Category: Threat Assessment

READING NOW: Jay Stratton, OUT OF THE SHADOWS

An easy read, except for the excessive use of abbreviations. A page-turner. Credible. Thank Trump for the transparency that made this publication possible.

Add non-human intelligent life to the list of threats to human civilization alongside Artificial Intelligence, the Chi-Coms, the No-Kos, the Russkis, the Islamists, the internally disruptive Islamo-commie fusionists of the DSA-driven Dems . . . . Or are you worried about Al Bore’s boiling oceans?

Given my recent Tryptich deep dive into demonology, certain further questions arise. One is whether these Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena are demon-driven, as Rod Dreher suggests. Another is whether the widespread belief in demons, angels, and gods originated because of alien visits to Earth long ago in the pre-critical infancy of humanity.  I take no position on either question.

UAP is best used an an abbreviation for ‘Unidentified Anomalous Phenomenon,’ and not for ‘Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon’ for the simple reason that an anomalous phenomenon needn’t be airborne to be anomalous.

Even if some of the non-human aliens are demon-driven, as Dreher suggests, it is important not to confuse demons and angels, which are pure spirits, with space aliens which are parts of nature.  Both of the following are epistemic possibilities. (EP 1): We humans are alone in the universe, metaphysical naturalism is true, and there are no purely spiritual entities whether angelic, demonic, or divine. (EP 2): We humans are not alone in the universe, and there are purely spiritual entities some of them benevolent to us, others malevolent.  And there are other EPs as well.

A preliminary classification of the threats we face:  Technological (AI mainly); Geopolitical (bad actors named above); Internal-political (Islamo-commie fusionists and their takeover of the once respectable Democrat Party);  Demonic; Extraterrestrial.  Five categories of threat, and to add spice to the blend the members of each category are dangerously  entangled with the own members and with members of each of the other categories.

An example of nefarious entanglement:  the reverse engineering of alien spacecraft could unlock secrets which could then be stolen by the Chi-Coms and used against us.  This would justify keeping the whole thing under wraps to the extent that POTUS and Congress would be kept in the dark. Stratton is good on this.  Total transparency might prove toxic.

We’re in for it muchachos!  But who could be bored?

When People Tell You Who They Are, Believe Them

Bari Weiss:

Here you can watch people gathered at the Sydney Opera House cheering “gas the Jews” and “death to the Jews.” People are rejoicing in the slaughter on the streets of Berlin and London and Toronto and New York. (Scroll down to read our Free Press dispatch on the celebrations in Manhattan.)

At our most prestigious universities there is silence from administrations that leapt to speak out on George Floyd’s killing and on the war in Ukraine. Meantime, the social justice crowd offers explanations for the massacre—a massacre that, in part, targeted a group of progressive Israelis at a music festival. Terrorists came to that festival on paragliders carrying machine guns to start their slaughter. They raped women there next to the dead bodies of their friends.

The Coronal Threat is Overblown . . .

. . . and is being exploited by the fascists of the Left to clamp down on our civil liberties, weaken the Trump economy and with it President Trump's re-election chances,  and to destroy the Republic to prepare the way for socialism. Or is it the multi-pronged claim I just bruited that is overblown?  You will have to decide that for yourself. But the recent scumbaggery of leftists such as Nancy 'the Ripper' Pelosi (see my man Hanson infra for a listing of some of her recent outrages) allows us no confidence in their probity.  They are to be presumed guilty until proven innocent. Such is required by my political burden of proof.  Better safe than sorry when dealing with leftist swine and their deadly flu.

I now hand off to Bill Bennett and Seth Leibsohn (bolding added):

But do you know the odds of any American getting this virus?  One would think that number is easily known or available.  It’s not. A lot of digging into various municipal data portals reveals, based on the population tested, that rates can vary from, at most, eight-tenths of a percent in New York City to two-one-hundredths of a percent in Phoenix. [.02 %]

Did you know the chances of recovery from the coronavirus are about 98%—if you catch it?  Did you know there are models showing 50% of the population may have already had it, never knew they had it, and recovered?  Again, one would think this data would be widely available and reported.  It isn’t. What is presented widely are numbers and warnings that scare and frighten us, and we are now being conditioned to a lot of panic and speculation.  But part of the reason we are getting conditioned to a lot of panic is because of the wide range of speculation about other numbers we accept as our new fright-inducing reality, an increasingly confusing and frenzied set of numbers.  And the normalization of our panic is having dire consequences and augurs for even worse.

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Is it too much to ask for some perspective with numbers we do know about, numbers which have never shut down our country, much less a church or synagogue, much less entire industries; numbers which have never restricted travel or put this nation into one big frenzy? In any given month in America, we lose about 54,000 Americans to heart disease; 50,000 to cancer; 14,000 to asthma, bronchitis, and emphysema; 12,000 to stroke; 10,000 to Alzheimer’s; 7,000 to diabetes; 5,600 to drug overdoses; and 4,700 to influenza and pneumonia. Since February, in America, coronavirus: 9,500. Where is the sympathy for the victims and families of those other causes of death? The daily mortality count? The blaring headlines? The upending of the country? We hear almost nothing about them. Those deaths give us over 157,000 deaths a month. Given all that is being done about one cause of death, COVID-19, it turns out this is a very advantaged disease, indeed. And we will in time develop a vaccine for it, not to mention more and more good news coming in the short term about treatments from other extant medicines like hydroxychloroquine.

Read it all.  And don't forget: people will die from the economic depression caused by the draconian lockdown. It is morally moronic to opine, as NY Governor Cuomo did, that the extreme measures are justified if they save just one life.