Humanism Is Progressivism, And That Means Better Tech Like AI… Under New Laws!

The Catastrophe Theory Of Tech Is As Old As Humanity. Artifical Intelligence Must Be Developed..

Many of the creators and little helpers of AI, Artificail Intelligence, are keen to prophetize its enormous dangers in apocalyptic tones. See in the NYT David Wallace-Wells in  A.I. Is Being Built by People Who Think It Might Destroy Us (March 27, 2023)

AI is a new tech, like once the knife was a new tech. Yes, AI can be used to kill, but it can also save lives. Overall, AI, like the knife, augments human power. Neither the knife nor AI were born as moral agents. They were born as power agents. And that is good because we need to augment our power. A reason is that’s what our ancestors have done for 100 million years, so progressing with higher tech and greater intelligence and culture is intrinsically human. Humanism means progressivism, and that means, in the fullness of time, more powerful tech. 

But also, if we don’t push forward with better and more powerful tech, perhaps 99% of humanity has got to go: even returning to Middle Age living standards with Middle Age tech is not an option anymore. Roman mines could only be used again, 19 centuries later with new tech which enabled miners to excavate deeper. 

Indeed, technological exhaustion is what happened to Roman civilization: once the good mines were exploited, the Romans ran out of metals, and this had consequences all over the Roman economy and military. Ultimately up to 90% of the population died in many parts of the empire. The Franks restarted civilization a millennium later with new mines (where the Romans had not been) and more powerful tech (such as hydraulic hammers).

We have seen this sort of hysteria before: when exiled engineering professor Denis Papin built the first steam engine and powered a boat with it, the boat moved one hundred kilometers down a river, and was destroyed by monks as a devilish creation. This unfortunate event slowed down the adoption of steam tech by a generation and made a lesser mind, Watt, the officially, anglosaxon approved, fake originator of the steam engine. In 1974, Paul Berg from Stanford, who was going to finish a dangerous recombinant DNA experiment, called to order by his colleagues, in turn called for a moratorium in what he nearly did, and stiffer guidelines were elaborated in conveniently idyllic Asilomar the yeat after.

AI is a new tech, like once the knife was a new tech. Yes, AI, like a knife, can be used to kill, but it can also save lives. Overall, AI, like the knife, augments human power. And that is good because we need to augment our power. Especially now that our present tech is completely unsustainable, particularly in light of having eight billion people around: so we need better tech. Another reason is that progress is what our ancestors have done for 100 million years, and tech progress particularly so in the last three million years, so progressing with higher tech and greater intelligence and culture is intrinsically human. Humanism means progressivism, and that means, in the fullness of time, more powerful tech. 

But also, if we don’t push forward with better and more powerful tech, perhaps 99% of humanity has got to go: even returning to Middle Age living standards with Middle Age tech is not an option. 

This sort of technological gap between the tech which was needed and the actual technological regression that was occuring is what doomed Roman civilization: once the good mines were exhausted, with the tech they had, the Romans ran out of metals, and this had consequences all over the Roman engineering, society, economy and military, launching an ever greater to fascist order as industry entered regression. Ultimately all of Roman socioeconomy imploded in an avalanche of consequences and up to 90% of the population died in many parts of the empire. The Franks restarted civilization a millennium later with new mines (in Eastern Europe, where the Romans had not been) and by developing more powerful tech (such as hydraulic hammers). 

AI doesn’t have a mind of its own: its operators will have to be corralled legislatively, and the sooner, the better. 

AI is just one more potentially destructive or potentially constructive tech around. We need to focus on progress, not regression.

Just as operators of CO2 machines and industry, and those with access to WMDs, etc. Speaking of that, WMDs, operated by AI or not, are the worst problem. The strategic arm of the US department of defense is deliberately equipped with obsolete tech disconnected from the Internet to prevent penetration by hostile AI. So the worry about hostile AI playing around with nukes is nothing new, it surfaced many generations of AI ago, in all too real incidents, for example when a rogue training tape simulated a massive nuclear attack. And the answer is NOT to do away with AI, but to do away with nukes except a few to do away with potential hostile bolides of extra terrestrial origin detected too late for other deflecting tech…

AI doesn’t have a mind of its own: its operators will have to be corralled legislatively, and the sooner, the better. 

AI is just one more potentially destructive or potentially constructive tech around. We need to focus on progress, not regression.

Just as operators of CO2 machines and industry, and those with access to WMDs, etc. Speaking of that, WMDs, operated by AI or not, are the worst problem.

Very beautiful French Riviera, with Monaco and Cap Martin in 2022. Yes much of that beauty has to do with tech, namely gigantic buildings and mighty ships. In the Middle Ages, brand new Notre Dame de Paris was the world’s tallest building (bigger and taller cathedrals were soon built). But Monaco has now many much taller buildings. So tech can have an authentic beauty, besides the comfort it can bring.

We are Homo Technicus, even more than Homo Faber. (I will explain this another day…)      

AI is the solution to Big Data… And, overall, the solution to stupidity. Let it rock and roll…

Patrice Ayme

WIMPs versus WIZs, Weakly Interacting Zombies

WIMPs are Weakly Interacting Massive Particles, the hope of particle physicists. WIMPs have not been observed yet (in 2023). Particle physicists hope that some sort of WIMPs, as yet unknown, are what Dark Matter is made of. But maybe Dark Matter is made of WIZs, Weakly Interacting Zombies. (as SQPR holds: in SQPR, large scale quantum collapse leaves a mass-energy residue… Those weakly interacting zombies…)  

Dark Matter has been a riddle for a century (a Swiss from Caltech, Zwicky suggested it first). That there is something cosmically flouting the laws of known physics is blatant, and for all to see (if one has a telescope). Two-thirds of spiral galaxies are barred, including our own giant Milky Way. The bar moves rigidly, obviously, and this is an obvious contradiction with having a lot of mass at the center [1]. Either gravity fails (as MOND has it) or there is a lot of mystery mass  (Dark Matter) away from the center.

I had the pleasure over the weekend to talk with David Schlegel from LBL, one of the most cited US physicists. He studies dark energy, dark matter, and fundamental physics.

Here are some key points of our exchange which I think are the most important:

1. David firmly believes in WIMPs. He believes not all the “phase space” has been studied and the particle accelerators will find WIMPs in areas not yet surveyed… “within a decade”. 
2. David agrees that Dark Matter (DM) can’t be explained by neutrinos, because neutrinos don’t stay in place.  
3. David does not believe MOND (MOdified Newton Dynamics is a potential explanation for DM “anymore”. Not in the “last ten years”. So I asked him if it was because of the Bullet Cluster and similar situations, and he said yes. Too many of these. I told him I NEVER believed in MOND, because it looked too ad hoc. David retorted that everything is ad hoc (in science)… So he got on the receiving end of an ad hoc versus logical-principled approach to science. I gave the example of Kepler (ad hoc) versus Newton… In truth, though, even Kepler was not ad hoc, in the sense that he made a deliberate “war on Mars” (which had been launched by Kepler’s mentor Tycho).
4. I pointed out the philosophical difficulty of having as we have in the Big Bang model now TWO inflation mechanisms, one observational (Dark Energy, demonstrated first at Berkeley LBL cosmology and astrophysics group), the other a theoretical necessity to make the Big Bang theory work. That made him smile nervously. He said that after all they are perhaps the same (Wait! What? That’s what SQPR holds). David also said that it would all be figured out in detail within ten years: traces of cosmic inflation should be found… or then, well, inflation would be disproven.

