Recent Mass Shootings in the USA

Because I monitor (and sometimes participate) in conspiracy talk, I’ve probably looked into mass shootings more than most.

Apart from school shootings by students of that school, there isn’t really a pattern in who the targets are. In recent times it has been cinema-goers, 6-year-olds, gays, Jews, Mexicans, Muslims, music-lovers and so on. I think it is fair to say that looking at who is being targeted won’t be the answer.

That also means non blaming Trump. Yes, he might be the reason that the latest madman targeted Mexicans. While Trump is unlikely to have created such hatred in someone, he certainly could have legitimised it.

There are definite commonalities that should be looked at:

Semi-automatic weapons. Without a doubt these cause the numbers of casualties to be very high, very quickly. And there are no legitimate needs for Americans to own such weapons. Banning them will definitely reduce the numbers of dead and injured. It won’t stop many of these shootings, as people will just use less efficient weapons.

Mental illness. These days mental illness pretty much covers any not-normal activities. So whether they are schizophrenics or not, they are still ill. Anyone who thinks killing 50 people is justifiable, will find an excuse to do it. If it isn’t Trumps anti-immigrant rhetoric, and it will something else, like work colleagues (the traditional “going postal”.

Police response. Definitely the swifter responses save more lives.

Gun free zones. Some killers are deliberately selecting locations where armed civilians are less likely to intervene.

Happening more and more. It is possible that the publicity of the killings makes the next ones more likely, as the idea has more opportunity to become a fixation in some minds. While this is why suicides of non-famous people doesn’t make the news, we can’t stop the reporting of these crimes.

Fame / platform. There is an alarming trend towards the offenders accepting arrest without a shootout or suicide. They seem to want to bask in the what they have done.

Not new. While they are on the rise, these killings are not a new thing. Which means they cannot solely be blamed on any recent changes in society. And it also means that no single measure will end these acts any time soon. We can only lessen the frequency and damage.

White privileged males. The #1 commonality is the the culprits are white, disgruntled males. It is clear that these are people who grew up to believe their life would be better than it is. We don’t see an immigrant woman working three jobs shooting random strangers. She doesn’t have unrealistic expectations of what her life should be.

I have a feeling that they are mostly not in relationships, not happily employed, not raising children, and not well off. Such people will always exist. The issue is that they feel the deserve better. The “incels” are the public face of such people.

Although we have been conditioned to believe that non-white Americans are not improving their socio-economic status, I think they are perceived to be*, and the “incels” are noticing. They are seeing a bigger racial mix in entertainment, in sport, at work. They are sensing that the white privilege is disappearing. Primarily popular music has become more black (see below, they are dominating the Billboard Top 10), and we all know that rappers love to flaunt wealth and women in their videos.

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And I can’t think of many countries where this change is so pronounced, where a racist past is appearing to give way to non-white prosperity. In South Africa the divide between whites and others is still immense. In the UK non-whites are improving socially and economically, but the UK doesn’t have such a racist past of slavery.

So, these are the reasons IMO, all partial factors, none the only factor:

  • Social media – spreading of hate messages, the ability to broadcast your thoughts, and the amplification of your beliefs through platforms feeding you more of the same
  • Weapon access
  • Historic slavery
  • Rap videos – a direct response to slavery, showing they have overcome disadvantages
  • Populist politics

Solutions:

  • Removal of war weapons from citizens
  • Less segregation, more integration. American is still a country divided by wealth, race, politics and religion. It is harder to hate those who you spend time with
  • More love. Ideally get girlfriends for “incels”. Volunteers?

Conclusion: Incels with access to powerful weapons, brought up to believe they deserve better, are sore losers reacting to the “success” they see in rap videos, powered by the feedback loops in mass and social media.

* except for education, nothing has improved for African Americans in the last 50 years.

Planets Affect The Sun Spot Cycle

This has been ruled out previously, as the mechanism was unknown. Scientists have now discovered that:

The tidal forces of Venus, Earth and Jupiter produce a gravitational pull that can cause changes to the plasma on the surface of the sun. These forces are at their strongest when there is a maximum alignment of the three planets—an event that takes place once every 11.07 years.

The researchers compared observations of solar activity over the last 1,000 years with the planetary alignment—and found the two are indeed linked. “There is an astonishingly high level of concordance,” Frank Stefani, lead author of the study, said in a statement. “What we see is complete parallelism with the planets over the course of 90 cycles. Everything points to a clocked process.”

