Excellent suggestion - investigate Boasberg (and his accomplices) with the goal of prosecuting, incarcerating and financially destroying this band of traitorous miscreants. Kaboom 💥
The 💩 that Judge Boasberg wrote to explain why Kevin Clinesmith was given probation after falsifying evidence to the FISA Court should be mandatory reading for lawyers today. The FISC exists for one reason: to protect citizens. Boasberg made it fail at that.
TRAITORS Fucked Around. We The People Found Out. It will jot end well for the TRAITORS. Sign me up as Lever Puller for Executions. I have the stomach for it.
Look up fallbeil and see what that is all about. I think it is the perfect execution machine. I especially like that it doesn't have the fanfare of the French version and the public spectacle that the French love. It is humiliating - like being executed by a very efficient flyswatter.
Maybe they can call Lon Horiuchi out of retirement and he can dust off the rifle he used to kill women and children from long distance. Before he ends up burning for eternity, maybe he could do something useful.
Sadly, no tragically, too many judges operate above the law and are the very examples of corruption and immorality, with Boasberg only one of many. The Demoncrap Party has by actions, if not secret agreements, merged with the CPUSA and now spouts the communist line on virtually everything. The federal courts in Washington are no less than a den of vipers who operate as if they are above the law and the President is their servant. The slew of orders against President Trump both before and after his election by Boasty Boasberg and his ilk show their attempts to achieve God-like status, at least in their eyes and the leftist MSM. Investigations are likely to uncover much corruption in the federal and state judiciaries, especially Washington and New York.
The Federal Courts in DC are part of the Deep State, their existence depends on the existence of the government in DC. The Deep State believes that the central government should be in charge of everything, that we are too stupid to run a country. If the Deep State wins, it is the end of the American experiment.
They may well win because they obviously have the stomach for what it takes to prevail while we do not. Bloodshed on a scale that will reverberate through the millennia
To place one man/woman as a "judge" of what is right over another man is inherently flawed to its core. Man will always corrupt judgment with their own personal bias. Always.
Often to be sure. But some people are better, at least sometimes. Centuries ago during the British occupation of much of Ireland, the West remained free. It had a trading relationship with Spain. So much so that some Spanish families lived in Galway. The son of the mayor killed a Spanish boy in a fight over a girl. The Mayor had his son put to death.
More recently, a young Japanese American guy killed someone. He told his father, I wish I had a knife to kill myself with. The father replied, I wish I could give you one. He had brought shame on the family. How different the Blacks are, eh?
My oldest brother and sister are Basque from my mother's first husband. Garlic and butter on everything! Born in the Depression, my brother used to walk the sheep from Nevada to Los Angeles. (They literally walk with the grazing sheep flocks. Not so far anymore, but they still do it today. I myself am quite the marksman with a sling, I can hit a bird in flight.)
Geraldo - FitzGerald - disputed, but I have been told that this is the etymology of some FitzGeralds and many I know are quite a bit darker than typical Irish
Tyrants and despots always enjoy operating outside and above the law, especially natural and common law. Their jus dare decrees are carried out with the usual force and fraud that the sycophants employ for those narcissist who crave adulation. Only God is the proper judge of men, but they won't consider that as it obstructs their personal agendas.
Oh, I think his time is coming, Kathy. Hubris and arrogance eventually catch up with all of them, sooner or later. Sooner being preferable in his case.
Oh my goodness, Missoula. As a young(er) man - already having enough of the materialism and rat race - I fantasized about opening a little coffee shop in Missoula. "Off the Wheel" - as in the hamster wheel. Hope you're loving it there, Peggy. It's grown, but still beautiful - hard to beat Big Sky Country.
Love Montana. Helena, especially. Montana has the charm that my current State of residence, Utah, has lost. Montana, like Utah, however, is being overrun with California refugees and their money.
Spent two nights in Cut Bank a few years back. Claim to fame? Holds the record as the coldest place in the lower 48.
I was there, watching TV in the motel. The ferocity of the propaganda was like nothing I had ever seen. Blacks in every commercial, often all Blacks. A TV show I had never seen or heard about: A local girl detective with an adoring Black side kick. In the opening montage, she was shown punching bad White guys in the face.
Well, at least they'll always keep the Big Testicle Festival. Probably make it a holy day if the Karens remain in charge.
("Mountain oysters", done after gelding season. My Basque nephews learned how to do it the old way, with their teeth! Less pain and bleeding for the animal.)
Headed up to Glacier for a week, up through Kalispell and Whitefish. end of June/start of July - Blackfeet Country. Been about 20 years, closer to 30, so looking forward to it.
Whitefish claim to fame? Well, one of them - home to Whitefish Energy , a 2-employee firm that was awarded the entire contract - three-hundred million dollars - to repair the entire electrical infrastructure of Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria.
A real head-scratcher. Why can't I get a contract like that? I guess you have to know someone.
Love Glacier. I was there 3 years ago. We were hiking to Grinnell Glacier and as we rounded a corner on the trail ( just after the Grinnell Glacier Trailhead and parking lot) we found ourselves in the path of an oncoming Grizzly Bear. Luckily the big guy didn't want to be messed with and turned off the trail into the under brush. Scared the hell out of me to stand 20 feet from an animal that could make mince meat of me and I don't think I could have deployed my bear spray fast enough had he charged. We also encountered another bear in a parking lot near St Mary Falls trail, a brown fur black bear. In fact we had 7 bear sightings. Saw more bears than deer and moose.
Such a cool place. Make lots of noise if on hiking trails. I think our only saving grace in our grizzly bear encounter was my wife's loud laughter after I stepped in a large mud puddle. Alerted the bear to our presence.
I used to fish the Kootenai out by Libby. Beautiful river, but some Yankee bought up all the guide services and basically controls who and when you can float it, if you don't have your own boat.
Being a "university town" suggests regulations, property taxes, and other tools in the leftist toolbox may impede progress like small business development? Asking for a friend.
I mentioned this before, but a couple far-left progressive chicks I worked with moved to Missoula with the express intention of getting control of the local government. One got herself elected to the state house and the other became a lawyer and started suing locals over land use stuff. They both backdoored their way in through some Indian services NGO-bullshit.
I can ask around, there's a coffee nook in the bookstore down the road, Also, the owner of the Black Cat Bakery on Broadway is retiring now and it's a good location. It's a town with people of many points of view and the University has a solid hierarchy, but that doesn't dominate the town or the many people from outlying areas who come to shop.
The Photographer's Formulary was/is in Missoula and I used them way back when I compounded my own developers so in my imagination its a place of creativity and physical beauty, though I've never been there. The idea of owning a boutique cafe' there seems wonderful. The reality may be quite different.
Worth considering another angle to this stageplay we're all watching:
“I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.” -Peter Thiel
I did not write this:
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Elon Musk copted and Peter Thiel founded a company that became PayPal.
Other executives at PayPal went on to found or lead other huge tech companies including YouTube, LinkedIn, Reddit, Affirm, and many VC firms.
This group became known as the PayPal mafia because they basically controlled Silicon Valley.
Peter Thiel mentored a young JD Vance and helped him get set up in his first VC firm.
Peter Thiel and the PayPal mafia funded JD Vance's successful Senate run. Amazing because he had absolutely zero political experience.
Thiel and Musk all but forced Trump to choose JD Vance as VP in exchange for funding his presidential campaign.
The three of them, plus a lot of other tech billionaires subscribe to an ideology called the Dark Enlightenment espoused by this super weird, creepy dude: Curtis Yarvin aka Mencius Moldbug.
Yarvin preaches that the media and academia represent "The Cathedral" that secretly controls power and must be dismantled.
He advocates for a corporate run, monarchy, led by a CEO-Dictator. If Trump is gone from office, perhaps by Vance organizing a 25th Amendment removal due to claims about Trump’s cognitive decline, Vance moves in and that process begins.