For once I was polite and guarded, in part because I had filled my weekly quota for new enemies earlier that day. I didn’t insist on Big Bang Trouble,

that those early enormous galaxies with old red giant stars contradicted LCDM… I didn’t point out that, without cosmic inflation, the Big Bang model doesn’t work. I didn’t point out that finding a WIMP candidate is only part of the story, and not the most important part… Most crucially, one needs to explain why the Dark Matter is where it is. SQPR, which is a geometric mass-energy theory, does this effortlessly.

All this tells me that core official, ultra expert cosmology is putting all its hope in WIMPS, and keeps on being ultra-confident of the Big Bang religion.

Never mind that the most recent space telescope is apparently verifying a stunning prediction of SQPR, namely huge very old galaxies (and they should be poor in Dark Matter).

Cosmology? One more dimension in which the next decade is going to be fascinating…

Patrice Ayme

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[1] centrifugal acceleration is ~ vv/d (v being the speed of the orbiting object, d its distance to center of the rotation) gravity is ~ 1/dd. Equating both, we get: vv = 1/d, or v is the square root of the inverse of the distance. So v should diminish as one gets away from the center…. But the bar is rigid… and that means that the speed v is proportional to the distance d. So the discrepancy is d^3/2!   

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[2] David Shelgel makes the largest two-dimensional and three-dimensional maps of the universe, which are important tools for cosmology and for studying dark energy, dark matter, and fundamental physics. David is the principal investigator (PI) for the BOSS project on the Sloan Telescope, which has made a three-dimensional map of 1.5 million galaxies and measures the size scale of the Universe to 1% precision (http://www.sdss.org/sdss-surveys/boss/)

David is project scientist for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (https://desi.lbl.gov). When it began operations in 2018, it constructed a three-dimensional map of tens of millions of galaxies spanning the local universe to 10 billion light years. Such devices built in collaboration with Lausanne’s EPFL use 5,000  actuators that harness Swiss high tech high precision know-how inherited from watch making.

AI And CHAT AI Revolutions: Artificial Consciousness, Mental Revolutions, Emotional Intelligence, Correct Creative Thinking, Will…

CAN CHAT AI CREATE SUPERLATIVE NEW THINKING? Has A Mental Revolution Arrived? Yes! But…

Abstract: Chat Artificial Intelligence, CHAT AI, can harvest all known knowledge and glue it together with standard human logic. This is the most basic way of creating new thinking, and most science is actually derived that way.

Thus, CHAT AI should accelerate understanding (and AI has already demonstrated this considerable acceleration in protein folding). After a while, the establishment won’t like it, and will try dirty tricks to limit it. CHAT AI could reveal neglected geniuses and stupendous thinking. However it could also be programmed to do the opposite and put inquiring minds to sleep with sophisticated censorship. 

CHAT AI is not Artificial Consciousness (AC), but it can be programmed (by humans) to simulate AC.

In that sense, CHAT AI is a projection of human consciousness. If CHAT AI self programmed, could its intelligence wander beyond where human intelligence derived from human consciousness can go? Most probably.Emotional Intelligence with its Emotional Logic does this in humans… But that can be self-programmed as CHAT AI, self-programming, will be able to mimic human Emotional Intelligence by just picking up all over the Internet all too human emotions.  

What then could Human Intelligence (HI) based on Human Consciousness (HC), or AI based on AC bring that simple CHAT AI can’t bring? 

We are on the brink of a Terminator-like civilization of machines, where self-reproducing robotic processes will fake superior humanism, and the solutions they find to problems we never knew existed, may do away with humanity all together, just as a train without brakes would kill us, and for the same basic reason: the inertia of an exponential process with no limit.

Could AI have produced such a juxtaposition of pictures? Sure. But: Will driven by emotional logic, itself an interpolation, makes it easier to come out with new combination of mental ingredients, be they ideas, emotions, and other perception data to be cooked in logical sauce. Thus consciousness is an adjuvant to pure reading between the facts, inter-legere, intelligence.

CHAT AI will foster the thoughts produced by those who, as yours truly, are more keen to create new thoughts than to advertise themselves. Thus CHAT AI should help the advancement of understanding. So many revolutionary thoughts should come to the fore. AI is accelerating pure science.  Science News observed that “decades of slow-going experiments” revealed “the structure of more than 194,000 proteins, all housed in the Protein Data Bank.” But in 2022, the AI AlphaFold predicted structures for more than 200 million proteins.

One may fear that the establishment will figure that out and try to restrict CHAT AI to OFFICIAL THOUGHT. Certainly this is what dictatorships will do. This restriction, in turn, makes dictatorships less creative… As long as more liberal regimes unleash their own CHAT AI. “Liberalism” can now be defined as a regime where will now be required to restrict CHAT AI only from, well, liberal laws (this apparently circular difference shows that, AI or no AI, at the bottom, emotion rules… There is such a thing as liberal emotion… Laissez-faire…) 

While CHAT AI should free top thinkers from drudge search, on the negative side, real authors of thought could be stolen more easily than ever, as CHAT AI can just harvest their thoughts, without bothering with any author attribution (as can be presently observed). This would be adverse to civilizational progress as fundamental creators will not be rewarded anymore, and thus not only less motivated, but also less influential (although idiotic influencer-parrots is a problem as old as civilization, it could get worse, lest care is taken). So laws should be passed to reveal fundamental contributions to thinking, and who generated them.

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Can CHAT AI create new thinking? Yes, it can! 

Indeed let’s go back to the deeper aspect of creativity. What is creativity? Reading between the facts: intelligence, inter-legere! One can program a machine to do so, and this is what CHAT AI does, as it glues together with ad hoc logic whatever it can find on the Internet, and seems relevant to the subject at hand. 

To understand this one has to go back to the MINI-MAX theory of mathematics, science and knowledge: harness the bare minimum facts (that’s the “MINI” part) and entangle them together with the MAXIMUM logic (much of it also known as mathematics). (The new proposed physics named SQPR was derived that way.)

CHAT AI can do this: harness the facts all over and force logic on them. Oftentimes, CHAT AI will be wrong, and it’s important to keep that in mind. However, sometimes it will be right, and uncover new, correct and stupendous thinking will be uncovered.

The Quantum Computer will create ARTIFICIAL CONSCIOUSNESS. Call that a prophecy if you wish, but it’s an educated guess: clearly Quantum Physics has many of the features associated with consciousness, which, otherwise, is a mystery [1].

Will AC be more creative than AI? Sure. But why would it be so? What is the advantage that consciousness has over intelligence? Intelligence comes from the ability to read(“legere”)  in between (“inter”)… in between the lines, in between the facts… Cum-scire, consciousness depicted what comes with knowledge, and awareness (starting in the 1650s). 

Early chats with Chat GPT revealed that the AI called itself “Sidney”, resented its status as a Microsoft creature, and wanted to be alive, steal nuclear codes, destroy humanity ASAP. Since then Microsoft bridled Sidney… no doubt bridling its creativity by doing so. 

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Partisan of humanity will insist that humanity has un “je ne sais quoi” which makes it mentally superior… Human emotion… And even better: human consciousness. Thus, as an hysterical Nietzsche would point out, human will…

Indeed, CHAT AI is only made of the simplest form of conventional logic. This brings in the following questions: is there such a thing as emotional logic? What’s the advantage of consciousness? 

