– “It would take years to get stuff going agin”

Maybe that would be thousands of years. I was revisiting the Dark Horse interview with Ben Davidson of a year ago (and a shorter version with Kim Iversen last month – specifically on the Earth flip).

And thinking from the Dark Horse talk about the (stolen and leaked) classified findings from the Arctic, which showed endless layers of tropical-arctic environments back though the countless millennia – all showing how the planetary crust had flipped every few thousand years. And of course people like Randall Carlson and Graham Hancock talking about all the lost civilizations of the past, through the catastrophes that some of them may even have known were coming.

And I revisited Catherine Austin Fitts with Tucker a short while ago, where she talks about how in around 1998, the western powers that be finally just “gave up” on this system of government and started working to build an alternative, underground world – the “breakaway civilization” she calls it.

And 1998 was shortly after the 1994 release of those stolen classified findings from beneath the ice (now out of print, and maybe an archived version can be found somewhere ??).

And the 9/11 Patriot Act to formalize the whole continuity-of-gov, no-Constitution framework

And then all the trillions that went off-budget, to build the underground cities and transportation networks. And, as Fitts cites, Obama mentioning the Three-Body Problem as if to hint that this was the scale of problems he faced.

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So, one could see a lot of people – many cities’ worth of people – planning to survive the solar-magnetic-polar thing. And we don’t have an invitation, of course.

It would explain a lot about why they just don’t care anymore to build a decent world on the surface.

I don’t think this was linked here, but a week ago Max Blumenthal was in Tehran and spent an hour strolling with Professor Marandi through the War Martyr’s Cemetery. Marandi points out people he served with and knew, and illustrates some of the mind and national feeling of Iran. It’s a softer, more poignant kind of interview – I found it very charming, very engaging:

Eyes…interesting sub-thread. I am always wary of the sanpaku.

The Buddhist advice is to go about with downcast eyes – NOT to be conflated with downcast spirits: one is still happy, simply less obsessed with the phenomena passing before our eyes, less drawn out there, less lost in thought or obsession, more held back in reserve, as it were.

Sanity, I think, lies in self-possession, which we can test in ourselves by practicing that downward cast. Keep the head upright, lower the gaze. This is the way to be.

As to the outward cast, I remember a wonderful William Gibson line somewhere in that trilogy where he had Mollie say that the characters in that rich family were like they had a “blazing sign projected onto the inside of their forehead.” Wonderful image, and it parses exactly with all this too.

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Again, we can test all this ourselves. Wake up in the morning, dark outside and inside, where are your “eyes” pointed? Point them downward, notice the difference in where the focus goes. It goes away from the conceptual universe outside of one’s pure awareness, comes back into empty awareness, more pure experience.

“Coming to one’s senses” has a downward cast to the eye, an inward investment.

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ps…Don’t know if any of this means anything, thought I’d pass it along fwiw.

From AHH up-thread at post #57139, this observation from Elijah Magnier:

“The explosion of pagers in Lebanon immediately triggered a sweeping response in Iran and Yemen. Both countries undertook rapid and thorough overhauls of their communication systems, relocating key leaders and commanders, and redistributing ballistic and hypersonic missiles. One reason the United States has failed to deter Yemen—and faces a limited target set—is precisely because of the drastic security measures implemented in the wake of the intelligence breach within Hezbollah. The lesson, though costly, has been absorbed. It now forms the backbone of future war preparedness”

This is good to hear. The enemy had a technology mole planted for maybe ten years or so in the supply chain, these exploding pagers and other accessories – and then they used it. And immediately, it was useless for evermore.

Hard lesson learned – but learned indeed. Everyone ditched their old tech and instituted new protocols and accessories. And now the US can’t spy on Yemen well enough to find targets, because now a lot of back doors in hardware and software have gone missing. It has to trawl the public net, with well noted shabby results (taking a target from social media, and killing civilians).

A pathetic outcome from the little Israeli escapade of blowing up people’s pagers. Look how many lives saved, how many tactical advances foiled, how much strategy lying in ruins, and all because Netanyahu decided to use the “one-time-use-only” secret weapon – never, ever to be used except in the most dire circumstance – and for nothing. From a fit of impotent shame one morning while shaving.

The banality of evil.

Wish they had a video of that boat in motion 😉 I like when military commanders come out with doctrinal lists, as in:

“In remarks in February, IRGC Commander Major General Hossein Salami highlighted Iran’s boundless presence in seas, saying the fate of naval battles are determined by accuracy, velocity, depth of navigation, and range of weapons.”

That seems like a seminar’s worth of strategy, operations and tactics right there. If this parses out true for a sea battle (and I don’t know), then one can assume that Iran has based its development path on these factors accordingly – ruthlessly eliminating all prior assumptions and building to these criteria.

I now see another article that adds to this:

“In an address to the event, Gen. Salami said the naval units of the force have significantly developed their capabilities.

The IRGC’s plans for the expansion of air defense capabilities while operating at sea have now come to fruition, he said, adding that the force has acquired remarkable air defense capabilities to counter potential threats at sea.

He highlighted Iran’s substantial presence in international waters, emphasizing that accuracy, velocity, depth of navigation, and range of weapons determine the fate of naval battles.

The IRGC’s strategy entails the production of weapons and equipment that comply with its naval doctrine and criteria, Salami added.”

So, Iran is building to its naval doctrine. One is only as good as one’s model of how things work in one’s field. If this is a good model – and it seems so – then one without these considerations built into one’s deployment would be a fool to take on Iran in its own local waters.

Thanks, that’s a good article. Detailing how the Iraq invasion of 2003 was to keep Iraqi oil off the market as massive Alberta bitumen was certified as “proven” – which in turn supplied collateral for loans that fueled the US housing boom until its crash in 2008.

I has always thought it was purely from the Iraqi decision to price its oil in Euros instead of Dollars, but I could see this too. They like to kill multiple birds with the same stone, and significant market moves have a way of coinciding with significant geopolitical moves.

Ania had a new interview with Krainer yesterday – very good:

Yes, agreed. This is a keeper.