Remember, it was just a couple of years ago when Musk said Trump was too old to even be a CEO, let alone the president.
Yarvin says that Democracy is an "outdated software" and openly opposes it and that:
- Government agencies should be dismantled and The U.S. should be broken up into "patchworks" controlled by tech oligarchs.
- That the elite tech billionaires should rule because they have the intelligence to "fix" society
- That the "masses are asses" too dumb to govern themselves.
The strategy is to gut the government via R.A.G.E - Retire All Govt Employees to make government incapable of operating.
Then to replace government with private corporations.
To eliminate elections because they are "obsolete"
To use distraction and chaos to prevent public resistance.
Trump is their useful tool to be disposed of as soon as they can wrest control.
This is why Elon wears a black MAGA hat. They are not Trump supporters, they are "Dark MAGA"
This isn't a hypothetical. The plan is already in motion:
- Musk, Thiel, and their network are actively dismantling democratic institutions.
- JD Vance, the “MAGA heir,” is being positioned to help implement this transition.
- The public is too distracted to realize what’s happening.
- If successful, democracy in America will be permanently replaced by a corporate-run authoritarian state.
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This excellent video by What'sHerFace outlines this in-motion strategy:
Time code: 4:30 Vance: "Accept that This entire thing is going to fall in on itself. And so the task of conservatives right now is to preserve as much as can be conserved and so when the inevitable collapse of the country comes ensure that conservatives can help --> build back <-- the country."
You REALLY should take the 7 minutes needed to watch this:
Time code: 4:30 Vance: "Accept that This entire thing is going to fall in on itself. And so the task of conservatives right now is to preserve as much as can be conserved and so when the inevitable collapse of the country comes ensure that conservatives can help --> build back <-- the country."
"The Chronicles of Narnia" (CS Lewis) is prominently visible being horizontal on the bookshelf behind JD Vance. The position thus clearly displays the title on the spine. CS Lewis and JRR Tolkein had a significant friendship which apparently had mutual influences on their lives.
Both wrote through construction of fantasy worlds. To focus on Lewis' "The Chronicles of Narnia" there is classic good vs evil with a developed class (king and queen) to ensure good prevails. This does not fit with the idea of the Constitutional Republic.
How much influence this has in the present day administration is beyond what I intend here. Rather, I'm opening up the topic for exploration.
Details matter, there are no coincidences. The book is not there by mere chance.
Do the themes of moral clarity and Christian faith (note Vance converted to Catholicism, (conversion to Christianity threads through the lives and spousal relationships of Lewis and Tolkien), resilience (Vance overcame quite a few hardships beginning with his life in Appalachia) is he skeptical of modernity? Modernism (and Humanism) are topics traceable through the writings of Popes such as Leo XIII and Pius X. Could these be root factors found within his intellectual and political framework?
"If successful, democracy in America will be permanently replaced by a corporate-run authoritarian state" is one of the more interesting points, in my opinion, from the listed startegies and goals.
Isn't "Palantir" from the Lord of the Rings? My hazy memory tells me it was the all-seeing orb through which the wizard Saruman observed the realm.
(Referring to Thiel's Palantir surveillance software.)
I know Palmer Luckey and other SoCal technocrats are into LotR themes.
Seeing how 'democracy' as it is used in modern times began as an attempt to replace the Westphalian monarchies, which themselves had been crucibles forging a true warrior elite, I can see why the Yarvin and Thiel types are drawn to Plato's "philosopher kings", as that is the Jewish "benevolent tyranny at the end of history" model.
Yuval Hariri also subscribes to this vision, as do the Chosen; the Puritan Elect, as well as John Calvin, creator of Europe's first totalitarian state in Geneva, subscribed to this Abrahamic Biblical vision.
Palantir is from LotR and also the name (Palantir Technologies) of Thiel et al engaged in data analytics. Data analytics as applied to Palantir would be analogous to high level surveillance. Concerns about privacy, accountability and ethics become front and center.
My own thought regarding the Treaty of Westphalia (actually a set of treaties) is as a stage-setting series of events for the nation-state.
The Warrior class still exists and can well be defined as elite in its various forms (nomenclatures?) through the years from Westphalia up to the present, spanning approximately 375 years.
At risk of going on in lengthy manner:
I considered inclusion of elements of Plato’s “Republic”. You specifically mention the Philosopher-Kings. There is also the Warrior class and the Producers. As a general recounting, the Philosopher-Kings rule the society. The Warriors protect the society, which could include enforcement within the society in addition to protecting from and repelling external threats. The Producers provide the means and materials for their own sustenance and also for the Philosopher-Kings and Warriors. There is no overlap and the classes exist in harmony.
This works in theory. It was written in the time of the city-state, a much smaller entity.
The issues arise when one (or more than one) of the classes , to use modern terms, ‘steps out of its lane’, ignoring the ‘guard-rails’ and infringes on the other classes.
Monarchies are efficient. When they fail, a dictatorship is the result.
A class of Philosopher-Kings, acting as an Aristocracy, could fail, becoming an Oligarchy.
The Warrior class could be a participant in any of these ‘failures’ of the neatly demarcated classes intended to form a functioning harmonious society. It could also fail into a dictatorship-type class of its own, subjugating by force the other classes (a totalitarian regime).
If the Producers fail, they could form a democracy (if they do not fall back into an anarchic state-of-nature). They then make rules to limit the Philosopher-Kings and the Warriors ( a tyranny of the majority). Failing to a different point, they develop a republic. The Philosopher-Kings and the Warriors might, acting in self interest, choose to join the Producers' republic. It will not be as efficient a society, however it will likely not devolve into anarchy (return to state-of-nature) or last too long (measured in decades) as a tyranny of the majority.
This last (tyranny of the majority) manipulated by a self-developed oligarchy seems to be where we are presently. This result of tyranny developed through one-party rule augmented by a lesser party's submissive/passive participation through a separate yet similar set of self-interests describes the US at present. This is different from the EU, which makes no pretense of having roots in an elective process. Rather, it is an unabashed ruling elite, an oligarchy by another name.
This is one way of describing potentials for organizing society. We have, though barely, a Constitutional Republic. It isn’t very efficient. It also doesn’t have much room to fall below its level should it fail. Though it might be a hard landing, in a sense, it is softer than the landings of a fall from either a monarchy to a dictatorship or an aristocracy to an oligarchy.
We might well be facing a breakup of the Constitutional Republic due to irreconcilable differences. The polarization of the society is extreme. It could change in to a number (three, possibly four) federations or confederations depending on what each division retains from the Constitution.
Another possiblity is a true civil war ( not the poorly named Civil War, more aptly referenced as the War of Northern Aggression).
Wheels within wheels. Democracy (which cannot exist) only "works" when the people are good. Even the Founders said as much. So the Mold Bugs are right in that regard. But there is nothing good about either Corporate Capitalism or Technocracy. So they are wrong or more probably, lying.
When Mencius Moldbug first manifested, we corrected him, replacing Synagogue for Cathedral. He was hardcore Vax guy as well. Anything to centralize everything.
One of the best parts of LOTR was when Barliman said to Aragorn, Having a King again is a good thing I suppose, but we wish to be left alone. Aragorn: You will be. Subsidiarity was a keynote of all these thinkers. Localism. Solving what can be solved at the local level - and that's most things. That and only that makes them admirable and worth studying.
