The core of the novel is the absurdity of a man who collaborates with the enemy out of a misplaced sense of duty.
 

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I recently read that the original bridge is still there...
 

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The commando attack is not factual. Apparantly at some point it was damaged by air attack at some point. The Japanese offensive into India was a major strategic miscalculation (the Indians were supposed to rise up, but the British had done a wonderful job of blunting Indian nationalism and there was a terrible famine as well.) The puny light guage railway they had made wasn't sufficient to supply much of force, so the British didn't need to worry overmuch.

The scene at the end is BS, no Brit doctor stood agape saying, "Madness.... Madness..." while looking atthe destroyed bridge. It was actually a Scottish doctor. ;)

It is not quite the 'original' bridge that was destroyed by Allied bombing, and reconstructed later.

I was at the site about 30 years ago, so this is rather dated.
At that time, the thing to see was the JEATH Museum which was an initiative of the local Buddhist monks in the grounds of their monastery. This has apparently since been copied and according to reports, to be avoided, maybe the original is still OK though.

JEATH = Japan England Australia/America Thailand Holland.

Casualties = 12/13 000 Allied abt 90/95 000 impressed.
I went there with only a knowledge of the Allied deaths and learned that the local Asian deaths were abt 7 X that figure.
K'buri is an easy shot from Bangkok, continue to Three Pagoda Pass at the Burma border if you want. Here's the JEATH site fwiw; scrolling the photos, see a notice from the Buddhist monks -- "War Is Sinful Behavior" also warning about alcohol ...
Have a good trip.

https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Attraction_Review-g297924-d554275-Reviews-JEATH_War_Museum-Kanchanaburi_Kanchanaburi_Province.html

It was very memorable and I recommend all of the below.

Found this pic which is how the bridge was when I walked it. As you can see, the safety precautions then were zero and there were huge gaps where you could fall off. (I'm not a fearful person but, was traveling on my own and wasn't at all sure that anyone would bother to fetch me from the river if I fell in!) https://www.studenteducationaladventures.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Hellfire_Pass_Burma_B.jpg

Museum info - see reviews too. https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g17812447-d523723-Reviews-Hellfire_Pass_Interpretive_Centre_and_Memorial_Walking_Trail-Tha_Sao_Sai_Yok_Kan.html

The nearby "Death Railway" train you can ride - very scenic and a bit hair-raising! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxdyBGYe-eY

Zulu is your movie then, lots of naked ladies - except the white one.

Marnie and Zardoz are two of the biggest flops in Sean’s career.
 

Maybe he was trying to make a point. My point is that the original Steve McQueen Crowne was infinitely superior to the latter version and that Norman Jewison is not Joo-ish.

They also have a 4K version.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faHQA_0d9Mo&t=0s

Maybe this is why DUNE didn't work.

Notice the opening scene of DUNE is like that of ERASERHEAD. Lynch is no stranger to strangeness. But what makes ERASERHEAD so special is the strangeness is part of the texture of the normal. So much of ERASERHEAD looks familiar and ordinary. But strange things happen, and we are never quite sure where the 'normal' ends and the strange/surreal begins.
Lynch is an artist whose specialty is a peculiar way of seeing. He can look at the most normal things in strange ways or find strange things in it. (This is also what makes Tarkovsky STALKER so beguiling.)
But with DUNE, strangeness is baked into the cake. It's about some faraway place in the universe. The strangeness must be literal, and it is all too familiar to the people of that world. So, there is nothing normal on which to ply Lynch's strange way of seeing. BLUE VELVET feels nightmarish precisely because it's set in some middle class American community with green lawns and the like. Something strange intrudes into this world both physically and psychologically. Indeed, even though the woman is physically raped, it's like the main male character is mind-fuc*ed, and his whole way of seeing things alters. It alters our way of seeing and feeling, not only of Americana but of the self. Same goes for MULHOLLAND DR.

ELEPHANT MAN is good but not as good as other Lynch movies because, like DUNE, the strangeness is obvious, part and parcel of the material. The 'elephant man' is ugly as sin and grotesque beyond belief. As the strangeness is too powerfully established, the only thing the movie does is assures us that he is human. Rather trite sermonizing.
In contrast, ERASERHEAD is far more unnerving and tantalizing because its lead character is something between totally normal guy and a freak. Also, he reacts to the 'baby' as if it's just a mouth to feed when it's obviously monstrous. This leads to strange tensions. It's like a process of fermentation where things rot into new normals.

The universe of DUNE is so strange that Lynch's strange way of seeing becomes almost irrelevant. It's like a comedian who finds himself among clowns in a circus. Comedian needs a straight man to play against. Against clowns who push funny stuff to extremes, the comedian is rendered the straight man.

