Maybe some American colonels should be watching how it’s done. It would be fascinating to see democracy restored in the USA.

Yes, they are not as strong as the USA/Israel. However, they are spiritual cousins of the Assassins and may be feared for the same ability to eventually bring revenge to leaders who think themselves secure, rather than killing low level troops or causing random incidents of terror.

This may be the first time any of them realised that their aggressive actions could bring very personal consequences. They’ve just murdered the Iranian equivalent of St. George. It’s too late to say ‘Sorry’!

Yes; he ‘volunteered’ them!

President Trump’s approach to diplomacy is innovative – and unique. No other leader would place an $80m price on his own head as a result of a perfidious murder of another country’s national hero engaged in a diplomatic mission which he had claimed to support. He has greatly increased his chances of meeting a violent death. Even after he leaves politics in five years time he will always be looking over his shoulder, wondering if all his guards love him more than they love money. Whenever he plays golf he will have to wonder whether the green will explode under him. If he takes a stroll, surrounded by guards, he will have to consider whether this will be the time when death falls on him out of the sky. Even if he visits one of his own hotels he must consider the risk that it might collapse around his ears.

People have already pointed out that Trump and his generals looked scared at his recent media appearance. Those men are probably calculating their retirement pay and their chances of living to enjoy much of it. No low level troops were killed, but vengeance may be coming to the men at the top.

A couple of decades ago there was a story on the internet. It was purported that a time traveler had come back from the America of several decades ahead, which was recovering from a civil war. Obviously a fantasy, and at that time there was no indication that a civil war might be looming. Now that looks more possible. The interesting part was that in this fantasy the rural rebels, pushed into rebellion by the increasingly harsh rule of political correctness mandated by the major cities, had slowly won – aided by nuclear strikes from their Russian friends destroying the major American cities.
Now the Russian supermissiles might be able to do just that without retaliation, if the Americans were engaged in a civil war. Perhaps the next decade may become historically interesting times, and the rabid dog threatening the rest of the world may be put down if Putin stays around for another term.

It was previously reported that the US forces had handed over a great deal of fancy and expensive heavy weapons to the Kurds. Now they will be passed to the Syrian Arab Army as part of the Syrian government’s agreement with the Kurds. Gee, thanks for the early Christmas presents, Washington! No Western pundit saw that coming.

Which part of the US Constitution makes it the responsibility of the President of the USA to ensure that other countries abide by their constitutions, especially when his interpretation of them is wrong? Why have previous Presidents neglected this aspect of their responsibilities?

After bringing mass death and misery to other countries, perhaps the same forces may bring it home to the USA.

Perhaps this was not a mistake, not sloppiness, not incompetence and has nothing to do with oil, America or journalism. Perhaps it was all a deliberate setting. Could it not be that the journalist was not the message, but merely the media on which a message for someone else was inscribed in his blood?

The Sultan and The Prince are at daggers drawn. The Sultan has recently challenged the House of Saud by claiming their title of Guardian of the Holy Places of Islam.

Perhaps the casual almost public murder and dismemberment of a minor critic of The Prince in the capital of The Sultan is intended as warning to The Sultan.

Surely Putin’s announcement a few months ago of fantastic new weapons was a credible ‘threat display’ showing that its teeth are bigger and sharper than the American public knew? This gives the American generals and politicians good reason to be more cautious. It may also give them a reason to spend still more money to catch up, hastening their economic collapse as they tried to do to the Soviet Union, but in any case deferring serious conflict. Win/win for Russia.

This is a good article. Thank you.

I imagine the USA nowadays as being like a rabid dog, slowly dying but still very dangerous, snapping and snarling at everyone around it, scattering spittle as it lunges and barks but visibly becoming shaky and unsteady on its feet. No one needs to fight it, just to fend it off until it collapses. The Russians and Chinese just need to be patient, time is on their side. By mid century, although I don’t expect to around to see it, I do expect that the USA will be a much weaker country, largely ignored by the rest of the world. It’s amusing to contemplate that by the end of this century the civilised world may expect responsible nuclear powers like China and Korea to try to slowly draw the nuclear teeth of the USA; by bribery, subversion, encouragement of all the self-destructive trends within its society and regime change, leaving it a very crumpled Paper Tiger lying sadly beside the One Road One Belt around the rest of the world.

