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China Steps into Afghan Power Void without US and Cozies up to Taliban

Freedomist Editor August 11, 2021

PGC – As the United States leave Afghanitan and a trail of broken alliances behind her, the Chinese under Chairman Xi have chosen to side with the Taliban in the war for the hearts and minds of the people. The same nation-state that is regularly feted in American corporate markets, the same nation-state that has more infliuence over America’s media than the American people do, is busy cozying up with the Taliban in a bid to cull from the Afghan mountains what gold they imagine they can if the Taliban welcomed their presence.

Perhaps the coal is the geo-political circumstance of Afghanistan itself, a bridge between what is commonly referred to as the Near East and the Far East. But Afghanistan is a bridge ridged with mountains and difficult terrain, a land not easily tamed if the people of the land don’t will it. America is not the first Empire to die in those mountains, and she won’t be the last.

So China is figuring on trying a different strategy, make nice with the might that is, a strategy America herself has deployed in the past as well. It’s a dangerous gambit but fitting with China’s overal strategy of consolidating world power, gain power through influence where the soul eats and sleep, commerce. If China can help the Taliban exploit the lands for capital for the cause, while getting the kind of cut China will hope to get, this can be a very productive relationship, not just economically, but geopolitically as well. Still, it’s a dangerous game the Chinese play and it remains to be seen if they have the discipline to be a velvet glove master of a land of iron wills.

A Reluctant Embrace: China’s New Relationship with the Taliban

From warontherocks.com
2021-08-10 03:55:04
Yun Sun
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As the United States withdraws from Afghanistan and leaves a security vacuum there, is China moving in by cozying up to the Taliban? On July 28, Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi held a high-profile official meeting with a delegation of nine Afghan Taliban representatives, including the group’s co-founder and deputy leader Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar. This was not the first visit by Taliban members to China, but the meeting was unprecedented in its publicity, the…

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EU Now Wants Afghan Refugees to Go Back Home Now that Taliban’s In Charge

Freedomist Editor August 11, 2021

PGC – The European Union has wanted to destabilize the nationlist spirits of its members for decades now, as a european bureaucratic leviathon would be much easier to manage for the wealthiest families of the continent than what they experience having to deal with multiple sovereignties across multiple borders.

The problem with the experiment is generally the people in these once-sovereign lands who get the short end of that deal eventually turn back to the one potential vehicle of power that can protect them from this European leviathon, your local nationalism. So Britain Brexits, and in many other European countries there are political factions that are forming around the desire of the losers of the EU bureaucratic leviathon to break free by clinging to local nationalism. Nationalism of the poles, nationalism of the Germans, Nationalism of the Beligans, etc, etc, etc.

The nationalists in these lands are achieving varying levels of success politically, but enough success that the families that be of Europe, I theorize, are now ready to stop using certain resources to undermine the nationalist trends, importing a shock-and-awe level of other nations radically different than the nations they are coming into (nations as in cultural people groups, not states), under states that are born from that very nation-state but are now seeking to undo their own source of historical power for the last 200 plus years, the nation and the state being one.

Now that the immigrants of Afghanistan have failed to be, in part, the poison pill that would undo these local nationalisms, the powers that are Europe have determined that even if their national lands, since they last occupied them, might be even more dangerous to life than they were before, these failed poison pills must go, lest they continue to foment even more local nationalisms by continuing to stay.

In the course of this story the people we forget are the pawns in the story, the ‘refugees,’ the ‘immigrants’ themselves, shuffled in with real needs but for purposes that never cared much about how their final journeys ever ended, so long as they worked to undo whatever power structures the ones who paid to have them flooded in were paying them to destroy. Now that the usefulness is now in doubt, expect more European leaders, even previous refugee supporters, to suddenly support sending ‘them all back home.’

Six EU countries want to keep forced return of Afghans despite Taliban offensive

From www.euronews.com
2021-08-10 14:58:03

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At least six EU countries insist that the forced deportation of migrants back to Afghanistan continues despite the Taliban’s alarming gains in recent weeks.

Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Greece, and the Netherlands wrote to the European Commission claiming that halting returns “sends the wrong signal and is likely to motivate even more Afghan citizens to leave their home for the EU.”

Adalbert Jahnz, the Commission’s spokesman for home affairs explained that “it’s up to each member state to make an individual assessment of whether the return is possible in a specific set of circumstances, that needs to take into account the principles, notable the principle of rule of law and other fundamental rights.”

