#Arkhaven INFOGALACTIC #Castalia House
HYPERGAMOUSE Episode 74: How Can You Win
REBEL DEAD REVENGE Episode 42: God’s Speed
EVIL MONKEY MEMES Episode 52: There Is Only Now
SPACEKRAKEN Episode 29: Madness Industry
CHUCK DIXON PRESENTS: WAR Episode 65: Terror of the Tank Men
WARDOGS INC. Episode 6: Watch Your Back
This is a defense of hiding the truth about adverse vaccine events being offered by one of the greatest intellectual champions of atheism:
Whether or not there is any truth to vaccine harm is irrelevant. There are numerous studies that prove the power of psychosomatic thinking. This is why we must censor antivax information at all costs: because people who “believe” they’ve taken poison will suffer ill-effects as if they actually took poison.
Sam Hariss, 7 September 2022
What do you think the most reasonable odds that the architect of this argument is correct about the nonexistence of God would be? It’s infinity to one against, right? QED.
The complete uselessness – actually, worse than uselessness – of the European Union can be seen in the way that it managed to lose a war in which it wasn’t even involved.
The EU has suffered severe political and economic damage from its handling of the situation in Ukraine, and can already be declared the loser in the conflict, the speaker of Hungary’s National Assembly claimed on Sunday.
Laszlo Kover, who is a member of Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s Fidesz party, accused Brussels of failing to prevent the conflict through political means, with the result that it’s “unable to restore peace diplomatically.”
“Under external pressure, the EU is acting against its most basic economic interests and should already be considered a loser, regardless of which of the parties directly involved in fighting will declare itself the winner,” he said. Powers outside Europe are trying to condemn the bloc’s members to “military vulnerability, political subjugation, economic and energy incapacity, financial indebtedness and social disintegration,” with Brussels helping them to achieve this goal, the parliament speaker claimed.
The EU is grappling with soaring natural gas prices, the prospect of energy shortages in winter and spiking inflation in the wake of sanctions it imposed on Russia over its military operation in Ukraine.
The EU will surrender to Russia this winter, the USA permitting. And if the USA does not permit, several more member-states will follow Britain out the exit.
UPDATE: There is now a reasonable chance that Russia will declare war on Germany. And justifiably so. Fortunately, the Germans are already in such an energy-deprived state that a few targeted missile strikes against key power plants of the sort that were launched against Ukraine yesterday would probably suffice to bring Berlin to its knees.
Germany has crossed a red line with Russia by sending arms to Ukraine, Moscow’s ambassador in Berlin said on Monday. The decision undermined decades of reconciliation since the end of World War II and the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, the diplomat added.
“The very fact that the Ukrainian regime is being supplied with German-made lethal weapons, which are used not only against Russian military service members, but also the civilian population of Donbass, crosses the red line,” Ambassador Sergey Nechaev said in an interview with Izvestia newspaper.
He added that Berlin should have known better, “considering the moral and historic responsibility that Germany has before our people for the Nazi crimes.”
MY SISTER SUPREMA Episode 28: Dressed Like This?
CLASSIC BIBLE TALES Episode 72: The Lord’s Prayer
CHATEAU GRIEF Episode 141: Load the Ice
FULL OF EYES Episode 5: Mighty Shepherd
BOVODAR & THE BEARS Episode 18: Get Up Here, Savage!
RIGHT HO, JEEVES Episode 63: All’s Well That Ends Well
This marks the final episode of RIGHT HO, JEEVES. If you are interested in obtaining a print edition, they are available from Arkhaven Direct.
A historic moment. Spacebunny and the SDL meet Captain Europa for the first time. I think I can assure you that both the art and the story will meet with the approval of the backers, without being predictable.
The Fake Biden Administration declares a 22nd straight year of national emergency:
US President Joe Biden has renewed the national emergency declared by former president George W. Bush in the days following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 for another year.
The “terrorist threat” behind the attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people “continues,” Biden wrote in a Thursday memo published in the Federal Register, adding that the “powers and authorities adopted to deal with” the attacks “must continue in effect beyond September 14, 2022.”