~ Off The Beaten Path: Decentralized Peer-To-Peer Society ~
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"A low-energy policy allows for a wide choice of lifestyles and cultures. If, on the other hand, a society opts for high energy consumption, its social relations must be dictated by technocracy and will be equally degrading whether labeled capitalist or socialist." ~ Ivan Illich
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"These movements, which are engaging in massive forms of collective resistance, are aiming to destroy the structures and ideological plague of neoliberal global capitalism, with its relentless attacks on public goods, unions, social provisions and the ecosystem, as well as its relentless drive to privatize everything and turn all social relations into commercial transactions." ~ Henry A. Giroux
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"There are a number of steps that need to be taken to successfully reapply the wisdom of the tribe:
1 ) Individuals must re-establish a sense of deep connection and bondedness to the whole (in this case the planet)... It is especially important that people build direct human connections around the globe. Since the nation-states are today's bullies, we can not rebuild the peace of the tribe unless we build a global community that stands independent of these nations, as William Ellis argues so well in the Summer 1983 issue of In Context. It is also essential that these connections be 'real', based on meaningful ties of economics and common personal interest, and not just a technique for peace.
2) Our societies need to decentralize to remove crucial pressure points. We need to replace brittle systems of hierarchical power with resilient systems of 'network semi-dependence.' " ~ Robert Gilman
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"...Gandhi developed the concept of nonviolent revolution, to be seen not as a programme for the seizure of power, but as a programme for transforming relationships. The concept sits neatly with the observation of the German anarchist, Gustav Landauer (1870-1919): 'The state is a condition, a certain relationship between beings, a mode of behaviour; we destroy it by contracting other relationships, by behaving differently.'
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In its first decade several themes, theories, actions, all distinctly libertarian, began to come to the fore and were given intellectual expression by the American anarcho-pacifist, Paul Goodman (1911-72) (36): anti-militarism, the rediscovery of community, community action, radical decentralism, participatory democracy, the organisation of the poor and oppressed inter-racially, and the building of counter-culture and counter-institutions (such as new co-ops, collectives and communes).
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The collapse of the New Left coincided with the exhaustion of the less well-publicised Sarvodaya (welfare of all) movement for nonviolent revolution in India, led by Vinoba Bhave and Jayaprakash Narayan (1902-1979), which had sought through voluntary villagisation of land to realise Gandhi's dream of an India of village republics. The implication of Sarvodaya for the subject of this book is brought out by the statement of Jayaprakash Narayan: 'In a Sarvodaya world society the present nation states have no place.' " ~ Geoffrey Ostergaard, 'Resisting The Nation State'
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"Alan Atkisson (interviewer): How has permaculture been received? What do reviewers say about your books, for example?
Bill Mollison: The first time I saw a review of one of my permaculture books was three years after I first started writing on it. The review started with, 'Permaculture Two is a seditious book.' And I said, 'At last someone understands what permacultureís about.' We have to rethink how we're going to live on this earth and stop talking about the fact that we've got to have agriculture, we've got to have exports, because all that is the death of us. Permaculture challenges what we're doing and thinking and to that extent it's sedition.
People question me coming through the American frontier these days. They ask, 'What's your occupation?' I say, 'I'm just a simple gardener.' And that is deeply seditious. If you're a simple person today, and want to live simply, that is awfully seditious. And to advise people to live simply is more seditious still.
You see, the worst thing about permaculture is that it's extremely successful, but it has no center, and no hierarchy.
Alan: So that's worst from whose perspective?
Bill: Anybody that wants to extinguish it. Itís something with a million heads. Itís a way of thinking which is already loose, and you canít put a way of thinking back in the box.
Alan: Is it an anarchist movement?
Bill: ...You won't get cooperation out of a hierarchical system. You get enforced directions from the top, and nothing I know of can run like that. I think the world would function extremely well with millions of little cooperative groups, all in relation to each other."
Your post correctly identifies the current, and accelerating, trend toward a corporate-run authoritarian state.
But all the cloak-and-dagger conspiracy theories are unnecessarily complicated.
It’s not complicated: Everywhere, but particularly in the United States, wealth translates to political power and control over the public discourse. Billionaires don’t care about you and me; they care about accumulating more money and more power. Obviously they’ll do whatever it takes to accumulate more of both, unless or until mechanisms are enforced that give some degree of countervailing power, and a meaningful voice, to regular people — those who are not billionaires, or multimillionaires, or close friends of the 0.1%
U.S. wealth has continued to concentrate into the hands of the 0.1% for as long as I can remember. It’s not complicated. The billionaires have been winning, and yet we keep handing them more power over our elections, our tax structures, our news media, and our national priorities. Most of this is in happening broad daylight , not in some mysterious secret backroom club.
What’s complicated about what is in the original post though? It’s straightfoward, and the same as it ever was: the rich dark triads wants slaves, they always have they always will. Now they have the technology to enforce it. From WEF’s second in command Yuval Noah Harari:
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Mr. Harari, thinking about all this, puts it this way: “Utopia and dystopia depends on your values.” … The useless class he describes is uniquely vulnerable. “If a century ago you mounted a revolution against exploitation, you knew that when bad comes to worse, they can’t shoot all of us because they need us,” he said, citing army service and factory work.
Now it is becoming less clear why the ruling elite would not just kill the new useless class. “You’re totally expendable,” he told the audience. … “We don’t need you. But we are nice, so we’ll take care of you.” —Source (worth reading in full): https://archive.is/rWLoO
A week or so ago, Soc-Det said that nothing has changed in ages. As if technology isn't a game changer. This was the quote I was looking for. Needless to say, Harari knows that most of are scheduled for elimination. And those allowed to survive will be deracinated, degendered, and chipped.
Tri torch you always forget about GOD on this equation. You have to understand this is a spiritual war. Was, is forever until GOD says enough. Look at things thru the 3rd lens of prophecy and spiritual
I talk to everyone Carolyn, it’s not that I forget God, it’s that I have speak generally of the facts only, otherwise I cannot get half of the people I speak with to listen.
I’m trying to wake everyone up - left right center - so we can mount a counterattack. The first step to solving any problem is becoming aware of it and knowing thine enemy and the first step of that is being open to new information.
Christ is my savior, He could end all of this with a snap of his fingers but what he wants is for us to wield our valor and face and fight it. He gave us the tools to do so, now He’s watching to see if we use them.
Christ wants us to come to him in a spirit of humbleness and repentance, to try to live a heavenly life in this world (very difficult in an affluent, secular society), via prayer, partaking of the Eucharist and sacraments, and through the intercessions of the Saints. The vehicle for that is the Orthodox Christian Church.
If you look at history since 1056, when the Bishop of Rome broke with the other four Bishops of the Christian Church, Jerusalem, Alexandria, and Antioch), the West (those who write with Latin characters and are mostly Catholic) has generally been hostile to those who write with Greek or Cyrillic characters (mostly Orthodox). The Fourth Crusade. The war in Ukraine is the latest chapter.
Russia miraculously survived the implosion of the Communist (that was a Western deviation, sent to Russia like a virus) USSR. Dmitry Orlov (a Russian-American whom I discovered here on CFN, and has been a KunstlerCast guest)) has compared the USSR in the 1990s to the US in the 2010s. Both of them, overextended and broke. Orlov offers "secular" reasons why America is less likely to survive a hard landing than Russia. He also acknowledges the role Christian Orthodox values played, even among atheist Communists. I would add my personal view that hard times took many Russians back to church, to their roots, and their prayers helped turn the country from a basket case to self-sufficiency, and arguably, the best place on earth to raise a family (except for the weather)
In the US, the Orthodox monasteries, and many Orthodox parishes, are beacons of light. CFNers who seek the truth, seek them out!
Amen! The Orthodox practice true Christianity. Most of the "Christianity" practiced in the US is total garbage. It may as well go in the dumpster along with "new age" religion. Mega churches with the leaders driving Rolls Royces... SMDH.
Yes, their churches remained national, a lesson for you who are so weak in this regard. Patriotism. You must love not only the Fathers but the nation or Vater-land as well. So Orthodoxy is both universal and local. Both magnificent and humble. The hubris of the Catholics has been brought low by the horrific Vatican Two and the string of monster Popes.