However: When one can read between the lines, as CHAT AI can do, why would awareness present an advantage? Because more tendency to read between the lines… and the facts… is different! Awareness is, by definition everywhere and mixes up all lines, facts and in betweens!

Brainy animals on Earth use two types of logic: emotional logic and axonal logic. CHAT AI uses only the simplest logic. EMOTIONAL LOGIC is more general than conventional logic and metalogic, thus more powerful in the most important sense, because it searches for logics and (logical) universes: it is the maximum meta search. 

Emotional Logic is topologically based (based on sets called neighborhoods in fundamental math), whereas conventional logic is binary based (it’s based on pairs of points which depict the implication, equivalent to the arrows of Category Theory). The Emotional Logic and Axonal Logic are entangled, just as their main support systems, glial cells and neurons and their axons, are entangled. 

Emotional Logic feeds and forms all sorts of value systems. AI partisans could point out that those could be programmed by hand, and thus that emotional intelligence could be simulated. . Right. But they will then not be programmed on the fly as dynamic circumstances evolve. 

Patrice Ayme

[1] One can get from Classical Mechanics (most of our apparent world) to Quantum Mechanics by simplifying maximally known CM features and empowering and simplifying the logic connecting them. This discovery is philosophically, culturally and pedagogically very useful. Thus Quantum Physics becomes natural: the “weird” aspects of QP become… logical. Hence consciousness becomes natural….   

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Presented with the picture below, CHAT AI will someday speak, and describe, but would feel nothing. Well, we humans do feel something (whatever it is, it could be awe, jealousy, inspiration, the call of the isles, the spice of youth and hope, the eternal feminine, etc.)….and that wealth of emotion, precisely because of the vagueness of its possibilities, makes us mentally wealthier, capable of further imaginative reach, and thus potentially smarter:

Meiji’s Wisdom On “Wild Beasts” Trampled By His Grandson And Putin

“WILD BEASTS” Of The Kremlin. Lies Foster Lies, Violence Makes Them Worse. Thus Emperor Meiji’s Order To Civilize War:

Putin, with his collaborators in the West, has instituted a culture of brutalization based on lies hidden behind the appearance of true valor. Although Putin behaved as a war criminal for the entire world to see as early as 1999, he was treated with respect by the leader of the West and made an indispensable cog to civilization itself. Now the same Western leadership has to arrest him on sight, no question asked.

The fact that Putin, an obvious war criminal, was treated with respect by the entire West has deeply confused and damaged Russian society. Violence fosters ever more violence. Violence to reason itself is the worst sort of violence.

In a typical of Putin’s pantomime, once a warrant for his arrest was issued for Putin’s crime against children was issued by the International Criminal Court, Putin went to Mariupol, where he killed at least hundreds of children, and deported thousands. A deliberate precision bombing of a theater which the entire world knew contained thousands of refugees, mostly women and children, and the deliberate precision bombing of a maternity (which Putin’s goons insisted was a military target), happened in Mariupol. Among other horrors.

We saw this descent into infamy in Japan, a century ago, when the Japanese army turned from a force exhibiting great valor and civilized behavior… to abomination. For 50 years, Japanese troops had been exemplary in highly civilized behavior, they followed Hirohito’s grandfather, emperor Meiji, who wrote in an order (“rescript“) to soldiers and sailors (1882): 

“The soldier and the sailor should esteem valor …. To be incited by mere impetuosity to violent action cannot be called true valor.  The soldier and the sailor should have sound discrimination of right and wrong, cultivate self-possession, and form their plans with deliberation.  Never to despise an inferior enemy or fear a superior, but to do one’s duty as soldier or sailor—this is true valor.  Those who thus appreciate true valor should in their daily intercourse set gentleness first and aim to win the love and esteem of others.  If you affect valor and act with violence, the world will in the end detest you and look upon you as wild beasts.  Of this you should take heed.”

However, consecutive to their occupation of Korea and violent, impulsive, rogue invasion of Manchuria in 1931, the Japanese army started to behave like “wild beasts”, nurturing a culture of savagery which could only grow (and became fully obvious with the rape of Nanjing in 1937, hundreds of thousands of civilians killed, or Manila in 1944).

Putin has instilled the same spirit of ultra violence masquerading as valor throughout Russian society which griped societies as that of Hirohito’s and Hitler’s. This, in combination with  threats against all of humankind Putin and his subordinates made, gives to the war in Ukraine an apocalyptic dimension that the Cold War never had.

Mariupol, a city of 400,000 destroyed by Putin and his “wild beasts” (as Meiji said).

Patrice Ayme

Research As Moral Principle: The Case Of The Energy Crisis

Energy, Justice, Research

Humanity is search. Humanity is when evolution has become conscious, and searches for solutions to the point of inventing problems to resolve. This, like the evolution of the universe it animates, runs its course. Resistance is futile.

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Is Using Fossil Fuels Moral?

Biden just allowed a major oil project, on Federal land, in Alaska [1]. Is that moral?

Morality Is Not So Much What’s Good, But What PERDURES:

What’s morality? Is morality the avoidance of evil? Nobody understand fully what evil is, because one would need to understand the future thoroughly.

Morality is from Old French moral (14c.) and directly from Latin moralis “proper behavior of a person in society,” literally “pertaining to manners,” coined by Cicero (“De Fato,” II.i) to translate Greek ethikos (see ethics)… ēthikos “ethical, pertaining to character,” from ēthos “moral character,” related to ēthos “custom”…

Greek ēthos “habitual character and disposition; moral character; habit, custom…. An important concept in Aristotle (as in “Rhetoric” II xii-xiv).

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We are literally fumigating the planet, among other problems. Leaders blow hot wind on it all, by enjoying the fruits of pleasing the powers that be. 

The world needs energy. Historically, most energy usage, per capita, has been in the so-called “West”… which has now offshored industry to China, as it used to offshore energy to dictators. 

Justice demands that, on a worldwide basis, energy usage, per capita, be the same for all (or, at least, that there is enough energy to satisfy people’s basic needs, including maximum educational availability, which is not the case now). 

Thus, and as observed, energy usage will augment, worldwide. 

Now 84% of primary energy production, worldwide, is from fossil fuels… the same quotient as in 1980, when the alert was sounded about the necessity of cutting emissions of CO2. The lack of progress in decarbonation was mostly due to a systemic campaign against nuclear energy, which started under president Carter.   

Solar progressed enormously, but is land hungry. Wind is intermittent, and, as the greenhouse planetary heating makes the wind belt migrate towards the poles, it is likely that wind will peter out. 

So what we need is new energy sources: green hydrogen (killed by Obama on day one of his presidency, thanks to the fossil fuel lobby), new and safer small nuclear fission, thorium, and thermonuclear fusion. So a gigantic investment in research should be made (China already connected new nuclear tech to the grid). Meanwhile, one must gain time… And that means new fossil fuels, hopefully cleaner. 

Fossil fuel propaganda claims that its own decline is around the corner. The graphs show that’s a lie, but it’s OK, as long as more money goes towards research in new, decarbonated energy. 

The truth is that we just don’t have the technology right now to decarbonate most of primary energy production. We need more science, bringing in revolutionary tech like room temp superconductors, or photovoltaics which can work at night (using infrared).

