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  2. Posted

    26 minutes ago, Daniel123 said:

     

    You don't have to overcome every facilitation provided by society I think. You can also make use of some to expedite your growth in other areas.

    One friend was trying to squeeze a fruit by hand to make smootie. I saw it and asked why? He said he dont want to use the moder gadjets anymore because it comes from capitalism. I hit him with the juicer and said: Take,use this you fucking Hippie!!

  3. Posted

    Some links and specialist names to follow

    sites 

    https://consortiumnews.com/

    https://scheerpost.com/

    https://www.moonofalabama.org/
    https://thegrayzone.com/

    https://www.indianpunchline.com/

    https://covertactionmagazine.com/

    Geopolitical Economy Report - News and analysis to understand the world

    https://www.blackagendareport.com/

    https://www.dropsitenews.com/

    https://m.youtube.com/c/thenewatlas

    https://www.mintpressnews.com/

    https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/

    https://therealnews.com/

    https://www.counterpunch.org/

    https://znetwork.org/?amp=1

    https://tomdispatch.com/

    https://www.thepostil.com

    https://www.doubledown.news

    https://electronicintifada.net

    https://www.medialens.org/

    https://alborada.net/

    https://www.declassifieduk.org


    https://tass.com/

    https://strategic-culture.su/

    https://new.thecradle.co/

    https://simplicius76.substack.com

    *Chris (Lynn) Hedges - Prespyterian Minister, 
    1990-2005 for New York Times, regular in Scheerpost …. 
    (outstanding!)

    *Patrick Lawrence ( Consortium News) writer, commentator …
    (much appreciated!)

    *Aaron Maté - Pushback on Grayzone & Useful Idiots

    *Abby Martin* - American journalist, activist, host of „Empire Files“ , co-founder of Media Roots…

    *Max Blumenthal - Grayzone - author and blogger 

    *Robert Scheer- Scheerpost 
    American veteran journalist, writer, activist 

    *Glenn Greenwald - Co-founder of Intercept , Edward Snowden’s first contact , “System Update“ !

    Edward Snowden

    *Yanis Varoufakis - Greek economist and politician. Since 2018, he has been Secretary-General of Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 (DiEM25), a left-wing pan-European political party he co-founded in 2016.

    *Caitlin Johnstone- Consortium 
    News - sharp

    Jason Hickel - economic anthropologist 

    Vijay Prashad - Indian historian …

    Ramzy Baroud -  is an American-Palestinian journalist and writer.

    *M.K. Bhadrakumar - Indian ex diplomat - Indian Punchline ( must read, really good) 

    *John Pilger- Australian journalis, writer, scholar and documentary filmmaker ( close friend of Julian Asange) 

    *Jonathan Cook - British writer and freelance journalist ( about Israeli-Palestinian conflict) excellent 

    *Jaques Baud - former member of the Swiss Strategic Intelligence, a specialist in Eastern Europe and former head of Doctrine of the United Nations Peace Operations.

    *Emmanuel Todd is a French historian, anthropologist, demographer, sociologist and political scientist

    Margaret Kimberley - Black Agenda Report (afro-american 
    view)

    *Jeffrey D. Sachs- an American economist and public policy analyst, professor at Columbia University, former director of The Earth Institute.

    *Michael Hudson - outstanding economist, professor of Economics, author of fascinating books on debts …
    ( on “ Multipolarista”, geopolitical economy)

    *Radhika Desai - Professor at the Department of Political Studies, and Director, Geopolitical Economy Research Group, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada.

    *Noam Chomsky - “father of modern linguistics”, intellectual, social critic 

    *Jeffrey St. Clair - is editor of CounterPunch. 

    Eve Ottenberg .- novelist and journalist ( counterpunch regular)

    Gareth Porter - American historian, investigative journalist, author and policy analyst specializing in U.S. national security issues.

    Jimmy Dore - stand-up comedian, political commentator 

    Kit Klarenberg - investigative journalist exploring the role of intelligence services in shaping politics and perceptions.
    (Grayzone)

    *Ben Norton - editor of geopolitical economy - the site „multipolarista“ , journalist and analyst whose work focuses primarily on geopolitics, international political economy, and US foreign policy. 

