[REGNUM] What until recently only right-wing intellectuals and experts who risked being "canceled" for intolerance allowed themselves to say was finally said by one of the most quoted people in the world, Elon Musk. "If current trends continue, civil war in Europe is inevitable ," he wrote on his page on the social network X (formerly Twitter, blocked in the Russian Federation).
Musk was referring to the migration policy of the European Union, which has flooded its countries with completely culturally alien aggressive aliens. But migrants, of course, are not the subject of this war. They are her tool, her weapon designed to crush the "repressive culture." At the same time, a significant part of Europeans themselves have long since completely disarmed.
...Gilbert Keith Chesterton, who was not only the author of popular detective stories about Father Brown, but also a profound Christian thinker, wrote in the last century: "The modern world is full of old Christian virtues that have gone mad. They have gone mad because they are divided. Thus, some scientists care about the truth, and their truth is merciless; and many humanists care only about pity. And their pity (I hate to say this) is often false . "
Today, this "gone crazy" humanism is actively used by the forces that are the "arsonists" of the global civil war.
We’re in Heinlein’s Crazy Years, just as he described them.
"Today Europe is oppressed and crushed by a gang of philosophers without morals, without religion and even without reason, who attack any concept of subordination and strive only for the overthrow of any power in order to take its place themselves, because in essence the matter is only about this." . No, this was not said by Elon Musk or any of our contemporaries, although the phrase very accurately describes the current situation.
These are the words of Joseph de Maistre, a brilliant conservative thinker, envoy of the King of Savoy at the court of the Russian Emperor Alexander I. That is, as you might guess, they were said two hundred years ago. And even then Count de Maistre saw a threat that has been fully realized in our days.
It was de Maistre’s contemporaries, primarily Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who introduced into European consciousness an idea that became the basis for all subsequent leftist utopias. Its essence is the assertion that man is by nature good, and the cause of all shortcomings is not in the dark aspects of human nature itself, but in unfavorable living conditions and various practices of suppression. Rousseau created the myth of the "noble savage." That is, he argued that it is civilization that spoils the initially good nature of man.
However, this idea of "kindness" was born much earlier. Back in the distant 5th century, two theologians argued - Augustine and Pelagius. The first said that human nature is radically damaged by original sin and without God’s help he is not capable of anything good. And Pelagius said that it was no big deal, he was quite capable. The second was recognized as a heretic. But his idea has passed through the centuries. And it had the darkest and bloodiest consequences, despite the apparent "kindness" and humanity.
The same de Maistre quotes the words of the mayor of Arras, Joseph Le Bon, the organizer of mass executions during the Jacobin period of the French Revolution. After the Thermidoran coup, he himself was sentenced to death for his art. And on the steps of the scaffold he declared: "Rousseau’s philosophy killed me." But how can the thought of the good nature of man give rise to ideological murderers who practice terror as the main method of achieving universal happiness?
It’s very simple - from this thought there are only a couple of steps to the conclusion that in the name of realizing good it is enough to simply kill all the "evil" people who do not believe in this "good" and look at human nature differently.
The pinnacle of utopian consciousness is, of course, Marxism. People who lived in the Soviet era remember Lenin's formula of extreme fanatical faith: "The teaching of Marx is omnipotent because it is true."
And no historical failures prove anything to its adherents. Neo-Marxist philosopher Ernst Bloch, for example, declares: "When utopian humanism is not at all consistent with the present world, then so much the worse for this world, the more valuable and fruitful is rightfully the thinking of justice."
It has long been no secret that after the Second World War, Marxists in the West, faced with the fact that the proletariat - due to radically improved working conditions and pay - could not be raised to revolt, went to universities to become professors. Even then, the adherents of utopia chose students, migrants, and representatives of minorities as new instruments for realizing "justice."
And by the beginning of the 21st century, they had captured the minds of a significant part of the Western elite. What about migrants? Migrants are a necessary tool, they are the most militant part of the "new proletariat", with the help of which it is possible to realize exactly what de Maistre warned about: to destroy "any concept of subordination" and come to "the overthrow of any power in order to occupy it ourselves." place".
