CLIPPINGS ========= Just stuff I've clipped off of the internet for a few years, definitely not necessarily my opinions... ---------------------------------------- Where popular instinct works untrammelled the old and violent passionate antagonism between the Russian and the Jew survives. You see it in the hotch potch of the Ukraine, the inhabitants of which, in spite of all theories, are of Russian race and tradition, and the central town of which is the sacred region of Russia as a member of Christendom. The Jews - page 195 ---------------------------------------- The System has not changed - it is simply emboldened by the docility of the taxpayers and voters. Democracies always end this way because they are like public conveniences - everyone gets to use them and many simply foul them. A population that neither reads books nor listens to spoken argument but wallows in video imagery is defeated. ---------------------------------------- SheepmanOvis 20/04/2022 A Prediction: (making predictions is very stupid. I am not about to walk over to William Hill) The war ends in Autumn 2023. It is the prospect of a second Winter with restricted energy and no end in sight that brings this to a head. Where things are now: Western strategy has been to draw the Russians into an insurgency in western Ukraine, and escalate beyond Russia's ability to fight by pitching in Poland, advancing to the Russian border through Finnish membership, while doing as much damage as possible to the Russian economy by hitting the financial sector. Part of this has been pumping arms into western Ukraine (for the putative insurgents), and bigging up Lvov as a possible centre for the Kiev regime (images of Festung Lviv). But that strategy has clearly failed. The Russians have no intention of going into western Ukraine with boots on the ground, and it's clear they can't be drawn in. So no insurgency as the Russians aren't there. Heavy weapons can't be transported to the eastern front, as the Russians are just destroying them in transit. Destruction of roads and bridges to prevent supply of weapon is creating a de facto border and partition. In this context, Odessa takes on a new significance, because it is about the only major city that is securely in Kiev government/NATO hands which the Russians might credibly want. It's firmly enough in their hands that NATO forces can get directly involved without risking another Azovstal style fiasco. So, Odessa becomes the new Lviv strategically - a place that can be fortified to bleed the Russians. Might that have something to do with the sinking of the Moskva outside Odessa? Where things are going: Every attempt will be made to goad the Russians westwards. Nothing will work. For example, I imagine DoD biolabs might well be established in Finland. But there's more than one way to knock out a lab - it doesn't take soldiers or a great big Kalibr missile. Finnish antivivisectionists might just get a bit more, well, bolshy. This drags out over months, with Ukrainian forces being sent out against the Russians and getting killed piecemeal, and western Ukraine getting hit with missile strikes as attempts are made to supply the Ukrainian forces. The troops in Odessa wait for their moment, but nothing happens. We go into Winter, with considerable but not insufferable privations in western Europe (restricted use of power, increased cost of food). North America can supply western Europe with grain, but the loss of Ukrainian grain will be felt elsewhere in the world - cue more migration. But I don't see the first Winter as fatal to the West. Bojo and chums can play Churchill and make us all pull together, promising victory in the Spring. 'Just a few more cold showers to flatten the Putin.' SPIB will do its work. Mass formation will hold things together, plus sufficient energy stockpiles to prevent things from getting really dire. How it ends: The problem is that Spring does not bring victory, and nor does the Summer. At some point, people in western and central Ukraine get a bit tired of being rounded up and sent east as cannon fodder, and question whether Zelensky is really their geezer after all. Remnant Ukraine falls apart. People in western Europe start to get a bit fractious about the whole idea of another Winter like the last, as their economy goes to Hell. Whether it ends with Zelensky having to flee his own people, or with some other catalyst, it's the prospect of the second Winter that spells defeat for the State Department. The West can disguise its withdrawal to some extent by pretending it was never directly engaged. The Russians walk into Odessa, if they want to, without a shot being fired. What remains of Ukraine becomes a UN-administered basket case if the West can be bothered to remain engaged or, more likely, a buffer state under Russian tutelage. (Polish annexation makes more sense historically. But D-rate Western aligned states just don't get to make big territorial acquisitions. That's naughty, and looks a bit old-fashioned). ---------------------------------------- Let me present to you a thought, if the world is to have a future, the western sphere must be defeated, in short Russia must win. ---------------------------------------- "it will be attributed to climate change" This is the essence