Stan's thoughts about Ukraine

 

Ukraine's temporary 'woo'

- it goes much deeper into the past than the “Budapest Memorandum''. They  had their own country, a commonwealth-confederation together with the kingdom of Poland and the great principality of Lithuania (until 1795) but they didn’t like it and the Ukrainian oligarchs broke it up by asking the tsarina of Moscow for “protection”. They got what they asked for! Dissatisfied, the Ukrainian elites tried to find some new big faraway “friends”, the Swedes, Austrians, even Nazi Germans. How did that work for them? After the Budapest lesson the politicians of independent Ukraine tried to be nice to Americans especially to the president 'whose number was 44' and his demonic pedoparty. How nice have Americans been to Ukraine? So nice that the US Democratic politicians with Biden’s family crime syndicate on top plus some Trump's people helped institutionalize and exploit the state corruption rather than fight it! They also 'helped' isolate Ukraine from all potential regional allies. Time to rethink everything.

Stan Bleszynski, 5-Dec-2023, Buckhorn

Reference - post by Alexy Arestovich:

Brexit was a break from Germany+Russia, not from the EU

I misjudged the true British reason behind Brexit. On the surface, the immediate motivation seemed to be stopping of the immigration, but from the perspective of those 8 years I realised that it was just the pretext. Looking back into the events of 2008 and 2014 I realized that the British were probably horrified by the Russian military aggression: an incursion against Georgia resulting in carving out about 1/3 of the Georgian territory. Absence of any major political resistance form the EU (except isolated protests of Poland and the Baltics). I think British probably knew that the real reason behind a non-reaction from the EU has been a deep Russian (from the Soviet days) infiltration by agents and capture of an entire German political leadership by Russia. We know from Snowden leaks about a massive surveillance program of the German elites by the CIA. A question nobody has been asking is the reason behind that surveilliance. Perhaps CIA had a good reason to tap their phones?

A lack of substantial retaliation by the EU for the annexation of Crimea and Donbass by Russia in 2014 should not not come as a surprise given a degree of German infiltration by Russia who was able to subtly squash all retaliatory attempts against itself. In addition, acceptance of 2M of refugees into Germany around the same time, followed by German government attempts ar dumping them to other countries, created a convenient political crisis and distraction. Distracting the EU away from a much more pressing issue - of stopping Russian millitary expansion and agentural infiltration of the EU.

An almost simultaneous preparations of the British to exit the EU become now totally understandable, the economic cost notwithstanding.

Last but not least, when one looks at the past, British interests were never aligned neither with Russia, nor with any German-Russian alliance or pipelines. Germany are Britain's biggest competitors, while Russia doesn't have anything that Britain can't get anywhere else for less money and with less risk. It is interesting to notice how the British investment in Russian oil and gas fields were confiscated by Russia around that time! They haven't forgotten haven't they?

It is not in the British interests to help or be part of neither German sphere, nor Russia's nor facillitate any alliance between those two! Also, it is not now (nor in the 1850-ties!) in the British interests to allow turning the Black Sea into a Russian controlled zone.

No wonder that come 2022 the UK was already prepared and must have pre-planned well in advance repel Russian military attack and help Ukraine from day 1. So were some other governments of the EU, most notably Polish government and the Baltics. Basically looks like many of the EU + UK governments must have been preparing for the Russian military atack for some time accumulating enough supplies as well as placing military orders, to be able to immediately send huge arms supplies to Ukraine. All except German government.

When the "fog of war" settles we are going to learn some amazing stories.

Reference:
http://bleszynskimainstream.blogspot.com/search/label/Brexit

Individual freedom of choice, why Ukrainians are socially ahead of Poles!

Interesting discussion between Gary Kasparov and Alexy Arestovich
(see the references below) on the subject of free individual choice as the
chief value of the society. Discussing why is the Tatarian/Mongol idea 

of "Russian-order" (Русский мир) completely unattractive to almost 

everybody in Europe, especially to Ukrainians.

