If the US hadn’t stood up to the invading communists in Korea and Vietnam, how much more blood would have been shed.?
 

The US is still the toughest guy on the block, and although it has at times been rough, it is still the most benevolent superpower in human history.
 

You guys will miss the US when its gone.
 

Irony used properly can be very effective. Well done.

The former was a direct product of the latter.

What did bring the downfall of US society:
The US youth listening to Rock’n’Roll in the 60’s, or the Marxist ‘march through the institutions’?
 

Your words need to be framed.

A society/empire fairly deep onto an implosion/suicide course has about as much chance of stopping the process, and then reversing it, as a boulder rolling down a mountain side has of stopping before its crash. Even if a collection of large trees and rocks can slow and then slightly redirect and slow down that boulder before it reaches bottom, huge damage will be done.

The coming crash is not just of the USA. The coming crash is not just of Globo-Capitalist-Neo-Liberalism, as meant by a CJ Hopkins. The coming crash is of Modernist Western Liberal secular society.

That society, which has its birth with the Reformation and indeed is inherent in the Reformation, is primarily about the re-paganization of Germanic peoples and the 'reformed' Protestantized modern Germanic nations (England/UK, Netherlands, Prussia, Germany, etc.) destroying as much of what is left of Christendom as possible.

It is a replay of pagan (and Arian heretic) Germanic peoples destroying not merely the governmental structure of the Western Roman Empire but also destroying civilization itself, thereby creating the Dark Ages, which were overcome only as Germanic peoples were Latin Christianized.

That last part is the hardest for The Saker to grasp, much less accept. It means that Eastern Orthodoxy among Germans w0uld have led directly to the same basic problem as has Protestantism (Lutheranism, Anglicanism, Zwinglianism, Puritanism, etc.). If their Christian faith and practice do not actively make Germanic peoples significantly Latinized in terms of theology, philosophy, and high culture, they will remain at heart destroyers of civilization. They will remain Saxons destroying Camelot, Saxons warring against Charlemagne: they will remain Vandals.

The coming collapse is inevitable, but we cannot know when. It could be simply a larger version of what happened to the USSR. Or it could be as total as what happened to the Western Roman Empire.

Here is what is certain: WASP culture is the specific Germanic culture most responsible of the perversions of the Modern West and the coming collapse. That is due to the fact that WASP culture was born of Anglo-Saxon Puritanism, which was a specific and vicious Judaizing heresy.

The British Empire back to at least Oliver Cromwell has been the Anglo-Zionist Empire. The USA is merely the Anglo-Zionist Empire Part 2, or the western ruled Anglo-Zionist Empire, the capital moved from London to DC/NYC/Hollywood.

Replies: @Majority of One

I do not agree that the political barriers are insurmountable. what it would take is a simple revolutionary action by the people. go into the streets of Washington by the hundreds of thousands, even millions and take down the government if necessary and themselves carry out the necessary changes and reforms

there are enough precedent for such action in human history and it is urgently needed in the US as we speak. it is the job of, the responsibility in fact, ordinary Americans to take their reality forward by taking over and doing the job directly

the real law, the basic, undeniable and unchangeable law of any and all nations, is the people in collective action in their society, about their society, making the changes they want in collective action. they make the changes, make it stand and it is the law.

do Americans know that? they ought to! they ought to know and go out and do the job of rinsing Washington out, changing and saving their country by changing the way it is run into a democracy that looks after them, after the USA and to kick all who have made it otherwise and their supporters out...not forgetting to arrest a bunch of them, the criminal ones and try them on the spot. and if found guilty to execute them right away

no nonsense about insurmountable political barriers to successfully changing a desperate situation in which all American lives are threatened. there are no such barriers in the face of the collective people's power, which is far far greater than any other social power.

Martyanov missed IT big time..the core issue is IMMIGRATION and its corollary NATION(al) COHESION. Unlike Russia, China and even Israel...USA is NOT a racially, social, cultural HOMOGENOUS NATION..The new Biden regime will approve a massive largest historical AMNESTY for close to 30millions illegal Mexicans..most of them (90%) residing in the border states with Mexico (wtf). This amnesty and its official OPEN BORDER policy with Mexico will be the DEATH NAIL in the traditional AMERICANA, this will legalize 30million people that openly profess allegiance to the Mexican govt, !!! many of them supported BLMANTIFA the burning of the USA Flag and other US govt facilities during the summer of rage (2020). This will give Mexicans and its govt huge leverage over USA internal politics (seccession?), and will remake the american cultural landscape deeply pro mexico and antianglo. Blacks left Africa a long time ago, and there is NO Africa bordering the USA, other non anglo/white minorities had assimilated without bilingual education, dual citizenship and pledging allegiance to a foreign nation (mexico). Will the southern border states RESIST this massive onslaught ..how? will they be overwhelmed into a deep blue dem wave on antiwhite/anglo/antiblack/asian wave.? Will the USA break into regions;..Southwest MEXICAN, deep Mississippi black South, Midwest deplorables, and urban "whitewash" cyber millenians??? can it remain ONE?...IT is more than clear that BLACKS will be the biggest losers politically marginalized, with declining birthrates/high abortion rates, lower labor participations that demands spanish speaking skills... There is already a trend to "mexicanized" blacks..listen clearfully Mexicans in the USA are NOT demanding WORK/Family visas , they are demainding EXPRESS QUICK CITIZENSHIP...

All empires lash out at perceived, rather than real, enemies, to try to justify their pointless self-adulating existence as they collapse in to irrelevance.

