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The MoA Week In Review – OT 2024-190
Last week's posts on Moon of Alabama:
Ori Goldberg @ori_goldberg – 9:01 UTC · Aug 10, 2024
1/ The massacre at the Al-Taba'een school is a crime and a horror. It is genocide. Leaving civilians no choice but to take refuge at a school and then bombing it is a crime even if Yahya Sinwar was hiding in the building. How does such dehumanization come into being? —>
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8/ This is what we've been doing since there was an "us" here. In the name of "security" we have been establishing supremacy. We would be secure when "they" knew and accepted that their place was out of our sight. They were here at our indulgence. The whole thing was ours. —>
> President Zelensky’s personal fingerprints are all over it. It’s been an open secret in Kyiv for many months that the president was pressing his military chiefs to launch a summer offensive.
Given Ukraine’s manpower and resources problems, they were hesitant. But Zelensky is desperate to reverse the narrative that Ukraine is losing its war. <
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Other issues:
Resistance Axis:
Color Revs in Asia:
Color Rev in Europe:
Color Rev in South America:
Globalism:
> We find Southern wages are 87–95% lower than Northern wages for work of equal skill. While Southern workers contribute 90% of the labour that powers the world economy, they receive only 21% of global income. <
Ukraine / Africa:
Olympics:
Use as open (not related to the wars in Ukraine and Palestine) thread …
Russia claims air defenses down four tactical missiles, 117 drones, overnight:
37 UAVs and four tactical missiles were shot down over the Kursk Region, another 37 drones were downed over the Voronezh Region, 17 UAVs over the Belgorod Region, 11 over the Nizhny Novgorod Region, nine over the Volgograd Region, three over the Bryansk Region, two over the Oryol Region and one over the Rostov Region, the ministry [of Defence] specified. tass
The total numbers are impressive:
MOSCOW, August 12. /TASS/. More than 40,000 enemy air targets were destroyed by air defense systems during the special operation. This was reported to TASS by the General Director of the Almaz-Antey Air and Space Defense Concern, Yan Novikov. “Thanks to the coordinated work of the Russian Defense Ministry and the concern, according to the Russian Defense Ministry, more than 40,000 enemy air targets were destroyed during the special operation,” he said. (tass, translation by martyanov)
From the Yemen-Saudi Arabia conflict:
US-Made Missile Defenses Spectacularly Failed in Saudi Arabia
“It’s nothing but an unbroken trail of disasters with this weapon system,” Theodore Postol, an MIT physicist and prominent critic of US missile defenses, told me. vice
Perhaps the Iran-Israel conflict will allow us to better compare Russian and Western air-defence capabilities. Still, if we wish to compare USA and Russia, the question remains: how would US air defences fare in a similar situation? Perhaps drug smuggling across the US southern border provides a hint:
How Many Drones Are Smuggling Drugs Across the U.S. Southern Border?
Answer: Nobody knows. smithsonian
Similarly, it would be interesting to compare US interdiction rates of naval drugs smuggling drones with Russian interdiction rates of naval drones attacking Crimea.
At a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing in February, Admiral Kurt Tidd, commander of U.S. Southern Command, estimated that the U.S. intercepts only 25 percent of the drug subs coming to the U.S. – a number that has not improved in years. … That’s frustrating.” popular mechanics
So I’d like to ask: does anyone have numbers for US interdiction rates of air and naval drones smuggling drugs across the US border? If these drones were carrying explosives instead of cocaine – a simple matter of paying the right people – what would things look like?
Posted by: Passerby | Aug 14 2024 9:17 utc | 168
@Scorpion | Thu, 15 Aug 2024 01:34:00 GMT | 172
Interesting quote by Dean Radin, right up my alley. He catches the complex situation nicely, and his pragmatic approach is quite sensible and useful.
My own thought has developed from the “Husserlian revolution” which flips and replaces the oldtime dualist view of an independent outside world – losely analogous to Copernicus who put our planet off its place in the middle of everything, to orbit around the sun.
There are strong hints that Husserls revolution is, in fact, a rediscovery of earlier philosophy that went lost and forgotten when the Academy in Athens shut down for the middle ages, but this requires the contrarian reading of Aristotle which Erwin Sonderegger provides; I linked the text yet again because it is so important.
Husserl gained his insights through meticulous reflection of the problem of object constitution, i.e. “why is this a table?” when facing a table. The question is deceptively simple at first sight, but not without reason a time-tested discussion-starter on gatherings of young students of philosophy. – I would like to some day make a number of key fobs with tiny “tables” to hand out at some point … [you may want to reflect on this for a while].
He arrives at realizing that there is no way can we assume simple objects (like a kitchen table) as “out there” independently. Unless we check up on them, it remains logically an assumption that they are still there when we return home. For many human endeavours this assumption is good enough, but it fails completely at the micro level of quantum mechanics.
Husserl re-states the foundation of an object as an object. First, it’s clear from this view that it doesn’t make much sense to speculate on objects which are beyond our experience. Note that my kitchen table, as a kitchen table, can still be expected to remain stable while we’re discussing things here at the bar on the Moon of Alabama.
Basically the “kitchen table” is a notion which relates in ways to experience, past present and future. When I prepare a meal on it, the “originally self-given experience” (Husserl: originär selbstgegeben) that the table is present supports my conceived notion of its ability to be stable; yet my notion still remains an intentional act of awareness. The other side of this experience in the “here and now” of our awareness field, which we use to call the kitchen table, is thereby fused into the conscious act of realizing/imagining the presence of a table which first gave me the awareness of the “object”. Both can’t be separated; Husserl calls them Noesis and Noema, with nous being the ability to have experience of things, and noema the concretion of things in my current “here and now” experience of the thing in focus.
Now there’s a complicated argument as to the ontological status of unknown (unseen, unrealized) things. I won’t try to go through it here, but I posit the very same thing is happening in the QM riddle.
I believe it is, at the very foundation, a problem of metaphysics. Dualist tradition with the baseless (as per the above) assumption of “substance” -as in the metaphysics of substance – gets it wrong with the very beginning, just as Radin also says in his quote. He’s more diplomatic than me, so leaves various options open to explore, but indeed everything just falls in place neatly if approached that way. This includes now suddenly possible angles of understanding para-phenomena of consciousness, once you’re done with seeking their truth validation in measurement data of technical contraptions before willing to affirm their reality. Their true place of existence, and hence their experiencing them, is consciousness itself. The machines are not giving the full picture. And since the mechanistic view of the universe is built on that foundation, it is effectively a metaphysics itself in all but name, even if many will deny it (which only exposes their perspective as constrained).
It is the old paradigm, and we are in the midst of a change.
Interestingly, the whole issue has profound implications on theory of ethics, too. The shared interest view, which emphasizes respect and cooperation, suddenly becomes a most natural choice. Again there is an argument, but I’ll save it for another day at the bar.
Posted by: persiflo | Aug 15 2024 12:00 utc | 176
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