Category: Modernity

  • Coughlin on War Powers

    Interesting take and excellent points, as always, from S. Coughlin: https://twitter.com/S_Coughlin_DC/status/1936727565269393741

    Quoting:

    There is nothing in the Constituion that ever said that the Presidents execution of his Article II powers was contingent on Congress declaring war.

     War is a legal status that can (and usually does) involve the use of militay force. Short of that, the President has some discretion on the use of force short of war.

    When TR launched the USN’s Great White Fleet (b/c Great Britain’s Royal Navy was black), Congress only gave him enough funds to keep the navy operational. So, TR sent the navy to the other side of the world and told Congress that if they want the Navy back, they better cough up the funds.

    Congress controls the purse. That’s their leverage. This debate, always a kabuke, always plays out this way.

    – 30 –

    The War Powers Act is Congress’s take on its own powers, born at the height of Democratic Party / Neo-Liberal power, just after the Vietnam War, and just before the Nixon Coup.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Powers_Resolution

    The Constitutional question has never really been put to the test.

    The president is the ‘monarchical principle’ of the state, our Sovereign in effect, and the president can make war.   As with the Stuart Absolute monarchs, the primary restraint on the King by Parliament is the power of the purse.  Our constitution is very similar to its model, the British constitution, in this regard. [There are better theories of the relation of King to the Magnates and People, in a Zemsky-like Sobor, of course, but I am speaking of Anglo-American political theory here, in its Whig and Tory variants.  Our variant in North America was the *Continental Congress*]

    Another thing found nowhere in the constitution: that Congress has the power to *compel* the Executive to either spend all monies voted to it, or to prescribe in detail how those monies are to be spent, in a way that limits executive power so that it cannot function.

  • Science Newsfeed 201332TJUN25

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/earth-s-magnetic-field-is-on-the-move-once-more/ss-AA1Gh1KR

    https://edition.cnn.com/2025/06/18/climate/food-crops-heat-rain

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/evidence-of-a-possible-ghost-plume-beneath-oman/ar-AA1GYHHU

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/researchers-uncover-evidence-indicating-that-black-holes-are-the-source-of-dark-energy/ar-AA1GXX9f

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/ai-runs-on-dirty-power-and-the-public-pays-the-price/ar-AA1GYDNe

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/nasa-warns-of-unprecedented-global-weather-changes-floods-droughts-and-rising-temperatures/ar-AA1GTqKO

    https://www.nature.com/articles/s44221-023-00040-5.epdf paper for above online only

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/10-overlooked-signs-our-climate-is-collapsing/ss-AA1GXB6p

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/colossal-solar-flare-erupts-from-earth-facing-sunspot-sparking-strong-radio-blackouts-over-pacific-ocean-video/ar-AA1GXK6f

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/our-galaxy-s-monster-black-hole-is-spinning-almost-as-fast-as-physics-allows/ar-AA1GZSml

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/storm-erick-upgraded-to-extremely-dangerous-category-4-hurricane-as-path-of-destruction-mapped/ar-AA1H1A1U

    https://www.livescience.com/space/astronomy/a-new-star-has-exploded-into-the-night-sky-and-you-can-see-it-from-north-america

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/16-billion-accounts-exposed-in-one-of-the-largest-data-breaches-in-history-enormous-data-haul-holds-two-accounts-for-every-human-alive/ar-AA1H2P2J

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/heat-may-trigger-climate-catastrophe-within-two-years-scientists-warn/vi-AA1H2hYl

    https://www.unz.com/article/an-emp-attack-on-the-u-s-power-grids-and-critical-national-infrastructure

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/earth-s-magnetic-field-might-weirdly-be-controlling-the-air-we-breathe-scientists-say/ar-AA1H6wSw

    https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adu8826

    https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/plants/plants-have-a-secret-second-set-of-roots-deep-underground-that-scientists-didnt-know-about

  • linuxhippie on the revolution

    It’s a Revolution dummy. 1) There can be disagreement about what “Legal Term” to use to describe the events unfolding in the United States. Have the “elements of the crime” of Insurrection, Revolt, Sedition, Domestic Violence, or Terrorism been met? I’ll leave that to the Lawyers. But whatever it is, it certainly isn’t a protest or protected speech. Any SF Guy worth his salt knows exactly what this is, Marxist Revolutionary activity. Full Stop. The Protest is the sea the Insurgent swims in.

