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Of course, you realize that if this tragic business in the Middle East gets out of hand millions of people might die, maybe even you and me. Any way you cut it, looks like Islam wants to rumble. Basic problem: the little slab of land on the Mediterranean at issue is in the possession of one group of people and another group of people wants to drive them out. There is no “two state solution” because there is only one place in that place.
The world has already forgotten the butchery of October 7. Islam won’t even go so far as to acknowledge that something happened there, or that it matters. This is a quandary for Western Civ which operates lately on the ethos that anything goes and nothing matters. Face it: that’s a luxury belief. A society in collapse learns painfully that the first thing to go is luxury, Louis Vuitton bags and foolish Woke thinking. Western Civ may not be able to pretend any longer that nothing matters.
The reason Israel is where it is is because Western Civ treated the Jews abominably in the 1930s and 40s. The result, establishing a state of Israel in its historic location, was a power move, of course, by the powers who won the Second World War, but it had the imprimatur of a sacred duty. We’ve forgotten the impact, even to regular grunt US soldiers who liberated the extermination camps of Europe, of the unspeakable barbarism they encountered. It maimed the psyche of Western Civ to discover what savagery its best educated member nation turned out to be capable of. Is there any question that Germany lost its mind in those years?
Western Civ has been busy losing its mind for about seven years now. It’s so tormented that it has been flirting with suicide, for instance, allowing its borders to be overwhelmed with swarms of declared antagonists to Western culture. The European Union guilt-tripped themselves into letting that happen. The process in the USA appears more sinister and calculated, a sheer political ploy. In any case, nobody is lifting a finger to stop it.
Israel is a full-fledged member of that lunatic asylum. Israel is engaged in as much of a civil war between Left and Right as its godfathers in Europe and North America are enduring. On top of that, Israel decided to become the poster-child for Covid-19 vaccination “uptake.” It seemed like a valiant stand in the first flush of the Covid “crisis,” but now it looks more like they poisoned more than 90-percent of their population. You don’t hear much about it these days, but it’s lurking there, just like the massive vaccine damage that Europe and America have by stealth sustained lurks in the background of rising war fever and disintegrating economies.
It looks like the Islamic nations that surround Israel like a child in an alligator pit have made the calculation that now is the time to gobble up the little interloper. Trouble is, that child is armed to the teeth. It also looks like the alligators don’t care. It happens that they have small alligator brains, not that good for gaming out clashes of civilizations. All they care about is chomp chomp and gulp gulp. One question they fail to ask: Would the Middle East actually be a better place without an Israel? I bet this hasn’t occurred to any of them. Once it’s gone, they’ll be chomping and gulping each other, I assure you.
Our nation, under the leadership of “Joe Biden” (…iden…iden…iden…iden…), has deployed our mighty warships in the waters all around and amongst Israel’s adversaries. Hard to see how that couldn’t happen, our sacred duty and all. If called upon, they can probably do a lot of damage — though there is plenty of reason to believe that Iran has enough anti-ship cruise missiles to create a big problem for us. Heck, Iran has enough long range conventional guided missiles to turn Haifa and Tel Aviv into ashtrays. But then, five minutes later, the same would be true for Teheran and Damascus, only they’d be radioactive. And who knows what those swarms of moiling migrants in the US and Euroland might be inspired to do, when it comes to that?
Jihad is in the offing. Too many are itching to set it off. Now they’re just waiting for an excuse, a reason to ignite the fuses. The obvious excuse would be an Israeli military incursion into Gaza. That would git’er done, I’m sure. The Israelis must realize this. Despite prior expectations, though, and even given the thirst for vengeance, they might realize it’s unnecessary. They’ve done enough bombing in Gaza. They could neutralize the command network of Hamas pretty much the same way they got the Black September ringleaders of the Munich Olympics massacre, 1972 — a methodical hunt over years, decades. They don’t have to shout from the rooftops, either. Everyone will know.
There is the fate of the Gaza hostages to consider. It doesn’t look good. Given enough time, of course, they can be shuttled around geographically here, there, and everywhere and concealed for years. They have value. World opinion will turn on the hostage-takers, though you might argue that no longer matters. I rather expect that rescue operations are well-planned and some may be carried out. But, overall, many of these poor pawns are apt to be lost. Tragic is tragic.
If we manage to avoid World War Three, America has its own grave problem to consider, which is comprehensive collapse — of economic activity, the financial scaffold for it, and of civil order in a society under deadly stress. Most of this damage has been induced by our own political leaders. Now that the House of Representatives has been put in order, it’s time for that body to act expeditiously and relieve “Joe Biden” of his responsibilities… and then Ms. Harris… and then Messrs. Garland, Mayorkas, and Wray. Out with them, post haste, and begin the project to save our own country.
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Decent summary, although the final paragraph fails to connect the dots. The coming war is the reason the criminals in question won’t be properly investigated, never mind relieved of their duties, never mind actually prosecuted and imprisoned. A trick so time tested and true that even a geriatric dunderhead like Biden couldn’t miss it. Not to mention the war criminal in charge in Israel.
At least your responses were not deleted by Mr. Free Speech.
Just like the tragic history, it must be deleted.
Easyiest form of reconciliation.
Commenters all: I have deleted a number of your comments because they were obnoxious.
Be civil or be gone. — JHK-Admin
My first comment criticized the Breitbart quote, calling the “news” source a propoganda medium. You can have that.
Please demonstrate what was obnoxious in my second comment.
It is your blog, you can do whatever you wish. You should just say that. Otherwise, demonstrate what was obnoxious in second comment.
Actually, this demonstration of obnoxious should suffice. Petulant seems fitting.
Sure “Dale”
1st time poster right?
😉
😉
Would be better to focus on the substance, rather than the source.
Night Karen, lord you knows like to kiss up and score browny points.
Just cut to the chase and suck the D
It’s a fact. You will feel better when you calm down.
I have spent the whole day yesterday reading the comments just trying to find out if anyone knows why the best (so they say) intelligence service and army let October 7th happen. Why the security was down? I was told that even a bird flying too close to the border would set the siren.
Was it planned?
To me it looks so weird!
First there comes COVID. And all the world can think and talk – is IT. Then in a blink of an eye COVID is forgotten, everyone is cured. All the world thinks and talks is Ukraine-Ukraine-Ukraine. And now – this. And Ukraine is somewhere in the background. Now it is Israel-Hamas, Hamas-Israel.
So tell me, are we the spectators at someone’s play, or we are dolls on strings, and someone plays us?
Lisa – we are both. On strings, made to watch their play. Cut the strings, so you don’t have to watch their play. Then focus on family, friends and anyone else you can help, in that order. Time better spent for the future that awaits us very shortly.
Good advice! Thanks
Still it doesn’t explain why October 7th happened. How the Israelis missed the training, the whole preparation of the attack. I believe that USA intelligence has its eye on this part of world too – and also missed it. Something very dirty, very ugly is going on, and we have to pretend we are not suspecting anything?
I assume this is a rhetorical question. Literally the best intelligence and security apparatus in the world did not make a mistake or miss the big move. Egypt was telling Israel for several days that there was a massive mobilization underway and undoubtably Israel knew this already. So the real question is why did Israel stand down. The obvious answer is they wanted s Pearl harbor or Reichstag fire depending on your point of view. Let your enemy hit you then destroy them. Maybe too obvious I dunno.
I find this particular issue to be more divisive than any other issue we talk about. Every civil discussion ends like this…
“beantownbill.
October 27, 2023 at 12:58 pm #
And you are an asshole. There. Fixed it for you.”
Jimmy: Nice thoughts BUT you like JHK have not addressed the axiom that ” ALL wars are banker’s wars”. or the question “CUI BONO?” Unfortunately, the 4,000-year-old system has been rigged to make it unlikely that anybody can strike the root. Perhaps the new yuga we have entered will remedy this impasse. Otherwise, changing our alleged “leaders” will have as much impact as changing your underwear.
No, I realize that full well too. But then again, we know who control the bankers too, now don’t we?
Yeah, shitheads like you. Oh, well. I’m not in a good mood today, anyway.
@beantownbill
Do me a huge favor and take the time to read the following book.
It is NOT a hate filled anti Jew book.
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man -John Perkins
They inducted the book into the Library of Congress.
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Free pdf ugly but readable.
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@benr
If you liked that one, read “Water Wars” by Vandana Shiva.
I read both of those books about ten years ago.
Eye openers, both of them.
No bankers in my family, I can assure you of that.
I think it was Douglas McGregor who mentioned a few days ago how the MIC works comparatively between Russia and the U.S. Probably the same mindset in China.
Take Biden’s latest war budget proposal for example: $60 billion to Ukraine, $40 billion to Israel, $10 billion to Taiwan and $2 billion to “secure our border” (that horse already left the barn with a Hamas camp in Mexico and God only knows how many terrorist sleeper cells now in the US with their handy-dandy burner phones).
He pointed out that the majority of all the expenditures will end up in the pockets of the MIC like Boeing, TRW, McDonnell Douglas etc.
These mega death corporations have made a point to be located in every Congressional district in the U.S. They give major contributions to members of Congress and the MIC legislation always sails through. Want to deny them? You will be primaried out of office. No problem.
But all these big shot American arms makers might need ten years to make a hypersonic missile like the ones Russia and Iran already have.
These military behemoths work for profits. Huge profits. Their allegiance is to the Almighty dollar.
In Russia, when Putin says, “We need a million more 155 artillery shells. They get produced quickly. Same for state of the art planes, tanks, drones. Why? Not for profit! They work in these Russian technology sectors for love of country!
From what I have seen over my 70 years on this planet is that these military conglomerates in the U.S., who eat up vast proportions of yearly budgets, do it for the MONEY, not out of any patriotic duty.
And good luck trying to change this business model!
Oh, almost forgot! 10% for “The Big Guy”!
Hezbollah has had sleeper cells in the U.S. for at least the last 10 years, maybe more like 20. I remember back around 2010 or so (can’t remember exactly), I used to read a site called Small Wars Journal. They did some in-depth articles about the Hezbollah communities down in the Tri-Border Area (TBA) around the junction of Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina. It’s a lawless no-man’s-land, extremely remote, and Hezbollah basically runs the region. Iran had been exporting emigrés down there for decades, and the communities there are long-standing and well-entrenched.
Many of the young people there, second- and even third-generation, have grown up speaking Spanish, have been given Spanish surnames, and come up to Mexico, whence they cross the U.S. border. They look and sound, to the average gringo, like just another Hispanic.
But they are Hezbollah ideologues, and they have cells here in dozens of major cities, often using local mosques or “Islamic centers” for cover. They are NOT lone wolves, and patiently await orders from Tehran. They have the long view. But when Tehran finally gives the order…..
Great post. And anyone trying to audit or quality check this work will be ignored or have a plane fly in to their office at the Pentagram.
You forgot the biggest military contractor of all…LM.
Like it or not WAR is big business and America is all about big business.
We are heading from a recession into a depression with a weak incompetent dementia ridden figurehead they have to do something to save brand Biden.
They also have to reset the petro dollar and stave off the Brics from creating their own global currency.
Another one bought into the propaganda of the HYPEr-sonic missile.
The physics don’t line up very well with those speeds and payloads unless the payload IS the missile via a GodRod Tungsten projectile.
People forget that what Russia and ESPECIALLY Iran does is talk shit.
As far as the US not having a Hypersonic missile.
Yeah, we got em but again not much use.
In fact, LM has a bunch all over their website.
It took my all of thirty seconds to find an entire web page dedicated to their funding and the fact they have been researching and building them for sixty years.
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As does Boeing…
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AND defense against.
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I am ALWAY amused at anyone that thinks Russia or Iran is ahead of the US in anything tech related and when they stupidly brag about it the US puts resources on it and pulls ahead over and over.
The US has sopped up the best and brightest for the last hundred years never mind the roiling masses are all besot with smart phone stupidity and poisoned with IQ lowering chemicals in the toxic tap water.
@abbybwood: “In Russia, when Putin says, “We need a million more 155 artillery shells. They get produced quickly. Same for state of the art planes, tanks, drones. Why? Not for profit! They work in these Russian technology sectors for love of country!/i>”
Huh? This is an interesting perspective – could you please point me to your source? I didn’t realize Russia was still a communist state with a command economy.
And all my life I’ve been taught that it was GOD to whom we must tithe that 10% without fail.
I know he’s an ancient dude, but am shocked to learn that he’s Joe Biden.
I like JHK because he (usually) takes facts right in front of us that have been painted out of the picture, puts them back in, and helps me to connect the dots. He says what MSM will not.
Suburban sprawl. Peak oil. Wokeness.
But that doesn’t make our host perfect. While he may be offended by some of the commenters today, this is what happens when you give people the floor, and when you use your reputation to push a narrative that many find wrong.
This is by far, his worst column ever. I find his candor and honest condescension toward the Palestinians as refreshing as it is wrong.
Lets take some choice nuggets:
“Islam wants to rumble”. No. I’m sure many of you, including our host, are familiar with the Warsaw Ghetto uprising of 1943. The Jews had enough, and knew they were dead men (and women) walking, so they rebelled. I think Hamas did the same—ON THEIR OWN. It’s really NOT in Shiite Iran’s interest, or Saudi interest, or anyone’s interest to have the Palestinian Untermensch start problems.
“Western Civ treated the Jews abominably in the 1930s and 40s”. No, Germany did. And since the survivors had lived in central and eastern Europe, perhaps it would have been appropriate to give the Jewish victims and Jewish state in Germany, in Silesia perhaps, where some six MILLION Germans were forced to leave anyway, to give it to Poland.
“…many of these poor pawns are apt to be lost. Tragic is tragic…” So they are pawns? Not human beings. Palestinian untermensch. Maybe they can relocate to upstate New York, as part of the final Mideast solution? After all, JHK and I both have the luxury of living some where where some one ELSE’s ancestors cleared the natives hundreds of years ago, so we have room for Palestinians.
JHK is angry at the crimes of Hamas. Justifiably so. Just like Netenyahu professes to be. But people who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones. The Stern Gang and Irgun were terrorist groups. They used the same tactic to clear the Palestinians out in 1947/48. But they were Jewish. And there was no internet or smart phones or TV to cover it then. Also, unlike the Israelis who have a formidable military and police (with our US tax dollars, thank you America!), the Palestinians didn’t have an organized military.
Anyway, in his anger, our host seems to either overlook some things or choose not to share them. Read on:
“This is our 9/11, our Pearl Harbor”, say the Likudniks. I’m sure many of you here would agree that we now know Pearl Harbor was not really a “surprise”. The highest levels of US government knew an attack was coming. The US had embargoed and pushed Japan into a pre-emptive strike. FDR deliberately chose not to take precautions because such an attack would facilitate US entry into WW2 to fight GERMANY, which was FDR’s main interest. It was worth 2500 American lives to “save the world from Germany”, as polls before PH showed 75% of Americans opposed getting into the European war.
Well, the Israelis have ramped up killings of Palestinians in the West Bank, and they have been defiling the Arabs’ Al-Aqsa Mosque. And we have the perpetual Gaza strangulation.
As senior Israeli official Dov Weisglas stated in 2005, Israeli policy was designed “to put the Palestinians on a diet, but not to make them die of hunger.” How nice. But you see how these things might engender hostility, which can be channeled into radicalization and action.
So, this “Pearl Harbor” moment will allow Netenyahu and his “Greater Israel” group to “eliminate Hamas”, which is code for exterminate the Palestinians. So Netenyahu knew it was coming, and deemed a couple of hundred dead Israelis a small price to pay for the chance to liquidate the Palestinians.
Unfortunately for HIS political future, if the Israeli government is telling the truth, they have 1400 dead, and that may be too much poltically for Bibi—but another Likudnik can continue the process, thank goodness!
JHK talks about the hostages. Let me assure you all, the current Israeli government is not interested in saving hostages—it is focused on eliminating Palestinians by killing them via bombs, starvation, or disease, removing them, or ideally, having them leave. It will not consider a bombing stop for hostages.
I would have thought, as a savvy investigative reporter, JHK would connect the dots on this for us.
America blamed the “Japs”. Israel can blame Hamas. And JHK can blame Hamas too.
Well, at least he doesn’t come out and explicitly justify the bombing of Gaza, which is industrial scale slaughter.
We will see if this is pulled down
I do agree that there are people chomping at the bit to for a wider war.
And unfortunately, a two-state solution is difficult on this “small slab of land”. Made more difficult by unilateral Israeli actions over the past 40 years.
Ironically, with today’s technology, it might have worked.
Another thing people need to be aware of: Not only does Israel possess nuclear weapons, but their targets are not limited to those “bad” Islamic countries.
No, first it was Russian cities. Now it is also US and European cities. Or the oil fields.
“The Samson Option” by Seymour Hersh explains the REAL objectives of the Israeli nuclear program.
In short, “if it looks like we are going to lose, never again, this time we will take the whole world down with us”.
I hope that doesn’t discomfit too many people here.
In an attempt to inject a little balance here, the British invented the concentration camp in the South African Boer war, penning up the Boer women and children under horrible conditions, and killing more than 20,000 of them in a successful attempt to coerce the enemy, who were fighting for their homeland, to surrender…A massive war crime which was simply memory holed by the West…
There are lots of atrocities that have been committed since the dawn of time.
I don’t trivialize the suffering of the Boers.
History is written by the victors. A lot is covered up, or overlooked.
The Khmer Rouge in Cambodia.
The Anglo-American firebomings of Germany; the US firebombings on Japan, and the use of nuclear weapons on civilian cities.
Israel, to this day has not recognized the genocide of the Armenians by the Turks, for example. Of course, neither have the Turks.
I’m starting to see now that, while the victims can’t come back, it’s looking more and more every day that their oppressors’ descendants are going to be held accountable.
I agree with your assessment. Jews may have been treated abominably, but it wasn’t by Western Civilization. Moreover, many, many other ethnic/racial/religious groups have been treated abominably by somebody or other. At least 3.9 million Ukranians were exterminated during the Holodomor. Armenian Christians have been exterminated. Ukranians are currently being exterminated–and it’s not at the hands of Putin. In Rwanda, the Hutu were treated rather badly by the Tutsi. Then of course there was the civil war that broke up the former Yugoslavia. As far as that goes, Israel has treated the Palestinians abominably.
None of these scenarios obliges anyone to set up the presumed victims in their own little homeland and then proceed to prop them up for the rest of geological time, to the tune of billions of dollars a year. With Israel, we’re not yet up to “geological time,” but I think it comes to over 75 years.
Victimhood doesn’t entitle you to a damn thing.
But what I think is most to the point is that it is not in the interests of the US to get involved. It is against our interests.
I understand that JHK will naturally be inclined to root for his team–though, when it comes to the right and wrong of the thing, there’s not a dime’s worth of difference between the disputants. But I do think that one should not take ones advocacy for either side to the point where you’re advocating for the US to act against its own interests–whether by that you mean pouring money down a rathole or exposing our people to injury or death on behalf of either side.
Re ” Jews may have been treated abominably, but it wasn’t by Western Civilization.”
It needs to be repeated and repeated until people start to “get” it: In historic Palestine Jews, Christians, and Moslems got along fine. 30% of Pals are Christians.
It was the European Zionists who were colonizers, who lusted after having the whole place to themselves and themselves alone—no Muslims, no Christians.
And they still do.
Arab “nations” were totally screwed after WW1, by agreements such as Sykes-Picot, that literally drew arbitrary lines in the desert (sometimes literally in the sand) to create new states that didn’t have organic reasons for being the shape they ended up being.
If curious about how this actually went down, you could read Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell. She was one of the very few Westerners who lived in the ME, spoke Arabic, and understood anything about it, and she ended up actually drawing a lot of the lines on maps. The book is very well written, with plenty of photographs.
As for the “wars” that ensured between the Jewish terrorists and the Palestinians prior to 1948, the British tried to disarm everyone, but Meyer Lansky and other Jewish mobsters smuggled arms to the Zionists—while the Arabs were disarmed. Teddy Kollek, later the mayor of Jerusalem, ran the illegal smuggling operation. Obviouly, the Palestinians didn’t have the support of a well-funded international paramilitary operation based in the USA.
httpZ://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/gangsters-for-zion
This gangsterism has continued in many forms for 75 years. It became state gansterism, state terrorism.
But for some weird reason most Westerners expect Palestinian males to sit in Gaza twiddling their thumbs while their parents, wives, and children are beaten up on every day, often by American Jews who are aggressive and gun-happy illegal and militarized settlers (they are not genuine civilians); their homes are bulldozed and their lands stolen; their women are forced to give birth in the mud by the side of the road because Israel refuses access to a hospital if they need it.
Their boys are executed if they throw a rock an a Jewish soldier. Palestinians are not woke.
It is the Westerners who are loco.
Speaking of the Irgun, Stern, and Levi gangs, all of them terrorists, their leaders became the political leaders of the self-declared-by-terrorists State of Israel. There is no reason whatsoever that Hamas leaders shouldn’t also be Palestinian political leaders. I don’t know why no one challenges Netanyahu on this. His
Speaking of hostages, Israel currently holds thousands of hostages and has for years, bringing no charges against them. At least 700 of them are Palestinian children. At leastt, they WERE children when they were taken as hostages.
Speaking of the 1930s and 1940s, events in those years were NOT the birth or cause of the Zionist project. Officially its birth was 1917, but British Zionists led by Lord Rothschild had been agitating for and supporting Jewish power in Palestine since the mid-19th C. But most Jews didn’t want to go there. The Zionists were quite happy to cooperate with Hitler (Haavara Agreement) because the Third Reich’s desire to rid Germany of Jews was a stick to get them to go to Palestine.
Let’s just be honest.
To those who think Oct. 7 justifies every response of the Israelis, I suggest they listen to Norman Finkelstein’s discussion with Chris Hedges. When you imprison and treat people (and their wives and children) like animals you don’t get to call “rules” on them when they finally break out. And, as some have noted, the Hamas fighters actually stuck much closer to the Geneva Conventions than did the IDF.
BTW, Benjamin Netanyahu’s father was born Benzion Mileikowsky, in Warsaw. He was a Revisionist Zionist, a follower of Jabotinsky.
“In 1940, Netanyahu went to New York to serve for a few months as assistant to the secretary of Jabotinsky, who was seeking to build American support for his militant New Zionists. Jabotinsky died the same year, and Netanyahu became executive director of the New Zionist Organization of America, the political rival of the more moderate Zionist Organization of America. He held the post until 1948.[11][12]
As executive director, Netanyahu was one of the Revisionist movement’s leaders in the United States during World War II. At the same time, he pursued his PhD at Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning in Philadelphia (now the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania), writing his dissertation on Isaac Abarbanel (1437–1508), a Jewish scholar and statesman who opposed the banishment of Jews from Spain.
Netanyahu believed in Greater Israel. When the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine was published (November 29, 1947), he joined others who signed a petition against the plan. The petition was published in The New York Times.[13] During that time, he was active in engaging with Congress members in Washington, D.C.
. . . In his younger days, he had been strongly in favour of the idea of Arab transfer out of Palestine.[15]
In 2009, he told Maariv: “The tendency to conflict is the essence of the Arab. He is an enemy by essence. His personality won’t allow him to compromise. It doesn’t matter what kind of resistance he will meet, what price he will pay. His existence is one of perpetual war.”[16][17] ”
A classic case of projection.
The “Netanyahu” family were Revisionist militants who wanted all of Palestine for the Jews and the Jews alone.
Israel defines itself as a racist state.
He’s right about them. Free men are fanatical about freedom. If not, they will lose it. But that doesn’t make you wrong about him. He’s a fanatic too. It’s easier to see it other people than yourself.
Your reply is the best reply to our host’s article so far.
“Well, at least he doesn’t come out and explicitly justify the bombing of Gaza, which is industrial scale slaughter.”
Having been a former fan of our host’s writing I now suspect that he would relish a lunch date with Bibi. As for his absence of concern for the innocent women, children and old people being slaughtered… he wrote to me ‘attack Israel and suffer the “consequences’.
Pretty cut and dry insight to his mindset.
Actually JHK isn’t all that bright connecting dots. Until its too late.
All those injections….what will be that outcome in time? Who terrorized the Israelis with that psyop?
Certainly not eviserated little children, women and grandmas.
The whole thing is disgusting. I cheer on neither side and have empathy for all innocents caught up in the global reset. Apparently he doesn’t.
Your reply is the best reply to our host’s article so far.
“Well, at least he doesn’t come out and explicitly justify the bombing of Gaza, which is industrial scale slaughter.”
Having been a former fan of our host’s writing I now suspect that he would relish a lunch date with Bibi. As for his absence of concern for the innocent women, children and old people being slaughtered… he writes ‘attack Isreal and suffer the “consequences’.
Pretty cut and dry insight to his mindset.
Actually JHK isn’t all that bright connecting dots. Until its too late.
All those injections….what will be that outcome in time? Who terrorized Isrealis with that psyop?
Certainly not eviserated little children, women and grandmas.
The whole thing is disgusting. I cheer on neither side and have empathy for all innocents caught up in the global reset. Apparently he doesn’t.
It could be argued that Bibi has no incentive to save hostages. The more of them die, the more he will use that as justification to genocide the Palestinians.
All wars are not bankers’ wars, but in the case of Israel and Palestine, I tend to agree.
Remember the USS Liberty!
If they were willing to do it then, than they’ll do it again… Maybe they already have…
One thing we know for sure is the winners write the history. This article is another example of repeating the same lies (err I mean history) of what happened in WW2.
And moving on to current events, conveniently disregarding the impossibility of Hamas having free reign for over 6 hours before any IDF response.
Reminds me of the so-called Pentagon narrative where 45-minutes after the Twin Towers were blown up, there was ZERO military response in Washington D.C.
I refuse to live in fantasy land.
Mr. Kunstler,
Can you simply acknowledge that there were Arabs living on the land those abominably treated Jews were given by the great powers?
What’s so hard about that?
Alfred — Sure, I acknowledge that. They were evicted… into a vast geography of surrounding Arabism and Islam. End of story. — JHK-Admin
The Arabs – “sand n**gers” – inconveniently stood in the way of the ME oil theft, so the insertion of a few favorably inclined Jews, who European powers wisely chose to be “undesirable,” was deemed to be a necessary evil. Unfortunately, the Jews, being Jews, soon decided to take matters in their own hands. That little Zionist tail now wags bigger dogs everywhere.
You haven’t a clue, Jimmy. Spouting your bitter vitriol only exposes your ignorance and insecurity.
And a Zionist chimes in right on time! Didn’t you forget “antisemite?” I expected better.
Keep proving the point, Jimmy. You’re coming against the Word, which will eventually wear you out – just like Saul of Tarsus.
What “Word?”
Coming against the Word will eventually wear you down, Jimmy, just like Saul of Tarsus.
That’s my name, but you can go ahead and wear it out if you like.
The Word is OM. It is (supposed to be) Divinity’s primordial sound, and manifests generally as Creation and specifically as Divine Incarnation, e.g. Jesus.
Abe: What about the Palestinian Christians? Your brothers, right?
RD3: In the Beginning there was the Word and the Word was with God and was God.
Christ
I’m familiar with Logos. I was trying to goad him into saying something about how the Jews are the “chosen’ people.
That goes without saying, so he didn’t.
“Many people’s thinking is permeated by state perspectives. One manifestation of this is the unstated identification of states or governments with the people in a country which is embodied in the words ‘we’ or ‘us’. ‘We must negotiate sound disarmament treaties.’ ‘We must renounce first use of nuclear weapons.’ Those who make such statements implicitly identify with the state or government in question. It is important to avoid this identification, and to carefully distinguish states from people…” ~ Brian Martin, ‘Uprooting War’
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There are many people, including Jews, who disagree with States and/or the State of Israel, to put it mildly, as well as the Zion ideology…
One thing people might wish to consider in any case, is that Earth doesn’t really seem all that amenable for different sorts of humans to attempt to artificially subdivide into all kinds of wacky slices like a quiche cut by someone drunk at a party.
Any way you slice it, it just seems like the wrong kind of thinking and approach, leading to all sorts of problems such that we’re seeing again in something approaching human society’s perpetual-storm version of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot.
‘Here, have this fine slice. It’s getting all nice and round and if it gets especially bigger and stronger, it might even blow everything else over. You might lose your original slice in the process, but so might everyone else. So your misery will at least have some company.’
Sure, people can have territories, meaning the areas in which they hang out and roam, but this is different from enclosure which Israel and most or all other States seem to operate on and that appears in fundamental odds with a few things, including how Earth operates for most animals except humans.
What with continental drift and plate tectonics and so forth, everything’s going to be wiped off the map anyway.
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“The process of enclosure has sometimes been accompanied by force, resistance, and bloodshed, and remains among the most controversial areas of agricultural and economic history in England. Marxist and neo-Marxist historians argue that rich landowners used their control of state processes to appropriate public land for their private benefit. This created a landless working class that provided the labour required in the new industries developing in the north of England…” ~ Wikipedia
Don’t waste your time on assholes, Uncle A. BTW, my father’s name was Abraham.
Both sides win? The world finally deals with the Diaspora, first trying to kill them all, then giving them a homeland.
The Arabs screwed up and left of their own volition during the 1948 war. Abbas even said the same saying the Arabs rejection of the 1948 provisions was a mistake which he wanted to correct.
The Zionists who believe that the Israel homeland is a gift from God, were enabled by the Arab edition of the Diaspora.
JohnAz, ever hear of the Irgun, 1940s Jewish terrorists led by future PM Menachem Begin? Ever hear of how he massacred hundreds at the Arab village Deir Yassin?
Did the MSM ever tell you how he threw grenades into Arab marketplaces back in 1947 to kill innocent people and spread fear? Such Zionist acts of terrorism motivated many Arabs to flee Palestine rather than stay put and be murdered The Zionist story is they fled because they hated Jews so much, and were in some moral sense responsible for the Holocaust.
The book “Oh, Jerusalem” presents a balanced picture of the events surrounding 1948.
Begin may well be the godfather of ME terrorism. even Wikiped(c)ia admits that the King David hotel bombing was carried out by Irgun network.
I suppose the alliance between Hitler and Islamists is irrelevant to the discussion. After all, we Hebes are just untermenschen, rat-faced vermin who should just die for the good of the world, right?
Uncle Bob, you drama queen. No one said what you wrote above. But apparently it’s what you hear. And since all those cursed goyim are no better than donkeys having no souls, you don’t need to respect their lives or human rights. Your paranoia has imprisoned you in your own dungeon of hate, fear, and self pity.
For 75 years Israel has tried your policy of revenge killings, deportation, land seizures, apartheid, beatings, and imprisonment. How’s that working out?
@HMULLER
Israel has done such a great job of GENOCIDE the number of people calling themselves Palestinians shrank from under 1 million to almost 6 million.
Imagine if our Mexicans tried to murder and rape us at every turn.
Imagine if they taught their children that America stole their land and someday they would steal it back via reconquista oh wait they do.
uncle bob – i think you have one small detail mixed up.
wwx.transferagreement.com/
The moral and ethical issues of Israel taking over land owned by the arabs is not functionally different from the Europeans taking the land of the so called ‘native americans’ (aka ‘indians’). Oh yes, I forgot, we bought some of that land for sea shells and other worthless trinkets.
And then there’s the mexican territories now know as Texas, Arizona, Oklahoma, and Cali.
History, to a large extent, consists of stories of lands being usurped and taken by ‘others.’ The strong takes the weaks’ land and the weak want sympathy and guilt from the strong. Wheel of history, on and on.
Exactly, Neurodoc. It seems so natural and good when we do it. Manifest Destiny, don’t you know. Yet, land theft is downright wicked when it’s done to us.
When does Might Make Right, and when do moral issues govern?
A few months ago, I saw a video of an interview with a blue haired college student in a group demanding that the US return ALL indian lands to the indians. The interviewer asked her where she was from; her answer Northwestern New York state. He then asked if it was ok with her if her parents gave their home and land back to the Yuchi indians originally from that area. She said, ‘ oh no I mean the kind of indians that the cowboys fought with in movies, not any around here, those out west.’ Point made.
I remember when the term “blue haired woman” meant someone very old.
You’d think we would be better humans 100 or so years later, but go ahead and use the past to excuse the present. I mean maybe slavery isn’t such a bad idea either.
yes BUT USA pays in foreign aid.
not so simple as ‘all lands are stolen’.
“Oil theft”, lol
No?
If by “steal” you mean “buy”, then OK.
This sounds much like the fainting couch crowd who claimed the misadventure in Iraq was so “we” could take the oil. Meanwhile the price of oil is $84 barrel and the Iraqis are selling away… just like the Saudis did and do, etc, etc, etc.
Yeah we pay a fair price for that Syrian Oil.
You must live in a place where all that stolen oil is going. What are you paying, about 25 cents/gallon?
That may have been the human motivation. But the spiritual motivation was that it was a fulfillment of the prophecy God made to Israel that after two thousand years of diaspora among the nations (us), He was going to bring them back, and He did that in 1948. That’s what the holocaust was all about, was trying to prevent that prophecy from coming true. But you strike me as someone who doesn’t believe in God, anyway, so I know you won’t believe this.
Tuco, God mad that promise to the House of Israel, the descendants of Abraham, not to the Jews. The House of Israel consisted of 13 tribes originated from the sons of Jacob whose name was changed to Israel. We know that 10 of those tribes were taken captive by the Assyrians and dispersed. Historical accounts indicate that these 10 tribes migrated north and eventually became the “Scythians” and ultimately migrated into Europe, Britain and Scandinavia. These tribes ultimately became what today is known as “the west” including USA, Britain, Europe, Australia, South Africa. It is documented that these nations have enjoyed far greater prosperity than other nations of the world. Perhaps this is the fulfillment of God’s promises to Abraham regarding his posterity.
So where does that leave the Jews? After the 10 tribes were dispersed by the Assyrians that left the tribes of Judah, Benjamin and Levi in Judah for nearly 120 years after Israel’s conquering. Christ himself was not of the tribe of Judah but was in fact of the tribe of Benjamin. These tribes were ultimately conquered by the Babylonians and held in captivity for hundreds of years before returning to the land of Judah which was now occupied by other races and peoples. The tribes of Judah, Benjamin and Levi have literally be dispersed among the nations of the world so as to the point that they don’t even exist anymore.
So who are the Jews? Direct descendants of Judah?
I don’t think so. I don’t know if the prophecy you describe in your comment actually means what you think it means. Christ was not a Jew. He was of the tribe of Benjamin and Jews do not claim to be descendants of Benjamin but of Judah.
Can you supply a genealogy that demonstrates Mary was Benjamite?
@Cankerpuss:
Being Jewish, I was taught by Jewish authorities there were 12 tribes, not 13. If I’m wrong, please name the 13 tribes so I can revise the list. Jews may have been named after the Tribe of Judah by the Romans or some other country, but as a group all 12 tribes were part of the same‘Chosen People’, descendants of Abraham, and to whom God supposedly made a pact.
I know they disobeyed Him and pissed Him off, but I would say He hasn’t exactly protected them for the past 2,500+ years, and as far as I know, I never took part in any actions at that time that would have pissed him off about me. So why have I been punished?
Anyway, what we now call Jews are descendants of one people who were divided into 12 tribes. Being a member of the Tribe of Benjamin qualifies anyone to be what we would now call a Jew, no matter the definition.
