War today, war tomorrow - by Julian Macfarlane

 Nothing much is going to change this year. Probably not next year. Probably 2028 or 2029. I think you will see the collapse of the oil state monarchies, not to mention the collapse of Israel as it is now constituted. The Israelis, being stark raving crazy, may go all out to drive the remaining Gazans out of Gaza into the Sinai towards Egypt, which is suffering economically with the decline in revenues from the Suez and whose leader Sisi is increasingly unpopular. He trained in the United States at Fort Benning, Georgia, and the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle and pretends to be “neutral”. The Arab Street knows better.

Right now, we are in a geopolitical holding pattern.

https://julianmacfarlane.substack.com/p/war-today-war-tomorrow?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=837411&post_id=220734052&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=y7h5a&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email 

"AI-Written" is Not a Disqualifier - Vox Popoli

 One of the things that the evolutionists like to use to disqualify Probability Zero is describing it as “AI-written”. Which is, of course, partly true. But that should frighten them, not comfort them. Because it is evidence of the strength of the book’s legitimacy, not the opposite.

Remember when they said to “Trust the science?”

Artificial intelligence finds that a quarter million cancer research papers have been faked......

https://voxday.net/2026/10/17/ai-written-is-not-a-disqualifier/ 

....This is a major problem because this can mean the medical community amplifies completely fake research and findings

“Every fabricated study sitting in a real journal is competing for attention with studies actually pointing towards a legit cure, which means the more fake noise there is, the longer it takes for the real breakthroughs to surface. And somewhere in that pile, maybe a real cure is buried under a fake AI-generated one.”

No doctors have gone to jail for this (I checked)

This also demonstrates how the fact that MITTENS isn’t peer-reviewed means nothing at all. And it’s interesting that they describe it that way, because, as it happens, it has been reviewed by a number of people, including mathematicians and physicists, as will be demonstrated later today.

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Truth or Dire Health Consequences... - A....les R Us! - Capt. Randall

 Truth cannot be bought, seen on TV or found over the internet.

Truth must be built over time, brick by brick, through critical thought, logic and personal trial.

Truth never varies and is not in the latest technology or marketing splash where obsolescence of the last edition must be periodically replaced by something new and improved and more lucrative.

Opinions are like assholes and everybody owns one with the commonest of narratives inserted since birth.

Real truth is owned via hard work, trial & error, and the scientific method of observation, data collection, analysis and conclusions which can be replaced at any time when theories don’t provide desired results.......

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/10/capt-randall/truth-or-dire-health-consequences/ 

Aspirin, Rasputin, Tsarevich Alexei & Spanish Flu - By John Leake

 

How overdosing of Bayer’s wonder product probably aggravated major historical events of the early 20th century.

By John Leake
The Focal Points

October 17, 2026

With Europe’s bizarre “leaders” apparently determined to have another military showdown with Russia, despite those of 1812, 1918, and 1941 going horribly wrong, I have returned to an old graduate school hobby—that is, reading the history of Russia.

An especially fascinating and tragic period was the reign of Tsar Nicholas II from 1894-1917.

In my estimation, Nicholas was one of the most polite, civilized, and decent rulers in the history of Europe. Often forgotten is that he was nominated for the Nobel Prize for his Hague Convention proposals in 1899:

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/10/no_author/aspirin-rasputin-tsarevich-alexei-spanish-flu/ 

....The story of aspirin overdosing lies at the intersection of the emergence of the modern pharmaceutical industry and the medical profession’s incomplete understanding of drug toxicity.

Aspirin, or acetylsalicylic acid, was introduced commercially by the German pharmaceutical company Bayer in 1899. It rapidly became one of the most successful medicines in the world.

Before aspirin, physicians commonly prescribed salicylates derived from willow bark to relieve fever, pain, and inflammation. Aspirin offered a relatively convenient, standardized pharmaceutical preparation. By the beginning of the twentieth century, it was widely regarded as a modern medical breakthrough, and historical records indicate that many doctors badly overprescribed it.......