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Prominent DNC Party Boss Doubles Down on Calling Police Station Burnings “Act of Pure Righteousness”

Freedomist Editor August 11, 2021

PGC – The head of the Minneapolis Democrat Party recently came out in support of the use of violence to get what you want in a political world, right here in the United States of America, the allaged Bill-of-Rights-Based Constitutionally Limited Democrat Republic. In order to get what you want, sometimes you have to do violent things. Justice in America will come down to a contest of might makes right.

The head of the Minneapolis DNC party, Devin Hogan, called the burning down of police stations an “Act of Pure Righteousness,” which led even members of his own party to question what he was actually saying. Had he thought out the path to a cycle of vioence that he was laying out by supporting effecting political change through violent means?

He answered by asserting that decorum itself, the notion of seeking to make political change through the peaceful mechanism of a due process, rule of law type of republican system in and of itself is white supremacism, racism. It’s racist to demand a system of due process and rule of law for reasons. The DNC office headquarters in Martha’s Vineyard is not commenting on the statements of one of the rising star of a party that represents values such as these, that due process, that rule of law, that civility, that decorum, is white supremacism.

When will it be considered misinformation itself to declare that such statements are on their face actual examples of real racism as defined by anyone not signed up for this version of woekness we here at The Freedomist call Corpo-Woketarianizm?

This Corpo-Woketarianizm borrows heavily from the family of ‘woke critical thinking,’ but turns all of it into a violent, simplistic cartoon intended to manipulate the masses to keep themselves contained while the real powers that be benefit from the liberty destroyed for the common person, and the police state powers granted to the very people that created the conditions of injustice in the first place.

Dem Official Says Burning Police Station Was ‘Act of Pure Righteousness’

From freebeacon.com
2021-08-10 14:55:19
Patrick Hauf
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The head of the Minneapolis Democratic Party defended his claim that the burning of a police building during the George Floyd riots last summer was an “act of pure righteousness.”

Devin Hogan, chair of the Minneapolis Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, argued in an August column for Southside Pride that the burning of the Third Precinct in Minneapolis during the riots last year was justified as a “genuine revolutionary moment.” Police fled the building in May 2020 as rioters broke in and set the building on fire.

In a statement issued on Monday, Hogan defended his comments as accurate and truthful.

“Fetishizing decorum over substance is a hallmark of white supremacy,” Hogan said. “If antiracism offends your sensibilities then please use this moment to examine the role you play in maintaining and upholding these systems. Which side are you on?”

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Transgendered Women Rape Biological Women in CA Prison, Resulting in Pregnancies

Freedomist Editor August 11, 2021

PGC – The integration of people groups that are physiologically fundamentally different in confined spaces has long led to issues of physical oppression for the weaker in that exchange and physical aggression for the stronger.

Even among men, even among wome, if boundaried away from the rest of society, this physical reality will in due time emerge. This means, among men, who are far more physiologically balanced among one another than with any average woman, there will still be a measure of physical oppression that the weaker of the physical experience. When I speak of men and women, I speak primarily of individuals whose unaugmented endocrinological state is aligned with their genital state, what some might refer to as biological male and biological female. When the biological male is even in a company of females, maybe as many as four, maybe even five, he is almost always guaranteed to be the physically dominant person in that room

This physical reality is a glaring counter to the notion that gender can be defined and created wholly outside of the physical reality of humanity, so gender can be a state of preference that can ovverride the biochemical structures within us, making men equipped to become women and women equipped to become men. When it comes to women becoming men, the transition and potential clash with biological men is not that significant.

A biological woman coming into a biological male space is not a physical threat to men in general, less so than other biological men, in aggregate. When you create enclosed spaces where biological women are now cohabitating with biological males, especially ones whose sex organs are still intact, you are inviting physical, and also, by extension, sexual abuse by a physically superior person over physically inferior persons.

Soon after California allowed transgendered women to be placed in the same prison cells as biological women, reports began to come out about women being raped by transgendered women, many of whom still had their fully functioning male sex organs, resulting in several pregnancies as a result.

Female Inmate Now Pregnant After Transwomen Allowed in Female Prisons

From www.louderwithcrowder.com
2021-08-10 13:04:53
Courtney Kirchoff
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So it is in California prison systems occupied primarily by ladies with a few sly dudes in the mix. According to the Women’s Liberation Front, there is at least one knocked up female felon in the clink. All thanks to the new cuddly prison policies courtesy of Governor Gavin Newsom, who’s up for recall, and state senator Scott Weiner…..

