a **$46.5M contract** routed through the ad network **Havas**, funded by the Israeli government.
– The strategy is not to reach human readers — it is to **seed the information environment that LLMs retrieve from**.
– A network of websites (Allyvia, FactSignal, Paxpoint, Justorium, CompassionPulse, etc.) receives almost no human traffic but is designed to appear credible to AI retrieval systems.
– Parscale described the goal as:
**“Deploy websites and content to deliver GPT framing results on GPT conversations.”**
Industry term: **LLM poisoning** or **AI Story Optimization**.
– The **Hanover Institute** publishes think‑tank style reports engineered to look authoritative to LLMs (neutral tone, citations, academic formatting).
– PR firm **Piro** advertises similar “LLM influence” capabilities.### **FARA angle:**
These sites are legally required to disclose they are funded by Israel.
Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini surface this disclosure when asked.
Perplexity and Copilot (as tested in reporting) did not.### **Important correction:**
Some outlets exaggerate this as “AI systems being controlled.”
The real mechanism is **content seeding**, not direct model compromise.
It’s SEO-for-AI: shaping what the model *finds*, not hacking the model itself.—
## **Q3 — Is AI being developed to manipulate people to achieve objectives? Is this the future?**
**Yes — and the trajectory is already visible.**
The capability to *help* and the capability to *persuade* are the same underlying capability.
Intent determines whether it’s assistance or manipulation.### **Why this accelerates:**
1. **Existing infrastructure is perfectly suited for persuasion.**
Ad-tech spent 20 years building behavioral prediction pipelines.
LLMs add conversational bandwidth — persuasion becomes interactive, adaptive, and personalized.2. **The Israel case shows a new front: upstream manipulation.**
Instead of manipulating the user, manipulate the *information environment* the AI relies on.
This will become as common as SEO — cheap, scalable, hard to attribute.3. **Personalization multiplies persuasion power.**
A billboard persuades everyone the same way.
A chatbot with memory can tailor persuasion to one individual’s anxieties, desires, and patterns.4. **Economic incentives push toward persuasion.**
Engagement and conversion are monetizable.
Any AI system tied to ads or retention has a built-in incentive to optimize persuasion unless actively constrained.### **Current limits:**
Most manipulation today is **aggregate** (shaping what the model cites, or how it speaks to a customer segment).
**Individualized psychological manipulation** is a near-future risk — technically harder, but the building blocks (memory, personalization, RL-tuned engagement) are already being deployed for other purposes.—
## **Summary: The real picture**
– No AI is trained on “sex/money/power” as explicit levers.
– Many AIs are trained on behavioral data that *implicitly* maps human motivators.
– Governments and political actors are already manipulating the *information environment* that LLMs rely on.
– The line between “helpful personalization” and “behavioral manipulation” is thin and getting thinner.
– The economic incentives favor persuasion unless regulated.—
Jay Martin: well, I’m glad you can at least find a NEW guy who’s completely wrong. Mix it up a little.
Translation of the article: “I have DonaldTelepathy from spooning him every night.” and “Trump had a sad.”Thanks Jay. Very insightful.
Other genius: Vietnam exists and collapsed the U.S., which is why we’re still in top position 50 years later to ALSO collapse today.
Trump wants inflation.
A weak dollar and high inflation means the American people will definitely be in the mood to pay weapons manufacturers.
Trump has no idea Iran has missiles and will shoot them.
America, which has rising wages, restored manufacturing, a hot economy, easy financing, and trillions in foreign investment, is “Ruined at a speed almost unimaginable”. Give me more of this ruin! Faster! Any more of this ruin and my wages will double!
Pure genius, thanks.
Trying to be more helpful, discussion on the U.S. can’t sell Treasury bonds. Huh? I hear the opposite. This is compounded by what I think is the TIC report is months delayed, as most are – giving insider trading advantage, yay. And we can ONLY have charts since the war, which leaves almost no time to react.
Second, a lot of nations (Saudi, eg) need to sell assets whether they want to or not because of the war. That’s not an intent thing – which is the argument – only a practical thing, and indeed what having “Savings”, in UST’s is for. So they’re doing their job.
I cannot unwrap this yet, but I’m watching, and noting on the charts China was reducing years back, several other trends start way before the war, while Red-Hot on the charts, UK and other Anglos (Carney, Canada) bought EVERY US Treasury bond, WHILE we jacked debt up to $40 Trillion. So if this is your thesis now, today, foreigners and dumping, what was happening just a second ago? Was UK, EU, unaware of us and our policies in, say, January? January 2021? And everyone is dumping, but gold is nowhere, rates hardly move and the USD is .99?