All empires deceive themselves about their relevance and importance because, quite simply, the original builders of the empire moved to the colonies to secure their existence.

Those that inherit their ancestor’s success are not alpha or beta people, but the runts and parasitic classes that result from the advantages and success of the founders.

And it is right that this is how it is. The proles have lived an unjustifiable high life at the expense of those their ancestors conquered and exploited, for too many generations.

Not only the inept inheritors that comprise the political classes, but the limpid lazy mentally retarded common folk need to be trimmed down too.

The US is over extended in the WWIII it started against Russia in 2016, and the US rulers exaggerate their effeminate military’s capabilities in just the same way they exaggerate their empire’s relevance by declaring their ‘indispensable’ nature.

WWIII started five years ago and the US is losing badly without it even developing in to a full blown shooting match. The world awaits its ultimate demise. And with its collapse everyone hopes the UK, Israel and Saudi Arabia will follow it in to the same grave.

So bring it on! Let the idiots have full rein in DC. Let the US people deceive themselves even more. Let the ridiculous liars like Mike Pompous et al, have their own way. The world awaits their defeat at their own hands with joyous expectation.

Replies: @Trinity, @Majority of One, @gT

They don’t rationally understand the problem, because only 15% of American adults can form a high-level inference from texts. Only about 3% can function at a very high level.
 

Replies: @Seraphim

Your problem is that you have likely read "Gulag Archipelago" (an episode in history) but not even heard of one and only important Solzhenitsyn's opus magnum: "200 hundred years together."

"200 hundred years together." is the full story
"Gulag Archipelago" - is an episode taken completely out of context

Solzhenitsyn's CRIME is that he gave sold off his country through "Gulag Archipelago",
but published the true story of "200 hundred years together." after his Vaterland was destroyed.

as to your a) b) and c) etc. do your research

a) Gulag was instrumental in building industrial power base of the USSR and defeat of Germany
b) " The term "repression" can be interpreted in different ways. I limit myself to "political repression", that is, those citizens who were charged with Article 58 of the Criminal Code (counter-revolutionary activities and other grave crimes against the state) and who were sentenced to death or other punishment.

From 1921 to 1953 there were about 4 million such people. Of these, about 800 thousand were sentenced to death. In addition, we estimate that about 600,000 died in prison, bringing the total number of victims to 1.4 million.

Do compare this number against millions innocent people who lost their lifes in your endless wars in the middle east or against the total current US prisons population which at any SINGLE given point in time is greater than Stalin's TOTAL number of "repressed"

c) Communism never existed on the face of the planet Earth. Not in the USSR, not in Eastern Europe or Cuba. No country has ever claimed to have build Communism. Your complete ignorance of the subject of Political Economy reveals you as a fully dully brainwashed average american.
In order to avoid any future embarrassment, I would suggest you take the word "Communism" out of your dictionary or educate yourself a bit. An easy to start place are Lenin's works on marxists.org.

Replies: @mikael_, @mwee

Wrong guess. Also an unintelligent one. I'm an observant Christian Orthodox.

Regarding your request for evidence:

a) is a strawman assertion, so it warrants no response.

b) I would refer you to the works of Viktor Zemskov, a Russian historian who spent 50 years of his life in various penitentiary, NKVD and ministry of interior's archives, in an attempt to evaluate the extent and put a number on Stalin's political repressions. According to the sourced, verified and credible figures I've seen, as of January 1st, 1950, the Soviet penitentiary system counted some 2,760,095 prisoners ("К вопросу о масштабах репрессий в СССР", В. Н. Земсков in Социологические исследования. 1995. № 9. С. 118-127). Compare this with the 2.3 million US penitentiary population today. Without going into details, according to Zemskov, in total and for the entire duration of the Stalin's reign ( i.e. ~ 30 years), there were ~600,000 political prisoners and ~ 78,000 summary political executions. Sinister as those numbers might be, they don't even start to measure to Solzhenitsyn's astronomical numbers. For a comparison, that's approximately the number of overdose deaths in the US for 2019 (Source: CDC WONDER).

c) Solzhenitsyn expressed publicly the wish that the US nuke the USSR in a 1975 fiery speech he gave to New York Union workers (if I'm not mistaken). The topic has been discussed on Unz before. Solzhenitsyn idolaters and denialists typically claim that since it was not an open exhortation, he should be given the benefit of the doubt. In fact, he used a more efficient device: a rhetorical question. In substance, to illicit action he asked are you going to wait until the Soviets bomb you or are you going to bomb them first?
Everyone present at that speech understood immediately what he was talking about. The press reported it the next day. He realized he had gone too far, so he quickly backpedaled:
“My God, I was not calling for war, the US press distorted it..."(The New World, 1999, N 2, p. 83).

Replies: @mikael_

Gulags Gulags Gulags!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh my God!
What were those terrifying Gulags?

Gulags were actually lumberjack camps.
What they were people doing in Gulags?
They were cutting down trees, in Siberia and transporting them to Moskva.
Why?
Because Russians needed firewood to fire-up their Samovars.
So people there did have good nourishment (they needed their strength)
They did work all day, and in the evening they were watching television.

Replies: @Zarathustra, @Seraphim

By the way, what's

perfectism?
 