Trying to differentiate who in the 12 tribes are ‘Jewish’ is a gross inaccuracy. Jesus was a Jew according to whatever the Romans called the tribes at that time. Trying to change that fact is for ignorant or anti-semitic gentiles – and I don’t mean ignorant in a bad way, but ignorant in the sense of not knowing. We modern day Jews just think of ourselves as Jews, period. It’s like white Americans calling any native American a Crow, rather than a native American of the Crow tribe. You don’t call a person of the Jewish Benjamin tribe a Benjamin.
Hebrews 7:14 “For it is evident that our Lord (Jesus) was descended from Judah , a tribe with reference to which Moses spoke nothing concerning priests.
Revelation 5:5 “and one of the elders said to me, “Stop weeping; behold the Lion that is from the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has overcome so as to open the book and its seven seals.”
Two clear scriptures identifying Jesus Christ as the Lion of the tribe of Judah.
Your statement saying that He is not is incorrect.
@ tuco22:
Orthodox Jews would disagree with you on that. They believe that the State of Israel is illegitimate, and that the Biblical messianic Israel–and its restoration–is supernatural in nature, not political or militaristic. I have to side with them on that.
The promised restored Israel and “New Jerusalem” is not temporal in nature, and refers to the Kingdom of God, rather to earthly kingdoms–which, scripture makes rather plain, are kingdoms (or principalities, or whatever) bestowed by satanic powers.
Plus, I doubt that the holocaust had anything to do with trying to prevent the formation of the State of Israel.
Some. Others are fanatically pro-Israel like the settlers.
That’s my understanding too, Anthea. I was listening to an Orthodox Jew the other day who said quite specifically that the Bible tells Jews they are not to have a state of their own or a king. That refers to the Israelites of the Bible, though, not the Jews who currently live in Israel. And of course it means that all those people making ‘end times’ predictions that supposedly include observing what happens to ‘Israel’ (referring to the modern state) as some kind of end-times barometer, are barking up the wrong tree entirely. I heard all of this decades ago, so it’s hardly a new idea.
I recently bought a copy of Koestler’s The Thirteenth Tribe, which deals with the history of the Khazars, presumed by many scholars – including (principally?) respected Israeli scholars – to be the ancestors of the Ashkenazi Jews, who make up (genetically) some 97% of Israeli Jews. They were (according to a number of historians) not part of the diaspora, but converts to Judaism, through a pragmatic choice of their leaders not to fall in with either the Christian power block to the west of them or Islam to the east. They made an effective buffer state between the two.
I have only started the book, but I chose to start with the last chapter, which is a kind of epilogue looking at the implications of the Khazar hypothesis for modern Israel.
Koestler was Jewish, of course, but also an atheist. He does not use the Khazari hypothesis to say anything at all about the right of modern Israel to exist, while accepting that many will use it to argue against Israel’s existence. While he refers to the ‘cruellest illusion’ visited by history on the (European) Jewish people (i.e. the illusion that they are descended from Abraham, which would only be the case with Semitic Jews) he takes the pragmatic view that the state of Israel is a full-fledged state, a polity with a military, and that is that – he does not see its current right to exist as having anything to do with the DNA of its citizens.
Christians also take the Holy Land to be their spiritual home. One might imagine an alternative history where there were, say, 20 million Christians in the world, mostly in Europe, and they were persecuted. They too might have found themselves in a created homeland in the Holy Land, without being descended from anyone in particular.
All of which leaves us with the same intractable issues as before with regard to modern Israel and the people it displaced and, to my mind, the exact same imperative to achieve a cease-fire before even more innocent civilians on both sides die in the bloodbath – and before the situation escalates in the way that the psychopaths would like to see it escalate. It would seem that the psychopaths had a lot to do with deliberately letting it happen in the first place.
The nation of Israel talked about in the Bible is made up of people, not a patch of dirt in the desert. The little hat people are no longer chosen, they messed that up. They can be a member of Gods chosen, they just have to accept Jesus as their savior. All you need is the faith of a mustard seed…
No, it’s not the end of the story.
How absurd.
On precipice of WW3 in this story.
Not a criticism of that concept Alfred, but it also seems impossible for some to acknowledge that their were Jews in the desert before there were any Muslims anywhere.
I find a great many who believe Islam is the historic religion of that area or something, and the same people often believe that slavery was invented by whites in America against African blacks.
Because morons keep conflating Islam with Arabs and any semitic person from the Levant.
Persians are not Arabs, but many of them are Muslim.
There are also Persian/Iranian Jewish and Christian peoples, perhaps of miixed enthnicities.
There are also non-Arab muslims and Christians and jewish people in Lebannon.
Egypt.
The Palestinian people are of mixed historical ethnicities, what matter is today’s religion in the region, except for the convenience of painting with a broad extinguishing brush?
You missed Beryl’s point. Islam is the driving force of conflict, laying claim to the land of Israel through the putative authority of the Koran. The Muslims have no intention of ever living under Jewish rule, even though they live better in Israel than most do in Islamic enemy countries like Egypt, Syria, and Iraq.
You miss the point.
The point is to make a clear and stark divide.
No gray. No nuance.
Absolutly no discussion.
It is evil Islam against benevolent Israel.
You are a liar.
You need go no further back than 1917 to build this case.
My point is that there are things on either “side” that just cannot be acknowledged by the other. I wasn’t adding fuel.
Alfred
There are at least twenty different ethnos that have inhabited the Levantine, it has had a target painted on it for thousands of years.
Why? Why is Israel such a target?
Not a matter of right and wrong. In whose eyes? Could it be it is a crossroads for the peoples of Europe and Asia through the millennia, with trade caravans passing through from all directions? Could it be that all the PTB through the centuries realized that taking Israel is key to controlling the ME trade routes. Could it be that today’s situation is critical because of oil and its influence on ME trade?
Could it be that the divide and conquer techniques the Liberal element of the US government, Israel against Islam and even Shia versus Sunni, use to control population is about to blow up in their faces? In the end, the USA will not get directly involved here. When the going gets tough, the US’s history since WW@ has been to exit stage left.
There has been a lot of digging recently and not much of a hint of a glorious Israel can be found. And it wasn’t all that terribly long ago, history wise.
100th: The Khazarians are masters of mind fuckery, conflating religions, ethnicities and rewriting histories until they have created the house of mirrors we live in today. humans need to do to understand any of this is “follow the money”..
Israel being the target goes way back to Adam and Eve and the serpent, where God told satan, “I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed.”
Yes, there are two “seeds” of people on the earth. Israel is the seed of the woman, who “gave birth” to Jesus, the Messiah, the promised redeemer of Genesis. That’s why it’s been war on women ever since.
You have no idea of what you are talking about, btw.
The Abrahamic religions are Patriachical. As Paul said, Women should not be heard in Church.
Feminism is true war on women.
Paul also told women to keep their heads covered lest they appear too attractive and make the fallen angels incredibly horny. Very dangerous, refer to Genesis 6:2.
Good point, muller. One of your best.
Some 20 or 30 years ago, a group of Ethiopians applied for and were granted entry into Israel. Thoroughly examined, they were reluctantly judged to indeed be Jews, descended from a group of traders who went to Africa in Biblical times, ended up settling down and marrying local girls. They met all the criteria. Their geneologies went back a long way, and they were taught the customs and rites by their founding fathers, passed them down for over 2000 years. and they kept kosher. Even the Israelis are mixed.
Their IQs have been tested. They’re no smarter than other Blacks. The Ashkenazi are trying to teach them. Their Judaism doesn’t fit in very well since they lost contact before the Talmud was written.
And people keep conflating Jews with historical Israelites assuming they are the direct blood descendants of the tribe of Judah. They are not.
Here are a few excerpts from the Times of Israel article:
“It is well known that, sometime in the eighth to ninth centuries, the Khazars, a warlike Turkic people, converted to Judaism and ruled over a vast domain in what became southern Russia and Ukraine. What happened to them after the Russians destroyed that empire around the eleventh century has been a mystery. Many have speculated that the Khazars became the ancestors of Ashkenazi Jews.”
“… In 2012, Israeli researcher Eran Elhaik published a study claiming to prove that Khazar ancestry is the single largest element in the Ashkenazi gene pool. Sand declared himself vindicated, and progressive organs such as Haaretz and The Forward trumpeted the results.”
“Israel seems finally to have thrown in the towel. A blue-ribbon team of scholars from leading research institutions and museums has just issued a secret report to the government, acknowledging that European Jews are in fact Khazars.”
Correct, Beryl. See my ranting post below. I didn’t add you to my good list, but you should have been there. I’m just fucking tired.
Beryl, you are wrong on the supposition that there were Jews in the desert before there were any Muslims anywhere. The term “Jew” was used by the the Romans to denote an individual from the province of Judea and was primarily used for geographic identification, not racial identification. They weren’t racially referred to as a “Jew” until the late 1700s and 1800s. If you are referring to the people that were wandering the desert under Moses’s guidance for 40 years, well, those were NOT Jews either. They were Israelites consisting of 13 tribes, including Ephraim and Manessah after Ruben lost the birthright to Joseph.
Jews are supposedly the remnants of the Tribe of Judah but I don’t buy it. Most Jews have DNA that ties them to the Khazar areas of Ukraine and so forth. The tribe of Judah no longer exists and has been dispersed out of existence.
Jews may inhabit the nation of Israel but they are not of the same blood as the ancient Israelites and lost 10 tribes.
Not even evicted in many cases. They chose to leave when urged by the surrounding Arab nations attacking Israel to do so, with the promise of loot and land to inherit after Israel was destroyed. In other words, they had no intention of living peacefully with Israel – they were and are adversaries.
Meanwhile, the Arab nations going to war with Israel pushed out 800,000 Jews and confiscated their property without any provocation or problems with that population. But you don’t hear about that and don’t want to hear about it. Consider why you are so profoundly prejudiced in this matter – all of you ignorant Israel haters.
By way of deception…
You are a liar.
And you are an asshole. There. Fixed it for you.
Hes not a liar. You’re an apologist for barbarism. But better a liar than a supporter of terrorists who burn children alive and rape women on top of the corpses of other women.
LOL! The story gets more preposterous every time you people tell it.
If you lived inside a Palestinian body, you would see this world differently, Uncle.
I’ve heard your pro-Israel talking points my entire 68 years. But the logic is flawed – flailing attempts to make a theft moral with diversionary issues and distractions, ( I could list a dozen).
Zionists are keenly aware of their moral hypocrisy. That’s why logic, reason, and higher level Jewish ethics fly out the window on this topic. “Might Makes Right” becomes the final solution to ethical issues. Yet force and violence haven’t worked so well, either.
According to Western Civilization true justice would apply the same rules to all, no privileges, no favoritism under the law for any people, even “chosen ones”
That’s why Christian Jews can’t really have their own church like other ethnic groups do in Orthodoxy. It would just become Judaism again. Their “ethnic sense” or identity is stronger than most other peoples in most of them.
Similarly, Arab women have to be veiled. For some reason Arab men have a stronger sexuality than most other peoples. They need this.
Of course I’m with you, but maybe you should have re – named your handle to something more neutral? BTW, my father’s name was Abtaham.
Thank you.
Unjustly evicted I would add, perhaps you disagree and would share why you disagree.
From my perspective the unjustly evicted have rights. Those rights include a redress of grievances. From my understanding of history, their attempts to redress those grievances were ignored or vetoed by the USA via the UN.
How long can a people with real humanitarian needs, and a recent history of being marginalized and simply wronged tolerate it? These modern times require some effort at finding a solution don’t they?
Here again, finding a solution was actually another means of maintaining the status quo of, essentially apartheid. One man, one vote, one state. But that can’t happen because Israel is a Jewish state. There’s a religious requirement.
Israel is using faith based facts to justify their behavior to themselves and their apologists, and they’re using real world facts to cry out the wrongs done to them, while they genocide the Palestinians.
Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose.
Where does this one sided viewpoint come from?
Why are the Israelis always the bad guys? Why do people forget about wars launched against Israel by all the Arabs not just Hamas or Hezbollah? 1948, the three day war, 1973, Israel was attacked and responded in kind. Like the War against terrorism by the US, Israel fights the small battles to offset Arab belligerence. Of course they will fight back against incursions by Hamas in the south and Hezbollah in the north.
They are making the same mistake as the USA has made over and over, quitting before the war is won. Over and over.
And just how, JohnAz, do the Israelis “win” the war? How many Gazans must be killed to make it a victory for the good guys? Aside from any moral issues, the strategy appears flawed to me.
There were 300,000 Arabs living in Gaza in 1967 when Israel conquered the 421 sq mile area. Now there are 2.3 million Can even the Israelis kill those people faster than they breed? Apparently not. So is the answer genocide at levels more effective than Hitler used?
What strategy?
The only thing that will stop the Israeli problem is when one side eliminates the other or converts them.
Ah ha, converts them? Will all Hamas be killed to stop things or will survivors become Israelis?
Time will tell.
War up until recently would answer: as many as it takes. When war comes to the good old USA, civil or otherwise, do you think any side is going to give a shit about civilian casualties? I also doubt these fine feelings are the default in the ME where the “strong man” is the typical government template.
There probably won’t be a decisive battle in the armpit of the planet unless the nukes come out but a limited response to the Hamas vermin is really not an option. I’m not a Jew or an Israeli but my guess is for them, that would be the equivalent of docilely marching into the gas chambers.
Good point, muller. The Kosovo Muslims smirked and said to the Kosovo Serbs, We will outbreed you – and so they did.
Israelis mostly live a Western style life now with low birthrates. Any one state solution dooms them to become a minority in short order.
The Palis must be given back the West Bank. The Israeli settlers must be driven out – not by Muslims, but by the Israeli government.
Jarek
The ultra orthodox do not
They have large families
They do not have to serve in the military
They are excepted
Your rhetorical flourish connects the Gaza problem with the Holocaust and proclaims it essentially all the same big thing, same actors – Nazis and Jews.
That’s right. Everyone knows those unwashed swarms of Gazan children are really committed Nazis and must be killed without remorse to save the Jewish people from ending up in their easy-bake ovens.
My comments above were for King of Comedy.
Don’t know but that “river to the sea” business has an Endlosung ring to it… at least to my ears.
Genocide, lol
Palestinian population in 1950 was 1 million now it’s 5 million. That’s some really bad genociding there.
What an estrogen-ridden hysteric you are.
You are correct, King. Killing 5 or 10 thousand out of millions of people is not an effective policy of genocide. But it’s not a love kiss, either.
Thank you, King.
If there is anything that drives me nuts, it the math these “It’s genocide!!!!!!” people use.
If the population multiplies during the said “genocide”, it’s not genocide.
Duh.
and the Orthodox breed like, well. gazans. like rats.
And Persia/Iran isn’t run according to the Koran, so that civil law, criminal law and religious law are the same. And there’s no bleed-over between the Koran and government throughout the non-Iranian Islamic world either. Oh, that’s different, because their god wants to exterminate everyone who follows YHWH, so the Islamists get a pass. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know. I’m a liar. And you support mass murderers and people who want to make North America and Israel glow in the dark for thousands of years. Gee, I wonder who’s worse?
Straw man arguments and irrelevant red herrings. You are some master debater, Uncle Bob. Did anyone say they wanted the US and Israel to glow in the dark?
The Iranian government may be horrible. So what?! Should we lower our values to their level?
The globalists and international banking cartel have done a lot of unjust and terrible things to people all over the world, including Americans. If you can’t see how that relates to Israel, you need a whole lot of education on this subject.
Mr K your honesty and courage to state it is more than commendable. Psychopathy is the enemy of all humanity.
JHK believes it was OK to take Palestinian land and homes because those people could easily relocate to another Arab land and start over. Really? What if someone applied that standard to Mr. K. – taking his house by violence, forcing him to become a refugee on the road.
Surely, there are many lands where kind hearted Jews would welcome Mr K. to their bosoms. So how can taking his house be considered wrong? End of story, indeed?!
“They were evicted… into a vast geography of surrounding Arabism and Islam. End of story. ”
No.
Not end of story.
Obviously.
Over 2 million in Gaza and 3 million in the West Bank.
Furthermore, 20% of Israeli citizens, living within Israel proper (not the Occupied Territories) are Arabs.
House (of Reps) in order? How so? This new MAGA guy is already suggesting Ukraine funding is safe. He’s already turning and he just got the job lol. Nothing changes for the better in Washington anymore.
The ascension of Mr. Johnson is promising, finally an adult in the room. He will have to make his compromises, but the high-flying days of dropping money from helicopters is finished.
Hope you are right…but call me dubious at this point of any and all motives. I like Gaetz at this point and that’s about it.
Making something slightly less dirty does not equal cleaning things up.
I liked the brief respite when we had no Speaker to speak of.
Yeah, no government. Wasn’t it sweet!
Except no one noticed. A reflection of what this feckless Deep State really is.
I was tremendously relieved when the House of “Representatives” when out of business. That meant they couldn’t do any more damage. I wish and hoped that the House would continue bickering for the foreseeable future but alas they are back to business which means more of following:
1. More money printing.
2. More bloviating about impeaching “Joe Biden.”
3. More ignorance towards the southern border.
4. More AOC.
5. More nothing.
I despise our Government. We would all be better off if one of these terrorist mutts set off a dirty nuke and wiped out the Washington mall with all of them inside it.
Self important blow-hards feasting on the labors of our grand childrens’ inheritances. Fucking bastards all of them. One day I hop they will truly realize that none of us need or want them, any of them.
You like Gaetz? Says it all…
no it is not—it will increase by trillions–there is no other way—if you think there is let us know–we are close to the point were everybody who is owed money will start calling their “loans”–it the gooooovermint does not act with truckloads of cash moving about the country at high speed the velocity of money goes to zero very quickly–then it is over so they will never let that happen–if you want to see how that works check out Turkey where interest rate is around 50 percent!!!! crazy stuff but every war that has ever happened is do to the failure of the local currency….we are close
An adult? The man is an intellectual midget eager to promote a theocracy. He doesn’t even begin to understand the first amendment.
What is wrong with theocracy?
If you have to ask, then etc.
Go live in Saudi Arabia and get back to us dipshit.
You two must be victims of public schools.
“What is wrong with theocracy?”
RD,
Can you say “eschatology”?
There seems always a fringe that eagerly looks forward to…Armageddon.
Jackrabbit,
I have known you were a fucking retard since I began reading your comments, but never did I suspect that you had an IQ below that of a crack-addicted Baltimore whore.
Most of the American colonies – nee early states were theocracies. They had established religions and tax dollars supported the churches and paid the clergy. There is not now and never has been any legal “separation of church and state” in this country. The stupid phrase comes from one of Jefferson’s private letters and is nowhere enshrined in the Constitution.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
It’s right there, buddy. No national religions.
I said nothing about a national religion. The bill of rights is primarily a recitation of what the national government cannot do to the states, not a declaration of rights. The colonies and early states were individual theocracies.
RD3
The colonies…..Jesus…..great argument.
Smoke a pole
And all the pinko lefties are purists when it comes to First Amendment huh? any step away from them is a step in the right direction. Seriously, how can people be so blind to see that the only way out of this is away from Dems/LIbs.
You aren’t even American.
You’re a German, a Hun!
Imagine how German Americans felt during WW2 with this kind of slander coming from the “free press”.
I am an American with an Aufenthaltserlaubnis
Classic Jarek.
“The man is an intellectual midget eager to promote a theocracy. ”
It’s worse than that – the specifics of his ‘theocratic vision’ are horrendous and I’d probably prefer Saudi Arabia to a USA run by Trump and supported by a fake Congress run and led by this clown-boy.
an adult with his biblical work of fiction under arm and evangelical dedication to the Ukraine agenda
Yes, this shouldn’t surprise anyone. No one gets “in” unless the democrats agree with what that person espouses, and apparently, Johnson checked all the right boxes. And I agree with your last comment that nothing changes for the better in Washington anymore.
I thought Johnson wanted to split up Joe’s MIC budget dream to make each package be voted on separately? He “was” against more money to Ukraine (they already lost) I guess until he wasn’t?
They do as they are told, nothing more. At this point I say fuck the Federal Government. It is a lost cause. Let them destroy themselves.
Focus local. Get involved in your local community, county and state. The Federal is finished. It’s only a matter of time before the collapse comes.
Will you be ready with your barter kits?
In war, there are winners and losers. Keep that in mind!
And they’re not always who you think they are. The so-called “winners” often end up losing after the fact, with hubris determining the final outcome.
Seems like the losers—US Civil War, WW1, WW2, Korea, Vietnam, The Gulf War, Iraq, Afghanistan, were mostly young men with their whole lives ahead of them.
Yes. Also, we lost our Republic and then Christendom.
Yes, sent to war by a bunch of rich oligarchs, and/or religious fanatics.
no war is over when the treaty is signed,
thereby history continues and remains to be rhymed.
Yeah, Great Britain was on the winning side in WW2 but almost immediately shiploads of Jamaicans began to arrive. If they were on the winning side, why were they being treated like they were on the losing side?
And why did White Americans begin to lose their nation after WW2? Did they really win or did someone else win?
That’s what war is all about. Chewing up the young men, and now women, of the next generation.
The problem with chewing up the women too is that they are the breeders.
Do you have an undergraduate degree in Stating the Fucking Obvious?
he said ironically…
that funny self awareness thing, huh?
That’s a bonus for the ones engineering the wars.
Bingo. WW1 and 2 were all about killing white Christians. Very obviously on a mass scale in Russia, mind-boggling.
The winners are always the industrialists and the financiers of the war machine.
The losers are always the rest.
War makes a few men wealthier, devastates economies and murders the innocent. Every time.
Time to state clearly the fly in the ointment: Israel wants all of the land, wants the Palestinians gone (dead, absent…just gone) and will never allow them an existence devoid of constant harassment. This is ethnic cleansing a la Stepan Bandara.What a proud moment. PS:” The world has already forgotten the butchery of October 7.” Yeah! And also 1982’s massacre at Sabra & Shattila, overseen by fat (& future Israeli PM) Ariel Sharon. Or “Operation Cast Lead”, one of several military turkey shoots into a densely packed slum… each an opportunity for the Israelis to gather on hillsides over Gaza & cheer every explosion below (which were, of course, ripping apart people’s bodies…entertainment!) ….anyone else think an immediate ceasing of the violence by all parties might be a good start?
The Israelis call the periodic massacre of Gazans, “Mowing the grass”. The term is pure Genocide.
Just stop. They had ALL the land originally. And stop defending extreme Islam. It is not political movement. It’s a savagery movement.
Define “originally”
the native folks of the usa—they 90 to 95 million in north America when the first Europeans came–by 1900 down to 2 to 5 million, 95 percent killed by disease,starvation–they lost,the other guys won–in the coming nuke war the same story,kinda,we all lose this time
There were no more 95 million people in North America than there are 95 million dollars in your bank account.
At the time of Columbus’s arrival, North America was literally still in the Stone Age, roughly 4-5 millennia behind Europe, Asia and North Africa in terms of technological development.
Stone Age populations were extremely low by default (that lack of technology thing is a bitch) and if you factor in that the Plains tribes were almost all hunter-gatherers which can support even smaller populations, even 20 million is a stretch. I’ve seen estimates as low as 1 million.
To put things in perspective, the Mongol invasions in the 13th century are estimated to have resulted in the deaths of 10% of the population of the planet or 40 million people so a global population of 400 million. By 1500, that number might have been 500 million tops so you’re saying 20% of the earth’s population was living in Stone Age North America.
I would recommend getting your facts from somewhere other than the “Decolonialist Quarterly”.
There will not be a nuke war. All sides are too afraid to use the nukes knowing once the launch theirs the other side will launch theirs. Been hearing threats of nuke wars for decades. Ironically, on the USA is the only country to ever use nukes.
I just don’t buy into the nuke threats. I don’t see it happening. Even Hamas doesn’t want to have all of Gaza turned to glass.
A stone age people who hadn’t come up with the theory of the Wheel in the 20,000 years they’d lived in the Americas. The first wheeled vehicles, simple carts, were introduced by the Spanish in what is now Venezuela in 1525.
As far as Plains Indians go, there were no Plains Indians. The Plains were uninhabited. What we knew as the Lakota People in the Dakotas & Montana were woodlands Indians that lived around the Great Lakes but were pushed out by. French fur trappers & raiders in the 17th & early 18th century. The southern plains indians, the Comanche, were originally Shoshone run out of the Central Rockies.
@ happiface:
Stefan Mollyneux (before he got cancelled by YouTube) made a video in which he pointed out that there are now millions more Native Americans than there were when Europeans began to settle North America.
Well, there are no Babylonians or Philistines left so next up is Hebrews if you wanna play this game. That’s the point. It’s not Palestinian land any more than Jewish land but Jews are given a space the size of New Jersey in a sea of Islam. Stop complaining. The whole argument is childish.
Israel is not an argument, it is a fact.
Live with it.
Live with it, everyone.
One thing to think about, what if God is taking care of business, re taking care of His people.
I do not want to be on the other side.
You are on the other side. We are on the other side. You just don’t realize it. Yet.
JohnAZ, are you sure the Jews are HIS people?
Absolutely, 8500 sq. mi. on the eastern edge of the Mediterranean, about twice the size of LA County. A little sliver of land — an outpost of European Civilization — which seems to be a thorn in the side of Islam who seem to think they own the whole Middle East, NAfrica, W Asia, & SAsia, not only hostile to a Jewish Homeland in Israel but Christians in their midst inside Persia, Pakistan (Churches are routinely blown up in Pakistan), Afghanistan & Lebanon, which not too many decades ago was half Christian.
Its looks like Israelis are in an existential struggle for their home country. The Jewish people have faced worse than this before — but at least this time around they have the means to defend themselves.
Looks like your comment up top disappeared, Islander. Is there a “retract” button on this thing that I haven’t noticed yet?
JimmyWord — You’re in the air-lock, likely to be jettisoned if you continue to make obnoxious comments. Just sayin’ — JHK-Admin
Both my comments were Nakba’d
Avatar, it looks like the age of uninhibited discussion is over. The age of Might Makes Right (out the airlock you go!) now reigns supreme. So sad.
@hmuller
It’s AOK to more than insinuate that all the people surrounding Israel be they Palestinian, Jordanian, Lebanese, Syrian, Saudi Arabian, or Egyptian are small brained evil animals who only kill and consume.
My question for all those who agree:
Just how long before you are labeled the small-brained evil consumers who need to be eliminated?
Sorry JHK. I’ll try to play nice from now on. To think, I was going for cynical and only came up obnoxious. My bad.
It’s only savagery when they fight back, but the savagery visited upon them to make way for the European Jews is ignored.
You can’t justify this by saying, “same as it ever was.”
We can all adopt the “might makes right mindset,” or the “whatever I can take and hold is mine” mindset. But if you do that, you can’t cry “foul” when the battle pitches to the other side.
You have to decide if you’re going with faith based facts, “Jews vs. Muslims” or modern real world facts, “Arabs vs. Israelis.”
No, because there is no such thing possible.
Say Israel stops invading Gaza and agrees to a cease fire. Then Hamas just turns on the missile import business and continues digging tunnels. More commando action under the wall. More and more.
There is no right or wrong anymore in the ME. Be a good answer.
No po’ widdle me. One side or the other is going to kick ass eventually, and maybe now. The United States just staying out of it might be a good answer. Getting Iran to stay out of it might be a good answer.
The world has been predicting the demise of Israel since its creation in 1948. We’ll see.
@ JohnAZ:
To tell you the truth, I find this whole discussion about which side is “in the right” in this matter, both tedious and irrelevant.
The only point of any importance, the only point worthy of discussion, is whether the US should be involved in any way–which it should NOT.
It doesn’t matter if various countries were mean to the Jews in varying degrees. Plenty of other races/religions/ethnicities have suffered the same fate. We feel no moral compulsion to restore Paris to the Huguenots and make sure, through military force, that they get to live there and call it their homeland forever and ever–due to the great injustice they suffered at the time of the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre.
It doesn’t matter if God said Israel was promised to the descendants of Abraham. As Cankerpuss has pointed out, modern Israelis–mostly Ashkenazi Jews–are not even descended from Abraham, but are a Turkic people from Khazaria, a former polity located in Ukraine and parts of southern Russia.
It doesn’t matter if the Palestinians were mean to the Israelis or if the Arabs were mean to the Israelis (or vice-versa), or if the land “legally” belongs to either the Israelis or the Palestinians. None of this shit has ever mattered in any territorial war–ever. Nor, IMHO, is it even possible to sort out the good guys from the bad guys in any war. War is about killing people, invariably including civilians, women, and children, and both sides are doing that. The side that kills the largest number of their enemies will probably win. Thus, it doesn’t make a lot of sense to claim that the side that kills the largest number of their enemies are the bad guys.
Seems to me that the only issue under discussion should be US involvement, and the only argument that should be advanced in any such instance is whether there is some advantage to the in US becoming involved. And, if one argues that there is such an advantage, they should be able to provide a cost/benefit analysis proving that the benefits are greater than the costs.
I see absolutely no benefit to the US in becoming involved. I see absolutely no benefit to the US in providing billions of dollars a year to support Israel–which support has been forthcoming since the State of Israel was established. I think the cost to the US of supporting Israel is up to $260 billion at this point. This is comparable to the US becoming involved in Ukraine and spending billions to support that country.
Nobody knows the complete genetic structure of all the Jews in the world. It is possible that some genetic material could be of turkic origin, but what percentage? 8.43 %? 56.19%? Was there turkic dna 4,000 years ago? We don’t know. What is Chinese dna derived from and what are their characteristics?oWhat are the characteristics of turkic dna, say, compared to Norwegian dna? What was Abraham’s dna? Why do people have to try to dig inside people’s cells to try to define them? A Jew is a Jew. Leave it at that. All this reminds me of trying to determine Black IQ from their dna – a favorite topic of Jarek and other neo-nazis.
As far as donations to Israel: It seems like you got that $260 billion aid from some source. Could you tell me where you got that figure from, I’d like to know? Israel has been around for 75 years, so is that $260 billion in 1948, 1949 or other years’ dollars? I suppose I could look up our donation in 2023 dollars to the Marshall Plan. It must be in billions. Why aren’t we complaining about that, or why aren‘t we complaining about aid to any other country? Could it be that we are at least somewhat a generous country?
When Haiti needed disaster money, why did we donate money to them (forget about whether the Clintons stole it)? Why should we bother giving aid to any other country? Oh, Haitians were really suffering. Of course, Israel hasn’t suffered at all since 1948.
Anthea, I think you mean well for us Americans, but you’re not thinking logically, especially conflating Israel with Ukraine.
ant, the one reply you’ve collected prior to this goes right back to tedium.
i’ll say now this comment by you is one of the few cogent ones in this hateful little comment section this week.
not my circus, not my monkeys – in spite of any claims anyone disputing that can say about this God forsaken government we have allowed, in spite of the best wishes of most good people here…
i will continue to repeat that no way in hell or on God’s green earth will I live to see my son gobbled up by the monstrosity this whole mess remains.
Yes. America needs to keep out of it. But as Netanyahu bragged, “We have America”.
Not to mention the fact that the dead and wounded tally on the Palestinian side far outnumbers those of the “innocent” Israeli’s, many if not most of whom were murdered by their own IDF Gestapo in a staged event to get things rolling. When will the shit stop?
The Arabs reminds me of the coyote as he tries to get the roadrunner.
He never learns.
Or Charlie Brown with Lucy and the football.
Does one really believe the PTB in the Arab world give one damn about those poor Palestinians?
Their number one issue is what needs to happen to make the Palestinians disappear.
There are as many innocent Israelis as innocent Arabs.
No one is innocent here.
We used to have an Israeli poster named Mika or Akmofo. I got him to admit that the tractor that crushed Rachel Corrie has been preserved and is a secret national shrine.
Rachel Corrie, sticking her nose in where it didn’t belong. She reminds me of the naive & idealistic college girls who travelled to SAfrica to ‘assist in the struggle’ and ended up necklaced.
Matt Bracken is predicting the defeat of the United States and the destruction of Israel.
He compares the American troops in Syria as “staked goats”. They’re just there to get us to be slaughtered and get us into WW3.
You don’t deny the tractor is a secret shrine I see.
the bracken / steve murray conversation was as based as anything i’ve heard in years i think. not for the faint of heart – seriously, but not black pill.
bracken’s views on israel have become much more realpolitic.
rss.com/podcasts/ltcstevenmurray/1192722/
murray is a voice rising.
A ceasefire is a necessity. Too bad Israel, the U.S., Great Britain are against it.
We need strong diplomats in the world now. Instead Blinken went to Tel Aviv and now sits in their government. I guess our Secretary of State is a dual citizen.
In the meantime Bibi’s son is frolicking on the beach in Miami while his fellow IDF reservist buddies are about to die on a house to house search for hostages.
One thing this upheaval has caused: Netanyahu’s and Biden’s legal/criminal problems are now on the back burner.
Ah, yes, Sabra & Shattila, Christians slaughtering Muslims, but then blamed on the Jews.
SMDH.
Paula hates Christians. She wants them dealt with as Russian Communism dealt with them.
Thanks, Rudy, for stating the obvious.
Khaled Elgindy sure knew what he was talking about when he titled his book about US actions to undermine justice for Palestinians “Blind Spot.”
“Remember the good ole’ days when we lived in a country where no one had the answer to this baffling question: How could something like the Holocaust happen?”
Remember when a drivers license was a type – written piece of cardboard with maybe a picture stapled on , or pasted on.
Or when a typical store credit agreement was a verbal agreement and a handshake , not 30 pages of legalese which even college graduates , who presumably have good reading comprehension skills , don’t bother to read , because in point of fact it is pointless to read it anyway.
What does any of that have to do with the holocaust ?
Maybe not uncommonly we don’t just jump from big bad things to big bad things ,
but instead a lot of little bad things amass into big bad things?
Like , I suppose Jarek will call me naive , but I have my doubts your typical Jew really had much to do with the woes assailing Germany 1880 – 1930.
Maybe those woes had a lot more to do , for example , with a thousand and one little petty tyrannies instituted to ameliorate or prevent some little bad thing that in fact in no way ameliorated or prevented the little bad thing.
And eventually all these little cures , which aren’t cures , adding up to a real illness ?
Kesa
There was a little band of Nazis that somewhere along the way got screwed by the Jewish controlled banking system in Germany. They formed the SS and eventually “The ultimate Solution”
It was all in Mein Kampf if anyone would have read it at the time.
Power corrupts the mind. The people of the USA have forgotten that message of WW2 as we follow these feckless “leaders” down the yellow brick road to our national doom.
“The people of the USA have forgotten that message of WW2…”
The textbook story of WW2 doesn’t really jive too much anymore or even resonate.
Too many holes in the vaunted stories.
See when we taught our now 18-year old about WW2 we had to include things like the real story of Pearl Harbor and facts like IBM assisting the Germans to calculate their statistics including and concentration camp capacity.
We had to explain that Churchill was a drunk, the Reichstag fire was a likely a false flag and many Nazi’s were allowed to escape to South America as the war ended.
So our son correctly views WW2 as just another sh*tshow like all the other wars.
The idea that people sit in a school learn the propaganda and “approved” story is long GONE.
It’s a good thing.