They argue that a physical effect that can change the behavior of a liquid or plasma—known as the Tayler instability—could be responsible.
Newsweek

Killer Solar Storms Are Real

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When studying solar storms, the Carrington Event of 1859 always comes up as an example of how bad they can be.

  • Telegraph systems failed and even caught fire
  • Auroras were seen in Hawaii and Mexico

Not much else happened. But had the event occurred today (a similar storm happened in 2012, but missed Earth), it would be much different. Great lengths of metal are affected – back then that was the telegraph. Today it is power lines. Countries with long distance powerlines like Russia, China, Australia, Canada and USA could all face blackouts that last years (because spare transformers are not routinely kept). Gas pipelines can also be destroyed. Satellites can be wrecked. Which means GPS fails, with severe repercussions. And literally millions of people would die.

Well, the Carrington Event was not the only event of that magnitude. By looking at ice cores and tree rings, scientists have determined additional geomagnetic storms in modern history:

  • 993 AD
  • 774 AD
  • 660 BC

If one thousand years ago the events could be 220 years apart, are you confident they can’t happen 160 years apart today?

 

 

 

 

 

 

John McAfee “Compressed Hydrogen” Gun

This guy is like the alt Donald Trump. Actually self-made rich, but actually batshit crazy and has lived a life that makes Trump look like a Mummy’s boy. President for 2020? Nothing is impossible.

Here he is promoting a “compressed hydrogen” gun, which isn’t a real thing. Compare it with the second video, and it is clearly a air pistol that fires blanks.

 

Jamal Khashoggi

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Jamal Khashoggi, the Saudi dissident who was brutally killed at the Saudi embassy, was probably a good guy. I’m not disputing that at all. His family, and their connections, were quite different. I’m guessing that enabled him to access the level of information he needed to be feared by the authorities… All via Wikipedia:

  • Jamal Khashoggi was the nephew of the high-profile Saudi Arabian arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi, known for his part in the Iran–Contra scandal, who was estimated to have had a net worth of US$4 billion in the early 1980s.
  • Khashoggi was the first cousin of Dodi Fayed, who was dating Diana, Princess of Wales, when the two were killed in a car crash in Paris.
  • According to David Ignatius, Khashoggi was in his early 20s “a passionate member of the Muslim Brotherhood.
  • Khashoggi was acquainted with Osama bin Laden in the 1980s and 1990s in Afghanistan while bin Laden was championing his jihad against the Soviets. Khashoggi interviewed bin Laden several times, usually meeting bin Laden in Tora Bora, and once more in Sudan in 1995

Uncle Adnan was one of the worlds top arms dealers, and was connected to the top drug dealers, as well as having close ties with Imelda Marcos.

My Ideal Safe Spot

Almost two decades of thought have gone into this…

A slope, for water to flow down via gravity

Fertile soil… if not, I can make any reasonable soil fertile with certain crops and a few years

Permission. You can’t have the law shut you down. My local council, the answers are making animal shelters (that you use), or multiple structures that are less than the minimum size that requires planning permission

A stealth camper van. Park it in any unrestricted parking in a city and sleep. Park in on your own property and not get done for the crap laws about camping on your own land.

Teepees. Separate from electricity and anything tech or artificial. Just you, your loved ones, canvas and nature

Internet – need to make $$$

People – the more that subscribe to your “anarchy”, the more fun it will be

Demonstrate.

Martian Monoliths

Arthur C Clarke placed three monoliths in our solar system (one on Earth) as a way to let the aliens know how we were progressing.

Possibly this was extraordinarily prescient. There appear to be monoliths on Mars, and also on Earth that could have extraterrestrial origin. They could be linked – we will need to see the Martian ones up close to be sure.

Gobleki Tepe has a few monoliths, two are 5.5m high. They were buried until their recent discovery. They were deliberately buried, as if to say it might take an advanced culture to find them. They are 10,000+ years old.

Gobekli Tepe Pillar

Gobekli Tepe Pillar

Mars and its moon also seem to have non-natural monoliths. As we know from the “face on Mars”, blurry photographs can suggest more than reality. We can only find out by taking  a closer look.