Interesting take on that. So no Nord steam will mean either higher natural gas prices for Germany and so a uncompetitive economy as power is a critical part of a economy and a lock-on for coal power production. ( Since they decided no nuclear) What i hear you say? Germany will go to zero carbon by 2050 but their is no engineering possible to achieved this. More and more wind power I hear you say.
A very good website
https://notrickszone.com/
Wind power is VERY unpopular and it almost recently crashed the German grid aka Texas.

https://notrickszone.com/2021/02/06/major-winter-storm-threatens-germanys-power-freezing-hell-threatens-if-already-rickety-grid-collapses/

So cancel Nord stream and Germany becomes un competitive ( They already have the highest tariffs rates in Europe) and somewhere along the line then watch while thousands perish when 'the grid' breaks down due to unreliable green power. I must say it might take something like this to finally show how weak the anthropogenic carbon dioxide warming theory/premise is.
Example, now is the polar vortex (scam)
https://notrickszone.com/2021/02/09/journal-nature-refutes-piks-fantasy-rich-science-that-a-warmer-arctic-causes-extreme-cold-snaps/

The final one is that we should not worry about higher temps when plenty of scientific ( peered reviewed) papers tell us NOT TO.

https://notrickszone.com/2021/01/14/what-global-warming-148-new-2020-scientific-papers-affirm-recent-non-warming-a-degrees-warmer-past/

Replies: @Mikael_

In my estimation Merkel was trying to steer the EU away from being just "atlanticists". It would seem the Obama admin had that feeling too - which is why they were listening in on her calls.

Pepe:
(Putin's speech) is steeper than the Battles of Stalingrad and Kursk combined... (some nobody) exhaustively smashed Eurocentrism... Amidst a tsunami of platitudes...
 

As far as Eurocentrism goes, it was smashed not by the words of nobodies but by the sloppy trade and financial policies of the dysfunctional Western governments. Not coincidentally, those same policies built China, even Trump took part in it despite noises to the contrary. I'm waiting for a sane politician in the larger European sphere to wake up and smell the covfefe and stop pushing further into the swamp they entered some 30 years ago. Although he still comes up short, Putin is the best candidate by far, his Western counterparts are fast asleep with no signs of awakening.

Replies: @Mikael_

Your clothes are "property". Land is "real property". Not so long ago, people understood the difference. The original socialists saw the profit of something produced by labour, but owned by capital, as "theft of property". I am a member of a co-op. I own what I own, the co-op doesn't.

Canta la alta masa ( ori plimba ursul ), cum spune romanul ;-) You either a low IQ ( Forrest Gump's clone ), or a paid troll/shill ( without the ' proper training ' ). Again, please come with facts/arguments, or GFY ! There are many charts, interviews, documentaries, etc., from respected doctors ( Andrew Kaufman, Prof. Dolores Cahill, Mercola, Dan Erickson, etc. ) which proves without doubts that it's a SCAMdemic, or PLANdemic. " 32 Doctors from 11 Countries Warn Against Taking the COVID-19 Vaccine "...just google it ! Pathetic creature...PS: I have a 5 years degree related to biology/chemistry at one of the Universities in one of the Eastern-European Capitals...You know what I am saying ? That I am more trained/ qualified to say something about diseases/vaccines, than Bill Gates...who promotes/sponsor them and make billions on them, while murdering the people around the World...sorry...' reducing the population '...to cite the sociopath/psychopath...And much more than his henchman at WHO...the fake Doctor, war criminal ( in his Country - Ethiopia ), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. ' WHO Chief Tedros Adhanom Accused of Genocide ' - Newsmax.com

Replies: @Magic Dirt, @Johnny Rico, @tomo

There are many doctors and scientists around the world who's statements on covid19 back up most of what the author in this article is saying.

former Pfizer Chief Science Officer Dr. Mike Yeadon: just one of thousands censored by BigTech Billionaires:

https://thewashingtonstandard.com/former-pfizer-executive-refutes-fauci-lying-media-on-covid-propaganda-its-over-curve-flattened-months-ago-no-second-wave/

You can hear his interviews on Bitchute, Brighteon, or Brandnewtube:
https://brandnewtube.com/watch/mike-yeadon_hpEymb59dx13Sda.html

https://d.tube/#!/v/breesmedia20/QmaDcuzWCbrLJGqMApM5UbXCYfDEmCyJf2c18yVh9P3yND

https://lockdownsceptics.org/lies-damned-lies-and-health-statistics-the-deadly-danger-of-false-positives/

Replies: @Alfred

You naysayers are just the sorts that believed the world was square, so you did not join the voyage to journey around the world and as a result not only did you not get your lollipop but the global warming reduced the place you were living to 10 feet beneath the surface of the ocean.

Data is data, and all data is part of the whole picture..

I think the data even before this Majic Dirt analsysis suggest not only is the impact of the Corona 19 virus nothing more than "state promoted terror propaganda" but the RNA suggested to be a vaccination, is nothing more than a genetic scrip very likely designed to redirect own bodies basic metabolism. After all RNA is used to genetically engineer all biological species, include virus sick mankind.

The question unansered by anyone, including showman Fauci: "which is more dangerous the RNA vaccination or the virus.."

I say prove the RNA is not a million times more likely to kill you than the virus. No data has been presented to show me what the RNA script (the so called vaccination) does to you in the long run? Maybe it even makes you controllable by 5g?

Than you Majic Dirt for the analysis. all these persons who don't won't to listen to you, have not presented one piece of accountable data to disprove or to impringe on your analysis.. Its the best so far.