The textbook story of WW2 doesn’t really jive too much anymore or even resonate. – D from OR
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I try to keep track of how many times I make the same correction but it’s not easy. I think this is maybe the 117th time I have mentioned that the above bolded word should be jibe.
That one bothers me, too. Thank you for your service.
Yes, I’m also bothered by that one.
I really don’t know if everything you say is true (not in the sense of a lie), but what you’ve done with your son, seems to me you’re a very good father. You made your son able to think rationally. And in this day and age, that is a very big accomplishment.
It was over 80 years ago and that generation is almost gone. WW2 has become like the Civil War. A bad event that happened a long time ago and none now live who remember it.
Generations now have to learn those messages for themselves.
“but instead a lot of little bad things amass into big bad things?”
“Fifteen days to slow the spread”.
If I understand you correctly ,
yes , Covid is example ;
Swatting flies with a 357 Magnum.
Gee , what could be wrong with that ?
It’s just a mask. It’s just fifteen days. It’s just a little jab in the arm, you coward…
You still don’t know who the Rothschilds are it seems. They are against all nations, probably even Israel. But Germany was being sucked dry and a certain people had the biggest straws.
It seems Walter Rothschild did not get the memo
And remember when you could smoke everywhere, poisoning everybody?
Those were the Days!
Yeah, I remember that! When you weren’t relegated to taking your smoke break by the dumpster. But they sure liked that tax money.
You could smoke in movie theaters. You could smoke while you were standing in line in the grocery store. You could smoke in the office at work.
Those woes assailing Germany 1880-1930 were caused by stupid, incompetent, selfish politicians. Just like ours are today.
Woes? From 1880-1914, Germany was the fastest growing nation in Europe. Without the benefit of colonies to milk for natural resources like Britain (especially) and France.
Germany and the US were rising and overshadowing Britain.
In the 1890s, Britain, still number one, and the US almost went to war over Britain’s actions in the New World (the US wanted Latin America to be AMERICAN-influence, not Brit). The Brits wisely concluded the cost-benefit was not worth it (and they had India, the better parts of Africa, and so on).
In 1914, the British in their sneaky way poured some lighter fluid on the situation. They felt a war would set back their German rivals who were overtaking them.
It did. But it also broke Britain. The grossly unfair, ridiculous peace helped foster German resentment and urge for vengeance, which Hitler tapped into, and led to WW2.
Germany was building a railroad to Iraq to get their oil.
Britain put a stop to that.
You could put it that way.
Or you could say that Germany was transferring a lot of technology to the Ottoman Empire, to modernize it—its military, its administratoin, its infrastructure, its economy.
The Berlin–Baghdad Railroad was part of that.
Actually, it was an early Belt and Road Initiative by another name.
The British of course wished to maintain control of access to the east and India via the Suez Canal.
The historian Morris Jastrow is a great source on this whole topic.
He was also the author of “ZIONISM AND THE FUTURE OF PALESTINE:
The Fallacies and Dangers of Political Zionism,” published in 1919. Available online here:
httpZ://archive.org/details/zionismandfutur00jastgoog/page/n6/mode/1up?view=theater
islander, i would add that “a century of war” by engdahl, is one great read on the subject, and have recommended here before.
looks to me like jastrow deserves a look as well.
the great game, which britain mastered colonially, has been the bedrock of global geopolitics since the oil age commenced.
ah, the price of oil…
“To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize”
This is the inconvenient truth for decent, patriotic Jews in the West.
It’s very convenient for them. They don’t have to do any soul searching.
It is rather obvious that one cannot dare criticize the U.S. war mongering empire.
Be it Ukraine or Israel.
Look how emotion is manipulated to force congruence.
Same tactics last witnessed during Covid hysteria.
Those who do not enter into alignment are censored, marginalized, minimized, and disparaged.
They are jeopardizing
You and your loved ones health.
Democracy
The Jewish people.
Their profits and control (let’s keep that quiet)
“And who knows what those swarms of moiling migrants in the US and Euroland might be inspired to do… Jihad is in the offing.”
So the swarms of migrants are all Islamic? Practicing and faithful?
True believers in the cause – no possible way they can be distracted from their mission by the charms of the West.
How are these migrants organizing themselves? Do they have translators and are they fluent in the host countries language?
Are these migrants, many of them the lower classes in their home countries, even literate? Can they follow orders? Do they even want to?
How do these migrants fund and communicate between themselves? Are their safe houses?
Are they in cells? Free agents?
How does this movie go down?
D, they’re in the US House of Representatives. They’re affectionately called ‘The Squad’ by the fawning MSM.
The Squad?
So they are the ones charged with organizing hordes of migrants….?
Now that is a plot device in the movie I hadn’t thought of!
D they don’t have to be organized.
No they do not.
They can be disorganized and accomplish nothing which is the likely outcome.
The only thing the migrants will be used for is as a shield or patsy for attempts to create chaos.
there are certain people that just want to watch it burn, and justify it by calling it the patriarchy, or capitalism, or whatever.
can’t separate the bedrock necessities of civilization from how we come to answer those requirements.
nope, throwing stones and black pilling and let it burn take very little effort, but given enough that’s unbearable, any change is worth the price.
might as well put the saw to the branch on the trunk side while sitting on it bitchin’. very wise.
That they are in our House of Representatives is an insane situation. LBJ and his ’65 immigration act is one of the main reasons we are in our current circumstance with the open border and has been a curse on the country.
“That they are in our House of Representatives is an insane situation.”
By “they” do you mean the Zionists?
Not clear who is the “they” you speak of?
Racists.
I think it means the Squad, possibly others.
We do not even know what they are doing except for the occasional zealot incident.
We do not know if cells are being set up all over the West to create Jihad.
We do know that most of the immigrants are military aged young men.
We do know that the way to defeat the USA is in the ballot box by outnumbering them.
It is very quiet right now “on the Wester front”, a scary situation.
As John Wayne always said, “I don’t like it. It is quiet out there, too quiet.”
Don’t worry. You can be sure the Five Eyes spooks are preparing something. You do know that these alleged “terrorist cells” are something the spooks themselves created? That’s how they can be so utterly impenetrable (!!!) beforehand and yet so completely understood in the immediate aftermath of these staged events. That’s always the tell. Immediate and complete discovery after the fact.
And how do you really know the spooks are behind this? If you got proof, rather than just an opinion, please share it with us.
its not very hard to find x see eye ay in old interviews speaking about their deceptions now that the particular revelation is irrelevant.
“by deception shall we do war”… forgot, whose motto is that?
btw, your defensiveness in exchanges this week are coming off as reflexive and not well or widely versed – jus sayin.
jaz, the ballot box? srsly?
if that changed things, it would be subverted, with a bad count, or a pipe leak, or networked counting machines with a shadow man at the keyboard.
oh wait…
Hundreds of Chinese men are entering the United States every week. They hike the grueling Darien Gap with exceeding strength – hardly seem to be tired. They travel in large groups. They have one or two who speak Spanish to deal with the natives. They all speak English. They keep clean clothes in a sealed bad inside their packs. When they get here, they go into the bathroom, wash up, change their clothes, and get on busses for somewhere. No waiting around for services. They have money and plans. Chinese aged fighting men – or Chinese fighting men?
In a less organized fashion, other groups have set up here. Obviously the Hispanic gangs are very well organized. The Mexican Mafia go to work in suits. The plan to take the Southwest is said to stretch to thirty volumes, with the Mexican government on board. Where have you been?
There are many Muslims here. You think no Jihadis are here? Make your case. I’m all ears. You’re ridiculous of course.
Yes, I’ve read about this before. Steve Quayle had a chart showing approximately 25,000 Chinese troops stationed in every state in the union, except for Hawaii and Alaska (ports of entry). I’ve long suspected the food recalls were simply to cover for the diversion of foodstuffs to feed these people. They’re not all on the economy, you know.
They have a name for that southwest state. Azetlan.
What’s with the support Hamas & radical Islam seems to have on the elite college campuses? Harvard, Columbia, NYU, Cornell … students are out in the streets chanting “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.” LGBTQ crowds are getting in on the act too, displaying signs that read ‘LBGQT Supports Hamas’. WTF?
I was watching video from London, tens of thousands of Arabs in the streets denouncing Israel. I know there are Posters from the UK here; I’d like to ask them, do any English people still live in London? I saw a single one, a kid getting arrested for waving a ‘provocative’ St. Andrew’ Cross banner. The London metro cops were running him in for causing trouble lol.
The college kids were told that was the “in” thing to think.
These kids are going to a school that costs a lot of money. People who paid that much to go to school naturally want to think that they got something that elevates their thinking above that of the masses.
Add to that many of these people got in free or at greatly reduced cost, for instance the young people of the Nepali Student Association.
They HAVE TO BELIEVE they were owed something, in order to make sense of why there even are enough students from Nepal to warrant an association.
So they naturally believe whatever else their stinkin’ commie professors tell them.
We just saw a few of them get very confused when they signed a statement of support for the organization that murdered some of their countrymen.
Young people know nothing about life. They are not stupid, the correct word is ignorance.
Commie professors are a product of academia, an institution in America that constantly provides solutions for issues of which they know nothing. Instructor egos are enormous, what they preach is gospel, according to them.
I notice over and over that academia casts dispersion on the USA,
But never has a solution of what would take its place.
Biggest bunch of phonies in history.
Arrogantly ignorant. It’s a terrifying combination.
@ JohnAZ:
“Aspersions”
You don’t agree with the founding of the United States. We were the Zionists then and we dealt with the Indians playing the role of the Palestinians. Oh how we dealt with them! It came naturally enough after seeing kids and women who had been tomahawked.
You believe in Universal Justice no matter what. Thus you’re a commie too.
“The college kids were told that was the “in” thing to think.”
Do you think that is also what prompted the civil rights and antiwar movements of the 1960s and ’70s on US and other college campuses?
The perhaps really amusing part is do most Westerners even recognize anymore that the Saint Andrews Cross banner was originally a Christian banner , so the kid WAS doing a provocative thing ,
only it was the Brownies that would instantly recognize that , but the Westerners are oblivious to the meanings of their own symbols ?
And the burning cross was a call to action in Old Scotland.
HMMMM, Jarek.
Outlander has the burning cross used twice by Jaime to rally the Scots in North Carolina. Much of the South were of Scottish origin after the aftermath of Culloden drove them out of the Highlands..
Was the KKK burning cross after the civil war a result of the Scottish cross? Just asking.
Not sure. It’s a very dramatic thing. They don’t want us playing with fire, that’s for sure. The tiki torch march in Charlottesville really bothered them.
And yet the world’s premier intelligence agency miraculously missed the aggregation of 5,000 rockets and the staging of an invasion force, which basically just waltzed right through border surveillance that even cockroaches can’t evade (according to one former IDF soldier). I smell a false flag rat.
According to a current Israeli defense minister also.
In time, you will all be “the small-brained animals” in need of culling.
This is the only take-away from this story.
They’re talking about putting nerve gas in the tunnels now. How many civilians will that kill? Why don’t they go in and fight them hand to hand like the Chechens did with the Azovian mutants in their underground City of Steel?
I would imagine the national mentality of Israel regarding Hamas right now closely approximates the mentality of the USA regarding the Japanese just prior to the dropping of the Bombs,
Glass houses, folks.
Sorry geezer.
Was t alive then.
Not living on borrowed time, JAZ
I don’t believe in sins of the father
Nor guilt by association
Nor blood libel.
Like , the news is some bad person in Maine killed some people , and some bad people in Palastine killed some people.
So , consequently , something must needs be done , which undoubtedly means some more bureaucratic hoops I’m going to have to jump through.
Ignoring the fact that I didn’t know any of these people , don’t even live in Maine or Palastine , indeed never even set foot in either place once ,
and , believe it or not , I’m not planning on killing anybody.
And , by the way , the news is pretty much the exact same news as yesterday .
With the exact same something must needs be done , the same bureacratic hoops dreamed up for me to jump through , which were supposed to change tommorows news , except clearly didn’t .
And the news the day before that ?
The same.
The day before that ?
The same .
And so on back through 50 + years.
Bad people still kill people the exact same as they did 50 years ago.
The security measures consistently fail .
The ONLY factor that has changed is that I’m now buried under a mountain of bureacracy that didn’t even exist 50 years ago.
Excuse me , and another factor ; Generally 50 years ago paper – pushers were two or three workers out of a hundred , and security likewise were two or three out of a hundred.
Now both are at least 60% of the workforce.
And apparently even that is not enough.
Notice there isn’t a Wounded Warrior Project for peach – pickers , hash – slingers , or pencil – makers.
There is for security guards , who are already 60% of the workforce .
If it weren’t for big security, we’d have no economy at all. That was the lesson coming out of WWII, and they’ve been ramping it up ever since. In addition to being tremendously profitable, it turns out that the hoi polloi just love to turn on each other when they’re told that they’re all villains in turn. Who knew? Combine the two and you have a virtually bulletproof social control technique.
I can always hire one half of the working class to kill the other half.
– Jay Gould –
Hi KesaAnna. The federal quarterly wage reporting form 941 was 2 pages long for decades. Now it’s 3 pages long. About 80 boxes to fill out.
Trump promised to repeal 2 regulations for each new one he signed (and I have read that he actually was able to repeal about 7 old regulations for each new one). But I feel like the paperwork burden has increased, not decreased.
Our business insurance came up for renewal yesterday and we are offered to buy cybersecurity coverage. The FBI is supposed to protect us from cyberattacks. We already pay taxes for that protection. They just don’t do it.
Yeah, too busy trying to get Trump.
Kesa
Someday, the PTB will realize that things are out of control, that government can no longer protect its citizens.
That is when total chaos will break out and JHK’s WMBH will start happening.
The real tragedy is that people aren’t allowed to smoke anymore. Remember ash trays? You could smoke on planes! That was a nation worth dying for, eh Kesa?
Yeah, I remember that, too! But everyone benefitted from the taxes, didn’t they?
This is possibly the first time I disagree with nearly everything in one of JHK’s columns.
“There is no “two state solution” because there is only one place in that place.”
I’m guessing, RD, that this is one of the things you can agree on?”
I guess. The ME is befuddling. A problem without a solution isn’t a problem. Its not our business. We missed our chance to wall ourselves off from the world in WWI and WWII. We should have closed up shop and put the rest of the squabbling backwaters on “ignore.”
Unfortunately, when you’re trying to become THE Globalist Super State of states everything’s your business.
There were opposing voices, but they were ignored. After Lincoln, it was probably inevitable. He murdered the Republic and replaced it with Business, Inc.
” A problem without a solution isn’t a problem. ”
Fucking A.
But of course they certainly DO NOT teach that in schools anymore.
They don’t teach problems any more at all. Too many possible imaginary solutions meant no solutions at all. So problems – especially incorrect solutions – were found to be divisive and aggression inducing.
Kesaanna “The easiest solution to a problem is to declare it doesn’t exist” -Asimov
LOL! See that in business these days all the time.
Now THAT I agree with. Fortress America. Just wait and watch the world die. Let Nature give it to us like an apple falling from a tree into our waiting White hands. Let wind and weather do our work for us.
“Just wait and watch the world die.”
That has a certain satanic ring to it.
Did God tell you personally that He favours white people?
No. But he created no two things the same. As Theresa of Avila admitted that being smart was important for spiritual aspirants.
Having an IQ 60 like the Abos is going to get in the way of a lot of things, right? Or do you not believe in IQ? Or you do, but not in IQ tests?
Not believing in race is the same as not believing in nations. It’s your version of John Lennon’s Satanic Anthem, Imagine. One recalls Mary’s take: Everyone should be able to go anywhere and do anything. That really sucked for the Palestinian, eh? Just as having Muslims in Europe really sucks for those people. You’ll get it, but only when it “starts happening around here”.
I denied neither the existence of race nor the validity of IQ tests. I merely ask if you had some kind of inside knowledge allowing you to believe that God would have a natural preference for white people, because you often talk as if it goes without saying.
I am not personally aware of any grounds for believing He has such a preference or that He would welcome the rest of the world dying so that your preferred race would be the only one left.
“A problem without a solution isn’t a problem.”
That’s called a predicament, i e., no good or even reasonably acceptable solution exists.
Ignoring the predicament is indeed a strategy, though the situation invariably festers for the worse.
It’s like getting caught in a bear trap: either gnaw your foot off now and probably bleed to death or slowly succumb to starvation and the elements.
On the other hand if you do choose to wait it out, perhaps, maybe, “whoever” set the trap will happen along, set you free, and attend to your wounds. Or maybe not.
It’s not our problem, and it’s not our predicament.
Give the Palis the West Bank. But they all have to go.
I agree with most of his posts, but I see bias here. We definitely know which side of the conflict he supports.
He’s smart.
He’ll come ’round.
Just like with the Jabs.
Agreed. Me too.
Since WWII the west lost the ability to understand violence. There is no targeted or precision strikes and winning of hearts and minds. There is only killing and destruction on whatever scale needed to make the other side surrender due to fear and exhaustion. Then spending years hunting and killing anyone with fight left in them. Sounds brutal but works every time tried.
Otherwise stay home with you sword in the closet.
A good portion of the desire to relentlessly lob missiles at pointless targets is simply to turn stock over and spend as much money as possible. The more it costs, the better.
Biden said so much on the TV to the (presumable) audience.
Joe’s family will get rich off the royalties from his eventual blooper reels in the years to come. He makes GWB look like a mere piker.
” He makes GWB look like a mere piker.”
Yup
That’s exactly it. The deep thinkers who believe “war is not the answer” are tools but you’re spot on: a war that is not geared toward the utter destruction of the enemy should not be fought. A complete waste of time. There’s no better example than the Imperial Japanese. Suicidal bonzai charges, kamikazes, garrisons that fought to the death… but the utter ass-kicking they took gave us the situation we see today: it’s hard to find a Japanese person who’s not polite, let alone fanatical.
Suicide Cliff is a cliff above Marpi Point Field near the northern tip of Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands, which achieved historic significance late in World War II. It is a location where numerous Japanese civilians and Imperial Japanese Army soldiers took their own lives by jumping to their deaths in July 1944 in order to avoid capture by the United States. Japanese propaganda had emphasized brutal American treatment of Japanese, citing the American mutilation of Japanese war dead and claiming U.S. soldiers were bloodthirsty and without morals. Many Japanese feared the “American devils raping and devouring Japanese women and children.”[2] The precise number of suicides there is not known. One eyewitness said he saw “hundreds of bodies” below the cliff,[3] while elsewhere, numbers in the thousands have been cited.[4][5] WIKI
My son was in Japan on August 6th and the 9th of this year. He was unaware of the significance… The Japanese must be very forgiving.
Hhmmmm. Maybe a bit of projection going on, considering the rape of Nanking. Still, Eisenhower’s open air starvation pens for German soldiers were horrific.
IMHO, Israel set up Hamas to strike them in order to get some sympathy and get the ball rolling. I’m sure they have had enough of the rockets and threats. Israel knew we would support the news story to draw attention away from the Biden Family issue. Neither side is clean on this story.
But, in the end, we suffer from the games those in control continually play.
What we need in this Country is a “NATIONAL TRASH DAY”!
Impeachment and jailing of those who are using us as their slaves needs to be dealt with now.!
We’ll see if the new speaker is one of us or just some of the same. If not, it’s time to take out the trash.
Bullitt, not too many seem all that interested in nailing down exactly how this was allowed to occur.
I have come across one article attempting to explain that. Not saying I endorse it or anything.
How the Hamas Attack Took Israel by Surprise
Not just Israel’s 9/11 — also its Tet Offensive.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/how-the-hamas-attack-took-israel-by-surprise/#comments
“Both night guards fell asleep. Then the cameras stopped working. Then Mr Epstein hung himself. What? It could happen.”
I noted in past commentary, will reiterate: these false flag events are tiresomely following a basic template.
It is like tradecraft, easy to see once one nows what to look for.
(Hanging preposition
Netanyahu was in deep doo doo too. All forgotten. All united now. War is great like that.
Even Putin said in his great speech at the stadium, We haven’t felt this kind of unity in a long time.
Speaking of Mayorkas- I see that RFK Jr. once again had a weirdo show up at his house. His private security held the man for police, who came and took him into custody.
The man went right back as soon as he was released.
Being as the Democrats love to talk about threats to “our Democracy”, who is it not a threat to real democracy when a man running for president has to spend money on private security, while those he runs against have taxpayer provided security?
I hear some say that’s too bad, because he doesn’t support the 2A. What if he did? What’s he supposed to do, go out and shoot the guy himself?
Beat him up? He’s certainly muscled up enough to do so.
I could be WRONG , but I SEEM to remember Frederick the Great complaining mildly , in passing , and shrugging , about waking up to tourists peeking in the windows.
In a world that supposedly doesn’t believe in gods or master races ,
why especially should a few people have millions of dollars worth of security as if they were ?
In any case , no , I don’t feel sorry for them.
Is not Beryl of Oil squarely on your own every day of your life whether you like it or not ?
I pretty much am, but I’m not a public figure who announced for the presidency putting myself at risk of attracting weirdos.
@Kesa,
“why especially should a few people have millions of dollars worth of security as if they were (gods) ?”
I wouldn’t say I feel sorry for them, but no one should be endangered needlessly just because they choose to run for office. Beryl is not a candidate for office, which is why she isn’t offered protection. In any event, all those who are running should be provided with security, or else none should be.
Go look at Latin Mass Catholics: They are taller and more beautiful than other people. Their children even more so. Not always – Socrates explained that he was very ugly because of some very bad karma – but in general you get the body you deserve.
Beautiful women are very burdened. They often burn up their good karma because they don’t have to grow as people. Their beauty does it all for them.
A real culture would take them in hand and try to prevent this tragedy. But of course America isn’t a real culture anymore.
Good observations Beryl.
Why is it that people wear their politics on their sleeves today, it has become the number one divider of our people.
Could it be because now, one side has pretty much declared that their country is evil and must be destroyed? The other side has declared that that will be stopped.
“when a man running for president has to spend money on private security, while those he runs against have taxpayer provided security?”
Kind of like when you have the biggest military in your neighborhood plus nukes and are supported by the biggest military on the planet, and your adversaries have a few hang gliders and AK-47s. . . .
Seems to me that the point is we humans have already spiraled out of control. It’s an historic shift, and probably one of the biggest. I really don’t see much daylight between sides. Do you.
To anyone asking the hard question of how did the Holocaust of 1936-1945 (you have to be specific about which “Holocaust”) happen. I’d suggest two films recently released.
1.) “Ordinary Men” yep, ordinary men formed the ranks of the killing units. (Einsatzgruppen)
2.) “Savage Peace” The story of what happened to the ethnic German population of Eastern Europe at wars end. (spoiler alert, add another couple hundred thousand dead to the bottom line.)
Hey, Jews were used to kill heir own. Not just ordinary men.
Someone from Somali I used to live with once told me that many native Africans actually helped out in the slave trades. Hey why not ay?
Ever heard of female circumcision? Of course you have.
uh, slavery was in africa long before YT [whitey] started buying slaves there.
“Helped out”? Africans ran the slave trade. At least 90% of the slaves in the Transatlantic trade were not captured but sold by the West African kingdoms. They had them waiting on the beaches in cages for the buyers.
And that’s not the half of it. The African slave trade begins in the 8th century with our friends, the Muslims. So the Africans were selling to the Muslims for eight centuries and then they doubled their business by selling to the Muslims and the Europeans for another 300 years until the British navy effectively ended the Transatlantic trade (an action vehemently protested by the West African kingdoms). The slave trade to the Muslims continued, really up to the present day.
So to say the Africans helped out with slavery is like saying Jeffrey Epstein helped out with pedophilia.
Given that I was newly living with an attractive and intelligent woman from Somali who brought me coffee beans fresh from Kenya and so on, I didn’t dig too deeply into the business and history of the African slave trade. I accepted whatever she wanted to volunteer and sort of danced and flowed with wherever the conversations went.
But I’m not surprised and thanks for the enlightenment.
“Given that I was newly living with an attractive and intelligent woman from Somali who brought me coffee beans fresh from Kenya and so on,” — Zaz
Bullshit.
Amman (a Black) defends Islam in Black Africa. Thru cognitive dissonance.
Soul Forensics, unsure you were reading these threads when I mentioned partying with a few of her Somali friends and trying their khat and not being able to sleep for a night and the following day and starting to feel panicky about it.
Maybe do a forensics on the archives.
Keep in mind, too, that this is the internet and so you are speaking with people across the world with different backgrounds and experiences than your own.
Jarek, unsure how you manage your own ostensible cognitive dissonance, a term that seems to resonate with you.
‘The banality of evil’.
It’s how they ‘lined up’ the covid19 pandemic. To use the term that Night Owl once used; ‘enablers’.
Plenty of those to go around, probably including here in these threads.
I mentioned under the previous articles threads simple ethical shifts in the the operating system and got a few actually arguing against it with the rationalization that it wouldn’t work.
Yes, we have enablers in our midst– family, friends, acquaintances and colleagues, all.
Fortunately, at least they aren’t everyone everywhere… At least we hope not…
Yes, the enablers make it all possible.
The way you phrase that sounds kind of like a commercial…
“Our enablers make it all possible! So what are you waiting for?! Let our expert enablers show you around!”
Makes sense as most of the enablers are easily swayed by commericials, propaganda, and other things involving word wizardy.
Good point!
I haven’t read “Ordinary Men” but I think I read “Savage Peace.” I also read Hellstorm. I was always interested in WWII because my dad was in Patton’s third army. So I was raised to believe we were the “good guys.” Until I read those books. I didn’t know that it was Eisenhower’s policy to starve German POWs and deny them shelter or medical care. Or order the cooks to contaminate leftover foodstuffs from the mess halls with dish soap or other things to make it inedible for the starving scroungers. Or what his policies regarding the surviving German population did to them.
“spoiler alert, add another couple hundred thousand dead to the bottom line.)”
Expulsion deaths have been estimated at ca. 2 million.
islander, I was being conservative, they quoted numbers in the film but the filmmakers had an agenda so I automatically discounted 1/2.
“believe none of what you hear and only half of what you see”. (various attributions to E.A.Poe)
The Toughest Nut To Crack?
“The thing is Zaz, Anarchism has a track record we can examine. It goes back 150 years. Unfortunately it is violent & blood soaked; the cause of much suffering, with very little to show for your efforts except a lot of dead bodies & debris from various explosions.” ~ kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/halloween-parable/#comment-834519
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“Although I admit that the outcome in a stateless society will be bad, because not only are people not angels, but many of them are irredeemably vicious in the extreme, I conjecture that the outcome in a society under a state will be worse, indeed much worse, because, first, the most vicious people in society will tend to gain control of the state (Hayek 1944, 134-52; Bailey 1988; Higgs 2004, 33-56) and, second, by virtue of this control over the state’s powerful engines of death and destruction, they will wreak vastly more harm than they ever could have caused outside the state (Higgs 2004, 101-05). It is unfortunate that some individuals commit crimes, but it is stunningly worse when such criminally inclined individuals wield state powers. ~ Robert Higgs, ‘If Men Were Angels: The Basic Analytics of the State versus Self-government’
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“As I’ve also said many times before, both on this site and elsewhere, is that, either way, I’ll get my anarchy (at least certainly much closer to it):
I’ll get it by the decline and/or collapse of the State and, after the dust settles, likely back to smaller scales and more anarchic setups or I’ll get it by a very serious and fast restructuring of the State that’s far closer to pure/direct democracy and therefore anarchic principles.” ~ The Man They Call Zazelle
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Norway Leader Pledges ‘More Democracy’
“Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg vowed today that his countrymen will fight back against the twin terror attacks that have rocked the nation with ‘more democracy’ and promised an independent commission to investigate the massacre and help survivors and relatives cope with the aftermath.
Police have come under close scrutiny over how they handled the bombing in Oslo’s government quarter and the shooting spree on an island youth camp that together left at least 76 people dead, in particular how long it took them to reach the island.
The commission is important ‘to be able to clear up all questions about the attack in order to learn from what happened’, including what worked well and what didn’t, and to offer a full report to survivors and victims, Stoltenberg told reporters.” ~ telegram.com/story/news/local/north/2011/07/27/norway-leader-pledges-more-democracy/49954212007/
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“All they care about is chomp chomp and gulp gulp. One question they fail to ask: Would the Middle East actually be a better place without an Israel? I bet this hasn’t occurred to any of them. Once it’s gone, they’ll be chomping and gulping each other, I assure you.” ~ JHK
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They’ll cross that bridge, if it’s not ashtrayed, when they come to it.
Half-sarcasm aside, ya, it’s a pickle, maybe a paradox, but if we want as a species to live and thrive without successions of rinse-and-repeat declines/collapses and reach for the stars & planets ‘n’ stuff, we are going to have to transcend it, or?
Or I guess it’s back to ‘The Dunbar Number’ and relative small-scale anarchy for us and, if we survive, perhaps chronic successions of rinse-and-repeat until which time as we either evolve or go extinct.
‘Meat is murder.’
” it’s a pickle, maybe a paradox,”
Zaz,
Or…or a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enema….
An enema? How did that get in there?
“An enema? How did that get in there?” Said Hunter Biden when his laptop became public.
Zaz
In medicine, as in politics, by the usual method….
That’s the idea, guys. Abbott and Costello or Laurel and Hardy.
Mike Johnson stated in his acceptance speech the most controversial issue he will address.
He said that the Declaration states
“ that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator to certain inalienable rights , to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
He then reiterated that the statements “created”and creator, created not born, his words. That is a major statement on abortion.
Perhaps it is a major statement on Good versus Evil.
Methodic elimination of 30,000 soldiers living under ground is not really feasible without starving the country, which is what Israel is doing. Technologically advanced or not, Israel’s military is putting out some primal energy. Further, in a contest between their innocent women and children and Gaza’s innocent women and children, Gaza’s innocent women and children are more likely to suffer than be protected. That is atavistic warfare.
Joshua,
Do you see any parallels in history to what is happening in Gaza?
…Cue Stroop’s reduction of the Warsaw Ghetto.
History DOES repeat.
Or the systematic starving of the German population after both World Wars.
Interesting observation Jarek. After WW1, when the Germans agreed to stop they war even as they still occupier, France, it was wrong to starve them.
In WW2, given that my mother’s family almost starved in Greece thanks to the German occupation, not to mention all the atrocities committed by the Germans in Greece, Yugoslavia, and elsewhere, it’s hard to feel bad for their plight.
Greece did nothing to Germany. Yugoslavia did nothing
Greece was on the Allied side! Yugoslavia? What a joke. Croatia was on the German side. Some Muslims too. BRH things that Hitler was taking orders from the Mufti.
The secret to controlling minds isn’t just plain repetition, but getting into details as if the absurd premise was true. Don’t JUST keep saying the moon is made of cheese, but have debates about what kind of cheese and why. Show your work. People will be drawn into the debate, forgetting their initial skepticism. You want to fit in don’t you?
Jarek, stupid comments like this one cast a lot of doubt on your other comments, and whether you know what you are talking about.
Italy attacked Greece. It was a sneak attack.
The Greeks beat the Italians back into Albania from whence they came.
The Germans chose to attack Yugoslavia and Greece.
Yugoslavia had internal divisions. The Serbs fought the Germans. The Croats joined your German friends, who you seem enamored of at times.
Your German friends didn’t put any Rothschilds in prison or concentration camps, to the best of my knowledge. No, they took out their frustrations on Jewish tailors, accountants, teachers, lawyers, and laborers.
Before the Italy attacked Greece, Greece’s policy was to be neutral.
The Morgenthau Plan was to starve the entire German population out of existence.
So-crates: Germany drove the Bankers out of Germany, either physically or in terms of influence. Napoleon put the head banker in jail. Nothing change. He was running the economy from the jail. He buried in the deepest part of the Bastille. Things improved immensely.
War is deception – Sun Tzu. And demoralization. If you can defeat your enemy without a blow that is best. We have been defeated by the word and ideas put out by the media. Who owns the media again?
Soon, if not already, may be a phase-change point for Israel/USA-in-the-area, possibly through protracted guerrilla warfare.
American bases are already being targeted.
Sure Israel and USA are armed to the teeth, and nuclear, but that’s not how asymmetric warfare works… unless nukes are to be used on small-fry/minor attacks.
There is no such thing as a nice war, period. The function of war, legalized killing, is the elimination of the other side and their belief system and the substitution of your own. Technology has made it possible to literally kill off the other side, which has been happening from the Civil War until WW2.
When war is declared, there is no nice way of fighting it, no feeling bad for the women and kids of the other side, there is only elimination of the other side.
For millennia, women stayed home with the kids when war was declared. They became the property of the winners.
Today, not so much. Women have desired equal rights, that does include the right to die in war, right?
When silly, ridiculous women, led astray by mendacious, evil men, conclude that they desire something foolish, it does not mean that serious, rational men should accede to their demands.
Blinken meets with Wang today and explains that the US Fleet blowing up Iran’s oil fields “isn’t really what it looks like.”
I hear “Cackles” Harris is pissed at Blinken. She feels that because of her past experience she is more qualified to handle Wang.
She sure is qualified to handle wang, if you know what I mean. Just ask Willie B.
Wang Chung: Everybody Have Fun Tonight
youtu.be/BoXu6QmxpJE?si=pxhkRCdJdd-2XKbl
Oh no. Not destroy the oil fields. If war ensues, Teheran along with the strength of the Mullahs will be destroyed by the USA. We will take over the country, maybe with another shah. Then we will take the oil fields.
When the USA gets pissed off enough, it forgets all about nice warfare.
You’ve seen too many John Wayne movies. This is not 1953 or 1963.
Wasn’t the Iraq war started because Sadam Hussein was allegedly slant-drilling and stealing oil from his neighbors? Been so long I can’t remember exactly.
Then of course there was Colin Powell and the infamous mushroom cloud in twenty minutes. (Yellow Cake)
It sure would be nice to see the entire Blob gone, hanging from lampposts. Maybe the guillotine will become popular again.
No, it was Kuwait that was slant drilling and stealing Iraqi oil.
This was just after Iraq had fought a decade long war with Iran, at the bequest of the USA.
Saddam thought that the US owed him one.
He ran it by the US ambassador, April Glaspie, and she told him that the US “has no position” on the dispute, which he took as a go-ahead.
It actually was a go-ahead. It’s just that the US double-crossed him.
“To be an enemy of the US is dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal.”
Saddam learned the Kissinger doctrine the hard way.
Reminds me of that Mel Gibson movie about the guy in the kilt.
It didn’t interest me , except the part where he says ,
” What ? I never swore allegiance to that mother fucker. “
Mel Gibson is one of the best mainstream filmmakers in history.
I met him once, a chance meeting at a supplement store.
Danny Glover said hi to me in Vancouver at Capers. I suspect he overheard my conversation about feeling famous in China and getting tired of it and that maybe I could empathize with some actors.
Malth, what did he say to you?
Opps I posted a far less eloquent response below.
Reading from bottom up is detrimental at times.
Iraq War started because Saddam made noises about de-pegging from the U.S. petrodollar. Same reason Ghaddafi got whacked.
That was the second war against Iraq. The first was as stated above.
Yes. My bad. I was skimming.
Soul fetus
Get wacked yourself.
Actually, it is even more simple than that Iraq said Kuwait was slant drilling into their oil fields and stealing oil.
Sadam declared his intent to stop this to the US and our response was zip.
