Generated by All in One SEO v4.9.3, this is an llms.txt file, used by LLMs to index the site. # yeahbut news News, Culture, Geo-politics and Satire ## Sitemaps - [XML Sitemap](https://yeah-but.com/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website. ## Posts - [Here's the best protection racket ever](https://yeah-but.com/index.php/2024/03/28/heres-the-best-protection-racket-ever/) - Riddle me this: you enter a proxy war against Russia. You have a 24 to 1 military expenditure advantage. 18 months into the conflict, you’ve run out of military hardware and are overwhelmed by Russian artillery shell production! Time to wash your hands, wish them luck, and wave goodbye... Global Military Expenditure - 2022 De-Industrialized - [In the best of all possible worlds](https://yeah-but.com/index.php/2025/01/15/in-the-best-of-all-possible-worlds/) - The very last thing you want to do is to be some kind of hero. Heroes belong in history books and movies. - [It wasn't supposed be like this](https://yeah-but.com/index.php/2023/11/01/it-wasnt-supposed-be-like-this/) - What they've told us: The Palestinian group, Hamas, broke out of Gaza, on the 7th of October. It proceeded indiscriminately butchering innocent Israelis, beheading children and abducting hostages. Global media reflexively ratcheted-up outrage and retaliation. Pro-Israeli heads appeared on every screen. An enraged Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu called for the evacuation and displacement of 2 - [Can you see them coming?](https://yeah-but.com/index.php/2023/10/27/can-you-hear-the-war-drums/) - There is dissension in the ranks. Usually Biden friendly publications, Axios and the Financial Times, don't publish articles citing concerns. Axios headlined an article, on the 20th of October: “behind the curtain, a rattled US government fears war could spread.” It cites anonymous sources suggesting the administration is in over its head. But we don't - [The rise of man hating culture](https://yeah-but.com/index.php/2024/07/29/the-rise-of-man-hating-women-in-the-workforce/) - The rise of man hating women in the workforce the subordinate half of the human species gained direct access to economic power - independent of a male intermediary. Over the ensuing decades, women would ris ... - [Will Climate Change be cancelled?](https://yeah-but.com/index.php/2024/06/17/is-climate-change-about-to-be-cancelled/) - Climate change initiatives are facing an unprecedented challenge. The Green New Deal may be exchanged for WW3 - [Super AI is here: Androids for everyone](https://yeah-but.com/index.php/2024/07/03/super-ai-is-here-robot-androids-for-everyone/) - Brace yourself: in 18 months, artificial super-intelligence will have arrived. - [Whom the gods destroy, they first make mad](https://yeah-but.com/index.php/2024/07/16/whom-the-gods-destroy-they-first-make-mad/) - There is a hubris problem: excessive pride, dangerous overconfidence, and complacency. It’s not only infected our political leaders, oligarchs, and intelligentsia; it’s infected the entire culture and all of us with it. Consciously or unconsciously we endlessly recycle the patent nonsense emanating from our academics, oligarchs, media presenters, and politicians. - [Our utopian dream and nightmare](https://yeah-but.com/index.php/2024/06/05/towards-extinction-of-mice-and-men-part-1/) - “If you satisfied every human desire, we would throw it all away just for something interesting to happen, just to give ourselves a challenge to overcome and prove that we are human beings…that man is still man and not keys on a piano.” - [After the climate apocalypse](https://yeah-but.com/index.php/2024/02/10/after-the-climate-apocalypse/) - You cannot sustain mass alarmism toward a looming catastrophe, when the solution, Nuclear Energy, is plain to anyone not already benighted by a misanthropic animus. Normal people see thru it and pull away. Science that does not permit doubt is a religion. - [Wokedom: Your Gluten Free Christianity](https://yeah-but.com/index.php/2024/02/18/the-new-woke-christians-gluten-free-and-low-carb/) - Hold on to your resentment. There is a new gospel in town. born-again Christian gospel of Wokedom. Only it’s a vegan, gluten-free and low-carb version. - [Trans Horror Picture Show - Final Screening!](https://yeah-but.com/index.php/2024/04/11/trans-horror-picture-show-final-screening/) - It’s what you suspected and feared. Video footage and internal documents chronicling meetings of the World Professional Organization for Transgender Health - [A world run by the spoilt, rich & really dumb](https://yeah-but.com/index.php/2024/04/16/how-a-generation-of-stunted-infants-rules/) - The adage, from shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations, refers to a pattern in the rise and fall of fortunes. - [Mirko on Marriage and dirty weekends](https://yeah-but.com/index.php/2024/03/21/mirko-marriage-and-dirty-weekends/) - "This