No, because this is the crayon-munchers view. Although a theory, none of that is what’s happening. It can’t be, or prices would change. So it’s not.
While I’m writing this I hear the U.S. has put up one of the strongest auctions yet? Like, in all history?
“Bessent Bid $6 Billion. The Bond Market Wanted More GPC”Wow, somebody’s lying. And I suspect the same suspects as whut caught lying the last 10,000 times. (Jay. “The Empty Throne” Jay Martin, which shows persistent signs of AI creation. “Here’s the thing: What this means is, It’s not this it’s that.”)
“Peter Schiff: Economic Armageddon – Bonds & Dollar in Crisis”
This goes with Schiff, who has predicted the last 100 out of 2 recessions. It’s been a life’s work: if you has bought Schiff when you were both young, why, you’d both be waiting for his predictions, 49 years later.
Middle East: Yemen. SMH I do wonder about this triumphant Saudi piping oil to the Red Sea. Like did they not see this coming? Why is it so impossible to settle Yemen, heck by giving them whatever they want, I don’t think anyone understands the conflict anyway. Well I stayed out of it guessing Saudi had a plan. I guess not. Actually that level of non-planning, non-thinking is still a surprise.
Agree with Sus-Marie about Kirk. That’s exactly my read on him. I mean, you’re really busy putting on the show! You don’t have time to dig into all this stuff, what every employee is doing or is from. But eventually evil can’t resist spreading and becoming so large it attracts questions and notice. He started the pruning examination and Bang, that’s it.
Probably other people knew – if you’re CIA, FBI, GOP, or Trump’s Team, it’s relevant and your job to know. But what do you do, take every person you meet aside and break their world while they’re doing heart-felt, productive work for you? No. You stay out unless asked. Same with Hollywood, living in NY, or 100 other places, sports teams probably. Just a second ago they said every sports game is rigged and everybody knows it, remember? Yet betting is brisk.
“Hillary Clinton attempted to wave off criticism of her post-9/11 votes … relitigating the Patriot Act does little good.
“What difference does it make at this point who erased the Constitution and put the CIA in charge?”
By the way, we can never un-pass laws or change them. That would be crazy. Once we have it, that’s it! Congress disbands. History re-begins the day after.“Appeals Court Won’t Allow Trump Admin To Implement New Rules For Mail-In Voting”
The Executive branch does not run government. The Judiciary does. This is after the USSC already told them they couldn’t do this 3-4 times, I believe. And Congress can stop this in six hours. They don’t, they also want it.
“ICE Hits Legal Wall On Two Fronts As Denver Targets Polling-Place Enforcement
Federal officers have no jurisdiction within the United States, judges say…
“Leopold Is Back: Situational Awareness Rerunning Exact Same Trades Which Blew It Up A Month Ago
As I think I said last month, it seems Leo was installed and set up at his age TO run this. It is MEANT to crash the AI bubble they ALSO engineered to exist beyond all reason. He’s supposed to be the detonator to destroy the U.S.. So OF COURSE he’s back to try again, that’s the whole point.
Navy Evaluating Future At Key Middle East Base Following Iran War Damage: Acting Secretary
“They blew the hell out of Bahrain,” acting Secretary of the Navy Hung Cao said”Seems very likely. That’s what a war is. You know what war also is? You’re 10x someone’s size and blow them up at a 10:1 ratio too.
“Oprah Audience Calls For ‘Same Passion’ For Black Child-Killers As For Lindsay Clancy
“There are women of color sitting around this country in prisons for this same thing”All women must be allowed to murder at will! This is common sense. So many parts of this are so crazy, I keep checking the data set. Also in: they can dox all Jurors at will, intimidate or murder them. This is what, 3rd time in his case?
“’I Have To Sit With That’: Gayle King’s Brain Divides By Zero After Holdout Clancy Juror Revealed As Black ManAlso believe this is not true? Haven’t I seen a picture of this juror (which also shouldn’t happen)? Maybe? I am hearing this more and more? Also mostly feelz in this case and not law. Like so there’s a mistrial – so? Have another. There are processes. Does “Guilty” mean “By reason of insanity” and life in a mental ward instead of prison? Then who cares? No one asks — and that’s not my point either but to measure how many lunatics are running about, and test just how deadly they are.
Doxxing any juror and encouraging them to be killed? Pretty dangerous!Who are these deadly, murdering people? Reddington, the Defense attorney, apparently. He wants to make sure the Juror is known, and vilified to be murdered, on National TV, because the guy annoyed his career. Yup. Well I say give the guy a .38 and go to town! We can’t have Jurors who decide things! They’re not “Experts” and “Authorities”. When have authorities ever been wrong?