Tragedy of modern societies is that the people may become better informed
while their value system is being stuck in the Middle Ages or worse.
Typically people rally around the ideas that they were inculcated with during the past
centuries such as loyalty towards the ruling royal family, loyalty to the ruling religion
or loyalty to the state. Ukrainians represent us with a unique opportunity to observe
one of the most advanced societies in Europe where none of the traditional crippling
loyalties survived as the chief values. Instead, Ukraine became a society of escaped
farmers seeking individual freedom from the feudal system reigning elsewhere in
Europe, exactly like the United States.

From the value system Ukrainians fighting for individual freedom of choice
"how to live", have progressed since the 17-th century much farther than Poles
who got stuck on the idea of fighting for the "free country".
Poles have failed to consider that the free country, though important, is nevertheless
a secondary construct that results from free citizenry not the other way around.
Had Poles utilized the destruction of the Rzeczpospolita by 1790-ties as an opportunity
to abolish feudalism and grant "szlacheckie" privileges to all citizens,
peasants and merchants, who were culturally and mentally all ready for that, then 

- freedom would have come much sooner!

Stan (Heretic) Bleszynski

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Short 1.5 minute version 

Арестович, Каспаров: Новое цивилизационное предложение для мира

835,265 views  May 28, 2022  В первой беседе с Гарри Каспаровым на канале

«Форум свободной России» обсудили развитие человеческой истории:

что послужило началом и что может стать итогом русско-украинской войны:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PI4wq30PHuc

 Full version:

Арестович, Каспаров: Новое цивилизационное предложение для мира

835,265 views  May 28, 2022  В первой беседе с Гарри Каспаровым на канале

«Форум свободной России» обсудили развитие человеческой истории:

что послужило началом и что может стать итогом русско-украинской войны:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKKF7sjvy14

Economic crisis of corporate socialism - China and G7

 I began understanding the mechanism behind the recent world-wide disruption in the industrial supply chain and logistics. 

We are witnessing a large backup and backlog of container ships off the US west and east coast. My initial thinking was that it could be intentional, a part of some US-China trade war that Trump started 2 years ago and the current admin is just continuing.   

It turns out that as the trade disruption intensified earlier this year, it was reflected by the price of shipping containers shooting through the roof (above 10k$ per container, up from a previous cost of about 3k$).  Recently the price of the containers went back down again even though the backlog is still the same if not even greater.  What is going on? 

We are dealing with a major economic crisis in the centralized government-planned socialist economy of China!  This is causing major disruption in the Chinese manufacturing sector that is now being forced to scale down production and delivery of industrial goods due to disruption of internal logistics and the supply chain within China! 

Very soon we are about to experience an economic crash of the central-bank controlled corporate-socialist economies of the G7 countries!  For the same systemic reason as in China.  Let me explain.

Centrally controlled socialist-communist and corporate-socialist   economies are inherently prone to crashes.  Unlike the capitalist economies experiencing frequent (but localized, rarely global) disruption of trade and business due to fluctuation of consumer demand, the socialist economies are very prone to crashes caused by disruption of production and logistics.  The reason is that such economies are dominated by a small number of very large and very powerful (politically) entities that are able to lobby the authorities to allow them grab or acquire  whatever resources they want, freezing their smaller competitors out of the supply chain. Large corporations can also get rid of their smaller competitors through mergers and acquisitions that results in an even greater economic centralization, given the lack of any  effective anti-trust laws.

This mechanism operates like a positive-feedback loop amplifying even a small trend until it becomes disruptively large. So even a small trade disruption caused by a trade war or epidemics, began growing to a very large scale because the small component producers and small supply chain services have an enormously large role to play in the overall economy.  Their role is much bigger than their nominal market cap and the usual valuation methods based on stock and corporate bond values do not reflect this.  The small companies are the source of parts and services for the large manufacturing corporations and the rest of the economy, including the agriculture and mining sectors.  Once the large companies grab and utilize them internally, they are no longer able to serve other producers and fulfill their role supplying what the market needs. It causes the  ripple-effect disrupting the entire economy! 