Lynch's take on sci-fi-like material worked in TWIN PEAKS(the early episodes he directed) and especially in part II, which is among his greatest achievement. Lynch feels most at home in Twilight-Zone-Outer-Limits universe, where the normal is visited, intruded, subverted, and etc by the strange. Indeed, it seems Lynch is partial to Normal America precisely because he's so abnormal. He knows he's an odd creature who sees things oddly, and he could easily get lost. So, the small town of Americana and its reassuring mythos are like a map or compass to him. Ultimately, it's a zone of false comfort as nothing is really normal-normal because all of life is weird and twisted if one thinks about it or looks at it under a microscope. Still, without some semblance of the normal and 'good', we sink into the morass of long journey into darkness. We need it like vertebrae animals need their backbones. It gives some sense of shape and meaning. Same theme in ALTERED STATES by Ken Russell(whose strangeness was just a put-on).

In this respect, it's a missed opportunity that Lynch didn't take up George Lucas' offer to make a STAR WARS sequel. Frank Herbert was a weirdo who cooked up a very strange warped universe with wild ideas about 'spices'. Lynch couldn't out-weird Herbert.
In contrast, STAR WARS is a pretty American-as-apple-pie Western and Road Movie in space. Lucas was inspired by John Ford, Akira Kurosawa, WWII fighter footage, FLASH GORDON. And he used space ships much like the cars in AMERICAN GRAFFITI. Also, the Force is essentially extra horsepower that revs up one's mojo. STAR WARS is fantasy but a very straight and normal fantasy, which is why it was a super success. Lynch could have used Lucas' vision as straight man to his odd and twisted way of seeing things. Use Luke Skywalker like the Kyle guy in BLUE VELVET. That would have been hilarious.

In boxing, there's a saying, 'Never hook with a hooker'. Lynch in DUNE weirded with a weirdo and got out-weirdo-ed. Indeed, there was nothing his strangeness could do when the universe and the story were totally strange to begin with.

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I saw it at an out of the way strip mall theater midnight showing around ‘77 or ‘78 where I used to go see Rock movies. I had exactly the same experience and takeaway, including the ‘get a life’ thought with the addition that Susan Sarandon made an impression on me.

No one ever accused Howard hawks and John Wayne of making a film with an intelligent plot. One gets the impression the storyline was thrown together on the fly over a whiskey bottle.
 

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Yesterday I read an open letter signed by all the retail kingpins whining to the US Congress about the epidemic in theft. HA! They all bent the knee to the BLM and are now getting what they asked for – I say let them have it; good and hard.
 

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It's already been happening. There was some rich black basketball player a year or 2 back that was running his mouth on twitter or some other social app, bragging about all the riots, stealing,looting, and destruction . How great it was and this is what you get. Then all of a sudden there was some mob that was suddenly coming around into his neighborhood and he started calling the Police and bitching about where are the cops. After that he changed his tune real quick. All these F'in idiots think they are just going to sit behind their keyboards and run their F'in mouths and instigate all this BS and get other people killed and have the very White civilization that keeps them fat,rich and fed, destroyed and think it's not going to come right back to them and bite them right in the ass. Low IQ blacks indeed.

It’s quite straightforward. Two conditions have to be satisfied:

1. It has to have a URL
2. It must have the proper extension (e.g., jpg, png etc)

Here’s an example:
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[I’ve inserted quotes at the beginning and end of the string to show you what it looks like.]

If you remove those quotes, you should get this:

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You know you’ve done it right when the image renders in the edit box when you press the “publish comment” button.

If it doesn’t render, you’ve done something wrong.

Give it a try.

Before the film came out they pontificated with the same utter conviction
that Sauron was really Hitler, so there :D

I also read the book earlier and thought it nigh-impossible to film but
apart from the elves being vaguely Nordic the archetypes are not really -
recognizably - racially charged.
Then again the Wokies have no problem proclaiming the zombie
genre is about blacks either.

...they need to hear the word, NO, much more often in America
 

But, barring a miracle, and it would take one at this point, that will never happen. Even if it did it's already too late. The United States is finished - existing now in name only.

Everything you said.

Plus, Blacks have been given plenary power to script public debate; to list the approved complaints; to approve remedies; and to let us know when enough has been done.

Unsurprisingly, we jump through more and more hoops only to face more and more unhappiness. Gets to be a contest to see who can name the largest number.

Right. Even if you are more in shape, stronger (pretty much gotta be), and more skillful than the best women figure skater there is, you are there to show THEM off, not yourself ... unless you are gay and go off the script.

It's like being Richard Carpenter playing with Karen. He had a damn good guitar solo in Goodbye to Love, but does anyone compare him to Pete Townsend? (Maybe it's just because he didn't smash any guitars? At least on stage ... that we know about ...)