No response is the same as a yes in most cases until we decided Sadam was an embarrassment with his two crazy sons and a perfect opportunity to depose him.
Pappa Bush was smarter than darling George W in knowing what it took to keep this region under control.
The rest sadly is history.
Remember as you look at these countries to remember these people are clannish and everywhere you see a straight-line border it does not represent who actually lives in these regions and who they are loyal to.
The yellow cake thing was actually real.
Several hundred tons was removed from Iraq and moved to Canada.
MK-Ultra legacy office somewhere in the swamp:
“Damnit Wingerson, I told you nobody would care about white bowlers in Maine… we should have aborted, it’s already off the radar… so much for distracting from our not so special forces soldiers getting killed in Gaza and our bombing of Syria”
“The VA had him pumped full of all our proscribed meds and we had his “hearing aid” dialed up to 10. He was instructed to go to the Somali center in south Portland not the bowling lanes…”
Nice!
MSM is making the kook in Maine to be the second coming of “John Rambo”. Be afraid be very afraid. I figure he’s either in a hidey hole somewhere or swinging from a tree branch in the Maine woods.
MSM: “Sgt. 1st Class Robert R. Card II is a Petroleum Supply Specialist in the Army Reserve”
Translation: Sgt. 1st Class Robert R. Card II pumps gas for one
weekend a month.
MSM:” Robert Card is also a trained firearms instructor”
Translation: “He can shoot a gun and knows the firearm safety rules. He may also know how to clean a gun.”
Add “former” to all those descriptions this morning.
Bombing Gaza is a massive PR fail.
They absolutely should have gone after the perps they way they went after Eichmann or the Olympic murderers. People would have cheered them on.
I can’t understand why they would blow the worldwide sympathy they had on Oct. 7th. Do they think they control the Mighty Wurlitzer they way the US does?
The US invaded Afghanistan, which had no connection to 9-11, and got away with it, because they control the media narrative.
There were no demos against the US as it massacred the citizens of Fallujah after four mercenaries were killed there.
Raqqa was wiped out and the citizens buried under the rubble never found. The world didn’t blink an eye about that.
Only the US can get away with mass murder. Israel needs to stop the bombing now, and not invade Gaza, which would be a bloodbath for all involved.
There can be a two-state solution, imo. There is no way Israel will get away with mass expulsion of Palestinians. They don’t control the Mighty Wurlitzer, no matter what some people think. And most of the countries of the world have the two-state solution as part of their policy on Israel.
So it has to be done, or this will escalate.
We’ll see. I think the Zionists are all in on this one, though. Hence the US lackeys coming to the rescue to make sure it’s a “fair fight.”
Reminds me of high school fights back in the day. If a mere nobody dared to challenge a somebody, all the somebodies made sure there were plenty of friendlies on hand to make sure it came out out like it was supposed to. Reputations to keep and all that.
That happened to me several times. I remember being on the ground on top of someone and punching him, only to be pulled away by his friends.
beantownbill: “I’m not Bill! I’m beantownbill! Say it!”
someone: “You’re beantownbill!”
beantownbill: “Again!”
someone: “beantownbill!”
beantownbill: “That’s right!”
Bombing Gaza is a massive PR fail.
Yes. War crimes are still frowned upon around these parts.
Not in Fallujah or Raqqa, though.
It all depends on who commits the crimes.
Or Panama City, for that matter.
Why did thousands of people have to die, and have their city burned to the ground, for the US to arrest one guy?
And why wasn’t it ”frowned upon”?
What ? I don’t remember that. It didn’t happen.
Those greaseball taco people fucked up Panama themselves don’t you know.
I used to work with a woman who was married to an Army veteran.
She ended up divorcing him, because his PTSD was so bad, screaming nightmares, fits of anger, etc.
She said “They made him kill kids”.
I asked where he had served, and she said Panama and Iraq.
He loved kids. He was great with kids.
Those assholes made him kill kids, and it fucked him up bad.
So many facts ignored.
Iran is engaged in proxy wars against the US, Israel and the Sunni world in general.
Thats not to say they have not been picked on and messed with, but they are not sitting back and just taking it.
They are fully engaged in proxy wars and producing weapons to attack those they see as enemies, and they do so across as many country lines as the US.
Manuel Noriega was not just some guy in Panama!
He was the de Facto dictator of Panama and had a substantial military.
Ever been there Paula?
I am going to again say nope I doubt you have so much as crossed the Mexican border much less been to Panama.
I was there frequently over the course of 1993- 1996 so much so that I went off the beaten paths and saw and talked to many Panamanians that were less than pro- America.
They only thing they were less favorable towards was Manny.
The Panamanian military put up a fight and at the time you could still find bombed out burned bullet pock marked bases all over the region.
Manny was heavy into the cocaine trade and not the nicest man.
You seem to ignore the evils involved in many of the dust up America becomes involved in and ONLY FOCUS on Americans pitfalls.
See this is the fallacy if the leftist mentality.
Israelis think the world is on their side.
Like many in DC also think the world is on our side.
The world turns.
The worm turns.
The Islamic-Arab world is emerging.
A side note: It may be the LE will bust BOTH the US and Israel.
Israel OWNS the US. It is a grotesque amalgamation where the US dances to Israel’s piping. Between Epstein and the installed Kenyan asset, we have no government, just an installed occupying deep spook dictatorship, thinly veiled by a relentless propaganda machine. Everything is theater, all in service of culling, stealing, deceiving.
Something I wouldn’t have noticed, Michelle Obama stopped tweeting after the attack in Israel.
This man has a theory as to why:
“It’s Day 20! Michelle Obama usually tweets 3 times per day, but has not posted ANYTHING on Twitter since the HAMAS attack on Israel on Oct 7. Michelle does not want to weigh in on the war, so she can’t say anything at all. She doesn’t want to offend any voting block for 2024.”
https://x.com/JoelSGilbert/status/1717555341054144570?s=20
I had no idea that Big M. had opinions about anything except whole wheat pizza crust and that Oprah was fat.
And how much “she” enjoys having Barry felate “her,” of course.
Not having any opinions is true leadership. Just see which way people are going and get out in front of them with a megaphone.
More Cowbell!
I just have to comment on all this shit. Humans are disgusting, mostly. Personally I’m sick of all the back and forth commenting about what no one really knows. I would leave this blog forever, except I’m addicted to it, so I’ll stay here – maybe.
I love the way some commenters speak as if they were privy to hidden information, when in fact they are using ‘logic’ originating from their own diseased minds.
I would equate most comments as equal to those who claim alien lizards are on Earth controlling everything. I’m just waiting for a nutcase du jour to start cutting up people to find the lizards living inside. I know some here will now joke about this comment, but I’m dead serious, humor is unwanted.
I don’t know what is ‘right’ wrt the ME, but I do know that isn’t the real issue. Humans are extincting (I made up this word) themselves but no one here seems willing to discuss this in depth. I see some CFNers mentioning it, but imo that ought to be the major topic, not whether some Jews or some Muslims did this or that. I’m Jewish, I wholeheartedly support Israel, but that isn’t ultimately important. Humans have been extant for hundreds of thousands of years, and those we call Jews for only 4,000 years.
If God created the human species after working so hard for 6 days that he needed to rest afterwards, I’d think He would be interested in conserving the human race. Maybe we should be talking about human survival, not flinging poo at each other like the primates who’re our cousins.
One last thing. There seems to be some clear-headed posters here who have an accurate sense of what’s important. I’m especially calling out (in a good way) Marlin, JAZ, Paula and some others. I’ve done this before and someone else says, “What about so and so”? There are others but I’m too beat to mention them. These 3 stick in my mind for whatever reason.
See ya – from a sick and tired CFNer.
P.S.
And thank you Jim. I always appreciate your postings. I get the feeing you’re about as frustrated as I am.
What crawled up your butt, Bill?
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Sorry. I couldn’t resist.
Ha, ha! At least you made me laugh.
It’s good to have you back, buddy!
I’ve never really been away. Things sometimes get to me to the point I don’t want to comment.
@BeantownBill, I too have no idea what is right as far as the ME is concerned. I’ve found that I’m overly influenced, temporarily, by whatever article I just read, and I always keep that in mind. Invariably the many narratives cancel each other out. There is truth in there somewhere, but I’m not equipped to discover it.
I always return to a lesson I learned as an adolescent, when I read a book about the Lindbergh kidnapping, a crime that may have never been solved. It laid out a plausible case for its particular theory and was replete with charts, letters, time tables, testimonies. It absolutely convinced me, until I discovered that there were many other books written on this same subject. I read all of them, obsessively, and they were all equally carefully thought out, with every sort of evidence to back up the theories – yet, clearly, all except for one were wrong and I had no means of knowing which one. The realization that an apparently air tight case is easily undone by another apparently air tight case made me permanently suspicious.
So I ask myself if there’s anything in this situation that I can know for sure, and there is. I know for a certainty that Muslims, imported anywhere else, are destructive to the hosts who welcomed them. Therefore they’re not refugees seeking escape from war, but potential combatants hoping to disrupt formerly peaceful countries. They have internal schisms as well, and their own Muslim neighbors don’t want more of them. I don’t see Jews rioting in the streets anywhere where they have a presence.
That said, it’s bigger and worse than it appears. People don’t seem to realize that this could finish us off, and maybe we deserve it. We’re arguing about the details, which won’t matter in the long run if wiser heads don’t prevail. There are actually plenty of those, but almost all the positions of power appear to be occupied by sociopaths.
@ Rowdy,
Yes, you are correct about everything in this post. I always appreciate good, honest postings and yours is one.
We are living in truly very dangerous times. This second, my thought is we are 50-50 that an extinction level event or at least a civilizational-ending event will occur. I can’t begin to tell you how much I want the right 50% happens.
My most fervent wish is not only that we survive this mess, but continue to thrive.
I’ve said this before, but for anyone who cares, I highly recommend reading Theodore Sturgeon’s great short story ‘Thunder and Roses’. This is why the rightness or wrongness of the current event is not important.
_Thunder and Roses_ is a great yarn.
Thank you. It’s one of favorites.
beantownbill, Thanks for reminding me of “Thunder and Roses.” Having now reread it, after a lapse of many years, it has become less a fable and more a warning of imminent doom.
Yeah, you’re right and that’s the very most scary part.
Thank you, RowdyPiglet, for a great comment. Since there is no thumbs up or down function here, this is the only way to let you know that I really appreciate every bit of your thoughtful comment.
” I don’t see Jews rioting in the streets anywhere where they have a presence. ”
I guess you haven’t been paying attention!
Thanks to Antifa, BLM and the Democrat party protesting is now conflated with rioting.
Protesting means peaceful non-destructive displays of getting a message out including walkouts from work and picketing.
What are the rules of picketing?
Picketing is confined to public areas surrounding the employer’s premises, at the designated picketing areas. As a general rule, there should be no picketing on private property or in the streets. The picket sign should never go near a gate reserved for other contractors.
Rioting is anything but that including just getting in peoples way so they can’t go about their daily business. See definition of picketing rules!
Rioting is the extremist usually Communist/Anarchist/Socialist way of doing things.
We now get a heaping helping of looting for reparations and faux suffering.
The fucking Communist scum are subverting everything in America to a crass level of anger and violence.
Bill, you can’t cut someone open to find the lizard inside anymore than you can find their soul. You have a lot to learn about lizard hunting.
True. I’m not real experienced in lizard hunting. But I can cut someone open who I think is a lizard. Not that I’m about to.
Any Biden deep state appointee can be presumed reptilian. If we get one wrong, God will sort it out.
True enough.
The Gauleiter is making lists again. Don’t talk in ways he doesn’t like.
Might get a rehash of the Covid days, where Bill tells us to shut up if we don’t like medical tyranny.
No groceries for us!
I think OG’s name for you is now fuckface. Sounds pretty accurate to me. Hi, fuckface. Bye, fuckface.
Why thank you, Gauleiter.
Your welcome, fuckface.
Your kind didn’t get us on cattle cars, Bill.
Too bad, so sad.
For God’s sake, who the fuck cares which side is right in the middle east? Truth is it’s none of our f’ing business other than how it directly affects the US, via oil. I feel bad for the Jews in Israel, they only have two choices, start treating the Palestinians as human and begin the process of integrating them into their society ( which many Jews in this country have worked diligently here in the U.S. to force on the rest of us), or say fuck it and genocide the Palestinians ala our choice with our native Americans. The last thing we need is WW3, which is where all of this is heading. There is not one politician in this country that has a clue of what to do, yet they all act like they’re King Solomon. I say let them duke it out and deal with the winner.
I agree. Just be aware, that many Palestinians are enmeshed in Israeli society, treated well, and some actually in the Israeli parliament. Just like some Blacks are Republicans and serve in Congress.
It’s my understanding that few, and maybe very, very few, of the Israeli
Jews have any genetic connection to the Judean or Biblical Jews of the
Old Testament. They are Khazarian and Ashkanazi – people of Turkic
ancestry. So much for being “the chosen people”.
Yes, that is mostly true, though many have intermarried and have some Semitic blood just as I have native American in mine. A fact the Muslim world is aware of.
Look at the Israeli military. They often don’t look like Jews as we know them. A lot of Israelis look like other Middle Easterners.
The Sephardim know their role.
Spoken like a true aristocrat. You are an Aryan! You sit like Effendi while these lesser ones fight for you.
WW2 was ultimately the battle between two groups of Aryans, ours and yours. The money power won and is slowly genociding the losing group of Aryans just like the winning band of chimps did to the losing group in the Gombe reserve war.
Paula doesn’t understand slow genocide. The flower opens too slowly for the human eye to see, but open it does.
LOL, “slow genocide.”
Jarek definitions
Slow genocide = Rapid population growth:
Up = Down.
War = Peace
But he won’t ever redefine black as white, of course. That would just be wrong.
“But he won’t ever redefine black as white, of course. That would just be wrong.” ~ Paula D
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Elon Musk:
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Ironically, those goy Palestinians probably have more genes from the Biblical Israelites than the Ashkenazim who claim that Yahweh’s land deed applies to them.
Bin Ladin made a joke about that once, while he was still alive.
Ever see the picture of him a goofy student into disco? Compare that to him later! Such is the height to which Islam can raise a man.
Bin Ladin made a joke about that once, while he was still alive. – Jar
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Jar, it was unnecessary to tell us it was when he was still alive.
It was a rhetorical flourish, Q. You are too logical where that amount of logic isn’t needed. And of course, not interested in logic per se so often illogical in argument.
They are the Mizrahi Jews.
Les miserables?
Who really gives a shit?
Also, the Khazarian empire is basically where the Ukraine is now. One of those things that make you go hmm….
“abominably in the 1930s and 40s.”
Sykes-Picot 1916?
Versailles – 1919?
seven years of insanity, fer sure
Before Yahweh, Moloch fed off that fiefdom, the “slab of land.”
“And he defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to Molech.”
It looks that JWVH was invoked to protect the weak against this entity. In return, he demanded monotheism and obeisance. One of the many Semite tribes of the area sealed a pact and was declared “chosen.” All those tribes were weak and had to tithe babies and children annually for horrendous murder and depravity festivals. So YWVH, our own God of the last 4,000 years or so, broke into our awareness and into existence (direct correlation) as a god of the weak.
I have no idea whether part, all, or none of the approved dogmas of the monotheistic trifecta (Jewish, Christian, Muslim) are true.
Easter island’s original peoples were all related, and arrived together in ocean faring craft to this isolated spot in the middle of the Pacific. Nonetheless, they waged constant war of clan against clan, erected colossal stone idols, ate the few animals available to extinction and in turn went extinct themselves. Because they were human.
That’s likely the fate of the slab of land, on a grander scale.
The solution, of course, would be for these two warring tribes to shake hands and share the land. But we’re human, so it won’t happen.
The Jews were weak and pacific for most of their existence as a national and religious bloc. A few years around King David and so on, but for the most part they were an industrious and peaceful people, more interested in the arts, commerce, the professions, and manufacturing. The craftier and greedier ones went into finance and the power it affords, which is true for every group. Those stale accusations of “Joos running the world” are laughable when you consider that for every evil banker there’s 3 dentists, 8 rabbis, a librarian, 12 mom and pop store owners, and so on. In short, blokes like the rest of us, with their quirks and peculiar customs.
So their close encounter with Moloch once again in 1940’s Europe, and YHVH, god of the weak, unable or unwilling to protect them probably inclined them to stop being weak, and they’ve been at it ever since, which is not a long time when you consider the time scale of their story. That said, they don’t really rejoice, Israelis, in the horrors of war. It’s a price to be paid. The other side seems to celebrate barbarism a tad more.
These are all musings and generalizations, but talk about touching the third rail: before the end of the weekend, Mr K’s forum will be greatly depopulated, at this rate. Seems that most find it hard to discuss the topic without foaming at the mouth and a diarrhea of insults and tantrums.
Mice in the proverbial experiment, fed the same amount, at first thrive, then they propagate too much, go hungry, and start killing each other. Without religion or politics! Only cheap grain, or in fact free in many cases, imported or donated, has kept those millions alive. Now, at the beginning of the era of resource depletion, that arrangement has come into question. So there’s that side, too.
Another side is that Bibi N is a truly bad apple, a hate monger and psychopath of massive ego. I was there in 1996 as a farm worker, when he surprised everyone by beating Peres by a hair. He’s been in and out of power ever since, and let’s leave it at, he hasn’t been a force for good.
My 2¢.
As for nukes, there’s a good chance. But not Armageddon yet. Normalizing a tactical here, a vaporized city there, in the race for dominance and resources in the decades ahead. Add that tool to the toolbox, like the blood thirsty generals and neocons like to say. Good times for the MIC, that’s for sure. I see fat bonuses and political contributions raining down like mannah from heaven.
There used to be a lot of superficial talk about Gnostics and Gnosticism here.
Consider the bush was on fire for good reason.
Consider it called for a pact.
A deal.
For animal and human sacrifice.
A demand to exalt above all else.
So it went with Yaldobaoth.
Hell on earth
Its earth
The hexagram differs from the pentagram as it has one more point.
The pentagram was a sign of humanity.
The human alone.
Point added
Meditate on the Pyramid. Just take a dollar bill out turn it over and study the Pyramid diagram there.
The very few control the very many. Our foreign policy is controlled by a very few Americans of Jewish descent on behalf of Jewish interests – at least much of the time. Israel take precedence over America qua America – assuming you even want to make a distinction.
Good post, Rulo.
Are any of the Kibbutzim still secular and socialist idealist? Many of the early ones were. They said – and I believe them – that they wanted to create something special with the Palestinians. But the sheer number of Jews coming in doomed all such idealism. As Hegel said, quantity becomes quality.
And some of the Palestinians welcomed the vast amount of capital pouring in. They thought it would improve their lives. No doubt they stopped seeing it that way. The few that continued to would have learned to keep quiet about it. Sell their land and move to Cairo or Beirut – away from their doomed and suffering people.
Actually, a friend and former intelligence officer relayed to me what the guy in charge of our nuclear policy told him, that countries like Russia see tactical nukes as a legitimate defense in certain circumstances ( such as a NATO excursion into Russia) but U.S. policy is one sided. A single nuke used will trigger a full scale barrage of missiles, first wave targeting military targets, the second wave following seconds later targeting civilian population centers. The idea being the first to strike wins. Don’t tell me we ain’t on the eve of destruction.
That’s how most street fights go down. A sucker punch followed by a flurry. The victim never has a chance to recover and defend themselves in most cases.
I’ve seen a few hockey fights go down the same way.
Those stale accusations of “Joos running the world” are laughable when you consider that for every evil banker there’s 3 dentists, 8 rabbis, a librarian, 12 mom and pop store owners, and so on. In short, blokes like the rest of us, with their quirks and peculiar customs.
I see what you did there. You stated the argument: “Joos [are] running the world” but then actually argued against “All Joos [are] running the world.”
And you called anybody who didn’t simple-mindedly follow along with your deception, “laughable” (i.e. to be scorned).
And the whole time, evil bankers really do run our planet!
C’mon, Rulo. You’re better than that.
No he isn’t. He should and could be, but he isn’t.
Rulo: There are good Italians, Japanese, and Jews. And there are bad Italians, Japanese, an Jews.
Jarek: Yeah but which group controls banking and media?
No response. What could he say after all?
Some spoke of the “tribe of 13” earlier in the comments. Generally speaking, this is the “seed war” which has existed since Abraham. Spiritual warfare is the battle being waged and God’s prophecies are being fulfilled. Read Zechariah 9 and 10, but especially 5-8 “Gaza will writhe in agony’ and Ashkelon (city in Israel) will be deserted.”
Follow up with Ephesians 6, especially from 6:10, to be prepared.
I am not a religious scholar or anything, but wanted to point out what has been written and what can be done.
JHK also pointed out the similarities of Hitler’s tyranny and today – quite impressive. Need we also wonder anymore, how Venezuela fell?
Who is more firmly in the pocket, Haley or DeSantis?
Both avowed neocons.
Both legacy members of the deep state.
Both bought by AIPAC, with DeSantis going so far as to send guns and ammo over.
A Florida governor is now arming Israel.
This is how bad he needs that WestPalm Boca Ratón $ and votes.
Fiddle the tune, watch them dance.
But no, undue influence does not exist to American’s detriment
I just wrote DeSantis this morning asking him exactly where in the constitution he has the right to exercise foreign policy. Sheesh, why can’t he just visit the wailing wall wearing a yarmulke while kissing it like every other politico?
He did.
A long time ago.
Kissing that ring didn’t give his doomed campaign the jolt he expected
Alexander Mercouris, watching the propaganda roll out, as well as the US mobilization, thinks that this is the US going to war against Iran, using the (convenient) massacre of the Israeli peaceniks, on Oct. 7th, as an excuse.
That would explain a lot about the “failure” of US and Israeli intelligence, and the apparent standdown of the IDF, allowing the terrorists to go back over the border, carrying hostages.
Say what? That they came over the border is suspicious enough, but to wantonly kill for hours, and then somehow make it back over, with hostages to boot?
Someone wants a war.
Is the US really sending 4 battleship carriers to the ME to fight Hamas???
I think not. This is a grab for Iranian oil. The grab for Russian oil isn’t working out so well for our ruling overlords, so they’re trying something else.
They think that Russia is too tied up in Ukraine to help Iran.
But China isn’t. They have been sitting on their butts for years, letting Russians die to fight terrorists and Nazis, but faced with the loss of Iranian oil, they might actually step up and do something.
We’ll see.
Or we won’t see anything but that big flash of light, as Crazy Nuke Country goes for broke.
It has always been about Iran but not just oil.
Iran is not part of the banking consortium.
Ben Shapiro, Here’s THE TRUTH About the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (A Comprehensive History) – YouTube, gives depth understanding of the region’s history, contradicting the attempt by Israel’s Islamic neighbors to obscure “deep history” by condensing it to rhyme with the Left’s “Woke victimhood” ploy.
Whether or not you accept in full Shapiro’s sketch, its truth — in the broad — is that Israel does represent societal advances reaped by Western civ that by contrast has left its neighbors in Dark Age theocratic despotism.
Dark Age mentality but critically armed with the advanced technology (nuclear weapons, by-the-way) product of Western cv. So please, if the archaic mind-set of the mullahs compels necessary defensive action by the Israelis the blame should fall upon the mullahs for consequence to “innocents”.
I am interested in his spin, but not enough to sit through an entire video.
Does he blame Iran?
Because that would fit with what A. Mercouris (and I) are thinking.
1. Surrogacy is allowed in Israel, which is against Natural Law.
2. Israel offered up its entire population to corrupt, evil Pfizer as human lab rats.
3. Many of the original sabras were promiscuous, secular socialists.
While I believe the Biblical argument that Jews are God’s Chosen People — and as a Christian, I know that my Savior is a Jew — any claims that the modern state of Israel is a holy, godly nation are, in my opinion, rather compromised.
IVF and surrogacy are grotesque violations of God’s design. But there are those who will argue that it is a necessary tool for God’s people to propagate their genetic line. I have heard a similar argument from Christians as well as Jews. I just vehemently disagree. Too much trust in man’s devices, too little trust in God’s providence.
businessinsider.com/israel-parents-want-to-create-grandkids-dead-soldier-sons-sperm-2022-1
I will note that abortion is legal in Israel. Why not let those babies live and place them for adoption? Instead, people are obsessed with having a child who has their own genes. I understand, that’s a natural instinct. But IVF and surrogacy are NOT natural, and are offenses against the natural order. Harvesting sperm from a dead man…. I don’t even have words for how ghoulish that is.
Your ghoulishness is another family’s joy. I have a congenitally malformed uterus that barely got one of eight pregnancies to term. And my husband and I purchased sperm that had been sitting in a freezer for 11 years before our son was born. You have a right to your opinions, and I have a right to tell you that your zealots opinions suck the big weenie.
“So please, if the archaic mind-set of the mullahs compels necessary defensive action by the Israelis the blame should fall upon the mullahs”
Yes, absolutely
The collective West is morally bankrupt. The MSM wants “proportionality” & quibbles with “moral equivalency”. These are terms reserved for weak societies. The same societies which have given up with no borders, and who are committing generalized suicide.
“proportion”. So, how many Gazan women ought to be raped? How many murdered with garden tools to the neck? (ya, see that vid of the Thai citizen being murdered with a garden hoe?) How many Gazan children killed, exactly? How many Gazans shot in the head, exactly? How many hundreds of teenagers murdered at a party together, exactly?
“moral equivalency” the Muslim world has been attempting to destroy Israel since 1948. Israel has been in constant war since then. Israel captured Gaza and the west bank in 1967 during one of these wars.
It’s only thru blood & struggle that Israel survives. It has no real allies. The US runs its corrupt empire, and is duplicitous with M.E. affairs.
@Pete:
Yes, correct. I think you are aware of what reality is.
There will never be a “2 state solution”. This idea is and always has been a canard, a ploy by people like Arafat of the old PLO, and continues by Hamas and Fatah, and their “Palestinian Authority”. It’s a fiction. On one hand the idea is a great money maker for the Islamist, neo fascists of Hamas leadership, and on the hand the idea serves as an imaginary motivator for armed action against Israel.
There has been an idea of a Greater Israel for some time which incorporated both Gaza and the West Bank of the Jordan River. That may become a reality at the end of this operation.
Greater Israel is everything from the Mediterranean Sea to the River Euphrates.
Yes correct that’s one iteration.
Israel does need to expand its borders and gain a little breathing room. This might be the chance.
It’s funny how TPTB always “suffer” terrorism right when they need it most, eh?
Britain’s former Prime Minister Winston Churchill once said to never let a good crisis go to waste. This was shrewd advice, and from one of the best strategists of the century.
Maybe I’m really missing something ,
but it has been my understanding that it has been the Dark Age theocratic despotisms that have been supplieing you sophisticated humanistic mother fuckers with 70 % ( ? ) 80% ( ? ) of your oil the past 60 years or so ?
Also my understanding that , our host for example , agrees that a large measure of your sophistication and humane largesse is the product of oil ?
Like you may have the MI Abrams tank .
but the product in the gas tank more often than not is Russian , Venezuelan , Nigerian , or Islamic.
I might take the moral claims a bit more seriously if you were living on your own income.
But it doesn’t look like you are.
The US of A has had a free ride on their monopoly of printing Monopoly money. It’s holier-than-thou bullshit attitude is more than tedious already.
Correct. Which is what is in all likelihood driving this whole mess. The dollar is on its last legs and cheap ME oil is the last leg remaining to prop it up. The hegemon is thirsty!
@Socrates-Detroit – For some reason I couldn’t reply directly under your comment, only post in line. I don’t think I’ve ever seen any issue that’s divided people and tapped into so much emotion in my life. The exception might be 9/11 but it’s not far behind.
It seems like we never learn. Murdering civilians or pretending “there are no civilians” so we can murder them and feel self-righteous is a never ending misery. I’m not a Buddhist but I do agree with some of their teachings. He said 3 things destroy our lives— greed, ignorance of what makes for happiness and a thirst for revenge. And the thirst for revenge is unquenchable. Our first reaction as human beings when we’re hurt is to lash out and “make them pay'” and the score is never settled on either side.
I wish more people would post in line.
Maybe it is just my dinosaur ass ,
but for me scrolling down , down , down in one direction is about three to four times faster and easier than back and forth , back and forth , back and forth.
Does , ” I want to munch Cheetos , and surf porn , and take a nap ” qualify as emotion ?
Otherwise , 90% of the emotion seems to be ;
Group A : Wants money and power.
Group B : Wants money and power.
And I confess , I don’t give a fuck about their feelings.
Gold has breached the $2k psychological barrier once again. It is currently trading at $2005.
Us “gold tards” sure are lucky!
I recently read that gold will go up $100 per day.
I believe that gold for wealth retention and silver for currency right now (and physical) is the best investment opportunity of our entire lifetime, Bill. If I had money, I’d buy silver. If I had lots of money, I’d buy both.
When they lose control, Au & Ag are five- and ten-baggers from here. Easy.
That is precisely why you have no money.
Not even close (let alone precise). You truly are a silly little man assuming yourself correct when completely wrong over and over and over again.
Crooked lawyers and random Finkles extorted $1,500,000+ from me and my children. That’s why I have no money. Sad but true.
“Finkles”
You can’t filter anything can you?
Christ on a crutch.
Why should I filter the truth? That’s what we’re here for. These were public domain proceedings and transactions. They are as public as Bobby Jr’s abs.
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Note: The Finkles did nothing wrong. They are merely innocent beneficiaries of my crooked lawyers [Waker Head Lawyers of Pickering, ON] and a crooked judge [Justice (sic) David Salmers – justly “died suddenly” while skiing – 1/23/2022] stomping my Canadian Constitution Charter Section 7 basic human rights.
Apologies but discussing why I have no money after my top-percentile success first 50 years still rattles my cage.
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That reminds me of Steve Sugiyama’s uncle. I’ll have to tell that story some day.
What are “Finkles” Hogg Man?
Sounds like code for something.
Explain for us.
The Kinkles are the family that bought my $1,500,000 magazine, mortgage-free house that my crooked lawyers force-liquidated to cash for their snarfing pleasure.
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But enough about me. Let’s talk about you, little girl.
You claimed to know “precisely” why I have no money when you actually missed the mark by a mile … mile and half.
Where is your retraction/apology?
You can’t even come up with a good fake story to hide your racist slurs.
What a dumb cunt you are.
“… if this tragic business in the Middle East gets out of hand millions of people might die…”
If that happens, the Dark State can check off another item on their ‘To Do’ list. That one item has been bugging the hell out of them since at least 1914. They’ve had champaign on ice since that year patiently waiting to be cracked open and enjoyed while inhaling the stench of massive World-wide death and destruction. You just never know what gets someone off. One person’s pain is another person’s immense pleasure.
Strange birds, these human beings. No wonder the Aliens (from the Sky) mostly stay away from contact with us.
“… looks like Islam wants to rumble.”
And God’s ‘Other Sides’ have wanted to rumble for a long time. Looks like we’ll finally get that Last Great War where Islam and Christianity destroy each other and the Dark State finally gets to install their total rule and dominion over the Earth. And wont that be fun for the tiny few of the slave race that remains to be the Dark One’s loyal servants.
“A society in collapse learns painfully that the first thing to go is luxury…”
The Western Woke State is going to have a MAJOR problem when we are thrown back into the 12th Century. ‘What do you MEAN no Starbucks!? What the Eff is THAT? Where the hell is my F’Book page? What? My phone is MELTED!? Momma!…’
“Israel is a full-fledged member of that lunatic asylum.”
Is their a regime ANYWHERE on Planet Earth that is not part of the Insane Club? Maybe those tribes in the empty central part of Australia.
“One question they fail to ask: Would the Middle East actually be a better place without an Israel?”
We know all the historical and religious reasons for putting Israel where it is. And where they put it just happens to be the very worst place on Planet Earth where they could have located it. The very worst. It’s almost like ‘They’ (the Dark Ones) wanted to create the biggest catastrophe that they could. Hey, wait a minute. I think we see a Plan here!
“There is the fate of the Gaza hostages to consider.”
Sure, the hostages are in a bad spot. But guess what? Planet Earth now has eight BILLION hostages to this geopolitical crap. What about the rest of us? Nothing about us on… ‘THIS – IS – C – N – N!’ (as recited by the Voice of God).
“… America has its own grave problem to consider, which is comprehensive collapse…”
We ALMOST had pretty good run. The wealth building of the Middle Class after the Second World War and the establishment of stable towns and cities and countless powerful industries that happened had the makings of really creating something long-lasting and maybe permanent here. But ‘They’ have been working since then to tear all that down to the bone and all of us with it.
Hey… might we see ANOTHER Plan at work here?
Or perhaps, being ruled by Loonies isn’t perhaps the greatest idea in the first place?
Thanks for pointing out that you and I are hostages.
” Could it be because now, one side has pretty much declared that their country is evil and must be destroyed? The other side has declared that that will be stopped. ”
— John AZ
Could it be that Mafia gangs didn’t used to have PR departments , but now they do ?
Hmm , an interesting novel might be an alternate reality in two parts , where in one part the Capone outfit propaganda machine lays out its version of the 1920’s Chicago gang wars , and in the other half the North Side gang propaganda machine lays out its version.
Kesa
George Giancana wrote a book about his brother, Sam, the Mafiosa boss of Chicago. Long story short.
Sam and Joseph Kennedy, the Irish boss made a deal. Support my son, Jack, and we will make peace and ensure that the Feds get off your back.
That went well until Bobby and Jack decided that the Mob needed to be handled. Sam reacted as a facilitator for the Deep State, also pissed off at JFK and RFK. The rest is history.
Mobs run everything now, one or another.
I don’t consider JHK a staunch political conservative. I suspect he would (and has in the past) consider himself more of an “old school” liberal. But, he sure doesn’t sound like an old school liberal now–he now says what conservatives have been saying since 2020, and before:
“Now that the House of Representatives has been put in order, it’s time for that body to act expeditiously and relieve “Joe Biden” of his responsibilities… and then Ms. Harris… and then Messrs. Garland, Mayorkas, and Wray. Out with them, post haste, and begin the project to save our own country.”
That sea change by JHK is likely because old school liberalism died years ago and has been replaced in the “Democrat” Party (in quotes, because their mantra is now fully anti-freedom and anti-representative democracy) by a toxic combination of fanatic Communist/Socialism mixed with Fascist/Socialism. It can’t be more clear when a sizable chunk of the Democrat electorate and numerous of its elected officials openly support the people determined to kill every Jew on Planet Earth, while many of the same Democrat electorate and its officials call for “re-education” camps for those who dare question the authority and motives of those same Democrat officials.
And, just like the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, the Democrats first response to any criminal-committed murder is to demand full civilian disarmament of law-abiding citizens. Hitler and Stalin would be proud of the 2023 Democrat Party.
So, JHK is correct. Biden and the entire scum Administration must be removed from power–and the sooner, the better. The longer we wait, the more Americans will die from their policies–maybe by the millions if this Administration heads us straight into a World War with no cogent plan for us to be able to win. Maybe the Commander-In-Chief and his military Chiefs of Staff should be more worried about a cogent strategy for U.S. survival in a war than the emotional relationship between a soldier and his/her/its genitalia.