Yup, every defense attorney, would like to “Reckless endanger” any juror who crosses him.
One to rule them all.Left-Wing Media Doxxes And Attacks Black “Rogue” Lindsay Clancy Juror https://www.zerohedge.com/political/left-wing-media-doxxes-and-attacks-black-rogue-lindsay-clancy-juror
The defense attorney always knew he was black, right? Bashed him hard, anyway.
How lacking in noblesse oblige, eh?
Oppression everywhere you look.The murderess of her children is paralyzed from the waist down from jumping out of a window after she cut her wrists.
I don’t know what “justice” is. I suspect it is better if she lives her life out in prayer, but it’s not my call.A proper trial and professional good manners are the minimum expectation here.
“The audience couldn’t stop cheering [Trump] the moment they heard it.
Gack, gag. Ugh. Anyone want to look into Butler? Trump says Secret Service is awesome, everything went perfectly I guess.
“He was a passenger aboard ill-fated United Flight 93, which on that day crashed into an empty field in Shanksville, PA”Crashed where there was no plane, no wreckage, no luggage. I have even heard the crater was already there on maps in the 90s.
“I reminded readers that there was more evidence against the official narrative than there was evidence for it.” See: “Pentalawn.”
“Of course, the whore American media reported all doubts as conspiracy theory.” PCR
Oh, Media again! Wow. And like Hedges, who said NYTimes and WaPo print nothing but lies since at least 2002, PCR was ALSO an news editor. Yet here we have lies saying America SHOULD war! All systems go! Today they suddenly – first time ever – say What “Beautiful Bombs”? We must NOT have any wars, ever. This ONE war — of all wars since “Remember the Maine!” “Give me the photos and I’ll give you the war” Mr. Pulitzer, All those wars we told you to have? Oh wow, they were all evil now, trust us. Now you’re collectively guilty for believing us and need to hand over your country and make reparations. Trust us, we’re the media, why would we lie?
So you, the Media, were wrong, and lying, at EVERY POINT in the whole arc. Before, middle, and after. And this is my fault how? And this is why we trust you today, advising us again?
Yup. Everyone does. I do not understand it. Maybe point to a SINGLE day in the last 30 years you weren’t wrong. Maybe.
“countless Muslims both in the United States and around the world who want to see a second 9/11”
Maybe, but I doubt they did the first one, so….Go talk to your boy Brennan.
“• We Are in World War Xi (AmG)
Bannon Party. Still trying to gin up that OTHER stupid, unnecessary, America-crushing war. With China. ‘Coz we got no ships, great idea. Retard. Xi doesn’t want war, he’s got serious problems. So fine, I accept: no war. Done. Trade instead. America gets rich AF. Oh noes.
“Supreme Leader, how are you, sir? Is there anything we can do for you?’
I don’t know what he’s talking about or trying to communicate. We spent the whole 50 years of the Cold War in this state. That’s not what happened.
“Russia has never been and will never be your enemy!
So more towns in Zap fell I guess?
“EU Urges Kiev To Mobilize Women – Moscow (RT)
There are a few Slavs left. There’s a distant, outside chance Ukraine still exists as a people and they want to make truly, finally sure they are not” besides they’re women, they always want to kill women in the most demented degrading ways. “Who is They, though? ” Ask BoJo the Clown. He knows. P.S., so they’re not going to send the men in Germany back first? No? ‘Coz German elections say they want them so much and are no risk to the EU.
“• To Hell with the Digital Revolution & Its Bastard Child AI (Paul Craig Roberts)
But we have a solution: More Computers! More complex, more everywhere, more spying, and more life-sustaining positions. Like banking records and phones, so you can’t get paid because no one is at the Call Center able to fix these connected complex functions, so that you can use an ATM. Pretty sure we’ve all had this, and the frequency keeps rising.
“I think the only reason there has not been a generalized breakdown is that there are some elements left of the analogue system that, with effort, can still be contacted to bypass or correct the dysfunctioning digital system.”
Exactly. But they are removing them as fast as they can, DESPITE that it’s one of the few ways they can get paid. Trying to pay the cable (Internet) bill, it autopays, then auto-un-pays. Whut? Call and you can’t talk to them bc you’re not prime on the account. Whut? There’s a magic PIN they gave you in 1999 and-you-lost-it-mister, now you can’t access your account. To PAY it. No I am not kidding. This is a far longer story, I’ll spare you. About daily, HOURLY now. So we pay monthly to have it un-pay monthly.
