[BEE] WASHINGTON, D.C. — House Speaker Kevin McCarthy did not mince words following revelations this month of Biden family corruption from whistleblowers in the government. In a forceful statement, he assured constituents that if Biden commits several hundred more impeachable offenses, that will be the last straw.
"That's right: once Biden has committed at least 783 egregious acts of corruption, we will cut him off," said McCarthy. "We the American people cannot stand for this kind of unchecked criminality in the White House."
"No more crimes for you, pal!"
Sources confirmed that as more details emerge, Biden's list of impeachable offenses continues to grow. Republicans in Congress have assured the American people that they will be keeping tabs on this behavior to make sure it doesn't get too out of hand. "It's important to hold our leaders accountable, but also essential that we protect our reputations as team players here in Washington," added McCarthy. "There's nothing more important than being a team player, right guys?"
At publishing time, Republicans confirmed they will soon retaliate against the Bidens by dragging cabinet members before a committee so Jim Jordan can angrily furrow his brow at them.
[Breitbart] Establishment media outlets and other players do not want to have a conversation about what is happening to children, as thousands of unaccompanied children are disappearing into the U.S. interior, Tim Ballard, the individual at the center of the box office surprise Sound of Freedom, told Breitbart News during an exclusive interview at the Turning Point Action Conference in West Palm Beach, Florida.
Ballard noted that establishment media outlets — Rolling Stone, MSNBC, CBS, CNN, and more — posted “glowing” stories about the operation that occurred on October 11, 2014.
“They applauded it. They said that we were good guys. They said, ‘Congratulations, you rescued children.’ Eight years later, those same outlets are pretending that didn’t happen. … They’re lying about it. They’re changing their story. They want to pretend it’s not happening,” he said, explaining that he believes the motive is that they do not want to have a wider conversation about what is happening to children and the “consequences to children that their agendas and their policies are having.”
When asked if this anti-children agenda is connected to what is being pushed in schools, Ballard said it “absolutely” is, adding that it is a slippery slope.
He pointed to the push to allow children to decide if they are a different sex as part of that slope. If children can consent to that — completely “altering” their sex — Ballard worries it could open the door to even more egregious attempts to normalize abominable acts, such as pedophilia.
“They know that this is going to shine a light on all of their agenda that they’ve been working on. … So they’d rather just pretend none of it’s happening. And it’s easier just to say, ‘Well, maybe sex with kids isn’t even that big a deal after all.’ I mean, that’s where they’re going now,” he said, pointing to a United Nations-backed report issued months ago, “saying, ‘it’s time to consider decriminalizing sex with children.'”
“Thank God that many in the LGBT community are fighting back and saying, ‘No, no, no…you’re not part of this community,’” he said, pointing to groups such as Gays Against Groomers.
“But this is this is the wider battle that we’re fighting,” he added.
When asked what needs to be done to fight these issues, Ballard said it is crucial to “enforce the border,” deeming it the “only compassionate policy.” That, he said, would suck the wind out of the sails of traffickers.
“Tens of thousands of children — unaccompanied, young children — are disappearing into the belly of the beast, and they have to know that’s happening, but they care about their agenda more than that,” he said, explaining during the interview that “no background checks were done by the sponsors who came to get them.”
“It’s literally more difficult to adopt a cat out of the shelter than it is for a sponsor to show up and check one of these kids out and take them into the belly of the United States,” he said, describing that belly — the U.S. government — as the “number one consumer of child sex material in the world.”
“Speak the whole truth about what this is leading to. If you’re making pedophiles happy and making them salivate over your policies, I think it’s time to push pause and reconsider your policies,” he added.
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Children are disappearing into the interior of the U.S. Hearings on that specific topic would be a fulcrum for change. The Sound of Freedom has to lead somewhere or we have failed those children.
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When the Perverts and/or traffickers think a kid is too old, infected or worn out.
[NYPOST] "Suppose we got it all wrong and the real crazies are the TV people in nice suits and $300 haircuts?"
That’s an observation by Richard Fernandez on Twitter, and he has a good point.
There’s a lot of craziness in the air these days.
But for the most part it seems to be flowing from the top down, not bubbling up from the bottom.
It wasn’t farmers and factory workers who came up with the idiotic COVID responses — nor was it they who originated the more or less criminal idea of conducting "gain of function" research on making dangerous viruses more dangerous.