    Jeremy Kuzmarov - managing editor of CovertAction Magazine, 
    Ph.D. in American history

     Afshin Rattansi 
    British broadcaster, journalist and author, who presents
    “going underground” on x

    Briahna Joy Gray  - American political commentator, lawyer, and political consultant

    Richard Medhurst 
    independent journalist and political commentator, born in Damascus …

    Lowkey - British rapper and activist

    Dennis Kucinich - 
    honest American politician 
    ( pré-candidate for President in 2004 & 2008)

    Whitney Webb-  professional writer, researcher and journalist since 2016. She currently writes for her own outlet Unlimited Hangout and contributes to The Last American Vagabond and MintPress News.

    Craig Murray
    Scottish author, human rights campaigner, journalist and former diplomat (close to Julian Assange) 

    Jeremy Corbyn

    Joe Lauria - editor-in-chief of Consortium News 

    *Jeremy Scahill - co- founder of The Intercept, launching Dropsitenews.com 

    *Pepe Escobar - Brasilian journalist and geopolitical analyst (great insight into multipolar development)

    Henry Armand Giroux -is an American-Canadian scholar and cultural critic. One of the founding theorists of critical pedagogy in the United States, he is best known for his pioneering work in public pedagogy, cultural studies, youth studies, higher education, media studies, and critical theory

    *Alexander Mercouris - “the Duran”

    *Scott Ritter - former military and UN inspector ( in Iraq) military analyst 

    Russel Brand
    comedian on Rumble ( and X) 

    Dimitri Simes Jr -
    host of New Rules podcast

    *Judge Andrew Napolitano -
    on his youtube channel 
    “Judging Freedom “ 
    ( great interviews) 

    *Alastair Crooke, a former British  diplomat, who advocates for engagement between political Islam and the West 
    ( most influential contributor to 
    “Strategic Culture”)

    *Glenn Diesen - Norwegian political scientist 

    *John Mearsheimer - American political scientist and international relations expert 

    -Danny Haiphong is a socialist activist, writer, and political analyst. Streamer. 

    -Dan Cohen - Journalist:
    @UncapturedNews 
    Filmmaker:@Killing Gaza, …, 
    Haiti: Intervention versus Revolution 

    -Peter Osborne - British journalist and broadcaster (DDN)

    George Galloway - Scottish politician, broadcaster and writer

    Diana Johnstone - (born 1934) is an American political writer based in Paris, focuses principally on European politics and Western foreign policy.

    Anja Parampil - US-based anti-imperialist journalist who works for The Grayzone.Underneath The Grayzone brand, she has her own brand called Red Lines.

    *Ilan Pappé - Israeli historian, political scientist and former politician

    Rania Khalek - Lebanese American journalist and political activist 

    Mohammad Marandi is an Iranian-American academic and political analyst

    Mike Benz - Executive Director of the Foundation for Freedom Online, is a former State Department diplomat who specialized in international communications and information technology matters.

    Jim Kavanagh  - taught Literary and Cultural Studies and writes political analysis for independent media.

    Yves Engler - is a Canadian Montreal-based writer and political activist.

    George Monbiot
    ( DDN)

    Kim Iverson - American radio hostess and journalist

    Brian Berletic - former US- marine, focused on geopolitics in Eurasia 
    youtube.com/c/TheNewAtlas

  5. Posted

    Would be great to have empirical studies on this. But at same time the predicament we have with this is the same with our addiction to combustion engines, we know they are not good to the enviroment and us, but we cant live without it. Same with Slaves in old Greece or Roman, even the ones who could see slavery was not good still keep having slaves since they could not see their society working without. 

     

  9. Posted · Edited by Rafael Thundercat

    Still waiting for Leo Book list on books to undertand human corruption? No. Lets share our sources.

    I will start with one I am reading called " An End to Murder by Colin and Damon Wilson- Human beings have always been cruel,savage and murderous. Is all that about to change? 

    I will not post link here. Make your own search and find out if you like. 