It will take more than a presidential order or an act of congress to get me interested in transfecting my body with RNA scripts

I agree with you about Kollerstrom's logical fallacy. However, where I live there is more than adequate data to demonstrate that the lockdowns have likely caused significant increased mortality, and course of disease caused by the virus has not.
Statistics on weekly mortality from Stats Canada shows that in Alberta there has been a steady rise in weekly mortality year-on-year from 2019 rates beginning in March, when the restrictions were announced, in the population that is under age 45, among whom there has been less than a "Covid death" per week. The total, as of the end of October, entailed hundreds of excess deaths in this age group against 26 Covid "deaths".
The increase in weekly mortality, year-on-year for people in the age cohorts above sixty-five, among whom over 90% of Covid deaths occurred is between 3 and 12% each month since the restrictions were launched. The U-45 death increase rose steadily from about 3% to 65% in October.
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=1310076801
SARS CoV-2 may very well exist, but there is little evidence that it is producing a categorically higher level of mortality than previous seasonal infectious respiratory diseases, and there is significant evidence that the prophylactic socio-economic restrictions are killing people.

Replies: @Wizard of Oz

he states the graph comes from data of the office of national statistics, either learn to read or go back to sleep

Why can’t we have some real, honest debate about things without Orwellian redefinitions of terms, such as ‘socialism’?
 

Hudson, like most Americans, conflates socialism with communism. Most of Marx's "observations" on capitalism, were "borrowed" from whom Hudson refers to as Marx's "less radical contemporary reformers". Marx's solutions were the problem, not the already well established "observations". Under Marx, the international movement purged the real socialists who saw Marx's solutions as authoritarian. Proudhon, whom Hudson mentions, is known as the father of anarchy, and called Marx "the tapeworm in socialism". It was Proudhon's 1840 book What Is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government that began the concept of "property is theft". Bakunin was less charitable https://libcom.org/library/bakunin-marx-rothschild
In short, the extreme socialism is an anarchy, believing co-op like structures trading freely with other like structures, were the future inheritors of capitalism. Marxism is an all powerful state. They are polar opposites.

Replies: @Mikael_, @TheIdiot, @troof

I thought about it and you have a good point. I stand corrected.

As far as GM, VW or anybody else being forced into the BEV market being evidence that this is the “future”, time will tell. I believe this is just another facet of the deliberate Cloward and Piven strategy to destroy European civilization.
 

"Without all the massive subsidies Tesla never would have gotten started, it if had, it never would have been able to open a plant."
 

Replies: @Bert

Tesla is a fraud, but a fraud with a Fed put.
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There is also a China put, and a California put, etc. There is a cross-over where batteries get cheap enough, and then ICE cars are road-kill.

I guess BEV economics don't work out, which is why GM, Volkswagen and others are comitting to electric? The "put" is only one factor in an mult-variable economic equation.

https://www.gm.com/electric-vehicles.html

GM is on its way to an all-electric future, with a commitment to 30 new global electric vehicles by 2025

In Tesla's case, they are not hypothecating cars, they are actually making them and building real physical infrastructure. The shorts were the market betting against Tesla's strategy. The assumption is that Tesla profit taking was contingent on a government "put," but that ignores the Battery cross-over point, where ICE cars are roadkill.

In other words, an entire industry is being disrupted, so the profits will come later. This sort of shorting against Tesla is not naked shorting, but a simple gamble against a strategy.

Replies: @Schuetze, @The Alarmist, @Twodees Partain, @Corrupt

It's only gonna get worse my friend. The electric car scam to soon be forced down all our throats.

Accelerated Obsolescence
https://www.ericpetersautos.com/2021/01/29/accelerated-obsolescence/

Replies: @Schuetze

Agree completely.

Add to that the utter narcissistic psychopathy evidenced by Muskrat towards the destruction of democracy in Bolivia when in 2019 Evo Morales was ousted in a US/OAS backed coup in Bolivia when Morales won in the first round of voting. Many people died in Bolivia protesting the open and obvious coup, and all Elongated Muskrat had to smugly declare was: "We will coup whoever we want. Deal with it", thereby possibly confirming the rumors about it being US backed and in no small part to obtain the mining rights for lithium that Tesla and others were hoping to enjoy at sweetheart pricing: https://www.indepthnews.net/index.php/opinion/3735-we-will-coup-whoever-we-want-elon-musk-and-the-overthrow-of-democracy-in-bolivia

I'm sure his satellite program "Starlink" will be completely benign and only there to simply bring oodles of peace and information freedom and rainbows to a world shortly to be saturated with 5G radiation........ https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/20/fcc-approves-spacex-to-deploy-1-million-antennas-for-starlink-internet.html

Replies: @Schuetze

"@elonmusk is the greatest entrepreneur of our generation. He’s trying to save Planet Earth with sustainable energy..."

Muskrat hasn't said a single word about where the electricity for his bumper cars is supposed to come from, nor how it is to be transported (we would require at least 10× the current capacity in terms of both generation and transmission), nor how the rare earths in the batteries are sourced, nor how they can eventually be recycled (battery composition is kept secret); and at closer scrutiny, his "business" is mostly selling CO2 certificates to people who are actually producing cars and are now being screwed over by Greta Tunastink and her ilk.

It would be fairer to say he is the greatest charlatan of a very lost generation, trying to save his obviously damaged self-esteem with very unsustainable scamming, adored by people whose knowledge of science and technology does not cover the difference between radio waves and radioactivity, and whose knowledge of economics focuses on Scrooge McDuck.

You asked me:

"I’d like to hear from you [just as I asked from the article writer], what are your ultimate positive goals, i.e. highest values?

