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... My defense of the only civilized country in the Middle East [the Jewish state], thus, cannot possibly be logically compatible with the principles of libertarianism ... He sees nothing whatsoever of any value in my defense of the Jewish state.
Tldr is Walter Block’s middle name, and why I don’t miss him at LRC.
I don’t think he is referring to Aleister; It’s to a song by the late Ozzy Osbourne (missed but not by me). The timing was suspicious, Mr. Crowley appearing, to lead the Men of Unz, soon after Ozzy went to meet Aleister…
Unexpected treat!
Good job, Wayne.
Plausible Deniability!
Somewhat disagree: those hypersonics are the most valuable weapons in modern warfare and Iran’s greatest advantage. I’m not sure about nKorea, but Pakistan is riddled with spies that would give their right nuts to sell out any info to the Satans. Iran only needs a nuke for insurance. They would be useless on Isreal, as there are too many humans intermingled with the snakes. An EMP device would be perfect in destroying the Israeli economy without hurting the palis, though. Meanwhile, keep the Promise until the last invader goes back to Long Island.
I wonder if these “schmarties”* anticipate that AI might turn on them, especially the Chinese version. It would be trivial to produce a list and locations of the relative handful of bad actors that are presently causing most of the world’s chronic problems. Fingers crossed…
*hat tip – Mel Brooks
Hmmm... I may have been careless in glancing at that chart. Many people find it useful to consider the "productive" economy of a country, namely its non-service sector GDP, and those were the statistics I was describing, which includes manufacturing, mining, construction, and agriculture.
I disagree. Yes, China is way above the U.S. and the rest, but Russia is a very small economy that lacks technology and know how. Do you really think Russian products ((not including military tools) are larger and better (quality is not important) than Japanese and German products?
Ron may be almost unique as a writer, in not only reading and responding to comments, but actually conceding a point, instead of doubling down and arguing about it.
I didn’t think my admiration of the man could increase, but somehow, it just did.
[Sorry for the blatant ass-kissing. Too much coffee.]
I’m hoping with Trump’s help, ZOG will go straight to hell, and all the too-big-to-fail
zog banks with it! (the only way the banks go down, is if USG goes bankrupt first, which Trump seems to be aiming for). Faster, please.
Ever since I learned about Crom, he has been my go-to god; he created man and the world, but eventually lost interest. Sounds about right…
Fortunately, I was inocculated against religion by my elementary school nuns, who, by copious use of rulers and yardsticks (the pre-ritalin cure for “boys-will-be-boys”, taught me the two commandments – The strong do as they will and the weak do as they must.
Good piece!
China may need some fine-tuning, I don’t know; I’ve never been there.
I’ve lived my entire life in the U.S., and it need a complete overhaul; I would recommend a Mao-style 5-year plan. A good country with a good people deserves a better elite. I’d love to see Mark Zuckerberg planting rice by hand. Maybe his wife can show him “the Way”.
My favorite grudge as a prole, is that the obvious business model, is borrowing at low rate (even zero, and there was talk of negative interest rates, i.e. they pay themselves to borrow!), and re-lending the thin-air money to the government at substantial profit, yet still manage to crash the entire system and not be blamed but made good for their losses in a series of bail-outs.
Dave Stockman and a host of others advocate liquidating everything, breaking up the losers and reusing their assets (if any actually exist). When there is no sanction, in law or reality, there is no law.
I don’t get any spam calls on my mobile, but I’ve been very frustrated trying to get an HVAC tech out to check the refrigerant levels in my heat pump (it couldn’t quite keep up during the last arctic blast). Every company has elaborate systems to screen calls. Another tradesman, my generator guy, estimates that 90% of incoming calls are bogus, but he does answer calls himself.
Every place I called has some method to supposedly separate the chaff from real calls; “listen carefully, as our menus have changed” is a sure-fire notification that this call is doomed. The one place that actually answered was a person who evidently spoke no English. It took three “whats” and “excuse me’s” to determine that he was asking for my zip code, and he hung up when requested someone who could speak English. One place featured a very helpful lady that seemed quite competent, and set up an appointment for the very next day, but no one actually showed up.
I guess I’ll just let it go until it breaks, and blame the jeets… I prefer to be connected to a competent and helpful human being of any race, color, or creed; yes I am a boomer!
Yeah, it’s called the deep-state. The deep-state has switched sides, called off the US color revolution of 2016-2024 in order to use the other side to continue its crimes.
Why have leftists not been throwing big tantrums over the re-election of Despicable Donald?
... it feels to me as though some powerful guiding mind has deserted the left, ... to pour willpower and funding into riots and days of rage.
Fair enough; “deep state”, “the jews”, “the blob”, etc. various terms for the unknown power behind the curtain we all are sure exists. The wind changing to favor Trump after Oct.7 was so sudden and complete it had to be centrally directed. I read somewhere that it was worked out as concordat between the “neo-Chabad” and the Rothchildes. (bosses of the Republicans and Democrats, respectively.)