China and the US are now in the same economic death spiral where the large and powerful corporations are cannibalizing the smaller companies in order to survive themselves, compounding the disaster. 

I lived through that in the 1970-ties and 80-ties.  I remember a socialist economic crisis in the communist-run Poland .  It begun in the 1971 by the then new communist chief Edward Gierek ordering the large manufacturing corporations to boost their production of industrial goods.  They responded by requesting to take over the local small cooperative manufacturing businesses (so called "przemysł terenowy")  from all over the country.  They got it - but the result was disastrous! It produced an acute shortages of nails, bolts, small hardware parts including machine spare parts, and worst of all, a shortage of   >>> baler twine <<< ["Sznurek do snopowiązałki"].     A lack of locally produced spare parts caused disruption of transportation due to disrepair of buses, small trucks and tractors.  The lack of harvester's twine was particularly noticeable because it resulted in harvest failures during the subsequent years and disrupted the entire food market from which the socialist economy has never recovered, until it was entirely abolished in 1989 (abolished together with the large corporations!).

------ Update 9-Nov-2021 ------

Reference article:

"Skąd się wziął nagły kryzys energetyczny?"   by  dr Piotr Syryczyński , 7 listopada 2021

Warning to Gay and Lesbian Movements

Warning to Gay and Lesbian Movements.
(Polish version - see below. Wersja Polska - poniżej)

As LGBT movement became radicalized and more visible than ever, it appears to have been either set-up, or infiltrated and hijacked, by the leftist political parties in most of the Western countries, (to a lesser degree, including also the former Eastern Europe) .

You are being used as a tool to destabilize the society by antagonizing yourself against it and forcing a debate on the issues that are irrelevant for most people.

At the same time these sideline issues are distracting taking up valuable media time away from the real issues to be fought over, such as high taxes, overblown public sector, and the Globalist Parasite - their corporate welfare state.

Worst of all, you are going to find out soon that the political & corporate elites (and the Catholic Church hierarchy in some countries such as Poland, Italy, Spain etc) are about to use you as the scapegoats to blame you for their own pedophilia scandal, as more and more facts are going to become known to the public and the whole knowledge of child abuses is exploding all over the world!

To hide their own insider cult practices and rituals, and their secret belief system responsible for their mental degeneration and perversions, the political and corporate elites will try to deflect media campaign to blame the homosexualism itself. Watch out because you are just about to get thrown under the bus by the very same political forces that have until now financed and promoted your movement. You have only very little time to walk away or switch over to the other political side who, although have no particular love towards you nor intention to promote you, will nevertheless give you some protection as per basic human rights and decency on the political Right. Christians (especially Protestants) will help you too!

Take Care,
Heretic

POLISH VERSION - WERSJA POLSKA

Ostrzeżenie dla publicznych organizacji homoseksualistów

W miarę jak ruch LGBT (Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transvestites) rósł w siłę i stał się bardzo widoczny na scenie politycznej i medialnej, wydaje się, że ruch ten został całkowicie zdominowany, zinwigilowany lub też od początku założony przez lewicowe partie polityczne. Tak się stało w większości krajów Zachodu jak również w trochę mniejszym stopniu, w krajach Europy Wschodniej.

Jesteście wykorzystywani jako narzędzie destabilizacji społecznej dlatego że zostaliście wystawieni na przeciw większości ludzi, forsując debaty publiczne na temat który dla większości społeczeństwa jest nieistotny. Tym samym pomagacie elitom politycznym odwracać uwagę od tematów które dla sił rządzących są zagrożeniem, jak na przykład za wysokie podatki, zbyt rozbudowany sektor publiczny, oraz bardzo ważny temat "ośmiornica" Globalizmu i jego socializm korporacyjny.

