I can eat 50 eggs...

Thank you for following up. We all make mistakes. How we deal with them is what is most important IMHO. Looking forward to your future comments here.

Could you elaborate? I see a Ronald Ferguson mentioned in this article: https://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/08/01/appeals-court-overturns-5-gen-re-and-a-i-g-convictions/

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2011/08/02/business/Insure/Insure-articleInline.jpg

But I am not seeing Roger Ferguson associated with the AIG blowup. Except in this article: https://www.forbes.com/sites/streettalk/2010/01/20/berkshire-hathaways-gen-re-settles-sham-reinsurance-charges
which seems like a mistaken account of the first link.

Replies: @Steve Sailer, @Captain Willard

Roger Ferguson is the Fed guy. Ronald Ferguson is the AIG / Gen Re guy, who went to jail.

Google carefully.

Replies: @J.Ross, @Steve Sailer

To the racially obsessed media and SJW's, unz.com and Steve Sailor are racist personified. However one of the reasons I read this site and Steve's blog is he recognizes there are very talented Blacks, Hispanics, and yes even women. He's a realist and understands that statistically and per ca pita there just far fewer in number.

FYI - I've met and heard Roger Ferguson speak several times. On both occasions I heard him speak, he was questioned if he would take the role of Chairman of the Federal Reserve and if it had been offered to him. This was while Obama was President. At this time he was already CEO of TIAA. He rather coyly dodged the question if it had been offered to him, and went on to say how much he enjoyed working at TIAA, that the TIAA board of trustee's had recently extended his contract etc. He went on to discuss the importance of his family life etc. I speculate he had been offered the position but turned it down. As Fed Chairman he would have taken allot of heat, but as CEO of TIAA he's held up as a pillar of the African American community, respected by Whites and it's a sweet paying gig. My most racist thought after hearing him speak, was this is the Whitest Black guy I've ever heard. Linked is a very interesting article on his role during 9/11.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2014/09/10/1328813/-The-Astonishing-Story-of-the-Federal-Reserve-on-9-11?

Great idea. We should also demand business-line reporting disclosures.

Though I would agree that an SEC type full disclosure prospectus required of candidates could be useful. There are no agency in the USA, and no one powerful enough, to prosecute a flagrant deviation or to stop a completely fraudulent activity intentionally done in violation of the election promises made and facts presented within the pre election candidate prospectus. What the elected do is so different from what the candidates promise..that.. ?

Those elected have not just broken the international law, they have eliminated it. International law and domestic law no longer exist to those who are part of economic zionism (EZ); they use government to establish their monopolies not to prevent them. Not only have the EZ eliminated International Law, they have given themselves, and each person they allow to be elected, unlimited get out of jail free cards.

My question Captain Willard is: who would enforce the intentional misrepresentations, glaring omissions, hoax after hoax embedded within the candidate prospectus you propose? Who who prosecute the lies? Who would prosecute the behaviors done contrary to the promises made in the prospectus? Can't even get Trump to make public his Tax Returns and half the FBI can't publish an investigation on el presidente.

Until governed Americans change the constitution to take the power to appoint the judges(article 3) and the Prosecutors that can prosecute the EZ and the elected from the 450 Article I liars, and the 2 Article BoZoos nothing is going to change.

Americans need the power to appoint their own prosecutors, cut the middle man USA out, take the power to appoint the prosecutor away from the USA, and take the power to appoint judges (Article 3) away from the USA, and give that power to the governed Americans, ain't nothing going to change but the candidate names.

Without enforcement, prosecution, adjudication, and punishment there is no law capable to reach those who file a prospectus. just a long trail of broken promises and Palin type Caribou caucuses.

My suggestion's even simpler:

1) All candidates take an IQ test, results published. Poor saps like Bernie and Kamala would immediately disintegrate, and Trump's looking none too good; and

2) All candidates are vetted for top security clearance, a la the CIA. Barack's ancestral homeland would be somewhere outside of Wakanda, and Loretta Fuddy would still be alive.

Agreed.

And the Holocaust Industry needs to open on the NY Stock Exchange. All Americans should have an opportunity to share in the filthy lucre this industry generates since they are the prime investors (museums, massive taxpayer Homeland Security grants to Jewish organizations, etc) that help keep this splendid hoax alive. Not to mention all the millions ripped out of American pockets to subsidize all the Holohoax theme parks in Europe.

The stock listing should be: AFGA: Anne Frank's Gold-Plated Ass enterprises.

Given the current surge--THE FRIGHTENING, IMMEDIATE, EMERGENCY LEVEL SURGE! OF WORLDWIDE ANTI-SEMITISM--we can confidently anticipate a very robust bull market.