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First published in 1973 cynics poked fun at Jean Raspail's The Camp of The Saints. No one is laughing now.
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IMO muslims are uncivilized and should/must be excluded from western societies. a muslim is defined by their adherence to sharia law which values a female less than a man.
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There is no reason not to believe that the US is not too far behind the EU.
It will be an ugly not so civil war here and non combatants (if there will be such a thing) will suffer the most.
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It doesn't take a genius or a prophet to see it coming. It's almost like the elites who are running the show in Europe want it to happen because surely they can see it coming too and yet they refuse to stop it. Yes, it will be ugly. It could end up making the WWII Holocaust look like a picnic.
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#5 Have you considered the idea that "Western Elites" don't see anything comming, and don't have any super subtle plans - they're simply crazy?
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It's OK. Europe hasn't been devastated for what, 70-80 years now. They're due.
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^Remainds me of a story in "Archipelago Gulag". A Soviet speaker mentions "Comrade Stalin". All the present start applauding. Nobody dares to be the first to stop. Eventually people start fainting.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] At the height of the Cold War, Jonna Mendez was chief of the CIA's disguise division – a branch of the agency charged with outfitting secret agents operating abroad.
By 1991, the department was developing remarkably life-like latex masks and Mendez was eager to deploy their sophisticated new spy technology where it was needed the most – Soviet Russia.
But first, Mendez needed to prove her deceits would work under the most perilous conditions.
So, she arranged the ultimate test.
Could she fool White House security and the President of the United States himself?
Excerpted from 'In True Face: A Woman's Life in the CIA, Unmasked'
In 1989, our fully animated ethnic- and gender-change mask was ready for the runway.
I changed into a man's suit and donned the mask of a black male, adding matching skintight latex gloves that were precisely painted with the same skin color, including veins.
Exercises like this, if successful, provided proof of concept.
Could I convincingly change my gender? What about skin color? Could I change both at the same time?
I'd already disguised a Caucasian male field officer as an African student in a live operation, but this was new mask technology, and we were always testing new scenarios and pushing the proverbial envelope farther than we had previously.
Once I was in full disguise, I had someone accompany me to the office of Frank Anderson, our office director. I was introduced as a new contractor. Nodding, I walked to his desk but said nothing, aware that I didn't sound like a man.
Extending my hand, I shook his, which I knew would be the moment of my reveal. As soon as he felt the latex on my right hand, I peeled off the mask with my left. His eyes lit up as I transformed back into myself.
He loved it and insisted we model it for the director of the CIA, Judge William Webster.
[Powerline] When you watch Walter Cronkite, my recent piece should have read, "you not only CBS but hear it too." That was certainly true, particularly of Cronkite’s Vietnam coverage, but as Douglas Brinkley explained in the 819-page Cronkite, there’s more that people should know.
Cronkite had worked with Sidney Lumet to adapt the radio show "You Are There" for television. Lumet directed Network, which Cronkite saw in a private screening. As Brinkley notes, the film "hit close to home," as "much about TV newsgathering was a sham." As anchorman Howard Beale (Peter Finch) explained:
Television is not the truth! Television is a God-damned amusement park! Television is a circus, a carnival, a traveling troupe of acrobats, storytellers, dancers, singers, jugglers, side-show freaks, lion tamers, and football players. We’re in the boredom-killing business! So if you want the truth. Go to God! Go to your gurus! Go to yourselves! Because that’s the only place you’re ever going to find any real truth. Yeah, and besides that, Faye Dunaway was hot. Read the rest at the link
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[RIA] Sometimes the stupidest question, simply because it is unexpected, leads to good answers. Which at least awaken the thought. The question is: why are there so many idiots around? Note: in this case we are talking about American society, although we are talking about societies in other Western countries too. That is, we have before us a roll call of American authors, including obviously smart and worthy of respect.
No, well, we see and hear this too. And we are talking about the degeneration of not just the ruling elite, but the educated class and the government apparatus of the USA, the EU or Australia and other Canada. The most stupid statements are being made - those that concern Russia, but not only. Although many have hope that there are smart people there too, they are just sitting quietly somewhere, but they can take power.