Co gorsza, wkrótce przekonacie się, że elity polityczno-korporacyjne Zachodu (oraz hierarchia kościoła Katolickiego w krajach katolickich w których mają realna władzę, jak Polska, Włochy, Hiszpania itp.) zamierzają zrobić z Was "kozłów ofiarnych" winiąc Was za skandale pedofilskie na szczytach władzy, zwłaszcza jak coraz więcej faktów zostaje ujawnionych, a wiedza o perwersji i wykorzystywaniu dzieci przez zdegenerowane moralnie elity władzy zaczyna w świadomości społecznej eksplodować, w skali globalnej!

W celu ukrycia obrzędów kultowych i praktyk w tajnych stowarzyszeniach na szczytach władzy, które są bezpośrednią przyczyną ich degeneracji umysłowej i perwersjii, elity te będą próbowały zrzucić winę wyłącznie na homoseksualizm! Proszę bardzo uważać gdyż wkrótce znajdziecie się "pod wozem", wrzuceni przez tych samych polityków którzy Was dotychczas promowali i finansowali.

Macie bardzo mało czasu aby się wycofać z nadmiernie eksponowanych ruchów i wystawionych na widok a więc niebezpiecznych ustawień, w stronę zupełnie innych stronnictw i ruchów politycznych, które, choć Was nie hołubią ani nie darzą specjalną sympatią, tym niemniej są w stanie zapewnić Wam jakieś bezpieczeństwo. Choćby w ramach praw człowieka i zwyczajowej tolerancji (na prawicy). Również wiele organizacji Chrześcijańskich jest w stanie Wam pomoc, szczególnie Protestanckich.

Trzymajcie sie,
Heretyk

The other reason behind Christian conversion.

This is a repost of my document written in 2016, and linked on my other blog.

This was inspired by the 1050-th anniversary of Polish king Mieszko I  Christian conversion that was widely discussed in some Polish media. I am not going to discuss fake conversions under a gun stuck to one's head, figuratively, or those due to some opportunistic reasons such as  to show off oneself as a member of a Christian community. I am referring to a true conversion where one actually believes in it. 

  I always assumed that there could only be one reason – “Jesus”. 
One either finds the idea appealing and declares oneself a follower
of “The Anointed One” and takes the rest of the Bible as a bundle, 
or one does not. An article by a Polish historian
Autor: Kamil Janicki

Data 1 grudnia 2015 12:39

 http://wiadomosci.onet.pl/tylko-w-onecie/966-wyrzuc-te-date-z-pamieci-nie-bylo-zadnego-chrztu-polski/b9hjq0 

who researched the real reason behind king Mieszko’s “conversion”
in 966, made me realize that there was another reason – Yehova!
  It is nowadays extremely unpopular, as well as actively de-emphasized
by the Roman Catholic Church. But for a young king who had already
lost a couple of crucial battles and stood to lose a final one
(to the Lutetian Confederation), an idea of a ruthless obedience-seeking
Yehova “who can vanquish all your enemies”, as described in the Bible,
must have seemed a Godsend! 

Interestingly, both reasons for conversion – either to the Christ of the
New Testament, who may one day save you, or to  Yehova of the
Old Testament, who may "kick your enemy's ass",
seem to instill a common idea - that one is powerless and
thus needs an external force in order to rule, live or prosper.

On a personal note, I used to think that the biblical (Old Testament)
stories involving Yehova and its entourage were utterly reprehensible,
so I believed that people would generally embrace the more positive bits
(i.e. New Testament) despite some gore and death in the other parts of the story.

Yet, king Mieszko’s saga  made me realize that some people of the
power elite at the time, may have  embraced Christianity, not despite
of the cruelty-promoting gory bits of the Old Testament, but precisely
because of them!  That interpretation of history is beginning to make a lot of sense.