You must be under the delusion we live in a Constitutional Republic.

Oligarchy (from Greek ὀλιγαρχία (oligarkhía); from ὀλίγος (olígos), meaning 'few', and ἄρχω (arkho), meaning 'to rule or to command')[1][2][3] is a form of power structure in which power rests with a small number of people. These people may be distinguished by nobility, wealth, family ties, education or corporate, religious, political, or military control. Such states are often controlled by families who typically pass their influence from one generation to the next, but inheritance is not a necessary condition for the application of this term.

I take your point ... my patience for L-Hôpitals is infinitesimal.

Venezuela. I haven’t been there in years
 

Even our Deep State can’t be stupid enough to get involved.
 

We just got done occupying Iraq for years at great expense. We could’ve easily taken the oil if we were so inclined, especially since a lot of it is in Kurdistan where we have allies who would’ve welcomed our protection.
 

Meanwhile Iraq has pipelines, terminals at Basra etc we could have refurbished and operated.
 

You’re comically ignorant about the oil business.
 

It’s not always about taking oil - often it is about controlling the spigot, and keeping it out of the hands of other economies and their military.

But folks thinking we have designs on Venezuela are just nuts
 

Because there are two Americas, and we should make the distinction.

First there is the America of the American people. Poor, working class, middle class, and somewhat well-off upper-middle class. These are the "we" that had nothing whatsoever to do with the wars, except to vote relentlessly for politicians to end them, and are always betrayed.

Which brings us to the other "we". The Deepstate scumfucks who bomb and loot nations, when they aren't looting the American working and middle class to fund their Eternal Wars, or selecting cannon fodder from the working class or poor, to act as their Janissaries for globo-domination and rapine.

Joe the Plumber is the poster boy for the first "we", and yes, there are lots and lots of butt-hurt arseholes who would like to pin it all on Joe. He's white, CIS, American and the perfect scapegoat for butt-hurt loser's (of all stripes) hate.

John McBloodstain in the perfect (if rotting) poster boy for the other "we". The Deepstate scumfucks who are just as much the enemy of the American people as they are the enemy of all who don't bow down to the Fiend.

So there are two very separate and very distinct "we"s.

The reason we can be sure the problems being caused in Venezuela are being done so by the Deepstate 'Americans', is because Trump appointed one of the worst Deepstate scumfucks to look after "our" interests down there; Eliot Abrams - a scumfuck of the highest order, and an existential enemy of Joe the Plumber and all Americans of good will.

It would be good if this distinction between the two "we"s, could be made more routinely. IMHO

Replies: @Mike P, @Liberty Mike, @Captain Willard, @anonymous, @Rubicon 727

But folks thinking we have designs on Venezuela are just nuts. "

How does one prove what is in the mind of someone else?

We just got done conquering Iraq. We haven’t stayed to loot the oil.
 

So now you believe we’re going to Venezuela to take their crappy heavy oil?
 

It would be easier for us just to build a pipeline to Alberta and import all their cheap, shut-in heavy crude.
 

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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/08/world/americas/donald-trump-venezuela-military-coup.html
The Trump administration held secret meetings with rebellious military officers from Venezuela over the last year to discuss their plans to overthrow President Nicolás Maduro, according to American officials and a former Venezuelan military commander who participated in the talks.

But one of the Venezuelan military commanders involved in the secret talks was hardly an ideal figure to help restore democracy: He is on the American government’s own sanctions list of corrupt officials in Venezuela.

American officials eventually decided not to help the plotters, and the coup plans stalled. But the Trump administration’s willingness to meet several times with mutinous officers intent on toppling a presiden

Beyond the coup plot, Mr. Maduro’s government has already fended off several small-scale attacks, including salvos from a helicopter last year and exploding drones as he gave a speech in August. The attacks have added to the sense that the president is vulnerable.
Venezuelan military officials sought direct access to the American government during Barack Obama’s presidency, only to be rebuffed, officials said.

Then in August of last year, President Trump declared that the United States had a “military option” for Venezuela

In a series of covert meetings abroad, which began last fall and continued this year, the military officers told the American government that they represented a few hundred members of the armed forces who had soured on Mr. Maduro’s authoritarianism.
The officers asked the United States to supply them with encrypted radios, citing the need to communicate securely, as they developed a plan to install a transitional government to run the country until elections could be held.
American officials did not provide material support, and the plans unraveled after a recent crackdown that led to the arrest of dozens of the plotters.

They later planned to take power in March, the former officer said, but that plan leaked.