What is expected of Trump remains to be seen, unless what we’ve seen is what we get, and the hidden power was really on “our” side, after all. I don’t buy that Trump is a zionist stooge, though; most of what he has done for Israel is largely symbolic (moving the Embassy, giving them the Golan, which they already had, being their best friend, etc). I hope he’s already wedgedied Bibi in private like he did to the little orc in public.
Courage, fellow halflings!
Definitely agree, Jeff. The suddenness of it being another of many indicators that this wasn’t an organic change.
The wind changing to favor Trump after Oct.7 was so sudden and complete it had to be centrally directed.
Boy, you have good sources!
I read somewhere that it was worked out as concordat between the “neo-Chabad” and the Rothchildes.
As a Russophile, I had long-regarded Sachs as the head of the so-called “Chicago Boys” that had helped the oligarchs plunder the Soviet state during the Yeltsin years, but he addressed this, to my satisfaction, in which he explained that he was advising on currency issues and wasn’t involved with the wrecking crew. On reflection, he must have had some idea, but I now regard him as Civilization’s ambassador to the barbarians, frfr.
Thanks for the post.
For me, the persistent question is the dog that didn’t bark; actually, the many dogs that stopped barking after Oct.7 – blm, antifa, riots, murders, etc. The Grand Wurlitzer went silent, as if someone feared they may have gone too far. “Shut it down!”. I’ve seen very little discussion of this; we’re so happy with the apparent streak of good luck. I saw one post that it was a concordat of some kind, between “the neo-Chabad and the Rothschild factions” of our betters’. I’ve always wondered why they couldn’t realize how they were coming off to the rest of us. Maybe they have. Meanwhile, enjoy the renaissance, however brief.
They all had information that might lead to the arrest of Hillary Clinton.
I would love to see the full list of anonymous whores who were paid off in secret payments of taxpayer funds for bringing charges against congressmen, going back many years. I’d also like the full list of the congressmen. I’d bet four of them are the ones who convinced Gaetz to withdraw.
Recall seeing a houthi carrying his injured comrade across open ground under heavy fire; serious badasses! I said I’ll never make fun of men in dresses again.
Moe – “Listen up, everyone. I’m looking for Amanda Miller Littlejohn! Why can’t I find Amanda Miller Littlejohn?”
Barney – “Maybe your standards are too high.”
Who is the talkative youngster in the leather jacket who found wisdom from an enexpected source?
Moldbug! (aka Curtis Ramone)
I’ve noticed a strange situation locally, northern Virginia: I drive about twelve miles daily between Fairfax and Arlington and see about eight new construction sites, mostly teardowns and one development on the site of a previous church, that have the foundation walls poured but no framing. Not sure if the builders are waiting for lumber prices to come down or there is an actual shortage. Usually the demo, foundation, framing and roof are done quickly and in this hot market it makes sense to build quickly and move on. I’m leaning towards an actual shortage, imo purposeful to keep prices high.
I saw that they just doubled tariffs on Canadian lumber, which makes no sense if there is an actual shortage. Conclusion – fukkahs once again triumph over fukkees.
I’m beginning to increasingly suspect that everything I think I know is wrong, but my distinct recollection is that Soleimani and Iran saved Assad’s bacon from the head-chopper’s ball and bought enough time for the Russians to finish them off (for which Trump claimed credit after many years of American ineffective foot-dragging against ISIS). Makes me very skeptical of Zarif’s claims and overall agenda.
Likely he was bought by the imperialists. One more.
Makes me very skeptical of Zarif’s claims and overall agenda.
I’d like to see a study of self-percieved intelligence sorted by race, and by IQ.
“I’m hot and wicked smart, and by golly, people like me!” -Stuart Smalley
Mustaches, bell-bottoms, jewfros, and disco went out of style. Gabe Kaplan got old…
Did anyone see the latest photo of Biden climbing the stairs to his plane, carrying his umbrella and briefcase and NOT using the handrail? Is he trying to show that he can do it. I’ve seen pics of someone holding the umbrella for the President in the rain. Can’t someone carry his briefcase, too? It appears that they’re literally setting him up for a fall.
This in the 3rd paragraph is the writer forming his premise for his essay.
but the narrative promoted by Trump about a stolen election lacked substantial legal backing and was for the most part, a cope.
That was pretty much my reaction, but the rest of the essay was more nebulous than false. I’ve been concerned by so many variations on the idea that “we’ll be back in ’22 and ’24” but what if the (obviously) stolen election is not just a figment of Trump’s imagination? I’ve seen plenty of denials of fraud, but no widespread evidence that that it was all on the level. Are we to assume that it can’t or won’t reoccur? That the cheaters won’t, in fact, improve their methods and practices in the face of zero pushback or reform?
I’ve been trying to imagine how we can deal with the end of electoral integrity, including down-ballot elections. I believe tamed Republicans will be allowed to continue as fake opposition in order to maintain the illusion that we are not a one-party system.
Stark has some vague ideas, but my crystal ball is very cloudy. I see indistinct images of Putin and Pooh-bear…
The massive fraud of 2020 is making it clear that it's not even close to the first time: it's been going on for many previous elections, but the Trump wave of voting support broke their fraud model and forced them to reveal.