It is extremely difficult in this vast tangle of malice, to find a positive way out. Did you find one?"
 

"Any attempts to inoculate them against certain ways of thinking without using painfully detailed reasoning, will likely backfire in a big way during their lives."
 

Replies: @Mikael_, @Ugetit

“how do you give/show your grand children a positive way out.”
 

As for my grand children my current approach is to "innoculate" them from cultural marxism to any degree that I can. I am well aware that this eventually is likely to bring them, me, or their parents problems. Here is what I am talking about:

With the boys I talk about guns. I have BB and Airguns, and we have modified Nerfs. We target shoot. Their mother hates this but tolerates it. I recently watched a WWII war movie with them (instead of some drivel like Star Wars) and talked about all kinds of things in the movie with them. I explained to them that it was England that started WWI and WWII and that the bombers were murdering Germans and the pilots were in actuality war criminals.

With the girls I try to keep them doing feminine things. Playing with babies, baths, kitchens, doctors, animals, etc. I also try to be more masculine and to play the alpha male around their grandmother.

I personally have found an answer, for me.
 

Replies: @Mikael_

"to find a positive way out. Did you find one?"
 

Replies: @Mikael_, @Peripatetic Itch

But the central question you need to work on is: What are you [peacefully] fighting for?
 

Replies: @Mikael_

But the central question you need to work on is: What are you [peacefully] fighting for?
 

It appears to me that the struggle also involves this approach too, as you seem to suggest,

Allah’s Messenger said, “There will be afflictions during which a sitting person will be better than a standing one, and the standing one will be better than a walking one, and the walking one will be better than a running one, and whoever will expose himself to these afflictions, they will destroy him. So whoever can find a place of protection or refuge from them, should take shelter in it.”

-Sahih al-Bukhari 7082, Vol. 9, Book 88, Hadith 203
https://sunnah.com/bukhari/92/33#!

23 A patient person puts up with things until the right time comes: but his joy will break out in the end.
24 Till the time comes he keeps his thoughts to himself…

-Sirach, Ecclesiasticus, 1:23-24.

https://www.catholic.org/bible/book.php?id=28&bible_chapter=1
 

Sorry, but to write a whole article about associations with the Reichstag Fire but never mentioning 9/11 in that context, displays a special kind of delusion (or one-sidedness) by the author.
 

It is therefore permissible to restrict the rights of personal freedom, freedom of expression, including the freedom of the press, the freedom to organize and assemble, the privacy of postal, telegraphic and telephonic communications. Warrants for house searches, orders for confiscations as well as restrictions on property, are also permissible beyond the legal limits otherwise prescribed.
 

Yes, on this he is badly informed, or worse. Law and Order was only valued - and bent in the extreme - when they had State Power. Before then it was anything goes.

Next he'll say they made a fetish of telling the truth, when - with the Bolsheviks - extreme exaggeration was serially resorted to.

But he's right about the subversives - nor say mild reforms - not being Marxist.

"Also not sure that is a country I would want to raise children in."
 

I'm looking at Panama.

https://panamarelocationtours.com/living-in-panama#tab-con-5

Panama is rated #1.

Replies: @Mikael_

The bankers are the globalists. I didn't say I liked anarchy I only pointed out that the socialism = communism mantra is bullshit. They are opposites. Socialists wanted to remove bankers from the equation and have real free trade - actual producers dealing directly with others - no middlemen. Finance capitalism is communism, just not the commune you think communism is.

Replies: @Skeptikal, @Mikael_

Yeah the author really leaves out the (((globalist))) angle. I do think that a civil war is possible, but it will likely be an engineered one, not an organic one.

Replies: @Johnny Rico, @Neoconned

Indeed, a sage post ,this article just describes the theatre and mind fuckery at play, you are describing the stark reality..

As always the biggest problem is the people themselves and the delusion they actually have any agency or input.

Trump will polish his sheriffs badge and waltz off into the distance, pelosi will reign in the 'squad', and the davos crowd will have you all in hutches eating soy gruel and beetleburger.

anti-panties and aimless blacks are the least of your worries.

Replies: @cranc

Well said. The problem with so called anarchy is that nature abhors a vacuum. In this case a power vacuum; which WILL be filled by someone, if none is established.

So let's get this straight: you believe that there is no alternative to State structures for dispute resolution, community defence, and the like?

There's 150 years of scholarship that disagrees with you. Competitive provision of security, dispute resolution and the like is a solved problem.

In fact the entire Law Merchant worked for several centuries, despite having no enforcement power (especially across jurisdictions). People abided by the directions of this entirely-private dispute resolution mechanism, because if they failed to do so they would suffer reputational harm that would prevent them from doing business.

That's the key: a variant of the totalitarian 'social credit score', but maintained by multiple competing firms and funded entirely by subscription. It imposes some small obligations for people to do due diligence before signing up - but so does any subscription.

The entire State institutional edifice relies - quite critically - on fuckwits with a primary-school understanding of the way the world works. That is to say, people who lack the cognitive machinery to imagine that - for example - in the absence of a State monopoly for community defence, entrepreneurs will establish firms that furnish security.

Those firms will compete: since competition through providing a good value proposition is far less costly than competition through violence, firms will not 'go to war' with each other. (Hint: without a mandatory tax base or zero-premium access to debt markets, the 'most warlike' security firm will be driven to bankruptcy within a few iterations).

The current market for private security is massive - that should be a hint that the State is failing to furnish security. 'Failing' is actually the wrong term here: it implies they're making an unsuccessful attempt, but they're not.