It is unclear how many of these details the coup planners shared with the Americans. But there is no indication that Mr. Maduro knew the mutinous officers were talking to the Americans at all.
For any of the plots to have worked, the former commander said, he and his comrades believed they needed to detain Mr. Maduro and other top government figures simultaneously. To do that, he added, the rebel officers needed a way to communicate securely. They made their request during their second meeting with the American diplomat, which took place last year.


the Venezuelan plotters could view the meetings as tacit approval of their plans, argued Peter Kornbluh, a historian at the National Security Archive at George Washington University.

Replies: @Captain Willard

A key to Chavez’s current weakness is the decline in the electricity sector. There is the grave possibility that some 70 percent of the country’s electricity grid could go dark as soon as April 2010. Water levels at the Guris dam are dropping, and Chavez has been unable to reduce consumption sufficiently to compensate for the deteriorating industry. This could be the watershed event, as there is little that Chavez can do to protect the poor from the failure of that system. This would likely have the impact of galvanizing public unrest in a way that no opposition group could ever hope to generate. At that point in time, an opposition group would be best served to take advantage of the situation and spin it against Chavez and towards their needs. Alliances with the military could be critical because in such a situation of massive public unrest and rejection of the presidency, malcontent sectors of the military will likely decide to intervene, but only if they believe they have sufficient support. This has been the pattern in the past three coup attempts. Where the military thought it had enough support, there was a failure in the public to respond positively (or the public responded in the negative), so the coup failed.---
The GiFiles,
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https://search.wikileaks.org/gifiles/?viewemailid=218642

Then, why don't you stop messing everywhere?

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We just got done conquering Iraq. We haven’t stayed to loot the oil.
 

U.S. oil expert Gary Vogler discusses the plan for Israel to get Iraqi oil

Oil insider Gary Vogler writes of the Iraq war: “The oil agenda I discovered and experienced was to supply Iraq oil to Israel.” The players were the neocons in the Bush Administration… Paul Wolfowitz, Douglas Feith, Lewis Libby, Marc Zell, and others

https://israelpalestinenews.org/oil-for-israel-the-truth-about-the-iraq-war-15-years-later/
 

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The best thing that could happen to Ven. is that we invade it bloodlessly, mess it up more and inject $3Trillion into it the way we did in Afghanistan. Sheesh!
 

Replies: @Mike P

As stated above, Venezuela has no refineries, so its oil must be refined by America. Much money to be made in this operation by American corporations.

"Venezuela is awash with natural resources such as diamonds, bauxite, gold, iron ore, natural gas and petroleum."
https://www.azomining.com/Article.aspx?ArticleID=73

Replies: @Captain Willard, @/lasse

On the other hand, if your extended family is large and strongly bonded through loyalty and intramarriage (say, your caste and sub-caste if you're Indian) then you can move to a new city and hit the ground running. Get hired at a local software shop, get in on the local taxi monopoly, etc.

It used to be that way with us Jews, but assimilation, a low birthrate, and a loosened sense of in-group solidarity have worked their effect. (In particular, anyone here who thinks that a Jew in Harvard's admissions office looking at my son's application is going to give a damn that he's Jewish, just doesn't know what he's talking about.)

Replies: @Redneck farmer, @David, @jbwilson24, @Philip Owen

Captain, my Ouija board says "Take profits now, as there is no technical support below $200. There will be a quick ramp up, or possibly down in the TECH sector upon receipt of the next monthly FED report, as Mr. Yellen will raise or lower rates significantly. Stay out of cash, put all profits into the FOREX (that's Foreskin Exchange) markets, and by all means, DO NOT TRADE ON DAYS WHEN THE SUN IS FULL!"

OK, wait, I had the board upside down. Just do the opposite of what I just wrote below, and everything will be fine.

Wait, that was not my Ouija board at all, that was my Chinese copy of the Wall Street Journal Markets section.

The Dead were a much bigger deal than Queen.

True. While being almost unknown in Europe as far as I can tell. For better or worse, the Dead are a very "American" band and seemingly inaccessible to foreigners. One of the reasons I've grown to like their music more as the years go on.

The very fact that nobody gives a crap about illegal surveillance and detention but there is a national uproar about beer drinking and some completely BS sex allegations tells you everything you need to know about the state of our republic.
 

"Chinese hegemony"

This is not so pronounced in Vietnam or Indochina.

You'd have to go to the Philippines or Indonesia.

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I really want to hear the “average Nguyen’s” opinion about Chinese hegemony in Asia, motorcycles, emigration, Nike, Jose Mourinho, American foreign policy, rap music, disaster movies etc.
 

