You’ve just proven that for you only the “cover image” is sufficient for judging the book.

I’m old: sometimes the cover misrepresents the book, & good books need to be read, no matter what the cover looks like.

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What is coming is the 2nd Depression, not a mere recession.

I don’t know when it is hitting, with Trump being fueled by destructive-chaos itself, but the economic-bubble we’ve been living-in HAS to pop, & when it does, it’ll take 3y to bottom-out, & when that happens, Trump is going to use that economic-hardship to finish eradicating the Constitution from the US of A’s real law.

the plummet begins sometime this-year, I’ve been expecting it for months & months…

but which Trum possessing the US it simply can’t be delayed much longer…

so the 3y bottom-out of the global economy happens in 2028, when Trump needs it to happen, for his finishing his highjacking of the US.

https://www.depledgeswm.com/depledge/the-us-printed-more-than-3-trillion-in-2020-alone-heres-why-it-matters-today/

seems to give the right gist of it…

Essentially, IF you have an economy in-which there are 1M people & 1B dollars, & 1-day’s food costs $2,

BUT you then double the amount of money in the economy,

THEN suddenly 1-day’s food costs the same fraction of the total-amount-of-money-in-the-economy, but the number-of-dollars changes, because the relative-value of each dollar has been diluted,

so what had cost $2 / day for food, NOW it costs $4 / day for food.

Inflation.

I’ve read that the total quantitative-easing done during the Biden years amounts to multiplying the amount of US-dollars by 10x.

Which means that each $ should now be worth only 1/10th of what it did at the beginning.

but it has been “held back” by many many many players…

Market-correction has to happen, sooner or later.

All the bogosity in our economy cannot self-sustain perpetually.

Unfortunately, the longer that actuality is fought-off, the greater the hardship when it bites.

So, … probably famines, for many populations, in poorer areas…

Humankind’s choice, obviously…

As was pointed-out in the original Depression:

you can’t start any business because there’s no credit available.

You can’t get credit existing, because there’s no businesses being started.

Catch-22.

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So, the fascists can make civilization “dance to their tune” even without actually doing anything…

Which demonstrates that they have been allowed too-much power, already.

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I think you’ve got the heart of it, right there.

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You might as well try explaining theoretical-physics to a frog: there is ZERO point in trying to get Trump to understand this position.

( and I am indebted to you for identifying that some geopolitics-players can’t understand some dimensions, & that needs to be flagged, in every case )

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That’s a tuba: properly wielded/played, it can do that…

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Entanglement takes care of everything…

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if Musk’s got a high intellect-quotient, that’s fine…

What does it measure?

A very-specific subset of intelligences, crafted to leave-out female relational-intelligences, musical-intelligence, health-intelligence, among other ones…

https://www.amazon.com/Seven-Kinds-Smart-Identifying-Intelligences/dp/0452281377/

identifies 9 intelligences, & I defy most Mensa-types to consistently score high on those other ones…

It is the IQ lobby which won’t tolerate the other-intelligences to be counted equally-valid, right?

With reason: they aren’t good at those intelligences.

( hint: musical-intelligence includes multiple sub-intelligences, including, but not limited-to…

• rhythm
• harmony
• melody
• improv/jazz
• composition
• polyrhythm
• etc…

A person can have a “musical intelligence” of whatever, & be brilliant in rhythm, but lousy in harmony, xor vice versa.

Too-coarse-granularity’s consistently a problem with these damn measures : )

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https://overtheedge.unbc.ca/7-reasons-to-be-afraid-of-pierre-poilievre-the-new-conservative-party-leader/

get that as well-known as you can, people…

it’s IMPORTANT, now…

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Much truth in what you say…

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It’s treason, not mere election-interference…

MAGA’s intention to possess/consume Canada for itself…

You DON’T back that religion, & get to call yourself an honest Canadian.