Why were the first medieval Christian kings so ruthless, waging incessant
warfare against their neighbours?  There are many examples . I have a suspicion
that the same thing may have been going on with other religions of “War & Peace”
where some people found the parts dealing with love, peace and forgiveness
the most appealing, while some found themselves attracted to the bits
emphasizing judgement, punishment and control.   A choice for anyone
- according to one's needs of the day!   Criminals may chose the parts
that teaches obedience, war and revenge, nicer people may chose
the stories of love and forgiveness.

Stan (Heretic) Bleszynski

20-March-2016

Recession & global social collapse?

Interesting video, interview with Igor Witkowski (in Polish)

Some quotes (paraphrased):

"The currently experienced social upheaval is driven by the humanity's collective unconscious desire to move away from the presently dominant form of perceptions".

"Getting out of the Matrix"

"The polls made by a social research firm 2 years ago found that two-third of the young men in the Western and Southern Europe would be willing to join a revolutionary uprising had such erupted"

"French 'Yellow Vest' social uprising reflects a mass-rejection of the establishment and of the status quo, that is supported by about 50% of adults and represent a mixture of extreme left with the French nationalism, similar to German national-socialism of the 1930-ties."

"People of the Western and Southern Europe sense that something is wrong but have no clear and constructive idea how to fix it"

Pułapki tej cywilizacji - Igor Witkowski, by TV Victoria, Published on May 2, 2019


Witkowski has pointed out that the media has been completely ignoring or under-reporting that the manufacturing growth has stagnated world-wide and is heading downwards in many if not all major industrialized countries, indicating a possibility of a global recession! See the screenshots of the economic data for the 10 of the major industrialized countries.

unsafe at any speed

Interesting article on the recent Boeing 737 MAX crashes

"737 Max: Finally the scrap from Seattle has to stay on the ground", by Peter Haisenko – 15. March 2019

Quotes:

The B 737 MAX is a faulty design from the beginning. Anyone who knows anything about aerodynamics will recognize it immediately if they only look at the aircraft. The example of the Boeing 737 and especially the latest development stage MAX 8/9 shows how fatal it is when it is not engineers who make the decisions, but merchants. No engineer in his right mind would have built the 737 MAX like this if he hadn’t been forced to do so by greedy managers. The nearly 400 deaths in two crashes were caused by Boeing’s board of directors, as well as the threatening bankruptcy of the entire company.

...

But that wasn’t the only cost-saving (lazy) compromise.
In order to save costs, Boeing has designed flying crutches
The nose and main landing gear were not designed for the now larger hull from the beginning. Our flight engineers told me that during their studies of aeronautical engineering in the 1960s the nose landing gear of the 737 was presented to them as a negative example of how not to do it. Nevertheless, the B 737-100 became a successful model, which was mainly due to a lack of competitor models. In the 1970s, the B 737 was modernised for the first time with the model B 737-200. The more powerful JT-8 engines were still small in size and fitted under the low wings. Boeing responded to the contemporary requirements for bad weather conditions with an autopilot construction that was a crutch from the beginning but is still used in all B 737 models today.
...
Boeing would have had to carry out a new design already here, because the engines no longer fit under the low wings. In order to save the costs for a new construction and above all the complex approvals for it, the next crutch came. The engine was placed a bit higher and further forward and the intake of the engine was flattened at the bottom so that it wasn’t too close to the ground and so absorbed every stone from the ground, which would have destroyed the engine.

In the further years Boeing has “drilled” the 737 more and more with the models up to -800. Boeing has not changed anything about the basic construction from the 1960’s with its deficits. It is simply inexpensive for the production to continue using already certified units.