of the Empire of Lies in which we now live. Elites generally have lies that they use or live by, but our current elites are particularly disconnected from the nations they should be part of, and particularly endemically dishonest because they are ideologically motivated rather than pragmatic and conservative. They lie routinely and systematically, about everything, to twist it to serve their ideologies, their agendas, and their power and wealth. Yet some sceptics will try to argue that yes, they lie about all those things - covid, climate change, BLM, "gender" and identity politics, but we should still believe everything they tell us about Russia and the Ukraine, and all those fairy stories they've told us over the years to instil hatred and fear of Russia. All those bizarre and absurdly unlikely stories about people who just happen to be their chosen enemies apparently choosing to engage in ridiculously self-harming comic-book villain crimes. Targeting of individuals which poisonous substances when just shooting them would be so much easier and infinitely less costly in PR terms. Supposed uses of chemical weapons that are utterly pointless, when they are winning anyway and have nothing possible to gain from doing so that would come remotely close to the costs. Fantasies about supposed manipulative interventions in our elections that just happen to implicate the political enemies of the aforementioned elites. This problem is the one that will take us over the cliff edge of societal collapse. This problem is the one we should be addressing urgently, to the exclusion of all others. Not the problems between foreigners that the elites are so busy screaming at us to look at, instead of their own depredations, and so busy using to justify more money and powers funneled into their own hands. ---------------------------------------- Economic dependency works both ways Western warmongers are right, when they say that a World War is impossible with the economic interdependencies between Europe and Russia. But these dependences work both ways; it is precisely the Russian dependency on European markets and Western financial systems that prevented Russia from acting in Ukraine in 2014. Western sanctions have forced Russia to free itself from these dependencies giving her a free hand to wage war in the Ukraine. From a military point of view, Russia should have launched "Operation Z" in 2014, when they could have simply walked into Ukraine without meeting any resistance. For decades the US has fought against "European energy dependency on Russia". This dependency has prevented American aggression on Russia from European soil and has forced the US to find other fronts for its war on Russia and China. For the European people this dependency has guaranteed peace. Now the US wants Europe to sacrifice peace and its economy. Warmongers want war on Russia to the last Euro! Germany's preparations for a third world war in full swing - Peter Schwarz, WSWS, May 4, 2022 "The waging of a Third World War is not just a military issue," he proclaims. It is "first and foremost an economic issue. For without economic disentanglement along the power and military blocs, effective warfare that can be sustained over a longer period is impossible, as we can already see from Germany's dependence on Russian natural gas." "Whoever wants to make world warfare manageable must first unbundle world trade," Steingart emphasises. "Economic independence is more important than billions more for the Bundeswehr. So, it is not only the soldiers and their military equipment that must be gathered into an offensive formation, but also economic resources." "Viewed with this economic eye," he then states, "the preparations for making a Third World War manageable are in full swing." Posted by: Petri Krohn | May 5 2022 17:34 utc ---------------------------------------- "Because it is our fathers, brothers, husbands and sons who represent us at the ballot box. Our fathers and our brothers love us; our husbands are our choice, and one with us; our sons are what WE MAKE THEM. We are content that they represent us, in the cornfield, on the battlefield and at the ballot box, and we THEM in the schoolroom, at the fireside, and at the cradle, believing our representation even at the ballot box to be thus more full and impartial than it would be were the views of the few who wish suffrage adopted, contrary to the judgement of the many." ---------------------------------------- I signed that, too, but I have to concur with the Why referendum? remark as I'm a firm believer in Bismarck's Vox populi, vox Rindvieh. ---------------------------------------- A malapropism of vox populi, vox dei, The Voice of the people is the voice of God. Literally, Rindvieh means cattle. It's really a pleonasm, because both Rinder and Vieh already mean that. It's usually used to refer to a stupid person in a somewhat affectionate way. An English transliteration of the phrase could be something like If you ask a million oxen for their opinion on anything, the outcome will be a loud mooing. ---------------------------------------- Rede des Koenigs vor der Schlacht bei Leuthen (3. Dezember 1757) Der Koenig hatte alle Generals und Commandeurs nach Tafel zu sich in sein Quartier bestellt, und hier