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Fun With AI #2: As Above, So Below - The Universe's Intelligent Design

This is the second article in the series. Recall from "Fun With AI #1", we discussed, via our interlocutor "Mandatory Intelloctomy" and his trusty AI, whether or not the overall world system was the way it was by design or stupidity. Short answer: It's by design. Not perfectly executed, but intentionally structured to concentrate power and wealth upward while keeping the masses manageable, distracted, and compliant.

The article then moved deeper into the problem revealing the proximate cause of the shortsightedness of the system: The Psychopathic Ecosystem. We also explored why so many people support this system even to their own destruction. And then: Why is the intensification so great at the present time? We're not seeing a sudden change in human nature. We're seeing the convergence of multiple long-term trends hitting critical mass simultaneously. The System will become more violent and more desperate as it feels its position threatened. The next decades may be darker than anything in living memory.

Today, we turn the lens upward (and inward) with our relentless guide, Mandatory Intelloctomy, probing the very fabric of reality. From spinning galaxies mirroring atomic orbits to the cosmic web resembling a vast neural network, the refrain "as above, so below" isn't poetic mysticism — it's staring us in the face. Materialism calls it coincidence; logic calls it evidence of a unified, intelligent blueprint. Buckle up: we're about to expose why randomness can't explain the Universe any more than it explains the cell, the city, or the control grid we live under.
As Above, So Below
These visuals come straight from the 2020 peer-reviewed study by astrophysicist Franco Vazza (University of Bologna) and neurosurgeon Alberto Feletti (University of Verona), published in Frontiers in Physics. The researchers didn’t just notice a visual resemblance; they ran quantitative analysis on network structure, connectivity, node distribution, and matter/fluctuation density — and found the cosmic web and the human brain’s neuronal network are statistically more similar to each other than either is to a galaxy or a single neuron.

Comment: The Universe isn't a cold, accidental pinata of matter waiting for us to stumble through it blindly. It's a living, self-similar, intelligent expression: fractal code running from the quark to the quasar, from the cell's molecular factories to the city's humming infrastructure. The same organizing intelligence that builds galaxies and DNA also whispers in every conscious mind: you are not an insignificant byproduct. You are an integral node in the network, capable of perceiving the pattern and choosing alignment with something greater than the man-made matrix.

The psychopathic pyramid at the top of our world down to the compliant base we've been conditioned to accept is simply the school environment that challenges us to learn to discern, to acquire perspicacity, or to fail the lesson and repeat it.


MAGA

Hegseth gutted offices that would have probed Iran school strike

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© Amirhossein Khorgooei/ISNA via APA woman reaches out to the coffins during funeral of mostly children killed in what Iranian officials said was an Israeli-U.S. strike Feb. 28 on a girls' elementary school in Minab, Iran, Tuesday, March 3, 2026.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has gutted the Pentagon oversight offices that would have investigated the recent strike on an Iranian girls' school — a move that has degraded America's ability to protect civilians amid its largest air campaign in decades.

The Pentagon chief last year slashed offices that didn't contribute to his goal of "lethality," including the group that assists in limiting risk to civilians, known as the Civilian Protection Center of Excellence. Around 200 employees who worked on the issue, including at that office, have been reduced by about 90 percent, according to two current and former officials and a person familiar with the effort. The team that handles civilian casualties at Central Command, which oversees the Middle East, has dropped from 10 to one.

Hegseth can't close the offices because they are approved by Congress. But he has managed to make them nearly inoperable, according to the people, as the Pentagon investigates its responsibility in what could be the worst U.S.-led killing of civilians since 2003. Iranian state media said the strike killed about 170 children and 14 teachers.


Comment: Politico is trying to score points as the US again committed a war crime and puts the blame on the reduction of a Pentagon oversight office. Under previous administrations, the Pentagon were as likely to bomb civilians as they are now. What has changed is that there isn't an office to investigate complaints and then whitewash the crimes with vague bureaucratic speak.


Comment: While Hegseth deserves being exposed for the Zionist warwhore that he is, one wonders what the Pentagon oversight offices were doing when they were fully staffed and when the US waged war on Iraq and Afghanistan? What about the many cases of US soldiers simply shooting up places in Iraq or the many wedding parties in Afghanistan which they bombed? Were the oversight offices asleep then and then only woke up now that yet another school has been bombed by the Pentagon?

The genocide of Gaza with a very big helping hand by the Pentagon did not raise an eyebrow in these oversight offices. So why now, other than scoring political points and give a veneer of a two party system?

Having one arm of the Pentagon investigate another part of the Pentagon regardless of how many staff they have, is not likely to lead to any objective results.