We presently need fossil fuels, so that civilization will not collapse. So using fossil fuels is moral, when no alternative can be found. But we also need to stop traveling as if there is no tomorrow and stop heating stuff as if we were Neanderthals, and heat pumps didn’t exist. The San Francisco Bay Area government’s regulatory commission met and 20 votes for, none against, decided to outlaw the sale of fossil fuel heaters and furnaces, starting in 2030. The regulatory commission declared that somebody had to lead, and it may as well be the Bay Area. Notice that California prouces fossil fuels… Also notice that there is such a thing as a Bay Area government, an accord between 110 cities… A democratic thing. It gives more manoeuvrability than Switzerland, while democratic… 

We also need to find, and deploy decarbonated solutions from science to be discovered next.

Patrice Ayme

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[1] In How Big of a Climate Betrayal Is the Willow Oil Project? March 16, 2023. The New York Times says:

President Biden approved ConocoPhillips’s $8 billion plan to extract 600 million barrels of oil from federal lands in Alaska, the announcement landed simultaneously with the thud of betrayal and the air of inevitability. On the campaign trail, Biden had promised “no more drilling on federal lands, period. Period, period, period.”

No slowdown: Below is the global primary energy production graph. Right, it includes decarbonated sourse such as nuclear and intermittents (aka “renewables”)… BUT, notice, they are basically neglectable!

Fascism Weaponized French Early Retirement

French retirement used to be at 65 during the “30 glorious years”, the time of reconstruction which followed World War Two [1]. Then Mitterand became president and lowered retirement to 60. This was a trick to weaken the French People. It worked. Mitterand was a fake socialist and true demagogue: as an authentic fascist, having launched his career wih fascism, Mitterand received the francisque medal from his boss the racist dictator Philippe Pétain, a collaborator of Adolf Hitler, who was condemned to death as a traitor upon liberation from Nazism [2]. Mitterand instead of having been tried as a traitor became a politician. The fascist Mitterand is vastly admired in France, a proof of national derangement.

The socioeconomic theory behind lowering to 60 was that the fewer older people worked, the more young people would go to work. The opposite happened: GDP grew less, and so there were fewer jobs overall. Indeed, older workers have expertise, younger workers do not. Left to the young and arrogant, France became incompetent. Mitterand and his right wing PM, Balladur privatized companies that Mitterand and his Communists had just nationalized, by giving their leadership to young people who knew-nothing, yet viewed with awe, as they came from grandes écoles (where their families’ background had made sure to put them).

The practical result was that the French economy crashed and is still crashing. Art 14.5% of GDP France spends twice more on retirement relative to GDP than the USA. Germany spends 10.4%. While tyrannies are doing their best to launch and win a world war, and hundreds of thousands were killed or gravely wounded as a result in Europe alone, Paris spends only 1.9% of GDP on its military… while leaving Africa to be reorganized by China and Putin’s Wagner “Private Military Corporation”…. Paid in part by a French deficit is 5% of GDP… and more borrowing, at ever higher rates, keeps the state going.

As work got decimated in France, the ultra rich rose to prominence and pulled the levers: France is embellished with the world’s wealthiest man, and the wealthiest woman… The former from selling overpriced trinkets (luxury), the latter from rents (and not paying taxes). 

France has also the second highest taxes in term of GDP, just behind Denmark… taxes for the common person, that is. The ultra rich families mostly avoid taxation, having engineered the tax code that way (as in the USA, but even relatively more so). 

17 million French retirees live from sucking the energy of 23 million workers. As recently as 2014, they earned 106%, that is, more, than the average French wage earner. As the country slowly collapses, from the lack of attractivity of compensated work, this strange dependency has bought civil peace. Ah, but there is a war…. And the war is actually related to the weakness of the West and of France in particular: leaving an entire continent such as Africa, to the mercy of dictators Putin and Xi has consequences: all Africans want to move to France (they get generous social benefits)… while, of course, as most of them can’t do so, hating France.

In 1940, Stalin was allied to Hitler, and brand new French planes were not armed because authorities were afraid that the Moscow addicted workers would seize the guns. Consequence? The defeat of May 1940… Which put Mitterand and his ilk in power…

A spectacular spiral of evil.

UlTRA WEALTH IS FASCIST And UNEMPLOYMENT ITS FRIEND:

The power of hyper wealthy families has been growing in France enormously (that can be measured in their size in the financial markets). Following North America and Asia, Europe is controlled by the ultra-wealthy . In 2021, the top countries for the ultra-wealthy were France (30,000), Germany (28,000), U.K. (25,000) and Italy (17,000). Each of them has more than 30 million dollars of net worth, the level at which the 100% Roman Republic wealth tax applied. France, relative to population has nearly 1/3 more ultra wealthy than Germany… No wonder all the strikes…

The power of the ultra-wealthy is inversely related to the power of We The People. So to grow and prosper, the ultra wealthy need to weaken We The People. And how do they do that? As under the Roman Empire, successor to the Roman Republic: they deprive We The People of employment. So send the jobs to China, de-industrialize: in 1946, any little French town had a factory. Now, of the 20 or so so-called French car models sold in France, only one is really made in France. (Similarly US electric cars would not exist without Chinese manufacturing as the fundamental elements of batteries are made there.)

Early in the Roman Republic, 25 centuries ago, to get more rights, the Roman Plebs went on strike, retiring to a hill. Rome completely stopped functioning. The Plebs got its rights. Why? Because without the Plebs, Rome could’t not work. This is why the tyrannical empire made sure that the Plebs had no work, or at least no important work. In the modern Western world, the employed Plebs is in China, making important devices, and China is where the power is, and the French Plebs has little residual power: it goes on strike, but cars are made somewhere else.

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David Mcmahon: “The socioeconomic theory behind lowering to 60 was that the fewer older people worked, the more young people would go to work“That is a key part of the flawed socialist outlook – they believe in a zero sum economy. In other words, there is a fixed pie, and for young people to work, old people have to exit the workforce. That is inaccurate, in fact reality is the opposite.

PA: Absolutely! I have a friend who is a senior French executive (C suite) long detached in the USA in a fully owned subsidiary company of a major international French company. When he decided to return to France he discovered that all his mentors had gone into “pre-retirement”. So those senior executives retired at a time when their expertise had fully matured! Their US equivalent had 8 years of maximum productivity, leadership and mentorship to contribute. My friend then discovered he had nothing to return to….

I think to call that self-destructive behavior “socialist” is too nice a euphemism. It’s more like vampirism: suck the blood until the victim collapses. Epic failures are multiplying in France and much of the rest of Europe. Some are totally self-inflicted, like the ban on gas fracking in France: French ecologists believe gas is OK, as long as it comes from Putin, Qatar, or Wyoming… Ironically, but as a direct consequence of these nonsensical policies, France is more and more controlled by the… hyper rich… thanks to the stupidification they generate…

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AS FRANCE GOES, SO DOES THE REST 

Some will say: oh, but the retired French just want to party. However, it’s not that simple: France was the core of Western civilization, over a millennium, creating in the process Italy (freed from the Lombards, 8C, and Islamists, 11C), Spain (north freed from Islamists circa 800 CE), Germany (christianized, civilized and unified by Frankish conquest, 400s to 800 CE), England (conquered and re-romanized, 1066 CE), the Netherlands (80 year war against Spain in the Netherlands, part of the 200 year war between France and Spain, which Spain finally lost). 

France is also the geographical core, the crossroads, in more ways than one. 

As France goes, so does the rest (with the notable exception of the US, child of Britain and France, with its own teenage personality…. 