The Orthodox acknowledge and honor ethnicity and natio familia, rather than trying to use it in the hyper-dangerous melting-pot fashion the "all men are equal" Hive collectivists do. For instance, Greek Orthodox, Armenian, Russian, Ukrainian, etc.
Hive collectivism can and does include the Catholics and their Progressive Protestant offspring, as they were trying to stave off the Islamic ummah by ruthlessly becoming an ummah (a collective) themselves.
What is lost is Nature's Iron Law: there *must* be real diversity, lest one blight, one virus, one plague, kill off the entire field.
@TriTorch Excellent comment! PayPal reference is illuminating. Very plausible. Good information, thank you! Today's JHK essay is also good information.
JHK podcast guest Catherine Austin Fitts, an anti-liberal, anti-globalist, has warned about firing career civil servants, who are sworn to uphold the constitution, and replacing them with private contractors.
Data is facts. The assembling or processing of data is information. Information is useful.
This world, this country, is not in a good place. I can think of several plausible events OUTSIDE the US that topple the hoUSe of cArds. Slow burning fires which the US deep state helped create, and which Trump is largely continuing to feed. As well as internal US issues.
Americans born since the late 1950s are more ignorant and less American than their predecessors. Also, a lot softer and less patient. A lot more Godless--the "miracles of science" have replaced God. People now are easier marks for the elite. They have been since the 1990s.
Big money stills runs the show, but there appears to be some divisions over which flavor of big capital should be in charge, or perhaps personalities.
The love of money is the root of all evil. Those who have most want even more. They will bring the world to the edge of destruction. Between that edge and today, this world, we have a long way to go. Downwards. Not for everyone, everywhere, all the time--just mostly.
As @Carolyn notes, there is a (BIG) spiritual dimension war. (most) people (in the West) not only have followed the schismatic road of the Catholic church, which fiddled with Christianity, and its offshoots (various " 'isms") for a thousand years, but today they don't even accept the nominal Catholic/Protestant or even Jewish/Islamic concept of God, let alone the Christian Eastern Orthodox path. Quite a few (including Musk, who wants to implant chips in our brains and who espouses transhumanism) go so far as to consider themselves God. That also manifests itself in concepts like "transgender, multi-genders, gay marriage" and infanticide (even as the West faces demographic problems). To his credit, Trump has stopped the Fed's endorsement of these anti-God behavior. But even if Godlessness was reversed, the US still has some huge debts (in blood)--all the foreigners killed in America's wars of choice, the latest being the Christian and non-Christians being slaughtered in Syria, on the tail of the Gazans, the Ukrainians and Russians, the Iraqis, the Libyans, Yugoslavs, Vietnamese... that's a big bill payable at any moment in today's world.
Still, it's good to read TriTorch (and others here) to see there are still people who can think and see and offer a vision.
Democracy is a false buzzword. We are a constitutional republic. The uniparty is working to eliminate the constitution and has already almost succeeded. Trump claims he’s trying to protect the constitution but his actions as 47 do not support that. We are doomed
The real test in all these lawfare actions to obstruct, delay and disrupt Trump’s agenda, is patience. That has never been a strong suit of the electorate, on either side of the aisle. And battling through this barrier they Left has constructed will take time, and a lot of patience. It is frustrating, aggravating, infuriating and just plain annoying, but people who voted for Trump must keep their wits about them.
I am sure no one is more PO’d about it all than Trump himself, but he came prepared for it. He is not ruffled, he remains resolute.
We need to take that example from him, and pray mightily that the forces of evil that threaten the future of this country are laid waste like Goliath was by David.
Keep the faith, and pray without ceasing. They are our most powerful weapons.
So far, Trump has given me no reason not to trust him. He’s gone beyond my hopes and expectations for delivering what I voted for, and I agree with his trajectory. That, combined with the fact that I think it is nothing short of a Divine intervention that he survived that bullet, AND got elected, I’m good.
As for Elon, the man’s a genius, and an eccentric, but has a heart and oodles of common sense. I’m good with that too.
It's easier to just prosecute and imprison, as JHK said. Seditious conspiracy is what we're looking at here and gitmo is where all these stinkers will likely wind up. It has to be done or we're cooked. We may be cooked regardless but our only chance is a complete destruction of the Demonrats and deep state cabal.
Activist judges are all that's standing in the way of Trump now so I would expect these loyal paid-for foot soldiers to die on that particular hill. I'm sure there is some Soros still-functioning NGO that a disgraced judge can go and work (sic) for.
Apart from that, I certainly do not see any "resistance" beyond a claque of hysterical exhibitionists targeting Tesla dealerships. Sad if you think about it. In 2020 they could shut down entire cities and now all they can do is scrawl swasticas on Teslas.
Excellent suggestion - investigate Boasberg (and his accomplices) with the goal of prosecuting, incarcerating and financially destroying this band of traitorous miscreants. Kaboom 💥
The 💩 that Judge Boasberg wrote to explain why Kevin Clinesmith was given probation after falsifying evidence to the FISA Court should be mandatory reading for lawyers today. The FISC exists for one reason: to protect citizens. Boasberg made it fail at that.
Your emoji is very friendly-looking.
Can’t wait for the FO phase kick in. We paid for it!
"We paid for it". It will be money well spent.
Stocked up on the Popcorn 🍿
From the immortal words of Kipper the dog, "nothing really ever happens".
From your lips to God's ears.
This needs to stop and public punishment must result.
TRAITORS Fucked Around. We The People Found Out. It will jot end well for the TRAITORS. Sign me up as Lever Puller for Executions. I have the stomach for it.
Look up fallbeil and see what that is all about. I think it is the perfect execution machine. I especially like that it doesn't have the fanfare of the French version and the public spectacle that the French love. It is humiliating - like being executed by a very efficient flyswatter.
You got my hopes up
it's just a guillotine
A fly swatter of human proportions was expected
Lol I was picturing a huge, gigantic meat pounder that would squash someone really quickly.
Really slowly would be better...
The next rider has to listen to the previous rider on the rack.
surely something Musk could develop!
Man I had no idea.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aRzPAZfLu8&ab_channel=Factopedianz
I heard there is controversy over how long a head can still understand and see! What a horrible thought!
Maybe they can call Lon Horiuchi out of retirement and he can dust off the rifle he used to kill women and children from long distance. Before he ends up burning for eternity, maybe he could do something useful.
If you don't; I sure as heck do.
It’s gonna take a lot more than pulling a lever. Do you have the stomach for that?
Got guns???
Thank you! 🙏 great article/commentary!
Check to see what is on the judge's phone and hard drive.
He looks like a super "weirdo."
Sadly, no tragically, too many judges operate above the law and are the very examples of corruption and immorality, with Boasberg only one of many. The Demoncrap Party has by actions, if not secret agreements, merged with the CPUSA and now spouts the communist line on virtually everything. The federal courts in Washington are no less than a den of vipers who operate as if they are above the law and the President is their servant. The slew of orders against President Trump both before and after his election by Boasty Boasberg and his ilk show their attempts to achieve God-like status, at least in their eyes and the leftist MSM. Investigations are likely to uncover much corruption in the federal and state judiciaries, especially Washington and New York.
The Federal Courts in DC are part of the Deep State, their existence depends on the existence of the government in DC. The Deep State believes that the central government should be in charge of everything, that we are too stupid to run a country. If the Deep State wins, it is the end of the American experiment.
If we're going to go all imperialist, I say we should invade and conquer the District of Columbia! Or just let Gaza be our guide.
They may well win because they obviously have the stomach for what it takes to prevail while we do not. Bloodshed on a scale that will reverberate through the millennia
To place one man/woman as a "judge" of what is right over another man is inherently flawed to its core. Man will always corrupt judgment with their own personal bias. Always.
Often to be sure. But some people are better, at least sometimes. Centuries ago during the British occupation of much of Ireland, the West remained free. It had a trading relationship with Spain. So much so that some Spanish families lived in Galway. The son of the mayor killed a Spanish boy in a fight over a girl. The Mayor had his son put to death.