And two author-bloggers - they are not even talking about government structures, but about everyday idiocy, which has never happened before. Here is the scene outside the Israeli embassy in Washington during a demonstration in support of Palestine. A man in full US Air Force uniform pours gasoline on himself and strikes a lighter for a long time. And for some reason a security guard from the Secret Service takes him at gunpoint and stands there until everything ends badly.
Author's conclusion: this is a symbol of today's America. One person is absorbed in his ideas to the point of absurdity and self-destruction, the other - a representative of the authorities - reacts to what is happening in the most savage way. And then the author lists many more, including “it’s not clear whose” cocaine is in the White House. In general, everyone at all levels says and does wild things.
The second blogger is about humor . He asks where the great American satirists have gone. It turns out that they cannot say a word - they will hound you. For the word "Negro" and in general for everything that could be ridiculed before. And when a nation loses its sense of humor, things are bad.
We admit that the examples of idiocy here are random, simply pulled out of the flow of events. But there is a general feeling of the onset of such idiocy - and incredibly aggressive idiocy.
And there is at least one completely unexpected explanation for this. One of the publicists finds it in a book published, imagine, in 1943: “Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy” by Joseph Schumpeter. It contains a simple idea: if in society there are more and more people with higher education in the humanities, people who are far from real production, then these people can begin to create problems for everyone. Especially considering the fact that they know that they are not particularly needed, unlike, for example, a truck driver, who today earns much more than a humanities professor.
Under Schumpeter, there were only one million students in the United States. Now 66 percent of the population there has at least a college degree (pre-college or something like that).
Call it post-secondary. That includes associate degrees and certificates for technical training.
And what problems arise from this? Dislike for society as a whole, but especially for those members of it who do something understandable and useful. The desire to break this society, relying on its monopoly in the humanitarian sphere, that is, in journalism, journalism, computer science. Attempts to pull the financial rope to one’s side, which creates distortions in the economy, essentially deindustrialize it.
That is, a ruling class is being formed, far from real production and normal life in general. And in this class, ideas of “rebooting everything,” that is, a world revolution, are beginning to circulate. And if not all, then at first individual spheres and industries, those that have their own science (that is, work experience), their own authorities and people of merit. In general, the class of useless humanities is becoming a new revolutionary class, a terrible destroyer of everything it can reach. And if it is not possible to completely destroy it, then you can at least endlessly harass people - today all over the world - with all sorts of campaigns for anything, but more often against anything.
And we repeat, a smart economist predicted this back in 1943.
Here we must remember the experience of the USSR. In fact, the society there was quite dynamic. And it was full of frenzied debates, which only specialists remember today. Should we strive for the ideal of a 100% higher education in the humanities simply because it makes a person’s life brighter and more meaningful, and makes a person perfect? Should we continue such education all our lives with the help of smart books, newspapers and magazines, and with strong pressure on those who do not want to be enlightened? How to combine the vocational school system with another system?
And we are still arguing about this. But never before in these debates has it turned out that the smart Austro-American economist and his followers are repeating the grumbling of our “backward” grandmothers at the entrance: everyone has become very smart, with education, but there is no one to replace the light bulb above the entrance. And there is a feeling that in this grumbling some significant rightness is revealed.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Russia is trying to destabilise Europe and influence its elections by driving migrants into the continent using private armies, it has been claimed.
It’s the old “Give ‘em what they want, good and hard” ploy. You can’t even really blame them, when it’s so easy that the temptation irresistible.
Vladimir Putin already wields influence over a number of the main routes used to reach the continent, and it is now feared that Russia will 'intensify' its efforts to move migrants towards Europe with the arrival of spring.
Using paramilitary forces and private mercenaries, including the notorious Wagner group, it is believed Russia will stoke violence in already volatile nations such as Burkina Faso, Mali, Sudan, Central African Republic and Libya - forcing people to flee their homes and thus driving refugees towards Europe.
The Kremlin has already been accused of trying to create a refugee crisis by sending asylum seekers to its border with Finland, forcing the new NATO member to close its doors to migrants in a bid to stem the tide.