    Judges reference No Kings) to Sen Minority Leader Schumer sponsoring Legislation (No Kings Act) echoing the already “trademarked” and merchandized “No Kings” riots planned for this weekend (to coincide with US Army Birthday celebration—negating it)….. The continued theater by Democrat Politicians about “kneeling” to the executive (they had no problem kneeling for a drug addicted criminal when it suited them btw) and last but not least____THE DEAFENING SILENCE OF THE SENATE MAJORITY LEADER THUNE…….. Are clear indicators that the “Mass Line” has been established and the “Movement” toward confrontation is well underway.

    3) It is professionally negligent (to the point of criminal) to not conclude something untoward is afoot. Ignorance that gets in the way of analysis is a sever National Security Threat. People see these riots as noisy and destructive, but no real threat to the Republic. They are wrong. The Maoist Insurgency model has not changed. This doctrine has been rigidly adhered to since Mao developed and successfully deployed it. While certain elements have been “adapted” to modern technology and tweaked to fit the target environment it is essentially the same.

    4) Folks calling it “Color Revolution” are adding a level categorization that isn’t necessary, it’s Revolution, full stop. This isn’t 5GW or whatever, those terms serve to obscure what has been an element of warfare since the beginning of organized violence. Deception, distraction, misdirection, confusion, have always played a part in warfare, the advent of computers just provided a new delivery method. We are living through the outcome of removing “Threat Based” analysis from our National Security Organizations and the FORCED conversion to “effects based” analysis that relies on “pseudo-scientific” narratives (ie 5GW blah blah) to dialectically negate our “subjective awareness” of the reality we face.

    5) When a Marxist Insurgency being lead by State Gov, City Mayors, and Federally Elected Senator’s and Congressman is allowed to deploy across the Nation….. When those same people are openly calling for Troops (Ted Lieu) to disobey orders “they” deem unlawful (sedition?) and the Senate Majority Leader of the Presidents own Party remains silent……..we have a problem. That problem becomes existential when those who advise the President and provide him counsel don’t recognize it with this level of clarity. The theater with Sec Neom is an indicator (the Sen should’ve been charged) and the march to his office (Thune should’ve thrown them out and warned them they were in violation of Senate Rules)….. Indicate we are right back where we were when last we had a President Trump. The GOPe is the Controlled Opposition (ie they are allowing events by not intervening) and the entire Democrat Party is the violent splinter…..

    6) In order to defend, one must know what is being attacked and the what the enemy’s goals are. To be confused about this is to be “Strategically Dislocated” and ensures that responses will likely be “under-inclusive” to the threat and will fail. That is the goal of all this noise, and it’s working. It’s keeping the Admin in a “action/reaction” cycle that the left controls. As crazy as the left “APPEARS” to be on the street, those organizing these events are completely sane and have very clear objectives in mind. They have templated actions to achieve a “minimum success criteria” (a DST Decision Support Template) and are prepared to overachieve.

    7) “Negotiated Settlement” is always the goal when the Insurgency doesn’t have the combat power to overthrow by force of arms the existing Government. “Dialogue and Praxis” slowly, overtime, erodes the targets ability to generate a coherent defense of what is being attacked. (that’s where we are) Open Communications like “No Kings” is C3 of the resistance movement. They want “legitimacy” and if the Trump Admin continues to be overwhelmed by these “Staged Dramatics” (Neom event) and fails to respond to open defiance of Federal Law by Governors, Mayors, and State/ Local Law Enforcement, they will likely succeed in achieving their minimum success criteria….negation of the current Admin’s agenda and place Trump’s Presidency (that YOU voted for) in jeopardy. (GOP’s goal)

    8) So whatever you call it, this sure isn’t a protest. Sen Thune and the GOPe have declared (by their silence) they are siding with the Insurgents. It is up to the population to ensure that the one thing they most desperately want they don’t get, Trump to lose popular support. So as the Admin fumbles around with what is a highly coordinated “Intersectional” attack on the Foundation of Country, the citizens need to be aware of the part they play. Trump loses (or is perceived to have lost) popular support and all bets are off as to what the outcomes will be. It is entirely possible that as President, he doesn’t make it through the summer if the GOPe turns on him openly. THAT my friends, is what all this riot business is about

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  • Unconstrained Analytics Resources

    A page of links for later development:

    https://twitter.com/S_Coughlin_DC/status/1932884491779051999 (SORO diagrams)

    https://unconstrainedanalytics.org/resources/
    https://unconstrainedanalytics.org/report-re-remembering-the-mis-remembered-left-the-lefts-strategy-and-tactics-to-transform-america/ (2018)
    https://x.com/S_coughlin_dc

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  • Communication Tuesday 20250612

    ‘Communication Tuesday’ is a regular feature of internal communications at the LLC I run. I thought I’d reprint them occasionally here, too.