Come to think of it , I would prefer another tedious essay on voting ,
so the CFN regulars can go back to jolly but tedious discussions about voting , without invoking the Book of Revelations every three minutes.
Alas , JHK is going to write about what JHK wants to write about.
And if he did write another essay about voting , then I would be rolling my eyes over that.
A complaint when it rains ,
and a complaint when it doesn’t rain.
It’s say Jim is a Truman/JFK Democrat, that is, a Dem with common sense, worldly experience, a sense of patriotism, and doesn’t have his head stuck up his ass.
Luke many of us here.
Maybe “Joe Biden” is not the Commander-in-Chief.
Socialisthater:
Yeah, correct. Good comments.
Another voice points out what this seems to be about….
“Israel is clearly working in concert with the US/NATO in whatever is brewing.
And make no mistake, something big IS brewing.
It is something I have written about for several years now, but consistently believed the Pentagon was not stupid enough to actually attempt.
As I view it, there can be only one primary target that would warrant such a large projection of military power as is underway: Iran and its allies in Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon.”
://imetatronink.substack.com/p/aces-and-eights
I believe Russian recognition of this likely move by the Americans is why Russian President Vladimir Putin — in China, no less — publicly announced 24/7 patrols of Kinzhal-armed Russian aircraft within range of the eastern half of the Mediterranean and much of the Red and Arabian seas.
The #EmpireAtAllCosts cult must have convinced themselves the Russians are bluffing, or that their capabilities are much weaker than claimed.
I am convinced both ideas are mistaken.
If the US itself is not merely bluffing, then this whole thing could get out of hand really fast.
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There is far too much of this “logic” in today’s day and age, imho. They assume something and then build an entire case based on that their assumption must be correct.
Personally, I believe that “[t]he #EmpireAtAllCosts cult” is a) a misnomer and b) they know very well that this war is going to be epic with substantial losses on both sides.
Juicy link . Enjoyed several of those reads.
Maybe the big thing brewing is that after gas climbs to ten dollars a gallon , amidst even more monotonous and shrill , ” It’s for your freedom ” sloganeering ,
the wind will go right out of the retort , ” Why don’t you move to Russia ! ” ,
because that’s precisely what the well – heeled best and brightest will do.
Now back to read some more of that guy.
Though , granted , he writes what I like hearing.
Yes, looks very interesting
Many Americans and Europeans ARE moving, or have already moved, to Russia. I’m not one of them, but I do enjoy following them vicariously on Telegram.
I keep feeling like a Jew in 1933 Germany who can’t emigrate, for one reason or another, but is enviously watching other Jews get the hell out of Germany while they can, making their escape from the doom that is to come. I wish them well, with all my heart!
And they’re not moving there because of gas prices, low taxes, etc., as nice as those material things are. What’s motivating most of them is wanting a decent place to raise their kids, safe from the demonic LGBTQ devilry.
I think emigrating to Russia would be a good idea. I can’t help but think that things will get very ugly in the US–as in, as ugly as it was in the former Yugoslavia. But emigration is out of the question for me and what few other relatives might consider it. Family members are too numerous, and most of them have spouses who also have siblings and aging parents. It would be impossible to get everyone on board and even more impossible to leave anyone behind.
Not sure Russia is clamoring for English speaking refugees.
It is my opinion that the USSR letting in all those “weapons inspectors” in the 80s was the key to their downfall.
Remember the massive propaganda push against nuclear war in the early 80s?
I knew about “The Day After”, but it was GA and other Brits who brought up the UK version, “Threads”, or something like that.
I have no doubt that the rest of Europe had a similar propaganda push, especially Germany.
Massive demos were organized, and it convinced the Soviet leaders that the west was serious about disarmament. So they signed treaties, and opened up to “inspectors”, and key bureaucrats were exposed to inducements, enticements, and bribery.
And then, Boom!
In 1991, the leaders of Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus secretly signed a dissolution of the Union, against the wishes of the population. .
The rest is history, a very painful history for the citizens of the former Soviet Union, especially Russia.
The poverty, misery, and death led to massive population drops in the former republics, corruption and looting, and loss of security.
It would be very stupid for the Russians to let too many Americans in now.
The US openly says that they are trying to overthrow the government of Russia and put in US stooges.
How can Russia trust that letting Americans in won’t lead to a repeat of the 80s and 90s?
Why don’t the Russians believe them?
Yes, such Americans would love to do to the White Russian People what the Communists did to them the last time around.
The Resistance must never be allowed in to power. Nor should they be allowed reinforcements from America, Western Europe, or Israel.
Russia is controlled by the same people as the US, as is China. They are erecting statues to Stalin, etc. Not seeing Russia as any kind of haven. Putin has been given positive press in the US, refusing the alphabet nonsense, supposedly Christian. Probably just the US and America being made similar, easier to meld. Present Russia as “conservative”, a psyop for conservative Americans.
after gas climbs to ten dollars a gallon – Kesa
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Counter-intuitively, I filled up my truck at Edison , NJ Costco yesterday at only $3.119/ gal.
From “The Ashes Will Come First:”
As Alexis de Tocqueville presciently foresaw way back in the 1830s, American democracy would inevitably lead to a massive permanent state, impervious to the will of the people:
“The democratic tendency … leads men unceasingly to multiply the privileges of the state and to circumscribe the rights of private persons … often sacrificed without regret and almost always violated without remorse … men become less and less attached to private rights just when it is most necessary to retain and defend what little remains of them.”
“After having thus successively taken each member of the community in its powerful grasp, and fashioned him at will, the supreme power then extends its arm over the whole community. It covers the surface of society with a network of small complicated rules, minute and uniform, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate, to rise above the crowd.
“The will of man is not shattered, but softened, bent, and guided; men are seldom forced by it to act, but they are constantly restrained from acting: such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence; it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to be nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd.”
This is where we are, and there will be no turning back. To whatever extent it ever truly was, America will never be made great again. Something great may eventually rise from its ashes … but the ashes will come first.
In the 1830s?
That sounds like a quote invented much later. The US government was not that powerful in the 1830s.
Paula, It’s from “Democracy in America,” published 1835 after de Tocqueville had spent a fair amount of time here. I first read the book at the age of 13, in two paperback volumes with shiny blue covers. I was entranced, and read it repeatedly until the covers fell off and the whole thing disintegrated. Prescient hardly begins to cover it, and it has become more so with every passing year.
I should try it but I’ll probably get bogged down. Men of that age had golden tongues but were very long winded by our standards. But he had many gems that can be admire in and of themselves: America is great because America is good. It will cease to be great when Americans cease to be good.
Hard times create strong men.
Strong men create good times.
Good times create soft men and hard women.
Soft men and hard women create bad times.
How to break this iron cycle? William James spoke of the Moral Equivalent of War – the MEOW principle. National Socialism would make all young people serve the state for a couple of years at the very least. Young men would then be STRONGLY encouraged to join the military.
I’ll admit I never read it, Rowdy. Do you remember this particular passage?
It sounds a little too 21st century, to me. But if you specifically remember it, I’ll take your word for it.
Paula, Yes, it’s a real quote. Some of his other quotes can be found at the Foundation for Economic Education site, and you can read all three volumes of the book on the Internet Archieve.
Jarek, I’m glad someone has read William James. “The Varieties of Religious Experience” was in our home library and I tried to read it as a child of ten. I of course didn’t understand it, but I had a strong sense it contained something I needed to know and I returned to it at a more appropriate age. I considered that his experiences with the medium, Mrs. Piper, were incontrovertible proof of the existence of an immaterial world. For me, that was the end of materialism.
When did everything went wayward?
?From the dawn of time when those light beings, the perfect human astral-travellers in the zodiacs and beyond, suddenly came to enter some fallen realms run by wanna be Gods, the Jehovians reptilians.
There those perfect angelic humans, androgynous Adams was split. Ever since, that split (Eve) has hungered for the reptilians.
Some spiritual residue still resting “under” the Adam’s apple has long since disappeared (due to circumcisions, etc.)
?Cut that apple, and you will find a 5-pointed star with poisoned seed in its core. ?
Still women (and men) proudly carry on with Zipporah’s tradition and “win” everywhere.
?Just read C G Jung’s Blood Red Book as to understand the impact of such gender mutilation combined with gold infection – his crown in the gutter, etc.
Dumb Snakes and crazy bird all over the place.
Of course anyone can understand what that “crown” is about, consists of – and Jung then knew he had lost everything.
?A penis transformed into a weird hook, a 666 thing. Okay, women obviously prefer such a scratching thing. ?
Jungs very first dream about a man-eater phallos – sure his mother knew that Jahve god-thing.
Moses, rigging all his tent-crap with gold and dead animals, did encounter the same thing.
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Madre Mia! Then this monster Jesus came around. 40 days in the desert. Nothing but a snake could do that, a stone eating snake-scorpion.
Precisely that dude from that apple tree.
A satanic hellish kingdom rules this dump of a planet.
I apologise for some redundant question marks.
You really have some weirded view of reality and history. I just want to know how you got to this description, or at least, where you got it from. If you don’t answer, then we’ll all know you’re just joshing us (and not doing a very good job of it, if so).
Mostly from studying CG Jungs corpus.
The Bible, The Book of Enoch. Some Tibetan buddhisme, Hindu, A. Crowley, Run Hubbart etc.
Then my own thoughts and feelings.
I could mention many more.
You know, Edith Rockefeller with her harvester husband with monkey testicles (King Kong film was a parody of that).
Goethes Faust, understand that funny key in part 2
Paracelsus with his gnostic workshop, making the homunculus, thereby imitating the Jehovians mad creations.
Freud’s funny work – it’s all over this planet.
Go south! There we will find those funny aboriginal with bifid penis mutilation – imitating the kangaroo penis.
Go north. Among the inuits, they have a slightly different version. Some fun zoophilia stories.
As said, it’s all around.
The Gazans were told to go south but Israel is bombing the south too.
By the way. Most Arabs do have a “delayed” circumcision compared with Jews.
They probably remember that trauma, is you may hear every morning from their towers.
Above I mentioned the aboriginals in Australia. They have this fine rainbow serpent down there. That red rock couldn’t keep it down.
They have/had tremendous hive-mind capabilities. Dream the dream of mind-creation.
Fun?
After all, Muslims are promised to get their “crown” back in Paradise.
Yeah Ralph but it ain’t some old man biting it off
Cargill’s best mode, satire mode.
Looks like there are some staunch and dug-in civilization fans here.
That is the funniest thing since Dis’s conference call, Gus! It cracks me up every time that I read it.
Thanks, OG, lol.
“A penis transformed into a weird hook, a 666 thing. Okay, women obviously prefer such a scratching thing. ?” — RaphieBoy
It’s how you use your tool, not how you abuse your tool. You tool.
Soul Forensics. Right!
Now I’m in, or on this “spirituality” – just look at Buddha and women.
Some women always speak about rape, this and that.
Being conceived and born is maybe the worst sexual violence ever?
As Buddha said-, don’t incarnate.
But he, the Buh-Buh-man also was a Madman.
Worn out by wandering around India this prince dumped beneath an old tree.
Just waiting. Waiting!
Suddenly some lightning stroke that old tree – the earth rumbled and shook.
Reverberation! Of what? And a Buddha was born!
A lot of flowers fell down. Big Laughing!
Buddha then said those flowers was dancing women, dakini’es withering away and now he was done with women. Almost like some modern trans-psycho-rave party.
From that on women was so hopelessly dumb. Not suitable for anything spiritual at all. Just so fucking bad karma to be a female.
Okay, sitting there, on the ground, his penis and testicles probably touching ground/earth. Then a lightning stroke blew his sperm to some dysfunc crap.
Now impotent, couldn’t even treat women as shown in Bod Dylan’s New Pony-song.
Soo enlightened. Now walking the duck-walk like some weird Chuck Berry.
Dingeling! Hahah
Hi Cargill.
Biden compares Hamas attack on Israel to “fifteen 9/11s” but makes no comparison for the 7,000+ Palestinians now killed by continued Israeli bombings of Gaza
naturalnews.com/2023-10-27-biden-compares-hamas-attack-fifteen-9-11s.html
The latest claim from the powers that be is that the Hamas attack on Israel is the equivalent of “fifteen 9/11s,” these being the exact words of fake president Joe Biden.
We have heard everything from it being the equivalent of “ten 9/11s” up to “thirty 9/11s,” depending on the source, but “the big guy” has apparently settled on a middle ground of fifteen 9/11s.
“Since this terrorist attack took place, we have seen it described as Israel’s 9/11, but for a nation the size of Israel it was like fifteen 9/11s,” Biden proclaimed in an address – watch below:
Earlier, Secretary of State Antony Blinken called the attack “the equivalent of ten 9/11s” while Gen. David Petraeus called it “far worse than 9/11” and the equivalent of “thirteen 9/11s.”
Then there is Pastor Gary Hamrick from Cornerstone Chapel (Calvary Chapel) in Leesburg, Va., who claimed that the Hamas attack on Israel is the equivalent of “thirty 9/11s.”
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Now 9/11 is a measuring unit.
Q: “How many 9/11s does it take to kill all the light bulbs?”
We are ran by children.
A 9/11 a day keeps the skeptics away.
Since 9 / 11 I have taken another look at the old fable of the boy who cried wolf.
The usual assumption is that the moral of the story is that lieing is bad.
Correct ,
but I’m convinced there is in fact TWO morals to the story.
The second moral is that incessantly yanking peoples chains breeds indifference , and rightly so.
” There is no free lunch ” applies just as well to morality as it does to anything else.
You have to pick your moral battles.
You must prioritize.
A crisis every single fucking day does not work.
You see this perhaps most obviously with drug addict former loved ones ,
or with former loved ones who do nothing but bitch and complain .
” The shit never ends ” DOES END because you eventually write them the fuck off.
MAYBE you can come back when you have consistently good news to report , when you are consistently trouble – free , or maybe when you just consistently shut the fuck up.
The United States has become the former friend or former loved one you fucking avoid.
KA gets to the heart of it again! You have a knack, my dear.
Mr Kunstler,
The Election is a little more than 12 months away. Assuming war doesn’t ‘postpone’ the election, I imagine it might be overseen while under the watchful eye of martial law.
Cheers
Great point Eddy.
>There is no “two state solution” because there is only one place in that place.
You have never been one even halfway reasonable about Israel, so I won’t point out any inability to distinguish a two-dimensional territory from a point.
Anyway, why the hell are you going on about religion when you could be going on about a battle between NATO and OPEC over oil?
Every people have their myths and legends, Jews among them. The issue is that a politically powerful group of them believe it as fact. Given the vicious self entitlement in their myths, this is bad.
What is calamitous is that they demand that the rest of the world go along with their bullshit.
@ Bilejones:
“…a politically powerful group of them believe it as fact.” I’m not sure they believe that stuff–although, admittedly, people have a tendency to believe whatever they perceive it is in their interests to believe (and to convince other people to believe).
I guess when I say that I’m not sure Jews (or people in general, for that matter) actually believe what they say they believe, I guess what I’m trying to say is that most people’s beliefs are so shallow that they are little more than a pretense.
NATO = WEF, OPEC = BRICS++
Hmm, that makes sense. The future.
NATO = WEF in the sense that NATO is the WEF’s pawn.
The death of the West is their plan. We are almost there.
The scumbags running the WEF, WHO, et al will be just fine, don’t you worry.
We have been talking about this for almost 6 years, numb nuts.
JAZ brought it up less than an hour ago, fuck-face.
I’m supposed to only weigh-in on things that you guys never discussed before I got here and without so much as a reference to know which topics are verboten lest I bear your wrath?
Go fuck yourself, dipshit.
Save us, Hogg Man.
Only you know the truth.
You’re creepy, Dude.
Excuse me, I’m having a Palpatine moment reading this.
Numb nuts
Dipshit
Yes! Yes!
Let the hate flow through you!
Energy vampirism
It’s cathartic. Like today’s blog’s subject matter.
Letting off steam like Sith Lords
Didn’t your posts just get removed from the thread for insulting the host Avatar?
Don’t involve me in your comparisons. I merely react to retards as appropriate.
@ night Karen
You’re a fag. Total fag.
Read into that how you want.
Always squealing to the principal about bannings and admonishments and previous disciplinary actions
What kind of man are you?
Bitches like you are to blame
The rage is certainly flowing now.
LOL.
WTF.
The drain-circling blathering is palpable today.
We’ve suddenly dropped to ad hom central here now. Over a topic that none of us can control in any way.
I love some good-hearted name-calling like any other swinging dick, but damn.
Precisely!
Look at that head of WHO, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus from the world leading country in male and female gender mutilation.
Ethiopia!
Also seen in their coptic crosses, snakes crawling in and around that.
Just like the WHO-logo, a planetary snake.
Tedros. Is he fully human? Joe Rogan talked about a race of Chimps that walks upright and fights like men. Could he be half that?
How it can be that a nation with debt of 120% of GDP. or $100k per capita is going to borrow money to give to a country with debt of 60% of GDP. or $30k per capita?
AIPAC/ADL
The US has now bombed Iranian troops in Syria.
The Iranians are in Syria by request of the Syrian government, to help them fight the Sunni jihadist terrorist groups, like ISIS, al Qaeda, (and Hamas) that the US sent into Syria to terrorize the Syrian people, in order to overthrow the Syrian government.
The US says bombing Syria is “self defense”, because the US troops illegally occupying Syria, and stealing their oil, have had drone attacks upon them.
Please note that not one of the people waxing hysterical about “Occupied Palestine” ever makes a peep about the US occupation of 30% of Syria, and the theft of their oil and wheat.
Too busy bitching about Israel to say a damn word about their own lawless, thieving, occupying, murdering country.
Hypocrite is the correct word for this.
This is a plan that has been in the making for decades.
I believe someone reported today on Wes Clark’s 7 war program.
Look how quickly people get forced onboard.
Including this site’s host.
Emotion that cannot be resisted.
Hook them at the gills
Hook them at the existential
But Vegas Turkey-shoot Incident Commander [whatever the flip that is!], FBI grad, Maui PD chief and coroner John Pelletier’s Lahaina 8/8 murderous barricades were all on the up-and-up, right?
OG, Canada will follow the USA into the toilet, it is happening in your home, also.
– JAZ
Absolutely. You are 100% correct. In many ways, we’re world-leaders into the toilet.
We’re pretty insignificant but us Five Eyes will all collapse together.
This is from The Times of Israel:
Surveillance soldiers warned of Hamas activity on Gaza border for months before Oct. 7
timesofisrael.com/surveillance-soldiers-warned-of-hamas-activity-on-gaza-border-for-months-before-oct-7/
Survivors of massacre on IDF base say they passed information up the chain of command on digging, mapping, training near the fence long before mass onslaught, but were ignored.
The brutal Hamas massacre on October 7 was preceded by months of warning signs noted by IDF surveillance soldiers and disregarded as unimportant by intelligence officials, according to eyewitness accounts given in recent days.
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Why? Oh! Why? Hmmmm … Cui bono? … Tough nut to crack, eh?
Gee, they have their own version of Cheney in charge.
Say it ain’t so
Yes! They even look and speak much alike.
There is a Halloween song from the 50’s that is very apropos
How quickly and easily the blob spreads
Infects
“Beware of the blob, it creeps
And leaps and glides and slides
Across the floor
Right through the door
And all around the wall
A splotch, a blotch
Be careful of the blob”
Was that from the movie “The Blob” with Steve McQueen? That was in the 50s.
Quite the article and discussion today.
Here’s the thing though – nobody in the general population (the vast majority of humanity) can do a gotdamn thing about it, besides prepare and observe. We are essentially powerless in this scenario.
I don’t like that, but I take some comfort in knowing that we are mostly blameless for whatever occurs, as that’s all we can really do. We have no real power outside of our little spheres. We’ve given it away, as most of the world did decades (centuries?) ago. Take care of your sphere, you might get lucky.
If a war is to erupt, those that wish it will make it so. Protests and intelligent commentary are scoffed at when the tables of reality are overturned, no matter the angle they may present.
Well, I suppose technically the lumpen can attempt to alter the course, but they can really only do things that would make things immediately worse, such as stooping to assassination, etc. We’ve seen this movie before, and it didn’t end well.
It may well take another round of generational horror to restore any kind of universal social contract; that is, if things really get out of hand. And we’re close.
I hope this is just another pissing match, as I like my “normal” life for me and mine, but there likely are too many alliances and international ties to allow that, unless some of our “leaders” want to admit to the world and history that they world just bluffing all along.
Big dick contest in the offing. Big swingers can’t seem to wait to put their hog on the block and see who takes a swing.
From a military strategy point of view, I see why Netanyahoo is doing this: we now live in an era of drones and missiles possessed by militias. You can no longer be a stable country surrounded by a hostile region, and it will get worse going forward. So they’ve decided to eliminate the hostile region. It won’t be just Gaza either.
As for the US, the Neocons just want to bomb and destroy Iranian oil infrastructure. Getting control of Russian and Iranian energy is how they retain hegemony by starving China of oil. I don’t think it’s doable without getting Tel Aviv and Tehran destroyed and maybe themselves killed, but they don’t care. They’re possessed by demons with war fever, as is Netanyahoo.
And check out Al Jazeera on YouTube. They’re doing the Muslim point of view on Gaza. They’re stirring up the whole region, including Turkey.There are 100s of million of Muslims in the region. Israel can’t hide what they’re doing.
The whole military scenario between the US/Israel and Iran/Hamas is like the Bronze Age kingdoms of 1200BC Levant, all destroyed by pirates with iron weapons. It was the Bronze Age Collapse. All the cities of the empires were burned to the ground and their people killed. Only Egypt survived. You needed a rich empire to outfit expensive Bronze Age armies. Any man could have an iron weapon, and they were better than bronze. Israel and US —> Bronze Age armies. Hamas and any group like them –> Iron Age pirates.
Meanwhile, in Donetsk, where atrocities against civilians are daily, this happened……
” In the Yasynuvatsky district, near the village of #Spartak, the AFUshniks attacked a civilian car with a kamikaze drone. On his way home, the civilian’s navigator started malfunctioning, which put him near the line of contact. The enemy targeted the car. The driver died on the spot, and his mother, who was in the car, miraculously survived. But not enough, even a few days later a corrective UAV was hovering over the scene of the tragedy to prevent Russian fighters from taking the man’s body.”
Hmm Jim, the people that founded Algebra are moronic dogs and they would be at each other’s throats if it wasn’t for the state of Israel.
Could it be that that the United Kingdom and the United States introduced Israel into the Middle East to make sure no one got along? How else could the oil be exploited.
The U.S. is like and old department store, losing its brand and business to innovation and bad marketing. Saddling up with Israel to be the final Chapter 11
thought that very thing myself about the whys of that little chunk of geopolitical hell.
Prosecute Biden. Biden is in power because he’s completely compromised. He’s perfect for the job. The owners of this nation won’t let anyone come to the rescue. They want War. It didn’t work in Ukraine, but it will work in Israel. Why because Netanyahu is just as compromised as Biden.
There is no fairy tale. This is guns and money.
Come to think of it , I would prefer another tedious essay on voting , so the CFN regulars can go back to jolly but tedious discussions about voting , without invoking the Book of Revelations every three minutes.
– Little Mariah Carrey
But if we can’t invoke the Book of Revelation now, when can we?
It’s Showtime! The Whole Enchilada Grandé! All the chips are on the table.
Neighborhood Bully
Bob Dylan
Well, the neighborhood bully, he’s just one man
His enemies say he’s on their land
They got him outnumbered about a million to one
He got no place to escape to, no place to run
He’s the neighborhood bully
Neighborhood bully, he just lives to survive
He’s criticized and condemned for being alive
Not supposed to fight back, and have thick skin
He’s supposed to lay down and die when his door is kicked in
He’s the neighborhood bully
Neighborhood bully been driven out of every land
He’s wandered the earth an exiled man
Seen his family scattered, people hounded and torn
He’s always on trial for just being born
He’s the neighborhood bully
Well, he knocked out a lynch mob, he was criticized
Old women condemned him, said he should apologize
Then he destroyed a bomb factory, nobody was glad
The bombs were meant for him, he was supposed to feel bad
He’s the neighborhood bully
Well, the chances are against it, and the odds are slim
That he’ll live by the rules that the world makes for him
‘There’s a noose at his neck and a gun at his back
And a license to kill him given out to every maniac
He’s the neighborhood bully
Well, he got no allies to really speak of
What he gets he must pay for, he don’t get it out of love
He buys obsolete weapons and he won’t be denied
But no one sends flesh and blood to fight by his side
He’s the neighborhood bully
Well, he’s surrounded by pacifists who all want peace
They pray for it nightly that the bloodshed must cease
Now, they wouldn’t hurt a fly. To hurt one they would weep
They lay and they wait for this bully to fall asleep
He’s the neighborhood bully
Every empire that’s enslaved him is gone
Egypt and Rome, even the great Babylon
He’s made a garden of paradise in the desert sand
In bed with nobody, under no one’s command
He’s the neighborhood bully
Now his holiest books have been trampled upon
No contract that he signed was worth that what it was written on
He took the crumbs of the world and he turned it into wealth
Took sickness and disease and he turned it into health
He’s the neighborhood bully
What’s anybody indebted to him for?
“Nothing”, they say, “he just likes to cause war”
Pride and prejudice and superstition indeed
They wait for this bully like a dog waits for feed
Neighborhood bully
What has he done to wear so many scars?
Does he change the course of rivers? Does he pollute the moon and stars?
Neighborhood bully, standing on the hill
Running out the clock, time standing still
Neighborhood bully
Good poem.
Sounds like every third person I ever met.
Is that the idea ?
It’s Dylan ode to Jewdom.
According to the Bible, the tiny hat people were once God’s chosen people. They messed it up by rejecting, and murdering the Savior that God sent them. Because of this, and the Bible very plainly states this, the little hats are no longer God’s chosen. If a little hat wants to achieve salvation, they must believe on Jesus. They must confess their sins and repent. If a little hat, or anyone for that matter, takes this leap of faith, they become one of God’s chosen. Little hats, Pagans and Gentiles are all equally qualified to ask for and receive God’s infinite grace. Remember the story about the wedding ceremony?
“Israel is a full-fledged member of that lunatic asylum.” ~ JHK
I wonder if identifying with a State, especially one that has a lot of psychopaths or thereabouts running it, and/or some kinds of bad histories, is like painting a giant target on one’s ‘innocent-civilian’ back in the event of war or terrorism.
“Hey don’t kill me! I have nothing to do with my country’s politics! I just live here!”
Like they did with Israel for the Jews, maybe they could set aside an American State or two for the aboriginal ‘American’ inhabitants as a kind of ‘reparation’ and, while they– whoever ‘they’ are– are at it, throw in a few more States for the so-called ‘blacks’, and so on.
“If men were Angels, no government would be necessary.”-James Madison, 1787
Maybe a legitimate pure/direct democratic opt-inable, opt-outable ‘government’?
But I’ve already suggested that it could be a paradox that, if we don’t or can’t work out, we may be doomed to rinse and repeat until maybe extinction.
There are those who suggest that that might be why we have yet to find signs of alien life (‘Fermi Paradox’)…
It could be a law of nature that we and no aliens have yet been able to transcend.
What about the Chinese? Where do they fit in in your little story?
The Chinese have been exposed to the good news…for centuries now. Did you know that the very first Chinese alphabet was based on the story of Noah and the great flood?
creation (dot) com/images/pdfs/tj/j19_2/j19_2_96-108 (dot) pdf
“The Chinese descended from Noah’s son Ham. The majority ethnicity in China is called “Han”. ” According to Taoist stories, there were eight immortals that crossed the sea on a ship: two women and six men. The Hebrew Scriptures describe Noah’s family as having eight members, namely Noah, his wife and three sons, and three daughters-in-law. They were the only eight persons that survived the Flood. Interestingly, a story embedded in
the Chinese legendary period preceding the first Dynasty
(2205 BC) describes a person by the name ‘Nüwa’ who
turned back a catastrophic flood that covered the whole
world. Given the very close similarity between the two
accounts, we believe they represent the same event.”
My Wife is Chinese. She is from a small island in the Yellow sea called Zhoushan. Her family is Christian as well as the extended family. They attend church with many other families. There are LOTS of Christians in China…
“That’s a very nice tower you have there! It would be a shame if someone ??????”
LOL supposed to be Chinese language, but forum don’t play the Chinese characters, so Question marks instead. Hey JHK, can we have an edit button? 😀
There are unscrupulous perpetrators on this board. An [EDIT] button would undoubtedly be used for evil.
“There is no population problem. De-pop agenda is evil and anti Human.”
– Qwibqwib, from the monday post
He hath spoken it; therefore, it is.
An ally for Owl.
I have no need for allies. Truth is truth.
You are souless. I said at least two years ago that you are a Malthusian/WEFer for the most part.
I have yet to really see anything that would change my mind.
There is evil in this world, and it is you.
I have been condemned by a Vacation Bible School valedictorian.
I don’t go to church, Gus.
You want millions to die and you think sarcasm makes it appear interesting or avant garde.
You are a clown.
@gus:
You’re making the assumption he could have graduated any school, let alone be a valedictorian.
Bill trying to pull in new recruits.
He needs a team at all times.
He was on a big team when he was telling others to accept medical tyranny.
Annoying little rodents we were.
@Quibquib:
Ha, ha. I like the description of Jews as little hats.
“Remember the story about the wedding ceremony?”
Why does qwibqwib assume that we all can remember whatever the hell the wedding ceremony story is?
Let me enlighten you that I have never heard of this story, so I can’t remember it, so any lesson you are trying to impart is lost.
Be more specific if you want to make a point.
You can’t even come up with a good fake story to hide your racist slurs. What a dumb cunt you are.
– Zilcher
The Finkles? We’ve never met. We did correspond via my crooked lawyer. I’ve no idea of their race but, until you brought it up, I never never even thought about it.
They’re probably white. Clarington, Ontario is nearly 100% white and, at least, 80% proudly red-neck.
I seek the truth, boundaries be damned. I’m not going to fabricate a lie in front of God in pursuit of bitch-slapping a little femme boy. I will bitch-slap you with the truth. God is my witness.
The Finkles now live in my $1,500,000 net worth. 1.6 acres. Magazine house. Out-buildings. 40’x20′ pool with an Ontario rock waterfall/diving platform. Perfect well-water. Mortgage-free.
I don’t play high school games, child. I wish that you’d stop.
***
I pretty much keep my race thoughts off this board because there are plenty here with stronger opinions than I on race. It’s different in Canada and especially in Saskatchewan.
I believe in One God. He wants salvation for one and all.
***
I saw that Bill has picked up our after-school name-calling spat and now he’s going to regularly call you, “Fuckface.” It does fit ya, FF.
Like an expensive Italian driving glove.
***
As for your latest adolescent outburst, little girl, using the c-word on CFN crosses a line, FF. There are ladies present. Smarten up!
Notice how the Hogger never posts in the original comment line, just like Bill. Goes way down the page to start a new one.
A common narc tactic, hoping you won’t remember what they did earlier.
😀
Hey, fuckface, what do you mean I never post in the original comments line?
And please explain what a narc tactic is.
Unlike you, fuckface, I don’t claim to know everything.
Did you notice fuckface, that I didn’t capitalize fuckface? That’s because you don’t deserve capital letters, fuckface.
By, fuckface.
You aren’t even worth it, Bill.
“If we manage to avoid World War Three,”
I think the US is in the same situation that the Russian Empire was in 1905.
The hubris of the US military establishment is astonishing. Biden falsely believes that a 2 front war is “no problem” for the US military. He is a deranged old fool.
During the Russo-Japanese War of 1905, the Russian navy was completed destroyed when its 2nd Pacific Squadron (which contained many new battleships) met the Japanese Combined Fleet at the Battle of Tsushima. This sea battle and its aftermath shocked the world.
The US faces a similar fate. I think if the Chinese & US fight over Taiwan, there might be a result like the Battle of Tsushima, with the US losing its carriers.
There is nothing magical about US vehicles or equipment. The Bradleys are burning (along with all the German garbage) on the steppes of the Motherland. I wonder if this is why the US won’t supply Ukraine with Abrams tanks. The video of US tanks burning would be too much for the brittle egos of the Pentagon.
I’m thinking that neither Russia , nor China , nor Hamas terrorists , are any sort of real target.
The real target is a target audience.
And the target audience is American and NATO citizens.
The message being something like , ” Things are so fucked up because the world is full of these other bad guys , and because the world in general is fucked up. ”
No , things are fucked up in the United States or France NOT because of anything happening in Yemen , or Nepal , or on Enceladeus.
Or the sky is going to fall if Westerners lose Gaza , any more than the sky fell because Russia lost Port Arthur.
Getting back to Ukraine ,
if Ukraine is really so important then why doesn’t the United States send in its own troops ?
I was convinced even before I read William Shryver or Andrei Martyanov that the United States is in no way prepared to fight a war of attrition with a first tier , or even a second tier , military power ,
and the United States know it.
Not only is there no arsenal of democracy ,
imagine the total shit show if they tried to bring back the draft.
” The US has now bombed Iranian troops in Syria. ”
— Paula
I could be mistaken , but the way I remember it , the United States kills Iranians every few weeks or months , like it rounds up a few drug dealers every few months ,
and it means about the same thing.
Some newspaper copy to show the sympathetic idiots that they are doing something , when they really aren’t doing anything.
In the case of the drug war , while it may technically not be true that the United States runs the illegal drug trade ,
there is certainly no question but that it never ends , not even with victory , because they don’t want it to.
In the case of Iran , they can afford and tolerate a few casualties here and there because they know it is all bullshit bluff ,
and I’m guessing they figure that time and circumstances are on their side.
Yes, Iran refuses to respond to US provocations, much like Russia, and because of that we are all lucky, so far.
What aggravates me is the hypocrisy. That is why I bring it up.
The wailing, the garment rending, the squeals of outrage, the stomping of the feet, and the finger pointing at Israel, compared to the absolute silence about, and ignoring of, US lawlessness and atrocities, really gets my goat.
They have to respond now or else be branded as a paper tiger. Who can forget Islander’s “He’s not going to invade”. Putin had to act and he did. Now Iran faces the same choice: Do or Die.
This isn’t women’s business. Accordingly, they almost always get it wrong. Always raving for peace when it’s time for war. Real men know this and ignore them on such issues.
advocating or just noticing, jar?
if advocating, i say to you like i would say to zios, “if you really believe, you first”
and we take it from there.
The problem, Charles, is a comprehensive collapse for which there simply is no solution.
— What?
Not sure what you’re referencing exactly, but..
When “keeping up with the joneses” civilizationally becomes a deep desire, as it is for much of the Middle East, you’re just fighting for a space out on that same limb with everyone else; then the limb cracks behind you too…
Hmmmm? A question?
Is the world wide protests, and there is a lot of pretty big ones, not only demonstrations against Israel but maybe against the United States,
Disguised as pro-Palestinian movements, are these protests actually aimed at us?
We need Watter’s World Johnny over there to ask these kids who are they really pissed at.
Think the planners at BRICS++ are noticing the uprising.
I wonder what the “kids” plan B is?
If they were actually anti-US protests, they would be protesting the occupation of Syria, and the killing of Syrians, also, as well as the ongoing slaughter of Ukrainians.