It wasn’t shopkeepers and bus drivers who thought the way to deal with burgeoning urban crime was to get rid of police and release criminals without bail.
It hasn’t been landscapers and auto mechanics championing the notion that a child in the single-digit age range can make a lifetime choice about his or her genitalia or maintaining that even criticizing that idea is itself a species of "violence."
Ordinary Americans haven’t been claiming the way to promote free speech is to censor people or the way to end racism is to classify everyone by race and consequently treat them differently.
It’s not the working class that wants to "save the planet" by blocking traffic, starting forest fires or banning pickup trucks or gas stoves (though private jets remain surprisingly free from criticism).
All these crazy ideas and more are the product of our allegedly educated and intelligent overclass, the experts, policymakers and media types who in theory represent the thinking part, the brains, of our society.
But there’s something wrong with these people — the "brains" of our society are basically crazy.
Crazy is when you believe and do things that obviously don’t make sense or fit with the facts. The idea of "counterintuitive" solutions was very stylish a few years back. We're still "thinking outside the box" and "coloring outside the lines."
It’s important to have an intellectual class.
Exactly how important is open to question — in his recent book "How Innovation Works," Matt Ridley argues that most 19th- and 20th-century innovations actually came from tradespeople and industry, not academics doing abstract research — but important enough.
There are dangers to an intelligentsia, though. They gave the world Girolamo Savonarola, the French Revolution, Communism, and Fascism.
Communism and Nazism started as intellectual movements; so did such fads as eugenics and lobotomies.
The Tuskegee Experiment wasn’t the product of racist Klansmen but of the curiosity of credentialed public-health experts.
In a 1999 essay, Neal Stephenson wrote that "during this century, intellectualism failed, and everyone knows it. In places like Russia and Germany, the common people agreed to loosen their grip on traditional folkways, mores, and religion, and let the intellectuals run with the ball, and they screwed everything up and turned the century into an abattoir. Those wordy intellectuals used to be merely tedious; now they seem kind of dangerous as well."
It’s gotten worse.
Ideas can be dangerous; playing with them can be like gain-of-function research with viruses — if they escape into the general environment, disaster can ensue.
Guardrails like custom, religion and moral traditions made such disasters less likely, but we have spent basically my entire lifetime weakening those guardrails.
At the same time, our ruling class has become less diverse and more prone to groupthink.
A century ago, the people running our government, our economy, our academy and our media were varied.
Now they’re all members of the same class, educated usually at the same elite institutions, incestuously intermarried and driven by class solidarity.
As J.D. Tuccille recently wrote regarding the press’ supine attitude toward government censorship, today’s journalists "love Big Brother": "Prominent news hounds and powerful officials know each other, share attitudes, and trust each other."
Agriculturalists know that in a monoculture, diseases spread rapidly because the entire crop is identical. The important part is the idea, not the result.
In a social and intellectual monoculture, groupthink ensures that bad ideas spread the same way.
This is especially so because our ruling class has substituted reputation for achievement.
One can be a successful CEO if the company does badly, so long as it pursues the right political goals.
Journalists, babus bureaucrats and wardheelers routinely fail upward because they play to their peers. Nobody seems to talk about the Peter Principle anymore.
The result is that any crazy idea can flourish if it’s stylish. And it’s gotten more dangerous, probably because social media allow so much self-herding behavior by elites. It also allows the common folk to at least get in a little mockery and derision.
Dissent is instantly ostracized before it even has a chance to be considered.
A decade ago, the crazy ideas I listed earlier would have been seen as beyond the pale of civilized political discussion. Now they’re all endorsed by leading American institutions.
That’s the hallmark of dysfunctional politics, and dysfunctional politics is what we have.
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Unaddressed and ignored dysfunction never improves. It may seem to improve, but that is like paving over a broken water supply pipe.
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[TTAG] As Colion Noir puts it in the video above, "The problem with the gun debate in this country is, there is no debate. Because the only people willing to debate is the pro-2A community." The sum total of Lil' Davy's 2A "expertise" was being at Parkland when the SHTF. Oh, actually, he rode his bike home to get his video camera. David Hogg backed out of a debate that was scheduled by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute and the Center for the Study of a Liberal Democracy when he found out his opponent would be Colion. The topic of the debate: Resolved — The Second Amendment was a mistake.