Sheeple

Merz turned Germany into US 'vassal' - Spanish deputy PM

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German Chancellor Friedrich Merz (L) and US President Donald Trump (R) meet in Washington, DC, US, on March 4, 2026.
The German chancellor's reaction to US President Donald Trump's threats against Spain shows Berlin's "weakness," Yolanda Diaz told Politico

Germany has become an American "vassal" under Chancellor Friedrich Merz, Spanish Deputy Prime Minister Yolanda Diaz has said, criticizing his response to US President Donald Trump's threats against Spain.

Relations between Spain and Germany have been strained over the past week due to what Madrid described as a lack of solidarity from Berlin. The tensions followed an incident in early March, when the German chancellor remained silent during a visit to Washington as Trump, sitting next to him in the Oval Office, threatened to cut off "all trade" with Spain.

The US president justified his threat by citing what he characterized as Madrid's inadequate defense spending and its refusal to allow American forces to use joint military bases in Spain for strikes on Iran.

Merz's actions show he is one of the EU leaders "who have no idea how to manage the historic moment we're living in," Diaz told Politico on Monday. "What Europe needs today is leadership, not vassals who pay homage to Trump."


Comment: In fairness, it is not of new date that Germany has turned into a US vassal. Merz is only fulfilling the role as US puppet very well. The previous chancellors, Scholz and Merkel were also good puppets of the collapsing empire.


Comment: Merz has shown that his interests are not those of the German people. That is not so strange considering his previous leadership positions in Blackrock. In the meantime Germany is going from bad to worse.


Attention

Trump's lies reveal the real story about the Iran war

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A recent poll in the U.S. concluded that Donald Trump tells the truth only about 3 percent of the time during his public announcements at press conferences. Perhaps it was his stint at being a celebrity on TV that taught him how gullible people in America are when fed the most fanciful, moronic lies a leading figure can tell, through the American media. Of course, it's also about the journalists as well, and if there's one thing that the Trump administrations have taught us, it is how poor the general level of journalism is in America these days. American journalists are not afraid to ask difficult questions or disbelieve what they are told. They simply don't know how to do this in the first place.

Covering the Iran war, it is breathtaking, some of the brazen lies he tells while being questioned by journalists who are complicit in his dirty work. The mere idea that Iran, for example, acquired a Tomahawk missile and used it to kill its own schoolgirls is beyond absurd. How could journalists not question such a reply when it is so clear that Trump is lying through his teeth?

Because of this lying, we can see how Trump works, though. Unlike other U.S. presidents who have some shame and discomfort in lying to the press, Trump suffers no such handicap and so can take on bolder, more daring ventures on the global stage. In this environment, there is no respect for international law or even due process within the political framework of how Congress works. Trump hasn't worked out how to defeat Iran, but he has all the contingent narratives to lay out afterwards to explain why everything that goes wrong is not his fault. We see that he is already preparing himself for the day of judgement by the press pack in the coming days and weeks by telling them that it was Jared Kushner, Marco Rubio and Steve Witkoff who told him to hit Iran.

The direction towards these three is revealing. Of course, we have learned the simple rule of Trump when it comes to decisions. When things go well, everything was his decision; when things go badly, blame others.

Attention

The humiliating arithmetic of the Iran war

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March 3rd, Israel's Channel 12, the IDF, Trump all singing from the same hymn sheet: Iran's launchers are virtually all destroyed, missile fire is collapsing, they're running out.

Trump from his golf resort: "We've wiped every single force in Iran out, very completely." The war is "very complete, pretty much." It'll end "very soon." He's "ahead of schedule." It's a "short-term excursion." A reporter asked him to reconcile that with Hegseth saying it's "just the beginning." Trump's answer: "You could say both." He's not looking very strongly, folks. Very weakly, sir. Very, very weakly.

Eight days after the "Iran is running out" headlines, on the night of March 10th into March 11th, Iran launched Wave 37 — its most intense and heaviest operation of the entire war. More than three hours of continuous, multi-layered strikes. Khorramshahr super-heavies. One-tonne warheads complete with their sub munitions which turned much of Tel Aviv into snow like soot.

Boat

Shipping insurance as a weapon: How the Strait Of Hormuz shapes global power and energy markets

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© RT/XShipping bottle-neck in the Straits of Hormuz, February 28, 2026. The only exceptions: Iranian and Chinese ships
War is raging in Iran. Amid the fog of propaganda, it is increasingly difficult to separate fact from fiction, to distinguish AI-generated material from actual bomb strikes, and to see behind the carefully woven veil of media spin and national interests. Yet, we attempt here to make sense of the latest moves on the geopolitical chessboard.