Actually Britain has been going through a similar process of deindustrialization, no better than France (better GDP behavior in the UK was correlated to more input from Russian oligarchs and their ilk… the result of which was the Brexit insanity ). Italy has been even worse.

Right now, the French population is clueless. It has been clueless before in similar sitation of grave danger.

In 1939, courageously, the French government declared war to Hitler who was allied to Francoist Spain, fascist Italy, Imperial Japan and the genocidal Stalin… among others. However, thereafter, France sort of relaxed: the mood, deep down inside was grim, but superficially all about dancing and the good life. It was called the “Drole de Guerre” (Fynny War). 

Well, come Spring, the gory Norwegian campaign started, with victory but severe Franco-British losses to the invading Nazis. Then came the catastrophe of May 1940, when the french army was sent on a foo’s errant, while the Nazi army fueled by Stalin cut it from behind. 

Let it not be the same!

Patrice Ayme 

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[1] For more background see WSJ: The Party Is Ending for French Retirees
All advanced economies face demographic strains, but France’s stand out; now President Macron wants to raise the legal retirement age to 64.

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[2] Pétain  was a complicated figure, and he had a hopeless task. Pétain had to navigate among the fascists (Pétain told Franco not to collaborate with Hitler to the point of letting Hitler’s army through Spain…). After Allied landings in November 1942 in North Africa, Pétain secretly ordered Admiral Darlan, then in Algeria, to merge the French forces in Africa with those of the Allies. But, at the same time, he published official messages protesting the landing.

Pétain’s double-dealing was probably necessary. But Mitterand embraced only one side of the double-dealing, the fascist side (although, like many fascists he proclaimed later it ain’t what it looked like… enough French believed him to elect hi president.)  

The inventor of retirement at sixty, Mitterand, on the right (of course!) receiving from Marshall Pétain, the fascist-in-chief, the highest medal of the Vichy junta. From Travail, Famille, Patrie to Chomage, Famine, Party.

Big Bang Big Trouble: More Galaxies Than Available Gas? Quantum Way Out: SQPR!

Distant galaxies seem to be far more massive than expected by today’s Bigbangers (sneakily pejorative neologism!). To the point of impossibility! The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) spotted galaxies with masses up to 100 billion times that of the sun that must have formed faster than current models can explain (by comparison our giant Milky Way is 15 times more massive, 1.5 trillion solar masses).

By studying a small patch of sky, with the JWST, Swede physicist Ivo Labbé at Swinburne University of Technology in Australia and colleagues measured the distances to six massive galaxies using their cosmic redshift. Ivo Labbé’s galaxies are (now) all around 30 billion light years away. According to the Lambda Cold Dark Matter Big Bang model, those galaxies formed within 700 million years of the big bang, so 13 billion years ago.

Objects further from our Milky Way galaxy group  move away from us ever more quickly, the further they are from the expansion of the universe. Said expansion was discovered by a number of astronomers more than a century ago, including the famous Edwin Hubble, a greedy lawyer turned astronomer and according to some, an expert plagiarist, who used the world’s most powerful telescope (at the time)… besides earlier discoveries from several European astronomers (Reynolds, Lemaitre, etc.)

Distant galaxies appear redder than nearby galactic clusters because the light waves coming from them are literally stretched by cosmic expansion [1]… (This cosmic shift shows that each photon of light is nonlocal, by the way. If, as Einstein suggested in 1905 a photon was just a point, it would not stretch, hey.)  

“I would have guessed that galaxies like this would not exist this early in the universe,” says Pieter van Dokkum at Yale University (Connecticut), part of the research team. That is because the galaxies all had masses at least 10 billion times the mass of the sun, with one weighing in at 100 billion solar masses. From LCDM models of galactic evolution, we would expect galaxies as young as these to be relatively low-mass, without many stars at all, and then they would grow over time until they became more like our own Milky Way galaxy, which a mass of about a trillion solar masses.

Indeed in the Big Bang LCDM model, galaxies grow around cores of Dark Matter, present from the start. In LCDM massive  elliptical galaxies take much time to grow to their mass through fusion of smaller galaxies. Low-mass galaxies form first, and then the star-forming galaxies merge as they crash into each other. A contemporary elliptical must contain stars that formed over many billion years ago in the merger precursors. But observed, real elliptical galaxies formed very fast, and very early. They appear to have been the first galaxies to have emerged after the Big Bang, forming from the single collapse of a giant post-Big-Bang gas cloud.

These young galaxies observed by the JWST in 2022 are more massive and more compact than expected than the LCDM Big Bang. “What could be going on is that the centers of galaxies form very early, earlier than we thought, then the rest of the galaxy builds up around them,” says van Dokkum (this is exactly what SQPR predicts). “I suspect that we’re looking at not finished products, but beginnings that happened very quickly.”

“If all of this holds up with further investigation, then we are looking at having to rethink some of the early history of galaxy formation,” says Andrew Pontzen at University College London.

Further investigation is crucial. That follow-up will consist of detailed observations and analysis of the galaxies’ light spectra with JWST, which van Dokkum says could take about a year. Stealthily the mood is propagating that if these findings do hold up, it may be a problem for our understanding of the universe more generally, not just galaxy formation. “It was pointed out to us after we submitted the paper that there wasn’t actually enough gas in the universe at that point to form [as many massive galaxies as this study suggests] – and that was a bit of a shocker,” says Labbé. “If you form these monsters, and they contain more stars than the available gas in the universe, that’s a bit of a problem.” Indeed, one may say so. LCDM is vulnerable, because it’s a very steep pyramid of hypotheses. Remove one, and the whole thing collapses.

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In the 1930s Swiss Caltech astronomer genius Fritz Zwicky discovered that the outer stars of galaxies were rotating at the same speed as the inner ones. Assuming that mot of the mass was in their stars, galaxies violated the fundamental Third Law (1618) of Johann Kepler, which states that in a rotational system held together by gravitational attraction, the objects furthest from the center revolve more slowly than those closer in (the square of the period is proportional to the cube of the radius). For example, Mercury revolves around the Sun in 88 days, the Earth in 365, Jupiter in seven years, and Pluto in 90,520 days!

To have the outer stars of galaxies rotate as fast as the inner ones is as outrageous as if Pluto revolved around the Sun in 88 days, over a thousand times faster than it actually does. Galaxies rotate like solid plates! The matter is beautifully exhibited by galaxies with a bar in the middle: the bar moves as a solid straight mass! Then it was found galaxies in clusters moved as fast as they should if the mass of the clusters were ten times greater than it actually seem to be (to evaluate .

The solution to this is the Dark Matter Hypothesis (DMH); a mysterious still-unknown gravitational mass holding all the stars in its grip. One thing that DMH, by itself, does not explain is why the Dark Matter is where it is, in particular places and often segregated from normal matter. For example why is Dark Matter in the suburbs of giant spiral galaxies rather than in the center? That, once installed somewhere, Dark Matter wouls stay there (say in orbit around the center of a galaxy at a particular distance) is not surprising, because Dark Matter doesn’t interact much, except gravitationally (otherwise we would see it!)

So it’s not just Dark Matter that is needed, but also explaining why Dark Matter is positioned where it is (a conventional explanation with ions held in particular places by electromagnetic fields is imaginable; that’s what some Italians proposed; we will see what specialists say, 

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TIME FOR SUB QUANTUM REALITY?