If you had anything worth protecting, you would be a fucking moron if you relied on State police forces to protect it. These days if you don't have cameras and an alarm system that links to a private-sector security firm that does have a duty of care, you pretty much don't have anything worth stealing.

State police forces are specifically indemnified from any duty of care towards We The Livestock: the case law on that goes all the way back to South v Maryland 59 U.S. 396 (1855), so you've had 150 years to become aware of it.

Some case studies: you can be in the basement on the phone to the police as home intruders are upstairs raping your room-mate, and if the police fail to respond that's not a violation of any professional obligation. (That's the facts-situation in Warren v. District of Columbia 444 A.2d. 1, D.C. Ct. of Ap. 1981)

Or you can have a restraining order against an ex-partner, and State police can ignore repeated calls after he kidnaps the kids - and later the ex-partner is killed in a shootout with police and the corpses of your 3 kids are found in his car. (That's the facts situation behind Castle Rock v. Gonzales 545 U.S. 748 (2005))

Or you can telephone the police about your weird neighbour, and ask that he be investigated because you think there's a very good chance that he's a notorious serial killer. When he kills you two weeks later, the courts later find that the police can't be expected to follow up on your call. (That's the facts situation behind Hill v Chief Constable of West Yorkshire [1987] UKHL 12, [1989] AC 53)

So tell me how a competitive market for security provision would result in worse outcomes - bear in mind that these cases set the bar for all subsequent events of a similar nature.

In particular, tell me what mechanisms private security providers would use to get out of compensation claims if they failed to fulfil their contractual obligations. (Ch 11? Sorry... that's a State doctrine). Imagine the reputational damage that would happen if a private firm breached its contract in a similar way and then failed to abide by a DRO direction to compensate.

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It is a mark of utter ignorance to quote Hobbes; it assumes that man is not inherently a social animal. If Hobbes' thesis was remotely correct and man is vile... why the fuck would anybody expect the people running the government to be of a superior moral type?

Hobbes was a fucking retard. Leviathan is a piss-poor apologia for the claimed obligation for people to funnel value upwards to the human vermin who seek to rule; the fact that its value qua apologia is why it receives a strong imprimatur from the powerful is lost on people who lack the appropriate wetware.

Nobody is saying that dimbulbs like you can't continue to give 50% of your output to a group of grasping, conniving cunts who have no obligation to fulfil their side of the contract. Knock yourself out - just don't expect anyone with half a brain to subscribe to the same bullshit.

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“mass variolation” (I had also for three weeks liked that idea, until I realized we have no idea about the long-term aftereffects of Corona on surviving patients!)

At last, one of the few who seems to have noticed this. It looked ok at the start and, despite some unsettling indications, it may still turn out to be ok but what a hell of a gamble on the long term effects of a new disease. [email protected]

Having seen the inexplicably enormous prices charged by western companies when tendering for major infrastructure construction, I can't help but wonder whether there's a good argument for states to maintain an in-house capability to undertake major construction. Same for procuring military equipment.

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SOE's are in certain sectors - especially dealing with energy and transport and such. But private businesses provide the bulk of economic growth and employment in China. That threshold was crossed 20 years ago. But yes it is interesting how SOE's have stayed relevant. For instance - there is no way China could have built such a large HSR network if SOE's didn't run it. Same with subways. Xian is on it's way to having almost as many subway mileage by 2025 than NYC. That's something that couldn't have been done either if it weren't for SOE's that standardized construction and equipment - which speeds things up and lowers costs.. Just like HSR - China now has more subways than the whole world.
So SOE's help build up the country - but the private firms add the dynamism.

Blessed art Thou Prince Leo.

Blessed is the Christ dwelling in you, the Hope of Glory Colossians 1:26-27

Speak Christ
Christ is Truth
Christ is a Man
Christ is God in Man.

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Leo wins the POV of the Christmas Rashomon, for me. The effect Jesus / Yeshua had on the cruel lawmakers of the Jewish society of the millennium was unprecedented. I will make my bottom line up front - its Christmas an I won't spend much time on this - but Jesus' political mission was obvious. To upset the order of profit making from the pretense of holiness, yes - but hs message to the Pharisees and the observant Jews was always consistent. There is one law now - the law of love for each other under God - and if that is followed, you - and all humanity - no longer need be enslaved by the laws of the Pharisees or of Rome. The lawyers lose, forever. One simple trick. One law to obviate the thousands pf laws the Talmudists have made, and still produce in our courts and legislatures. The law of simple faith in love, and living one's life with integrity from this law (as if it were the only law) leads to a life unworried by the snares and avarice of law binding. (How many times did Jesus say "woe to you scribes and Pharisees?")

To those that believe the works are fiction, they are trusting that only manuscripts explain the rise of the world's most expansive religious belief system, that led Rome and Byzantium, cathedrals and universities, Western civilization and inspired the human spiritual genius of Bach, Shakespeare, Michelangelo, Kennedy.

To explain away the source of direct inspiration as cognitive dissonance gravely mistakes the meaning making of humanity. We didn't come here to lament late-civilization's dearth of spiritual enchantment. I still have and teach mine, and feel sorry for the materialists here. To me that's the lie of the Jewish faith - which is primarily a set of rules with enforced prayer. Has there been a true Jewish mystic since Christ?