war es, wo er ihnen mit traurigem Ernst und zuweilen mit einer Thraene im Auge sagte: "Meine Herren! Ich habe Sie hierher kommen lassen, um Ihnen erstlich fuer die treuen Dienste, die Sie zeither dem Vaterlande und mir geleistet haben, zu danken. Ich erkenne sie mit dem geruehrtesten Gefuehl. Es ist beinahe keiner unter Ihnen, der sich nicht durch eine grosse und ehrebringende Handlung ausgezeichnet haette. Mich auf Ihren Muth und Erfahrung verlassend, habe ich den Plan zur Bataille gemacht, die ich morgen2 liefern werde und liefern muss. Ich werde gegen alle Regeln der Kunst einen beinahe zweimal staerkern, auf Anhoehen verschanzt stehenden Feind angreifen. Ich muss es thun, oder es ist alles verloren. Wir muessen den Feind schlagen oder uns vor ihren Batterien alle begraben lassen. So denk ich, so werde ich auch handeln. Ist einer oder der andere unter Ihnen, der nicht so denkt, der fordere hier auf der Stelle seinen Abschied. Ich werde ihm selbigen ohne den geringsten Vorwurf geben." Hier folgte eine Pause von Seiten des Redners, und eine heilige Stille von Seiten der Zuhoerer; nur durch mit Muehe zurueckgehaltene, der Ehrfurcht und der heiligsten Vaterlandsliebe geweinte Thraenen unterbrochen3. Darauf erhob der koenigliche Sprecher seine Stimme wieder und fuhr mit freundlich-laechelndem Gesicht fort: ---------------------------------------- "Ich habe vermuthet, dass mich keiner von Ihnen verlassen wuerde; ich rechne nun also ganz auf Ihre treue Huelfe und auf den gewissen Sieg. Sollt' ich bleiben und Sie nicht fuer das, was Sie morgen1 thun werden, belohnen koennen, so wird es unser Vaterland thun. Gehen Sie nun ins Lager, und sagen Sie das, was ich Ihnen hier gesagt habe, Ihren Regimentern, und versichern Sie ihnen dabei, ich wuerde ein jedes genau bemerken. Das Cavallerie-Regiment, was nicht gleich, wenn es befohlen wird, sich a corps perdu in den Feind hineinstuerzt, lass ich gleich nach der Bataille absitzen und mach' es zu einem Garnison-Regiment. Das Bataillon Infanterie, was, es treffe auch, worauf es wolle, nur zu stocken anfaengt, verliert die Fahnen und die Saebels, und ich lass ihnen die Borten von der Montirung schneiden. Nun leben Sie wohl, meine Herren, morgen1 um diese Zeit haben wir den Feind geschlagen, oder wir sehen uns nie wieder." ---------------------------------------- Critics and authors, who congregate in large cities, and see nothing of the world but a sort of phantasmagoria, to whom the numberless characters they meet in the course of a few hours are fugitive "as the flies of a summer," evanescent as the figures in a camera obscura, may talk very learnedly, and attribute the motions of the puppets to circumstances of which they are confessedly in total ignorance. They see character only in the bust, and have not room (for the crowd) to study it as a whole length, that is, as it exists in reality. But those who trace things to their source, and proceed from individuals to generals, know better. School-boys, for example, who are early let into the secret, and see the seeds growing, are not only sound judges, but true prophets of character; so that the nick-names they give their playfellows usually stick by them ever after. The gossips in country-towns, also, who study human nature, not merely in the history of the individual, but in the genealogy of the race, know the comparative anatomy of the minds of a whole neighbourhood to a tittle, where to look for marks and defects-- explain a vulgarity by a cross in the breed, or a foppish air in a young tradesman by his grandmother's marriage with a dancing-master, and are the only practical conjurors and expert decypherers of the determinate lines of true or supposititious character. ---------------------------------------- I'm not a racist, I just prefer 'cultural comfort'. I find millions of foreigners moving here most disconcerting, black or white. ---------------------------------------- The drums of war are growing louder and louder, and the psychopaths who feed off it are growing more and more aroused. Let's hope this evil empire ends as soon as possible in as peaceful a manner as possible, before these freaks get us all killed. ---------------------------------------- Barry Sheridan 25/08/22 Suggesting, as Professor Sean McMeekin apparently does, that President Putin is the epitome of evil is wholly unjust. Vladimir Putin is first and foremost a Russian patriot whose core effort has been devoted to ressurecting his country from the ruin left by the collapse of communism. To do so has not been easy, involving him in many complicated and arcane manoeuvring against many operators who wanted to continue the looting of Russia for their own ends. Yes, it has not been a path towards democracy, but those who have opposed President Putin's ambitions are not figures of sweetness light and reason and have little interest in the supposed fixations of the west. The last two decades have seen a significant recovery in Russia's fortunes, including a rebuilding of national confidence so necessary to success. It was a drive that offered, and President Putin would have accepted the chance, for a permanent burying of the ideological animosities and divisions that sustained the Cold War. However the west had no such inclinations, the promises of