At the end of the 1980s Airbus introduced the A 320, which was a completely new design and Airbus set standards in terms of flight guidance systems and design. The A 320 became a direct and successful competitor for the B 737. Boeing came under pressure, but was able to win more customers for its crutch 737 because of the favourable purchase price. This was also because Airbus could not deliver as many aircraft as the worldwide demand was. Here we are faced with a fundamental problem in international aviation: enormous growth, especially in Asia and Africa. There is a lack of qualified junior pilots and mechanics with sufficient experience. Airbus had anticipated this problem and designed the A 320’s flight guidance systems to provide meaningful support for even less experienced pilots. Boeing is trying to catch up, but is not able to reach the A 320, which was designed more cleverly from the start. Airbus has once again set new standards with the A 320-neo.
...

With high oil prices, the demand for fuel-saving models has increased. Airbus has once again set standards with the A 320-neo and its particularly efficient engines. Boeing was in a tight spot. But the super engines of the A 320 simply did not fit under the wings of the old B 737 anymore. But instead of finally constructing a completely new model, the Boeing merchants decided to build the ultimate crutch beyond all aerodynamic rules. The engines that were too big for the 737 were moved even further forward and upwards.

During the first test flights it turned out that the physics cannot be outwitted so simply. The airflow of the engine now passed directly under the wing, which must have several negative effects. Once the lift is influenced negatively, but the biggest problems were in the extreme slow flight, that is shortly before the stall, which can lead to a crash.

In this situation, the airflow from the engine of the 737 MAX is located under the entire lower outer wing, which puts the aircraft in an uncontrollable state. Instead of finally redesigning the aircraft, Boeing’s managers opted for the worst crutch: they had a system installed that takes full control of the aircraft at this limit. If a sensor, and only one sensor, detects this limit, the attached computer causes the aircraft to move the tailplane trim to “nose down”. That wouldn’t be wrong in principle, but it would overshoot the mark.

The fact that this deadly system has no control system, which as such should not occur in aviation, has now proved fatal twice. This means that if this single sensor gives an error message, pilots have little chance of preventing their aircraft from flying into the ground without being pointed. The hole in Ethiopia’s ground speaks for itself.

It’s not the engineers who are responsible, it’s the managers.

Now you should know that the tailplane trim of all smaller Boeing models has always been a prone crutch. It’s a motor-spindle unit that tends to “run away” or jump out and jam if a relay fault occurs. For this reason there was a prominently placed emergency switch on the B 727 with which the trim motor could be switched off. This was practiced in the simulator. The newer 737 models no longer have this emergency shutdown device.

So the pilots can’t switch off the trim motor and save the plane even if they recognized the error. They would have to switch off the entire busbar on which the trim motor hangs. But this would shut down other elementary systems and it is a process that cannot be carried out in a fraction of a second. So if the only sensor for the angle of attack sends a wrong signal to the only computer, then this aircraft can no longer be saved, at least if it flies at low altitude.

The B 737 MAX is a faulty design right from the start. Anyone who knows anything about aerodynamics will recognize it immediately if he only looks at the aircraft. It forms the tip of a series of crutch constructions that run through the entire history of B 737 development. It is not engineers who are responsible for this, but the managers who force the engineers to build crutches against their better judgement.

The fact that this better knowledge is actually happening again is proven by the fact that there is an e-mail from summer 2018, i.e. before the first crash, in which Boeing employees already document what effects this design error can have. Boeing’s board of directors did not react and accepted so approvingly that exactly what happened twice within a few months happens – with almost 400 dead.

Ethiopia trusts neither the manufacturer, nor the US licensing authority FAA

In addition to Boeing’s managers, the heads of the FAA, the American regulatory authority, must of course also be called to account. They certified the airworthiness of the 737 MAX, although they had to know what kind of crutch it was. So it is not surprising that the FAA was the last to ban the 737 MAX from flying. It is already a unique event in the history of aviation that individual countries all over the world first had to rush ahead with flight bans, before the authority actually responsible for them desists to do so. However, this was preceded by a unique process.

It was not the FAA or the manufacturer Boeing that banned the 737 MAX from flying in the USA. It was Donald Trump who pulled the emergency brake with a decree. After that, the FAA and Boeing could no longer help but to follow the step that would have been due by summer 2018 at the latest. Also interesting is the next procedure, which is again unique: Ethiopia did not leave the accident investigation to the FAA or Boeing.