    Just a short story from WW2 from the second page of the book:

    " A young soldier was captured by the enemy. They discovered that he was an excellent pianist,so they sat him at a piano and told him to play. He was also told that the moment that he stopped playing,he would be taken outside and shot. The young man played continuously for over twenty-two hours,until his arms and fingers were in agony. Eventually he collapsed in tears unable to play another note. His captors heartly congratulated him for such Herculean effort. Then they took him outside and shot him.

    Examine your emotional reaction at this moment.How much do you empathise with him? With his fear and pain,and his final despair when he realized that his captors laugther and slaps on the back did not mean that they were going to spare him.

    How do you feel about the men who tortured and murdered the young soldier? 

    Can there ever be any justification for such heartless cruelty?

    Now consider the following additonal facts: The man was member of the Waffen SS- the Nazi Party elite shock troops,who ruthlessly carried some of the worst atrocities of the war. The Russians who tortured and killed him had just fougth their way across hundreds of miles of scorched earth, and knew of compatriots by the thousand-non-combatant men,woman and children,who had been murdered by the retreating Nazis.

    How much did your emotional reaction to the story just changed? You would be a remarkable person if you found out that your moral indignation had not reduced,if only by a fraction.

    You dont know that the young Nazi ever personally commited any crime,yet the fact that he died wearing the most hated uniform in modern history moved at least a step closer to approving his horrific murder.

    This is typical human trait: We almost automatically start to rationalise and justify any violence that happens to serve purpouses of which we approve. On instinctual level we act as if the ends justify the means, even if intelectually,we reject that repugnat excusse. The ongoing mystery of unnecessary human violence is a classic case of not being able to see the wood for the trees: We tend to concentrate on individual cases -The trees- and fail to consider the vast forest of our apparently habitual brutality."

     

     

     

  10. Posted

    1 hour ago, Lucasxp64 said:

    That's not a perfect metric. It has some overlap, but not completely.

    I believe getting followers leans more towards BEING GOOD AT GIVING THE IMPRESSION OF SKILLFULNESS rather than being skillful by itself. It's like guys doing game for dating. Faking can only take someone so far, but that can be enough to get a lot of women and followers and money. Like so many of those productivity gurus on YouTube are actual doctors, but people think they are in a position to give the best advice on productivity, when in reality, their videos have very shallow and basic advice that gets nowhere close to what Leo Gura gives.

    But also it can be a fake-it-until-you-make-it kind of catch-22 situation, so I think we shouldn't be so quick to judge. But that's what marketing does, it biases us towards doing what is good for marketing, but isn't high conscious.

    You got close of what I was trying to say. Of course that if I claim I do amazing Barbecue online and people who actually ate my food knows I am not that good they maybe will ridiculize me online as a false pro-claimer. But with the advent of marketing, good rethoric can make miracles to shity product when sometimes the best products suffer for being to good at content but having no shiny marketing. Example,where in the mainstream mediuns you hear about Susan-Cook? 9 Ego Stages? 

    Of course the world is flood with data and books so good stuff get drowned and just people like Leo and some of us are Divers to find Tresures in this ocean of Bullshit. 

  11. Posted

    On 15/06/2022 at 2:39 PM, Leo Gura said:

    The kind of stuff she teaches will always be labeled as culty.

    Then again, any physical New Age spiritual community built around a charismatic teacher is going to take on cult like dynamics. Which is why I never started one. When you get a bunch of people together into a small space under a common philosophy they will start acting like a herd of retards.

    Great heheheh

  12. Posted

    I am currently reading a book on Parenting and in a chapter about vinculation styles " Secure,Anxious,unsecure.. the author Philippa Perry quotes what Psicologists call "Object Permanece" 

    So, just imagine, that there is a development point or stage that you become able to imagine your mother exists in another room, so as a baby you dont feel fearfull or Alone. 

    Contemplate about that. That capacity is important to the survival of self. Imagine that a baby never develop that and everytime mother is not there the baby grow always keeping the sensation that he is alone. 