Phobos (moon of Mars, that could be artificial…)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phobos_monolith

Phobos Mars Moon Monolith

Phobos Mars Moon Monolith

And on Mars itself
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_monolith

Mars Monolith

Monolith on Mars

Scientists don’t believe these were created by erosion, like similar monoliths on Earth.

The Aliens / Return to Habitat Theory

I’ve been having a good think about the monoliths of Mars lately, about if they are not natural, how they got there.

I’m pretty certain that humans never had the capability historically to get there. So that means aliens. And I’m not convinced that there is any evidence of aliens ever being on Earth. Which means if they came here, they didn’t linger.

Here’s the hypothesis:

  • Aliens came here tens or hundreds of thousands of years ago
  • They didn’t stay long
  • They took lots of humans with them
  • On their home planet kept the humans in zoos or similar
  • Many generations later alien society decided this was wrong, and we should be returned to out native habitat – Earth.
  • Meanwhile the kidnapped humans, naturally, due the strange environment, or orchestrated… evolved. Or just learned a bunch of useful stuff. These returned humans are The Watchers (fallen angels of the Bible)
  • When we were returned, we were superior to the humans who remained / Neanderthals, and become dominant.
  • The aliens didn’t return, see the Zoo Hypothesis

There’s no memory of it, perhaps due to collective amnesia, or perhaps because the story is too fantastical to believe without any proof.

Brought to you by the latest Predator movie 🙂

 

 

The Sad Truth About Preventable Disasters

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Reading this article about the Usoi dam in Tajikistan is very sobering, and makes me feel blessed that I don’t live in that valley. Because the dam wasn’t mad-made, and the area is earthquake-prone, the risk is huge and disaster could occur tomorrow:

So how and why will this dam collapse? Take your pick. The most probable and obvious trigger is an earthquake — not unlike the massive temblor that created the dam and the lake in the first place. Were the dam to break, it could trigger another deadly landslide, but that wouldn’t be the worst of it. The lake’s water could cannon out in a 100-foot-high wave, coursing down established waterways and affecting as many as 5 million people, not only in Tajikistan but also in Afghanistan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan.

https://www.ozy.com/acumen/this-dam-could-cause-the-worlds-worst-natural-disaster-and-impact-5-million/88749

Yet nothing is being done. Tajikistan is a poor country, so that is one factor. But the main reason is that politicians do not spend money preventing disasters that might happen.  Such precautions are expensive and they take a gamble that the disaster won’t happen on their watch. This is an issue everywhere. Hurricane Katrina is a famous example – they only took action after the disaster, the disaster they knew would happen some day.

The solution – a United Nations fund for disaster prevention. Perhaps billionaires could help, but it has the same lack of appeal that stops politicians. Eradicating malaria has measurable, reasonably immediate, high fiving results. This probably doesn’t. Dam didn’t collapse in earthquake? Well maybe it wasn’t going to any way?

I would like to see:

  • Assessments of deforested land susceptible to land-slides
  • Assessments of dams above large populations
  • Rapid evacuation plans for cities near volcanoes
  • Resettlement plans for potential disasters
  • Local storage of food, water and shelter for emergencies
  • Shelters built in hurricane / typhoon plagued locations
  • Rapid military deployment to disaster zones

 

Lunar Cycles and Volcanoes

 

From New Scientist a few months ago:

Philosophers as far back as Pliny the Elder have speculated that the moon’s movements across the sky might also be responsible for earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. Statisticians fought over the significance of the connection in the 19th century, and geophysicists of the 1970s and 80s kept the claim alive until lack of evidence finally pushed it out of the mainstream.

In the immediate build-up to a phreatic eruption, hundreds of thousands of tonnes of steam get trapped in chambers below the volcano itself. And just as lakes are capable of displaying full-blown tides while your bathtub is not, this vast body of gas becomes uniquely sensitive to the moon’s pull.

https://www.sott.net/article/384749-How-the-moon-affects-volcanoes

This made news because they have had a go at explaining why.

Many years ago I emailed 25 scientists with statistical evidence linking lunar eclipses to the biggest earthquakes. I gave them the spreadsheet, the numbers were definitely correct. Three replied, and they basically said no scientist will touch it unless they can explain it.

And it had no predictive use either, I don’t have the skills to look at locations of quakes relative to the gravitational pulls of the sun and moon. So it is just a curiosity.