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Absolutely, Mohawk. I pay attention to figure skating only during Winter Olympics, even this one, which I'm supposedly boycotting.

I never cared much for Kwan, don't know why, but this clip is... awesome.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKi_wHwImL0

Because it was an exhibition she didn't focus on technical stuff (although to my eyes, it was perfect) and instead, expressed her feminine soul in beautiful skating. At 03:29 she does something I've never seen in a skating program that took my breath away. Have some onions ready, mate.

LET KAMILA SKATE!

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This is the best use of "Green Onions" which ever happened, or which will ever happen.

https://youtu.be/dWOvT8EDSyE

Yuna Kim merits notice, too. Such grace and artistry by Michelle Kwan, Yuna Kim, Kamila Valieva and other top female skaters make the average guy forget about the clumsy, everyday world for a minutes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuna_Kim

In her day, Kwan was the only top-class skater in the world who could smoothly change his or her spiral (your gif) from one edge to the other. I've no idea if anyone has been able to do that since.

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Your sore because asians are much more athletic than pinkies we are quick fast and speedy , cat like reflexes explosive jumping power and hang time whitey opposite of all, that you are unathletic ,rooted to the ground, slow and clumsy with no grace when you play sports, playing besketball with you oafs is risky instead of playing defense with your feet you oafs tackle the ball handler and run under the jump shooter instead of jumping toward the shooters overhead arms causing ankle injuries.

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Fifty thousand White and talented, patriotic Americans would put the US back at the table of global geo-politics. No more is needed. Less will not do.

Does that political party even exist? And is that our key problem. Please rationalize this one for me
 

Yes, that is our key problem - and not just in the US but across the White Western world - for without a solution to that problem we have no means of strategic Defence against our enemies, nor any means of constructing an intelligent and effective system of Offence (or Counter-Attack) with which to defeat them.

Rationalisation complete.

End-Of-Program.

Of course not, so what do we do now? First and most important – we must return dominate political power to a party that is not Anti-white and global-homo and open borders.
 

I have been sharply critical of the American media for at least the last couple of decades. But if someone had predicted a few years ago that a million Americans would die apparently as the result of an American biowarfare attack but that both the mainstream and the alternative media would totally ignore that reality, I would not have believed it possible.
 

So perhaps at some point, the truth will indeed out.
 

Robert Frost, the 20th Century New England poet, was part of that "I love noble savages" tradition. He wrote a poem called "The Vanishing Red" about the murder/death of the last known Indian in Acton, MA, killed laughingly and cruelly by a local white Miller.

https://poets.org/poem/vanishing-red

Frost's poem is condemning and attacking on the whites, and mournful for the Indian. Shades of gay Anderson Cooper giggling about his ancestors being murdered by their slaves.

I used to vibe with Frost's holier-than-thou attitude and plaintive tale. After reading about the actual brutality and truth of Indian attacks, while I can't say I'm on the miller's side, I can at least say I understand why he would take pleasure in revenging his ancestral blood on the side that did his family wrong.

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The 1960s were the Golden Age of MLB. I remember it fondly. You have a good memory of the 1965 WS, but can you name all the Alou brothers and their respective teams?
 

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Skiptum Alou was my favorite brother…

"Get there first with the most men" wasn't Jackson it was Forrest.

You sound like a coalburner.

 

Apartment Zero 1996
 

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"Apartment Zero ... _So BAD; it's good."

I remember watching Apartment Zero from a VHS cassette and coming away impressed by its suspenseful atmosphere. It's Buenos Aries location enhanced this quality. It's now a hard film to find if you don't want to spend $5o.oo for a used DVD.

When are they going to vote to defend the USA’s borders?
 

Never? That's pretty obvious by now.

"Romanoff comes off a little childish. Doesn’t he know that every government on the planet is run by gangsters, pirates and thugs? Just because American exceptionalism has given her the world’s best psychopaths, doesn’t mean the leaders of every other nation don’t salivate at the idea of going as far, or further, than the Americans. It’s a little thing called human nature."

Well, let's see. According to you, every nation has a Madeline Albright who kills half a million infants, as they have been at war for 98% of their existence as a nation. Every country has a Rumsfeld and Cheney who compete for creating the world's largest collection of torture prisons. Every country salivates at the thought of "pacifying" populations by the slaughter of millions, and every President and Prime Minister is dying to conduct open-air nuclear tests on their populations. And every country has their own Jewish MK-ULTRA program. And so on.

The "human nature" this person describes, applies to only two groups of people: the American ruling class and the Khazarian Jews.

"Rich" is a Jewish Hasbara Troll and should be ignored.