And since 2021, Belarus - Russia's closest ally - has been accused of funnelling immigrants from the Middle East and North Africa - who have travelled up through Russia - to its borders with Poland, Lithuania and Latvia.
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[RedStar] The Military Department has declassified documents from the funds of the Navy.
The Russian Ministry of Defense is launching a special multimedia section dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the establishment of the orders and medals of Ushakov and Nakhimov.
A special historical and educational section “Loyal to the Glorious Traditions of the Navy” has been created on the official website of the military department. As part of this project, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation publishes declassified documents from the funds of the archive of the Navy (branch of TsAMO RF in Gatchina).
Published materials talk about the meaning and creation of naval awards named after Ushakov and Nakhimov, as well as the heroism and courage of Soviet sailors during the Great Patriotic War. Among the documents are statutes and draft orders, decrees of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, orders of the Navy command, as well as award sheets and pages from the personal files of Navy servicemen awarded the orders and medals of Ushakov and Nakhimov.
During the Great Patriotic War, as stated on the page of the historical and educational section, the continuity of military traditions became extremely important, thanks to which high morale was maintained in the ranks of the Red Army. Many traditions, acting as a means of patriotic and moral education, were imprinted in art and enshrined in military regulations. In addition, they are reflected in the awards.
On March 3, 1944, special naval awards related to the military traditions of the great Russian admirals were established - these were the orders of Ushakov and Nakhimov of two degrees, as well as medals named after them. During the war, thousands of Soviet sailors were awarded these awards. With their heroism they were able to revive the unshakable spirit of the invincible Fyodor Ushakov and the valiant Pavel Nakhimov.
Thus, from the documents published in the open section, one can learn that at the first stage of creating new awards, the command of the Navy and the country's leadership laid in the orders those meanings that most accurately reflected the specific qualities of admirals Fyodor Ushakov and Pavel Nakhimov. Back in September 1943, the Commissioner of the USSR Navy received the following proposals on this matter: “The Order of Nakhimov is the personification of bravery, courage, perseverance, a high sense of duty, and tactical art. The Order of Ushakov is like the personification of a naval strategist-politician with all other “Nakhimov” qualities.”
During the war, thousands of Soviet sailors were awarded these awards. With their heroism they were able to revive the unshakable spirit of the invincible Fyodor Ushakov and the valiant Pavel Nakhimov
After the above proposals were accepted, the development of sketches of these orders and the preparation of the project began. In the course of this painstaking work, by March 1944, a number of merits were finally determined for which Soviet sailors could be awarded naval awards. Thus, the Order of Ushakov, I and II degrees, was awarded to admirals and officers of the Navy who achieved significant success in the development and conduct of naval operations, as a result of which victory over a numerically superior enemy was achieved with the least losses.
The Order of Nakhimov, I and II degrees, was awarded to admirals and officers of the Navy who distinguished themselves in defense or supporting the actions of naval forces or ground forces, as a result of which significant damage was inflicted on the enemy and the combat effectiveness of subordinate units was preserved. In addition to orders, Ushakov and Nakhimov medals were also developed to reward the courage and bravery of private, petty officer and non-commissioned personnel of the Navy.
During the Great Patriotic War, 47 people were awarded the Order of Ushakov, 1st degree, and about 200, 2nd degree; Order of Nakhimov, 1st degree – 80 people, 2nd degree – 460; Ushakov medals - over 15,000 people, Nakhimov medals - over 13,000.
From the published documents you can learn about the heroism and courage of Soviet sailors during the Great Patriotic War. For example, about Rear Admiral Nikolai Feldman, awarded the Order of Nakhimov, 1st degree, who in April 1945 organized a landing on the Frische-Nerung Spit (now the Baltic Spit), as a result of which Soviet troops occupied the city of Pillau and captured about six thousand soldiers and enemy officers, captured six tanks and up to 250 vehicles.