Are we to assume that it can’t or won’t reoccur?
Why put up with that at all? Aren't the solutions completely obvious? Paper ballots only, hand counted in front of the public just after poll closing, then results posted in front of the polling station and on the internet and local newspapers immediately, coupled by voter ID. If you have to show ID to buy liquor? You have to show ID to vote. And as far as mail-in ballots? Ban ballot harvesting and put every absentee ballot through a rigorous verification regimen that can be challenged by observers of every party, and then discarded immediately.If any impropriety is revealed in this process, the entire vote for that locale should be discarded and a new vote held. That, in my view, is the only way to reestablish voter integrity, and democracy in the United States.
I’ve been trying to imagine how we can deal with the end of electoral integrity, including down-ballot elections.
This is not a new idea; the excerable Cass Sunstein was advocating for pro-regime propaganda in 2008. I wonder why we haven’t been hearing much from the guy. Maybe ditching his wife for Samantha Power proved to be too much for even our most degenerate betters.
Wikispooks:
“Sunstein co-authored a now infamous 2008 paper, entitled “Conspiracy Theories” which tried to link questioning governments’ official narratives with violence, and suggested that “the best response [to “conspiracy theorists”] consists in cognitive infiltration of extremist groups”.[5] Various commentators have roundly criticized this intellectual stance.[6][7] who argue that it would violate prohibitions on government propaganda aimed at domestic citizens”
That reminds me – I need a haircut.
Yeah, and then waiting 3-5 years to see how many keel over.
And whom was he influencing? Who were his Twitter followers? And theirs? He was propagating jokes/falsehoods to people on the Right, yet the asshole prosecutors have the chutzpah to pretend this was a threat to left-wing voters -- since they're the only ones who matter.
One of his Twitter accounts, @Ricky_Vaughn99, had about 58,000 followers at the time it was suspended by Twitter in October 2016. he account was rated the 107th most influential with respect to the that year’s election, according to an analysis done by the MIT Media Lab — ahead of accounts belonging to former House speaker Newt Gingrich, “Late Show” host Stephen Colbert and NBC News, according to the criminal complaint.
“141 was faster than he,
But Irving was looking for 143.”
Big bad Irving, the 142nd fastest gun in the West
I’ve always had a soft spot for n.o.i due to my (possibly erroneous) belief that what they were promoting was responsibility for black’s own prosperity was on themselves; solidarity, sobriety, self-control, industriousness. That the devil(s) had never and would never raise them up, and the implication that many of their own were dragging them down. Here, Farrakhan seems to be saying that goodwhites must act against the evilwhites in order for the blacks to finally thrive, i.e. the boilerplate NAACP view, that has never worked, and arguably, has been counter productive. In many ways they are worse off than before the civil Rights era.
Dr. Farrakhan; physician, heal thy self, and thine own.
Spot on about postal votes; it’s my only slight disagreement with Ron’s take on the affair.
These votes were being received for days, if not weeks before the deadline and could have been (and probably were) counted as they came in. The gross imbalance between Trump and Biden votes in these after-hours counts, along with the sudden spikes obvious on many graphs, is proof, imo, of the cheat. In order to get ahead of the narrative, the ‘rats said it would happen, and, lo, it did.
If the regime can’t provide for trustworthy elections, it can’t expect to be regarded as legitimate. Probably by design; they don’t need us.
Excellent comment, but I'd quibble a bit with the part I quoted. Maybe it wouldn't have been possible anyway, but I don't think Trump made more than the feeblest of token efforts to pursue such policies. I want to think he's smart enough to have realized that action (beyond sending out those oh-so forceful tweets) was required. As an example of such actions, there would be firing cabinet secretaries and national-security apparatchiks until he'd found replacements who'd take direction. Assuming he was sufficiently smart, I'm left with an unhappier diagnosis than stupidity. The alternative is that he simply wasn't serious. Either way, no big loss.Replies: @Jeff Albertson
... to experience the presidency of a WWE-style, personality-damaged billionaire who nevertheless pursues policies of peace and prosperity for Americans ...
Better late than never, I suppose, but would have been nice about four years ago, along with firing all the US attorneys, ( like Clinton and Obama did). Would love to hear Phil’s take on this.
Trump clearing the deck for second term?
Biden bringing the CFR back (if they ever indeed went away) – guaranteed catastrophe.
“There is no evidence of a widespread amount of sewage in this wine. Would you like a glass?”
“And just like that, the rioting stopped and a safe and effective vaccine for Covid was announced!”
(And the Dow went up 1,261 points!)
As a long-time Buchanan supporter, even working for one of his campaigns, I’m certainly sad to see him completely losing the thread, but here’s the deal for me; I don’t see Americans as my fellows. Approximately three quarters are socialists and/ or neocon saps hell-bent on destroying what’s left of our traditional way of life. Even if he’s right about Russia (he’s not), I see Russia, China, and Iran as the enemies of my enemies, doing right by patiently waiting for our “leaders” to finish their idiotic March through our institutions.
