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A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
Almost all the private wealth of the UK is held by the Grannies and Grandads ,representing the lifetime savings to keep them secure and to pass on...
Considering the level of rationality displayed on Western / EU side lately, I think they will do it anyway. Which only hastens their demise.
(Communications/Transportation Mercury Retrograde in Aries changed to forward motion conjunct the Nodes of Destiny simultaneously with our Scorpio...
Harari said, he and the likeminded cabal of shadowy world masters will "build an Ark and leave the rest to drown." Moonraker [Link]
With each such step we come closer to the fulfillment of Irlmaier's prophecy.
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What's missing from the android is manners. It's not nice to bump into people.
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You've probably heard of singularity and trans-humanism. By around 2050, the story goes, advances in computer technology will reach the point at which a person can upload his mind into a computer. (It's the plot of the new Tom Cruise movie "Transcendence.") The quest for immortality will have finally paid off.
Yes, people really believe this.
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