Or about junior lieutenant Nikolai Vasin, who in February 1944, as part of a group of four Il-2s and four Yak-1s, flew out to attack German transport ships in the port of Liinohamari. Using two FAB-100 aerial bombs and a rocket, the Soviet attack pilot sank a transport with a displacement of six thousand tons. In April 1944, the commander of the Northern Fleet, appreciating the merits of Nikolai Vasin, decided to award the pilot the newly established Order of Nakhimov, II degree.
The publication of declassified documents from the funds of TsAMO of the Russian Federation about the orders and medals of Ushakov and Nakhimov, as well as the exploits of Soviet sailors during the Great Patriotic War is aimed at military-patriotic education and preserving the historical memory of the heroes of the Fatherland.
The word translates into: a snack bar where sweets are offered.
[Chernovec] It's rare that a Russian would be scared by something called "Emmanuel."
It's interesting that when Macron, that money-lover, announced that he was going to officially allow his paddling pools to cross the Ukrainian border, he realized that now he would have to run not only from old money, but also from "Dagger" ?
If they start a war, they will get a response and the farmers will seem like little flowers. A method of treating headaches by truncation of the head.
There is a big difference between Ukraine and France. I don’t feel sorry for France, to say the least. Accordingly, maximum damage will be caused by everything available.
The same Napoleon is valued in Russia - strong. brave, attacked Russia. I lost, however, but we counted the attempt. And they even named a cake in his honor. But Monya, this is not even a cake.
P.S.
Current French historians explain the surrender of Paris to the Germans by the desire to preserve the city with unique architectural monuments. Now what, isn’t it a pity?
[Bidenomics] If you ask Americans what they think of the U.S. economy, they will tell you things are not good. Americans are stressed about the family budget. They worry about falling behind financially. They feel like what they’ve worked so hard to earn could be gone in an instant. But if you ask President Biden, the economy couldn’t be better – so good that he put his name on it: Bidenomics.
The President brags a lot about the economy, so we decided to look at what the President has been saying, compare that to the facts on the ground, and let you decide for yourself.
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^ Why "OK, Boomer" has never really bothered me.
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If the economy is great for Raytheon stockholders but sucks for everyone in the McDonald’s drive thru line, please stop demanding that we recognize Biden as an economic genius. You can’t even push poll GenZ into that stupidity.
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[News with Views] "In our view... derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction, carrying dangers that, while now latent, are potentially lethal." —Warren Buffett
Those who know me
…Steven Yates, PhD (philosophy), expat in Chile, where he earns his bread editing English translations of the work of Chilean academics and writes books on cultural topics for love…
know that where human affairs are concerned, I don’t like making predictions. Given complexity, no one ever knows all the factors leading to a given event, or that could influence it. So I sketch scenarios. Scenarios are not predictions. They offer possibilities. They draw pictures. They suggest that if a specific set of circumstances should align, the event depicted could take place. They gain credibility by noting trends we can see if we’re observing honestly. Used to be called models, which allowed calibration of aligning circumstances.
A couple of weeks ago I posted an article on my Substack publication Navigating the New Normal from one Sarah Smith, pseudonym of a woman I’ve known for years. She’s done a few things under her real name, but with family to think of, in the New Normal she wants to keep her head down. She’s given me permission to draw on her ideas and resources. I’m uncomfortable doing so without crediting her for drawing the scenario below. I don’t know the probability that something bad will happen on April 8. Sarah assures me, though, that well-connected and well-informed people who have better information than I do are worried. That tells me, the odds are not zero!
OPEN BORDERS AND THE THREAT OF TERRORISM.
What are we sure of? That the Bidenistas want open borders. They threw open the southern border after ousting Trump back in 2020-21. Migrants began massing on our southern border not by the thousands but by the hundreds of thousands. Discovering they could cross the border without consequence, they came in even larger numbers. Different sources cite anywhere from 6.2 million to 10 million illegal migrants entering the U.S. since January 21, 2021. They’ve gone (or been sent) to every major city, where some have made mayhem. Only some are Hispanic. Others entering the U.S. illegally are Chinese nationals (thousands — enough to form an army on U.S. soil!). There are also likely Hezbollah loyalists able to form sleeper cells answering to Iran! Should the U.S. end up in a direct confrontation with that country, these cells could easily be activated!