Here’s what she was pushing be helped to own Canada:

https://overtheedge.unbc.ca/7-reasons-to-be-afraid-of-pierre-poilievre-the-new-conservative-party-leader/

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I’m willing to bet that they get a “2nd wind”, where some kind of tipping-point removes obstacles to their dismantling of our world’s civilization…

It was Richard Stutely’s book “The Definitive Business Plan” which identified that there is ONE thing that startups & businesses planning a market-expansion NEVER do:

understand the opponent’s countermeasures.

Is anybody looking into the right-wing discussions, to see how they are going to rally/adapt/evolve?

XOR is this just “looking at the foam on the sea & making pronouncements on the rip-current’s ‘not’ existing”?

Further, there is a tipping-point crossed, in the US, whereby it’s irreversible: there simply is no way for the US to get back into representative-republic territory, now: too much got dismantled, already, & it isn’t slowing-down.

In Europe, they’re still working-on getting that far, right?

& the Heritage Foundation, the original puppetmasters designing Trump’s whole operation…

https://www.project2025.observer/

( that tracks their breathtaking accomplishment-speed )

now working on Europe…

https://www.desmog.com/2025/03/14/heritage-foundation-project-2025-allies-mcc-ordo-iuris-discuss-dismantling-the-eu-european-union/

that is about their plan to dismantle the EU for themselves…

https://www.factcheck.org/2024/09/a-guide-to-project-2025/

for 1 window into what their plans are.

Do the anti-fascist-“society” forces within the countries outside of the US have enough pragmatism, enough objectivity, enough uprightness, to resist the Combined Arms ( attacking from ALL angles possible, until the opponent fails ) assaulting of the far-right, for their converting-the-Western-world-to-a-bunch-of-Russias-owned/ruled-by-them??

… I am not betting on it, tbh.

Responsibility & accountability are both their enemies, but both responsibility & accountability are the enemies of … ALL political-entities??

Politics itself opposes responsibility & accountability, doesn’t it?

Which sets the underlying problem thus:

IF politics opposes both responsibility & accountability, because it wasnt ONLY authority-on-others,

AND ALL the political-factions are working to have political-authority-on-others,

THEN … how the hell could anybody get what political-motivation doesn’t want, accountability & responsibility, to be the core of any political-“answer”??

The political basis for any countermeasure hamstrings its trueness-of-aim!

To me, this identifies that politics, itself, has to be removed from ruling our world: its nature won’t allow the integrity required to keep us alive, during The Great Filter, when political-tantrum, religious-tantrum, ClimatePunctuation, food-chain-degradation/collapse, panic-migrations, totalitarianism, etc, all vie for being the “ruler” of the world, while we try to NOT face our own unconscious-mind’s bulling-ignorance ( which created this whole mess, & which would rather kill us completely-off than force-grow-up ).

Find 1 country which has the integrity to remove political-motivation with successful machiavellianism, from being significant in its representatives’ government…

I don’t believe there is 1 on this world.

Yet it would require a majority-of-NATO to do exactly that kind of thing, to survive what’s gradually blowing-up-in-our-faces…

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That is the correct definition of actual-sadism.

“the cruelty is the point”.

I promise you, he will execute the 3 former Democrat presidents, before he goes total-war against Canada.

Biden, Obama, & Clinton, he will have executed.

This is just a minor escalation in the way of his Purge, this ISN’T anywhere-near what it is going to be, in less than 3y.

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There is a simple method for solving actual intractable-problems of things like urban-planning & civil government, as identified in “The Heretic’s Guide to Best Practices”.

It is issue diagramming.

They wrongly call it dialog-mapping, but dialogs are of people, & so political-possessions, whereas issues just stand on their own, & so can be independent-of-political-possession.

Also, they have a deranged infatuation with doing it sideways, calling that a “Capitola Pathway”, but … they’re ivory-tower people, so that’s fine for them.

Take a portrait-format page & lay it down at one’s toes, & where does the “next step” part of the page happen to be?

Right above one’s toes, right?

Where does the far-end-of-the-path, the Goal, happen to be on that page? The far-end, the top, right?