Thanks, Ob, I agree: shutting down Ft. detrick last fall is just too suspicious. I’ll bet it’s been non-stop destruction of evidence ever since, against the very remote possibility that anyone would ever audit or investigate what was going on there.
Recall vividly the official who sent the Anthrax spores being allowed to flee to Israel while Hatfill was being scapegoated.
“Show’s over folks, nothing to see, move along…”
I have a bet with myself (but no wager; I don’t have anything that I’d want) –
When the Masters have their bailout, and the stock market recovers, we’ll see the same lack of attention, and a weighting-to-the-positive by the media that was apparent during Obama’s swine flu epidemic. We’ve been flim-flammed. Again.
David Cole at Taki’s nailed this down last year:
“that same weekend: Clint Eastwood’s Richard Jewell, a film tailor-made for the right. And even though Jewell was drubbed by leftist critics, you might be surprised to learn that it was also the subject of a boycott by conservatives. Yes, conservatives tried to sink a conservative-friendly film, and not for the first time this year. Back in August, a bunch of low-IQ Fox News ’tards bullied Universal into shelving a pro-“deplorables” action film called The Hunt because they misunderstood the trailer and failed to research the conservative bona fides of the producer. As a result, moron conservatives “canceled” one of the most ballsy pro-rightist films ever released by a studio.”
https://www.takimag.com/article/hollywood-conservatives-year-of-self-harm/
But those guys are our “duly-elected representatives”, so by definition (according to Corvinious), whatever they do is up and up legitimate.
Speaking of tests, can we audit all the congressmen to determine how they got to be multimillionaires on their only slightly more than average salaries?
Thanks, Pepe, (and several commenters) for mentioning the Ft. Derrick shutdown. I’ve only seen it referenced by Lew Rockwell, and almost nothing on Google. Until I see a convincing explanation of the closure, it will be for me the smoking gun that the virus was produced and released, possibly accidentally, from there. The fact that the Anthrax scare originated from that facility, and that the likely culprit was allowed to escape while two patsies were hounded in his stead, as well as the memory-holing of that entire affair, lends further credence to my suspicion that there were serious long-standing security problems at the lab.
Indeed. I would instinctively believe anything said by the Chinese communists over the new York Times, and the pronouncements of Cthulhu himself over the CFR/ FP. Not even kidding.
“Fact is, if the elites and corporate defense establishment of the US would become diplomatic, imagine the cooperation between us and Russia that could take place. Imagine the prosperity! Even the elites could share in it!”
Exactly so. This was the basis for my immediate initial support for Trump; his calling bullshit on the entire rationale behind the empire, and the potential benefits of a new detente. (Even if we were evil geni, it would make more sense to at least pretend to be non-threatening.) This is the root of the hostility to Trump, IMO.
Incidentally, this piece and it’s commentary is greatly supportive of Ron’s argument that heavy users should step up and financially support the UR. I haven’t seen this sort of thing anywhere else easily available on the web. I don’t comment much here (feeling somewhat too short for this ride 😬) but I do spend hours everyday, reading most of the articles and many comments. Would definitely donate.
Thanks, all!
Marijuana, ouch. Maybe that’s why I thought Steve was going to talk about Lou Grant. But then I realized I had Ed mixed up with the hefty bag guy/Richie Cunningham’s dad.
The seventys were awesome! If I recall correctly…
The Golden Age is twelve; just so. I read all this crap as a kid and I’m so glad I didn’t know anything about the authors, nor want to; “escapism” my dad called it and that’s what I craved. The drug store was my library and my choice was entirely based on the cover art and whether the author had a cool name. “Asimov” was the Pinnacle, suggesting bug-eyed alien with death-ray in hand. I didn’t know Jew from schmoo, and wish I still didn’t. They took me to the edge of the universe. Thanks, guys (and “Andre Norton”). I didn’t need any stinkin’ context.
Chair
I once read that the publisher of the Washington Examiner was the original commissioner of the Steele dossier during the Republican primary as a desperate attempt to derail Trump, and handed it over to the DNC after the convention, but I’ve never been able to confirm this. Their site doesn’t seem particularly never-Trump, but I have lingering suspicion that the neocon cat in the box is not dead, but constantly moving between boxes.
The future is kicking and screaming at us. Also a loud and alien whine.

Remember, kids: Scandinavians, the Irish, Spaniards, Russians, Balts, Italians and Scots are genetically and culturally similar enough that they should be thought of as a unitary race who naturally treat each other as members of the in-group. Indeed, according to various luminaries, ranging from Dr. David Duke* to Richard Spencer to Andrew Anglin, Alawite Syrians and Shia Persians should be included in this Aryan in-group.
In other words, Ashkenazi Jews are about 53% European and 47% Middle Eastern by ancestry.
Darn it! If I ever met Dr. Duke, I was going to ask him about this mole on my back.
“Penalty shootout is a lottery”
Can anyone explain to me what the heck happened? My wife was peppering me with questions and all I could do was shrug and mumble.
This was the only the second soccer match I’ve ever watched* and only because I so wanted Russia to win so they could go on to kick English asses.