I really want to hear the “average Nguyen’s” opinion about Chinese hegemony in Asia
 

Sprayed toxic agent orange over the entire Vn./Lao/Cambodia

https://www.welt.de/img/politik/ausland/mobile139911717/2191627457-ci23x11-w1280/Wider-Image-Vietnam-The-Legacy-Of-Agent-Orange.jpg [1]

Phoenix prog murdered tens of thousands of VC suspects,

'security hamlets'. incarcerate entire countryside ..to dry the pond

free fire zones, where they'r free to kill anything that move.

Carpet bombing, just like in Korea, bombed them back to stone age.

All in, murikkan wiped out three gen of Vietnamese, many died in excruciating pain.

And....
YOu want LInh's opinion on Chinese hegemony !

murikkans are such funny guys,

hehehehh

[1]

somebody have been very diligently scrubbing the net, whereas previously one could pull up tons of images/videos, now there'r none !

25 Captain Willard > I really want to hear the “average Nguyen’s” opinion about


well then, just go hang out in billiards joints in San Jose , California

Not exactly.

c. 1975-1985 the top DC prep schools were National Cathedral School for Girls (NCS), and for boys, St. Alban's.

Holton Arms was for the less able girls with money. For a long time it took any girl who could pay the tuition. It paired with boy's school, Landon, also social, also for the lower wattage. Georgetown Prep was more than ok socially. Like St. Ignatius in San Francisco, it was a high-powered Jesuit school. More diverse economically but no flies, a lot of school pride and talent, its guys came from solid families, moved in privileged DC prep circles just fine, hardly shanty Irish or paisanos.

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Let me restate my disagreement with you. That c. 1980 Holton Arms girls and Georgetown Prep guys could very plausibly run around together socially and go on dates–and be comfortable socially in one another's company. The DC prep school social hierarchy / divide / high WASP-low Catholic / upstairs-downstairs you draw was more fluid / less binary than you indicate, whatever your own experience.

Addenda: Sidwell Friends, that too, was academic A list in 1980. But it did not have the left-wing social dazzle 35 years ago it does now, as DC's answer to NYC's Dalton, the kind of school where (political / media) celebrity, not breeding or background, or even intelligence, is what counts.

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I'd say the latter, Captain, but just talking out my ass here. If there is data on voting patterns for women with children vs. without that'd enlighten us a bit. I personally thing that women don't realize much about how the world works (they don't need to) until they have some kids with futures to worry about.

You could still say "well, it's the more conservative women that tend to have kids, so the causation is still the same way" I suppose. If you have enough data to do it, you'd have to get into breaking down this disparity by census tract to look at areas that are conservative or left-wing in general.

It's interesting stuff, but per my next comment, should be a moot point ....

Both ways, obviously. Left-wing women marry at (much?) lower rates, but marriage and especially children also make you more conservative in all kinds of ways - hormonally, experientially etc.

Anecdotally, I know very left-wing women who became right-wing after having children (boys), over and above the age- and experience-related rightward drift. Also, from experience, having boys vs. girls probably has a stronger rightward effect (I think Steve may have written more about this effect?). I know a guy who was center-right before marriage, but after having three girls, was all for Hillary because 'role model'. Another guy with two girls has drifted even more leftward than he was before them.

I think it is more that being under the guidance of a husband and having children causes women to change.

Replies: @Rosie

Do naturally conservative women marry at a higher rate? Or does the state of matrimony force people to mature, confront the nature of human frailty, etc?

 

I was born to have adventure
so I followed her up the steps

Nailed it.

As bad as it is now, imagine a "public bank" under control of US neo-Marxists.

Just think of ditz Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez getting access.

Neo-Marxist Hudson's solutions inevitably reveal his real goals.

Cheers.

We have the worst of everything now, loss side socialism and private side profits. The Federal government should end the private mortgage industry and run a savings and loan. It would absorb the current rent funneled in the commercial banking industry. So now the government would be capturing the rent. Any idiot can run a savings in loan and the government is any idiot.

Now that I have every conservative and libertarian horrified, the true horror will be revealed which is their ignorance. All of the thirteen colonies were started with a charters with the idea of rent in mind. Rent is the freebie. Who ever is collecting rent privately is collecting a freebie that the government is backing. All it really is is a land , right of way, and resource user fee. If you use something someone else wants, and you didn't personally make, shouldn't you pay? All land lords are agents of the government and we are privatizing the profits. Even worse is the land lords are just handing that to the banks, which means the banks are the effective rent collectors , aka the real government.

^
That should be the tax base.