More recently, a young Japanese American guy killed someone. He told his father, I wish I had a knife to kill myself with. The father replied, I wish I could give you one. He had brought shame on the family. How different the Blacks are, eh?
Many "Irish" names are actually bastardized Spanish names. I'm Irish, but have darker skin. My mom's family is part Spanish, but from Ireland.
The really weird part is that the earliest Irish were actually...Basque.
Settlers from the Pyrenees mountain border between Spain and France.
The Basque themselves are said to be what is left of the original Etruscans.
Interesting. I didn't know that. There is a large Basque population in Boise. I had relatives there and we used to frequent the restaurants.
My oldest brother and sister are Basque from my mother's first husband. Garlic and butter on everything! Born in the Depression, my brother used to walk the sheep from Nevada to Los Angeles. (They literally walk with the grazing sheep flocks. Not so far anymore, but they still do it today. I myself am quite the marksman with a sling, I can hit a bird in flight.)
Just to confuse things more, the Celts lived in Spain at one point, but they never controlled the whole thing.
Examples?
Costello - Costellow
Geraldo - FitzGerald - disputed, but I have been told that this is the etymology of some FitzGeralds and many I know are quite a bit darker than typical Irish
Moor - Moore
Alberti - Albert(s)
Tyrants and despots always enjoy operating outside and above the law, especially natural and common law. Their jus dare decrees are carried out with the usual force and fraud that the sycophants employ for those narcissist who crave adulation. Only God is the proper judge of men, but they won't consider that as it obstructs their personal agendas.
“Let it be said; let it be done.”
What kind of name is Boasberg? German? If so, he may face justice. German Jewish? Most unlikely.
I was wondering that too. There appears to be a big tech blackout on his origins.
Skull & Bones guy at Yale.
Oh my gosh, wouldn't that be the cherry on top of a spectacular 2025? 🙏🤞
"What can be done about judges like Boasberg?" ~ JHK
One can only imagine.
Will no one rid us of this troublesome judge?
Oh, I think his time is coming, Kathy. Hubris and arrogance eventually catch up with all of them, sooner or later. Sooner being preferable in his case.
Pam and her team will hold up folders and/or binders for a photo-op while Patel beams like a hazy (gassy?) moon.
Boasberg is in big trouble.
Oh my goodness, Missoula. As a young(er) man - already having enough of the materialism and rat race - I fantasized about opening a little coffee shop in Missoula. "Off the Wheel" - as in the hamster wheel. Hope you're loving it there, Peggy. It's grown, but still beautiful - hard to beat Big Sky Country.
Love Montana. Helena, especially. Montana has the charm that my current State of residence, Utah, has lost. Montana, like Utah, however, is being overrun with California refugees and their money.
Spent two nights in Cut Bank a few years back. Claim to fame? Holds the record as the coldest place in the lower 48.
I was there, watching TV in the motel. The ferocity of the propaganda was like nothing I had ever seen. Blacks in every commercial, often all Blacks. A TV show I had never seen or heard about: A local girl detective with an adoring Black side kick. In the opening montage, she was shown punching bad White guys in the face.
Well, at least they'll always keep the Big Testicle Festival. Probably make it a holy day if the Karens remain in charge.
("Mountain oysters", done after gelding season. My Basque nephews learned how to do it the old way, with their teeth! Less pain and bleeding for the animal.)
A farmer friend of mine still performs that task with his teeth on sheep.
Circumcision?
Headed up to Glacier for a week, up through Kalispell and Whitefish. end of June/start of July - Blackfeet Country. Been about 20 years, closer to 30, so looking forward to it.
Whitefish claim to fame? Well, one of them - home to Whitefish Energy , a 2-employee firm that was awarded the entire contract - three-hundred million dollars - to repair the entire electrical infrastructure of Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria.
A real head-scratcher. Why can't I get a contract like that? I guess you have to know someone.
Love Glacier. I was there 3 years ago. We were hiking to Grinnell Glacier and as we rounded a corner on the trail ( just after the Grinnell Glacier Trailhead and parking lot) we found ourselves in the path of an oncoming Grizzly Bear. Luckily the big guy didn't want to be messed with and turned off the trail into the under brush. Scared the hell out of me to stand 20 feet from an animal that could make mince meat of me and I don't think I could have deployed my bear spray fast enough had he charged. We also encountered another bear in a parking lot near St Mary Falls trail, a brown fur black bear. In fact we had 7 bear sightings. Saw more bears than deer and moose.
Such a cool place. Make lots of noise if on hiking trails. I think our only saving grace in our grizzly bear encounter was my wife's loud laughter after I stepped in a large mud puddle. Alerted the bear to our presence.
Also watched a grizzly chase a black bear on a ridge about a half a mile away from us. Bear spray is a must in that place :)
"Why can't I get a contract like that? I guess you have to know someone." ~ Ron
You could always help create an alternative society with a different notion for 'economy' and 'wealth'?
What would you do with three-hundred million and how might it affect you, your society and/or others around you?
Do land and resources equal money? Why?
Are you going to fish the Flathead?
I used to fish the Kootenai out by Libby. Beautiful river, but some Yankee bought up all the guide services and basically controls who and when you can float it, if you don't have your own boat.
Libby is called the city of death. Most structures were insulated with asbestos.
We could use another coffee shop. Many go away to the Bitterroot valley, but there is high energy here of a different sort.
You're a tease. Stop it ;-)
Well someone has to be.
Being a "university town" suggests regulations, property taxes, and other tools in the leftist toolbox may impede progress like small business development? Asking for a friend.
I mentioned this before, but a couple far-left progressive chicks I worked with moved to Missoula with the express intention of getting control of the local government. One got herself elected to the state house and the other became a lawyer and started suing locals over land use stuff. They both backdoored their way in through some Indian services NGO-bullshit.
I can ask around, there's a coffee nook in the bookstore down the road, Also, the owner of the Black Cat Bakery on Broadway is retiring now and it's a good location. It's a town with people of many points of view and the University has a solid hierarchy, but that doesn't dominate the town or the many people from outlying areas who come to shop.
Good point, Rick. My business model - dating it now - was prior to the takeover of academia and "higher education", by the Marxists.
The Photographer's Formulary was/is in Missoula and I used them way back when I compounded my own developers so in my imagination its a place of creativity and physical beauty, though I've never been there. The idea of owning a boutique cafe' there seems wonderful. The reality may be quite different.
"takeover of academia and "higher education", by the Marxists."
Didn't that happen in the 1920's?
The problem with a coffee-shop in the context of the current sociocultural system appears that very sociocultural system.
So if Ron wanted to somehow escape that system, it would still be saturating the entirety of his cafe, his life and, presumably, his headspace.
How does it compare, and how do you feel, with where you are now, though?
Oh for God's sake! Knock it off, Rudy.
Fyi, It's a leftist university town, but yes, beautiful.
Read 'em and weep, Janos - not my cards - my comments.
Worth considering another angle to this stageplay we're all watching:
“I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.” -Peter Thiel
I did not write this:
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Elon Musk copted and Peter Thiel founded a company that became PayPal.
Other executives at PayPal went on to found or lead other huge tech companies including YouTube, LinkedIn, Reddit, Affirm, and many VC firms.
This group became known as the PayPal mafia because they basically controlled Silicon Valley.
Peter Thiel mentored a young JD Vance and helped him get set up in his first VC firm.
Peter Thiel and the PayPal mafia funded JD Vance's successful Senate run. Amazing because he had absolutely zero political experience.
Thiel and Musk all but forced Trump to choose JD Vance as VP in exchange for funding his presidential campaign.
The three of them, plus a lot of other tech billionaires subscribe to an ideology called the Dark Enlightenment espoused by this super weird, creepy dude: Curtis Yarvin aka Mencius Moldbug.
