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[Brownstone] If it is indeed the case that the necro-nihilism at the root of the democidal globalists’ jouissance is what drives them to unspeakable acts of evil, do we have any reason to anticipate a possible turning point in their programme of destruction, perhaps accompanied by signs of contrition? I think not; in fact, I am certain that this will not happen, given the indications that a bird-flu ’pandemic’ may be in the offing — one which, by all accounts, will dwarf the Covid ’pandemic’ as far as mortality is concerned. Considering that, under ’natural’ conditions, avian flu is not easily spread from animals to humans, but that a number of such infections have been reported recently, it takes no Sherlock Holmes to infer that something like ’gain-of-function research’ has modified the virus to facilitate such animal-to-human (if not human-to-human) transference.
Conclusion? Far from showing any sign of reaching a point where some modicum of conscientisation on their part is occurring — in the face of a plethora of undeniably reputable studies pertaining to the deadly effects of the Covid ’vaccines’ (evident in the phenomenon of excess deaths, for example) — everything points in the direction of an exacerbation of the necro-nihilistic activities of the neo-fascists. Which means that we, the resistance, cannot afford to lower our vigilance for the proverbial second.
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I resemble that remark and even I find the prose and smug, paternalistic, academician style of obscure assertions of destructive, pejorative covetousness offensive!
[AmericanThinker] Sometimes history is history, sometimes it’s a harbinger, and sometimes it’s current events. The story of the Roman Emperor Aurelian is all three…
Aurelian took power in 270 AD. The previous 35 years had been nothing short of a disaster for the Empire on multiple fronts.
The trouble began with Commodus’s (well-deserved) assassination in 192 AD. After that, the army, always a force to be reckoned with, required ever-increasing bribes to remain loyal. Not surprisingly, the power of the army increased accordingly.
At the same time, the treasury continued its centuries-long practice of reducing the amounts of silver and gold in Roman coins, creating a ticking timebomb of inflation.
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In sum, we have an empire that’s coming apart at the seams, where government employees are corrupt and demanding that more money and power be handed to them. We have an empire where inflation is rampant, and the citizens are addicted to government giveaways. We have an empire whose borders are being breached by countless invaders. Then, a competent man steps in to take control and try to fix the problems. He begins to right the ship, and he’s killed by corrupt officials.
You may be asking yourself whether I just summed up Aurelian’s reign or if I’m describing today’s America. That’s because many of the problems of the Crisis of the Third Century in Rome mirror those in America today.
Indeed, just as the Praetorian Guard was known for auctioning off the diadem and murdering emperors, we’ve seen the FBI and the CIA conspire to destroy presidents, something they’ve been doing for at least half a century. They may even have had a hand in killing one president.
Our borders are being overrun, 30% of the government’s spending is on welfare, we’re being spent into oblivion, and not enough Americans want to join the military, so the Pentagon is turning to immigrants.
While it might not seem obvious, the story of Aurelian is actually a story of hope. Not for him, obviously, but for America because he demonstrated that an empire in decline doesn’t have to acquiesce to its own demise. A crumbling nation can be rebuilt, a listing ship can be righted, and a disappearing culture can be resurrected.
What it takes is leadership. Troubled times require a man willing to challenge what might be called “the new normal” and who reveres the culture and civilization that made the nation great in the first place. Donald Trump is just such a man.
Corrupt officials feared Aurelian because he clearly revered the Empire, and everything he did was to bring it back to its former glory. The corrupt and power-hungry members of the Swamp hate Donald Trump because he loves America, and most of the things he did and still wants to do are an attempt to make her great again.
Because his reign lasted only five years, Aurelian rarely finds his name in the pantheon of the greatest emperors. That’s unfortunate because he almost single-handedly reversed the Roman Empire’s collapse. That empire would then survive for another two centuries after his assassination.
Donald Trump finds himself in a similar position, facing a nation in decline and in danger of collapse. Let’s hope that he can successfully and safely (both for himself and the American people) bring America back from the brink. If he does, then America may lead the world for the next two centuries as it did for the last two. That just might get him on Mount Rushmore.
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Well, we're currently in third century America, so ...
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Key thing in that ancient Roman crisis was the tendency of the Emperor's security detail and even of his extended family to murder the incumbent to substitute someone they liked better. Poison provided plausible deniability to the perps.
[FoxNews] The vastly different approaches taken by President Biden and former President Trump in prepping for Thursday's presidential debate have continued to diverge, with the former hoping he can "trigger" the latter in the heat of the moment, and the latter relying heavily on his campaign experience, multiple reports show.