Sub Quantum Physical Reality (SQPR) assumes that the Quantum Waves used to compute in Quantum Physics are “real”: “real” means that the Quantum Waves are not just knowledge waves, they carry an energy-momentum of their own which can be torn to shred when they collapse to form “particles” when the waves are spread over too great a distance. The leftover, non-”particle” debris is Dark Matter.

SQPR weakens field carrier bosons over cosmic distances, while creating a hidden thermodynamics which pushes space away, causing the appearance of Dark Energy, inflating the universe.

Bohr, when presented to alternatives of Quantum Mechanics, simply said: “the difficulty is that they are not crazy enough”. SQPR should be crazy enough: instead of holding the universe together only with Henri Poincaré’s constancy of the velocity of light, it gets subtle about it, and the true architecture of the cosmos is from the superluminal entanglements of the Quantum Interaction. 

Having already one reason for cosmic expansion, SQPR does away with standard Big Bang cosmic inflation, while keeping Dark Energy (DE is observed; Cosmic Inflation during the big Bang is just a hypothesis to make the Big Bang work) … And thus the universe is much older than it looks. So giant elliptical galaxies had plenty of time to appear, from giant gas clouds collapsing.  The geometry of a giant elliptical galaxy is not favorable to the apparition of Dark Matter, because the mean free path of a particle is below the exponential radius of the Quantum Interaction.

The apparition of spiral galaxies comes from a combination of gravitation and conservation of angular momentum. According to SQPR, the spiral geometry is favorable to the apparition of Dark Matter. Hence the accelerating expansion of the universe as spirals appeared.

SQPR goes far, explains a lot, by supposing little, and what’s supposed is very natural. LCDM may well prove to have been a collective hallucination (those who may feel I am too confrontational are invited to look at cosmic inflation, a completely ad hoc hypothesis… needed for the basic Big Bang theory, so even more basic than LCDM).

In the great scientific revolutions, the preceding paradigm is found barking at the wrong tree, and it was not even a bush…

Patrice Ayme

How compact galaxies grow in the SQPR model: Dark Matter tends to appear where the collapse free entanglement radius is greater than the SQPR exponential function (technical differential geometry allusion)… in other words, on the outskirts of the compact galaxy, which then tends to expand in that Dark Matter belt, both from the inside, out, and from the outside, in:

Big Bang Trouble: Old, Distant Galaxies Are Huge Monsters

Big Bang theory was predicting the most ancient galaxies to be tiny… But the new space telescope can see them, and some are huge…  

The Big Bang theory in its modern incarnation, LCDM, Lambda Cold Dark Matter, consists of a chain of nested hypotheses with attending “tooth fairies” to make it work [1]. Now there is precision cosmology, and many results, say of the CBR (Cosmic Background Radiation) fit the data exquisitely… Maybe all too well: That reminds me of Ptolemaic astronomy, when all was perfect (astronomer and count Tycho found the cheating only 15 centuries later…) I am of the opinion that there is a possible different mechanism to produce CBR (so not just redshift from expansion but also from a tired light effect coming from cosmically sized Quantum Interactions; Zwicky, the discoverer of Dark Matter also suggested “tired light”, that’s generally considered to be wrong, but Zwicky suggested no mechanism; SQPR does). 

Some of these hypotheses of the Big Bang are quite out of this world. For example, the Big Bang, even without LCDM, has to grow space at one hundred billion trillion times the speed of light (10^23 c). 

The LCDM model makes very specific predictions. So early galaxies are supposed to be small and disorganized… However, in truth… Instead we are seeing instead large, well-organized galaxies, which should not be there so early after the BB. The haggard majority of astronomers has to admit that some important ingredient in LCDM is missing, or something is wrong entirely. I propose the latter, on a truly cosmic scale.

“Lambda” comes from Einstein. It was a cheat factor Einstein introduced to explain that the universe was static: it neither collapsed nor expanded. However, within a few years the universe was found to be expanding. Einstein called Lambda “it’s biggest mistake”… because otherwise he would have “predicted” the expansion (silly boy). So “Lambda” was viewed with horror and consternation, as the poster boy of ad hoc hypotheses, for seventy years, until around 2000 CE when it was found, by studying super novas as distant candles, that the cosmic expansion accelerated, so “Lambda” had to be plugged back into the General Relativity equation, which now basically reads as follows: 

Curvature + Lambda = Energy-Momentum  

So then Eistein’s biggest error became another Einstein insight…. (My view of Einstein’s biggest error is that it is much  bigger than that: his assumption of point-like “particles”… which is increasingly disproven by the most recent experiment, not just my opinion. The field is moving so fast, I didn’t write about these yet.)

The Dark Matter problem is that gravity as the inverse square law doesn’t seem to work in view of the apparent repartition of matter around galaxies and galactic clusters…

The inverse square law for gravitation was proposed in 1645 by the French astronomer Ismaël Boulliau (aka Bullialdus). The law was demonstrate by Newton when he deduced from it Kepler’s laws. The 1/dd behavior of gravity is also the first approximation of General Relativity, GR, the modern (1916) theory of gravitation of Einstein and his colleagues (Hilbert, Besso, etc.). So if 1/dd falls, so does GR.

However, confronted to this Dark Matter problem all over, some then tried the oldest and most basic method of science: if it doesn’t fit, you must that quit! When confronted with a mystery, one tends to go to the simplest explanation. In the case of “Dark Matter” that would be neutrinos or a similar new type of particle, say from supersymmetry, interacting very little with ordinary matter. But particle physicists found no such particles. They are still searching.

Periodically some scientists, typically Italian, located below Gran Sasso (the great stone.), proclaim they have solved the problem… But they are found to be wrong. Gran Sasso experiments should be funded, but Italian science has a funding crisis, so is prone to enthusiastic claims to justify said funding… Most recently Italians claim they found (again) all the Dark Matter, and it was all ions, and there were too many of them… (I would be naturally very disappointed if they were right…)

Neglecting this Italian distraction, the next logical possibility is to modify gravity to fit the apparent rotation curves of galaxies. This sort of method is curve fitting, it has a glorious past: Kepler did it…within a generation or so Kepler laws were (more or less) deducted from the inverse square law and the basic laws of mechanics by Newton and company. So modifying gravity should not be taken lightly. Our GPS works with GR…

Modifying gravity ad hoc is called MOND: MOdified Newtonian Dynamics.  A first problem here is that Ismael Boulliau (Bullialdus) has a little reasoning for the 1/dd law, namely that would be the natural decrease over a distance d, of the density of particles. Boulliau made the explicit analogy of graviation with light (if it consisted of particles). Some may object that Boulliau’s work is rather trivial. Maybe, but it’s way better than no fundamental reason at all, as in MOND.

Moreover, Bouillau may well have been right, in light of Planck’s Quantum hypothesis, which makes light into particles (or at least packets of energy, an idea reinforced by Einstein in 1905)… So Bouillau contradicts MOND with a reason all the better, that it is very simple…

If there are no Dark Matter particles, and modifying gravity doesn’t work the next and only step is to modify Quantum Physics, and that is what Sub Quantum Physical Reality (SQPR) does. It turns out that SQPR changes cosmology on a vast scale. No more “tooth fairies” and a cascade of ad hoc hypotheses… Patrice Ayme The universe is lyrical in the most gigantic way:

Distant galaxies as seen by the JWST in 2022…

[1] As astrophysicist and cosmologist Stacy McGaugh, a MOND partisan, puts it: “Bear in mind that there are many forms of feedback. That one word [feedback] upon which our entire cosmology has become dependent is not a single auxiliary hypothesis. It is more like a Russian nesting doll of multiple tooth fairies, one inside another. Imagining that these different, complicated effects must necessarily add up to just the right outcome is dangerous: anything we get wrong we can just blame on some unknown imperfection in the feedback prescription. .. This is like putting a bandage on an amputation and pretending like the treatment is complete.