They aren’t, though, are they. They are little robots, protesting what they are told to protest, and they are only told to protest Israel.
young people are often superficial wind up dolls – the need for answers always precedes the ability to see clearly enough to accept the reality of human nature without reserve. when i was young, no exception. you?
cynical oldsters like on this board board see clearly enough, but like oldsters everywhere, suffer analysis paralysis.
but yea, the robot masters… we might all some day realize they are the problem, and as one, make them obsolete.
bucky fuller said it well – the way change happens is when an innovation makes the rotting old hulk fall away. i think whats about to fall away is the age of the treaty of westphalia.
there should be min 10,000 polities.
Well, ladies and germs;
Buffy St Marie…been listening to her for 50+ years. About as indigenous as you can get. Come to find out that she is not Cree, not even an Indian, not an orphan, and was not born in Canada, as she claims (At least a plus). No, she is of vaguely Spanish descent, born to ;obviously enraged and embarrassed parents in the good old USA.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/buffy-sainte-marie-investigation-1235630691/
I am totally shattered. What are they gonna tell us next, that Dwayne Johnson aint’t white? The Pope ain’t Catholic? That women have orgasms?
Enough of this bullshit.
I used to think Cher was an Indian. Then I found out she belonged to the Armenian tribe.
Pretendian
@Ef: re Buffy
Believe it or not, my mother worked with Buffy’s aunt Evelyn. Evelyn
always talked about her to my mother. My mother, who was a very cynical person really liked Evelyn, and believed her stories about Buffy. The thing is, Evelyn was Italian or Spanish. So is Buffy. Evelyn’s last name was Santamaria (sp?), hence Buffy’s last name of St. Marie. Her Indian persona was probably just publicity, as Buffy was into Native Americanism. Or perhaps Evelyn’s sibling married a native American. I never knew.
Not saying anything bad about Buffy. Evelyn cared for her, and my mother really liked Evelyn, so Buffy is probably a nice person.
BTW, everyone who is anyone knows the Pope is Jewish and Dwayne is a lizard person from Rigel II. You better get with it or you’ll never get ahead. Lol.
Bill,
Perhaps our Host, while working at the “Stone”, may have met her.
It’s not really surprising that presenting as a victim was already monetized in the sixties, though not a full fledged industry as it is now.
She wrote some lovely songs, but apparently felt she needed to carve out this particular niche in order to be noticed. The part that baffles me about these kinds of revelations is how people live with them. If I’d told a lie of this kind, I’d live in sick terror every moment of my life so, even if my conscience didn’t bother me (and it would) it just wouldn’t be worth the misery.
Still – I’ll always love “Piney Wood Hills.”
I’m a rambler and a rover
And a wanderer it seems
I’ve traveled all over
Chasing after my dreams
But a dream should come true
And a heart should be filled
And a life should be lived
In the piney wood hills
I’ll return to the woodlands
I’ll return to the snow
I’ll return to the hills
And the valley below
I’ll return like a poor man
Or a king if God wills
But I’m on my way home
To the piney wood hills
I was raised on a song there
I done right I done wrong there
And it’s true I belong there
And it’s true it’s my home
From ocean to ocean
I’ve rambled and roamed
And soon I’ll return
To my piney wood home
Maybe someday I’ll find
Someone who will
Love as I love my piney wood hills
I was raised on a song there
I done right I done wrong there
And it’s true I belong there
And it’s true it’s my home
I’ll return to the woodlands
I’ll return to the snow
I’ll return to the hills
And the valley below
I’ll return like a poor man
Or a king if God wills
But I’m on my way home
To the piney wood hills
Hoo-wah!
DNA testing!
Let’s do it.
Just for you people who either go by whatever anyone says without checking their veracity, or are Jew-haters, here is what Wikipedia says about khazars:
late 19th century saw the emergence of the theory that the core of today’s Ashkenazi Jews are descended from a hypothetical Khazarian Jewish diaspora which migrated westward from modern-day Russia and Ukraine into modern-day France and Germany. Linguistic and genetic studies have not supported the theory of a Khazar connection to Ashkenazi Jewry. The theory still finds occasional support, but most scholars view it with considerable scepticism.[23][19] The theory is sometimes associated with antisemitism[24] and anti-Zionism.[25]
Jeez, you people. Don’t you know how to ascertain reality?
Well, bringing it around to today, Hamas & the anti Semites at elite colleges thought they were dealing with Perchik from ‘Fiddler on the Roof.’ Instead, who they got is Harry ‘Pittsburgh Phil’ Strauss with his Tommy Gun, a member of Murder Inc., yes a gangster, but an honorable man from a solid Jewish family who took out only other gangsters who needed to be taken out.
Pittsburgh Phil, Louis Lempke Bulchalter, Abe ‘Kid Twist’ Reles ~ serious dudes not to be fu]#kkd with if you knew what was good for you.
Don’t forget Jack Ruby. Didn’t he babble something about killing Oswald to prove that Jews weren’t pussies?
Well, Ruby was part of ‘The Outfit’, not a Made Man but as an Associate (loan sharking, strip clubs) Ruby was around long enough to have known the OGs like Al Capone, Frankie Yale, Machine Gun Jack McGurn, & Frank Nitti.
None of the above Gentlemen lived long lives.
You didn’t answer my question now, did you?
Just wondering. He knew the Italian wise guys but not the Jewish ones you mentioned above? Wasn’t he Jewish? I could be wrong. Do you know?
Wiki
Character
According to the people interviewed by law enforcement and the Warren Commission, Ruby was desperate to attract attention to himself and to his club. He knew a great number of people in Dallas, but he had only a few friends. His business ventures remained unsuccessful and he was heavily in debt.[11]
The commission received reports of Ruby’s penchant for violence. He had a volatile temper, and often resorted to violence with employees who had upset him. He acted as the bouncer of his own club and beat his customers on at least 25 occasions. The fights would often end with Ruby throwing his victims down the club’s stairs.[11]
Government officials also heard stories of Ruby’s eccentric and unstable behavior. He sometimes took his shirt or other clothes off in social gatherings, and then either hit his chest like a gorilla or rolled around the floor. During conversations, he could change the topic suddenly in mid-sentence. He sometimes welcomed a guest to his club, but on other nights forbade the same guest from entering. He was described by those who knew him as “a kook”, “totally unpredictable”, “a psycho”, and “suffering from some form of disturbance”.[11]
During the 1970s, prominent psychiatrist Irene Jakab, who was known for her use of art therapy in diagnosing and treating patients with mental illness, analyzed artwork that had been created by Ruby while he was in jail. While assessing one of Ruby’s drawings, which had been included as part of art exhibits at the World Congress of Psychiatry meeting in Waikiki, Hawaii and the University of Hawaii in late August and early September 1977, she observed that his work conveyed “repressed aggression and secretiveness,” adding:[23]
Notice how he really constricts himself so as not to reveal himself. He hides behind all those geometrical lines and pointed edges. You can feel his controlled aggression.
Imagine tho if your nickname was ‘Machine Gun’? You’d certainly have a rep to live up to. Jack McGurn’s real name was Vincenzo Gebrardi, a professional boxer, Outfit hitman, and all around tough guy. He was one of the shooters at the infamous St. Valentine’s Day Massacre. But Jack talked too much, and he himself was hit at a bowling alley 7 years later. There were 2 gunmen, and they left behind a poem:
“You lost your job you lost your dough.
Your jewels and cars and handsome houses.
But things could be worse you know,
At least you haven’t lost your trousers.”
Who says gangsters don’t have a sense of humor?
McGurn’s half brother, another Gangster named Anthony DeMory, claimed he knew who his brother’s killers were, and vowed revenge. Unfortunately he too caught 4 rounds in the back of his head in a local poolhall.
At any rate, this is the world that nurtured Jack Ruby.
It is strange that such a man was in the basement of the Dallas PD – and armed – while they paraded the President’s assassin (or “patsy”) on national TV.
That’s for sure.
I’m not a Jew hater. You know that from the number of times I’ve confronted Jew haters on here.
But I’m reading Arthur Koestler’s book, which I presume is allowed. Out of interest. He was a European Jew, not a Jew hater.
Wikipedia also tells me that Naomi Wolf, Mike Yeadon, Peter McCullough et al are all conspiracy theorists, so I would take a lot of what it takes with a pinch of salt.
And, anyway, I don’t know why accepting the Khazari hypothesis would make someone a Jew hater. If it’s true, it’s true. If it isn’t, it isn’t. Neither scenario changes people’s right not to be persecuted.
Note that the word ‘globalist’ is also – very deliberately – associated with antisemitism and antizionism, so that people who talk about globalists will be discredited. And yet you know that globalists are a thing.
This is a recent thing, and I would not go so far as to say it is actually associated with that.
It’s just something the globalist media parrots, so that no one talks about them.
That’s exactly what I meant, NO. That those who don’t want people thinking globalists are anything other than a conspiracy theory try to call those people ‘antisemitic’ because you apparently can’t have a globalist conspiracy without it being Jewish. Which, of course, you can. Although there are obviously some Jews in there, because why wouldn’t there be?
Ah, ok.
‘A lot of what it *says*’, even …
I don’t know why accepting the Khazari hypothesis would make someone a Jew hater. If it’s true, it’s true. If it isn’t, it isn’t. Neither scenario changes people’s right not to be persecuted.
If it is true, however, then these converted Jews have no ancestral claim to any portion of Palestine whatsoever. That is, it is completely opposed to Zionism and is, therefore, branded “anti-Semitic.”
It can’t be true or the Balfour Declaration (1917) was nothing more than Rothschild bullshit as they toil at fulfilling but subverting God’s Word.
Indeed, if the hypothesis were true they would have no *ancestral* claim. But they would have the same de facto claim to nationhood as the US, Canada, New Zealand or Australia.
But that is not Zionism.
The hypothesis is verboten because it is a 180 from Zionism.
I realise that. But, given that we’re talking about a hypothesis, I prefer that we concentrate on a cease-fire, an end to the current bloodshed, and the prevention of escalation.
History can wait for another day.
IMHO, life would be so much better if women could simply say, “Oh! You’re right.” when they should.
Instead, they change the topic like that’s what they meant the entire time.
Life would be even better if certain men would stop with the ‘if only women would …’ nonsense. It adds nothing to your argument except bad faith.
The question of nationhood per se is just as important to Israel’s current right to exist as is nationhood as a result of the ancestral homeland justification. So it is not a change of subject.
My point stands – one can perfectly well accept – or at least entertain – the Khazari hypothesis without becoming a Jew hater. That some people will use it as an excuse for hatred that they already feel does not contradict that.
Note that it was you who brought up the concept of Zionism, which wasn’t mentioned in my sentence that you quoted. Because I wasn’t talking about Zionism. I was merely claiming that one could entertain the Khazari hypothesis without being a Jew hater. It’s really not that complicated.
In addition to which, if 99.9% (or whatever percentage) of European Jewry in the early 20th century had not themselves even heard of the Khazari hypothesis, then they themselves can hardly be blamed for assuming an ancestral right which they honestly considered themselves to have. (Of what Balfour knew or hypothesised I have no idea.)
That’s why Koestler called it the ‘cruellest illusion’ played by history.
Also note that your friend the ‘BK’ often changes the subject during a conversation, and if anyone of a female persuasion comments on that, he claims that ‘women’ don’t get that a conversation can go wherever it wants.
There’s no pleasing sexists.
And, looking back, I’m not sure why ‘I realise that’ is any different from saying ‘you’re right’. But, as I wasn’t talking about Zionism in the first place, but rather ‘Jew hatred’, you being right didn’t make me wrong.
Perhaps you confuse ‘Jew hatred’ with a lack of enthusiasm for Zionism, which is a pretty basic mistake, like confusing antisemitism with disapproval of specific actions of the Israeli government.
While watching the game, and doing research during commercials, OG corrects Alba before going back to the game.
Two dimensions meets three.
Hahaha! BINGO! Anaheim Ducks 7 @ Philadelphia Flyers 4.
OG hasn’t told me anything I don’t already know, thank you.
Again you win the Wooden Spoon.
Au contraire.
Before:
I don’t know why accepting the Khazari hypothesis would make someone a Jew hater.
After:
Now you know.
No I don’t. If I accept the Khazari hypothesis, I don’t become a Jew hater. Many people are Jew haters without having even heard of the Khazari hypothesis.
That’s actually one of your least logical posts, OG.
Imagine spending all your energy worrying about not being a Jew hater – even as your nation and people are dying.
It’s insane. And there are millions of Albas out there, men too.
The 13th Tribe is an old hypothesis. Some of Ashkenazi have an alien look to them, but so do other Eastern Europeans. The Turks and Huns left their imprint there. But the Ashkenazi are more White than anything else – but they don’t so identify and that’s the problem.
I don’t see any evidence of ‘worry’ about being a Jew hater – or indeed about coming over as one. I just don’t happen to be one, and I don’t want Beantownbill to consider that anyone who discusses topics like the Khazars is a Jew hater, because that’s not helpful to him.
Some other examples:
rowman.com/ISBN/9781538103425/The-Jews-of-Khazaria-Third-Edition
(nothing remotely anti-Jewish in the blurb for this history book).
books.google.nl/books/about/The_World_of_the_Khazars.html
(nor in that one)
Reading books isn’t ‘hateful’. You can read them too, Bill, and form your own conclusions. I don’t particularly care if Ashkenazi Jews are related to Kazhars or not. I just want to see an end to the bloodshed.
Bill,
Maybe, who knows? You do know that Wiki is written and populated by the great unwashed? You could write a short article, claim they were from Mars, and, if well annotated, get it published.
Usta be that way, anyway.
Who writes the entries?
Anyone can – it’s open to all and can be modified and edited by anyone. However, Wikipedia’s administrators protect some pages from direct editing if they believe they are regularly subjected to “vandalism” – the addition of abusive language or falsehoods.
Who checks for quality and accuracy?
Wikipedia is self-policing and relies on its community of volunteer editors to improve the quality and accuracy of the pages over time. It’s the “wisdom of crowds” principle in action. Writers are encouraged to back up factual statements with verifiable references and authoritative sources as often as
Wikipedia is widely edited these days by the intelligence agencies. Even its co-founder said years ago that it should no longer be relied upon. It’s obviously fine if you just want to know when Beethoven was born or to find out how many films Mel Gibson directed.
It’s about as reliable and accurate as factcheck.org.
The Kinkles did nothing wrong. It is otherwise with the Finkles. Dickens couldn’t have said it bettah.
OG has lived an epic life. We can only dream of the roots he has in the Canadieu soil. He rode in a John Deere! But he wasn’t drawn to it. He wanted to play hockey and make it big on Bay St.
I did want to play hockey. I scored 99 goals in Grande Prairie, Alberta in the 1973-74 season. I even had a couple of 8-goal games that season.
Alas, I was just not good enough. The NHL is the pinnacle. There are many, many big steps between my best and its worst.
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I completely fluked my way onto Bay Street. I moved from Regina to Toronto in February 1992 on a temporary contract position with a different major Canadian bank (CIBC). Once there, I found myself a “headhunter.” I aced their aptitude test so they presented me for their top outstanding position – at Nesbitt Thomson. I had no idea what I had landed into in October 1992 but I quickly figured it out and proceeded to gross over $6mm there [circa 1993-2016].
Unbeknownst to me (until years later), my outside-the-box thinking had me single-handedly develop the best equity research data acquisition and publishing system in Canada (and, arguably, on earth) in 1992-93 and then again in its 1999-2000 revamp.
So my employer, BMO (Bank of Montreal), actually needed me more than I needed them. I had a major Canadian bank by the balls single-handedly running a mission critical system for them for more than a couple of decades. Thus, I truly am The Six Million Dollar Man.
I was based in Toronto but I also worked in our offices in London, New York, Boston, Montreal, Ottawa, Houston, Atlanta, Chicago, Calgary, Vancouver, San Francisco, LA. Planes, trains and automobiles.
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I wish that I could take credit for “Dickens couldn’t have said it bettah” but “Kinkles” was a bizarre typo only. To be clear, the Finkles did nothing wrong. They were in the market in 2016 when crooked Justice [sic] David Salmers unjustly liquidated my mortgage-free house. Had they not been in the right place at the right time, someone else would’ve.
The Finkles did drive a real hard bargain on purchasing my mint 1973 [Pro-Football] & 1976 [Volley] Gottleib pinball machines but I cannot fault them for that. Business is business.
The Finkles did nothing wrong and Dickens’ well-earned reputation remains intact vis-à-vis me.
What is your GLT score on the Maine shooter?
I don’t know nearly enough about it to believe in either a black op or the official “Loon Strikes Again” story.
That is why I am very particular about the 10 historical events listed in the GLiT. Some black ops are obvious right from the get-go (i.e. Lahaina 8/8) while most take time to “ripen.”
Notice that the 2017 Vegas Turkey-Shoot is the most current of the ten in the GLiT.
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GLiT:
For each of these 10 big historical events, score a 1 if you believe that it was a black op and a 0 if you believe the official story.
JFK ~ 1963
USS Liberty ~ 1967
MLK ~ 1968
RFK ~ 1968
OKC ~ 1995
9/11 ~ 2001
7/7 London Subway Bombings ~ 2005
’08 Crash/Housing Bubble/Hank-Paulson Treasury Looting ~ 2008
Boston Marathon ~ 2013
Vegas Turkey-Shoot ~ 2017
What is your score?
Your list offends me. The Vegas Turkey Shoot? That is dehumanizing language.
But it was a turkey-shoot whether that fact offends you or not.
“A turkey shoot is an opportunity for an individual or a party to take advantage of a situation with a significant degree of ease. The term likely originates from a method of hunting wild turkeys in which the hunter, coming upon a flock, intentionally scatters them.”
What is your belief here, OG?
I don’t believe that the people in Las Vegas were killed by a lone nut 400 yards away, who shot 600 people in 10 minutes and then killed himself. He fired 1000 rounds and got 600 hits? A guy with a history of gambling, but not guns?
No way.
I think there was a team on the ground, and that Paddock was a patsy.
But do you mean “turkey shoot” as “an individual” or “a party”?
“I did want to play hockey. I scored 99 goals in Grande Prairie, Alberta in the 1973-74 season. I even had a couple of 8-goal games that season.”
OG,
Yeah? I been to the top of the Empire State Building, been on Judge Judy, and once stayed at a Holiday Inn.
Oh ya? I’m only 2 for 3 in that regard, EF.
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And, in fairness, BK had brought up my hockey dreams before I commented on them.
But what’s your GLT score?
This is why I despair of knowing what’s happening anywhere but in my own backyard. From “Coffee and Covid” today (always worth reading) referring to the “burned baby” picture, which is juxtaposed with a picture of a puppy presumably in the hands of a veterinarian:
“For example, take the picture shown above on the left. It first went viral after Ben Shapiro labeled it an image of a burned infant from the war. But then, alert independent investigators found the original picture shown on the right — the puppy — and exposed the alleged burn victim as an A.I. deep fake. But then, plot twist, other people accused the puppy photo of being the real deep fake and at that point everybody just threw their hands up and forgot about the whole story since it’s just too hard to figure out when the world is on fire and Biden is lurking around somewhere sniffing everybody.”
There should be some name for the syndrome by which your outrage is ramped up (artificially or otherwise), then disassembled, then reassembled, etc. – after which, at a certain point, you just give up.
All I can say with certainty is that babies shouldn’t be burned. Yet, even in “just” wars, they always have been. Is it really good enough to say that they should only be burned accidentally rather than deliberately? Is this really the best we can do?
I’m saddened this morning by our seeming inability to learn anything.
welcome to the world of the chimps lol
I still don’t see many people discussing how it’s very likely that just the population density of that region and the resource scarcity issues alone are big contributing factors to the conflict. I also think the US presence in the region is terrible and not needed.
We have to pretend that population density and resource scarcity are not real things.
If you say they are, you support genocide, doncha know.
Because stating facts = Genocide.
Nothing is real
All is permitted.
The Old Man of the Mountain
Nothing is real
Nothing to get hung about
Strawberry fields forever.
John Lennon
Jarek: Strawberry fields? Sounds like field of Blackbirds at Kosovo. Or the Killing fields of Cambodia.
Since nothing is real, there is nothing worth protesting or dying for. Therefore all your people will be executed or enslaved sooner or later by those who are willing to show up for life.
Is it not better that one Man should die so that the People might live?
Caiaphas
You’re putting the arm on John Lennon today, Jarek. He used to be a cynic, in a good way.
I blame Yoko Ono. She finished off the Beatles, then amplified the “why can’t we all just get along?” movement.
In some ways, the biggest reptiles of them all are exploiting the situation to promote and advocate for the criminalization of speech. Its like no matter what, these people are dedicated to enslaving and silencing you. I personally don’t subscribe to the belief that there is a collective duty to import problems when problems already exist anyway. But then again everyone will just let you know how immoral it is to say that some people did something.
Very true observation, SSL.
://westminsterdeclaration.org/
Is it true that there are 26 US military bases surrounding Iran?
You need to check Musk’s latest tweet. Shows a cluster of US bases around Iran. The text is another play on the ‘of course the Iranians want war, look how close they put their country to our military bases’.
Oh yeah lol, its funny you mention that as that was what my question was based off of. I saw his post on X and counted the American flags surrounding Iran and it was 26. Yes he was using irony or Irany in that case.
How many of those are defensible logistically?
JHK simply cannot be objective here, sadly.
I think I may have read his post differently than most others. I perceived it as being an America first approach to the issue. And a caution against involvement and also escalation.
IDK, I think it is a balanced take–though I do not agree with all of it. Thought was put into it, however.
I tend to side more with the Palis in terms of the history of the area, but both sides are being used, and it is true that the Jews had it pretty bad on the Continent in the 30s and 40s. The Jews themselves are not the issue either, it is Zionism, IMO.
Regardless, there has also been a sort of uneasy situation regarding migration and the slow Islamification of many Western states. Take a look at England right now. There are entire towns, cities even, that are unrecognizable, and I think many are well aware that all that all that is needed to explode the powder keg is one match.
Objectivity has nothing to do with it. All the arguments aside, this is really no different than any sporting event in this sense: why do you root for Team A as opposed to Team B or Team C? Many potential rational reasons may exist but end of the day, the fundamental reason is a “gut” thing unknowable by reason.
What I find interesting is the disconnect among that portion of the Pali fan club on this board who would be considered by the team they’re rooting for and their fellow travelers as “colonists” that this conflict is essentially being presented as a “decolonization” by “their” side (one of the deeper thinkers has already dropped the Marxist horseshit “settler colonialism” card). I get the “oppressed” jumping on the bandwagon. That’s their team but do the “colonists” think this magically won’t be coming to a town near them, especially if the Palis were to get their river to the sea? I don’t see how the colonists cheering on the decolonization are any different than the morons with BLM signs believing that will negate their permanent “oppressor” status in the eyes of the woke cadres.
Sometimes the enemy of my enemy is indeed my friend.
Personally, I don’t root for either team. The massacre should stop. But it won’t, regardless of what most of us think.
Yes. I think that’s what it comes down to.
Big news from Tysons;
You KNOW that they are in the process of importing an industrial base from which to manufacture…insect protein. Well, they have just identified the insect they will be focusing on in their future plants; Black Soldier Flies.
I know…I know they sound toothsome, albeit the possible racist connotations…but it makes a lot of sense, because this species of fly eats…shit. Yes, animal feces, converted to protein to save the planet!
https://www.newstarget.com/2023-10-27-tyson-foods-switching-meat-bugs-insect-proteins.html
The mature flies, no doubt, will be ground to a meal, to feed “livestock”. The maggots might be used as a filler for ice cream, yogurt, and possibly other “animal foods”.
Would Tyson slip a little bug juice into your pumpkin spice latte mix? Your frozen chicken nasties? Of course not.
Trust
Oh, and I expect that they will be hiring thousands of people to aid in the process. Every fly and maggot should have clean gastro/intestinal tracts (I suspect they have one of some sort). Pig “chitterlings” require thorough cleaning before human consumption, I expect every fly and maggot will receive an enema before being processed for consumption. This important work is very labor intensive, and can be a career path for thousands of Americans and illegal immigrants…not to mention revitalizing our industrial base manufacturing very small enema bags.*
*Screw the Chinese models. Trust me on this…
More “conspiracy theory.” It was all crazy Mike Sherman said.
😀
The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race
The advent of agriculture was a watershed moment for the human race. It may also have been our greatest blunder.
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“There are at least three sets of reasons to explain the findings that agriculture was bad for health. First, hunter-gatherers enjoyed a varied diet, while early farmers obtained most of their food from one or a few starchy crops. The farmers gained cheap calories at the cost of poor nutrition, (today just three high-carbohydrate plants — wheat, rice, and corn — provide the bulk of the calories consumed by the human species, yet each one is deficient in certain vitamins or amino acids essential to life.) Second, because of dependence on a limited number of crops, farmers ran the risk of starvation if one crop failed. Finally, the mere fact that agriculture encouraged people to clump together in crowded societies, many of which then carried on trade with other crowded societies, led to the spread of parasites and infectious disease. (Some archaeologists think it was the crowding, rather than agriculture, that promoted disease, but this is a chicken-and-egg argument, because crowding encourages agriculture and vice versa.) Epidemics couldn’t take hold when populations were scattered in small bands that constantly shifted camp. Tuberculosis and diarrheal disease had to await the rise of farming, measles and bubonic plague the appearance of large cities.
Besides malnutrition, starvation, and epidemic diseases, farming helped bring another curse upon humanity: deep class divisions. Hunter-gatherers have little or no stored food, and no concentrated food sources, like an orchard or a herd of cows: they live off the wild plants and animals they obtain each day. Therefore, there can be no kings, no class of social parasites who grow fat on food seized from others. Only in a farming population could a healthy, non-producing elite set itself above the disease-ridden masses. Skeletons from Greek tombs at Mycenae c. 1500 B. C. suggest that royals enjoyed a better diet than commoners, since the royal skeletons were two or three inches taller and had better teeth (on the average, one instead of six cavities or missing teeth). Among Chilean mummies from c. A. D. 1000, the elite were distinguished not only by ornaments and gold hair clips but also by a fourfold lower rate of bone lesions caused by disease.
Similar contrasts in nutrition and health persist on a global scale today. To people in rich countries like the U.S., it sounds ridiculous to extol the virtues of hunting and gathering. But Americans are an elite, dependent on oil and minerals that must often be imported from countries with poorer health and nutrition. If one could choose between being a peasant farmer in Ethiopia or a bushman gatherer in the Kalahari, which do you think would be the better choice?
Farming may have encouraged inequality between the sexes, as well…” ~ Jared Diamond, May 1, 1999, Discover Magazine
It’s fucking obvious.
Good stuff, Zaz. Better than theoretical anarchism.
And let’s not forget the effect of cheap reliable energy (for some of us) which has led to the production of enormous quantities of food and advanced technologies.
Nowadays those who control the energy supply control the planet.
Gus,
Good stuff? Those are lifted quotes, without context or in the flow of any conversation. All Zaz can do is use someone else’s dick to make his ‘arguments’.
Maybe so, but that’s an excellent excerpt you should read, Soul.
These archaeological discussions are plagued by survivorship bias.
It also produces a false dichotomy. What is there, inherently, to prevent many mixed hunter/gatherer and agricultural societies? Take away the green revolution — of course, only possible because of the oil boom — and you have a far more sustainable and environmentally friendly agricultural part to that system.
But to answer these questions with any intelligence or nuance is impossible with the Zaz types, because they’re ideological doofuses (doofi?). He’ll just hunt for seventeen other gish galloped saved quotes from others, and paste them up in another wall, thus invoking Brandolini’s law in those who want to argue with him.
“These archaeological discussions are plagued by survivorship bias.”
It’s more an anthropological discussion. There is plenty of 20th century intact hunter/gatherer scientific data and observation.
“What is there, inherently, to prevent many mixed hunter/gatherer and agricultural societies?”
The agricultural ones grow and gobble the rest, and their territories, like some kind of parasitic, unstoppable cancer.
“Take away the green revolution — of course, only possible because of the oil boom — and you have a far more sustainable and environmentally friendly agricultural part to that system.”
Nope. Growth trends, and the creeping agriculturalization of all suitable land, began with the Ag Revolution. The oil boom has just been an acceleration and crescendo.
If it’s naturally feasible, then it will happen, if not, then it won’t, or at least bog down over time.
Did cows get mad cow disease predominantly from being fed their own body parts back to them?
And what about the overuse of antibiotics and superbugs? And antibiotics in our food?
Nature seems to have a way with bitch-slapping any sleeping-at-the-wheel species into waking reality, if sometimes by bad crashes. LOL
Anyone one this board who concerns him- or herself with the issue of Palestine/Israel and also considers him- or herself a just, decent person must listen to the very clear words of the Holocaust survivor Gabor Mate:
httpZ://twitter.com/Resist_05/status/1712402483115614498
It’s not about being “for Hamas,” or “the Palestinians.” Or, conversely, “for the Jews/Holocaust survivors.” It is about being for basic justice.
Even though it is such fun to feel OUTRAGE! Righteous outrage!
Or is that self-righteous outrage? While ignoring historical and contemporaries realities and discounting contrary evidence that throws cold water on that delicious, black-and-white emotion of OUTRAGE. To make pronunciamentos, a la some of our Congresscritters, that there are “no two sides, there is only one side.” How convenient when the only “side” is the one with the dollar sign on it.
Also recommended is an interview published today at MoA. The interviewer’s continued failure to “get” the basic point being made by a former Prime Minister of France Dominique De Villepin pretty much illustrates his point.
In a fully commodified society, morality and justice are just two more commodities to be bought and sold like all the rest. The Palestinians may or may not be the latest group to fall in the cross hairs of that calculation, but the certainly aren’t the first, nor will they be the last. Not by a long shot.
I don’t see many clear cases for clear justice anywhere.
Justice increasingly comes down to rationalized “revenge light.” And of course it’s always in the eye of the beholder. One person’s “justice” will invariably be someone else’s “injustice” and reason for revenge.
Fair? Who said life was fair?
” Fair? Who said life was fair? ”
Why I would say that my default reaction to , ” Get tough on Crime ” is ;
Are you for fucking real ?
Upgrade Or Replacement For The 21st. Century: 1787 & Dated Notions of Social Organization
“Although I admit that the outcome in a stateless society will be bad, because not only are people not angels, but many of them are irredeemably vicious in the extreme, I conjecture that the outcome in a society under a state will be worse, indeed much worse, because, first, the most vicious people in society will tend to gain control of the state (Hayek 1944, 134-52; Bailey 1988; Higgs 2004, 33-56) and, second, by virtue of this control over the state’s powerful engines of death and destruction, they will wreak vastly more harm than they ever could have caused outside the state (Higgs 2004, 101-05). It is unfortunate that some individuals commit crimes, but it is stunningly worse when such criminally inclined individuals wield state powers. ~ Robert Higgs, ‘If Men Were Angels: The Basic Analytics of the State versus Self-government’, via The Man They Call Zazelle, upthread
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” ‘If men were Angels, no government would be necessary.‘ “-James Madison, 1787, via BackRowHeckler, upthread
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See header.
The sociomaterial tech AKA State government is obsolete.
I haven’t seen you comment yet on actual here & now Anarchy in west coast cities such as LA, Portland, Seattle & San Francisco. Here we have city governments who have given up & lost control; laws are not being enforced, thousands of people are living in filth on the streets, drug addiction is endemic, crime rates are astronomical, diseases run rampant.
Authority has retreated, order has broken down, for all intents and purposes the polity has returned to a Hobbsean State of Nature ~ perfect Anarchy, all against all.
Anarchy has nothing to do with your obsolete State government’s failure, except as a scapegoat/dodge.
Failed State is practically a tautology.
What does your theoretical anarchist society look like, Zaz? Put on your rose-coloured glasses and give us a sense of it.
Here’s a conversation starter:
Someone kills (when, not if) another for his loot, even though both parties had their fare share, and the murderer wasn’t oppressed by state or even any individual.
What should/would the punishment (if any) be? Who would decide? On whose and what practical or moral framework would it be decided and administered?
Legalize murder. It will work itself out. The best natural system of checks and balances will emerge.
“It will work itself out.”
How does that happen under the ‘freedom’ of anarchism, which — remember — is the societal framework of this discussion?
Anarchism is just a set of ‘common sense’ ethical principles or guidelines.
Whether anarchy can solve a society’s problems seems to depend on one’s assumptions about human nature across the board.
If one’s assumptions are skewed toward the negative or pessimistic, then for them, it may be that, in the end, ‘anything goes and nothing really matters‘.
If, however, one’s assumptions are skewed more toward the positive or optimistic, then anarchy will likely hold promise.
So where one falls in the argument seems to depend on what kinds of assumptions they have about human nature in general as well as from self-reflections of their own natures in specific.
What happens SF is people take matters into their own hands. You killed one of mine, I’ll kill one of yours. That’s what happens when the govt is weak and the rule of law is not enforced. Plenty of revenge killing and feuds that lasts for decades, like the Hatfields & McCoys in WV in the 1880s, Clantons vs Earps in Tombstone, bloody range wars in Texas that lasted 40 years, & local warlords forming up private armies in Chicagoland.
How non-committal. In other words, you have no idea of how your ideal society would work (Of course you’re right in that sense.). You’re just winging it.
I would argue that we have enough examples of societies very much in alignment with anarchist ideas, and we’ve seen how they all turned out. We also have many examples of anarchist enclaves writ small, and it couldn’t even work in those simple instances, exactly because of the unfortunate realities of implacable human nature.
Comment for Zaz.
And indeed, BRH. Utopian: a cynic in the making.
I’m in the middle of something, but will say that at least we’re thinking of it, maybe trying to work it out, so that’s a start.
“Utopian: a cynic in the making.”
Sometimes a murderer in the making.
‘ “Utopian: a cynic in the making.”
Sometimes a murderer in the making. ‘
The utopian quality of the entire mega-civilizational experiment is never emphasized enough. We are living inside the largest-scale utopian experiment in human history or future.
Maybe, but the overall civilisational project has been pretty bitty and piecemeal. Each bit of technological progress led to another – it wasn’t all planned out at the start, with the kind of overarching ideology that utopias usually involve. Although I’d certainly agree that the idea of ‘progress’ (as being both inevitable and good) is itself utopian.
Well put.
The civilizational mindset assumes that the processes of planet and universe are human-centered and of innate utopian design.
Zombie Citizens’ Failed States Walking
If one looks around at their everyday environs, what do you think the percentage of people who are, for the most part, peaceful and want a peaceful and productive lives for themselves? 99%? 95? 90?
Legitimate anarchic ‘governments’ could take care of the rest pretty easily.
Again, let’s not overthink anarchy. Or no-think it.
It’s really pretty simple; peaceful mutually-consensual relationships. Duh.
Scale what you likely have at home, add a little complexity and you have a society that works.
Anarchic society’s would be perfectly well-equipped, certainly better than the current State that creates its own problems vIa its own fundamental failed-State-walking, to take care of the unruly ~3%.
That some of you cannot imagine that or don’t even seem to understand what anarchy actually is is not to say that something approaching it is impossible.
It’s not like if we were all Devonian-era fish chatting and I mentioned the idea of eventually getting up on land, walking around and then visiting the Moon.
Even though that’s apparently what happened.
And now some of us are bombing each other in the name of the State.
Dude you want Afghanistan or Somalia.