The challenge of defending the side of gun control — an industry that made him famous and likely pays him a handsome salary — was apparently too much for the Harvard Man.
In the video above, Colion concludes by urging his audience not to harass Hogg over the conspicuous lack of courage he shows in his convictions. He doesn’t want us to call him names or bully him. We disagree.
[Breitbart] Foreign Fulani jihadists wielding guns and machetes are exterminating the indigenous Christians of central Nigeria in what world observers erroneously describe as a “climate change” conflict, Father Remigius Ihyula told Breitbart News last week from his home state of Benue.
Father Ihyula, who serves as a university chaplain and emergency relief coordinator under the archdiocese of the capital of Benue state, Makurdi, accused the Muslim-led federal government of Nigeria of covering up a ceaseless, decade-long slaughter of his people by ethnic Fulani groups. The groups often appear in media identified only by the secular description of nomadic “herdsmen,” or as unspecified “gunmen” or “bandits.”
“In fact, people were even warned not to say they are Fulani herdsmen who have been causing these atrocities such that when you open the general media they are talking about bandits – bandits or they say ‘unknown gunmen’ or things like that,” Father Ihyula noted, “so you read about bandits. It’s rubbish: they are Fulani men going about with cattle and with guns and killing people and the government won’t do anything about it.”
The “gunmen” target Christian villages throughout the region known as the “Middle Belt,” the span across central Nigeria where Benue state is located. Village attacks often involve the jihadists burning down homes, killing the men, and abducting and raping the women. Those who manage to escape are often semi-permanently displaced, forced into internally displaced persons (IDP) camps where some have languished for over a decade in conditions Father Ihyula described as “worse than animals.”
Benue officials estimate that as many as 2 million people were internally displaced in Nigeria as of 2022.
Nigerian leaders, most prominently ethnic Fulani former President Muhammadu Buhari, acknowledged the killings but claimed much of the situation was a conflict between the herdsmen and the indigenous Christians, often claiming that “climate change” was to blame for the bloodshed. Climate alarmism has been lucrative for the Nigerian government; American climate czar John Kerry pledged during a trip to Nigeria last year that Abuja would have access to a $12 billion “climate action” fund. Father Ihyula energetically rejected claims of a relationship between the climate and the jihad, noting the alleged climate crisis is global and “people in the U.S. are not killing people because there is climate change.”
Jihadist sieges of Nigerian Christian communities became a topic of concern in Washington this month as the House Foreign Affairs Committee hosted a hearing on global religious persecution. The hearing was prompted by meetings Father Ihyula and Bishop Wilfred Anagbe of the Diocese of Makurdi held with lawmakers through cooperation with Aid to the Church in Need, a pontifical charity organization.
The hearing occurred nearly two years after Nigeria was removed from the State Department’s list of Countries of Particular Concern (CPC) for religious persecution, a move by the administration of President Joe Biden that “baffled” and outraged persecuted Christians given the lack of any meaningful improvement in their security in the country when Nigeria lost its place on the list. At last week’s hearing, Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) condemned the Biden administration for giving Nigeria “a pass” while “violations of religious freedom are escalating.”
“There is an orchestrated design to push especially Christian populations away from these places so that they can occupy those territories,” he explained, describing Benue state as nearly 99 percent Christian and thus a topic of particular ire for the jihadists.
Father Ihyula reported that currently, in July, the Christians are benefiting from a mild respite in violent attacks as a result of the rainy season.
“During the rainy season generally, especially around in Middle Belt down the south, the attacks usually slow down … because they cannot move as they want,” he detailed. “It’s a pattern that we know of for some time. They tend to slow down during the rainy season and then it peaks when the grass begins to get dryer … because then they can move easily and, you know, their trucks and their bikes – sometimes they come on bikes, they can drive around.”
A little-reported fact about the attacks, the Father explained, is that the Fulani herdsmen are often not Nigerian, while the victims are members of indigenous minority tribes that do not find significant representation in a government in which Fulanis, Yorubas, and Igbos are considered the three main ethnic communities of the country.
“[The Fulani jihadists] come from Guinea, some of them are found in Guinea, some of them are found in Mali, some are found in Burkina Faso, some are found in … Chad,” he explained. “The north of Nigeria is bordering Chad and Niger and Cameroon and … those borders are open so they just walk in.”