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Yes every "tribe" did the same thing is historically correct. The Aztecs, the Incas, and Maya were really nice tribes even though they subjugated millions of people and sacrificed hundreds of thousands each year including children. The wonderful Native Americans above Mexico really got along well also. The Iroquois Nation almost went extinct because the tribes kept killing each other. These tribes never got along and to this day still don't get along. Russel Means the late Indian actor and activist's body guards had guns on each other when he tried to control AIM.

Plains tribes once they got the ponies rode 200 miles to kill other tribes in initiation rites. The Spanish were able to kill so many of the "magic people" because most of the other tribes wanted revenge on the people who enslaved them.

You can pretend all you want that "Americans" were worse than anyone else but those Romans, Vikings, and their friends weren't that nice. And then we have the Arabs who controlled the slave trade for over 1200 years. The Asians of World War II were pretty nasty too. Of course, the Bolsheviks of which 85% were Jewish wiped out 60 million Christians. We can't say anything about the Africans because that would be racist "cause they didin do nothin."

There is plenty of this to go around and the Magic Khazars have not finished yet. They have plans for all of you Goy.

It’s a little thing called human nature.
 

It's amazing how twisted with "pretzel logic" some people can get just trying to deny human nature - and their own.

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Read this account ---memorize it and recite it in the mirror .

"Romanoff comes off a little childish. It’s a little thing called human nature. It’s difficult for an individual to act morally, it’s impossible for nations and empires."

I want you to watch the brief video posted by Carlton Meyer at #145, then come back and tell us this is all just "human nature".

However, since you made the claim, we can assume this is your nature. The rest of us do not share your Jurassic instincts, nor your contempt for humanity. Wasn't it Lenin (a Jew) who said "Only Jews can be so cruel."? (1)

(1) Lenin's Jewish roots
https://www.thejc.com/news/features/lenin-s-jewish-roots-1.447185

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Kudos to Larry Romanoff for producing the most profound and telling indictment of the ruling classes of the U$$A, beginning with the Puritans and then metastasizing throughout the private school and Ivy League types.

Eventually, even those bloodthirsty Bandidos got outdone by the Khazarian Mafiya, including "Rich" and all the other Ha$barfa and $ayanim "chosens" who are the very definition of predatory parasites.

Thanks also to Ron Unz, whose bravery matches that of Romanoff. The ongoing conflict is the old one between the forces of good and evil. Mr Unz appears to be front and center amongst that all too small segment of those with Jewish heritage who does what he can to be a corrective, a voice in the Wilderness, who decries those Talmudists of a satanic nature.

When evil rides high in the saddle, it is imperative for those who seek truth, honor and justice to speak out, or be counted amongst the crass and the cowardly.

Anyone who paints with a broad-brush, casting blame on the entire human race by describing these horrors as "human nature" is projecting from their own personal side of the equation.

There once was a genuine original, if naive and rarely self-critical American Dream. That dream seems to have gone down the Big Swirly as on accelerating basis, the scum, rather than the cream has risen to the top.

The only answer is to go on fighting and to share one's truth with any who would listen.

It’s difficult for an individual to act morally, it’s impossible for nations and empires.
 

On the one hand, sane individuals acting in private affairs tend to act morally because evolution has made humans a highly social species, seeking cooperation to achieve aims. So it's also part of human nature not to abuse others that want to cooperate with us or that do not seek to harm us.

On the other hand, individuals running nations and empires suffer blocking of the natural endowment of moral guidance because "reasons of State" obliterate all other considerations. So individuals running State enterprises may rationalize the use of humans in experiments by thinking that the suffering of the victims help protect the larger community.

Is Romanoff a jew, a muslim, african or a chicom? I don't think I have ever read such a list of mingled fabrications. I have no idea who he is, but what he is; a self-righteous little sheik.

Well, now that you know that, is your answer to shrug your shoulders and say "oh well"? Your answer to "a little thing called human nature" seems to be, 'better us than them'.

Please tell us, what company do you work for again? I won't be buying your products.
Or is it a department that you head up? I will be calling for it's defunding.

Moreover, I see no reason why we cannot devise a system to hold top positions of power under the strictest of restrictions with "the eyes & ears of the people" always upon them. Indeed, everything that they seek to do today to us today, ie: watching us 24/365 via video, sound, and even internally medically, should and must be done to "our leaders".

Yes, it all must be turned around where we are free & private, and all leaders in all positions of power completely watched and unfree. Yes, imagine it. Dream of that upside down world. Dream of a world were the "Cost of Power" is the cost of "Sovereignty & Privacy". Dream of world where sociopaths are watched and recorded and judged by the masses 24/7/365. Envision that world.