What should not be the tax base is direct taxes on labor, ya know like the income tax which should be abolished. Most sales taxes should also be abolished. Why is no one horrified at income taxes and sales taxes which is a direct tax on productivity? Rents don't make squat its the passive income stream and the banks soak it all up. The only one that makes any sense is the gas tax because its basically a user fee for roads and bridges. See how that works? That nice little location in town is a location that is being used. its not a valuable piece of capital manufactured by industry. Its simply a toll booth created by the surrounding prosperity. While taxes should remain low , why is that not the tax payer?

So a public mortgage entity that takes 20% down and forecloses on dead beats should be something the government can handle and they can shove their privacy violating income taxes and commerce killing sales taxes where is came from.

what could go wrong with a “public bank”?
 

Hi Captain Willard,

First of, I'm really happy to hear your cousin is inspired by me to explore Philly better. I've always believed in being a homeboy/provincial, in the best sense.

As for my wife, she's happy to let me roam around, for she doesn't really like to travel, especially the way I do it, which involves miles of walking each day, much drinking, and sometimes sleeping on a train or bus. My wife has no desire to sit in any bar, in any country.

My wife's one pleasure is to watch the Phillies or, for a while, Flyers, and I often cook for her, since I'm fairly creative and successful with whatever ingredients. My father was a restaurant owner, and I did work in his kitchen.


Linh

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18 Captain Willard > I want to understand how an itinerant writer who spends too much time in dive bars and pool halls manages to keep his wife happy


glad to hear that you can read her mind; to tell us how she feels about this, that, and the other thing.


By the way..... sorry to be the one to break the news to you, but..... Vietnam ===does=== have young Chads who need a monthly allowance from a cougar

If you expect the Cohen treatment wake up you're dreaming he's fixed with the demoncats and fake news.

said:
"your anti-Semitism"

Yawn. So what?

antisemite: any thought or person that a Jew doesn't like

www.codoh.com

Actually, the 1880s big leap to America of Jews in Russia and adjacent territories was activated by granting civil liberties to Jews

Along with civil liberties came civil
responsibilities such as the draft from which Jews had previously been exempt.
It wasn’t progroms and anti semitisn that drive them out of Russia it was the draft.

Every Jewish family has the story of how the ancestors fled to escape the draft in Europe.

Look who led the anti draft movement during the Vietnam era. Look at the one group that would rather enlist in the Israeli army than the American army.
There are only 3,900 Jews in the American military, less than there are Buddhists in the military

There are many European sayings about how Jews are eager to sell cr*p to the military but refuse to join the military

During WW2 American Jews were famous for conniving their way to comfortable rear echelon jobs.

Something wrong with the Chinese eh ?

They'r so scary,
feared by the murkkans/Brits/Indians/Jp/Aussies.....

heheheheh

Here's quiz,

Other than their fear of the yellow peril,
whats common to these four QUAD members ???

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On my recent trip to Japan, nearly every Japanese with whom I spoke expressed real fear of a Chinese invasion
 

On my recent trip to Japan, nearly every Japanese with whom I spoke expressed real fear of a Chinese invasion, for what it’s worth.
 

Replies: @DB Cooper

Perhaps Japanese are scared Chinese will reverse their systematically and energetically proceeded to deform itself into an unnormal White and return them back into their Asian root.

Just like ex-criminals are afraid that justice someday will come to catch them.

"The present-day African invasion differs only in subtlety and method from good old Genghis"

That might be true if earlier invasions were accomplished by the rulers of the invaded countries importing the invaders themselves. Soros is supposedly descended from one of the 10 tribes (the Ashkenazi) that made up early Hungary, so that makes him particularly repugnant to modern Hungarians.

Ghengis came a few hundred later than Attila (who ventured all the way into todays' France). Ghengis never ventured into Europe.

Replies: @Talha

"Why doesn’t he state the obvious: conquest and subsequent defense of territory is an ancient and time-honored practice?"

Because that would require Saileresque noticing on his part. Besides, so long as it was the "good guys" who won, who cares about the aftermath?

Take into account when Patricks says "Consider what else the “world’s oldest democracy” has lately had on offer to the indigenous peoples of Europe resisting an invasion of Third World settlers coming to occupy and repopulate their lands."

Were not the tribal groups of North and South America the "indigenous peoples" there, only to be ruthlessly displaced by foreigners? The irony and hypocrisy on his part is thick here.

And then he has the audacity to say "...in 2042 when white European Christians are just another minority". Indeed, that is how human history works. Dominant groups come and go by the wayside.

Did you ever hear women sitting around admiring and discussing each other’s shoes? There’s something that no man cares about.
 

Sir: Salvatore Ferragamo, Bruno Magli, Jimmy Choo, Steve Madden, Christian Louboutin and Yves St. Laurent beg to differ
 

It's as if Klein is toying with us "haha Hey whitey I can send this half wit to gather his goon squad to destroy all you hold dear!"