Contrary to standard procedures, the investigation was transferred to the French BEA and the flight recorder was sent to Paris for investigation. This is almost a declaration of war on the American aircraft industry, but at least a demonstration of how little trust remains in the integrity of American institutions. This is probably also a consequence of the fact that in expert circles a large number of deliberately falsified results are known which the American authorities have delivered on aircraft accidents. Let us just think of the TWA 600, which was launched by an American rocket and which was concealed from the public and even from us pilots with all its criminal methods.

The history of the B 737 MAX and all 737 models shows the state of the USA and its (aircraft) industry. For even short-term profit, all rules are set aside that have been developed for decades out of bitter necessity. What role do a few hundred deaths play when it comes to saving profit? The FAA itself is obviously corrupted through and through and here comes the next interesting aspect.

Donald Trump obviously knows this, because he wanted to put his personal chief pilot on the FAA’s executive chair, but this met with massive resistance. There we have the next point, why the American establishment hates Trump so much. He obviously wants to dry up the swamp at all levels. If he had his way, it’s not unlikely that the 737 MAX in this configuration wouldn’t have been approved and 400 people wouldn’t have been crushed.

Another piquant detail is that from the beginning warnings came from Russia regarding the airworthiness of the 737 MAX.
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If asked to choose from a list - choose none!

Putting it on my "to read" list.  Seems like an interesting  book ( search for "Juggernaut: Why the System Crushes the Only People Who Can Save It" by Eric Robert Morse ) , based on the review.

Liberal Party feminism

Brexit - financed by Putin's gold!

Double-headed Eagle ate the Lion! Helped by treason.

From British press:

Revealed: Brexit backer Arron Banks’s golden Kremlin connection

Quote:

The hidden scale of Kremlin links to the biggest donor to the Brexit campaign are revealed today. Arron Banks, the millionaire businessman who helped fund Brexit, was offered a business deal involving six Russian goldmines. He also had undisclosed meetings with the Russian ambassador to Britain — set up by a suspected Russian spy — and paid a previously unknown visit to Moscow at the height of the campaign. The revelations raise explosive questions about attempts by Moscow to influence the referendum result. Emails by Banks and his sidekick, Andy Wigmore, shown to The Sunday Times, reveal the men made repeated contact with Russian officials to discuss business opportunities and issues of mutual interest during the referendum campaign and its aftermath.

Brexit's secret Putin connection: Nigel Farage's bankroller met Russian envoy three times then hooked him up with Trump's team, as MI5 is urged to act

Quote:

Explosive new claims of Russian meddling in the Brexit referendum emerged last night as it was revealed that the millionaire who bankrolled the Leave campaign had a series of secret meetings with Vladimir Putin's UK envoy. Arron Banks had three meetings with Russian ambassador Alexander Yakovenko, fresh evidence shows, despite previously claiming to have had only a 'boozy lunch' with him. Leaked emails written by Banks and his Leave.EU right-hand-man Andy Wigmore – both close friends of ex-Ukip leader Nigel Farage – allegedly show they were in close contact with Russian officials throughout the referendum campaign and afterwards. Former Ukip donor Mr Banks is also said to have given Russian officials telephone numbers for members of Donald Trump's presidential transition team, just days after he and Mr Farage visited Trump Tower in the wake of the shock US election result. The cache of messages will be considered by the Commons Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee, which is investigating Russia's attempts to subvert democracy with 'fake news'. Mr Banks and Mr Wigmore last night set the stage for an electrifying hearing of the inquiry on Tuesday, vowing that they would give evidence to committee chairman Damian Collins about their emails being 'hacked'.

Comment:

That explains why was the UKIP leadership forced to resign shortly after the referendum. British intelligence services must have known it during the campaign but the public was never told. Had they media been told what was really going on, Brexit would probably have never passed the vote!