Start by imagining a simple change if you will, a rule going into effect that ALL congressmen and ALL CEOs having zero privacy and all decisions publicly broadcast 24/7/365. Now imagine that rule found wanting, and it having to spread downwards. Imagine the entire CCP being watched and judged privately by all Chinese. Imagine all fortune 500 companies and the entire congress treated the same. "Its the cost of job, its the price of power" etc.

Imagine if you will a society that 95% are completely private, never watched, tracked and unrecorded. Oh the power of that minute by minute "like" and "no" button. Imagine their "social credit score' and imagine a population without one. Or, imagine each country with with leaders with "social credit scores" and competing for better ones. I like the idea of being able to click on
button and watch and listen to Nancy Pelosi's conversations at any time of the day.
I am sure there would be an entire industry of watchers just for that purpose, which could be be a very good thing. Fundamentally, imagine that world and the social judgements placed upon all "sociopaths that rise to the top seeking power" and it does not matter if its government or private power or even inside well meaning "charities" of all kinds.

Imagine this upside down world. And like all such ideas, maybe we should play with it a little - in Sci-Fi movies, in all kinds of books and studies, and in TV dramas like Black Mirror episodes, etc. It all starts with imagination and tackling the issue as you put it, "human nature" and various sociopaths always rising to the top.

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Well put. Romanoff is not very good at objective analysis. The latter is pretty difficult if you have an agenda in permanent residence. On the positive side, this is a handy list of US engagements with all and sundry together with their perpetrators. Now let's have lists for all the other countries.

It’s a little thing called human nature.
 

You are the Khazarian Jew that has been despised for millennia.

Yeah.. listening to someone named Romanoff talking about brutality in the past is a bit on the nose, isn't it? I thought I'd enjoy this but a few paragraphs in I realized if I wanted to read Howard Zinn or some other leftist screed I can simply go to another website. Pass on this ridiculously verbose article retelling everything CRT tries to pound into the culture. It is tiring and as tedious as the author must be

Larry, Send this to Slate or Salon with while editing out the JQ... you'll get a lot more likes.

More America Bad boilerplate.

Notice that Larry says that the US government, military and CIA are controlled by the Khazarian Jewish mafia, but titles his article Americans Are Criminally Insane.

Oh, and as I wrote in response to Larry's article from August 15th

Trying to conceal a platitude behind a metaphor, far-fetched and insufficiently informative to be easily comprehensible, is one of the most common devices of the pretentious writer.

https://www.unz.com/lromanoff/creativity-entrepreneurship-and-other-american-myths/#comment-5494037

In this article Larry strikes again.

Just as leaves cannot turn color and roots cannot wither without the silent knowledge of the whole tree, no government can commit centuries of unremitting wars and atrocities against other peoples and nations without the knowledge and approval of the great majority of its population.
 

Notice also the laughable inaccuracy of this part of his lazy and limp-wristed metaphor; no government can commit centuries of unremitting wars and atrocities against other peoples and nations without the knowledge and approval of the great majority of its population

And this coming from someone who just told us that the US government is controlled by the Khazarian Jewish mafia. Right. Like the Jewish mafia is going to consult with the American people so as to give them knowledge and gain their approval. Hahaha!

Obviously, Larry writes like this because he really is a pretentious writer.
But, of course, he's also out to satisfy the expectations of those he's shilling for.
And who’s he shilling for? Well, where does Larry live?

In short, this article is yet more boilerplate.
And boilerplate articles are the deposits of hacks and shills.

You used to get a wire service story with this theme once or twice a year. Now it's once a month.

And they never, or almost never, tell who is doing the killing. They might say "many" of the shooters are also black, which is as far as they will go to admitting reality.

It never changes.

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Implicit in the left's insistence that violent crime isn't that bad in a historical context is an acceptance that six or seven thousand dead black bodies a year is "normal".

I have been repeatedly posting comments on articles that discuss the incredible spike in violent crime and murders over the last 2-3 years and stating my opinion that when those inner city blacks were sent those covid stimulus checks - the vast majority of them spent that money on purchasing firearms, with some of it probably earmarked for their favorite drugs.

Think about it. For a single individual, those stimulus checks added up to around $3200 per individual. For most of these inner city Wakandans, they had probably never had their hands on a sum of money that large until those checks arrived. So, they were now able to go out and buy firearms that cost more than they had previously been able to afford. I am convinced that this is directly connected to the skyrocketing number of murders that have been committed by blacks over the last
2-3 years.

Nice try. That is an oft-repeated joke long before Gene Siskel started writing for the Chicago Tribune and then became a PBS grifter.

Sorry to hurt your feelings.

My only issue with Masters is that he looks like a geek. It's his bone structure or something, and his lack of weight on his bones. He has that classic geek physiognomy you remember from school.

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But does he have the sense to calibrate his reactions, without which he will never rise to higher office? Granted it didn't stop trump, but look at trump now.