former US Secretary of State, James Baker, were discarded, and NATO became the expansionist arm of global ambitions whose intention is to impose on humanity, total western hegemony. To do so, a self selected small group of politically powerful and wealthy people are quite willing to destroy any country that gets in the way, including their own. Even the reluctant should see this as obvious as Europe and elsewhere crumbles into penury. For years the tools at the hands of the State have conditioned western peoples to fear one thing and then another until Covid came along, an epidemic little worse than a bad flu, but one that proved enough to crush centuries of belief in hard won rights. The confidence this gave to those with globalist ambitions that this was the moment to go for broke and impose their dominance over humanity was struck. The overture to that end is the war in Ukraine. Unfortunately they had not been paying attention to a Russia largely rebuilt by a President it frames as everything he is not. Despite his innate caution, Vladimir Putin has read his nation correctly, it is the west led by those pretending to be leaders who have misjudged. The world, and especially the western peoples are going to pay a huge price for having failed to stand up this reckless gambit. ---------------------------------------- 02/09/22 It's worth pointing out that while you and I and everyone else are being told by de Pfeffel and the rest of the Soprano mobsters in Westminster that the economic catastrophe that is emerging is because of Putin's 'brutal and illegal' invasion of our hitherto unknown longest-standing-best-friend-and-ally-ever, (which, incidentally, is the most corrupt country in Europe, the tenth most corrupt in the world and which most Brits could never have accurately pinpointed on a world map until recently) he, de Pfeffel told Zelnsky not to negotiate peace terms with the Russians back in February. If de Pfeffel had not done this, Russia would have ceased hostilities, tens of thousands of sons, brothers, fathers, cousins and neighbours would not have been slaughtered, cheap gas and oil supplies would have continued flowing into Europe and Britain stood a chance of emerging from de Pfeffel's catastrophic covid policy. But no, not only has this weak, useless, lying, philandering, corrupt pos directly caused large loss of life abroad, he has brought about financial ruin, suicide and likely death from cold and lack of food at home. He, along with all the others from Major onwards, should be strung up. ---------------------------------------- Paul Weston 09/09/22 What a tragic day. Not just for the Queen's family, but for so much more. Over the last one thousand years, England has been a Sovereign nation presided over by the Royal family. Prior to 1066 there was a near one thousand years of Monarchy. During this vast time span England was defeated just once and went on to give much of the world freedom, democracy and modernity. Time speeded up over the reign of Queen Elizabeth II. The country and world she was born into is no more. Her death marks not just the end of a Monarch's reign, but the end of an epoch and the end of a civilisation. 1952 was not so dissimilar to 1882 in terms of the English people and society. 2022 is very different to 1952. During her seventy year reign a great deal has changed compared to the seventy years prior to her accession. It is difficult to put this into words, but I feel this day is one of those hinge points in history. Someone we thought would always be there and someone we have grown to take for granted has gone. Losing a parent is a terrible thing for a small number of relatives. Losing Queen Elizabeth II is a terrible thing for us as a nation and the world. I suppose one has to be of a certain age to feel this way. Young people might well find my maundering inexplicable. Yet I feel as I feel. I have a deep sadness for what has passed and a terrible foreboding for what is to come. Our constant has gone and huge change is now upon us. Our Queen's existence gave us a false sense of confidence that epochal change could never happen, but her death is the end of an epoch and epochal change is here. England will never be the same again. The World will never be the same again. Western civilisation will never be the same again. The Queen's death has huge ramifications for global mankind. Nothing will ever be same again and I have a horrible feeling the coming changes will make the world a poorer, sadder place. R.I.P. Queen Elizabeth II. We loved you as our Monarch and we loved you as our mother. ---------------------------------------- TCW - 29/09/22 But the problem is the policymakers themselves - 'the handful of people in positions of power who have committed us to a dramatic reduction of our carbon dioxide emissions', and the European Commission, which has transformed these commitments into a legal requirement to reduce emissions by 55 per cent from 1990 levels before 2030 - the so-called 'Fit for 55' laws, setting in motion a change to society of a scale that is hard to comprehend. ---------------------------------------- BBC News - 05/10/2022 Russia is putting a brave face on its recent losses, in the east and the south. But those losses are so dramatic that it's hard