is true,” said Mirko, “I tell Johnny, the woman you have as girlfriend, is not the same as the one you should marry. Too many men make this mistake. - [The road to hell](https://yeah-but.com/index.php/2023/09/17/the-road-to-hell/) - The antidote to sin and folly lies in the resolute abandonment of censorship. A democracy, poised on the precipice of descent into oligarchy and tyranny, can be salvaged solely through the steadfast rejection of the censor. Since the renaissance, every stride towards human advancement has hinged upon the unrestrained dissemination of thought. Conversely, every regression, - [Where Climate Change and Black Lives Don't Matter](https://yeah-but.com/index.php/2023/09/17/where-climate-change-and-black-lives-dont-matter/) - Where Climate Change and Black Lives Don't Matter There was yet another coup in Africa last month. This time in Niger, where French companies extract sufficient Uranium to meet 40% of France’s power needs. But where most of Niger’s population – as in much of Africa - must resort to burning Diesel and Wood to - [How they run the world with fear](https://yeah-but.com/index.php/2023/12/13/how-they-run-the-world-going-rogue/) - Are you curious how the world got messed-up? Read Peter Thiel’s 2004 Essay: The Straussian Moment. Thiel is a co-founder of PayPal, and the President of Clarium Capital. His estimated net worth is above $10 billion. Billionaires routinely use their wealth to promote their own agenda. Part 1 detailed how billionaires captured our mass-media by - [Shameless Mass Media & the dangers of blogging](https://yeah-but.com/index.php/2023/12/22/a-despicable-media-shut-them-out/) - Even the Used-Car-Salesman provides their customer with a warranty. Our mass media are accountable to no-one. When not trading lies, they trade in banality. They tear down the truth to elevate deception, they ignore the heroic to fawn over the craven. The following stories should not persist in a civilized world. The mass-media is not Even the Used-Car-Salesman provides their customer with a warranty. Our mass media are accountable to no-one. When not trading lies, they trade in banality. They tear down the truth to elevate deception, they ignore the heroic to fawn over the craven. The following stories should not persist in a civilized world. The mass-media is not - [Here's a brilliant idea to transform the world](https://yeah-but.com/index.php/2024/01/03/a-brilliant-idea-that-transformed-the-world/) - US Major Michael Aquino had a brilliant idea. What he proposed was more audacious than original, and more unscrupulous than smart. It was an idea whose time had come. An idea that would energize the military, lift a nation from its malaise and transform the world. The USA was profoundly humiliated by the Vietnam War. - [Where is your gratitude?](https://yeah-but.com/index.php/2023/09/17/where-is-your-gratitude/) - Where is your gratitude? Dante assigns the ungrateful to the ninth circle of hell, a fate fittingly severe. Throughout most of human history, infectious diseases have claimed millions of lives and led to the collapse of entire civilizations. Life expectancy barely exceeded 30 years for much of our past. However, the present situation is not - [What you learn in a humanities degree?](https://yeah-but.com/index.php/2023/11/21/things-you-learn-in-a-humanities-degree/) - Apart from resentment: Inexorably, from orientation to graduation day, your clear thinking will decline. You will have learned how to reflexively obfuscate on virtually any subject. You will possess an acute sensitivity to detect oppression and privilege in all the places it does not exist. Conversely, the worst excesses instigated by the most powerful against - [Wisdom of Mirko - kids, social media, and sex](https://yeah-but.com/index.php/2024/01/07/mirkos-wisdom-kids-social-media-and-sex/) - She obsessively documents her life on social media. She posts every event, ‘significant purchase’ and achievement (hers and those of her children) for all the world to see. Mirko’s niece is the quintessential Balkan Bitch. A woman used to getting her way. His daughter follows her exploits slavishly online. Mirko can see the negative effect - [We are Spartacus - by John Pilger](https://yeah-but.com/index.php/2023/11/21/we-are-spartacus-by-john-pilger/) - ADMIN NOTE: We are sad to see the great man and a great journalist pass. You are missed. There can’t be democracy and colonial war; one aspires to decency, the other to fascism. Spartacus was a 1960 Hollywood film based on a book written secretly by the blacklisted novelist Howard Fast, and adapted by the - [I know nothing - Hoorah!](https://yeah-but.com/index.php/2023/10/02/we-know-nothing-hoorah/) - Back during the second world war, a 21-year-old Yaroslav Hunka volunteered into a notorious Waffen SS military unit. On the 22nd of September 2023, 338 Members of the Canadian Parliament