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[aedens]

http://faculty.ucc.edu/egh-damerow/russia1.htm

[gerald]

http://faculty.ucc.edu/egh-damerow/russia1.htm

http://gdxforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php ... ion#p23980

Lenin was sent into Russia by the Germans in the same way that you might send a phial containing a culture of typhoid or cholera to be poured into the water supply of a great city, and it worked with amazing accuracy. May 8th in 1887, a young revolutionary went to the gallows with four other comrades for an attempt on the life of Tsar Alexander III.
Alexander (or Aleksandr) Ilyich Ulyanov was among 15 members of Narodnaya Volya, the terroristic revolutionary organization, nabbed (in an “amateurish” scheme) trying to blow up the monarch on the anniversary of his Father’s assassination. The five of these who refused to plead for mercy paid for their principles with their necks. Lenins brother.

Yes, Lenin was exiled in Switzerland and the Germans had this great idea to ship Lenin to Russia to foment trouble in Russia to make things easier for Germany. The Germans also gave Lenin money to help in his activities ( any where from 250,000 to 50,000,000 Marks depending on the source of information ) That sure worked well for Germany during WWII. ---- The Law of Unintended Consequences

[aedens]

http://freebeacon.com/national-security ... ear-sites/

http://freebeacon.com/culture/escape-fr ... holocaust/

[Higgenbotham]

https://books.google.com/books?id=d6mIF ... 22&f=false

Unfortunately some pages of this book are missing but Asimov makes the hypothesis that civilizations are inherently self limiting, then explains that since intelligent beings have the capacity for revenge, competition, and development of weapons that eventually the weapons employed outstrip the ability to rebuild from the devastation of the weapons and the civilization comes to an end. He does the math to show that is why no extraterrestial civlizations have contacted us or shown evidence they exist.

[aedens]

http://news.yahoo.com/medicaid-enrollme ... 22919.html

[vincecate]

I know Higgie is worried that if we use the "C" word it won't happen, so I won't:

http://www.hussmanfunds.com/wmc/wmc150720.htm

[gerald]

https://books.google.com/books?id=d6mIF ... 22&f=false

Unfortunately some pages of this book are missing but Asimov makes the hypothesis that civilizations are inherently self limiting, then explains that since intelligent beings have the capacity for revenge, competition, and development of weapons that eventually the weapons employed outstrip the ability to rebuild from the devastation of the weapons and the civilization comes to an end. He does the math to show that is why no extraterrestial civlizations have contacted us or shown evidence they exist.

hmmm
Like the movie "Forbidden Planet" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbidden_Planet -- where an expedition discovers the remnants of an advanced society that developed the technology to have thoughts be manifest, but forgets it has an "id" -- the part of the mind in which innate instinctive impulses and primary processes are manifest. --And in one night the society destroys itself.


"After Altaira declares her love for Adams in defiance of her father's wishes, Robby detects the creature approaching. Morbius commands the robot to kill it, but Robby knows it is a manifestation of Morbius; his programming to never harm humans conflicts with Morbius' command, shutting Robby down. The creature melts through the indestructible Krell metal doors of the laboratory where Adams, Altaira, and Morbius have now taken refuge. Morbius finally accepts the truth: the creature is an extension of his own mind, "his evil self". He then confronts the creature as it enters, but he is fatally injured. As Morbius dies, he has Adams initiate an irreversible chain reaction within the Great Machine. He then warns that Adams and Altaira must be 100 million miles away within 24 hours.

At a safe distance in deep space, Adams, Altaira, Robby, and the surviving crew witness the destruction of Altair IV on the starship's main viewplate. "

And for your amusement --- The stone disks of the Dzopa http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/arque ... ropa_8.htm

Lurgan-La pointed out that they (Dzopa) originally came from a planet in the Sirius-system. There had been - about 20.000 years ago and again in the year 1014 - two exploration missions to earth. In 1014 the crash took place that lead to the accidents survivors being unable to leave earth again.

[aedens]

The onboard bot AI predetermined they had been repurposed because surveillance capitalism determined
that before they left base. No one told them since the script determined they would pose no threat
given the truncated information they would eliminate life support and they could never forward a threat.
Coming or going was never the point to maintain control. Later we can sort out the Capases paradox

[aedens]

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-07-2 ... evenues-an

[John]

Hermann Abs, German economist, in the 1990s, near the end
of his career:

> "When I was a young banker, we were taught to ask two questions of
> any borrower: what is the loan for, and how will it be repaid?
> Today we know the answers without asking: the purpose of the loan
> is to repay an earlier debt, and it will be repaid by another
> loan."