“Most of the victims are minorities,” Father Ihyula continued. “Nigeria is still mainly a country of tribes and tongues so, for instance, if you come to Nigeria, they will say they are three major tribes: there are Hausa Fulani, there is the Igbos, and there is the Yorubas, and then after that they begin to count minority tribes.”
Nigeria’s population is a little over half Muslim, while Christians of all sects account for about 46 percent of the population. Despite this, Father Ihyula noted, the government has increasingly allowed elements of Sharia, the Islamic law, to enter the country’s constitution, disenfranchising the sizable population who are not Muslim.
Father Ihyula expressed urgent concern that the government has done little to protect Christian populations from the jihadist threat they face because the past two presidents – Buhari and current President Bola Tinubu – are Muslims of the same political party and obscure the reality of places like Benue on international platforms.
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[RIA] Ukraine for the Biden administration is beginning to unpleasantly rhyme with Afghanistan. That is, with a shameful failure and waste of money. So far, we are talking about small episodes in the intra-American squabble, but it is noticeable that these episodes are becoming a system.
Here is the first of them: about taking away weapons supplied from the United States , that is, with American money. A Pentagon Office of Inspector General document on the subject has been published . It can be seen that the inspectors did not put much effort: they only list the episodes of the theft of such weapons, disclosed by the Ukrainian SBU.
Here are bulletproof vests for a miserable sum of 17,000 dollars, there are 60 rifles - in all cases, these trifles were taken away from the front by some kind of volunteer soldiers. The report emphasizes that the US does not have the ability to control theft because there are no suitable American personnel in the battle zones. And would they control it - would they themselves reveal the leakage of weapons, much heavier and for completely different amounts?
But the essence of the event is not at all in this. And the fact is that we are talking about a document dated October 6 of last year, and all the episodes from there are spring or summer. But "for some reason" right now this document has become known to the general public. And let's note how this happened: the conservative Heritage Foundation sent a request to the department on the basis of the law on freedom of information and received what they wanted. Well, published.
If such an episode was a single one, it could be considered an accident. But the fact of the matter is that the word "Ukraine" is now becoming an increasingly common cudgel for Republicans to use against Democratic administrations. And here's another case of whistling this cudgel: about religion and freedom such in all the same Ukraine. It must be recalled here that democrats are people who fight against any religion (except for their "awakened" ideology, which is more terrible than the teachings of the most rabid sects). And the Republicans rely (among other things) on all and sundry Christian churches in their country.
The story is this: Tucker Carlson talks on the air with Michael Pence , Vice President of the United States under Donald Trump . And Pence reassures the audience that there is nothing wrong with religious freedom in Ukraine. But here a discussion begins in many media from the republican flank, and people participate in it, surprisingly well understanding the difference between the Russian Orthodox Church , the UOC and so on.
America is home to all the world, which means we have a full variety of Orthodox Christian churches as well as a variety of Catholic churches, Protestant churches, and a full array of everything else. Foreigners have the queerest idea of what Americans know, mostly based on American television shows and films, which never show what happens when Americans take an interest in something.
And so one such commentator starts with the obvious — that Pence simply allowed himself to be fooled by Kiev . And he continues with the following thoughts: the Zelensky regime robs some churches and transfers their property to others serving the regime, priests are arrested on false charges. And yes, this is written by an American.
And that's why he does it: to remind you what freedom of religion is. This is when people of any religion, not necessarily Christian, can freely go to their temples. And he notices at the same time: we and NATO are fighting not for Ukraine, but against Russia . And our own liberals at any moment will be happy to do with our Christians the same way Zelensky does with his own.
It is, of course, normal when an American turns the conversation from Ukrainian problems to American ones. This, in fact, is the essence of what is happening. For example, it is no coincidence that the story of last year's Pentagon report leaked to the world right now - the fact is that the Republican majority in the House of Representatives just passed a resolution ordering the appointment of a special investigator on where the US money and weapons go in Ukraine. With an ominous addition: such as he once worked on Afghanistan. And the Biden administration opposes this, stating that the same office of the Pentagon Inspector General is just re-examining exactly this question: where does the money (and weapons) go. That's the previous report they all saw. So there is no need for some auditors to get in the way of others.
Well, Donald Trump, as if by chance, right now, seriously took up the Ukrainian topic. And approached her in his own style. He said that he would end the conflict in a jiffy and, to begin with, would force the Europeans to invest in Ukraine as much as the United States, otherwise what is it: they received (as it seems to him) only 20 billion dollars.