I almost feel sorry for Coates. Self reliance and moral restraint aren't remotely possible for him to achieve.

What is your answer to the rhetorical question you ask?

I think it is a critically important question to be able to answer.

Certainly to develop a technologically advanced civilization a certain level of cognitive ability would seem to be required. Professor Wax is correct in her assertion that only a few human civilizations have possessed that requisite cognitive ability.

What is that threshold?

Of greater import: What is the level of cognitive ability a population must possess in order to create a society that is not only technologically advanced, but morally advanced?

Is there any correlation between the two?

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This article, & your comment captain, are "spot on".
There is a name for the so-called left addressed in this article: they are the "pseudo-left."
These "progressives" have been largely complicit with the neoliberal take over of western democracy over the last 40 years. They have actively degraded working people to a mere aggregation of identity groups: gay ? (tick) female ? (tick) black/minority ? (tick) white ? ( ...um?) male ? (...oppressor, tick)
They have turned their backs on the economic interests of working people -- whatever their "identity" -- & usually given support to whatever insane imperialist military escapade the ruling class has concocted. (That Assad, he's a DESPOT ! so if Syria gets destroyed...well it's "worth it" (M. Albright's famous reference to half a million victims of Iraq sanctions)
Capitalist elites have supported all this nonsense. Anti-racism = unconditional immigration = weakening of labour.
Identity politics ? Wonderful. All issues confused. Workers split. Accuse anyone who wants to alter the status quo as "fascist" (ie Trump, Le Pen, Brexit).
And the theoretical underpinning of the pseudo-left ? Post Modernism -- the most intellectually & spiritually poisonous ideas to emerge from universities in the history of the West.

I was limiting my comment to the Left character of the general insanity. There is of course the liberal component which, like Fox News type conservatives, agree with the liberals about the Jews as holy, and go on to embrace globalism, and internationalism in general.

This the Left does not completely embrace, given the Bernie Sanders type relative pro-labor orientation. Still, because the Left Believes in racial equality, their opposition to globalism is limp, as they Believe in Open Borders and One World. Any opposition to such is Racist! in their eyes and accounts for the Sanctuary cities, states, and soon the whole country will be promoted by the Left, just as it opposes Israel's Apartheid character, as a Sanctuary Country.

That is what is happening in Europe and the nationalist Right is starting the counter-revolution in protest. This will probably end in lots of bloodshed as the liberals are fundamentally communist...Trotsky variety...world revolution or Pimping little sisters of communism, per Wilmot Robertson...The Dispossessed Majority.

The Left has abandoned its defense of the white working class. That is the historically fundamental truth about the Left.

The Left has become essentially an anarchist force...with its championing of Social Justice for All the low-life of the planet. Social Justice means Equality for all...socially. Political equality in the West has never meant anything more than equality before the law.

Social justice is impossible. There is no possibility of any Standard or Principle to measure Social Justice...just leveling, and theft, and resentment of anybody more competent, better looking, smarter, etc. Social Justice movements are totalitarian and can only lead to anarchy.

The Left is dead as a legitimate political force, dead in the sense of a rational and reality-based politics. It is totalitarian and will die, either a natural death, or a violent death, at the hands of more rational people.

Joe Webb

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Captain, for what it is worth, Janet Napolitano is Chancellor of the California university system.

Perhaps "inevitably" is too strong a word to use regarding the deleterious quality of female academic leadership. However, my personal experiences have suggested that females in the highest levels of academic administration do lower the academic quality of colleges and universities. I'm sure there are female academic administrators who've improved the quality of education in their institutions. My observations and experience suggest to me that such are rare.

Doing a study as some have suggested would be almost impossible. To start with there will be disagreement whether it is creating or destroying a "secure and nurturing" environment for today's student snowflakes that constitutes an improvement in a college's or university's academic environment.

Replies: @Joe Schmoe

World Beyond War event at American U. in Washington, D.C.
No War 2016: Real Security Without Terrorism
http://worldbeyondwar.org/nowar2016/


One of the invited speakers has been denied entry to the US. (Because of his criticism of US sanctioned torture in the war on terror?)
https://diy.rootsaction.org/petitions/tell-u-s-to-let-craig-murray-into-the-country?link_id=4&can_id=19e6752b1f7957a48204dfa354f52137&source=email-us-denies-entry-to-former-british-ambassador-craig-murray-2&email_referrer=us-denies-entry-to-former-british-ambassador-craig-murray-2&email_subject=us-denies-entry-to-former-british-ambassador-craig-murray
Tell U.S. to Let Craig Murray into the Country
"Murray was forced out of the British public service after he exposed the use of torture by Britain's Uzbek allies. Murray is scheduled to chair the presentation of this year's Sam Adams Award for Integrity in Intelligence to CIA torture whistleblower John Kiriakou, and to speak about diplomacy as an alternative to war at a World Beyond War conference planned for September 23-25 in Washington, D.C."