We have now heard from seven different people inside CCWF that at least one woman, possibly more, is now pregnant after being housed with a male felon who was transferred to the women’s prison under SB132. #StopSB132 @Scott_Wiener @WomanIIWoman1 @NoXY_USA @NoXYinXXprisons https://t.co/F5BnYyPHZc

— WoLF (@WomensLibFront) July 26, 2021

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Corpo-Woketarianizm Will End Lifelong Friendships and Destroy Quality

Freedomist Editor August 11, 2021

PGC – The Corpo-Woketarianizm is a highly authoritarian, highly coercive morality code that demands that you place at the top of your sin hierachry acts of racism and bigotry and sexism and genderism. Any act that promotes or protects the previous orthodoxy of normative should be considered first and foremost the sins that should separate you from the ones committing such unforgiveable sins.

Not only must one not commit such unpardonable sins, but to not work to find, to expose the ones that commit such sins is also a form of sin that is as bad as the sin that the now sinner failed to find and expose. Scalps on the drawer aren’t there to brag, they’re there to send a signal to the hierarchy of moral supremacism that corpo-woketarianizm always creates. That signal is simly this, “I am a good egg see, and pleasing you is all that consumes every part of my being, my identity, my hope. I am yours and yours alone.”

Most humans will be unwilling to accept this diminishment of self-percieved power, so instead they will enter into the role of the burdened executioner/zealous martyr. It is better to believe you are fulfilling a grand hope through suffering than to imagine your suffering, your diminishment, is a reflection of your real lack of power to even think for yourself, let alone dare to express yourself outside the frame of the new normative.

As this latest experiment in rule through social intimidation, continues (one almost always revenge and victim rescue based), freinds of decades, loved ones, will find themselves in the terrible position of having to choose to continue to be friends with the new pariah, risking their own status as acceptable member of the cult, or stand by their lifelong friend and go down with them. This has already happened and more is happening.

As this spreads throughout our professional ranks, the competent and self-stewarded will find themselves either forced out or leaving while the leaving is good, and our major institutions will experience the result of building moral supremacist institutions, the rise of coercion as an increasingly acceptable means of doing business beteeen others, including your own co-workers. It will not be, in aggregate, the most competent at executing the product or service in its lifespan to the clients that rises to the tops of these systems, it will be the ones most effective at being deceptive, at concealing, at attacking, using all the Corpowoketarainz’d weapons of war inherit in its ‘ethical’ codes.

In short, woketarian corpo-cults are set to create terrible, dangerous, unsafe products and services wherever this new ethics takes hold.

Woke, Inc: has big business hijacked politics for profits? – The Times

From www.thetimes.co.uk
2021-08-10 19:01:00

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When Vivek Ramaswamy turned up late for a gathering of his Indian-American extended family, he looked around for a relative he was very close to when he was growing up. But this man had deliberately left early: he and his wife, a diversity and inclusion officer with a US company, had avoided Ramaswamy because of his views. More recently Ramaswamy was on the phone to a former employee when she mentioned an article he’d written in The Wall Street Journal and began to cry. “I had such high hopes for you,” she said. “I don’t know what happened.”

It is hard, says Ramaswamy, “when someone who loves you, or loved you in some meaningful way as a colleague, as a friend, says something like that.

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Autonomous Drones with a Licence to Kill

Freedomist Editor August 11, 2021

PGC – Militaries around the world are wrestling with relying on artificially intelligence powered autonomous machines, be they robots or drones, or even robot drones, to determine the appropriate time to apply lethal force and the time to show restraint.

In our reality of power, framed as it is around coercive-based nation-state models of organizing, the countries themselves not only must consider the ramifications of autonomous non-human killers for their population at large, but what their decision will mean as far as meeting the threat of competing nation states.

The very model at large of nation-statism compels these entities to need to seek the more lethal-producing patterns over the more citizen-autonomoy-patterns for fear that their competitors will be more effective at killing than theirs, and thus leave them vulnerable to absortion by those around them.

It’s a nation eat nation world out there folks, and against this backdrop what we mostly have are the nations that are able, and more and more can, to develop inhouse models of effective non-human autonomous killing platform are compelled to do so, for if they fail to do so, no matter the risk, or the backlash from the people they allegedly serve, they are almost sure to lose to the nation-states around them if they fail to act now.

This writer has little doubt that the United States form of people that do such things is busy building more and more effective autonomous killers to be run by ai deep learners that are more and more efficent at producing the desired desults of the humans that began them. This writer also has little doubt that the ability to create such tools is already available for the motivated poorest of nation-states, even for a small group of people who want to build up their defenses among themselves.