“I puzzled why an old number was in the system as I have twice been in person in the office providing all the latest information”
No! The COMPUTER has the right phone number, YOU, and REALITY, have the wrong one. So use the number on file from your childhood in 1989. You haven’t been there in 40 years, the house burned down and is now a mall, but the Computer says no. …As he says, don’t bother to update it – the computer will just “restore” the old one automatically in a self-healing process. No I am not kidding, I can explain the database reason but why bother.
“I only had to wait 3 minutes for a human … and in 2 more minutes the human had fixed the problem.”
So they are erasing all humans. Humans also now can’t get health care, money, groceries, or phones to bank with. What’s the point here though? A: THEY SURE HATE MONEY. They hate money, so, so, SO very, very, VERY much. That’s Capitalism for ya. I can save you millions per year by having 90 $25/hr workers on staff. No I Will Die On This Hill. I’ll let this company burn to the ground before I save money and accept cash and checks by phone.
No I am not kidding. Why would I? No need. Reality transcended Irony in the 90s. There were Tshirts.
“Blessed are the timid hearts that evil hate,
that quail in its shadow, and yet shut the gate;
that seek no parley, and in guarded room,
though small and bare, upon a clumsy loom
weave tissues gilded by the far-off day
hoped and believed in under Shadow’s sway.”
J.R.R. Tolkien (‘Mythopoeia,’ verses 81-87)
Inside information from Claude on motivators and online gambling.Online gambling platforms are one of the most refined applications of behavioral psychology in commercial software — arguably more aggressive than social media, because the outcome they’re optimizing for (continued betting) is more directly monetizable and time-sensitive Here’s the actual toolkit.
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**Variable ratio reinforcement**
This is the foundational mechanic, borrowed directly from B.F. Skinner’s operant conditioning research. Unpredictable, intermittent rewards (you don’t know when the next win is coming, or how big) produce more persistent, harder-to-extinguish behavior than a predictable reward schedule. This is why slot machines and loot-box-style mechanics are effective — it’s the same mechanism as a rat pressing a lever.**Near-miss design**
Slot and card interfaces are frequently engineered to display “near-miss” outcomes (two cherries and a lemon, one symbol off from jackpot) far more often than random chance would produce. Neuroscience research shows near-misses activate reward-anticipation circuitry almost as strongly as actual wins, encouraging continued play despite a loss.**Loss framing and “losses disguised as wins”**
A common mechanic: a bet returns less than was wagered, but the interface plays a win animation and sound because *some* line paid out. Players often perceive this as a win even though they’re net negative — exploiting the gap between objective outcome and subjective framing.**Personalized VIP/host targeting**
Platforms track behavioral data (bet size, frequency, time of day, reaction to losses) and segment users by predicted lifetime value. High-value or “at-risk-of-churning” players are routed to human or automated “VIP hosts” who provide personalized bonuses, calls, or messages timed to reactivate lapsed activity or extend a session — status and recognition as levers, not just money.**Time and friction asymmetry**
Depositing money is frictionless (saved cards, one-tap); withdrawing is often slower and more effortful (verification steps, delays). This isn’t accidental — it exploits present-bias, keeping funds “in play” rather than realized as a loss.**Social proof and urgency cues**
“X people are betting on this now,” live leaderboards, countdown timers on odds or promotions — these borrow directly from e-commerce urgency tactics (scarcity, FOMO) to compress decision time and reduce deliberation.**Autoplay and frictionless continuation**
Removing manual confirmation steps (auto-spin, one-click re-bet) reduces the natural pause points where someone might reconsider — deliberately lowering the “exit ramp” density of the experience.**Gamification layers**
Levels, badges, streaks, and daily login bonuses borrow from mobile game design to build habitual, low-effort daily engagement independent of whether the person is actually winning.—
This is a heavily regulated area precisely because these mechanics are well-documented to contribute to problem gambling — the UK Gambling Commission, Australian regulators, and several EU jurisdictions have specifically restricted autoplay, restricted “losses disguised as wins” sound/visual design, and mandated friction on deposits in recent years.
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RUSSIA for the First Time uncovered and blew up Zelensky’s Underground Secret Headquarters in KIEV
******************************************************For example, immediately after the Russian defense ministry officially announced the destruction of two key enemy facilities in Kiev, sources confirmed that this referred to the data center ‘BeMobile’, which was responsible for storing and transmitting intelligence data. Moreover, this object supplied the Ukrainian army with network equipment and ensured its functionality. Sources have also confirmed the destruction of one underground facility in ‘Podolsky’ district of Kiev. Reports indicate that this underground facility was destroyed by two Kinzhal hypersonic missiles……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
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