Belief and Disbelief - by Vox Day - Why women fear the trivial threats and ignore the train coming down the tracks

This is a suggested explanation for what baffles most men. Because it is gradually becoming an inescapable observation that women would collectively rather burn down civilization and live short lives in mud huts than simply accept what is necessary to ensure that their societies survive and thrive. Essentially, it all boils down to solipsism and short time preferences......

https://sigmagame.substack.com/p/belief-and-disbelief 

The Debanking Campaign - Vox Popoli

 A little precursor of what not taking the Mark of the Beast will look like for Americans:

Nine of the largest US banks discriminated against customers over their political views and business activities, including conservative organizations and individuals, the Treasury Department’s banking regulator has said.

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) reviewed the policies of JPMorgan Chase Bank, Bank of America, Citibank, Wells Fargo Bank, US Bank, Capital One, PNC Bank, TD Bank, and BMO Bank under President Donald Trump’s executive order aimed at ensuring “fair access” to banking services for all Americans. Trump has long accused Democrats of weaponizing institutions against his donors and supporters.

The review found that between 2020 and September 2025, all nine banks “have denied, debanked and discriminated against customers and lawful businesses,” Comptroller of the Currency Jonathan Gould said on Wednesday.

According to the OCC, the banks closed accounts and denied financial services to customers whose activities risk managers considered “controversial,” including on issues such as abortion and LGBTQ rights. In some cases, bank employees openly stated that the activities of certain groups conflicted with their institutions’ values. Other decisions were reportedly based on “social risk” considerations and “polarizing” public opinion on issues such as gun rights.

The review examined nearly 100,000 complaints and about 420,000 pages of documents.

These banks should have their banking charters pulled. This sort of interference with private economic activity should never, ever, be permitted by any institution that holds a license to operate from the Federal government.

The idea that a bakery has to bake gay wedding cakes, but a bank doesn’t have to provide basic financial services to everyone under all circumstances is completely inverted.

https://voxday.net/2026/10/15/the-debanking-campaign/ 

There Will Be No Debate - Vox Popoli

 In 2001, Richard Dawkins and Stephen Gould explained why they always refuse to debate creationists. Their reasoning was that the creationists were simply seeking to to be allowed to share a platform with a real scientist, and thereby create a public impression that the two sides were more or less equal.

14 December 2001

Dear Editor

Like any flourishing science, the study of evolution has its internal controversies, as we both know. But no qualified scientist doubts that evolution is a fact, in the ordinarily accepted sense in which it is a fact that the Earth orbits the Sun. It is a fact that human beings are cousins to monkeys, kangaroos, jellyfish and bacteria. No reputable biologist doubts this. Nor do reputable theologians, from the Pope on. Unfortunately, many lay Americans do, including some frighteningly influential, powerful and, above all, well-financed ones.

We are continually invited to engage in public debates against creationists, including latter-day creationists disguised under the euphemism ‘Intelligent Design Theorists’. We always refuse, for one overriding reason. If we may be allowed to spell this reason out publicly, we hope our letter may be helpful to other evolutionary scientists plagued by similar invitations.....

 https://voxday.net/2026/10/14/there-will-be-no-debate/ 

....I don’t have any problem with the evolutionist preference to avoid debate. I don’t seek to debate any evolutionist or any scientist. I don’t seek a platform with any of them. I certainly don’t wish to publish in their journals; I only submitted a few papers at the start to fulfill what I felt was an intellectual responsibility. Nature screwed up my plans to make MITTENS Appendix A in the first edition by holding onto it for weeks since I’d assumed they’d reject it on sight. But now that Nature and one of the genetics journals have confirmed what I always assumed would be their lack of interest, I’m free to continue ignoring them. It’s all good....

......Darwin doesn’t survive this. Kimura doesn’t survive. Ohta is next; in completing the genomic matrix I will, in passing, be able to determine the empirical truth or falsehood of her Nearly Neutral theory.

In their fear and loathing of AI, they’ve failed to understand what a powerful intellectual weapon it can be in sufficiently disinterested hands. They don’t understand that the entire corpus of their science and the entire published literature of their fields has already been scanned into the machines, and is there be analyzed at a level of detail that has never before been possible, at a speed that has never before been imaginable. There isn’t an argument they can cite that I don’t already know. There isn’t a model they can summon that I haven’t already analyzed......