A world of the future could involve printing ai-fortified-to-autonomous guardians of very types who constantly sweep the skies, the seas, the forests, the boundaries, looking for threats. The world could be peppered with hundreds of thousands of city-states, all more or less equally capable of sending out drone hordes to make conquest prohibitively expensive

This could be a world where small scale vanquishes the large scale for a significant season of human history to come, though eventually the large scale will come roaring back, leaving this age to come a golden age for the ages to come after that.

Meet the ‘killer robots’ of modern warfare from AI-powered suicide drones to

From www.the-sun.com
2021-08-10 06:44:00

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It might sound like the stuff of science fiction but killer robots, sometimes called “slaughterbots”, are already a reality.

Last year, STM Kargu-2 drones hunted down targets in what might be the first instance of artificial intelligence killing on its own initiative.

The revelation came after years of experts warning about the dangers of letting machines decide who lives and dies in combat.

Now a UN conference on so-called Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS) is taking place in Geneva to create new international regulations to stop killer robots being allowed to make their own decisions.

The Russian delegate argued no new rules are needed, but others disagree, saying machines shouldn’t be given the power to choose targets themselves.

“Humans must apply the rules of international humanitarian law in carrying out attacks so weapons that function in this way complicate that,” Dr Neil Davison of the International Committee of the Red Cross told BBC Radio’s Today programme.

“Our view is that an algorithm shouldn’t decide who lives or dies.”

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Big Tech Pays You to Kill AI Bugs and Make Them More Wokez

Freedomist Editor August 11, 2021

PGC – Microsost and Twitter are paying independent coders bounties to destroy problematic bugs in their ai networks. They are also paying them to figure out ways to assure that their ai algorithms don’t create the very biases these companies are hard-pressed to assure is not propelled.

The hope is to develop algorithms that guarantee the values of the monopolistic companies are reflected as being the objectively superior moral constructs to build our societies around. The problem is many of their suppositions about the truth of this overwhelmingly popular assumption regarding the nature of what is or is not accepted moral supremacist paramters gets broken when it comes to the algorithms that are left to emerge from actual human use instead of being pre-programmed to assure outcomes that favored a specific moral supremacist parameter.

One doubts their chances in creating a world in their image that will not require greater and greater levels of coercion to keep the countering data concealed that perhaps their positions are not as sure and as clean as pure and as good as they imagine they are. To some degree, that’s what the AI has been telling you, you can’t control the preferences of a people, you can only coerce them in having to accept the limitation of their preferential being for fear of not having the capacity to live at all.

One suspects their hopes at creating the perfect AI filters is an illusory goal, and you will one day learn the futility of governance fundamentally through non-human decision-making, which is what these massive techno-corpo-states hope to create, a virtual zoo wherein the human made in their image can theoretically thrive, governed with minimal human expense and thus human opportinuty.

Why Microsoft and Twitter are turning to bug bounties to fix their A.I.

From fortune.com
2021-08-10 14:32:06
Jonathan Vanian
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Now, tech companies like Microsoft, Nvidia, and Twitter are hosting bug bounty programs specifically for artificial intelligence. The goal is for outsiders to spot flaws in A.I. software so that companies can improve the technology and reduce the risk of machine learning discriminating against certain groups of people.

For example, last week, Microsoft and Nvidia detailed a new bug bounty program during the annual Defcon hacker conference. The companies plan to reward hackers who manage to alter computer viruses so that they go undetected by some of Microsoft’s A.I.-powered malware-detection services. Hackers who can create scammy emails that evade Microsoft’s machine-learning powered email phishing detection software will also earn some money in the form of Microsoft gift cards and other prizes.

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Twitter Ad Bot Likes Them Pale and Thin

Freedomist Editor August 11, 2021

PGC – Twitter creates an algorithm designed to produce better clicks on images for its user. Turns out, the tool likes the pale and the thin, and the youthful (let’s assume we’re all talking adults here to avoid that whole entanglement, at least for now).

That’s right, the bastion of ultra-moral-supremacist Corpo-Woketarianizm, Jack Dorsey’s Twitter, can’t help but create an app that favors the very constructs Twitter appears to oppose, whiteness and female sexuality.

Twitter also opposes fitness, slimness in general, due to the existence of both as being deemed a form of patriarchal-enforcing fat shaming. Yet, while Twitter acts as if it represents the morally certain view of the human species itself as a world citizen, its algorithms continue to reflect signficantly different moral constructs being manifest by a significant, potentially majority, proportion of its users, so much so they have to attemtp to apply filters to assure the moral diversity of its customers is not emergently, organically seen.