Maybe it’s worse than protecting child molesters; maybe it’s personal participation. Here’s an examination of the Pope’s horoscope, suggesting that his own father probably abused him, and that he is fiddling with the finances of the Church as well as with children. The astrologer predicts that this Pope will not last long, and will go down amidst great scandal, probably poisoned by his own prelates;
Prelatial Poisoning of Peculating Paedophilia Protecting and Participating Pontiff Predicted:

There’s also the claim that Dreyfus was set up by Rothschild to produce the result that was achieved:
https://www.henrymakow.com/was_the_dreyfus_affair_another.html

Well that helps. Never could understand what the guy was ‘singing’.

“OTOH, if Trump manages to pull an upset, the media is going to be persona non grata at the White House.”

That’s OK, the media demonized Reagan too (he was going to start a nuclear war, a la Goldwater, remember?), but the sight of him in a tuxedo surrounded by superstars, after the Jimmy Carter old sweater days (malais, it’s all you’re fault, it’s not mine, remember?), soon found the media kissing ass just to get in, as they always do. It’s all about access.

Historically, after Britain rescinded the taxes that ostensibly were the cause of the Revolution, a bunch of landed aristocrats who owed money to Britain and didn’t want to pay carried it off with the help of a Prussian general who organized Washington’s rabble army, and the French Navy.

What if these people know they are above the law, and don’t care what the public knows, because they know nothing can happen to them? What if all this legalistic agonising is just the wriggles of discomfort by mid level people who want to think that laws which apply to them still apply to their superiors?

The Chosen Ones exert themselves to get the rest of us to destroy each other.

Notice how all of this is happening in the ruins of civilization. That cotton factory must have been left over from the Belgian era. Now they’re back to killing and eating each other. The real story is that this sort of nonsense is being imported to the previously civilized world.

What if none of this matters because laws are only for the little people?

I would agree more with the Left on this. Lions are remarkable creatures, a miracle of evolution. And Cecil was an exceptional lion. But anything remarkable or magnificent, like lions or Swedish women, is on the way out.

The problem with US Auto was it had to hire a lot of blue collar workers who, over the years, grew more slovenly, demanding, and black.

There is of course no way that US labor can compete with cheap foreign labor in the developing world. But some prefer to blame the workers. Not that they are blameless.

Workers there are so poor that they will work for a pittance, shut up, and make no trouble.

Sounds like a might makes right paradise where the wretched masses exist to raise up a few exceptional individuals.

Is the world any poorer if a couple dozen basketball groupies like the two pictured at the top died from AIDS?

"Also, most people know someone or someone who knows someone who was done in by blacks. I had a friend who went to an elite college in the 1980s and was raped by a black in her car. And I had experiences walking down the street and being pushed and held at gunpoint by such scum. And I've experienced plenty of bad black behavior in schools, malls, buses, and etc.
I don't feel the way I do because of numbers or stats. All those numbers do is confirm what I know emotionally through experience and observation and hearsay"

This is so very true. I myself barely escaped rape, and probably murder, from three of them when I was only 18 (three white men chased them off; I was lucky–it was late at night and raining when I yelled.) My friend's sister was raped when only 14, and almost strangled. Yet she managed to take a test the next day–nerves of steel. Several men I've known, one with parents committed to racial togetherness, were beaten into a comas by blacks. Indeed, I cannot see a troop of young blacks, jiving and yucking down the street, without strong, visceral revulsion. Yet the perfectly nice, civilized blacks I meet at work or socially are just fine, I have no problem treating them as I find them. But nothing is going to change the fact of what anyone who lives in an area with more than a small percentage of blacks, knows.

“Do the ideas not stand by themselves?” 
 
Sure . . . if my goal was simply to read, enjoy and learn something more along the way. Likewise, if I knew enough about the topic to have a reasonably informed opinion. I don’t.

Razib, stumbled across your name surfing for analysis of various DNA projects & read your articles on Wells & the NG Genographic Project. 
 
I like your ideas and how you lay them out but can’t find anything about you & and your qualifications. Is that deliberate? 
 
Anyway, what I am really was hoping to find is scientific evaluations of the Sorenson DNA project (http://smgf.org/). . . the publicity is all very cuddly, but I end up with more questions than answers after reading through it all. 
 
Any suggestions. 
Cynic.