to put a positive spin on them. Russian forces have been constantly out-manoeuvred and out-thought by the Ukrainian military. As one Western official put it yesterday, "Ukrainian commanders are throwing problems at the Russian chain of command faster than the Russians can respond." Russia, of course, is in the middle of a major process of mobilisation. It's chaotic and riddled with problems but it will, in time, generate a significant number of new troops. How effective they will be remains to be seen, but 200,000 men is not nothing. Ukraine knows this and is keeping up the pace, trying to take as much ground as it can before Russia is able to strike back. It has no such manpower problems, and it's getting more and more sophisticated Western equipment every day. As things stand, it's hard to see how Russia can regain any of the territory it has just retreated from. Its losses, in manpower, equipment and morale, have been quite staggering. It's been many months since it could boast any significant achievements. Ukrainian forces, meanwhile, are exuding confidence. This could change, but it would need several things to happen. Russia's newly conscripted soldiers would have to be put to effective use. Its commanders would have to show a great deal more creativity than they have so far. And the West would have to lose interest in Ukraine. For Moscow, the omens are not good. ---------------------------------------- The Party System - Hilaire Belloc In the case of that popular demand we all know what happened. The country not only by an overwhelming majority, but with an overwhelming intensity, gave the mandate that the Chinese should go, and that they should go at once. It was a mandate based upon a mixture of popular emotions, not the least of which was the desire to chastise those South African Jews who had compelled our politicians as their servants to exploit for financial ends the popular enthusiasm in the matter of the South African war. It was, again, a demand for the signal punishment of the first attempt made since modern industrialism began, to move labour in large batches from place to place upon a scheme arranged by capital for the interests of capital alone. Popular instinct seized at once upon the enormous danger of that initial experiment, and perceived with sound sense that if it were not made an example of, and if the South African Jews were not taught a sharp lesson, the whole outlook and theory upon which this vile experiment had been based would become the permanent theory and outlook of international capitalism. ---------------------------------------- Nevertheless, it should be noted that the effect of the Party System on even the cleverer politicians is to reduce the normal level of their intelligence. It is quite incredible that such men as Mr Asquith and Mr Lloyd George, Mr Balfour and Mr F. E. Smith could under any other circumstances give expression to such imbecilities as those which constantly adorn their public speeches. They would not talk like that at dinner or at their clubs. But the standard of intellect in politics is so low that men of moderate mental capacity have to stoop in order to reach it. ---------------------------------------- The degraded Parliament may ultimately be replaced by some other organ; but no such other organ appears to be forming, and until we get our first glimpse of it we are in for one of those evil spaces, subject to foreign insult and domestic misfortune, which invariably attach to nations when, for a period, they lose grip over their own destinies. ---------------------------------------- This morning I was reading "https://dailysceptic.org/2023/04/13/no-flying-by-2050-is-the- world-finally-waking-up-to-what-net-zero-really-means/" in The Daily Sceptic about "Net Zero" and possibly no more flying for peasants by 2050, and it occurred to me yet again that this wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing. I'm not at all sure that endless credit and foreign travel has really improved our peasant lives at all, probably the opposite, and it's likely inevitable that it will have to end when the sham financial system that supports such a lifestyle ends, and that's looking like soon. The problem is that at the same time, the same people are (and have been for more than half a century) merrily destroying our native environments and social bonds, which at least would give us some roots to return to. "https://preussische-kuriositaeten.net/2017/09/07/fuchs-eier-u nd-schaumwein/", Marwitz hatte Recht. ---------------------------------------- Excuse the subject matter but "https://millennialwoes.substack.com/p/bestiality-and-me" makes a good point about the limits of reason. If anything can be justified by reason, then either everything is permissible, which obviously is leading us already to a very dark place (don't make me tap the sign), or reason is not always correct, in which case the last 250 years or so have been a catastrophically disastrous failed experiment in man's hubris and arrogance. I think this may have been pointed out to us a couple of thousand years ago, but we never listen. ---------------------------------------- As the Global American Empire continues to decline, the gap between American sensibilities and European ones will