    Running a bit late this week… šŸ™‚

    We are starting our course on Marketing basics, which is supposed to be delivered as an email correspondence course, to both

    Here are some thoughts to get us started:

    The purpose of marketing and market research, as well as the preparatiion of marketing materials (flyers, websites, blogs, ā€˜creatives’ for advertising, etc). is to generate *leads* (email contact addresses) and guide them down the Sales Funnel from 1/ interest to stages of 2/ intent (to buy *something* but we don’t necessarily know what) to 3/ conversion (decision to buy something from us) and finally to 4/ transaction — placing an order, and starting the ā€˜Customer Fulfillment’ process, post sales.

    A Glossary of Terms

    channel ā€“ marketing is done through many channels (word of mouth, informal contacts and networking, presentations and ā€˜booths’ at fairs, distribution of paper newsletters, direct email marketing, ecommerce websites such as blogs or forums, video or streaming sites, social media…)

    audience – ideally, all the people we market to, before segmentation. We want to identify cross-selling opportunities between groups of people in different segments, but not spam people whom we know will unlikely be interested.


    campaign – a marketing campaign targets and audience or better, a ā€˜market segement’ of an audience.

    source ā€“ the place we got an email contact *from*. Perhaps a specific campaign two years ago, POUSLBOVIKINGFEST2022 or OLDPROJECTEMAILLIST. (these words are ā€˜tags’ which are internal names that can be combined to identify market segements).

  • Now this is just damn spooky

    I can use ‘Agentic AI’ to scan a document with my upcoming appointments (a well-visit follow up and a dental cleaning) and Google will make up a 5-minute podcast in the language of my choice about it:

    Here’s the transcript, lightly redacted:

    0:00: Hey, welcome back to the Deep Dive.
    0:01: Good to be here.
    0:02: For this deep dive, we’re zoning in on just one document.
    0:06: It’s an appointment schedule, right, from WA Peninsula Community Health Services, or PCHS, and we’re focusing specifically on the details for one person mentioned here, John Goodwin, born {{redacted}}
    0:18: Patient ID {{redacted}} STE.
    0:21: That’s him.
    0:22: So our goal is pretty straightforward.
    0:25: Let’s pull out the key info about his upcoming appointments from this single sheet.
    0:29: Exactly.
    0:30: What does this schedule actually tell us about his care plan?
    0:33: OK, let’s jump right in then.
    0:34: Looking at the schedule itself, what’s the first appointment we see coming up for Mr.
    0:38: Goodwin?
    0:39: All right, let me see.
    0:40: OK, the first one listed here, the earliest date.
    0:42: It is June 20th, 2025.
    0:44: June 20th, got that.
    0:46: And the time 10:30 a.m., 10:30 a.m., OK.
    0:49: What kind of appointment is it?
    0:50: What does it say?
    0:51: It’s down as an office visit 15.
    0:53: Office visit 15, maybe 15 minutes.
    0:57: Could be.
    0:58: And the provider is Anna Gonzalez.
    0:59: She’s an ARMP, an ARNP, Advanced registered nurse practitioner.
    1:03: That’s right, isn’t it?
    1:04: Yep, that’s it.
    1:05: So it sounds like a medical appointment, definitely a medical visit.
    1:08: And where is this taking place?
    1:09: The location?
    1:10: OK, location is PCHS.
    1:12: Silverdale Medical.
    1:13: Silverdale Medical, and they give the full address 3100 NW Buckland Hill Road, Suite 202.
    1:20: Suite 202, pretty specific, so you know exactly where you’re headed.
    1:23: Yeah, no ambiguity there, right?
    1:25: So mid-morning, mid June, a medical visit in Silverdale.
    1:30: Got it.
    1:31: What comes next on his schedule?
    1:33: OK, moving forward.
    1:34: Looks like the next entry is in July.
    1:37: July 3rd, 2025.
    1:39: OK, a couple of weeks later, July 3rd.
    1:42: And the time.
    1:43: This one’s earlier 8:30 a.m. 8 through and looking at the description, this seems like a different kind of thing altogether, totally different.
    1:50: This isn’t medical.
    1:51: It’s listed as dental and hygienist.
    1:54: Dental NP hygienist.
    1:55: The provider is Quanta Anwar RDH RDH registered dental hygienist, so likely a cleaning, maybe a checkup.
    2:02: Yeah, that would make sense.
    2:02: Focus on hygiene care with a dental specialist.
    2:04: Now here’s something I noticed the location for this dental visit, what does it say?
    2:09: It says Silverdale Dental.
    2:11: But look at the address.
    2:12: Exactly.
    2:13: 3100 NW Bucklin Hill Road, Suite 202.
    2:18: Wait, that’s that’s the exact same address as the medical appointment.
    2:22: Same building, same suite number.
    2:24: that’s actually really interesting.
    2:25: Good catch.
    2:25: Yeah.
    2:26: So what does that tell us?
    2:28: Well, it strongly suggests that PCHS runs both their medical and dental services out of the same spot in Silverdale.
    2:36: Co-located, which, you know, for a patient like Mr.
    2:38: Goodwin, that could be pretty convenient, right, needing different types of care, but it’s all in one place.
    2:44: Absolutely streamlines things potentially, you know, the building already.
    2:47: And think about this too.
    2:49: The document header actually says PCHS Kingston Medical.
    2:52: Oh right, I see that up top.
    2:54: These appointments, they’re in Silverdale.
    2:56: So Kingston might be his like home base.
    2:58: Clinic may be where the record originates.
    3:00: It could be.
    3:01: It’s just PCHS manages scheduling across different sites.
    3:04: You might be registered in Kingston, but get care in Silverdale, which points to a more integrated system, you know, coordinating care across different locations and different types of services.
    3:16: Exactly.
    3:17: It’s not just random dates.
    3:18: You’ve got medical with a nurse practitioner.
    3:22: And dental hygiene with a hygienist scheduled a couple of weeks apart, potentially managed essentially but delivered locally in Silverdale.
    3:30: Yeah, this simple schedule is actually, well, it’s a small window into the logistics of running a community health service like this.
    3:36: So let’s recap the key takeaways for Mr.
    3:38: Goodwin just based on this paper.
    3:40: OK, we’ve got two clear appointments, one medical.
    3:44: June 20th, 10:30 a.m. with AR&P Anna Gonzalez at Silverdale Medical, right, Suite 202, 202, and one dental.
    3:53: July 3rd, 8:30 a.m. with RDH Quanta Anwar at Silverdale Dental.
    3:58: Also Suite 202, also suite 202.
    4:00: So specific dates, times, provider types, locations all waited out.
    4:04: It really highlights the practical details you need, doesn’t it?
    4:07: Knowing it’s an ARMP versus an RDH, knowing Medical and dental share a space.
    4:12: It gives you the who, what, when, where for each visit, which brings us to a final thought, maybe something to chew on.
    4:18: Just looking at these two entries on a simple schedule.
    4:20: Think about the complexity behind it.
    4:22: The coordination needed.
    4:23: You need the right provider type available, the right facility, you know, a medical exam room versus a dental chair, different equipment.
    4:32: Different support staff, probably exactly and potentially scheduling across different clinic sites like Kingston and Silverdale, all feeding into this one person’s plan.
    4:42: It’s like a tiny snapshot of how a whole healthcare system has to mesh together just to make these two appointments happen for one patient.
    4:49: Makes you appreciate the the quiet organization involved in managing healthcare across different needs and places.
    4:56: It’s more than just dates on a page, definitely more than just dates.
    4:59: It’s plan and action.

  • CSAGOV site back online

    The CSAgov.org website, I note, is back. https://www.csagov.org/

    It looks like the group that was aligned with the ‘Southern Party’ [1] and thus opponents of the group Hunter Wallace aligns with (‘The League of the South’).

    [1]: Yankee-spun history here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Party

    We had a thread on csagov, at the old Phora, and also of course much more discussion in the archives for Whigdev/Whitespace.

    Down the rabbit hole: Confederate States of America *Main* CSAgov.org – Offical Govnerment Website