Biden has spent the last five days at Camp David in rural Maryland huddling with at least 16 current and former aides, according to The New York Times, while Trump, who spoke with Fox News over the weekend, has held "policy discussions" with allies to prep for what is expected to be an epic clash on the debate stage in CNN's Atlanta studios.
An old movie theater and airplane hangar have been outfitted as a mock debate stage, where Biden, despite having varying hours and a non-rigid schedule, is preparing to go on the offensive against Trump on issues like immigration and abortion, as well as push back on claims — appearing to be supported by various videos — that he is confused and frail," The Times reported.
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Jake Tapper, on of the moderators, is on the Biden prep team.
BLUF:
[American Thinker] BARTIROMO: So what do you think President Biden's issues are? What drugs would they give him?
JACKSON: Well, there's drugs out there.
Aricept is one of the ones that you most commonly hear about, but there's all kinds of new drugs that are out there that are specifically for Alzheimer's or Parkinson's, things that that cause these cognitive issues that the president seems to be subject to. Those drugs are out there. They treat the cognition part of it.
They try to make it where he can think straighter and he's not lost and confused as much. And then there's drugs that actually just increase alertness, like Adderall and other types of amphetamine-type drugs, maybe Provigil, things like that.
And then there's a host of drugs that try to take the agitated edge off of most of these cognitive disorders. So I feel like they're probably giving him a little bit of all of this. They just have to get it just right. They all have different times of onset. They have different duration. They interact with each other.
So it's -- it's a challenge, but I think they have no choice with what they're working with. They don't have much to work with.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] …about the imminent clash that might even wake Sleepy Joe Biden.
Less than 72 hours before the first debate of the US presidential election, Joe Biden's White House is bumbling.
On Sunday, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Charles Q. Brown made the extraordinary claim that America will not protect Israel in a war with Lebanon's Hezbollah terrorists.
'The U.S. won't likely be able to help Israel defend itself against a broader Hezbollah war as well as it helped Israel fight off an Iranian barrage of missiles and drones,' Brown told reporters.
By Monday, U.S. officials were backtracking, reportedly issuing a rare warning through intermediaries to the Iranian-backed terror group.
Two U.S. officials told Politico that Hezbollah cannot count on America to stop Israel from launching an attack on Lebanese soil. The officials said, the terrorists 'need to understand that Washington will help Israel defend itself' against any counter-aggression.
Reasonable enough. After all, we don't negotiate with terrorists.
But the bungling of officialdom is inexcusable. This is not the time for the White House to be sending mixed signals.
But the pro-Israel signal is a lie meant to pacify those who love Israel until it’s too late. So the mixing is deliberate.
This week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in an interview that his defense forces will soon wind down the 'intensive' phase of their offensive in Gaza – and ramp up operations in the country's north, on the border with Lebanon.
For seven months, Hezbollah terrorists have been raining thousands of rockets and missiles on communities in northern Israel forcing some 60,000 residents to evacuate.
Meanwhile, new reports suggest Tehran's mullahs are shipping more weapons directly into Lebanon on flights from Iran to fuel their terror proxy.
Hezbollah is now equipped with thousands of high-tech drones and mortars, and an arsenal of more than 200,000 additional rockets and missiles.
That's ten times the munitions that Hezbollah had during its last major war with Israel in 2006.
The Shia Muslim extremists also have an army of at least 20,000 men, though some experts say the true figure could be five times when reservists are included.
In contrast, Hamas was thought to have fewer than 25,000 fighters at the start of its war with Israel.
So make no mistake: The Middle East is now closer to all-out regional war than it was when Israel traded direct strikes with Iran in the months after Hamas's October 7 terror attacks.
And if this primed Lebanon-border powder keg explodes, it will make the current conflict in Gaza seem like a walk in the park.
War with Hezbollah would result in thousands of both Israeli and Lebanese casualties.
Iran would likely intervene, firing its missiles and drones directly at Israel, as it did in April.
The Islamic Republic would also have the power to unleash its other terror proxies from Iraq, Syria, Yemen and the West Bank against Israel.
Despite its enviable 'Iron Dome' technology, Israel doesn't have sufficient air defenses to defend all of its borders simultaneously.
And with so much activity in the skies, key energy, military and transportation sites would likely be prioritized over, say, civilian communities.
Left undefended, Israelis throughout the country would be forced to spend months in shelters as their cities and towns were pounded daily.
Much of Lebanon – its communities far more affluent and better-developed than Gaza's crumbling cities and town – would be utterly destroyed.
The IDF would likely level neighborhoods, hunting Hezbollah's massive weapons caches and rooting out terrorist foot soldiers hidden among civilians.
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Reduce southern Lebanon to radioactive waste. Given everyone else wants you to roll over and die, who cares what they think. Make them worry about what you will do next.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