What will happen next? Ukraine has already become one of the main areas of Republican strike against Democrats ahead of the 2024 election year. It is already presented as a "second Afghanistan."
Then both sides will watch how the voter reacts. But the Democratic administration has already realized the seriousness of the situation and is taking action, including "studying the issue." If anything, he will appoint the guilty and try to dump the toxic asset called Ukraine.
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The American people would like to see a peace settlement. Pence and Lindsey seem pretty entrenched. Not sure how the GOP other than Trump plays this in 2024.
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This song, the original, was written back in 1925 in Soviet Russia. It was covered by many Russian/Soviet female singers through the years. It was given new lyrics and recorded by Mary Hopkin in the 1970s.
The Wikipedia entry calls it a Russian romance. I call it a love lament. The original lyrics are quite captivating.
The music, too. She gave it her own lyrics, but kept the haunting melody.
We rode on a troika with bells,
And lights flickered in the distance.
Oh, when I would now follow you,
I would dispel my soul from longing!
Chorus:
On a long road, but on a moonlit night,
Yes, with that song that flies into the distance, ringing,
Yes, with an old one, but with a seven-string,
Which torments me so much at night.
Yes, it turns out, we sang for free.
Night after night they burned in vain.
If we have done away with the old,
So these nights have departed!
Chorus.
To a different distance - in new ways -
We are destined to go by fate!
We rode on a troika with bells,
Yes, now we drove a long time ago.
Chorus.
Nobody needs me
now
If my sick life breaks,
you take me to bury.
Chorus.
Originally written by by Boris Fomin (music) and Konstantin Podrevsky (lyrics).
An early video of the song covered by Alexander Vertinsky:
[Front Page] Imagine the U.S. canceling the Fourth of July holiday due to high crime in our cities and you get a sense of what has occurred in France. Cities across France canceled Bastille Day observances July 14 because of rioting that ignited when a police officer shot and killed 17-year-old Nahel Merzouk, a French citizen of Algerian and Moroccan descent, during a traffic stop in Paris on June 27.
News reports said churches were burned to the ground and graffiti was scrawled in red paint on a church in Marseilles declaring: "Mohammed was the last prophet". Bank branches were ransacked and ATMs opened with chainsaws. Some shouted "death to the police," "death to France," "death to the Jews," and "Hitler was right." A Holocaust memorial was defaced. Thousands have been arrested.
Kosher food restaurants and shops have been looted and burned during the rampage.
Ayat Oraby, a former Egyptian TV and Muslim Brotherhood affiliate, has contributed her dose of venom to the French riots: "To where is France heading? To hell, God willing!"
Is France now paying a heavy price for admitting so many radical Islamists into the country? As Sorbonne University Professor Bernard Rougier has written: "Since the 1970s, France has welcomed an ever-increasing number of immigrants from the Muslim world. ... Only a tiny minority have assimilated into French society. The others live as they lived in their countries of origin."
Guy Milliere, on his webpage for the Gatestone Institute International Policy Council, recently posted these various quotes on the subject: "Radical imams came from the Muslim world and allege that France is guilty of having colonized their countries, that Muslims should continue to live according to the law of Islam and that, in the imams’ view, France should pay for its crimes. Many politicians have told the newcomers that France is racist and had exploited them."
Milliere also posted this one: "Criminal gangs formed and began ruling these neighborhoods ... French political leaders closed their eyes. Meanwhile, these Muslim neighborhoods have grown and crime from them increased."
Some politicians have tried to appease the radicals by sending more money to Muslim neighborhoods following riots by mostly young people who believe they have no future. To no avail. Rioting has now spread to Muslim areas in Belgium and Switzerland.
BLUF:
[WND] "I’ve been around him a lot, and always felt that he was a totally sinister figure, craven and dishonest," he said, according to the report. "Everything about Pence is false."
According to Schachtel, Carlson also claims that Pence "purposely sabotaged the Trump Administration over the entire course of his tenure" and expresses his view that Pence's "insubordination campaign went into overdrive during the covid hysteria era, when he stood up the infamous White House Coronavirus Task Force, and delivered unprecedented power to Dr. Anthony Fauci."