Seems like a coin flip would achieve the same results. I assumed they would just keep stacking overtimes until someone broke the tie.
*Nothing in particular against “football”; I hate all sports
Loser teams say that.
Seems like a coin flip would achieve the same results.
We had “Maryland Math”, sixth grade, 1962. Some attempt by U.of Md. to re-invent the wheel. Completely incomprehensible to me, a mystery to my dad who was an engineer. Fortunately, I was able to use “arithmetic” to eventually get the correct answers. The smart kids thrived on it; the bastards.
I don't think it's just 'the Jews' who're doing it
I think we can generally see the results in our stock today, characterized in the term “soy boys”.
Thanks for the reply. To be clear, I don’t believe any one group is responsible. Europeans, like everyone else, have been slaughtering each other with gusto throughout history, and the smart fraction have always taken advantage and encouraged this. The process is eugenic for them, to be sure. As for the Jews, I want us to have the same regard for our young people as investments and not commodities.
Trouble is we’re very good at war, and even enjoy the excitement unless it goes pear-shaped, then we mourn and start getting ready for the next one.
Which might be the last one
War's aftermath; a preliminary study of the eugenics of war as illustrated by the civil war of the United States and the late wars in the Balkans
I’ve been trying to put a number on the dysgenic effect of regularly killing off huge numbers of our best young men
Thanks for the link. I’ve been turning it over in my mind for some time, but there are a lot of variables (estimates of dead, especially civilians, average family sizes over time in many different societies, unpredictable results of population growth, persistence of genetic continuity through surviving females, and “unknown unknowns”). I think a smart and diligent researcher could come up with an reasonable number; that’s not me though, I can only speculate.
Saw some pictures of row upon row of graves on memorial day and thought each one represented a family that never started. The trend is positive since we entered the forever war, but could reverse massively at any time. Not optimistic…
“These 100 M whites would have been about 1 billion whites today, and whites would have been a world majority today, had it not been for WW2.”
I’ve been trying to put a number on the dysgenic effect of regularly killing off huge numbers of our best young men, starting with the truely horrific slaughter in our own “civil” war, through WW1 and 2, estimating the number of generations of children never born, multiplied by average family sizes, and considering that the offspring of the survivers would be increasingly weighted against the traits we regard as positive (bravery, patriotism, selflessness, fitness, etc.)
I think we can generally see the results in our stock today, characterized in the term “soy boys”. Mental and physical problems seem historically high, so your estimate of one billion might even be low, but plausible; but as importantly, the quality of our people resulting from this systematic filtering seems undeniable e.g. compare the Wehrmact to today’s German army, where the effect of also murdering so many young women negates the possible benefits that would have accrued from their possession of these warrior genes.
Reverse natural selection in action. Difficult to believe this isn’t by plan, that the Saxon will never again begin to hate.
No more brother wars!
I don't think it's just 'the Jews' who're doing it
I think we can generally see the results in our stock today, characterized in the term “soy boys”.
War's aftermath; a preliminary study of the eugenics of war as illustrated by the civil war of the United States and the late wars in the Balkans
I’ve been trying to put a number on the dysgenic effect of regularly killing off huge numbers of our best young men
I find the whole concept of magnet schools incoherant:
Are the physical plants, admistrations, faculties libraries, etc, significantly better than other public high schools in the same jurisdictions, or is it some kind of magic linoleum that makes them superior? Obviously not.
It is the quality of the students themselves that make the difference; the opportunity to study and learn with serious peers, without the slackers, bullies and other nose-pickers that make learning unnecessarily difficult for everyone.
Add in the boobs of whatever race, color or Creed, and you defeat the purpose entirely.
The solution would seem to be to filter these boobs out of the regular schools, and give the serious students of average abilities a fighting chance.
Guilty as charged. Until moldbug shamed me into reading original source old history, I parsed the two as synonymous. Thought English history basically began at George III. (With a bit of Tudors in there somewhere out of prurient interest.)
The last time I went to Wendy’s drive through, the lady couldn’t understand me, nor I her.
Finally, I just told her to give me $10.00 worth of “food” and a Coke. I don’t recall what I got, but it was okay. I’m guessing the last employee off the boat has to work the window.
As a lurker, I must say that you’ve really upped your game, here. I had originally (possibly by mistake) considered you a clever troll, but you lately seem to be most thoughtful and coherent.
By pure coincidence, I’m finding myself in agreement with much of it.
I’ve long believed that we should just give Israel whatever it wants, while we still have something to bargain with. Possibly Trump can get something for America out of the deal. That would be a first.
I'm not a troll, I'm just mentally unbalanced.Replies: @dfordoom
I had originally (possibly by mistake) considered you a clever troll, but you lately seem to be most thoughtful and coherent.
I could see the name “Steve” become the male equivalent of “Becky”. Not quite Chad not quite Dexter; Steve!
Chad has a country in African named for him. But if we could get Chad to change it's name to Steve, well, then we are there!
I could see the name “Steve” become the male equivalent of “Becky”. Not quite Chad not quite Dexter; Steve!