Yarvin preaches that the media and academia represent "The Cathedral" that secretly controls power and must be dismantled.
He advocates for a corporate run, monarchy, led by a CEO-Dictator. If Trump is gone from office, perhaps by Vance organizing a 25th Amendment removal due to claims about Trump’s cognitive decline, Vance moves in and that process begins.
Remember, it was just a couple of years ago when Musk said Trump was too old to even be a CEO, let alone the president.
Yarvin says that Democracy is an "outdated software" and openly opposes it and that:
- Government agencies should be dismantled and The U.S. should be broken up into "patchworks" controlled by tech oligarchs.
- That the elite tech billionaires should rule because they have the intelligence to "fix" society
- That the "masses are asses" too dumb to govern themselves.
The strategy is to gut the government via R.A.G.E - Retire All Govt Employees to make government incapable of operating.
Then to replace government with private corporations.
To eliminate elections because they are "obsolete"
To use distraction and chaos to prevent public resistance.
Trump is their useful tool to be disposed of as soon as they can wrest control.
This is why Elon wears a black MAGA hat. They are not Trump supporters, they are "Dark MAGA"
This isn't a hypothetical. The plan is already in motion:
- Musk, Thiel, and their network are actively dismantling democratic institutions.
- JD Vance, the “MAGA heir,” is being positioned to help implement this transition.
- The public is too distracted to realize what’s happening.
- If successful, democracy in America will be permanently replaced by a corporate-run authoritarian state.
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This excellent video by What'sHerFace outlines this in-motion strategy:
Time code: 4:30 Vance: "Accept that This entire thing is going to fall in on itself. And so the task of conservatives right now is to preserve as much as can be conserved and so when the inevitable collapse of the country comes ensure that conservatives can help --> build back <-- the country."
Purpose of DOGE: Dismantle Existing System of Governance & Build Back Spiderweb AI Infrastructure: https://old.bitchute.com/video/EUer0GMfzKvl/
Which goes to show there is more than one style of tin foil hat.
You REALLY should take the 7 minutes needed to watch this:
Time code: 4:30 Vance: "Accept that This entire thing is going to fall in on itself. And so the task of conservatives right now is to preserve as much as can be conserved and so when the inevitable collapse of the country comes ensure that conservatives can help --> build back <-- the country."
Purpose of DOGE: Dismantle Existing System of Governance & Build Back Spiderweb AI Infrastructure: https://old.bitchute.com/video/EUer0GMfzKvl [7:03mins]
This is real, it is happening, it's being talked about openly by Yarvin and Vance.
“I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.” -Peter Thiel
"The Chronicles of Narnia" (CS Lewis) is prominently visible being horizontal on the bookshelf behind JD Vance. The position thus clearly displays the title on the spine. CS Lewis and JRR Tolkein had a significant friendship which apparently had mutual influences on their lives.
Both wrote through construction of fantasy worlds. To focus on Lewis' "The Chronicles of Narnia" there is classic good vs evil with a developed class (king and queen) to ensure good prevails. This does not fit with the idea of the Constitutional Republic.
How much influence this has in the present day administration is beyond what I intend here. Rather, I'm opening up the topic for exploration.
Details matter, there are no coincidences. The book is not there by mere chance.
Do the themes of moral clarity and Christian faith (note Vance converted to Catholicism, (conversion to Christianity threads through the lives and spousal relationships of Lewis and Tolkien), resilience (Vance overcame quite a few hardships beginning with his life in Appalachia) is he skeptical of modernity? Modernism (and Humanism) are topics traceable through the writings of Popes such as Leo XIII and Pius X. Could these be root factors found within his intellectual and political framework?
"If successful, democracy in America will be permanently replaced by a corporate-run authoritarian state" is one of the more interesting points, in my opinion, from the listed startegies and goals.
Isn't "Palantir" from the Lord of the Rings? My hazy memory tells me it was the all-seeing orb through which the wizard Saruman observed the realm.
(Referring to Thiel's Palantir surveillance software.)
I know Palmer Luckey and other SoCal technocrats are into LotR themes.
Seeing how 'democracy' as it is used in modern times began as an attempt to replace the Westphalian monarchies, which themselves had been crucibles forging a true warrior elite, I can see why the Yarvin and Thiel types are drawn to Plato's "philosopher kings", as that is the Jewish "benevolent tyranny at the end of history" model.
Yuval Hariri also subscribes to this vision, as do the Chosen; the Puritan Elect, as well as John Calvin, creator of Europe's first totalitarian state in Geneva, subscribed to this Abrahamic Biblical vision.
Palantir is from LotR and also the name (Palantir Technologies) of Thiel et al engaged in data analytics. Data analytics as applied to Palantir would be analogous to high level surveillance. Concerns about privacy, accountability and ethics become front and center.
My own thought regarding the Treaty of Westphalia (actually a set of treaties) is as a stage-setting series of events for the nation-state.
The Warrior class still exists and can well be defined as elite in its various forms (nomenclatures?) through the years from Westphalia up to the present, spanning approximately 375 years.
At risk of going on in lengthy manner:
I considered inclusion of elements of Plato’s “Republic”. You specifically mention the Philosopher-Kings. There is also the Warrior class and the Producers. As a general recounting, the Philosopher-Kings rule the society. The Warriors protect the society, which could include enforcement within the society in addition to protecting from and repelling external threats. The Producers provide the means and materials for their own sustenance and also for the Philosopher-Kings and Warriors. There is no overlap and the classes exist in harmony.
This works in theory. It was written in the time of the city-state, a much smaller entity.
The issues arise when one (or more than one) of the classes , to use modern terms, ‘steps out of its lane’, ignoring the ‘guard-rails’ and infringes on the other classes.
Monarchies are efficient. When they fail, a dictatorship is the result.
A class of Philosopher-Kings, acting as an Aristocracy, could fail, becoming an Oligarchy.
The Warrior class could be a participant in any of these ‘failures’ of the neatly demarcated classes intended to form a functioning harmonious society. It could also fail into a dictatorship-type class of its own, subjugating by force the other classes (a totalitarian regime).
If the Producers fail, they could form a democracy (if they do not fall back into an anarchic state-of-nature). They then make rules to limit the Philosopher-Kings and the Warriors ( a tyranny of the majority). Failing to a different point, they develop a republic. The Philosopher-Kings and the Warriors might, acting in self interest, choose to join the Producers' republic. It will not be as efficient a society, however it will likely not devolve into anarchy (return to state-of-nature) or last too long (measured in decades) as a tyranny of the majority.
This last (tyranny of the majority) manipulated by a self-developed oligarchy seems to be where we are presently. This result of tyranny developed through one-party rule augmented by a lesser party's submissive/passive participation through a separate yet similar set of self-interests describes the US at present. This is different from the EU, which makes no pretense of having roots in an elective process. Rather, it is an unabashed ruling elite, an oligarchy by another name.
This is one way of describing potentials for organizing society. We have, though barely, a Constitutional Republic. It isn’t very efficient. It also doesn’t have much room to fall below its level should it fail. Though it might be a hard landing, in a sense, it is softer than the landings of a fall from either a monarchy to a dictatorship or an aristocracy to an oligarchy.
We might well be facing a breakup of the Constitutional Republic due to irreconcilable differences. The polarization of the society is extreme. It could change in to a number (three, possibly four) federations or confederations depending on what each division retains from the Constitution.
Another possiblity is a true civil war ( not the poorly named Civil War, more aptly referenced as the War of Northern Aggression).
Wheels within wheels. Democracy (which cannot exist) only "works" when the people are good. Even the Founders said as much. So the Mold Bugs are right in that regard. But there is nothing good about either Corporate Capitalism or Technocracy. So they are wrong or more probably, lying.
When Mencius Moldbug first manifested, we corrected him, replacing Synagogue for Cathedral. He was hardcore Vax guy as well. Anything to centralize everything.