A faith that exists just to follow the law is not a spiritual faith at all, but based on the idea that God spoke once and the reception of the Word was perfect. A living faith or religion is a mystery and requires the follower to follow the unknown, not the known, not faith by "citing sources." One can, and many still do, spend a lifetime studying original and ancient works and words directly. The canonical Gospels are an exoteric body of word, they have been translated over 2000 years, they are not the primary texts.

I still accept Pascal's wager. Peace -

And since we know the Gospels were written before Roman Jewish war and the Temple’s destruction, along with the sack of Jersualem, we know this is an authentic prophecy.
 

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''My Kingdom is not of this world''.

"Then those men, when they had seen the miracle that Jesus did [the multiplication of the five loaves and two fishes], said, This is of a truth that prophet that should come into the world. 15 When Jesus therefore perceived that they would come and take him by force, to MAKE HIM A KING, he departed again into a mountain himself alone... They said therefore unto him, What sign shewest thou then, that we may see, and believe thee? what dost thou work? 31 Our fathers did eat manna in the desert; as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat. Verily, verily, I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven; but my Father giveth you the true bread from heaven. 33 For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world. 34 Then said they unto him, Lord, evermore give us this bread. 35 And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst. 36 But I said unto you, That ye also have seen me, and believe not. 37 All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out. 38 For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me. 39 And this is the Father's will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day. 40 And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day. 41 The Jews then murmured at him, because he said, I am the bread which came down from heaven. 42 And they said, Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? how is it then that he saith, I came down from heaven? 43 Jesus therefore answered and said unto them, Murmur not among yourselves. 44 No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day... I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world. 52 The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying, How can this man give us his flesh to eat? 53 Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you. 54 Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day. 55 For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. 56 He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him. 57 As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me. 58 This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever'' (John 6).

Mikael, on my reading the answer to that is pretty clear, per Acts. Paul goes to many synagogues in Anatolia, Macedonia and Greece and always addresses, explicitly, two groups of people. The first, probably one in ten, the Jews: the others, nine in every ten in the synagogue, the Believers, i.e. Gentiles who were enthusiastic about Judaism, were rushing to the synagogues in large numbers, but were deterred, perhaps by Judaism's close legalistic controls, circumcision etc. and then they found Paul had a very impressive, convincing, and nice, not nasty, monotheism, and went for it.

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The glaring contradiction is that using a short-term tactic without announcing it as such,
 

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I’m not convinced that copying our enemies by going full Alinskiyite is a long-term winning strategy.
 

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Only the dumbest and most gullible persons would cite opinion polls as having any possible degree of validity. It wouldn't surprise me if you have several letters assembled as a tail swinging behind your surname.

You will soon become acquainted with the rigger Ruby Freeman and her lovely daughter. The very tip of this election fraud iceberg.

https://youtu.be/Zx1TBzLqmf4

Those are certainly the alternative arguments. I'll only answer one, which is the idea that a president with a 42 percent approval rating can't win.

1. He can win if he faces an opponent whose reputation and "approval" rating is literally in the basement. People always vote for a person for president, not an idea.

2. The approval rating is always interpreted as being a reflection of progressive accomplishments, not conservative approval. People who want authoritative leaders would have lots of problems with Trump, but would vote for him in view of the alternative.

Replies: @Skeptikal

Pope's aphorism was actually 'a little learning is a dangerous thing' (from his Essay on Criticism. I like to get these things right...

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A little knowledge is a lot better than no knowledge . . .

So apparently we have arrived at an "agree to disagree" positioning as per spirituality vs religion. My perspective, as you appear to have recognized, is universalistic rather than particular. True,spiritual centered perspectives are more fluid--that's an agreed upon given.

I would heartily disagree that these broad-scaled, even cosmic articulations are a "grab-bag of thoughts". For that we must deviate from the Newtonian, Cartesian, Marxist imposition which permeates official academic intellectualism and access a zone which those types abhor, a nexus where intuition, faith in this being a perhaps holographic projection of Creator, ever expansive and eternally questing and creating.

The core human project as I perceive it is to become co-creators as individualized extensions of the ONE whom the Lakota people dare only to describe as "Wakan Tanka", the Great Mystery. I groove with that. To me, manmade religious formulations are ultimately hubristic and evermore tend towards control of the individual by a priestcraftly elite. That elitism also extends to the atheists and the irreligious, who have dominated Western thought since the "Enlightenment".

One of my most profoundly postulated disagreements with BOTH religionists and rationalistic materialists centers my faith in our being individualized extensions of Creator's own being. As Jesus pointed out, we must look WITHIN to connect with "the Father"---an essence he never appears to conflate with the hateful, bloodthirsty Hebrew tribal WarGod "YHWH" or Yahweh. This understanding is critical to understanding of the difference between those Jesusites who endeavored to follow what the Lakota called "The Red Road" or better understood to us as the spirit path, with those who are Trinitarian Christian believers.

We are spirits, living a three-dimensional material lifetime. As extensions of Creator, we too are of eternal spirit.

My biggest beef with the totally impositional Roman Christianity is the fact that Eusebius and the gang were evidently ordered by Constantine to remove all references to reincarnation from the "Holy Book" they edited, redacted, extrapolated and interpolated. This removal of an essential element of the spirit path was deemed essential to imposition of the mythos of Jesus dying on the cross to "save us from our sins" and that failure to BELIEVE this particular trope would land us in eternal Hellfire and Damnation. To that line I will ever say "BullShit". It's all about control over the people by that priestcraftly elite on behalf of the imperial agenda.