In other words, it’s as if the Bidenistas are inviting a terrorist attack on U.S. soil, possibly in response to the mayhem "our" war machine has made in the Middle East, or just its unconditional support for Israel.
No one I know of thinks "Joe Biden" is doing this. With his cognitive decline, I doubt he can still find Iran on a map. Does whoever is behind him — Obama? Obama’s handlers? — have a larger agenda reflecting hatred for Western civilization? Some think so.
THE DERIVATIVES BUBBLE: COULD A TERRORIST ATTACK LEAD TO THE GREAT TAKING AND CBDCS?
A terrorist attack — or multiple attacks on the same day — if they occurred, say, in America’s Heartland, would do more than cause a major economic downturn. They could set in motion cascading defaults that would dwarf what we saw back in 2008. They could burst the derivatives bubble. Financial Endgame would follow.
The derivatives bubble is the largest bubble in human history. Its size exceeds the actual physical wealth on the planet. It is not without reason that Warren Buffett referred to derivatives as potential "financial weapons of mass destruction."
We are indebted to David Rogers Webb who smoked out what the bursting of this bubble would mean for ordinary people, revealing it in his book The Great Taking which I’ve reviewed and continued to reference.
A 1990s revision to the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) adopted by all 50 states gives special, "protected class" legal status to the too-big-to-fail banks (Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, Wells Fargo). In the wake of the complete financial meltdown that would follow, the revised UCC would be used to justify digitally transferring all securities (stocks, bonds, mortgages, pensions, 401ks, etc.) to the too-big-to-fail banks, and it would be legal!
Picture awakening one morning, logging into your IRA or 401k to check its performance, and seeing that to your horror, your account balance is zero! Your money has vanished! In a panic you try to call your broker and discover that your phone isn’t working! Your bank is shuttered, surrounded by police barricades also surrounding every other local bank branch! You still can’t reach your broker. Numb, you try to process all this and wonder what happens next!
It’s the Great Taking! See again Sarah Smith’s article here, or here.
The Federal Reserve and the too-big-to-fail banks will then issue central bank digital currency (CBDC) with the backing of Uncle Sam. I envision "Joe Biden" signing an executive order establishing the new financial system supposedly to deal with the disaster and likely national panic that could end with fresh lockdowns and martial law being imposed. Smaller banks not absorbed by the too-big-to-fail leviathans will not reopen. If you had an account in one of them, your money is simply gone!
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There are also likely Hezbollah loyalists able to form sleeper cells answering to Iran! Should the U.S. end up in a direct confrontation with that country, these cells could easily be activated!
In the event of a war just treat "American" Muslims - deservedly, as you treated the Nisei - undeservedly.
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...we had been reading the Japanese diplomatic code for a while. The west coast consulates had been reporting of friends and agents among the Japanese communities. Washington factored in that 90% of all aircraft production was in LA and Seattle at the time. Without any mean of distinguishing the difference between loyal members of the community and 'friends and agents', they simply moved all they could find.
They also rounded up German and Italian nationals, though not naturalized. The Japanese and other Asians faced more, and yes racists, roadblocks to naturalization than the Europeans.
[Gold, Goats 'n Guns] Author Richard Poe returns to the podcast after too long a hiatus to help give us an historical accounting of the influence of British trade and foreign policy on the evolution of the United States and how it has led us to the moment we are in today. The Boer War as a template for the 'Round Table' movement ?