    And of course consciouness is involved in this process. 

    https://study.com/academy/lesson/piagets-object-permanence-in-infants-definition-examples-quiz.html

  13. Posted

    On 23/10/2024 at 4:32 PM, Leo Gura said:

    If you really wanna understand Marxism, don't read about Marx or even Marx, read the history of the Soviet Union. That shows you how it plays out in the real world rather than theory. Reading that history will make your jaw drop at the devilry of it all.

    I will add some good books about that soon. I studied it a lot.

    I agree with this approach. Is like reading Mein Kempf and seeing the result of what the writer of that book created. Waiting for the reading list. Last nigth in a fiery conversation about Russia War I could see clearly how stupid people opinate when their sensemakimg depends only on the mainstream media. But a Russian Girl was in the conversation and made all people aware that once you are inside that system you need to move your lips very carefully( journalists) so you dont say something that can compromisse your life. All is fine in Theory but the Devil is in the details. 

  14. Posted

    Imagine I Proclaim to be a Shaman Healer here or in a Plataform. Of course I can back up my Title with deeds and maybe a lineage( ex: I trained with several masters from amazon etc..) but in the end it still will be self-proclaimed. There is actually anything else but Self-Prockamation? 

    A little text from Google search to reflection

    https://ayeletbaron.com/cracking-the-code-of-self-proclaimed-gurus/

  17. Posted

    On 17/10/2024 at 1:38 AM, Leo Gura said:

    Crocodile snatching your head.

    By the way, A Swordfish stab on the chest while you surf is also not a construct. 

    Check this recent News. 

    https://eg.rakyat.news/read/114444/tragic-surfing-accident-italian-woman-dies-after-swordfish-bale-dolo-dolo-attack-in-indonesia/amp?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAaZ3Sd8teI_vMWvbUmirN701U6roMFyNDxAph6HbFtgglF8I0qDuO44cUy4_aem_xYEXj1Lkz3i2W9ynGBfybw

    At least she was doing what she loved most. Surfing. 

  18. Posted

    On 14/10/2024 at 0:36 AM, Leo Gura said:

    Use glass vials to store DMT-like chemicals. DMT will leech through plastic.

    Even 5Meo? What if is closed in  zipplastic,inside a taped paper bag,rooled again with alluminum foil and them again in a plastic bag and finally taped all around, closed inside a plastic tube filled with napkins? 

  19. Posted

    On 08/10/2024 at 0:29 AM, Leo Gura said:

    I smoked toad, it's gross.

    Kids smoke toad, real men smoke synthetic.

    Smoked Toad today, yes the taste is not that good but I am used to very bitter Ayahuasca so no problem to me. Still did a small dose just to connect. First time alone. Enogth of Group Trips for me. Time to go Solo and Upscaling dose till Gone.

  21. Posted

    6 hours ago, Davino said:

    Peace and societal well-being don't have a simple linear relationship. Too much peace can breed complacency and weakness, especially in younger generations unused to hardship. War, obviously, has immediate devastating effects.

    Agree with the nuance you are asking. I am in Portugal now and yes, is relatively Peacefull but also Full of Elderly people, young people going away from the country to other European places looking for oportunities, a housing Crisis in the main Capitals and other Institutional and Infrastuctural problems, yes peacefull but also sort of no real Growth going on. Some expats from rich countries are thriving here since some are retired elders that recive good retirement and live above the population quality of life, but for the locals or some of the locals life quality is decreasing. Fires and Very Dry Summers are Desertifing the land year by year. And as far as I see the Farming is low, the soil is mostly Rocky and big dependency on Turism as a main source of GDP. So the Question or Dilema is: Do you want to live peacefully in a Broke place or Life in a Difficult place where things are happening?

  24. Posted

    Imagine our civilization Traces 10.000 years or more from now. After more a couple thousand, 300.000 or more a new sapiens arise,a totally new specimen like Avatar people and a Pandora Planet. That people would not find traces of our presence. What if we dont find the oldest Ancestors cause the traces are gone? 

    Well, probably some specialist in Earth Evolutionary stages can debunk this but is fun anyway.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silurian_hypothesis