Ironically, it is true that the parties responsible for the demolition of the Twin Towers have never been held responsible. But losing a few thousand New Yorkers and modifying the Manhattan skyline wasn’t a national emergency then and it certainly isn’t an emergency now.
How does anyone even pretend to believe in Clown World’s antics anymore?
“I hope you’re vaccinated” has been appearing in my DMs lately and I’m starting to think it’s the latest hate speech propaganda from the right. They’re essentially saying “I hope you experience severe suffering and death.” Even though the vaccines are safe, the way that they’re saying it is hateful.
Twitter, 9 September 2022
This is interesting because it demonstrates two things. First, people are gradually beginning to understand that being vaxxed is harmful and is linked in some way to a risk of dying. Second, the utilization of vaccinated status as a curse triggers an emotional reaction, thereby demonstrating the effectiveness of the rhetoric.
Most of the vaccinated are still coping more or less successfully, hence the statement about the safety of the vaccines. But the cracks in their neural programming are beginning to show. We’ll know the breakdown of that programming is complete when they start crying about how it’s not their fault that they’re vaccinated, how no one should be permitted to discriminate against the vaccinated, and complaining about the unfair advantages possessed by the unvaccinated.
HYPERGAMOUSE Episode 73: Can You Believe It?
THE RED TATTOO Episode 19: I Need To Know
VEGFOLK FABLES Episode 134: Abandoned
BEN GARRISON CLASSICS Episode 60: Paul Ryan Picks a Side
CHUCK DIXON PRESENTS: COMEDY Episode 64: Jumpin Jupiter
INVASION ’55 Episode 9: Something Stinks in Hidalgo
The USA’s European satrapies have apparently been ordered to start reducing their economic ties with China:
Germany’s economy ministry is considering a range of measures to make business with China less attractive as it seeks to reduce its dependency on its major trading partner, according to a Reuters report. Sources familiar with the matter revealed that the measures may include reducing or even scrapping investment and export guarantees to China in addition to reducing participation in trade fairs and scaling basic training for local employees.
There have been ongoing discussions in Germany about “overdependence on China,” especially since Scholz assumed office. Despite the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russia-Ukraine conflict on Germany’s concerns about the security of its industrial and supply chain, its economy ministry’s consideration over measures is essentially related to a policy shift away from China.
It’s legitimate for a country to be concerned about its high level of external dependence and long-term economic security. However, it is unrealistic to unilaterally emphasize a so-called “decoupling.” After all, China and Germany cannot be decoupled considering the strength of two-way economic ties. It’s understandable for Berlin to assess adjusting and diversifying the supply chains in order to safeguard the stability. What is unacceptable to China is using “reducing dependency on China” as a pretext of “decoupling” while accusing China of being “unreliable,” which is a discriminatory and targeted attack on a major trading partner.
It would appear that the second front is in the process of coming, and that the US doesn’t wish to get caught off-guard as it was by Russian preparations for Western sanctions. But so much of the Western economy is reliant upon Chinese manufacturing that it’s hard to imagine the effect being less catastrophic than the consequences of sanctioning Russia have been.
This is not exactly a surprise, as anyone who was involved with the Big Bear dispute knows all about how wide-open the system was. But the much bigger problem is that for all that the media likes to pontificate about data privacy laws, neither the media nor the various justice systems have any interest in dealing with the companies who serially violate them on a daily basis.
The media won’t report the data breaches and no one else will hold them accountable, regardless of what the laws say.
So for better or for worse, I and the rest of the Patreon Security Team are no longer with the company. As a result, I’m looking for a new Security or Privacy Engineering role and would appreciate any connections, advice, or job opportunities from folks my network.
Emily Metcalfe, Security/Privacy Engineer, 8 September 2022
Here is my advice: find a new line of work. While I’m not exactly a fan of Patreon, it’s probably a good thing that they are replacing what was a nonexistent security system with something that might actually work.