"the GOP Elite would prefer to lose than see the profitable equilibrium upset"

Couldn't agree more. What I've said all along. They want the trough to stay in place and maintained at "full to the brim" with their heads buried up to their ears in the swill of largesse that the oligarchs it keep filled with. The republicans will gorge from the losers' end but will gorge nonetheless.

Replies: @Ace, @Beefcake the Mighty

Ending prohibition? Way too simple for America 2016, at least on the national level. This solution, while undoubtedly effective at reducing violent street crime and kicking the legs out from under the drug cartels, leave no room for politicians to profit by graft or by pandering to the Left/Right zombies.

Here's another solution (even less likely to occur in my lifetime). Abolish government police forces and allow subscription based patrol services to take their place. Such businesses would only be concerned with protecting the lives and property of their customers, and would not wish to take on the financial risk of killing someone over something as inane as a "traffic stop". It would also shift the perceived responsibility for the defense of the individual's self from the police back to the individual or to a business or 3rd party which has taken up that responsibility via contract.

Just sit back and watch as the prisons empty and the real thugs get cut down by an armed, aware, and independent citizenry.

Ah, one can dream...

There's easy answers to this legalize/decriminalise question. Firstly, it's too hard, and lacking in obvious political payoff (the public interest is irrelevant). And, secondly, the war on drugs is a gravy train: multi-billion budgets are involved,and more importantly, many big players (banks, chemical Companies, security, real estate etc) all stand to lose billions if their streams of drug money dries up.

Replies: @RadicalCenter

Yes I disagree . Israel has been asking for Assad's scalp from 2002 . Israel occupies part of Syria Israel has attacked Syria periodically from 2003 .
Saudi is a late comer to this game No Saudi lobby put the slogan of Red Line on American diplomatic milotary tool Israel did - Zionist did . Then after falsifying the red line,put pressure on US to attack Syria. Saudi didn't .
Syria Lebanon Accountability Act ? Didn't come from Saud but from monster gang members like Liberman and other neocons

You pose valid questions throughout your comment.

To start from the back. The problem is not with the State Department memo as a form, such memos are a great feedback mechanism from middle management to top executives. The problem is that this feedback mechanism is being abused by the Ziocons for furthering their agenda, as if they do not already totally dominate all of US agenda.

The main point is that although the interests of Saudi Barbaria and Gulf Council align with state of Israel agenda, the relative pover of the Ziocons is unmatched. Simply, the Arabs can only bribe once-off (which they do), but only the Ziocons can create political careers for their protégés or destroy them. It is quite clear that this memo is an announcement of what is next if Hillary Clinton is pushed through by them. Consider this memo to be a group job application.

It is an unwavering Israeli interest for Syria to be destroyed to keep Golan land, water and oil, plus, plus. Destruction of Syria by Israel is the biggest secret that Western MSM are entrusted with keeping from their gullible and disinterested audiences.

Replies: @chris

It is not in the interest of Israel for Assad to be overthrown. It certainly is not in the interest of the Christian population of Syria for Assad to be overthrown. Everyone else that could possibly come to power is worse all around. At least Assad knows what he can and can't do and has pretty much kept to himself in recent years. The people waiting in the wings are not of the same sort and we will see chaos erupt again.

Replies: @Captain Willard, @Jim Christian

And just how much accountability was there at the CIA after the 9/11 and Iraqi WMD busts? And we're still forced to listen to the talking heads and jurnos who got Iraq, Libya, Syria, etc., etc. totally wrong.

Replies: @Captain Willard

Please explain why you’re so sure Israel wants to get rid of Assad.

 

http://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-iran-remains-brutal-and-aggressive/

Enough said?

Please explain why any rational and sane person would come to any other conclusion.

Replies: @Wizard of Oz

You either live in a cave or are a Zionist, pick one. Saudi Arabia, please that is the Zionist media shell game, and it is pretty obvious.

How many Saudi "think tanks" operate in Washington, how many person in the governemnt have dual-citizenship with Saudi Arabia, as compared to our dear friends the Israeli's

Israel wants the land it stole during the war with Syria, that's what they always want, more land.

I mean come on, just google it, Israel is read between every line, or should I say Zionists.