ATM it would appear that Masters and the NYT are almost perfect foils for one another, only one of them is extremely powerful and the other is not.

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I like him too, but isn’t he 8 points behind in the polls?

His real value may be in making the idea of AA repeal acceptable. Maybe DeSantis or, heck, Haley or Pence can take it up.

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NO APOLOGY!
https://www.getyarn.io/yarn-clip/47236179-dead-46c0-906b-4431409cfb5d

After the reaction to his first tweet, he didn’t grovel, but doubled down. So rare. Time to stop groveling. I like this guy.
 

He didn’t grovel, but doubled down.
 

New York Times: Screeeeeech sputter sputter point point

Trump, day 2: Yeah, and they're sending us their murderers, too.

Me: MAGA!

.. and we all know how that turned out.

Actally, how did that turn out, anyway? Serious question

Yes, all wars are banker wars. The Empire was a corporate empire based in Britain, just as the Dutch Empire was a corporate Empire based in Holland and the US Empire is a corporate Empire based in New York. The Monarchy had little to do with the Empire beyond being a figurehead, as post restoration it had no power at all. They reign but do not rule - the (((banks))) rule.

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Yes, talk about turning history on its head. The unnecessary war not only lost them their empire but lost them their place in the world. But 'at least we're not speaking German'. Grrrrrr..

Pinning the blame on Churchill as an individual is naive ... read Wyndham Lewis' 'Left Wings Over Europe, or How to Make a War About Nothing', written in 1936! Quotes:

As far as Great Britain is concerned, there is, in 1936, not a shadow of a reason for a war with anybody. It is because that there is no concrete reason that abstract reasons have had to be thought up and trotted out.
 

Nationalism may be superseded by the issue between different forms of political structure, between parliamentarism, fascism, and Bolshevism. .... Parliamentarism and Bolshevism seem to feel a remarkable affinity for one another, if for no other reason than that they are both consumed with an equal hatred of fascism.
 

No British statesman has ever desired a war with Germany. But they have apparently come to regard themselves as committed to a policy which is violently determined to rid Europe of Hitler. And they are well aware that that cannot be effected without the risk of another world-war. It is not so much ‘fascist dictatorship’ that excites them — for after all they left Mussolini in complete peace for a decade. Neither does Dictatorship , in itself, excite them so much as all that — even accompanied by a permanent Reign of Terror and the massacre of millions of people. For Soviet Russia has been left undisturbed. No, it can only be something about the internal regime of Adolf Hitler that excites in them this implacable mood.
 

The Franco-Soviet pact has been ratified and it is highly probable that a Rumano-Soviet pact, on the lines of the military pact between the Soviet and Czechoslovakia, will be signed in the near future. The Austrian Government (which represents a fantastically small fraction of the people of Austria) seems to be moving towards an entente with the Little Entente. So the game of ‘encirclement’ goes on: and all these arrangements — carried on in every case over the heads and usually in contradiction to the wishes of the people — are made possible, and constantly stimulated by British and French gold. The remarks which I have quoted from the Morning Post mean, in plain language, that Great Britain is about to arm the Soviet against Germany. (Marshal Tukachevski stopped behind in England after the funeral of King George to go round the British armament factories to pick his tanks and guns.) There have constantly been rumours of a fifty million pounds British loan to France. That, too, in plain language, is Great Britain arming France against ‘the Hun’
 

There is one country where the Englishman is certain of a warm welcome: there is one country whose government never ceases to proffer friendship, and to be accommodating and polite, and that is Germany. Year in and year out, like a love-sick supplicant, Herr Hitler pays his court to the haughty Britannia. Every insult that can be invented even by the resourceful Mr. Churchill is tamely swallowed, every rebuff of Mr. Baldwin’s, every sneer of Mr. Eden, is meekly accepted, by this pertinacious suitor!
 

Steve is probably quite busy, just now, researching his column for this Wednesday at Taki's Web site. What are the chances that it will be about the United States military's illegal invasion of Syria, its illegal occupation of about one-third of Syria's sovereign territory, and its ongoing theft of Syria's petroleum resources? For a principled "antiwar" idealist who believes that invasions of sovereign countries are simply unpardonable, especially in the rules-based order of the post-Cold War era, his own country's actions vis-a-vis Syria must be soul-shattering to him.

Replies: @Hypnotoad666, @FPD72

The war of choice was launched by Putin, against the advice of a lot of his advisers in the Kremlin. The cannon fodder are the Russian young men dying by the tens of thousands for reasons they don't even understand. The Ukrainians are fighting for their homeland.

Replies: @Hypnotoad666, @Anon

Nice to see hypnotard is in hysterics again, clutching his pearls.