Tariffs = good when a nascent industry needs protection in order to take-off. Tariffs = bad when a nations industry are monopoly pricing. Low prices are the goal.Libertarian economic theorizing doesn't comport with actual history. Industrial Capitalism of Fredrick List in Germany, and Peshine Smith of America, both induced a dramatic increase in economic well being for their respective countries. Japan watched Germany and America closely and adopted industrial capitalism "External Tariffs low Internal Tariff" ideas,. Japan went from being a feudal economy to being an industrial economy in one generation..
Yes, libertarians ought to oppose tax increases, which is what tariffs are. We hold that voluntary exchanges are by definition advantageous to their participants.
Keynes understood defects of corporate banker credit/debt driven economies. Keynes even noted during WW2 that if private debts declined, that would be proof of efficacy of government stimulation. The great depression was due to private debt buildup during 20's, especially due to bank credit creation (upon new debts) funneling toward the stock market. In run up to war, and during the war, U.S. spent exogenous treasury money (created outside of the banking system) to fund new industry. This went on to pay wages, to then pay off private debts. This is how U.S. emerged from war with low private debt levels.So, it is a perversion of Keynsian theory to suggest he would have been for high debt levels, especially when he was concerned about reducing build up. Keynes main idea was to save money during heady economic times, and stimulate during depressions/recessions. Finance Capitalism (not List's Industrial Capitalism) business model is to make debt instruments in order to make profits. Finance Capitalists harvest industry, patents, land and other real assets with swaps in order to cancel debts formerly created from nothing. Swapping depressed real assets for debts is part of the magick of (( Finance Capitalism)) which is nothing more than a sophisticated usury system. Industrial Capitalism by contrast uses a countries own sovereign credit to build industry and improve its commons, making citizens more efficient. Libertarians are apologists for "free trade" when instead a real free market is one free from rents and unearned income. Oh the horrors, a government that intervenes to drive prices lower!To get rid of rentiers, usury, and to squash unearned income sometimes REQUIRES TARIFFS. Proper tariff application in turn require a government manned by people with economic IQ's of more than two digits. It is beyond question that a national economy like that of U.S., requires both national steel and aluminum producers. You are not a country if you don't have borders, language, culture - and an economy with as much autarky as is reasonable.Replies: @Jeff Albertson, @Disordered
Contra the Keynesians who control the economy
I can’t find the cite, but I read in an early discussion of tariffs, c.1800, someone proposed that they were fine for revenue, and the proper level was up to the point where it started to restrict trade, and beyond would bring in less revenue. It impressed me when I read it as an early expression of (then famous) Laffer Curve.
Nice to posit two guys with no record. In reality, this is rare. The purpose of police with respect to “youth” is to paper them, make them known to the system. The website Charleston Thug Life had amazingly long lists of priors on violent offenders going in and out of the system, usually sentences of time-served, obviously soft judges, but otherwise every prison would be overflowing without this non-hypothetical disparity.
Anyone know what happened to CTL? Only traces seem to remain.
What do you mean? Your fans want you to elaborate on this. Is America hating Andrei an ethno-nationalist?
Russian ethno-nationalists were a sorry lot, and often pretty much treasonous to boot
” I want to apologize to you for the nasty and immature personal attacks I have sent your way on multiple occasions. I shouldn’t have made things personal and I now feel pretty bad about it.”
This is encouraging. I thought I had detected a softening in your tone over time. Congratulations from the peanut gallery!
Thanks--I thought I was the only one.Replies: @Jeff Albertson
I never really liked it all that much myself, because I thought The Matrix was a ridiculous and totally PC movie
I couldn’t even watch the whole thing because I’ve got some kind of typecasting thing going on.
It was Ted from Bill and Ted, cowboy Curtis and the elf king to me. Plus I was already tired of cgi.
Simon>Percy (Wikipedia)
“In 2006, writing about the influence of political lobbies on the U.S. relationship with Israel, political theorists John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt wrote that they believed Percy’s loss was the result of a campaign waged against him by the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).[19] The lobbying group controlled substantial monies and helped lawmakers who they believed supported the security of Israel.”
What do Washington, Jefferson, Jackson and Lincoln have in common?
The last white guys with those names.
Should have used Boldmug to be clear.
The essence of Strausianism is the distinction between public and private truths, as well-articulated by Hillary in her secret speech to the banksters. “The rabble can’t handle the truth.”
The Noble Lie. All else is Carlyle’s “wind”.
The truth of our revolution is that the secret Tory Washington wanted to expand the nation to the west, and the King was in the way.
The truth may or may not set you free, but it will make you angry.
Here's the truth of the American Revolution:
The truth of our revolution is that the secret Tory Washington wanted to expand the nation to the west, and the King was in the way.
Washington would have been happy to claim it for the crown were a General Washington or a Chancellor Washington a possibility. That possibility being foreclosed by short-sighted prejudice, he chose instead revolution/founding a nation of his own.
The truth of our revolution is that the secret Tory Washington wanted to expand the nation to the west, and the King was in the way.