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When Trump won, he didn't know the players in DC and the games they played. He relied on Republican apparatchiks for personnel recommendations. In hindsight, both parties set him up to fail even before the election. If Trump wins (margin of cheating will be astronomical), it would be better to shun the DC swamp and bring in the business people and close friends he's known for years and trusts. Trump does not owe the Republican party anything. Obama had his Chicago mafia. Trump can have his construction mafia.
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Don't think Tillerson, Omarosa or Scaramucci were close friends. I am talking about people Trump has known for 30+ years, are his close friends and haven't tried to screw him. You only need a handful of them for cabinet positions and they can then seed their trusted people throughout the bureaucracy.
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I think the long game is to accept that we now live in a low no trust society and act accordingly.
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I believe Chris Christie recommended Christopher Wray. Best not listen to Fat Boy
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The means that use Race Bannon from Johnny Quest are the best.
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#7 Yep, and that era would include the gummint establishing the power to sexually mutilate your children without your knowledge or consent and yet, folks wake up every day with the notion that they can vote their way out of Hell On Earth.
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My biggest issue with Trump is that his choices for his team were crap. It's almost like "The Apprentice" was just a TV show or something.
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Gee. Imagine if gummint was much smaller. Might make it easier to populate it with at least marginally trustworthy people.
What would help most would be to dissolve DC. Distribute the offices all over the country so keeping their stories straight is more difficult. Desirable cocktail circuit needs to be outlawed. "Journalists" need to find out what wearing out shoeleather means.
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#1 Wonder if their nukes are built the same?
Posted by: Skidmark 2023-07-26 09:13
#2 The one about adjusting a wristwatch with a rock made me LOL.
Posted by: Super Hose 2023-07-26 12:24
#3 Note that the video states "1960".
I hate to tell you guys, but a lot of the operations shown are common practice in shops in the US right now.
In the tapping shot, there's a radial drill in the background. They probably used it to start the tap and make sure it was straight. The reason you don't use it to run the tap is, if you run into problems (chipped tooth, chip pack, etc) you really don't want to have 10hp driving that tap. (taps break)
In the shot where he bangs on the box with the crane (a double gantry power crane, BTW), there's a maybe 20 ton hydraulic press in the back off to the left.
None of it's anything I haven't seen in repair shops here.
Posted by: ed in texas 2023-07-26 13:15
[American Thinker] The term "technocracy" is nothing new to our political lexicon. It’s been around for decades and is commonly associated with totalitarian leftist regimes who appoint technical elitist "experts" to manage specialized sectors of their regime’s military, economy, and other civil sectors. A technocracy’s effect is to nullify the will of the people.
The first of such modern regimes was arguably the National Socialist German Workers Party (aka the Nazi Party). Minister of Armaments Albert Speer was among Hitler’s finest and most prized technocrats. In recent years, Speer’s role has been overshadowed by diabolical agents with more obvious blood on their hands, such as Adolf Eichman, Rudolph Hess, Hermann Goering, and others.
However, Speer was central to Hitler’s vision for Germany. He laid out grandiose architectural plans for the Third Reich’s capital and kept the bulk of the German armaments machine running, even as the lights dimmed around Hitler’s failed vision of a thousand-year reign of unopposed power. He was no less diabolical than his peers.
Since WWII, people have pondered and debated how it was possible for Germans, considered among the world’s most cultured and educated people, to fall in line with the Nazi agenda. After the war, Speer offered insights that are also warnings to Democrats’ technocratic aspirations.
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...Be careful here. Albert Speer was not the polite and contrite technocrat seduced by Nazi rhetoric that he tried (and succeeded in) portraying.
He knew. He facilitated the use of slave labor in armament factories, and kept the war going months longer than it otherwise would have.
He had the smarts to figure out very early on at Nuremburg that if he showed remorse he was going to stay alive, and he was right - none of the other defendants (with a couple of very qualified exceptions) even tried, and most defended what they did. Speer went to jail for twenty years, almost everyone else went to the gallows.
Mike
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/\ He was no less diabolical than his peers.
As was mentioned by the author. Not mentioned was his early sketches of the 'Stone of Hope.'
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.
[NYPOST] "Suppose we got it all wrong and the real crazies are the TV people in nice suits and $300 haircuts?"
It wasn’t shopkeepers and bus drivers who thought the way to deal with burgeoning urban crime was to get rid of police and release criminals without bail.
Ideas can be dangerous; playing with them can be like gain-of-function research with viruses — if they escape into the general environment, disaster can ensue. 