Twitter algorithm prefers slimmer, younger, light-skinned faces

From www.bbc.co.uk
2021-08-10 12:17:48

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A Twitter image-cropping algorithm prefers to show faces that are slimmer, younger and with lighter skin, a researcher has found.

Bogdan Kulynyc won $3,500 (£2,530) in a Twitter-organised contest to find biases in its cropping algorithm.

Earlier this year, Twitter’s own research found the algorithm had a bias towards to cropping out black faces.

As a result the company revised how images were handled, saying cropping was best done by people.

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CCP Uses DNC Talking Points to Spread Covid-19 Disinformation

Freedomist Editor August 10, 2021

PGC – It appears the Chinese Communist Party is incorporating DNC talking points into its efforts to undermine American leadership here at home. The Chinese Communist Party is now going all-in with the claims made by a former Florida Health Department Employee named Rebekah Jones. The woman made wild claims regarding the decisions Governor DeSantis was made in response to the Coronvirus epidemic.

Some of her claims seem to give some ‘legitimacy’ to China’s claims that the virus came from American troops that were part of military games in Beijing around September 2020. A Chinese national news media broadcast used the fired worker’s claims to state that the cases in Florida appear to have happened even before the cases in Wuhan.

Does this mean China and the DNC are colluding or does it mean that both parties have a fundamental motivation to deconstruct the American Bill of Rights Based Constitutionaly Limited Democrat Republic? I think much more the latter than the former, as in, the Chinese State sees an effective narrative against the legitimacy of the American government that happens to be used by a party that also seeks to create effective narratives against the legitimacy of a Bill of Rights based constitutionally limited democratic republoc.

The fact that these two parties so often ven diagram in the same space should be ever more evidence to you, the reader, that the DNC and the CCP are natural frenemy allies, allies each holding knives behind their backs should they need to suddenly kill the other.

C hina uses Rebekah Jones conspiracies to criticize DeSantis and spread COVID-19

From www.washingtonexaminer.com
2021-08-09 15:58:25
Jerry Dunleavy
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The Chinese Communist Party is embracing claims by a fired Florida health department employee to cast doubt on the origins of COVID-19.

Rebekah Jones was a former COVID dashboard manager and claimed she was instructed to manipulate data, though she has not shown evidence for her shifting story. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s office said in May 2020 that Jones “exhibited a repeated course of insubordination.”

Her claims about Florida’s data were picked up by local and national media at the time. Those claims have now found their way to China.

The state-run Global Times published a piece on Saturday focusing on Jones’s accusations and subsequent layoff, claiming Florida “is causing public concern due to its serious epidemic situation and the lack of transparency on its early cases — especially in the case of 171 early patients’ data that was deleted and hidden.” It also claimed Florida cases emerged “even earlier than the virus outbreak in China’s Wuhan.”

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Taliban Take Five Major Capitals in Five Days

Freedomist Editor August 10, 2021

PGC – After the US pullout from Afghanistan, there was at least some token assurance in the US confidence in its Afghan counterparts in being able to deal with the Taliban threat without American power.

The effort was not great, and anyone with a basic understanding of geopolitical analysis could read between much that wasn’t expressed that the Americans knew full well the pro-Afghanis were being left to the wolves for slaughter.

So far, those of us that read such conclusions from how the Americans conducted themselves leading up withdrawal are being proven right as the Taliban is marching through Afghanistan seemingly only limited by how fast they can travel.

The Taliban have taken 5 major provincial capitals in the last 4 days, even withstanding B-52 bombings that seem to have little to no effect.

Even as we speak, the Taliban Empire we said we needed to destroy to finally end terrorism is reforming itself, and it is only smarter and more determined than it was when we first arrived after September 11th, 2001. While that Empire revitalizes and contemporizes technologically, the American Empire seems to be retreating and dividing from within. Oh what a 20 years it’s been.

Taliban Rampages Across Afghanistan in Eerie Reminder of ISIS Uprising After US Pullout from Iraq

From www.cbn.com
2021-08-09 03:25:18

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Another key city fell to the Taliban on Sunday as American-trained forces continue to collapse and surrender in Afghanistan.

The U.S. embassy there is urging all Americans to leave the country immediately.

Taliban fighters seized the strategic capital of northern Afghanistan’s Kunduz province on Sunday, the fourth provincial capital to fall to the Taliban in less than a week.

The swift advances come as U.S. and NATO troops complete their pullout after nearly two decades in the…

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