Ontario conservatives won election 2018

It's only a beginning. It will take a while but we will get there. Ontario's corrupt and dysfunctional Welfare State system needs to be (eventually) abolished. Medical, telecommunication, power generation and power distribution, insurance and legal services need to be de-monopolized, and then (and only then) - privatized. Corporate Incorporation Law needs to be overhauled to strip corporations of their current legal status that puts them above living humans! Your/our political opponents are just people who happen to have different Point Of View. They/We are not monsters! Regards Everyone, Heretic

Reposted and important: How to Get Rich (without getting lucky)

How to Get Rich (without getting lucky)

by @naval

Seek wealth, not money or status. Wealth is having assets that earn while you sleep. Money is how we transfer time and wealth. Status is your place in the social hierarchy.

Understand that ethical wealth creation is possible. If you secretly despise wealth, it will elude you.

Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.

You’re not going to get rich renting out your time. You must own equity - a piece of a business - to gain your financial freedom.

You will get rich by giving society what it wants but does not yet know how to get. At scale.

Pick an industry where you can play long term games with long term people.

The Internet has massively broadened the possible space of careers. Most people haven't figured this out yet.

Play iterated games. All the returns in life, whether in wealth, relationships, or knowledge, come from compound interest.

Pick business partners with high intelligence, energy, and, above all, integrity.

Don't partner with cynics and pessimists. Their beliefs are self-fulfilling.

Learn to sell. Learn to build. If you can do both, you will be unstoppable.

Arm yourself with specific knowledge, accountability, and leverage.

Specific knowledge is knowledge that you cannot be trained for. If society can train you, it can train someone else, and replace you.

Specific knowledge is found by pursuing your genuine curiosity and passion rather than whatever is hot right now.

Building specific knowledge will feel like play to you but will look like work to others.

When specific knowledge is taught, it’s through apprenticeships, not schools.

Specific knowledge is often highly technical or creative. It cannot be outsourced or automated.

Embrace accountability, and take business risks under your own name. Society will reward you with responsibility, equity, and leverage.

The most accountable people have singular, public, and risky brands: Oprah, Trump, Kanye, Elon.

“Give me a lever long enough, and a place to stand, and I will move the earth.”
- Archimedes

Fortunes require leverage. Business leverage comes from capital, people, and products with no marginal cost of replication (code and media).

Capital means money. To raise money, apply your specific knowledge, with accountability, and show resulting good judgment.

Labor means people working for you. It's the oldest and most fought-over form of leverage. Labor leverage will impress your parents, but don’t waste your life chasing it.

Capital and labor are permissioned leverage. Everyone is chasing capital, but someone has to give it to you. Everyone is trying to lead, but someone has to follow you.

Code and media are permissionless leverage. They're the leverage behind the newly rich. You can create software and media that works for you while you sleep.

An army of robots is freely available - it's just packed in data centers for heat and space efficiency. Use it.

If you can't code, write books and blogs, record videos and podcasts.

Leverage is a force multiplier for your judgement.

Judgement requires experience, but can be built faster by learning foundational skills.

There is no skill called “business.” Avoid business magazines and business classes.

Study microeconomics, game theory, psychology, persuasion, ethics, mathematics, and computers.

Reading is faster than listening. Doing is faster than watching.

You should be too busy to “do coffee," while still keeping an uncluttered calendar.

Set and enforce an aspirational personal hourly rate. If fixing a problem will save less than your hourly rate, ignore it. If outsourcing a task will cost less than your hourly rate, outsource it.

Work as hard as you can. Even though who you work with and what you work on are more important than how hard you work.

Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.

There are no get rich quick schemes. That's just someone else getting rich off you.

Apply specific knowledge, with leverage, and eventually you will get what you deserve.

When you're finally wealthy, you'll realize that it wasn't what you were seeking in the first place. But that's for another day.