become too big to ignore. This will become apparent in the next year as the war weighs on Europe. At some point, European elites will have to make a choice. They can continue to follow the Americans into the abyss or make a break and look out for their own interests. The concept of the West existing on both sides of the Atlantic will come into question. Zman 04/09/23 - https://thezman.com/wordpress/?p=30664 ---------------------------------------- If in 2015 you would have told me the US would have given over 100 Billion in aid to a military "ally" in a hot war with Russia that had an American transsexual wearing an obvious wig as its spokesperson issuing death threats to journalists covering the war for not lying about it, all with our approval, I'd have told you that you are drinking way too much, but now it's hard to imagine things being any other way. 25/09/23 ---------------------------------------- https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Marpingen_%E2%80%93_wie_Wunder_entst ehen_und_vergehen ---------------------------------------- Of democracy, John Adams wrote, "I do not say that democracy has been more pernicious, on the whole, and in the long run, than monarchy or aristocracy. Democracy has never been and never can be so durable as aristocracy or monarchy, but while it lasts it is more bloody than either." ---------------------------------------- In the second half of the last century when Communism and Zionism began their simultaneous assault on the West, Europe was a place of strong and confident states well able to withstand the effects of inner troubles and foreign wars. The revolutionary outbreaks of 1848 had been overcome without great exertion. Austria-Hungary and France were not much weakened by their Prussian defeats in 1866 and 1871; they resumed their national existences, as defeated countries for centuries had done, side by side with yesterday's victor, and soon were tranquil again. The Balkan people, emerging from five centuries of Turkish rule also were moving towards prosperity, in the kindlier air of national freedom. On the eastern borders of Europe Russia, under the flag of Christendom, appeared to be joining in this process of national and individual improvement. The appearance was deceptive, for the two maggots were in the apple, and today's scene shows the result. The eighteen Christian centuries which, despite ups and downs showed a total sum of human betterment greater than that of any earlier time known to man, were coming either to an end or an interregnum; which, we still do not know, though believers have no doubt about the good resumption, somewhen. However, one eminent man of that period, from whom confidence in the outcome might have been expected, foresaw what was to come in our century and thought it would be the end, not a transient Dark Age. This was Henry Edward Manning, the English clergyman who was converted to Rome, became Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster, and, had he accepted nomination by his fellow cardinals, might have become Pope. Edmund Burke, John Adams and Alexander Hamilton had all perceived the worldwide aims of the revolution and foretold its spreading eruptions. Disraeli, Bakunin and others, a half-century later, had testified to, and warned against, the Jewish usurpation of the revolutionary leadership. Manning joined in these warnings but also foresaw the coming of Zionism and the part it would play in the dual process. ---------------------------------------- Douglas Reed - 1956 Mr. Churchill never publicly stated any such intention (indeed, he denied it), but if it was his view this means that even the Zionist state set up after the Second World War by no means fulfils the intention of those who made the Balfour Declaration, and that further conquests of Arab lands have yet to be made by war. ---------------------------------------- Thus at the end of 1955 a presidential-election year again impended, in circumstances which the dominant power in America had always found ideal: an ailing president, party-politicians avid for "the Jewish vote," a war situation in the Middle East and another in Europe. In such a state of affairs "domestic political pressure" in the capital of the world's wealthiest and best-armed country might produce almost any result. The Republican party-managers, desperate to retain at least a nominal Republican in the White House if they could not gain a majority in Congress, gathered round a sick man and urged him to run. ---------------------------------------- Z-Man 02\09\2024 "The peculiar composition of the post-war ruling class made Christian ethics a bit of a problem" ---------------------------------------- Rather, the problem seems to stem from a particular way of thinking about what a company even is, what its goals are, and what measures are or are not appropriate to achieve those goals. In simplified terms, we can think of companies as organized to create value and sustain themselves by capturing a portion of the created value as financial profit. When executives, board members, and major investors manage companies by and for the bottom line, they operate on a theory of the company as a vehicle solely for capturing profit. When this happens, the difficult and holistic question