No thanks.
Somalia and Afghanistan are not in relative anarchy. So let’s not misrepresent them, shall we?
In fact, their State names you use says it all.
Anarchy doesn’t preclude gov’ts, BTW, just illegitimate/non-consentual ones.
But you know that, right?
They are both in complete Anarchy!
benr, that’s the doublespeak version of anarchy.
@zaz
No it really is not.
Both countries are the definition of utter and complete Anarchy.
Not mincing words not engaged in double speak.
@benr; see here:
kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/jihad-by-god/#comment-835689
How’s your part of what used to be known as “New England”?
lol
Probably ought to name it “New Arabia” or “New India”, at this point
hehe
Been to Cedar-Riverside lately for a coffee?
haha
Hell no!
Yet another example…
Minnesota ought to learn from Denmark, and follow their example.
If Israel were a food, it wouldn’t be kosher.
…Ain’t Halal, either….
“You killed one of mine, I’ll kill one of yours. That’s what happens when the govt is weak and the rule of law is not enforced.”
What harm did the Hats and McCoys ever do but to Hatfields and McCoys? Let people police themselves. Eventually they will be forced to be strong and act right, or die out. The nanny state infantilizes everyone.
I don’t know about the other examples, but I used to work with a guy named Earl Hatfield, so I asked him about the Hatfields and McCoys.
His family moved here to get away from that, but he did tell me that he looked into the stories, and it was his opinion that it was basically one serial killer who made most of the mess.
I don’t know, but it sounded legit to me.
In Netanyahu’s speech today, he announced Operation Iron Swords as the beginning of Israel’s “2nd War of Independence.”
This is a very important phrase. During the ’48 war for the creation of the State of Israel, Israel fought not only the Arabs in what was formerly known to the British as “Palestine”, but the Arab League of 6 Arab nations.
The IDF Defense Minister also stressed that this war will be long & marked by “operational progress, not progress finished by an end date.”
This is also an important distinction.
Taken together, the State of Israel now is prepared to fight every & all comers to the conflict, and use any/all operations for victory.
The most prescient question however, is ‘what is victory? or, what does victory look like?’
I took the presentation by the Government of Israel as a declaration of the re-organizing of the Palestinian Authority & perhaps the fundamental question of Arabs in Gaza & the west bank of the Jordan River. Also, the willingness to destroy Hezbollah in Lebanon, and very possibly wage a war against Iran, and any type of formation of a new Arab League in the M.E.
So, interesting signaling today coming from the State of Israel.
The existence of Arabs in both Gaza & the west bank is an unfinished leftover of previous wars. It makes no sense from a security standpoint for Israel. What does make sense is a continuous border, with miles of uninhabited free fire zones between Israel, and all of their Arab neighbors.
The woke collective West has a role to play in this. The US offers Iraq millions of USD in “reparations” to take 3 million Arabs in the former “Palestinian” territories.
Or, France & the UK bleat their sad eyes out and take in the people from Gaza in their millions. These idiot nations are half way to Caliphate, anyway.
This feels like the west throwing it back in Putin’s face, as the rhetoric and rationale for the Izzy’s taking out Gaza is very similar to Putin taking out Ukraine. Not sure the results will be the same, but I guess we’ll see by and by.
Except that Russia is not committing war crimes against civilians, conveniently ignored by the “War Has No Rules” gang.
Hello everybody. Mr. Cheerio here with yet more good news. Just read that actor Matthew Perry, age 54 apparently drowned while at home. No foul play suspected. And I also just read a headline about a family dog who saved his 17 year old master’s life after the boy suffered a stroke. 17 years old and having a stroke?!! The world better get its shit together very soon or there won’t be any humans left in it shortly. I hate being the bearer of bad news, but it is what it is.
Heard that the Matthew Perry situation was a heart attack? Hmmm.
Croaked in the hot tub. That definitely speeds up the heart and raises BP while you’re in it.
And as I’ve said several times before:
That that is, is. And that that is not is not that that is.
Mother, Mother, I am sick.
Call the doctor quick quick quick.
Doctor, doctor will I die?
Yes my child!
By and by.
Note: I hope this goes for humanity, too.
Buffy does not look like a european.
Believe me, she is, but she doesn’t look it.
I respectfully disagree, Bill. God wins. Humanity wins. Evil loses and goes to Hell. Truly the meek shall inherit the earth.
I hope you are right, OG. I guess we’ll find out soon enough. I’m not gonna worry about it, though. That’s one of the things I have no control over, so I’ll pull an Alfred E. Neuman on it.
And OG, on this one you don’t have ‘respectfully’ disagree. You can even disrespectfully disagree and I wouldn’t be upset because I’d be most happy to be proven wrong. ?
You’re a good egg, Bill. Maybe we’ll meet after all this bullshit is behind us.
OG, no matter what, life can be very strange, so we could end up meeting someday. Who knows, I might be walking in Chicago when I run into this guy arguing with someone else on a street corner and it turns out it’s you! Lol.
Diamondbacks 9. Rangers 1.
Looked at prices for the three games at home at Chase Field.
Day 2. In the uppermost seats the cheapest seat is $397. Anywhere near the field are $800 plus, the bleachers are $550 – 650.
These are resales as the stadium is sold out all three days.
What recession?
Even assuming I liked baseball – which I don’t – why would anyone in their right mind pay money like that and go to all the trouble to actually attend the game with all its attendant hassles, when you can simply flip on the TV – or go to a bar or a friend’s house – and watch it better for virtually free? A fool and his money are soon parted.
And that’s not counting other costs, such as 10 dollar (or more) beers, parking fees, souvenirs, outrageous junk food costs, and who knows what else.
I used to love baseball, but like other pro sports it’s evolved into moneyball extremis. Come on, star pro athletes always made good money, but multiple hundred million dollar contracts? WTF!
It used to be that some great pro players were prima donnas, but now it seems like most players are.
I remember going to Fenway Park as a kid. I took the MBTA train for a nickel, then I paid fifty cents for a bleacher seat, or if I had some extra money to spurge, seventy five cents for a grandstand seat.
It was exciting just to take the train to the ball park. It passed through the North End, where the elevated tracks went around a bend and I could smell the aroma of baking bread. Now, if I still lived North of Boston I would have to pass by the Encore Casino. I’d rather have the baking bread smell.
I know I’m sounding like an old man reminiscing about the good old days to the younger people who really don’t give a shit, but the fact is, I am an old man, and I don’t give a shit about the youngsters not giving a shit.
Have you seen my video of a recent (2018) trip to Fenway, Bill?
bitchuteXcom/video/jn8Obnn0DGZu/
Fenway in Boston and Wrigley in Chicago are history-soaked. You feel it when you’re there.
Boston is a great city!
GA [Before my explanation]:
I don’t know why accepting the Khazari hypothesis would make someone a Jew hater.
OG [After my explanation]:? Now you know.
GA: No I don’t. If I accept the Khazari hypothesis, I don’t become a Jew hater.
OG: You are right but wrong. Correct, it does not logically make you one but you completely missed my logical point: if you accept the hypothesis, you will be branded as one (unless, of course, you can keep this unacceptable assessment from the Thought Police).
GA: Many people are Jew haters without having even heard of the Khazari hypothesis.
OG: True but irrelevant.
GA: That’s actually one of your least logical posts, OG.
Whoosh!
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GA: Life would be even better if certain men would stop with the ‘if only women would …’ nonsense. It adds nothing to your argument except bad faith.
OG: The truth is the truth. It’s not about my good or bad faith. It is a simple, stated fact. The world would run better if women simply said, “You’re right” when we’re right – like they used to. Fact.
GA: The question of nationhood per se is just as important to Israel’s current right to exist as is nationhood as a result of the ancestral homeland justification. So it is not a change of subject.
OG: No. You’re doing it again. The subject of my response to you was my answer to what you did not know. [“I don’t know why accepting the Khazari hypothesis would make someone a Jew hater.”]. Nationhood is changing the subject.
GA: My point stands – one can perfectly well accept – or at least entertain – the Khazari hypothesis without becoming a Jew hater. That some people will use it as an excuse for hatred that they already feel does not contradict that.
OG: Your point is naive. My point stands. It perfectly answers what you told us that you do not know … but you’ve still yet to grasp my answer – while you assume that I’m being illogical!
Hopefully you get it now.
GA: Note that it was you who brought up the concept of Zionism, which wasn’t mentioned in my sentence that you quoted. Because I wasn’t talking about Zionism. I was merely claiming that one could entertain the Khazari hypothesis without being a Jew hater. It’s really not that complicated.
OG: Yes. I brought Zionism into the discussion to answer to you what you told us that you do not know. That is often how answers work. You were asking about Zionism and didn’t even know it – even later with the answer!
But, no, what I was answering wasn’t your thoughts but rather your words: “I don’t know why accepting the Khazari hypothesis would make someone a Jew hater.” [It’s not your fault, GA. Women just think like that. What’re gonna do?]
GA: In addition to which, if 99.9% (or whatever percentage) of European Jewry in the early 20th century had not themselves even heard of the Khazari hypothesis, then they themselves can hardly be blamed for assuming an ancestral right which they honestly considered themselves to have.
OG: That’s a red-herring and getting uncomfortably close to a strawman.
It’s not about “blame.” It’s about whether or not the ancestral claim is legitimate.
GA: But, as I wasn’t talking about Zionism in the first place, but rather ‘Jew hatred’, you being right didn’t make me wrong.
OG: Correct. It is not a switch. I am right and you are wrong but not because I’m right. You are wrong because you still don’t grasp my answer: If you accept the hypothesis, you will be branded an anti-Semite in a barrage 10x your clout (reach).
Zionism and its “Thou shalt do war by way of deception” are the answer to this entire discussion and has been ever since I answered you before this whole mulberry-bush, woman thing.
GA: Perhaps you confuse ‘Jew hatred’ with a lack of enthusiasm for Zionism, which is a pretty basic mistake, like confusing antisemitism with disapproval of specific actions of the Israeli government.
OG: Nope. I have a pretty good understanding of it. Scout’s honour.
GA: There’s no pleasing sexists.
OG: What sort of prejudicial bull shit is that? I, for one, have been pleased many times, thank you very much.
You made a simple observation of why the Jews don’t like the Khazar hypothesis. She had missed it completely and she can’t accept that. So she’s going to keep missing it completely because of her pride and resentment.
Btw, David Duke, a professional “Jew hater” and close student of these matters for decades, says that the Khazar hypothesis has been disproven at the level of genetics by and large.
The Turks once looked like Mongolians. If you go to Western Turkey, they look like Greeks. If you go to rural central and eastern Turkey, they look quite different. It’s probably like that. The Khazar genotype has been attenuated by more than a thousand years of inter-breeding with Slavs, Nordics, and Mediterraneans, Arabs, and of course the original Jews themselves.
You made a simple observation of why the Jews don’t like the Khazar hypothesis. She had missed it completely and she can’t accept that. So she’s going to keep missing it completely because of her pride and resentment.
BINGO!
And by way of contrast, take David Duke. White Nationalists loved the Khazar hypothesis because it invalidates the Jewish claim. Yet he gave it up because his investigation said it was wrong. Imagine being able to not believe something that you like. White men are incredible, eh? Alas our women don’t match us in this. They have more in common with the men of other races. What an Achilles heel!
“You made a simple observation of why the Jews don’t like the Khazar hypothesis. She had missed it completely and she can’t accept that.”
If I come across someone so stupid that they need to have it explained to them that Zionists (as opposed to Jews) don’t like the Khazar hypothesis and why, I’ll let you know. So sorry to have credited either of you with basic reason.
‘She had missed it’
I refer you to my comment further down, clown.
You’re a pair of symbiotic sycophants. ‘If I tell you how clever you are, will you tell me how clever I am?’ ‘Yes, of course I will – haven’t you noticed me doing it all the time?’
And, with you being omiscient an’ all, why am I still waiting for an answer as to whether you have evidence suggesting the Almighty has a preference for white people?
Someone who is dumb enough to answer the question with ‘but there are races’ and ‘but there is IQ’ should maybe shut up for a bit until he figures out how to answer an actual question, instead of letting his resentment at not being able to answer it send him out on a quest to drool all over the board trying to get revenge for being asked a question he can’t answer.
Whoosh!
If only that were the sound of you flying off on your broomstick for an extended break, FPF.
Imagine what kind of a person has the time or mental instability to make multiple posts of this length on an internet comment board because someone disagreed with him.
LOL.
I’m starting to think that you don’t like me, FF.
I enjoy your posts–in a case-study sort of way.
Everyone knows you are crazy, but they treat you normally until you go full nutter on them in some unintentionally hilarious exchange, and that’s the filet mignon of CFN entertainment.
You’re welcome.
Gish-gallop waste of time.
I know and knew what Zionism is. I know and knew why Zionists don’t like hearing about the Khazars. I didn’t know I was talking to someone who needed every step laid out for him. Sometimes one assumes too much.
My post was in response to Beantownbill addressing ‘Jew haters’, in respect of those just discussing the Khazars. Only a fool assumes that other people don’t know what they know simply because they haven’t spelled out THEIR agenda while making a separate point.
I’ve given up trying to respect you, sorry. You are ridiculous. You constantly want a prize. It is pathetic.
GA: I don’t know why …
OG: Here is why …
GA: You’re bringing up things in your answer that weren’t in my question!
OG: Yes. Of course I am. Your question started with, “I don’t know why …” Answers to such questions will undoubtedly include either new information or old information applied differently. We call it education and most students understand that the answer will include more information than does their simple question. We call that learning and growth.
GA: You constantly want a prize! You’re impossible! Rather than say, “Oh! I see,” (like I should), I will attack you personally!
OG (aside): Women! What’re ya gonna do?
OG (aloud): It’s a lovely day for you to bake a fruit pie. Right? Can we at least agree on that?
Er no. ‘I don’t know why’ in this case was rhetorical, i.e. an assertion that discussing Khazars doesn’t necessarily imply hating Jews or being against the continued existence of the modern Israeli state.
To add its presumed corollary, ‘but Zionists don’t want people talking about the Khazars, because it doesn’t help their Zionist cause’ seems and seemed unnecessary, since there’s an entire entry devoted to it in the Encyclopaedia of the Bleedin’ Obvious.
OG in a previous thread:
“I especially call out the following who do and I appreciate them. In no particular order: Paula, JAZ, Beryl, BRH, stelmos, Ron Aselmo, Rowdy, EF, the inimitable OG, and believe it or not, Night Owl, even though he hates me and we yell and swear at each other.”
[Beantownbill]
“Now if I were manager, I’d […] add GA, you and our captain, the Big Kahuna.”
[Fruit-Pie Clown]
You just can’t make your mind up. Me, I’ve made my mind up. Category: not worth engaging with. Descends into Fruit Pie Fuckwittery when he loses the plot.
I don’t make fruit pies, BTW, as they’re full of sugar, which you may remember is a toxin (a bit like yourself).
And my husband doesn’t want them, because he’s diabetic. And he does most of the non-bakery cooking, because he likes cooking. Lucky me. Leaves me free to read articles about more important things than fruit pies.
Of course, fruit pies can be a metaphor, GA. Any tasty meal that adheres to specific dietary restrictions will suffice.
You got spunk. That’s why I added you to our roster. Winning line-ups needn’t always agree like we’re playing house.
Like I said, I’m not the chief cook in this household, FPF, so I’ll continue to use my time as I see fit.
Facing consequences for rash words.
Xhttps://twitter.com/i/status/1717637963415171423
JHK was one of the first to write about the future without fossil fuels.
This article, and also certain articles hoping for some old type legal framework in the USA, doesn’t make sense.
Israel failed to enlarge itself to be big enough. It probably started with returning Sinai to Egypt. Likely Golan Heights will return to Syria and Sheeba farms to Lebanon soon.
The remaining land likely can’t sustain more than 2 million people.
Looks to me both the Israelis and Palestinians have to run away from the place in 30-70 years time.
Only way to sustain a sovereign state (arab or jew) there would be to grab south Lebanon, half of Jordan & Syria, and increase the population to 20mn. I don’t see it being likely with the current geopolitical configuration.
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As for grabbing land, it usually ends up with mingling with the existing population. Less karma blowback. USA did it differently.
Look around and tell me if the current descendants of the original settlers. To me, they don’t hold to the values held sacred by their recent ancestors. They are also not breeding.
OTOH, whatever the spanish did, their bloodlines and life values lives on in Mexico.
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I wonder what JHK thinks will happen to Israel in 50 years time once they are unable to maintain their nukes.
Real talk.
Israel has nukes? Are you sure?
Michael Yon
27 Oct 2023 — Belize
Mind dump, sans edit
Paradigms — if your working paradigm — your holistic view — of a situation is accurate, you should never be surprised and your working paradigm should be far more predictive than flipping a coin.
Your predictive abilities should be far ahead of those of “expert analysts,” including most career intelligence and military people.
If you are surprised by something, your paradigm must be tweaked or even discarded. If your paradigm is not predictive, it’s useless. Your paradigm must deliver mostly accurate results and be far ahead of most experts.
In my current working paradigm — proving very predictive — the US government is a mostly captured evil-circus. USG has been rebooted to commit demicide, among other things. Take the death jabs as example. Death jabs clearly were a weapon.
USA and most of the world is under severe attack by, in part, employment of industrial-scale information war designed to cause mass casualties and to create conditions to seize total control of the remnant.
If my working paradigm is accurate, the US government will put the US military in such harm’s way that our military and civiliams will suffer massive casualties. The Beasts in charge may go straight to nukes.
If not nukes, war will create cause for military draft.
Millions of Americans will just say NO to draft. When Americans oppose draft, USG will have created excuse to draft massive numbers of illegal aliens. Americans will at first be happy to see Haitians and others carrying M-16s to “earn their citizenship defending America”. Until those aliens become death squads going door-to-door.
A war can create the casus belli needed to slaughter Iranians and others, and the draft to replace our military with uneducated people who never used a flush toilet and who will shoot Americans wholesale.
If my working paradigm is accurate, some version of this is likely. You Are at War.
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Senior Pentagon official: The aircraft carrier CVN 69 Dwight D. Eisenhower will cross the Strait of Hormuz and will be in the waters of the Persian Gulf.
The red line is the course the Eisenhower will be required to sail in order to reach the Persian Gulf from its location in…
Jarek: Are the Iranians going to allow the Eisenhower thru the Strait of Hormuz?
Yon is in on the money I’m afraid. Glad I’m in a militantly 2nd amendment state.
Not sure all those resident aliens – illegal or otherwise – will be down with being conscripted. Most have maintained ties to their native lands – indeed many send their earnings back to family members left behind and live very modestly here – and could just as easily walk out as they walked in. And that’s leaving out the fact that most are not the exactly the best and brightest their countries had to offer, a definite liability to a Pentagon that relies on high tech gizmos to a fault these days. So much so that the US now foolishly imagines that all ongoing and future wars will be determined by their laughable alleged “full spectrum dominance,” which basically means “We think we can, we think we can… oops! I guess we can’t.”
Well, they did it before. The Draft riots were the biggest and most deadly in US history. The North insisted on grabbing Irish immigrants – even right off the boat. They didn’t like it.
A Master speaks:
Women Can’t Responsibility
Well over 90% of women are so retarded they can’t follow the chain of cause and effect. It appears to be a focus issue. If you claim that A implies B, they lose concentration partway through ‘implies.’ They’ve stopped paying attention to what you’re saying and are deeply interrogating how it makes them feel. Largely based on tone of voice and body language.
For a woman, stuff just happens. Then, other stuff just happens. The present stuff is far too emotionally overwhelming to leave room for anything that happened before. They can’t handle anything more complicated than stimulus-response. All the superstitious [if you run a fan while you’ll sleep, you’ll die] stuff is memorized by rote, which is why it never makes any sense. Even when there’s a genuine harm to avoid, they can’t understand how B is linked to A. Frequently they’re not articulate enough to even understand what they’re warning against, all they appreciate is “X is bad!” Anything bad that happens later is also bad, so they basically said the right thing, right? They can just about handle the idea of nebulous karma.
You should applaud them for understanding that events are linked at all. “Good girl!” Don’t expect them to actually link the right things together.
Women genuinely can’t appreciate that their current situation might have something to do with their past situation. By the time you juxtapose the two in their minds, they get distracted by something and go chasing squirrels.
Ironically, boys get the ADHD meds because they’re concentrating too much. The girls forget the old topic – but confuse the new topic as related – while the boys are still thinking about the old topic. The boys are staying on the trail while the girls are wandering off into the weeds and picking random flowers. “when the bell rings I insist that they stop whatever it is that we’ve been working on and proceed quickly to the next work station.” When the teacher says ‘stay on topic’ they mean [get lost with everyone else] and [stop revealing our absurd cope by contrast].
“Everything I teach is out of context. I teach the un-relating of everything. I teach disconnections. I teach too much [….] What do any of these things have to do with each other?”
“Even in the best schools a close examination of curriculum and its sequences turns up a lack of coherence, full of internal contradictions.”
“This is harder to see in elementary school where the hierarchy of school experience seems to make better sense because the good-natured simple relationship of “let’s do this” and “let’s do that” is just assumed to mean something and the clientele has not yet consciously discerned how little substance is behind the play and pretense.”
Gatto fails to understand the natural result of women designing and implementing the curriculum. He was a boy and thought girls think like boys – in the same way girls are absolutely certain that boys are just girls who are bad at being girly. “they hate solitude, are cruel, materialistic, dependent, passive, violent, timid in the face of the unexpected, addicted to distraction.” Well-schooled children, or default women?
After all, accepting that girls are girly is misogynist. Someone like Gatto would never be caught being mean like that.
Best to realize well over 90% of girls never grow out of the play and pretense. Unlike the boys, they never assumed there was some mysterious underlying meaning – they were getting too emotional about the immediate present to handle any such stretch or reach. The only connection that matters is the connection of current topic and current feelings.
If you’re pissed at a girl try asking her how her sentences are linked and watch her flail around in frustration. “What does this have to do with what you said just a moment ago?” Pretend you really don’t know. She will fail because it genuinely doesn’t have anything to do with it.
“Think of the great natural sequences like learning to walk and learning to talk; following the progression of light from sunrise to sunset; witnessing the ancient procedures of a farmer, a smithy, or a shoemaker; watching your mother prepare a Thanksgiving feast — all of the parts are in perfect harmony with each other, each action justifies itself and illuminates the past and the future.”
In her proper environment, a woman’s sequences are imposed on her from outside. You can’t teach a kid to run before they walk even if you wanted to. It happens on its own. You can’t have a ten-year-old before having an eight-year-old. It’s not up to her, and it’s not up to you either. All she needs to know is to feed them when they’re hungry and clothe them when they’re naked. She doesn’t understand why she’s cooking the thanksgiving turkey that way, that’s [the way it’s always been done] (lol). Just following the recipe. (Are family recipes the result of husbands tweaking the girl’s cooking so it doesn’t suck? Will girls experiment at all without specific prompting?) You don’t want a woman to concentrate too much because children’s needs can and will interrupt irregularly, without warning. If she gets troubled by interruptions, she’s a terrible mother.
For an example, Akuyaku Reijo nano de Last Boss wo Kattemimashita. The conversations don’t flow. The events are barely coherent. But it’s okay, because shoujo. Keeping a plot in mind is too difficult for the poor dears’ bird brains. Just have stuff happen.
(I especially like the part where it reveals that women think of any other woman who oppose her slightly as a terrifying evil mastermind, full of malice focused on the victim specifically and solely. Frenemies have to apologize to each other constantly to soothe the paranoia. Don’t forget women are clumsy and awkward, frequently causing effects they don’t intend. I suspect women’s media drastically overstate the effectiveness of their ridiculous scheming – it’s usually cope about these accidents, when the woman thinks it’s better to confess to wrongdoing than admit to incompetence.)
Women can’t remember what happened before without specific prompting, and can’t appreciate that the present moment might imply a particular future. She can’t keep her promises because she can’t remember the promise for more than a few seconds. Trying to hold a woman responsible is futile cruelty. Don’t demand masculine honour, demand feminine submission. Stop her from doing the thing in the first place, regardless of her opinion. Maybe use locks. Maybe use operand conditioning. If she’s being difficult and requiring illegal levels of force, dump her immediately. “Too bad, that one was a dud.” Hunter tribes hit their wives and not their kids – this is indeed the way. If she hasn’t evolved beyond monkey-adjacent, then consider not putting up with her. Perhaps consider a different furnace for your seed. “Sorry, marrying you was outlawed. Bye now.”
You can’t leave women alone with strange men because they will genuinely forget that they have a husband. Why would they stay faithful to someone who, in that moment, doesn’t even exist? Genuinely impossible. It really isn’t her fault, she really does either need a chaperone or to be denied entry into mixed-gender spaces.
Is that what the ring’s for? She gets in the habit of glancing at it, and then this happens: “Hey dipshit, you’re married.” “Oh fuck I forgot.” You want a diamond because it’s likely to sparkle and attract her birdbrain even if she breaks the hand-looking habit. Actual appearance of the stone is distinctly secondary. This, likewise, is the real reason adulteresses take the ring off: it’s not that it discourages the kind of men they’re after, it’s because it reminds them they’re supposed to feel guilty, and then they stutter.
“You’re not wearing your ring.” “I’m not a woman, I’m not going to forget I have a family.”
I now suspect this is why women demand so much attention. Rather, she’s demanding that you capture her attention, so she doesn’t forget about you on accident. She can’t focus on you unless you make her, and consequently, if she wants to focus on you, she has to demand that you make her. You want to go along with her so she doesn’t genuinely start thinking she’s single.
Lots of women still drink during pregnancy. Because they forget they’re pregnant. Or forget alcohol is a poison.
From this I conclude almost all fiction is highly feminized. Nobody can remember to continue a conversation if they’re distracted. Characters about to say something that would make the writer’s job not completely trivial? Don’t worry, dingaling there’s your phone, and bam it’s out your head forever like the most airheaded girl. (Can parallelize: writer A writes scene A, writer B writes scene B, but doesn’t have to worry about continuity because there isn’t any.)
This is why you can pass most shit tests by mentioning something emotionally valent. They’ll forget all about the test to focus on the now. It doesn’t have to make sense because, even if she remembers the test, she can’t tell the difference between sense and nonsense. If you tell her fire is hot because the recombination of atoms into lower-energy configurations releases energy into the environment or fire is hot because scorpio is friends with sagittarius, it makes exactly the same amount of sense to her – none. All that matters is that you say it confidently in a non-feminine voice. Sometimes she can fake a bullshit call when there’s a strict social expectation, which often fools many. It would be better for everyone if she wasn’t allowed to pretend to understand things she doesn’t understand, because lies are bad. Mmmkay?
Alrenous
Jarek: Who is this man? We must find him and make him an advisor to our next President or King. He not tactful and that’s what we want. A truth teller behind the scenes. A Dr Strangelove speaking of the male/female imbalance in the mind shafts.
Wow, Jar. It doesn’t come more misogynous or full of shit than that.
Rivals the Hogg Man for length, too.
A mouse with hyperscrolling is handy here.
So speaks the NPC golem. Your sole capacity for judgement is like a light switch.
On: A comment conforms to the Official Narrative. It is good and it is Kosher.
Off: A comment is thought crime because it does not conform. It is bad. Commence shaming language.
How do you deal with shit tests or general misandry, Slug? Every try taking off your shirt and beating you chest or rolling on the floor? Jack Ruby used to do that. What a gem.
I take my shirt off and they beat me. You should try submitting sometime.
but honestly, refreshing break from the otherwise tedious big “Z” questions and debate…
well done. what was the topic?
Janos “winning”
🙂 haha
what a meshuggeneh!
lul
On Purim, did you eat the Haman’s ears cookies? In rememberence of the slaughter of Persians?
Don’t feel bad. Wanting to eat your enemy is still a thing in extreme Southern Europe – the Greek Isles, Sicily, like that. Other places, it is still the norm.
I like you. It changes nothing! What must be must be.
“Wanting to eat your enemy is still a thing…” ~ Jarek
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youtu.be/rhcoq8SzjaY?si=QjU8tyOhfOWbuVDW
lol
Slow down there Dr. Lecter
🙂
Yes, we all get that there are differences between men and women.
Don’t know if I’ve seen a piece using more absolutes like “all/every/always/never” in my life, though. (But to be fair, he did say “lots of women” once.)
A shiny nickel this man is single.
Agree with your take. Some basic, decent, general gender-difference observations with the absolutism cranked up to 11 and the whole thing packaged to seem more offensive than required.
Unfortunate when feminist extremism is allowed to provoke equal and opposite extremisms that aren’t really necessary. Thinks he’s discovered plutonium, but it’s men are from “mars, women from venus.”
Christ was single. And He said, If your eye is single your body will be full of light.
And at the beginning, there was the statement “well over 90%”. Your wife may well be one of these exceptions. Unlike your first wife. Yes, I remember. If only I could forget like “normal” people.
I bet Jesus had a girlfriend. You know, the whole “hot for priest” thing. I’m guessing Mary Magdalene, but who knows.
Christ couldn’t even bring himself to accept that his parents had sex. So of course mom was a virgin and God had sex with her to bring ol’ Jeez into the world. Talk about a power-difference! One has to wonder if there were any laws at the time against that. Maybe that’s why ol’ Jeez got stoned. Maybe he was always stoned.
I mean take a look at all those images of Jesus. Does he remind you of a particular archetype or stereotype? Woodstock? Burning Man? ‘Tune in, drop out’ or whatever?
The universe’s first hippy stoner!
“Christ couldn’t even bring himself to accept that his parents had sex’
really?
I suppose its gotta be weird to be God, and then hold the idea that “your parents” were knockin’ boots
idk
or maybe not?
We’re all creatures of this universe, PeteAtomic.
Pete almost said IDF there.
@Jarek, We’ve all known women like this and, if we’re being honest, we know that there are many of them – so the only real disagreement is about numbers.
I do think that our culture favors this sort of woman and helps to create them from raw material that has more potential than we might think.
Before we had appliances to do so much work for us, in my great grandmother’s day, women had to have a serious reservoir of knowledge, self-discipline, and common sense in order to run a household – unless they had servants to do it for them. A look into any 19th century household management tome, such as Mrs. Beeton, gives a good picture of what was required. The fact that so many women excelled at these tasks, and were of good character as well, says that all of us – men and women – have greater potential than present conditions suggest.
Exceptional people can escape (to a certain extent) the kind of cultural conditioning we’re subject to now, but it seems we’re trending toward becoming Eloi.
Social media has destroyed women. On top of the extreme culture of entitlement that preceded it.
If one person is going to the be the adored and other the adorer, Dr Orion Taraban (sp?) says it’s best that the women be the devotee. Being adored bring out the absolute worst in women. If they’re the Queen, well you must be the King? No, a fan! Or a servant.
It’s true that the Old South put women on a pedestal, but this was in the context of strict upbringing and a general Christian millieu, as you say. They could enjoy male devotion all they wanted – BUT they had to live up to it. No small thing, eh?
Jefferson wrote once about his set when a vivacious, beautiful young women entered. It was utter madness. She upset everything. But no one held it against her – YET. And then she made her choice and the madness ended. If she hadn’t made her choice, the invitations would ceased and she would have been seen as a very different kind of woman.
This young women enjoyed herself but still played by the rules. I have nothing against this. I too love beautiful women, especially the vivacious type.
“It’s true that the Old South put women on a pedestal, but this was in the context of strict upbringing and a general Christian millieu, as you say. They could enjoy male devotion all they wanted – BUT they had to live up to it. No small thing, eh?”
Indeed. It’s a very BIG thing, and we all need something to live up to, some standard, preferably a fairly demanding one. First it’s imposed upon us as children by parents and genuine authority figures, if we’re lucky. Gradually, we internalize it and impose it upon ourselves. That’s the process of becoming a higher functioning human being rather than an assemblage of low impulses. Not much call for that at present, more’s the pity.
“I too love beautiful women, especially the vivacious type.”
ooooo
look out, KesaAnna…and GreenAlba
hehe
🙂
“we’re trending toward becoming Eloi.”
Good observation, rowdy piglet.
A correction in energy availability and affordability would break the trend. That correction is happening now. Has been happening since covid at least. Every month portions get smaller, food quality declines, prices climb, air travel becomes more of a hassle, geopolitical moves accelerate towards securing control of energy and food resources.
The process could take years, decades. A turn of the screw every year.
Eloi won’t fare well in the long ruin. Er, the long run.
“A Master speaks:
Women Can’t Responsibility”
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Woman asks stupid question:
Where is verb? Ugga ugga ugga
You mean you don’t know women can’t responsibility?!
It is such a heavy burden to be a man. You don’t just have to run your own life, you have to run your wife’s life, and through her, your kids.
No wonder Jarek has decided to just do it part-time, online.
It’s much easier that way.
Isle: He knew that women would pick up on that. They love grammar, it being small like them.
Puala: Yes, as St Paul said, I would have all men be like me (unmarried) but it is better to marry than to burn.
Similarly (perhaps – if you can “hear” it), the Shivapuri Baba enjoined us to live the minimum life.
“Isle: ”
You pathetic little copycat.
Copying the good is better than original foolishness – which you excel at.
Burden In My Hand
youtu.be/XmIqIVxUuKs?si=dgKPaM1Bf0F9ehNM
Major clot-shot pusher Matthew Perry (of the horrible Friends television show) has kicked the bucket.
Matthew Perry’s T-shirt: “Could I BE any more vaccinated?”
I don’t know, Matthew. Had you taken your eleventh booster yet?
To be fair, Perry has had many more different drugs running thru his veins than just Covid vaccinations.
Most of them unprescribed, illegal, and self administered.
He himself was probably surprised he lived as long as he did.
You can bet your bottom dollar he had every conceivable booster they offered him.
Some details
The leaders of China, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, Egypt, Palestine and Lebanon signed thirty-four agreements.
Among them:
KSA can order missiles, helicopters and air defense weapons with a phone call to China , and no approval necessary;
The region will harmonize its plans with the BRI;
Huawei will install $30 billion of telecom gear;
China will build a $1 trillion regional hub of 21st century industries; Egypt will get a satellite factory;
China and the region will unite to liberate Palestine and protect Syria.
Truth or just a… dare?
Well yeah, but the US could provide literally $Billions of worthless high tech weapons systems so they could all fight each other; work actively, albeit surreptitiously, to overthrow their governments; and invite every corporate vulture on the planet to come in and rape, loot, and plunder their populations. Who could possibly resist that deal? Those people just don’t appreciate all that we have to offer.
40 trillion in savings should work wonders too…
As if China won’t do all of that and worse.
That’s peculiar logic, don’t ya think? The US has a long proven track record of such. China at least holds out the possibility of being better. China’s not actively subverting any governments at the current time that I know of.
No, they are just subverting the US government with huge bribes to the criminal Biden family.
They are actively ensnaring half of Africa with highways paid for with “loans” most of these countries can never pay back and specifically Jamaica. Gee this sounds oddly familiar now where have we seen this before?
They are pulling so much sand out of the oceans they are causing islands to sag into the sea for cities with no one to live in them.
They have snared Panama as well and all but own the canal now.
You know the canal paid for by America treasure and given back to Panama who then mismanaged it and let it fall apart.
They are also slowly absorbing ports all over the world including here in America.