> like the self-destruction of the EU economies

Please predict GDP change year on year for Germany, France, and the UK. "Self-destruction" sounds pretty dramatic, like we'll all be eating rats next year. Is that what you're predicting? Or maybe you're such a pussy that you think that -5% year on year GDP growth is "self-destruction" because you can't afford your recurring payments to OnlyFans?

> the mass slaughter of Ukrainian cannon fodder

Can you tell me how many Ukrainians you believe have been killed, and how many Russian regulars + Wagner + DNR/LNR have been killed? Most non-Russian sources have the Russians taking much heavier casualties than the Ukrainians. Of course I'm sure you wouldn't believe any source I provide unless it's RT.com, so I'm not sure what the point of even talking to you is.

But maybe ask yourself for a second, if the Ukrainians are getting slaughtered, then why are the Russians the ones running away? The Russians were at the gates of Kiev and Kharkhiv in March, and now they are high-tailing it back to the rear? Doesn't make a lot of sense, does it? Like, they slaughtered the Ukrainian cannon fodder, and then decided to abandon their equipment and run the fuck away? Weird.

> spectacular waste of US tax dollars.

The U.S. has committed 13.5 billion in aid to Ukraine last I checked. From a nation of about 300 million, that works out to about 40 dollars per person. Now I know that you probably couldn't spare 40 dollars, but frankly for most people forty bucks is not a big deal. Watching a bunch of warmongering bloodthirsty Russians get curb-stomped by a tiny neighboring country has a huge amount of entertainment value. Forty bucks pays for what, like two movies these days? I've gotten way more entertainment value from watching the hours of footage of Kadyrovites getting splattered than for the last ten or twenty movies I've seen, so I think we've come out ahead.

Seriously, though, we both know you're not a net taxpayer, so what do you care?

> the movement to de-dollarize world trade

It would be great if this happened, as we would manufacture more domestically, but sadly I don't think it will come to pass. Russia will realign with China, yes. Russia will become China's hat. Russia's economy is about the size of Italy's, so in terms of world economic activity I don't think this is really gonna change much. Europe will have a recession this year and then will shift its energy posture to alternate sources, up domestic production, and source its imports from the Americas and the Middle east. Russia will sell to China at discounted prices, LNG tankers that used to go to China will now go to Europe, prices will be slightly higher due to increased transportation costs, most people will yawn, Hypnotard will scream that we must do whatever Putin wants because gas could get slightly more expensive otherwise.

Replies: @Hypnotoad666, @YetAnotherAnon

For example, Steve parroted the MSM by touting the big Kherson offensive to come. When it came and was a military disaster, that just wasn’t worth noticing. But when a second offensive caused the Russians to pull back, that was really interesting and Kherson was retconned as just a “feint.” (But wait, I thought only Pootin stooges believed in “feints,” like the attack on Kiev).

Oh well, Steve’s entitled obviously to draw his own conclusions based on available data. I guess he reads that data as saying it’s now a good policy for the U.S. to invade the world as long as it does so by proxy. After all, if Victoria Nuland and the CIA came up with the plan, and it’s being enforced by the MSM, you know it’s a good one. These people are so transparent, smart and aligned with the interests of the American people that nothing could possibly go wrong. Slava Ukraini!
 

Replies: @Hypnotoad666

there is a Hidden Power, let’s call it Jewish Power for lack of a better name...
 

Your summation of the entire disaster matches my own. Even your more salient points I find myself these past months asking these same questions. Take care of your own and prepare for economic, at the least, collapse here in the West. The US and Canada will out survive Europe, yet will become an isolated, mostly self-sufficient continent to a great extent. The World sees things clearly whereas our populations are too far propagandized, indifferent via ignorance with no understanding or grasp of the world beyond our national and no longer sacrosanct borders (There Be Monsters). We have intellectually regressed even as information sources have metastasized. Garbage in - garbage out. We drastically need some positive change or at least hope of same.

Steve Sailer is stuck on stupid mode, so since he’s not publishing my comments, I post it here:
 

Neocon Nuland represents the Power you speak of. "Hidden" might be a bit of an exaggeration.

All those talking points you picked up from Tucker Carlson or some other neo-nationalist are trite. People did care when Putin invaded Crimea; there was disagreement about what to do next and whether he would continue he westward expansion. The reason why the entire Western world reacted to strongly this time around was because no one expected Putin to send 150,000 troops into Ukraine and decapitate the regime. The largest land invasion on the Eurasian continent since WWII did a lot to focus the mind of people on their security, which is why NATO is expanding again against the strenuous objections of Russia. BTW, Israel was one of the few Western allied countries that did not immediately rush to punish Russia for their acts and they kept an open dialogue with Putin because they had to coordinate with him on matters important to them. Mainly Syria and Iran.