Replies: @RobinG, @Captain Willard

Captain, You are absolutely correct, and that will be right after the Maple Leafs drop out of the NHL because players are required to skate and how unfair is that to sand people.

Great comment! Except that I do not think that Mr. D. was ever insightful.

Yes, the West needs to sit the White ladies down and have a Conversation with them. They've been told for two generations at least that they're the smartest things around and that the world is going to hit new heights as soon as they run everything. They've also been told that they should be proud to be an important part of the anti-White male coalition. The White ladies seem to alternate between defiantly insisting they're courageous to stick it to their own men and insisting it's kind of cute and harmless when they do it. I hope a US presidential race between Trump and Clinton is that Conversation. Let it be a "big, beautiful" Conversation with White ladies about whose f***king team they're really on here. Hopefully it will be a "teachable moment" for all our super-smart White ladies, from Berlin to Vancouver.

....and, the vaginification of the American male continues, unabated.
Well, the white, heterosexual male, anyway.

This is gold.

Yes, but a lot of the middle managers also own guns...the more expensive ones, and not all of them are leftists.

When this thing finally blows, we may discover quite a few men willing to hoist the Jolly Roger and begin slitting throats. Lots of them may have suits and ties in their closets.

Replies: @Stonehands, @Corvinus, @Truth

We face a transition more wrenching than the Industrial Revolution.

No one could foresee what kinds of work people would do to create value, because (obviously) such things were still over the horizon.

This is the hardest part; politicians and policy makers CANNOT see over that horizon either. No one can. The only way to find out what people will do is to step out of the way as much as possible and see what results.

The problem is that people are not wired to let complex systems do their spontaneous organization. Few have the mental HP to even see that self-organizing systems exist, much less leave them alone to produce what they will organically.

Instead we get the NRA, WPA and a host of other stupid ideas from smart people who "have a plan." This is a source of constant human misery.

"My point is that most people in the Us, if they’re sober and willing, no matter how stupid, can produce more than $8-10/hr of marginal labor product if we get them into the workforce and train them."

How do you know this? It seems like an article of faith. Fred was saying just the opposite.

Your qualifier "no matter how stupid" seems to throw the balance of plausibility to Fred's thesis. Training works no matter how stupid people are?

In WW1, recruiters engaged in the task of skill-sorting draftees found through testing that a significant percentage of them not only did not know how to read a map, but also could not be taught how to read a map.

My wife (who teaches 4th grade) would disagree with you. Kids in her class are quite obviously of differing "mental voltages." The low power ones struggle with simple concepts, and anyone who thinks just adding more time and training can make a slow-witted child into a calculus-wielding mechanical engineer is an irredeemable moron.

I have three sons in STEM fields. The suggestion that more than a percent or two of all Americans could contribute anything at all in their workgroups is utter silliness.

The one who is a mechanical engineer (with a patent applied for already by 27) related a story of a supplier of a part; the supplier is making the production of the part entirely automated to eliminate the human variability that leads to QC rejects. This is the future, like it or not. My son's "product" will be amplified by automated production in much the same way a musician's "product" can be amplified by endless copying of the electronic MP3 file.

Imagine engineers' aptitudes selected for and rewarded like rock stars, an ever-fewer top talents earn megabucks satisfying the demand from millions of "fans" while the next tier of engineers barely gets by and everyone below that isn't even remotely competitive.

Fred's column highlights an inescapable predicament. An entirely new or separate way of "valuing" people's contributions to their fellow men must evolve. If automation ushers in a new wave of seemingly unlimited resources, it will be necessary for new standards of judgement of what constitutes value outside of that commercial emporium. Our current obsession with "consumption uber alles" must end.

Replies: @Captain Willard

Hi Captain Willard,

Michelle's wish to see bullets bouncing around inside Manon's head is obscene. One can disagree with someone without conjuring up such violence. Ron Unz allows such comments to show where our culture is. It is sad and sickening. I hope Michelle is regretting her outburst.

As someone with strong opinions, I disagree with the majority of the people I come into contact with, but this does not make me hate them in the least, nor does it makes them hate me. Many of us can still be cordial, respectful and friendly towards people we don't agree with.

Linh

Replies: @Michelle, @Michelle

China exports to the US are 8% of their total exports. Our exports to them are 1% of our exports. They have minimal FDI here (beyond financial holdings of their Central Bank) and we have little there.
 

So you looked on his works and despaired?

Replies: @Harold

"Once again, Libertarians face the State alone."

I feel honored and humbled to be in the presence of such a heroic martyr. Give yourself a pat on the back for me.

Replies: @Captain Willard

…gay marriage and legal pot are major victories and provided a lot of the energy for Libertarians in recent years.