Buying up farmland all over the globe and especially near US military installations.
Such a benevolent nation that they need suicide nets around their factories and during covid literally welded families into their homes to starve to death.
They threaten THE ENTIRE Asian region to the point the Phillipines are begging the US Navy to come back.
Yeah that China.
So, not a fan of China then. Gotcha.
You might consider that they learned all these lessons from the criminal masters in DC.
They’ll be worse? Honestly, I don’t see how. It would take a least a century of blatant criminal activity on their part to even catch up. If I didn’t know better, I’d say you just don’t like Chinese. Better the criminals you know, and all that. Be sure and vote GOP or Trump. They’ll make it all better again. LOL!
Further, consider that long list of infrastructure investments you listed and many more, which you apparently didn’t care for, you might ask yourself why your friendly government in DC isn’t doing the same or more? “Winning hearts and minds,” and all that “soft power” shit.
But oh, that’s right, DC is too busy running up the tab on us poor suckers while blowing shit up all over the world in wars of failed imperialism and corrupt crony capitalism. That’s why! That explains it!
Wait. You’re all about the human rights in Gaza and the poor Palestinians and apartheid and “the largest open air prison” for 2 million yet you’re not quite ready to pass judgement on China which is holding god knows how many of its 12 million Uighurs in de facto concentration camps.
Methinks your keen empathy for the suffering peoples of the earth might only be superseded by your dislike of a certain group whose name rhymes with news. And one group of oppressed Muslims is evidently not quite the same as another in your philosophy. The bigger question though is why go with just the woketard lite worldview when you’re about 3/4 of the way toward the full thing.
Save it. Peasant.
That’s the second time that I’ve seen you discount CFN people and their comments with your simple contempt and dismissive name-calling of “Peasant.”
1) Are you of nobility?
2) Us “peasant[s]” are allowed free speech so maybe you should go fuck yourself. Right?
Cut him a break. He’s just oppressed and his only way of lashing out at the oppressors is with his sparkling wit and “peasant” riposte.
Picture a latter day Che Guevara, leading the revolution in his underwear from a command post in his mother’s basement while waiting on a government assistance check.
Zelensky’s government is calling up women to fight in its terribly losing war against Russia. As Alexander Mercouris pointed out today, “even the Germans” at the end of the Second War, didn’t do that.
Ukrainian women are tough, wonderful women. When they are taken prisoner, which I hope to God happens, the men of the Russian Army treats them respectfully. Keep them away from the Sturm Z units.
Most US people think war is video game. Or police man battles. No.
War is like what I saw at the end of Yugoslavia. A group of guys shows up and pulls with sledgehammers and pulls women and children off a bus and hammers all their skulls onto the pavement. It’s horror.
The demonic regime of “Biden” has forced Ukraine into a terrible situation. Zelensky needs to surrender immediately. Ukraine was never meant to have the Donbass, or Crimea. And the way its goin, Ukraine ought to lose Catherine’s city, Odessa.
“Biden” is forcing its duplicitous fuckery in the M.E. now, too. The 4 aircraft carrier groups are itching like a lecher with and an STD for war against Iran. That’s why the US is there. The US doesn’t give a fuck about Israel. The neo-cons that have captured the US instruments of power are vampires who suck the life out of one victim after another.
Because Iran is such a peaceful nation with zero intentions of exporting shiite beliefs as it continuously extolls the virtues of wiping Israel from the map.
True
However the US is much less concerned about the success of Israel, as it is to the access to petroleum. And for the US military, the access to petroleum, and who controls that access, is critical. As Jim so cogently points out, “you can’t run the US military on solar and wind power” (paraphrasing).
But you can on Bio-Diesel.
Wait a minute. About a year ago VP Harris announced that the Dept, of Defense was indeed “Going Green”, and motive equipment such as tanks, trucks, jet aircraft, destroyers, self propelled artillery & helicopters would be “fossil fuel free”, powered up with electric motors, and that the electricity will be generated by solar & wind.
I might add the ideal US fighting unit under the modern Dem paradigm would be a Tranny Panzer Battalion with each tank flying the universal LBGQT banner, and the tanks themselves fitted with a windmill on the turret providing power to the electric motor. Effectiveness against Russian Armor is questionable but at least we would have a reduced carbon footprint ~ which is what really matters in the long run anyway.
Marlin, I know the Russians are pretty tough, but I think your description if the tranny panzer division would be very effective in defeating them because they would laugh themselves to death when they saw it.
Yeah I was just kind of joking around Bill in reality US Army panzer forces — with 5500 tanks including 3000 M1 Abrams — is formidable & would match up with any armor units in the world.
Curious thing is the Marine Corps dismantled its tank units a few years back. The Corps had about 100 tanks.
good one, BRH
Tranny Panzer Btl
uff da
“exporing shi’a beliefs” . . . .???
You give a shit?
Are you a Sunni?
I rather dislike both brands of Islam to be honest and wish they both would go extinct.
I was just watching several football talking heads discussing today’s upcoming games. One was praising QB Lamar Jackson whose passing he said was very akrit.
I groaned audibly.
The talking head was Phil Simms.
“akrit.” Is that Indian?
Q, I heard that groan from you all the way to Boston. I’m glad you explained what it was for because I didn’t know. Between you and me, maybe you should try to groan a little bit softer because someone in China, Russia or Iran might try to take advantage of your pain.
A long time ago the arrangement of talking heads on Monday night football was interesting.
I forget his name , but there was the guy who wore a tie , for the folks who actually know how to tie a tie.
Then there was Kathy Lee Gifford’s husband for the vast swath of middle of the road folks.
I don’t know why his fucking around on her was such a terrible scandal.
Common sense should tell you that if you put the likely schedules of both together , you come up with maybe ten minutes of quality time per month.
And is sexually nueter normal , or is sexually virile normal ? It would be fucking nice if they would at least make up their mind on the point.
Then there was Dan Dierdorf , whose commentary was always painfully stupid.
I hear Dan Dierdorf was actually a great coach in his day ?
I don’t doubt it.
But when it came to communication skills , he made Donald Trump look like Abraham Lincoln.
The good old days.
Last time I bothered to listen to the talking heads for five minutes ,
it seemed to be all millionaires with muscles who need remedial English classes more than I do.
More evidence that college sports has little to do with college ?
The guy who knew how to tie a tie was Al Michaels.
And nope , Dierdorf was never a coach , just a player.
I don’t know who those people are, but imo, it doesn’t matter what is a “normal” sex drive.
What matters is that the husband and wife have the same one, whether neutered or virile.
I don’t know why his fucking around on her was such a terrible scandal.
It was on account of Kathie Lee’s constantly public bragging about how perfect their marriage was. Just like Jimmy Swaggert, watching the lying hypocrites’ falls from grace was a BIG ratings-grabber back in those pre-9/11, innocent days.
***
“Shall we?”
The Giants play the Jets today. The Giants QB, Daniel Jones, has been out with an injury for a few weeks. His backup is Tyrod Taylor who will be starting today.
I find it interesting that someone has a first name (Tyrod) that is a car part. I call him Brake Shoe Taylor.
As Christ said, the end times will be like the time of Noah. People will be watching the game even as the rain (of fire) starts pouring down. Or worrying about being perceived as “anti-Giant” because of holding a theory anent the Giants.
Meanwhile, Kirk & The Cousins is done for the season with a torn achilles, fresh off last week’s “best game ever” for the Vikings.
Dare I say this is the end of his career. And the nail in the coffin of the Vikings awful start to the season. Bring on the rookie fill-in!
At least he’s not named after a car part.
@GA:
I know you aren’t a Jew-hater. You’re one of the good people. I don’t think I said that if someone believes in the Khazar-ness of Jews they’re Jew-haters. Or at least, I didn’t mean to say it. I think what I said or meant was that Jew-haters would often use this idea to further their own anti-semitic views.
The Good People aka the righteous among the Nations, eh? Being willfully blind is not a virtue.
Have you pondered the CAUSE of anti-Semitism? Do you DARE? Why are Jews the only ones allowed to have their own special victim-mongering glossary i.e. anti-Semite, anti-Semitic, anti-Semitism, racism, bigotry, hate, toxic White privilege, White fragility, etc.? Most of you are NOT Semitic but, varying mixtures of Judaized European Khazars and the host countries you might be in at any given time. Don’t even try the Memory Hole trick with me regarding the Khazars. The erasure and rewriting of History is all too obvious now.
Back to the causes of anti-Semitism.
Care to explain the vicious and slanderous bile from your own ADL (Anti-Defamation League) against Whites? The ADL is not a fringe group but, The Voice of American Jewry.
Care to explain why the Jewish hiss word, “racism,” is tightly linked to Whites in the Zionist-owned media?
Care to explain Abe Foxman’s scurrilous hatred of Whites? Jews have a long long rap sheet of things they’ve said, and dirty deeds done, that they dread to see made public.
Anti-Semitism will go away when Zionists APOLOGIZE for all of the things they’ve done to their victims around the world and then make reparations. Until then, don’t be surprised when your victims rise up against you.
And here comes the kvetching, wailing, and shaming language….
I’m not saying a thing, Jew-hater. Not my fault you’re a POS. Why don’t you crawl into a deep hole, closer to Hell, where you belong.
…maybe Hamas tunnel?
just sayin’
Lol. Good idea.
Bill is always the victim, even when demanding others shut up and comply with medical tyranny.
No food for them. Bill agreed.
Hey, it wasn’t him that was going to starve.
“Bill is always the victim”
Yep. Professional.
According to the Torah, Hebrews were told by God through Moses that they were not to mix with other ethnic groups, to stand apart and not intermarry. God wanted the Hebrews to stand apart and not pick up the habits of the people’s with other gods, Baal being number one probably.
However, the Messiah showed up, in Christian eyes, and with St. Paul stated that God wanted everyone, that Jews would always have a soft spot with him, but Gentiles were welcome too.
Problem is the Jews, except for a few recently, rejected Jesus as the Messiah and still do. They still feel they are the sole recipient of God’s favor. They still stay separate, especially the Orthodox types, and consider the rest of us kind of “dirty”, or unclean.
Gee, I wonder why everyone wants to let them have it with that attitude.
Not only Jews, Mormons. Move to Utah and see what that is like. I live in a Mormon enclave in Arizona and if you do not want to be Mormon, you are ignored.
Ethnocentrism at its best, and ordained by the Torah. Or the Book of Mormon.
But then so is everyone else, Irish, Catholic, Mexican, Black, you name it, we separate ourselves into little groups and learn to hate each other. Why? Why is it that parents teach their kids to stay away from other groups?
IMHO, it is built into the human condition, that separation is instinctive as a way to keep too many humans from building up in an area, sapping the resources.
Is hate a tool of ethnocentrism.
BTW, these protestors look like the same people that protest against racism, hypocrites all.
Matthew Perry, aka Chandler Bing of Friends fame passed away yesterday at home due to cardiac arrest. Though I’ve seen it in other places that he drowned in a jacuzzi. During the height of the pandemic he sold a Friends themed tshirt with the line “Could I be any more vaccinated?”..
thegatewaypundit.com/2023/10/mathew-perrys-post-promoting-could-i-be-any
My reaction to ” Friends ” was always an annoyed , ” Can’t these grossly – over – paid people come up with a fucking title ? ”
And I never went further than that.
No Blacks or Dark Browns. Nobody for you to “identify with”. No frends!
Well there was a title, Kesa. The title of the show is Friends. I generally agree that they were grossly overpaid. But then again, they were simply working within the market and basically that was there before they arrived on the scene even. They’re receiving royalties too now no doubt.
Does it hearten you to know that Pink has denounced Hamas on Instagram?
instagram.com/p/Cy689ffM2vJ
Instagram — Where all the softcore people hang out.
Kesa askes, Who is Anglin?
Look down, Kesh. Look down.
Ugh , ” LGBTQIA “.
I thought I was fucking exaggerating when I said the acronym keeps growing and growing and growing.
Well Kesa, that is the nature of inclusivity. If everyone is welcome then eventually, everyone will be living within the acronym. Some might even giggle and say the A is for Allies. I see your annoyed with this one too. I hope your day improves and becomes a fantastic Sunday 🙂
What does Pink think of Bobby Lee being melted down? His icon or person being tortured in the process for the glee of the evil ones?
Oh. Wow that is a big change of tempo lol. Hmm. Probably my guess would be that Pink would like that Bobby Lee was melted down in a fit of twisted glee.
Citing Religious Delusion, Andrew Anglin Declares Himself “Supreme Leader of the Irish Race”
Andrew Anglin October 28, 2023
Anglin has claimed he arrived in Ireland on an IRA pontoon boat under the cover of darkness late Friday night
This article is reprinted from the New York Times without permission.
The neo-Nazi, holocaust denier, racist, anti-Semite, climate denier, AIDS denier, Covid denier, woman’s rights denier, psychiatry denier, rape advocate, anti-vaxer, Russian shill, Chinese shill, Hamas and Iranian shill, anti-Japanese activist, pro-alcohol activist, advocate of forced child marriage, and advocate for the killing of the entire human species using biological weapons, Andrew Anglin, has declared himself “Supreme Leader of the Irish Race.”
Anglin, who once made jokes about an obese dead woman, cited religious delusions, including a messiah complex, as well as a “a massive brain tumor” as an explanation for his brash declaration of sovereign authority over all Irish people and his belief that it is “the destiny of the Irish people to rule the world with an iron fist.”
The neo-Nazi claimed that he is no longer a neo-Nazi or a racist, and is simply “against everyone who is not Irish.” He added: “I still support Hitler though,” without mentioning any other non-Irish person he is not “against.”
Anglin has issued various “fatwas” to the Irish people, both in the global diaspora and in Ireland. He had never been to Ireland before claiming to have arrived there late Friday night on an IRA pontoon boat that had departed from Cyprus. He only connected to his Irish identity two days ago, while watching the Martin Scorsese film “The Departed.”
These fatwas include:
“Any Irishman who denies my authority is a traitor to the Eire and the entire Irish race”
“It’s not just the English anymore – the whole world is against the Irish and attempting to violate our motherland, and therefore, we are at war with the whole world, indefinitely”
“Firewater is big medicine, but keep that shit in check, paddy”
Anglin further announced an Irish Republican Army (IRA) invasion and planned conquest of Great Britain. Anglin warned the British: “we will march on London, we will slap off your top hats and smash your tea cups.”
He added that after the invasion of Britain, he will “force the United Nations to acknowledge the dominance and authority of Irish people and the global supremacy of the Irish race.”
Going further still, Anglin claimed that “the entire East Coast of the United States is a part of Greater Ireland,” and compared the presence of non-Irish in this large territory to “the criminal Zionist occupation of Palestine.”
The Times asked ten people on the streets of Dublin about Anglin’s declarations of supreme authority over them. Of the ten, nine gave the exact same reply – “that’s a laugh, eh?” and walked away – while the tenth declared his allegiance to Anglin and a belief in global Irish racial supremacy in a vulgar manner, telling the Times “best watch yourself, laddy – it’s coming.” This tenth man then began stroking his beard in a menacing manner, and the Times was compelled to withdraw.
The militant wing of the IRA issued a statement stating “we are still considering Anglin’s terms, and we’ll get back to you – everything checks out, but we need to go over this thing again after Uncle Tommy sobers up.”
Jarek: I support his claim. Anglin can lead us to our Destiny as World Rulers. Was it not said that, But for whiskey, the Irish would rule the world?
National Socialism failed because the Germans were in charge. We need to be in charge. American Odinism floundered until guys with names starting with Mc took over. It’s a mystical thing indicative of Divine favor. Nothing wrong with Germans – it’s just that we’re the Chosen People.
Women won’t be a problem since we have whiskey. But didn’t whiskey keep us down all this time? Yes, good point. Ban it. What about women becoming a problem? Well, White sharia? We’ll have to ask Anglin.
LOL this is good. It sounds like someone has been in the whiskey. That would be interesting if the Irish had a Supreme Leader. With all these wars going on I wouldn’t be surprised.
He has been on fire since his “illness”. A spiritual or shamanic illness, replete with visions and revelations.
Unless it’s a a dark night of the soul leading to total enlightenment, almost all of these spiritual crises are tedious, and get the seeker nowhere.
The extreme contrasting version of this — the boring, non-Hollywood firestorm version — is lengthy samadhi. To that end, a funny anecdote:
Some semi-respected guru announced to his followers that he was going to instigate deep samadhi in order to deepen his enlightenment. They apparently all watched in fascination (though I can’t imagine watching an old man sitting in Lotus position was too revelatory) until he opened his eyes ten hours later and promptly complained: “I’m still hungry”.
Soul,
always some food for thought, or something to smile about in your posts. Or both.
I’d love to be a guru, even a semi respected one. Have some Danish nubile women helping around the farm, nodding in admiration at every word I utter, as they weed and hoe in various states of undress (daisy dukes and a teeny top bikini that as enlightenment approaches flies off is a favorite choice when pondering such a wonderful prospect.
My lovely wife, alas…
I finally started reading Juan Filloy!
Cheers!
Yes! Which Filloy?
Which novel I mean.
“Caterva”
Great novel! Even better than Op Oloop. Let me know what you think after you finish it.
Will do, Soul. I like it so far. I could only find it in English, though.
Be well, and thanks for the suggestion.
Rajneesh taking nitrous oxide and repeating over and over to himself, “I’m so bored.”
Yes I’ve heard about this. It’s so interesting. Hopefully he is not feeling the ill part any more. I’ve never had a spiritual or shamanic illness before.
” holocaust denier ”
If that’s in the same league as , ” the holocaust was not one of the more impressive genocides ” , +
” climate denier ”
If that’s in the same league as , ” I doubt there is a fucking thing we can do about it ” +
” AIDS denier ”
Notice not even all the libertines are dead yet ? +
” Covid denier ”
I’m the Spuds camp on that one. So +
” woman’s rights denier ”
Typically anything TACKED ON TO ” rights ” is actually a pitch for special privileges . So +
” psychiatry denier ”
When EVEREYBODY is a Shrink , maybe that tells you something quite negative about the ” science ” in question ? +
” Russian shill , Iranian shill ”
You rang ? +
” Anti – Vaxer ”
Another one for Spuds. +
” pro-alcohol activist ”
You mean a hundred – plus years of Prohibition is actually fucking stupid ? +
” advocate of forced child marriage ”
character – assasination of one who proposes a return to arranged marriages , because , ” Follow your Heart ” has worked out catastrophically ? +
The Celts should rule the world ?
In the book , ” So you are going to wear the kilt ”
under the question , ” Who can wear what tartan ? ”
It basically says , except for Balmoral tartan , anyone can wear any tartan they like. ”
Yay ! I’ll wear McLeod tartan then —- after they make kilts a lot fucking cheaper.
And I would vote for Celts ruling the world.
They are some crazy fucked up mother – fuckers.
LOL “So you are going to wear the kilt”. Y’all are making me really laugh today. I feel you though. It’s like you hear all this denier stuff and anti this and that and these people are so preachy and ultra moralistic when they go on and on about it. Honestly it gets me to the point where I’m just like good I’m glad he denies all that and is anti all that.
amazon.com/So-Youre-Going-Wear-Kilt/dp/B00404MPZK
I didn’t make that shit up.
wow ok, I just realized it was a book and not a phrase. Reading too fast again lol.
Eh , couldn’t find any massed Pipes and drums in McLeod tartan.
youtube.com/watch?v=4sPgFR9OBE4
Massed Pipes and drums always struck me as some serious African Gangsta shit.
It had the Idi Amin seal of approval.
Lol what? I don’t understand the connection to Idi Amin. But an interesting performance nonetheless. I think Balmoral sage tartan is neat.
He didn’t say, ‘You can’t do much without me.’
He said, ‘You can do nothing without me.’
Nothing good, that is.
And never forget, it is not you who does the good.
Ask for the peace without end, unceasingly,
And you shall have the peace of men of good will.
Not your will, God’s will, God’s peace,
No matter what happens.
Do not be sad if you fall
For He knows what you are,
Dust.
Learn to hold that peace in face of oblivion,
Chaos, death.
Ask for it by His name.
Ok. Amen.
It’s Sunday so we shouldn’t miss talking about Jesus.
Christ to St Catherine of Sienna: I am the one who is. You are the one who is not.
I just got the word that a close friend of mine has died. Other than being very sad, I’m also just pissed off that a good guy had to pass away. God decides that, not me. But I am also generally pissed off now. Anybody wanting to say something nasty about anybody I might care about is going to get my full verbal fury. In a way, that’s good because it’ll help calm me down and work out my bad vibes.
I’m so pissed, I’m pissed about being pissed.
I’ve been so angry lately and I don’t like being angry. Oh, well, it’s on me I suppose.
I’m sorry to hear that Bill. You can take your anger out on me if it will make you feel better.
This is the SSL I really like. Look down thread to see the reply I wrote to Rulo. I’m now ok. I never want to take my anger out on you, anyway, even though we’ve sort of done that a few times.
I’m glad you are feeling better and more at peace now 🙂
I put in a change of address request with my local “Post Office”. I dated for the day I was there so I quit checking the mail at the old place.
A couple weeks go by and I’m over at the old house cleaning up and the rural mailman drives up with a letter with a yellow address label with my new address and asks if I put in a change of address. I said ” yes”. He says he would look into it and see what he could do.
So I go get the rest of the mail and find a letter from the PO telling me I need to go to a website and confirm my desire to receive mail some where else.
It is on purpose, bean.
Illegitimi non carborundum
bill,
calm down. Breathe. Get away from screens for days, be in Nature. Take a walk. Think good thoughts, deal with the bad thoughts like a man, treat yourself to something because you’re old, have worked all your life and tried to be good, recognize what’s good and what’s not – so you deserve that ice cream or titty bar visit.
Also, “is going to get my full verbal fury” is a very funny thing to write on a blog. I realize you’re sad and you didn’t mean a joke, but laughter can be good for healing, so smile at it. Inadvertent comic relief.
I would avoid making threats under any circumstances. But if you have to make one, it has to be face to face, and depending on seriousness of the situation, backed by some hardware (in grave cases) or at least a pair of fists and acceptance of the fact that you’ll be hurt.
I hope you don’t take my comment the wrong way. I’m sorry about your loss. It happens to us all too many times, loved ones going “poof” and then we go “poof.” It sucks. The pain is terrible. We’ve been trying to deal with it for millennia, yet religions and philosophies barely dull the pain. The more you have loved someone, the harder the pain.
Think of Buddha and what he said, think of fading away in Nothingness, think good thoughts, don’t think of the visceral Jew haters for a while. You can direct your mind, you know, to go where you want it to go. On good days. Hope your days get better.
Rulo,
You’re turning into my guru. You seem to show up when I go off the deep end. Thank you.
I’ve calmed down. Most everything you’ve said is right on.
I don’t like to make threats. I’ve had to defend myself for being a Jew so much it’s become part of me. I became this way because when I acted on my natural inclination to turn the other cheek, attacks became stronger and more frequent.
But I’ll tell you now that I have to stop this back and forth negative stuff. I’m going to center myself back to my positive state. It’s going to be hard to do because of what’s happening in the world – it will get worse – and because there are some jerks on this blog who will test my resolve. But so what, I can deal with it. I liked how I used to be: more peaceful, and I’m gonna get that back. So thanks again.
bill, good.
But think: “there are some jerks on this blog who will test my resolve”
Breathe. Resolves being tested and some jerks on some blog don’t belong in the same sentence.
Because of the war in what Mr K called “the holy lands” in his “made by hand” books, you’re jittery. We’re all are.
“Resolves being tested” is war language percolating into an obscure blog that you can choose to avoid or not comment, complaining about other jittery humans, some of them very rude, which you can also choose to ignore or engage, as inclined.
Nah. You have your meals, you know where you’ll sleep, not in jail. THAT tests resolves.
We all gotta breathe, brother. War and disaster may get us, but every morning counts. Take time to breathe and be grateful every day, sir.
You have your meals, you know where you’ll sleep, not in jail. THAT tests resolves.
Like Palis in Gaza, for example.
@Rulo:
All I got to say is from Ringo Starr: It don’t come easy.
Bill,
My last name, I would guess, is a LOT more Jewish sounding than yours, and I have never in my 77 years ever felt slighted, even though friendly banter might reference my “Jewishness”, though I never thought myself as one, I accepted the camaraderie that it represented.
Anthony Jeselnek has a great Jewish joke…
My grandmother was terribly anti semitic, and a Holocaust denier. One day the family had enough embarrassment, and staged an intervention for her. We called in a Rabbi, who spent four hours describing the 5000 year history of the Jews. We made her watch Schindler’s List…the director’s cut. We all said our piece.
At the end of the day, my Grandmother, with her head hung low, said…”I can’t believe that the Holocaust happened…only once….
We made her watch Schindler’s List…the director’s cut.
That is cruel and unusual punishment, EF.
@ef:
You could be right, but what if I told you my real name is Hymie Goldblatt? Would you think I was a black African (no disrespect meant to any Goodblatts or Africans)? Or maybe my real name is Sean Mulligan (from County Kerry), and the people in my village were so dumb they thought I was Jewish. You can’t go by a name – that’s just a noun – proper or improper.
IOW, you are a card (not the Maine killer).
Bill,
It has occurred to me, late in life, that I have always been considered Jewish…never asked, always assumed. I now recognize that most of my friends in High School were Jewish…as a newcomer to the schools, I was never able to pick my friends, they just gravitated. As a pawnshop owner, I was befriended by members of the tribe. In my retirement, I have good friends, Jewish, that consider me a landsman, and never have asked.
But I have never felt abused or threatened by anyone because of their perception.
One particular officer on the OPD, whenever he saw me enter the locker room, would yell “JEWBABY”! Of course, his nickname was “OKIE”…
Sorry
If this was intended for me, thank you.
yes sir!
🙂
” Anybody wanting to say something nasty about anybody I might care about is going to get my full verbal fury. In a way, that’s good because it’ll help calm me down and work out my bad vibes.
I’m so pissed, I’m pissed about being pissed.
I’ve been so angry lately and I don’t like being angry.”
As I have said before, JHK should try getting a remimbursement from Medicare for therpeutic services provided at this blog, as posters vent and moan and act out and attack just to drive off their own private demons.
That (a “remimbursement” [sic]) does not seem very likely or even plausible. Therefore, maybe you should stop saying such nonsense. Right?
Matthew Langford Perry was born in Williamstown, Massachusetts, on August 19, 1969.[3] His mother, Suzanne Marie Morrison (née Langford, born 1948),[4][page needed] is a Canadian journalist who served as press secretary to Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. His father, John Bennett Perry (born 1941), is an American actor and former model.[5][6]
His parents separated when he was one, and his mother married Canadian broadcast journalist Keith Morrison. He was raised by his mother mostly in Ottawa, Ontario, but he also lived briefly in Toronto and Montreal.[7] She would have four children with Morrison—Caitlin, Emily, Will, and Madeline—while John had a daughter named Maria with his second wife Debbie Boyle.[8] Matthew attended Rockcliffe Park Public School for elementary school, alongside future Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. He also attended Ashbury College, a boarding school in Ottawa.[9][10]
By age 10, Perry started misbehaving. He stole money, smoked, let his grades slip, and beat up Trudeau in a fight during fifth grade.[10][11] Perry began drinking alcohol at age 14 and was drinking alcohol every day by age 18.[12] Perry took a keen interest in tennis and became a top-ranked junior player in Canada with the possibility of a tennis career. However, at age 15, he moved from Ottawa to Los Angeles to live with his father and competition there was tougher.[13][11][5]
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Could he have HAD any more cred?
Note: This wiki entry was Americanized. In Canada, including Ottawa, it is called Grade 5.
At that point, Trudeau was just some kid who was better than Perry at sports, and Perry couldn’t handle it. Even Perry admitted it was out of jealousy. Not a good look on him at all.
So Perry was just a minor thug, no different than Trudeau, except for later scale based on circumstance.
Oh ya? I didn’t know anything about any of this until today.
While I am a pacifist, I do like the thought of Trudeau’s smug face taking a beating.
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I also did not know that Matt Perry’s stepdad is/was MSM news broadcaster Keith Morrison.
And yet they both turned out to be fascist pieces of shit.
Life sure is funny.
Matthew Perry was a fascist? Are you sure?
https://twitter.com/Inversionism/status/1718438700550418761
Pretty, sure Hogger.
Move comma, of course.
This is nice, OG. Very interesting info you found. I didn’t know he went to school with Justin Trudeau and beat him up in fifth grade. Was Perry or Trudeau the bully in the situation?
I didn’t know anything about this until today. Soul indicates upthread that Perry was the bully in the schoolyard spat.
“Sexists are wrong. Therefore, they are wrong.”
Yet pretty much everyone calls the times when sexists were not even a thing (because they were not required), “The Good Old Days.”
In real life, of course, it can’t be both.
@ md:
Ya know, modern technology was supposed to make life easier, so I had thought, but in reality it would seems to complicate everything. Just like Joseph Tainter said.
And Ted Kaczynski.
Rulo:
Those stale accusations of “Joos running the world” are laughable when you consider that for every evil banker there’s 3 dentists, 8 rabbis, a librarian, 12 mom and pop store owners, and so on. In short, blokes like the rest of us, with their quirks and peculiar customs.
I see what you did there. You stated the argument: “Joos [are] running the world” but then you actually argued against “All Joos [are] running the world.”
And you called anybody who didn’t simple-mindedly play along with your deception, “laughable” (i.e. to be scorned).
And the whole time, evil bankers really do run our planet!
C’mon, Rulo. You’re better than that.
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You called me for bringing Q theories to the board. I responded.
I call you on this obvious slight-of-hand. And … crickets …
What say you?
OG, at times in the past you offered a sense of humor and some ideas. Now you only offer a willingness to get offended and engage in lengthy vendettas.
You brought to the forum your many problems, one of which was alcoholism at the time. It is indeed a terrible illness. Perhaps this is the reason of your bellicosity and irrationality.
I wished you well then, and wish you well now, but don’t feel like arguing with you. Until you recover your senses, anyway.
You win. Whatever you were arguing about, you win. I don’t care.
I am completely irrelevant while evil bankers still run our world.
Of course, the correct answer was, “You’re right. The fact that most Jews do not run the earth hardly disproves that some do.”
See? It’s not all about me. This is about you and what you said.
You forgot to add ‘along with a lot of other people who are not Jewish’. You even listed their family names the other day, most of which were clearly not Jewish.
Think of it as a Venn diagram. Where Jewish and fabulously rich intersects with Anglo-American and fabulously rich and with Irish and fabulously rich (you can complete the gaps), what they all are is simply ‘fabulously rich’. Plus evil.
” I don’t know who those people are, but imo, it doesn’t matter what is a “normal” sex drive.
What matters is that the husband and wife have the same one, whether neutered or virile. ”
— Paula D
Yay , I have always wanted to write a little essay on that topic.
But was never presented with the excuse until now.
—
We will begin with the proposition , ” There are a million fish in the sea ”
900, 000 of them you will never meet.
It doesn’t much matter how many fish are in Morrocco if you never leave Texas , and never get within a thousand miles of Morrocco.
We are already down to a measley 100,000.
The vast majority of those are going in the wrong direction . You are headed to A , they are headed to Z.
You have a grand total of five minutes or less to get acquainted..
They are too old.
They are too young.
They are the wrong race , the wrong class , the wrong whatever – bias – you – claim – not – to – have.
Not healthy enough for your active lifestyle.
Too healthy for your sedentary lifestyle.
I already mentioned class , but too poor , or too high – maintainance for your modest budget.
Shit , we are already down to no more than fifty or a hundred people.
And if it really is fifty or a hundred people , too many choices / too many options is , I suspect , a considerable problem itself ,
not least because you aren’t a mind – reader.
So you never really know who the one in ten who is not a dud is.
LGBTQ – whatever hasn’t been good for a damn thing , except maybe to clue people in that sexual tastes / fetishes are as eccentric as musical tastes or fingerprints ,
which to say scarcely of any practical use whatever.
Finally I would argue that , regardless of sex ,
roughly one – third of the population has a high sex drive ,
( still prized among males , still frowned upon among females , so two – thirds of the population of both sexes is lieing about it at any one time. )
roughly one – third of the population blows hot and cold.
In other words , totally fucking unpredictable , unreliable , and inexplicable.
And roughly one – third of the population is sexually nueter , they would rather read the Wall Street Journal , play Golf , sew , gossip with the girls , or invade Poland , than fuck.
( here again , but reversed ; prized among females , frowned upon among males , so two – thirds of the population of both sexes is lieing about it at any given time. )
So , even if you do find somebody ,
the odds that you’ll find someone who is sexually compatible is only one in three.
Pretty dismal odds altogether.
And if all of this is true ,
then the anecdotal personal experience of most people of either sex regarding the opposite sex , or even their own sex , is grossly misleading to put it mildly.
In the old days ,
One – fourth of the population would never find their soulmate —- whether they liked it or not.
Two out of four would be arranged marriages.
The remaining one – fourth nobody envied , as the odds of love matches succeeding then were no better than now , with the additional factor that two – thirds of those who lived to see age 40 would be widowed at some point anyway.
And every town of any size pretty much anywhere in the world had a Red Light District.
In this , Right – Wing types are actually light years goofyier than the Wokies.
They scoff at Kumbaya ,
When Kumbaya is pretty much exclusively and totally what the sexual revolution is based on.
That and cheap coal and cheap petroleum of course.
Kesa, one doesn’t find insights from sex and prostitution so candidly presented, very often. Your life experience, if I recall correctly, involved sexual work, a topic I’m very ignorant about.
I only used a prostitute once, at age 16, and it was an utter failure and embarrassment.
The sexual revolution worked for me, I guess. A different generation. Now, more coitus is not necessarily good, I think, with many partners and so on. Some girls (Stones album, not the best but OK) leave a bad taste in one’s mouth. And one leaves a terrible taste in others.
Marriage, for me, is the happiest arrangement, but you’re right, not everybody find that contentment.
Rolling Stones ~ Some Girls [1978]
bitchuteXcom/video/KLibguB1PeQ7/
“Hey, what’s the matter man?
We’re gonna come around at twelve
With some Puerto Rican girls that’s just dyin’ to meet you
We’re gonna bring a case of wine
Hey, let’s go mess and fool around
You know, like we used to!”
It’s a great album.
Meh , the nearest sociological or anthropological study would tell you much the same things.
Instead , the next Dr. Joyce Brothers or Jordan Petersen will get rich on some variation of , ” You , too , can be rich. ”
Most self – help books I’m sure would suffice with one sentence ;
” You’re in the wrong buiseness . Write a self – help book , chances are you’ll go far , if you get in with the right bunch of fellows. ”
😛
youtube.com/watch?v=BO9XahvB9V0
A truer song was never written.
The entire album kicks major butt for 1973.
bitchuteXcom/video/ggWiYXjrGvbr/
“I was blown, blown, blown
Right inside
Right inside
Right inside a dream”
” I don’t understand the connection to Idi Amin. ”
— Layla
Uganda was a British colony.
Idi Amin got his start as a servant in a Scottish Regiment.
Became a life – long fan of bagpipe music.
Became a life – long fan of bagpipe music.
Now there’s a sentence that you don’t run into very often.
There’s even a film (and novel) called ‘The Last King of Scotland’, which revolves around Amin.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_King_of_Scotland_(film)