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    Cover of Silent Weapons For Quiet Wars

    Silent Weapons For Quiet Wars

    Jeremy Robert Johnson · 2009

    In the brutal zero-sum game of the new future, every meal is a murder, and every act of love is a declaration of genocidal war. To survive it, you will have to make alliances with the sleeping demons in your blood; learn to wear new names and faces, and shed your soul; feed your inner child to the machine, before it eats you alive; build and defend your own heaven; and become one of the sacred, secret tools with which nature reinvents itself. To win this game, you will have to change into everything that you are not. To play you need only open this book and arm yourself with... SILENT WEAPONS FOR QUIET WARS

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    1. rgloverFeb 2024
      I find it interesting that last week, we had a nationwide AT&T outage and one of the causes speculated on local news outlets (within a couple hours) was a solar flare [1]. Now, less than a week later, we have articles in the New Yorker priming thoughts about solar storms.

      Why is this relevant? Consider where that speculation started: local news networks [2].

      It's worth reading Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars [3] if you haven't already to understand why it's worth me mentioning this. Easily dismissed as "conspiracy nonsense," but it's worth asking "why this, why now?"

      [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7scPFH0aq9U

      [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksb3KD6DfSI

      [3] https://archive.org/details/silent-weapons-for-quiet-wars-or...

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    2. rgloverOct 2023
      Read Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars [1] and the "how did we get here" will become immediately clear.

      [1] https://ia800100.us.archive.org/5/items/SilentWeaponsForQuie...

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    3. eipMay 2013
      Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars
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    4. eipMay 2017
      The problem with stabilizing the economic system is that there is too much demand on account of (1) too much greed and (2) too much population.

      This creates excessive economic inductance which can only be balanced with economic capacitance (true resources or value - e.g., in goods or services).

      The social welfare program is nothing more than an open-ended credit balance system which creates a false capital industry to give nonproductive people a roof over their heads and food in their stomachs. This can be useful, however, because the recipients become state property in return for the "gift," a standing army for the elite. For he who pays the piper picks the tune.

      Those who get hooked on the economic drug, must go to the elite for a fix. In this, the method of introducing large amounts of stabilizing capacitance is by borrowing on the future "credit" of the world. This is a fourth law of motion - onset, and consists of performing an action and leaving the system before the reflected reaction returns to the point of action - a delayed reaction.

      The means of surviving the reaction is by changing the system before the reaction can return. By this means, politicians become more popular in their own time and the public pays later. In fact, the measure of such a politician is the delay time.

      The same thing is achieved by a government by printing money beyond the limit of the gross national product, and economic process called inflation. This puts a large quantity of money into the hands of the public and maintains a balance against their greed, creates a false self-confidence in them and, for awhile, stays the wolf from the door.

      They must eventually resort to war to balance the account, because war ultimately is merely the act of destroying the creditor, and the politicians are the publicly hired hit men that justify the act to keep the responsibility and blood off the public conscience. (See section on consent factors and social-economic structuring.)

      If the people really cared about their fellow man, they would control their appetites (greed, procreation, etc.) so that they would not have to operate on a credit or welfare social system which steals from the worker to satisfy the bum.

      Since most of the general public will not exercise restraint, there are only two alternatives to reduce the economic inductance of the system.

      1. Let the populace bludgeon each other to death in war, which will only result in a total destruction of the living earth.

      2. Take control of the world by the use of economic "silent weapons" in a form of "quiet warfare" and reduce the economic inductance of the world to a safe level by a process of benevolent slavery and genocide.

      The latter option has been taken as the obviously better option. At this point it should be crystal clear to the reader why absolute secrecy about the silent weapons is necessary. The general public refuses to improve its own mentality and its faith in its fellow man. It has become a herd of proliferating barbarians, and, so to speak, a blight upon the face of the earth.

      They do not care enough about economic science to learn why they have not been able to avoid war despite religious morality, and their religious or self-gratifying refusal to deal with earthly problems renders the solution of the earthly problem unreachable to them.

      It is left to those few who are truly willing to think and survive as the fittest to survive, to solve the problem for themselves as the few who really care. Otherwise, exposure of the silent weapon would destroy our only hope of preserving the seed of the future true humanity.

      --Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars

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