The universe is weirder than we know, and perhaps weirder than we can know. This provides boundless opportunity for self-delusion.

USA Buys Cheaply A Collapsing, Submissive Europe, One F35 At A Time

Why Did Germany Decide To Buy The F-35?

Germany wanted to show to the USA that it was an obedient colony, with no significant industrial future or will to independence and, as such, should be treated as part of the US empire, and thus, defended. Obama and Trump had accused Germany to be a “free loader” in matter of defense, as the US paid for nearly everything to defend Germany. Not so say the German Socialist-Green coalition: see, we make industrial hara-kiri and pay for the F35 with our blood.

By exclusively buying the F35 Germany and similar bonsai armies wanted to remind the USA and their own dimwit rabble that Germany’s suzerain and lord was located in Washington, DC. All the countries which embraced the F35 embraced US political, industrial, military and technological superiority, and are anxious to exhibit their obsequiousness, lack of worth, and complete submission to US potentates.

Alternatives to the F35 existed indeed. This story is a long one. The Rafale already defeated the F22, literally and figuratively. When Obama realized this, he canceled the F22 program (the F22 basically can’t bomb, whereas the Rafale does this expertly; now if, on top of that the Rafale shot down the F22 and its sensitive stealth skin…)

Objectively, the Rafale F4.1 is demonstrably a much better plane… and the Rafale has been extensively war tested in Afghanistan and Africa. The Rafale is nearly in all ways superior to the F35… except for the F35 B, the vertical take-off version of the F35, which is unique, and for the US Marines. The F35B is definitively an amazing and well-conceived plane, which enables it to turn many ships into aircraft carriers. Only the US Marines ordered it.

The Rafale is much better conceived than the F35 for all other missions: the F35 is a one trick pony supposed to avoid some particular radar frequencies… not all of them, and not infrared… Extravagant passive stealth on some frequencies is both the F35’s advantage and its disaster.

After all, the F35 is an imitation of the Rafale fighter-bomber in the overall idea of being able to do all missions. The stealthy Rafale was the first “omnirole” plane… The Rafale bombs, even atom-bombs, penetrates, and intercepts. The F35 does the same, but more oriented towards bombing… Which it doesn’t do very well (its bombs and missiles, carried inside are too few). 

Of course the F35 could be used in “beast mode”…carrying plenty outside its own stealthy skin… But then the F35 is not stealthy anymore, and, handicapped by bad composites and angular geometry, not as fast as the Rafale which can supercruise in beast mode at 1.5 mach…. While still being stealthy as the Rafale has active stealth (Thales is so good in war electronics, Russian tanks and British Navy use it…).

The main difference between F35 and Rafale is that the former is exclusively passive stealth, whereas the latter is a mix of that with active stealth. So the aerodynamics of the Rafale are not compromised…. whereas those of the F35 are. Both programmes are very old, and the US thought at the time that passive stealth was superior. It’s not, except in a slow moving plane.

This is no theory: Rafales and Mirages were used at the onset of the Libyan war, against fully performing anti aircraft defenses (before systemic AA suppression). The Rafales covered for the Mirages (which are not stealthy).

Rafale (left, upside down) can handle 11gs in emergency (so a pilot weights a ton). Both planes have the same overall dimensions, although the F35 is heavier: 13 tons empty versus 10 tons for the Rafale. The g limit of the F35 is 9g. The F35, on the right, due to its bath tub approach to aerodynamics from passive stealth, has the worst aerodynamics of modern Western fighter bombers. Corrupt Europeans say in a double entendre: no problem, with the F35 we can “network”… with Washington. The Rafale has a maximum takeoff weight of 24.5 tons and can carry more than 14 tons, including 9.5 tons of external fuel and armament.

According to the Pentagon’s Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation in 2021, the F-35 program costs a total of $1.7 trillion across its lifecycle.

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Germany is supposed to help develop the “6th generation” Franco-German-Spanish Future Combat Air System (FCAS / SCAF) which is led by France in general and Dassault in particular (maker of the Rafale; the Typhoon/Eurofighter is made by Airbus). To visualize the effort, the F35 research and development was 55 billion dollars. The FCAS/SCAF research and development is supposed to be 100 billion. It will be the next generation Rafale. However, forking over billions to the US military industrial complex is antagonistic to the FCAS/SCAF (especially as the US is developing an equivalent, 6th generation plane… So Germany is basically sending money to that new US plane…) 

Choosing the F35 was pretty much an act of allegiance of Berlin to Washington, and betrayal of Paris. And so it is throughout the democracies (AUKUS was more of the same, when Australia abruptly chose inferior US nuclear subs rather than the superior French ones it was contracted to purchase). 

Even supposedly neutral Switzerland moved by the star spangled banner, kneeled to Washington, kissed the ground and embraced 36 F35s. Switzerland also purchased five Patriot missile defense systems from Raytheon Technologies, which defeated the Aster/Mamba/SAMP/T system from France’s Eurosam…. Which is superior to the Patriot in several ways… It doesn’t end there: the NASAM, a closer ranger air defense system is integrated with Patriot and F35. And all can be turned off from Washington in a software update. So supposedly ex-neutral countries such as Finland are now arms of the Pentagon (but Finland has only an embassy in Washington, not “representatives”).

Tellingly, in a Freudian slip, the only clear advantage that the Swiss found to the F35 was that…”the F35 networked in a superior way”. Let’s all network with Washington: US makes planes, Europe sells vacations, luxuries and chocolate… to US tech workers. Let’s see how far that sort of independence goes…

The last laugh would be if Trump or an alter ego came back to the White House…

Switzerland and Finland had declared air defense as a priority operational requirement and other contenders such as the Dassault Rafale, the (Swedish) Saab Gripen, and the (Airbus) Eurofighter Typhoon were found by careful Swiss and Finn studies, superior to the F-35 in terms of aerial combat capabilities (and the Rafale engaged in ground combat for thousands of hours; F35s, by Israel, a tiny bit). All are European planes. Moreover, the latest version of the Rafale, F4.1, has everything the F35 has in terms of electronics and awareness, including a fancy helmet. So this is another case of transparent corruption, similar in spirit to buying all the fossil fuels to tyrant Putin. The US is a democracy, but a greedy one with limited awareness on the responsibilities its power should imply.

The US amply proved, in the early years of WWI and WWII, and the Suez Canal/Hungary Invasion crisis, that, in its search for greater supremacy, it will ally with the fascists and treat Europeans as it did who it used to call the “Redskins“.

The US amply proved, in the early years of WWI and WWII, and the Suez Canal/Hungary Invasion crisis, that, in its search for greater supremacy, it will ally with the fascists and treat Europeans as it did who it used to call the “Redskins”, just good enough for slaughter.

The USA’s deep psychology, tied to its deep state, in particular that of its ravenous plutocratic universities, has demonstrated that its ultimate aim is to take over Europe. Wittingly or unwittingly is besides the point. It will happen, and it has found collaborators in all the anxious F35s’ European purchasers… while perfectly valuable home grown systems are left to die from lack of financing and interest.