One of the best parts of LOTR was when Barliman said to Aragorn, Having a King again is a good thing I suppose, but we wish to be left alone. Aragorn: You will be. Subsidiarity was a keynote of all these thinkers. Localism. Solving what can be solved at the local level - and that's most things. That and only that makes them admirable and worth studying.
Chicken-and-egg:
Are people bad because the cultural operating systems are bad or are the cultural operating systems bad because the people are?
But then how about somehow snipping that chicken-and-egg circle and see?
"Wheels within wheels," Frank Herbert's famous saying, is another way to say Marxist or Soviet "dialectical thinking."
That is, saying one thing while inferring another; the real message is to those who can read between the lines.
~ Off The Beaten Path: Decentralized Peer-To-Peer Society ~
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"A low-energy policy allows for a wide choice of lifestyles and cultures. If, on the other hand, a society opts for high energy consumption, its social relations must be dictated by technocracy and will be equally degrading whether labeled capitalist or socialist." ~ Ivan Illich
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"These movements, which are engaging in massive forms of collective resistance, are aiming to destroy the structures and ideological plague of neoliberal global capitalism, with its relentless attacks on public goods, unions, social provisions and the ecosystem, as well as its relentless drive to privatize everything and turn all social relations into commercial transactions." ~ Henry A. Giroux
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"There are a number of steps that need to be taken to successfully reapply the wisdom of the tribe:
1 ) Individuals must re-establish a sense of deep connection and bondedness to the whole (in this case the planet)... It is especially important that people build direct human connections around the globe. Since the nation-states are today's bullies, we can not rebuild the peace of the tribe unless we build a global community that stands independent of these nations, as William Ellis argues so well in the Summer 1983 issue of In Context. It is also essential that these connections be 'real', based on meaningful ties of economics and common personal interest, and not just a technique for peace.
2) Our societies need to decentralize to remove crucial pressure points. We need to replace brittle systems of hierarchical power with resilient systems of 'network semi-dependence.' " ~ Robert Gilman
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"...Gandhi developed the concept of nonviolent revolution, to be seen not as a programme for the seizure of power, but as a programme for transforming relationships. The concept sits neatly with the observation of the German anarchist, Gustav Landauer (1870-1919): 'The state is a condition, a certain relationship between beings, a mode of behaviour; we destroy it by contracting other relationships, by behaving differently.'
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In its first decade several themes, theories, actions, all distinctly libertarian, began to come to the fore and were given intellectual expression by the American anarcho-pacifist, Paul Goodman (1911-72) (36): anti-militarism, the rediscovery of community, community action, radical decentralism, participatory democracy, the organisation of the poor and oppressed inter-racially, and the building of counter-culture and counter-institutions (such as new co-ops, collectives and communes).
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The collapse of the New Left coincided with the exhaustion of the less well-publicised Sarvodaya (welfare of all) movement for nonviolent revolution in India, led by Vinoba Bhave and Jayaprakash Narayan (1902-1979), which had sought through voluntary villagisation of land to realise Gandhi's dream of an India of village republics. The implication of Sarvodaya for the subject of this book is brought out by the statement of Jayaprakash Narayan: 'In a Sarvodaya world society the present nation states have no place.' " ~ Geoffrey Ostergaard, 'Resisting The Nation State'
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"Alan Atkisson (interviewer): How has permaculture been received? What do reviewers say about your books, for example?
Bill Mollison: The first time I saw a review of one of my permaculture books was three years after I first started writing on it. The review started with, 'Permaculture Two is a seditious book.' And I said, 'At last someone understands what permacultureís about.' We have to rethink how we're going to live on this earth and stop talking about the fact that we've got to have agriculture, we've got to have exports, because all that is the death of us. Permaculture challenges what we're doing and thinking and to that extent it's sedition.
People question me coming through the American frontier these days. They ask, 'What's your occupation?' I say, 'I'm just a simple gardener.' And that is deeply seditious. If you're a simple person today, and want to live simply, that is awfully seditious. And to advise people to live simply is more seditious still.
You see, the worst thing about permaculture is that it's extremely successful, but it has no center, and no hierarchy.
Alan: So that's worst from whose perspective?
Bill: Anybody that wants to extinguish it. Itís something with a million heads. Itís a way of thinking which is already loose, and you canít put a way of thinking back in the box.
Alan: Is it an anarchist movement?
Bill: ...You won't get cooperation out of a hierarchical system. You get enforced directions from the top, and nothing I know of can run like that. I think the world would function extremely well with millions of little cooperative groups, all in relation to each other."
Your post correctly identifies the current, and accelerating, trend toward a corporate-run authoritarian state.
But all the cloak-and-dagger conspiracy theories are unnecessarily complicated.
It’s not complicated: Everywhere, but particularly in the United States, wealth translates to political power and control over the public discourse. Billionaires don’t care about you and me; they care about accumulating more money and more power. Obviously they’ll do whatever it takes to accumulate more of both, unless or until mechanisms are enforced that give some degree of countervailing power, and a meaningful voice, to regular people — those who are not billionaires, or multimillionaires, or close friends of the 0.1%
U.S. wealth has continued to concentrate into the hands of the 0.1% for as long as I can remember. It’s not complicated. The billionaires have been winning, and yet we keep handing them more power over our elections, our tax structures, our news media, and our national priorities. Most of this is in happening broad daylight , not in some mysterious secret backroom club.
What’s complicated about what is in the original post though? It’s straightfoward, and the same as it ever was: the rich dark triads wants slaves, they always have they always will. Now they have the technology to enforce it. From WEF’s second in command Yuval Noah Harari:
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Mr. Harari, thinking about all this, puts it this way: “Utopia and dystopia depends on your values.” … The useless class he describes is uniquely vulnerable. “If a century ago you mounted a revolution against exploitation, you knew that when bad comes to worse, they can’t shoot all of us because they need us,” he said, citing army service and factory work.
Now it is becoming less clear why the ruling elite would not just kill the new useless class. “You’re totally expendable,” he told the audience. … “We don’t need you. But we are nice, so we’ll take care of you.” —Source (worth reading in full): https://archive.is/rWLoO
A week or so ago, Soc-Det said that nothing has changed in ages. As if technology isn't a game changer. This was the quote I was looking for. Needless to say, Harari knows that most of are scheduled for elimination. And those allowed to survive will be deracinated, degendered, and chipped.
Tri torch you always forget about GOD on this equation. You have to understand this is a spiritual war. Was, is forever until GOD says enough. Look at things thru the 3rd lens of prophecy and spiritual
I talk to everyone Carolyn, it’s not that I forget God, it’s that I have speak generally of the facts only, otherwise I cannot get half of the people I speak with to listen.
I’m trying to wake everyone up - left right center - so we can mount a counterattack. The first step to solving any problem is becoming aware of it and knowing thine enemy and the first step of that is being open to new information.
Christ is my savior, He could end all of this with a snap of his fingers but what he wants is for us to wield our valor and face and fight it. He gave us the tools to do so, now He’s watching to see if we use them.
Christ wants us to come to him in a spirit of humbleness and repentance, to try to live a heavenly life in this world (very difficult in an affluent, secular society), via prayer, partaking of the Eucharist and sacraments, and through the intercessions of the Saints. The vehicle for that is the Orthodox Christian Church.
If you look at history since 1056, when the Bishop of Rome broke with the other four Bishops of the Christian Church, Jerusalem, Alexandria, and Antioch), the West (those who write with Latin characters and are mostly Catholic) has generally been hostile to those who write with Greek or Cyrillic characters (mostly Orthodox). The Fourth Crusade. The war in Ukraine is the latest chapter.