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“There is a change underway, however. Our society used to be a ladder on which people generally climbed upward. More and more now we are going to a planetary structure, in which the great dominant lower middle class, the class that determines our prevailing values and organizational structures in education, government, and most of society, are providing recruits for the other groups — sideways, up, and even down, although the movement downward is relatively small. As the workers become increasingly petty bourgeois and as middle-class bureaucratic and organizational structures increasingly govern all aspects of our society, our society is increasingly taking on the characteristics of the lower middle class, although the poverty culture is also growing. The working class is not growing. Increasingly we are doing things with engineers sitting at consoles, rather than with workers screwing nuts on wheels. The workers are a diminishing, segment of society, contrary to Marx’s prediction that the proletariat would grow and grow. I have argued elsewhere that many people today are frustrated because we are surrounded by organizational structures and artifacts. Only the petty bourgeoisie can find security and emotional satisfaction in an organizational structure, and only a middle-class person can find them in artifacts, things that men have made, such as houses, yachts, and swimming pools. But human beings who are growing up crave sensation and experience. They want contact with other people, moment-to-moment, intimate contact. I’ve discovered, however, that the intimacy really isn’t there. Young people touch each other, often in an almost ritual way; they sleep together, eat together, have sex together. But I don’t see the intimacy. There is a lot of action, of course, but not so much more than in the old days, I believe, because now there is a great deal more talk than action. This group, the lower middle class, it seems to me, holds the key to the future. I think probably they will win out. If they do, they will resolutely defend our organizational structures and artifacts. They will cling to the automobile, for instance; they will not permit us to adopt more efficient methods of moving people around. They will defend the system very much as it is and, if necessary, they will use all the force they can command. Eventually they will stop dissent altogether, whether from the intellectuals, the religious, the poor, the people who run the foundations, the Ivy League colleges, all the rest. The colleges are already becoming bureaucratized, anyway. I can’t see the big universities or the foundations as a strong progressive force. The people who run Harvard and the Ford Foundation look more and more like lower-middle-class bureaucrats who pose no threat to the established order because they are prepared to do anything to defend the system.”
[PJ] Retired Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman needs an intervention. Or maybe a straitjacket.
At the very least, someone should whisper in Vindman's ear that his 15 minutes were up about 4 years ago when he was the left's star witness in Trump's impeachment trial and he needn't bother himself with making more of a fool of himself than he already has.
MSNBC has become the go-to network for fringe anti-Trump characters. The network is more than willing to give a platform and a microphone to the most rabid NeverTrumpers in America. And that includes Vindman, who has taken on the task of "Trump Slayer" for the left.
"Trump, the Democracy Destroyer" has met his match in Vindman. Lt. Col Sausage
"We might have only one more vote left that really matters," Vindman said in an interview on MSNBC’s "The Last Word" with anchor Ali Velshi. "If Trump comes to office, he’s already declared that he intends to be a dictator. The President and the chief executive is invested with broad powers."
The president is the chief executive, moron. And Vindman's reference to Trump claiming he intends to be a dictator was, not surprisingly, taken out of context.
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Based on the position that he was in, Vindman probably had some involvement with the secret bases acknowledged in the NYT article. At some time in the future we may get to see the sausage sweat as it is grilled
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[Tablet] Hamas’s assault on Israelis on October 7th was not an act of war as we normally think of it but something far worse. We don’t have an adequate term for what occurred on that day, so people use words like "terrorism," "barbarism," "atrocity," "depravity," "massacre," and so on. All are correct, and yet all fall short of capturing the annihilationist fury set loose at the Nova music festival and in the kibbutzim and small towns of southern Israel.
The people attacked in those places were not only to die, but to die in torment.
The people attacked in those places were not only to die, but to die in torment. In addition to the merciless torture, killings, slashings, burnings, beheadings, mutilations, dismemberments, and kidnappings, there were gang-rapes and other forms of sadistic sexual assault, including, according to some reports, the cutting off of women’s breasts, nails driven into women’s thighs and groins, bullets fired into their vaginas, and even intercourse with female corpses. Unimaginable? For most normal people, yes. But before going into Israel, the Hamas assassins were instructed to "dirty them" and "whore them." And that’s precisely what many of them faithfully did.
If it were possible to encapsulate all the evil of that day in a single image, it would be that of the violent seizure of a young Israeli woman, Naama Levy, 19, barefoot, beaten, and bloodied, her hands tied behind her back, the crotch of her sweatpants heavily soiled, possibly from being raped, dragged by her hair at gunpoint into a Hamas car, and driven off to Gaza to suffer an unspeakable fate among her captors there. Her assailants filmed every second of her ordeal; and as one watches the clips of her being taken away, one sees crowds nearby loudly shouting "Allah-hu Akbar" — "Allah is the greatest"—a victory cry that offers religious sanction to the malign treatment of Naama Levy and countless others seized, slaughtered, and abducted on that horrific day.