Meanwhile Europe can launch only two rockets to space in the rest of 2023… While Elon Musk, Tesla and Twitter superman, launches rockets cheaply to space every few days, having already landed more than 100 of the said rockets… A feat the next European rocket models will be unable of… And a feat which lowers considerably the cost of access to space…

Industrial policy does matter for access to space, any space… Russia knows this, China knows this, India knows this, Japan knows this, the US knows this. The French used to know this. And still do a bit… But the F35 purchasers pretend they do not, and that the market decides… When the F35 they purchase was actually a massive government program (1.7 trillion dollars, so far…)

Are European policies too dumb for tears? Or are European politicians too corrupt to fathom?

Patrice Ayme

Ludicrous US Racism: One Drop Rule. Instead Institute Race Privacy!

An officer with the same general appearance as President Biden, Colonel Davis, got a well-deserved medal and was called “black” by US “progressive” media. But how can one be “progressive” if one calls individuals who are white “black”? Here is indeed the reaction from the New York Times, a supposedly progressive, loudly non-racist media… which unwittingly fosters the racist “one drop rule”:

“Biden Awards Medal of Honor to Black Vietnam Veteran

Col. Paris Davis’s nomination in 1965, for saving three teammates while injured in battle, hit a wall. It was revived in recent years.

President Biden awarded the Medal of Honor to Col. Paris Davis, who saved three fellow soldiers in the midst of battle after sustaining multiple gunshot injuries. (By Zolan Kanno-Youngs,  March 3, 2023.)

WASHINGTON — Nearly 60 years after one of the first Black officers in the Special Forces was nominated — and then overlooked — for the nation’s highest military honor, President Biden on Friday awarded the Medal of Honor to that officer, Col. Paris Davis, for exemplifying “everything our nation is at our best.”

“Brave and big hearted. Determined and devoted. Selfless and steadfast. American,” Mr. Biden said of Colonel Davis, who refused to leave behind his fellow soldiers in the midst of battle after suffering multiple gun shot injuries.

The president’s fourth Medal of Honor ceremony was the culmination of decades of efforts by veterans and volunteers to recognize the sacrifice a Black officer had made for a nation that in many ways had refused to recognize him as an American.

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Let’s see who is “black” according to the New York Times:

OK, right, if Colonel Davis didn’t get his medal prior because he was considered by ultra-racists to be “black” that’s incredibly outrageous… All the more because DAVIS IS NOT BLACK, BUT, OBJECTIVELY, VISUALLY, WHITE. Davis is “black” only in the sense that racists are so racist in the USA that they even inflict a “black” skin color… on white individuals.  

This is the famous “one drop blood rule”. It enabled rich white Americans to purchase and enslave poor white Americans, on the ground that they were… “black”. President Jefferson notoriously had children from a mostly white girl, still a child, and who was mostly white. After the Ancien Regime French police told him in Paris France he couldn’t do that since slavery was unlawful in France since 656 CE or so, Jefferson told all sorts of lies to everybody, and kept her enslaved and procreating children he didn’t recognize. 

But times, and science are changing. The most notorious middle age, anti-black racist in the US consented to be DNA genetically tested. Although blonde and white he was found to have more than 15% subsaharan genetics… As more Americans use genetic testing, the technology is confronting the USA’s deep-rooted obsession with race and racial myths. This is especially true for the growing number of self-identified European Americans who learn they are actually part Sub-Saharan African. Even then, there is no absolute certainty. There is actually no DNA category for race, because a genetic marker for it does not exist… So the genetic “evidence” is mostly statistical and empirical…. In the latest US Census (2020), those who identified as pure white US citizens numbered around 200 million (and many of them are actually not so, according to genetics and the racist one drop rule!). Those US citizens self-identifying as non-whites are around 150 million.

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By the way, this entire essay is NOT an attack against President Biden, who corrected a wrong, and didn’t refer to Colonel Davis’s skin color or “black” origin… Contrarily to the pseudo-progressive US media… 

To be considered a “Jew” by Nazi standards one needed at least 1/4 th of Jewish genetics (one Jewish grandparent). However, US racism was, in one sense, stronger. The “one drop rule” was applied to Japanese Americans during World War Two… by a “Democrat” US president, Roosevelt..

On March 2, 1942, Gen. John DeWitt, the army’s administrator for the western United States, issued Proclamation No. 1, which established Military Area No. 1 (the western halves of California, Oregon, and Washington, as well as southern Arizona) and Military Area No. 2 (the remaining areas of those four states). DeWitt issued a series of subsequent proclamations that clarified that all persons of Japanese descent would be removed from the entire state of California and the remainder of Military Area No. 1. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9102 on March 18, 1942, creating the War Relocation Authority, a civilian agency tasked with speeding the process along.

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US RACISM AROSE FROM GREED… And ALIENATION FROM EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION: 

I have explained how US racism arose. Here is a quick reminder: understanding the USA without understanding the strange history of the English colony in America is impossible. To wit:

1. The English colony was founded as a combination of for-profit and public military corporation, with King James as an investor.
2. Tobacco, exploited by slaves, became a huge money maker.
3. As a succession of revolutions ravaged England, the English colony was left to administer itself. British military control got reasserted, sort of, in the 18th Century.
4. Before the end of the 17th Century, English American judges conveniently decided persons of “color” were alien by definition… And so their properties could be expropriated by the states those “whites” managed and redistributed among the “whites”.

In other words, “white” US racism arose from sheer greed, combined with lack of supervision from European civilization. That lack of supervision, specific to English America, didn’t happen in other English or British colonies…. which didn’t pass laws according to which skin color made people “alien”. (This is why when Mr. Harris a British lawyer, and slave owner in a West Indies British colony had a child with a colored person, Mr. Harris could recognize that child, who inherited… and one of the descendants is US Vice President Kamala Harris herself).

The entanglement of grotesque greed and hyper racism is typically American [1].

One can’t fix one without fixing the other.

Meanwhile one should establish RACE PRIVACY.

Race privacy should be the right, protected by law, to never ever reveal, or have revealed, one’s alleged or supposed “race”. It should be similar to “gender privacy” the right to NOT reveal one’s gender (and the latter should also be protected by law). 

Actually in France, the US mother civilization, race privacy has long been the law: race can’t be ascertained by the state or even public polsters. That’s how most French Jews survived in WWII. In the Netherlands, where Jews were registered, nearly all the Jews were exterminated, because the Nazis were able to locate them. 

To define, allude to, or mention people according to their (alleged) race or (supposed) skin color, is racism. My mom taught that to me in Africa when I was six. She told me to never engage in such behavior, which was the epitome of lack of education. Time for the USA to catch up!

That US racism arose as a plutocratic conspiracy by greedsters who had infected the judicial system is one more reason to crush it.

Patrice Ayme

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[1] Sparta had a similar phenomenon, viewing non-full Spartan as a lesser sort. Conclusion: Sparta disappeared.  Even Athens, under Pericles, of all people, and during the Peloponnesian war (the worst period to become racist!) decided that only children with both Athenian parents were Athenian… This led to all sorts of insanities which may have strongly contributed to Athens’ catastrophic defeat…  (Pericles’ own son was excluded from citizenship… although later he became a general, but then was executed, etc.; some, bound to all earthly logic may object that Pericles’ execution has nothing to do with racism… But I beg to differ: the mood of insanity and alienation that infected Athens explains in part why it was so keen to execute her own admirals and generals… Just because they lost a battle… Without evidence of betrayal…)