Russia miraculously survived the implosion of the Communist (that was a Western deviation, sent to Russia like a virus) USSR. Dmitry Orlov (a Russian-American whom I discovered here on CFN, and has been a KunstlerCast guest)) has compared the USSR in the 1990s to the US in the 2010s. Both of them, overextended and broke. Orlov offers "secular" reasons why America is less likely to survive a hard landing than Russia. He also acknowledges the role Christian Orthodox values played, even among atheist Communists. I would add my personal view that hard times took many Russians back to church, to their roots, and their prayers helped turn the country from a basket case to self-sufficiency, and arguably, the best place on earth to raise a family (except for the weather)
In the US, the Orthodox monasteries, and many Orthodox parishes, are beacons of light. CFNers who seek the truth, seek them out!
Amen! The Orthodox practice true Christianity. Most of the "Christianity" practiced in the US is total garbage. It may as well go in the dumpster along with "new age" religion. Mega churches with the leaders driving Rolls Royces... SMDH.
The One Church lasted a thousand years until the Schism; I laugh when Catholics accuse Protestants of being the Schism.
Yes, their churches remained national, a lesson for you who are so weak in this regard. Patriotism. You must love not only the Fathers but the nation or Vater-land as well. So Orthodoxy is both universal and local. Both magnificent and humble. The hubris of the Catholics has been brought low by the horrific Vatican Two and the string of monster Popes.
The Orthodox acknowledge and honor ethnicity and natio familia, rather than trying to use it in the hyper-dangerous melting-pot fashion the "all men are equal" Hive collectivists do. For instance, Greek Orthodox, Armenian, Russian, Ukrainian, etc.
Hive collectivism can and does include the Catholics and their Progressive Protestant offspring, as they were trying to stave off the Islamic ummah by ruthlessly becoming an ummah (a collective) themselves.
What is lost is Nature's Iron Law: there *must* be real diversity, lest one blight, one virus, one plague, kill off the entire field.
"- That the "masses are asses" too dumb to govern themselves." ~ Yarvin
... and the proof = "Joe Biden", Kamala Harris, and Tim Walz!
And Trump doing the bidding of his backers?
The Uniparty that seeks to shred our Constitution is the real enemy.
@TriTorch Excellent comment! PayPal reference is illuminating. Very plausible. Good information, thank you! Today's JHK essay is also good information.
JHK podcast guest Catherine Austin Fitts, an anti-liberal, anti-globalist, has warned about firing career civil servants, who are sworn to uphold the constitution, and replacing them with private contractors.
Data is facts. The assembling or processing of data is information. Information is useful.
This world, this country, is not in a good place. I can think of several plausible events OUTSIDE the US that topple the hoUSe of cArds. Slow burning fires which the US deep state helped create, and which Trump is largely continuing to feed. As well as internal US issues.
Americans born since the late 1950s are more ignorant and less American than their predecessors. Also, a lot softer and less patient. A lot more Godless--the "miracles of science" have replaced God. People now are easier marks for the elite. They have been since the 1990s.
Big money stills runs the show, but there appears to be some divisions over which flavor of big capital should be in charge, or perhaps personalities.
The love of money is the root of all evil. Those who have most want even more. They will bring the world to the edge of destruction. Between that edge and today, this world, we have a long way to go. Downwards. Not for everyone, everywhere, all the time--just mostly.
As @Carolyn notes, there is a (BIG) spiritual dimension war. (most) people (in the West) not only have followed the schismatic road of the Catholic church, which fiddled with Christianity, and its offshoots (various " 'isms") for a thousand years, but today they don't even accept the nominal Catholic/Protestant or even Jewish/Islamic concept of God, let alone the Christian Eastern Orthodox path. Quite a few (including Musk, who wants to implant chips in our brains and who espouses transhumanism) go so far as to consider themselves God. That also manifests itself in concepts like "transgender, multi-genders, gay marriage" and infanticide (even as the West faces demographic problems). To his credit, Trump has stopped the Fed's endorsement of these anti-God behavior. But even if Godlessness was reversed, the US still has some huge debts (in blood)--all the foreigners killed in America's wars of choice, the latest being the Christian and non-Christians being slaughtered in Syria, on the tail of the Gazans, the Ukrainians and Russians, the Iraqis, the Libyans, Yugoslavs, Vietnamese... that's a big bill payable at any moment in today's world.
Still, it's good to read TriTorch (and others here) to see there are still people who can think and see and offer a vision.
You were wrong about technology. But not Catholicism. Many creeps join it just because it's Globalist. Including some Jews, like Barr.
We're not a Democracy.
That's how Yarvin describes the western system. Thiel seems confused about it as well:
“I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.” -Peter Thiel
Yarvin refers to us as a Democracy, different quote.
It won't work, yet. Too contrary to the Constitution.
In 50 years, who knows? We're standing at the crossroads.
Democracy is a false buzzword. We are a constitutional republic. The uniparty is working to eliminate the constitution and has already almost succeeded. Trump claims he’s trying to protect the constitution but his actions as 47 do not support that. We are doomed
Yes, only a few should ever be allowed to vote. The people are idiots. Anyone who says otherwise is destructive, consciously or unconsciously.
Kind of like the society in the movie Rollerball (the original).
Great clip, thank you
The real test in all these lawfare actions to obstruct, delay and disrupt Trump’s agenda, is patience. That has never been a strong suit of the electorate, on either side of the aisle. And battling through this barrier they Left has constructed will take time, and a lot of patience. It is frustrating, aggravating, infuriating and just plain annoying, but people who voted for Trump must keep their wits about them.
I am sure no one is more PO’d about it all than Trump himself, but he came prepared for it. He is not ruffled, he remains resolute.
We need to take that example from him, and pray mightily that the forces of evil that threaten the future of this country are laid waste like Goliath was by David.
Keep the faith, and pray without ceasing. They are our most powerful weapons.
Amen, Suzie. Thank you.
Prayer: "God has his plan. But you tell him it is all fucked up and he needs to change it." - George Carlin
Atheist Debates - Nothing fails like prayer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2olIFD55Q0&t=884s
I agree in spirit but methinks you place too much trust in Trump.
And Musk who is the inverse of Yuval Harari.
So far, Trump has given me no reason not to trust him. He’s gone beyond my hopes and expectations for delivering what I voted for, and I agree with his trajectory. That, combined with the fact that I think it is nothing short of a Divine intervention that he survived that bullet, AND got elected, I’m good.
As for Elon, the man’s a genius, and an eccentric, but has a heart and oodles of common sense. I’m good with that too.
Divine intervention. LOL. Give me a break, Suzie
God: the longest reigning hide and seek champion.
Divine Hiddenness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRB0TDq8tWE
I love your optimism, but I'm still stacking just in case.
Why is it more difficult to impeach a corrupt judge than a President? Charge him with his Jan 6th shanigans and swifly disbar him.
It's easier to just prosecute and imprison, as JHK said. Seditious conspiracy is what we're looking at here and gitmo is where all these stinkers will likely wind up. It has to be done or we're cooked. We may be cooked regardless but our only chance is a complete destruction of the Demonrats and deep state cabal.
Impeachment from the House is more plausible that conviction which requires 2/3 of the Senate.
Ain't gonna happen.
Our Constitution vests the power in the people which DOES NOT = DEMOCRACY.
“Dan Bongino was sword in as Deputy Director of the FBIat 8:00 o’clock this morning.”
“Sword”. I think I see what you did there.
Dan said Epstein might have had some relationship with a Middle Eastern country - but which one!?
In other words, he's corrupt.
Greetings,
Activist judges are all that's standing in the way of Trump now so I would expect these loyal paid-for foot soldiers to die on that particular hill. I'm sure there is some Soros still-functioning NGO that a disgraced judge can go and work (sic) for.
Apart from that, I certainly do not see any "resistance" beyond a claque of hysterical exhibitionists targeting Tesla dealerships. Sad if you think about it. In 2020 they could shut down entire cities and now all they can do is scrawl swasticas on Teslas.
Sword in. Great typo.