One immediate consequence of the Strait of Hormuz blockade is a fatal ripple effect in the energy sector. Companies such as QatarEnergy are forced to reduce gas and oil production. Refineries are shutting down, and tankers can no longer transport output. The physical logistics of the energy market are faltering - with consequences far beyond the region.

Markets are responding nervously. Both spot and futures prices continue to climb. At the close of New York trading, WTI crude stood at around $93 per barrel, nearly a twenty percent increase since the U.S.-Israeli intervention against Iran's Ayatollah regime.

Comment: Apparently Chubb has been strong-armed into stepping up.

Chubb to serve as lead US insurer for Gulf shipping amid Iran war


Footprints

Tide turning? EU Parliament committee backs tougher asylum return rules in right-wing migration win

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© MAHMUD TURKIAMAHMUD TURKIA/AFP/GETTYAbout 7,000 illegal migrants attempted the Mediterranean crossing in 2017 and the total exceeded 50,000
A coalition of conservative and right-wing lawmakers in the European Parliament has secured a key committee vote backing stricter EU rules on deportations and detention for illegal migrants

The European Parliament's Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs voted on Monday to adopt a harder line on asylum returns.

The committee voted 41 to 32, with one abstention, in favor of implementing a single framework for handling third-country nationals staying illegally in European Union member states.

The majority was formed by the European People's Party (EPP) together with right-wing groups, including the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR), Patriots for Europe (PfE), and the Europe of Sovereign Nations (ESN) group.

Lawmakers from the Socialists and Democrats, Renew Europe, the Greens, and the Left opposed the measure.

Comment: A vote is one thing. Implementation is another. The EU has its own Deep State apparatus that can stymie the process at many levels. From starving enforcement of funding, to activist courts, to useful idiots on the ground, the measure will face an uphill battle.


Bullseye

Rift with Israel deepens as Spain permanently withdraws its ambassador

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© REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/IllustrationSpanish and Israeli flags are seen in this illustration taken June 23, 2025.
Spain permanently withdrew its ambassador to Israel on Tuesday as a ​diplomatic standoff worsened between the two countries over Spain's opposition to the U.S.-Israeli attacks on Iran.

The ambassador was summoned back to Spain last September amid a diplomatic ​row over Spanish measures banning aircraft and ships ​carrying weapons to Israel from its ports ⁠or airspace due to Israel's military offensive in ​Gaza, which Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar denounced ​as antisemitic.

On Tuesday, Spain published an announcement in its official gazette that the ambassador's position had been terminated. Spain's Foreign ​Ministry said its embassy in Tel Aviv ​will be led by a charge d'affaires for the foreseeable future.

Comment: Well done, Spain. A rabid animal must be isolated.


Bad Guys

The global elites have lost again

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© Fabian Strauch/dpaAlice Weidel, Chairwoman of the AfD parliamentary group, speaks at the AfD state party conference. The AfD NRW elects a new state executive at a party conference.
Germany's Alternative für Deutschland keeps surging ahead. Border control and sane energy policy may be in Europe's future after all.

To the despair of the European establishment, the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), the most hated political force in Germany, keeps showing robust signs of life, whether in its impressive showing in a state election on Sunday or in a recent courtroom victory. On Sunday, the AfD more than doubled its previous vote share for the parliament of Baden-Württemberg, a key industrial state in western Germany. On February 26, a German court enjoined the country's domestic spy agency from classifying Germany's second most popular political party as a "confirmed right-wing extremist" organization. The "confirmed right-wing extremist" designation has been a key tool in the campaign among establishment and left-wing politicians to ban the AfD entirely.

The AfD's fate should not be a matter of indifference to American conservatives. The globalist elites must be broken everywhere if they are to be permanently broken at all.

Bullseye

BLINDED: US Radars Wiped Out by Iranian Precision Strikes

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UN Journalist Richard Medhurst reports on Iranian precision strikes that targeted US THAAD radar systems in the Gulf, particularly the AN/TPY-2 and AN/FPS-132.

Richard Medhurst (1992) is a British independent journalist and analyst specializing in international relations and the Middle East. A multilingual reporter (English, Arabic, French, German), he has built a reputation for comprehensive field reporting and analysis of high-profile global events.

His professional track record includes on-the-ground coverage of the Julian Assange extradition trial in London, the Iran nuclear deal talks in Vienna, and extensive reporting from Lebanon and Iran.

🕊️ Born to parents who served in UN Peacekeeping missions (Nobel Peace Prize recipients, 1988), Medhurst has lived in Syria, Pakistan, Switzerland, and Austria, offering a unique, transnational lens to independent news.