THAT is the right orientation for an Issue-Diagram, not sideways.

IF every issue gets solved as an externalized ( didn’t Stephen R. Covey identify DECADES ago that the top-3% most-effective people ALL externalized their goals?? that isn’t “mere coincidence”! ) Issue-Diagram,

with the structure of the problem displayed as a visual-spacial diagram, showing the connections and dependencies & showing IF this, THEN that connections…

THEN people gain much more complete understanding, much quicker.

People’s keeping it in our heads, & just trying to muddle-to the “right” answer through our feelings, can’t work for either entrenched-political problems OR for too-complex problems.

This method-for-getting-past-our-innate-unconsciousness-and-inability was cracked years ago!

It works, too.

( visual-spacial cracking-of-problems has been discovered to be not only key to cracking urban-planning, civil-problems, it has also been proven to be able to convert a massive-failure-rate among complex software development problems, to an actual-success-rate, instead.

Wrong-representation for the required critical-thinking is a fundamental error that we keep making.

I think it may be related to the fundamental-error of doing-the-same-thing-harder when what the actual-context-requires is changing-what-we’re-doing, that was identified as a race-wide mental-defect in the book “The Design of Everyday Things”, a book which is partly responsible for the instigation of the “Mythbusters” franchise, when Savage discovered, through that book, that if a system’s operation wasn’t intuitively-obvious, it may well be its user-interface was engineered-wrong, & ALL the users have the same problem, because of that… )

Anyways, it was an English mathematician whose video, on software development, clued me in that the visual-spacial cracking of problems & communicating what they are, is THE key to actually succeeding, in ALL such cases…

& then I understood that “Heretic’s Guide to Best Practices” was actually just doing a variant of that, in a specific domain…

The method’s sound.

Have every component-decision identified,

have what brings the decision’s result contributing to the goal be identified on 1 side of it, as a + ( or above it ),

have what variant of the decision would obstruct the gaining of the goal on the other side of it, say below it, as a -

& let people see the tradeoffs, & decide for themselves how these tradeoffs should be managed,

instead of just “authority decided for you”, ( it should be obvious that the contempt-of-the-population inherent in that stance has political-consequences ) & never bothered including all the required perspectives anyways ( which is the political status-quo, globally ).

CHANGE the METHOD to change the results!!

A sentiment of Einstein’s “The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.”

While it’s unlikely that people will choose to survive if that requires us to stop letting unconscious-habit rule our world, … it’s possible that somebody will actually do-so, for some small portion of this world…

Otherwise, nonlearning … has fatal consequences.

Globally, now.

Political-parties, though, why shouldn’t they just continue obliterating our viability?

Nothing competes against the political-party-system, right?

Therefore the political-party-system doesn’t need to learn, or change, or adapt, in any way, right??

Only when something is competing against a something, directly, CAN it learn?

Not as-in when the Trump-cult is competing against the Democrat make-belief, obviously that changed nothing…

but as-in when something’s competing against the current system of misgovernment-by-political-parties, then the political-parties might temporarily show a little integrity … until they removed the threat…

( anybody remember when the banks in Canada were temporarily behaving in an upright manner, because the trust-companies were competing against them … until they were all bought-up by the banks?

this is what I’m talking about: inter-bank-competition changed nothing, but outsiders-competing-against banks did, until they were obliterated from significance.

I expect exactly the same results with political-parties.

No change due to inter-party-competition, ONLY possible-change when something threatens the political-party-regime-system )

Anyways, IF you value your municipal, or federal, or any between-level viability of some government, PLEASE use externalized, visual-spacial, Issue-Diagram style depiction of problems, leaving-out nothing-significant, to SHOW the actual decision-structures that have to be decided-between, & let the entrenched politically-motivated non-thinking fail to compete with your work.

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For youngsters not knowing “penny-wise & pound-foolish”,

the modern equivalent is “cent-intelligent but euro-idiotic”.