of creating value in the first place--a question unique for every company--simply goes unaddressed. It is treated as a permanently solved, one-time problem that no longer merits attention or resources; at Boeing, for instance, senior engineers were reportedly told they were no longer needed because Boeing's products were "mature," as if it was impossible for further progress in airplanes to ever be made. The focus is instead on raising profit margins and share prices through cost-cutting and various other attempts to improve efficiency or appeal to investors. This school of thought appears to be the dominant one in the influential U.S. financial sector and might be termed "shareholder capitalism." ---------------------------------------- Three of the best known works on the Second World War are General Eisenhower's Crusade in Europe (New York: Doubleday [Country Life Press], 1948), Winston Churchill's The Second World War (London: Cassell, 6 vols., 1948-1954), and the Memoires de guerre of General de Gaulle (Paris: Plon, 3 vols., 1954-1959). In these three works not the least mention of Nazi gas chambers is to be found. Eisenhower's Crusade in Europe is a book of 559 pages; the six volumes of Churchill's Second World War total 4,448 pages; and de Gaulle's three-volume Memoires de guerre is 2,054 pages. In this mass of writing, which altogether totals 7,061 pages (not including the introductory parts), published from 1948 to 1959, one will find no mention either of Nazi "gas chambers," a "genocide" of the Jews, or of "six million" Jewish victims of the war. ---------------------------------------- The fact that anyone would ever even consider voting for the Harris-Walz ticket, combined with the fact that 1,312,349 people voted to RE-ELECT Walz as the Governor of Minnesota, is sufficient proof that representative democracy is an unmitigated catastrophe and a worse form of government than monarchy, the lottery, or pretty much any other historical or imaginary form of government. ---------------------------------------- Lost in a dark wood Oct 24, 2024 9:49 AM It can be stated without hesitation that the pandemic was the largest propaganda campaign, the largest covert operation and the most deceptive hoax in human history. No, that honour goes to the world wars (first, second, cold); the fake binary of communism and fascism; and the saviour of humanity in the form of the United Nations. It was all a scripted hoax in which the "pandemic" was just a minor scene. ---------------------------------------- Ah yes! PICNIC! Problem in chair not in computer. ---------------------------------------- What we do know is that it was by experience and education that little commonwealths lose their liberty; that absolute sovereignty is something not merely ancient but rather relatively modern; and it is at the end of the path called progress that men return to the king. -- Everlasting Man 07\01\2025 ---------------------------------------- In spite of all the civilising elements around them, there is a distinct tendency to sink into the state of an African tribe. It is naturally impossible to foretell the effect of all the influences which are now at work in the world, and which seem to foreshadow many changes. We appear standing on the threshold of a period of great discoveries, which may modify many things, but not man's nature. ---------------------------------------- Isn't it true that we now intuitively understand "civil rights" as a synonym for coerced association, an enlargement rather than a diminution of the state's power to push us around? Joseph Sobran ---------------------------------------- Sadly I'm in the 'too late' camp. The idea of reshoring would have been great in the dim past, but now I have a hard time seeing how the US can take up the slack. I work in manufacturing, with experience across the automotive, medical device, packaging, and consumer electronics industries. The common factor among them - the availability of workers with an IQ over 85 and a generally positive attitude toward showing up to grind out finished goods is very, very thin below the age of 50. ---------------------------------------- (for some idea of the extent of the control by Jews in the city of Berlin five years after Hitler assumed power, see the Reader's Digest for May, 1938, p. 126) ---------------------------------------- However, this is a necessary but sufficient condition. "[Our] fellow whites ... got outmaneuvered, brainwashed, and bamboozled" because they were honorless merchants who were inadequately ethnocentric. Any replacement ruling class must be self-consciously structured to avoid their mistakes. ---------------------------------------- For example, what if Russia adopts Israel's strategy of war via assassination and applies it to the member states of the European Union? It could enact similar regime change in Germany, France, Poland, and the UK overnight. ---------------------------------------- The old pre-1795 Poland - a feudal republic with an elective king - is a converse example; it illustrates how before the advent of the modern state the position of the Jews was socially most important, and their internal autonomy greatest, under a regime which was completely retarded to the point of utter degeneracy. .