Replies: @Dumbo, @wj, @voicum, @gsjackson

The U.S. taxpayer $$$ and modern weapons are not being sent to “defend democracy” in the Ukraine. Of course not. They are used to prevent the resurrection the world's worst nightmare of the 20th century - the USSR.

Replies: @Jeff Davis, @Wild Man

Steve Sailer is stuck on stupid mode, so since he’s not publishing my comments, I post it here: ...
 

About this part of the article:

Wars are not won by psyops. Ask Nazi Germany.
 

Though we have very favorable political and economic agreements with Russia, I prefer to rely on powerful means at my disposal.
 

Replies: @Wokechoke, @Philip Owen, @Wizard of Oz

How else to explain Boris Johnson rushing to put the kybosh on the imminent peace deal a few moths ago?

Replies: @Hunsdon

The big question is who stands to befit if Russia and the collective west go to war? China and India have spent a bunch of money to buy the likes of Biden, McConnell. Does your hidden hand control them too? Is it about money and power or just good old fashioned hatred. I guess in the end it doesn't really matter. The only chance the world has is for the traditional American people to retake control of their country. Otherwise it will be a long dark winter indeed.

"let’s call it Jewish Power for lack of a better name (LOL)"

Frankist & Affiliated Filth Banker Cartel. The acronym is horrible but I'm working on it.

Let's be clear: this isn't conservative Hasidic Jews, it is the leftist and neocon intelligentsia which seems at the genesis of so many awful conflicts, to wit, Victoria Nuland...and just about every member of George W. Bush's cabinet.

America is truly the world's dumping ground. Come one, come all.

I'm reminded of this scene.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZgE_sUrXFY

Replies: @bomag

Why don't Abott and DeSantis just send them all the way to Canada, so Trudeau can take care of them? Everyone knows the United States is unsafe for people of color. Asylum status would have to automatic. (Just like they got to pass through Mexico and claim asylum here, where they get better benefits).

Replies: @Anon

'That’s a great idea.

How about all those illegals can come to the US but only for 44 hrs...'

I've got a plan.

Immigrants can come to the US -- but if and only if they are married couples and each immigrant and his wife open a restaurant featuring the interesting cuisine of their native land. Then, after five years, if the restaurant has high enough ratings, they may apply for permanent residency. Else, they are expelled.

This town needs a decent Chinese restaurant.

Replies: @Anonymous, @John Johnson

T'is the definition of insanity at least.

Teh Czars were replaced by teh Chairman Stalin who was replaced after some time by the spectacle of President Yeltsin who was replaced by Ze Vlad Putin.

'Competence' is ensuring that two trillion plus a year flows to the MIC corporations and the Deep (REAL) State, and that various untermenschen in Grenada, the slums of Panama City, on the Kuwait-Basra Highway, in Gaza etc remember their place.

Replies: @Antiwar7

Agreed. That is one very substantial reason why coke sniffing, affluent white liberal crackhead hypocrites like hiking and camping so much. They both represent yet two more social activities in which they can engage, whilst almost completely avoiding ANY contact with blacks(or any other nonwhites for that matter). Say what you will about Candace Owens, but she should be credited extensively for giving white liberal crackhead hypocrites ofvthe type that populate the cocaine infested condominiums of Seattle, Portland, , New York City and San Francisco the most accurate label: "closet racists".

"The purpose of a college education for white liberals is to give them the correct political attitude to have regarding blacks and other racial minorities, but to simultaneaously give them the skills and economic ability to live as far away from them as humanly possible."-
Anonymous.

Paulcraigroberts.org

Occidentalobserver.net

Amfreeparty.org

Replies: @DanFromCT, @Dwright

I did over a decade of tent and RV camping in multiple states. Never once did I see a non-white camper at any campground.

Black financial advisers.

An ad for an Irish hotel chain showing a black fambly chimping out in their room. Beggars belief.

A black model is on the cover of the latest COSTCO circular that just arrived this week....modeling PJs.

Now, I have seen a few black employees at Costco over the years, but I have very rarely seen black customers.

Replies: @CelestiaQuesta

Thanks for this startlingly informative post.

Be thankful that blacks don't hike, camp, or ski. If they knew how many white women hiked alone all hell would break loose.

Replies: @starthorn

How about the one with a black guy with a baby strapped in a baby carrier on his chest dancing around while doing the laundry? Or the black guy with dyed blonde hair rolling around on the floor with a poodle, complete with poodle cut and pompom tail? I wonder what negro males think about all of this?

A year ago the Morgan Stanley web page for signing onto to your account pictured an ugly young rapper-looking Lack guy. Probably 0.0001% of investors look like him. I discovered that by shrinking my screen I could block the photo.

Replies: @Lucius Vanini