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"the worst horrors of our history" World history is IMNSHO a true horror story of endless warfare and atrocities committed on innocent human beings. This is particularly true in the Middle East, but it is recorded everywhere, although mostly forgotten or filed away into a safe place in our individual psyches. See this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnadenhutten_massacre
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The afternoon of 9/11/2001 I read many online accounts of the celebrations Gazans were conducting over the damage done in the USA. Even Yassir Arafat attempted to stifle the celebrations. Online records were conveniently erased shortly afterward.
[The Defender] In an interview with Dr. Joseph Mercola, nephrologist Dr. Suzanne Humphries recounted reporting vaccine injuries to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, only to have them deleted from the database — part of a pattern of secrecy around vaccination issues spanning 200-plus years.
Story at a glance:
The vaccine industry intentionally deceives us about the risks and benefits of vaccines in order to make a profit, with complete disregard for human suffering and the destruction of public health over time.
One of the reasons the polio vaccine doesn’t work is because polio isn’t caused by an infectious virus. It’s caused by toxins. Poliovirus is a commensal virus that is completely harmless in the absence of toxic onslaught.
The changing of definitions is part of the vaccine industry’s playbook. The definition of a "vaccine" was radically altered to allow for the use of experimental modified RNA gene therapy.
Another part of the fraud is using another vaccine as the control in lieu of a true placebo. You simply cannot prove a vaccine is safe by comparing it to another, most likely unsafe, vaccine.
According to Dr. Suzanne Humphries, there are no worthwhile vaccines, not even smallpox or tetanus. Tetanus can be successfully treated using high-dose intravenous vitamin C and other essential nutrients.
Vitamin C works because tetanus is a bacterial disease caused by an obligate anaerobe that cannot survive in the presence of oxygen. Other oxidative therapies that could be used if the infection is related to a wound include hydrogen peroxide and ozone therapy.
In this interview, Dr. Suzanne Humphries discusses the recent update to her classic book, "Dissolving Illusions: Disease, Vaccines, and the Forgotten History," published in 2013.
"Dissolving Illusions" is one of my favorite books on vaccines, so I was honored to write the foreword for this 10th-anniversary edition.
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Not so much lies, it seems to me, as an evolving understanding as new learnings result from discoveries over time. For instance, this from 2017, posted by the NIH:
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If there weren't vaccines, the authors wouldn't be alive to pen their nonsense*. The problem is lack of proper basic research into mechanisms of immune memory.
M.D. are NOT scientists and have no understanding of the scientific method - best case scenario: an M.D. is a competent technician.
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^ You forgot the most recent one: Something you allow to be introduce into your body because gummint says so. Failure can result in loss of job and / or get you sent to a camp.
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And for those out there insane enough to want to legally apply for an immigrant visa, heed this from our DoS (Fauci Flu vaccine at the top of the list).
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What happens when real scientific methodology is thrown out for some sort of gain. Note well, there are 8 billion human beings. Regardless of your desire and intent, some people are going to have adverse and fatal reactions to things introduced into the body. It becomes a trade off of a few vs the many.
The link is to the first online version of the paper, which is now, four years later, in its twelfth revision and still hasn't cleared peer review. I have an earlier version, which is more speculative and more interesting. It's a great example of 21st century biomedical in silico research.
The original article posted on the Burg is largely nonsense scientifically - the opposite political pole of "vaccines and boosters to the death" we put up with every day. It's too bad that the spike protein turned out to be toxic.
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.
[News with Views] "In our view... derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction, carrying dangers that, while now latent, are potentially lethal." —Warren Buffett
[PJ] Retired Army Lt. Col. 
[The Defender] In an interview with Dr. Joseph Mercola, nephrologist Dr. Suzanne Humphries recounted reporting vaccine injuries to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, only to have them deleted from the database — part of a pattern of secrecy around vaccination issues spanning 200-plus years.