Hey Mr. Factor,
I’m really enjoying your aggregator. I lost my old bookmarks when I switched to Android, and many of my favorites went dark, anyway. Really appreciate how often it’s updated, must be a lot of work, but doesn’t seem to crowd out the commenting here. I guess you don’t sleep much…
(Apologies to the Derb for barging in.)
Even if he really “was going to devote himself to hunting down fascists”, it’s a strategic error;
We’re his biggest, if not only, supporters.
#HarvDidNothingWrong!
Yandex to the rescue. Russians are highly resistant to BS.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QERqJObC-9w73e5FRGlTMN4eIaGuTmfa/view?usp=drivesdk
Very interesting drawing; apparently an absorbsion/refrigeration (chiller) design using heat alone to move the refrigerant w/o pumps or motors. I’ve long wondered why something like this isn’t in more common use, especially for solar a/c, although I’ve seen commercial units (Hitachi) advertised.
Also interesting is the Leo Szilard signature. What future Manhattan project whizzes did in their spare time? If all those resources, human and other, hadn’t been needed to blow shit up, we’d all be driving Mr.Fusion flying cars by now.
I want some more!
Um, how about maybe conservative white women tend to marry conservative white men?Oh, that wouldn't fit the bias that white women have no agency and are pressured by their white husbands into voting conservative.The people pushing this stuff are either stupid or deceptive or both.Replies: @Jeff Albertson
“We know white men are more conservative, so when you’re married to a white man you get a lot more pressure to vote consistent with that ideology.”
Stupidly deceptive and deceptively stupid both work.
“What in the wide wide world of sports is agoing on here? I hired you people to get a little track laid, not to jump around like a bunch of Kansas City faggots!”

I see one teensy problem with the storyline, possibly explained in the movie ( which I unfortunately won’t see); where the black folks at? Or brown or yellow? They all went home already?
Damn I miss the original eXile. I read Limonev on livejournal, but the machine translation is pretty incomprehensible. What the heck happened to Ames?
That nose nearly ruined the movie for me. I guess that they didn’t think Anthony Quinn was ethic enough looking, but Obi-wan was.
I really miss the eXile and even the eXiled. Maybe Ames simply burned out, but it seems that getting kicked out of Russia broke his spirit and Omydar bought them to put on his shelf like star wars figures in their unopened boxes. If you look hard you can still find them or their ghosts online but the synergy is missing. Sure they were leftists, but coherent and reasonable compared to the cucoobananas of the current year.
Hey, Mark, put the band back together!
Amazing that to avoid verbosity, he does it all on his phone with his left thumb. While driving!
Dat one hillarity site, Mon!
“Sources later confirmed the dip in question was in fact Long Cut, not any of that pouch bullshit.”
“This ride closed for repairs.”
Yeah, Haines Point.
Dammit! I don’t care about most of those jerks, but I liked Portman. Now I find she’s israeli, I wish you could have a nice sisterly talk with her, dispell some nonsense.
I also used to like deniro and buscemi. If Joe pesci turns up on one of these schmuckfests, I swear I’m jumping off a bridge.
One benefit of growing up reading the Washington Post is a considerable skill in “reading between the lines”. A particular example is from when the Post dropped racial descriptions from its accounts; a body found by the side of the Suitland Parkway was described as wearing a blond wig, purple sweatshirt, and yellow pants, leaving it to the reader to do the math.
I always loved Jackie Mason (Rabbi Krustovsky), and was quite dismayed when he unfairly hung the anti-Semite rag on Ron Paul a few years back, but I’m glad to see him jumping on the dump-the-UN wagon now. Better late than never.
“Why are we supporting these people?” he says. “If you want to spend a fortune of money and keep getting abused every day while you’re doing it, marry a Jewish woman.”
http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2017/01/06/jackie-mason-destroys-un/
The deficit is roughly one trillion per year. The budget of the MICC is roughly the same, and is almost entirely wasted, indeed damaging to America’s actual interests. If we weren’t borrowing the money to shower on the financial, defense and bogus “security” sectors of the economy, the remainder of equities (the real economy) would be a small fraction of what we have now, and the corporations would have to provide real services to voluntary consumers.
The entirety of the war on terror is to provide an excuse to lock taxpayers into permanent, involuntary debt servitude and divert resources to the financial elite, who either (to be charitable) don’t care about the resulting death and destruction, or more likely are quite pleased with it. The twin signatures of the neocon project are that the real goals are never stated, and all the expenses fall on someone else. Hillary summed it up nicely in her remarks about public and private truths; she spilled the Straussian beans. They are liars, thieves and murderers. God willing, Trump will Andrew Jackson their fat asses.
“what do the power behind the scene gain from all those destroyed countries?”
Here’s a clue.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-01-04/us-ends-2016-1998-trillion-federal-debt-105464794162691
Also check out the stock market at an all-time high. No coincidence.
Great piece! I don’t think I’ve had to grab a dictionary twice in a short article since I gave up reading Buckley.
Veterans Today? Really? That’s weak, Homes. Every word is a lie, including “veterans” and ” today”. If they’re ever right it’s by accident.