honoured Yaroslav with a standing ovation. The remarkable moment occurred just as Ukraine President Zelensky concluded his speech, and the Speaker of the House announced - [How they run the world – billionaires](https://yeah-but.com/index.php/2023/12/06/who-runs-the-world-and-how-part-1/) - “The first law of politics is that a body politic is divided into a ruling class and a ruled class. Human beings are born babies…They survive only in nurseries…” R.G. Collingwood–The New Leviathan–published 1942 Let’s talk real privilege: A billion dollars is an obscene quantity of money. According to Forbes there are 2,640 billionaires in - [What climate emergency?](https://yeah-but.com/index.php/2023/09/17/what-climate-emergency/) - For very many problems, the problems are combinatorially explosive. You cannot conceivably search the entire space of a problem like climate change. We aren't even sure of all the variables that need to be searched. We do not have the time, the machinery, the resources to search the whole space. But life demands that you - [The Wisdom of Mirko: On Gender](https://yeah-but.com/index.php/2023/10/01/the-wisdom-of-mirko-on-gender/) - By Fab Marsani “ You not like football, you not interesting in cars and you like flowers. But I know you not homo-sexual.” Mirko’s world is Black & White. No room for ambiguity, fluidity or any of those non-conforming gender roles the ABC love to showcase. Ever since his wife left him for a bonsai - [Wisdom of Mirko - Balkan Neighbours](https://yeah-but.com/index.php/2023/12/11/wisdom-of-mirko-balkan-neighbours/) - By, Fab Marsani " If you give me free ticket and pay all expenses... I wouldn't go there," says Mirko. I mentioned to Mirko how the Weekend Australian featured a luxury travel lift out supplement, titled: "Albania Mania". He thought I was talking my 'usual bullshit' to stir him up. There's very little to unite Fab - [Holidays in Babel](https://yeah-but.com/index.php/2023/09/17/holidays-in-babel/) - Holidays in Babel "Come, let's build ourselves a city with a tower reaching the heavens, so that we can make a name for ourselves; otherwise, we'll be scattered over the face of the whole earth." Genesis I'm nestled under the shade of a beachfront veranda on Semanijak Beach, Bali. I'm leisurely sipping freshly squeezed orange - [Palestinians Strike - War in Israel](https://yeah-but.com/index.php/2023/10/09/palestinians-strike-war-in-israel/) - All This Death Is The Fault Of The Western Press – Caitlin Johnstone - Whenever something like this happens warmongers always seize on the emotional frenzy of the moment to shove through insane acts of warmongering and scream vitriol at anyone who questions them. Then later when all the facts are in people slowly start to - [Debt Cancellation](https://yeah-but.com/index.php/2023/09/17/debt-cancellation/) - By Michael Hudson - excerpts. Many people think that debt and the payment of interest and the fact that all debtors have to pay their debts, it’s assumed that the rules of finance are universal, they’ve always been this way, and that there is no alternative. You could say that the political message of - [Boxing with the Empire](https://yeah-but.com/index.php/2023/09/17/boxing-with-the-empire/) - By Caitlin Johnsone – from caitlinjohnsone.com.au Speech is violence and cluster bombs are peace. Homelessness and war are normal and opposing nuclear armageddon is treason. You’re a serious person if you believe our brains are being scrambled by Russian ray guns and a kooky conspiracy theorist if you’re skeptical about UFOs. ❖ US officials talking about - [Pseudoscience, Greed, Nihilism Behind Disinformation On Climate Change And Fires](https://yeah-but.com/index.php/2023/09/17/pseudoscience-greed-nihilism-behind-disinformation-on-climate-change-and-fires/) - by MICHAEL SHELLENBERGER from Substack :- Climate change is causing devastating fires around the world, say top government officials, influential scientists, and the world’s largest newspapers. Greece’s civil protection minister said climate change was causing the fires in Greece, Hawaii, and Canada. Climate change is increasing average temperatures that dry out wood and create fire weather. - [Gaslighting : CJ Hopkins - Consent Factory](https://yeah-but.com/index.php/2023/09/17/gaslighting-cj-hopkins-consent-factory/) - Gaslighting : CJ Hopkins - Consent Factory For students of official propaganda, mind control, emotional coercion, and other insidious manipulation techniques, the rollout of the New Normal has been a bonanza. Never before have we been able to observe the application and effects of these powerful technologies in real-time on such a massive scale. In - [We won't be fooled again](https://yeah-but.com/index.php/2023/09/17/we-wont-be-fooled-again/) - We won't be fooled again By James Howard Kunstler of Clusterfuck Nation - Blog Bring it on! 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