Pennies & pounds haven’t been encountered by most of the world’s population for … generations, now?

& yeah, PugJesus nailed it spot-on.

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and it’s global, and it’s concerted, and Murdoch’s remapping of Leninism from left to right, from “proletariat dictatorship” to “populist dictatorship”, has been one of the elegantest misuses of effective-world-power in the last century.

Why bother being surprised?

The left won’t compete against the prejudice being pushed in the “manosphere”, so … Natural Selection’s going to be pruning lives based on the intentionally-established prejudice … same as always.

White “taliban”, is all that’s winning, here as Down Under.

There was some article in the FT, iirc, identifying that under-40-males were swinging HARD right, & this is exactly what the ideology-pushers want: to “return” to the male-supremacy of “biblical” life, or of the caliphate, or of any of the major empires of the last 2-ish millenia: narcissism’s “glory” is all it is.

REAL honesty’s hard, REAL growing-up’s hard, REAL earning-human-meaning’s hard, but that is exactly why ideology has an easy time of winning when nobody’s doing honest competing against it…

The opportunism you’re identifying ought be expected…

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The US is going to be declaring war on Canada in less than 3y:

The reason that Trump “needs” Greenland & Canada is as a staging-ground for the pincer he needs, with Putin’s Russia, to butcher woke Europe between.

Unless Canada capitulates, then he can’t destroy Europe as he wants to.

Therefore, if Canada stands its ground, what Russia did to Ukraine, … the US is going to be doing to Canada, beginning in 2 to 2.5y.

I hope we arm to the teeth, & I hope we fight to the death.

I pray you survive your own country’s rabies, & surviving it may actually require you to flee your country.

I don’t expect Trump to tolerate any non-Trump-worshippers in the coming years…

I’ve got the feeling that any US citizens whom we turn-away, as refugees, from the Trump-cult-country, … we’re executing, … simply by forcing to remain within the US for the inevitable political-SS to exterminate, in the coming years…

Please keep in mind that getting out before it’s too-late is required, as a survivor of Auschwitcz pointed out…

By the time they realized it was too-late, … it was too late.

DON’T delay as they did, in the Netherlands. ( the documentary “Anne Frank Remembered” iirc )

I guess humankind’s unconscious-mind wanted the “drama” of enforcing this throughout our world, now…

I wonder what tiny fraction of humankind’s going to be surviving this-century…

No matter: IF the LivingSpirit-loyal people survive, then the world will flourish, again: Nature’s amazing at healing, when honestly helped…

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Somebody PLEASE get Zelenskiy to understand that Putin & Trump are committed to butchering ALL of Europe, & that “playing pattycake” with them isn’t rational, strategic, or even slightly valid!!

The reason that Trump wants Canada and Greenland is so that a pincer between Trump & Putin can DESTROY Europe, leaving only-them as world “kings”.

SOMEBODY GET HIM TO UNDERSTAND THIS ISN’T THE US of A THAT HE’S DEALT-WITH IN THE PAST, please?!

( I’d also ask that someone communicate to him that sooner-or-later Trump’s going to have him as a guest in the US, … & just arrest him, to hand-over to Putin, probably later-this-year, the way things are going )

Trump+Musk is Putin’s Apprentice & Accomplice.

This has been setting-up for about 4 decades…

IF Zelenskiy won’t understand, THEN … Ukraina’s lost.

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Trump’s strategy is to smash Canada & Greenland,

then between Russia & the US, DESTROY the hated-by-Trump-Musk-&-Putin, EU.

Either the US TOTAL WAR against Canada prevents Trump from chewing the EU to pieces,

& the EU successfully fights against Russia’s CCP-backed rampaging of Europe when NATO’s gutted/gone,

XOR the EU dies, possibly late this decade or very-early next.

Clue in!!

They want to be the ONLY ruling “kings” in the whole world, & “civilized” intention isn’t even in their brains, at all, now.

We are standing on what Sun Tzu called “death ground”!

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