Somebody help out an old guy, please. I was an avid reader of the original eXile, and the story of the ending made me a big Putin fan. I followed the eXiled until it imploded, and then… What? Did Omydar hire Ames just to put him on the shelf? I don’t see anything by Ames, Levine, Dolan or brecher after about nine months ago, except Ames is active on Twitter (which is somewhat surprising considering that he came up with the term “Twitter twats”, but whatevers). I did see a link to an interview with our Gustavo Arellano, (wth?)
Are they all the same guy, or what? My goyische kopf can’t handle it. C’mon Gustavo, we don’t care about Mexicans, tell us about the Bay area cryptos. Are they all Dolan?
Great piece by Shamir, as usual
The neocons, the Harvard boys, the CIA and soros hurt the Russians badly in the 90’s, and they would like to finish the job before Russia gets completely back on its feet, and they know time is tight, hence the desperation and panic to get Trump on side, neutralized, or eliminated. IMO, it is already too late, as Russia and china know what the deal is. The saker has a very good explanation of the scam up, by William Engdahl
http://thesaker.is/chubais-the-next-neoliberal-head-to-roll-in-russia/
We need to pay close attention, because the same bastards are running the same scam here. Watch the master work his magic and hope Trump is taking notes. Putin is the Lord, and moldbug is his prophet, pbuh…
Even at .01%, they can’t be quiet; “Shush yourself, bitch!”
and that was before cell phones.
I think you guys are being kind if rough on the old girl. Sure, she’s obviously coo-coo-bananas, but she was awesome in Harold and Maude!
The guy in office space?
Awesome, dude. I was wondering what your take on this, and checked on your blog; was a little surprised to see nothing about it. Guess they don’t have wifi in chokey.
I was in some riots in Boston when Nixon invaded Cambodia. Absolutely the most fun I’ve ever had. “Highly” recommended.
Looking forward to the full report, if your lawyer approves, of course.
I think I found Trevor Lyman, the guy that did the money bombs for Ron Paul.
https://www.upwork.com/mobile/freelancers/~01f7fb0a5aaa83b164
I didn’t contact him because I know I lack the follow-through to develop and promote anything, but his contract rate of $25 per hour sounds pretty reasonable, especially if he owns the original code. Money bombs are very effective because they credit and bring the donor right into the process, but they can’t really be effective if done directly by the campaign, and if they are very successful they create their own publicity. Can you imagine collecting millions in small donations for a billionaire candidate, with no connection to the official campaign, especially if the GOP is seen to be dragging it’s feet?
I have a lot of ideas, but no moxie; I guess I’ll just send a few digits to the official site, win or lose. I certainly don’t regret the 99 electrobux I sent to the Unz campaign. Some windmills just need tilting!
Nice catch! Pretty creepy “coincidence” if not an outright threat. I wonder what kind of “payback” this worm would say he meant besides that which just happened to take place. In any case, message received…
Brrr! What a nest of snakes.
Partial apologies for the SecState recommendation; it was given “tongue-in-cheek” as some say. I thought the parrot remark was telling, but I keep forgetting that the Internet doesn’t do irony very well. Entirely my fault.
Although I don’t know either woman at all, and certainly not their real motivations, I think your comparison to Ms Nudelman is very inapt, in fact, the two seem to be polar opposites; Mercer cares about justice, the Kagans obviously do not, in fact, it’s their greatest fear, soon to be realized, one hopes.
Trump is doing fine on his own, but the long and sharp knives will come out when he wins the nomination. My guess is he will need at least one clever writer/propagandist on board. Ron Paul tried to do it straight and true and got hosed for his efforts. The neocons need about 40 years wandering in the desert for worshiping the golden calf. It’s all in the book, people!
A sense of modesty and proper comportment may be keeping Ilana from stating the obvious. Since I have neither, I’ll go ahead and say it; Mercer for Sec. of State! Her African Grey would do a better job as Press Secretary than anyone in recent memory, so it’s a twofer, like Bill and Hill without the speaker fees!
Seriously, I seem to recall that she was an informal advisor to the last Ron Paul campaign and has a good outsider’s eye for the absurdities of the current political situation and actors; she knows the neocons cold and isn’t afraid to call them out. Donald needs to get her on the horn, stat.
I’m definitely in for a hundred, but I’m pretty sure Ron realizes that the U.S. Senate is like a PhD program in corruption. Paging Dr. Cruz, Dr. McCain, Dr. Graham… Dr. Howard, Dr. Fine, Dr. Howard.
This site is more impressive than anything the hundred-clown circus has ever accomplished. Worthless Bastards! P’tui!
this comment deserves a “gold box”. Do these autogenerate by some unknown heuristic, or do they require digital manipulation or other input?
Capt. Jack
You other boys quit picking on Fred. he had a white wife and done his duty while he could, like about half of everyone in those circumstances, likely because of the cray-cray in some form. he deserves, and probably earned, a sane woman, and those are thin on the ground in yanqui land, from my limited experience. Derb just dodged a bullet, or skipped a painful lesson, IMO.