According to ancient traditions to be found within the phantasmagoria of Hinduism, we currently reside in Kali Yuga, the Iron Age---an era in which the scum, rather than the cream of humanity rises to the top. I do believe, Mikael, that we can concur that this is not an inapt description of our current cultural condition.

Materialistic rationalists have denounced Astrology as being "unscientific" or even anti-science. Yet, the 26,000 year cycle of the Precession of the Equinoxes tells me that the figure of Jesus (sign of the fish embraced by the original Jesusites) was the archetype for the Age of Pisces.


It remains not inconceivable that we happen to be in the final stages of the Kali Yuga and may, should the Awakening continue to prosper, transition into a whole nother dimensional reality, a renaissance of the general human spirit where Real-I-Zations will actualize those brief multidimensional excursions some of us have taken through the use of entheogens.

Nuclear Metaphysics: One is All and All is One. The Whole is equal to AND greater than the sum of its parts.

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So sorry, I still cannot make head or tails overall out of your laid-out thoughts.
Care to expand on?
 

you are pretty clear about what one should run away from
 

you are rather nebulous about what to strive towards.
 

And what exactly about religion is a minefield you dare not touch?
 

I am totally comfortable in my belief that they are, in fact, a group of, not fools perhaps, but genuinely misguided dupes. I came to this conclusion by means of an arduous journey of intense religious study, regarding which I could a tale unfold whose lightest word would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, make thy knotted and combin'ed locks to part and each particular hair to stand on end like quills upon the fretful porpentine.

It's by no means the case that I 'dare not touch' this subject, but rather that it is completely unnecessary so to do. Like Dan Dennett, I am content to 'believe in belief'. Societies need religion. Christianity is perhaps an unfortunate choice for European-derived societies to have made, but at this stage it will have to serve office accordingly.

I thank you for your interest in my comments.

Christian men and some women are the greatest warriors the world has ever known, faggot.

"Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword.

 

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Only personal private enemies within the confines of the nation or of the faith. Jesus never put into question the necessity to fight the enemies of Israel, the public enemies, and even to warn against any humanistic impulse to treat them as equal, which injunction was to pass from the nation of Israel to the church of Rome as soon as the schism between Judaism and Christianity was consummated. Early Christianity started right away with a permanent call to persecute Jews and heretics and to use the Roman state's secular arm even when they were themselves persecuted.

It does require a backbone though, and common sense... which you people lack spectacularly.

Trumptardism is inherently immoral, and a deliberate waste of your energy.

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Thanks Robert. That's thoughtful commentary on the creep of private monopolies over almost every element of our society, including, we can now clearly see, even the process of voting.

Imagine the power of Bill Gates with his hundreds of billions derived initially from his lawyers' efforts to exploit IBM's need not to extend its highlighted monopoly into home computers. With his purchase of the likes of Neil Ferguson and Imperial College and hundreds of other scam artists playing the role of "scientists," Gates and company was able to make his vaccine promotions through COVID scare-mongering the monopoly narrative of media companies and the governments that media companies can easily make or break. The monopoly of Gates and co. was made to extend even to his more or less purchasing the World Health Organization. Its chilling to contemplate the purchase of a major component of the United Nations to promote a business scheme of the world's main promoter of mandatory cradle to grave vaccines, depopulation, and AI to advance the integration of humans into the robotization of nearly everything. That's a big part, I believe, of how the media was made to become the purveyors of the COVID con that continues day to day to provide the pretext for deterioration of the human condition. This handing over of the ship of state to multibillionaires like Soros or Zuckerberg or, or, or has to stop.

The first priority has to be to seize back the instruments of communication from the monopolists busily engaged in taking control of the Internet.

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It is ironic that a billionaire heir stealing the presidency should be perceived by such a large assemblage of lower average morons as the existential manifestation of their fantasy world. For the first time in American history, a nation of 70 year old magatard children thought they had "won" a board game in their mind.

FTFY

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Of all the postings on Unz Review I have read over the years, this monograph by Gee Bee stands out in both quality of exposition and readable clarity. My thanks and kudos to this erudite individual who has distilled the qualities of the primary struggle of this age of dissolution and despair.

He rightly points the finger at the underlying agency for cultural devolution---rationalistic materialism and all its works and all its ways--a total denial of the spiritual (not necessarily religious, per se) basis for an organic, holistic and harmonic society which axiomatically would feature a form of hierarchy based on a combination of merit and virtue as against greed and self-interest.

Gee Bee correctly points that communism and capitalism are anything but polar opposites, rather a pair of peas in the same corruptive pod. Writ simply, this battle is the ancient one between the aggrandizing evil of the Archons of destruction versus the qualities of honesty, truth, honor, beauty and love which represent the Tao of traditional East Asian culture and the Red Road spirt-path of Native Americans and all traditionalistic cultures.

As a theoretical conceptualizer of meta-political awareness, my first Gold Star for long-developed realization of the causes and effects of this war for the minds and hearts of humankind, goes to GeeBee for his contribution to our understanding of the "grundlage" or foundation of this deliberately occulted and occluded battle.

MOST HIGHLY RECOMMENDED: A must-read and read again. Absorb GeeBee's words and thoughts. My thanks for rarely heard words of understanding and wisdom.

-Majority of One

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Excellent...thank you! I'm sure I would have appreciated your de-platformed site

Only one quibble:

These began in England in the mid-seventeenth century
 

My god, what a pile of horse manure.

Class war is good. You, on the other hand, are sophomoric. The epitome of the truism, "A little knowledge is a dangerous thing."

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