Monthly Archives: December 2023

2023: The Year That Was

31 Sunday Dec 2023

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I’ve never been that crazy about yearly reviews. But WP sent me a reminder the other day. I don’t recall why, but they say July 23 was my biggest, bestest day here. I think all six of my five 2023 visitors visited on that day. Many thanks to you, good people! There will be a thank you party with cake at a far-future nebulous date that probably won’t happen.

The site remains largely unpromoted by me and I figure we’re still shadow banned to a degree. Still, traffic was up a little from 2022, though down a tad from 2021. All things considered, not bad.

The audience remains hyper-majority American. Bots or AI or Intel outfits or digi-trolls came in a distant second place, though their “business” visits were muted by my disallowance of interaction beyond “liking” and by Mr. Filter. (Thank you, Mr. Filter.) Most of the rest of the top 10 location traffic came from the UK, France, other Euros, East Asia, Lebanon(!)(thanks, guys & gals!), and a growing little contingent from Russia. Спасибо! Ты потрясающая. Люблю тебя!

After the homepage, I think 9 of the top 10 most visited articles and pages were weekly columns. The most visited of all was October’s “A Review of WHY THE WEST CAN’T WIN by Fadi Lama“, likely on the strength of links from Mrs. Annie and the Reckoneers and the SDL himself, Vox Day. (2 of my favorite peeps! Many thanks.)

And, as always, many thanks to all of you who make everything here a delightful pastime for this humble little internet possum critter. Happy New Year and here’s to a great 2024. Quality will improve tomorrow.

-PL

 

 

WereWestern Madness

31 Sunday Dec 2023

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NATO and the GAE are misled by satanic lunatics and idiiots. As if promulgating the theft of $300B Russian sovereign dollars isn’t bad enough – a tactic that will only play into Sino-Russian-BRICS+ hands – the empire’s late murder of kids at an ice rink has even the UN angry.

“The attacks against civilian population and civilian infrastructure are a violation of international humanitarian law and must stop immediately,” the office of UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said, as quoted by Russian news agency RIA Novosti.

At least 21 people were killed and more than 100 were injured in Ukrainian missile strikes on Belgorod on Saturday, according to local officials. The Russian Defense Ministry said that cluster munitions were used in the attack.

Russia requested an urgent meeting of the UN Security Council on Saturday. In his speech at the UN headquarters in New York, Russian envoy Vassily Nebenzia claimed that US and UK “consultants” helped to plan the strikes on Belgorod. He warned that “organizers and perpetrators” of the attack “will be punished.”

In these matters, while the UN’s statements may generally be taken with a grain of salt, those of the RUS MOD are genuinely reliable. How, when, where, and against whom is yet to be determined. It’s usually not a great idea to get bogged down in the minutia of the SMO, but this outrageous case only demonstrates the insane desperation in places like Kiev, London, and DC. If the Clowns are looking for an easy out and offramp from this particular defeat, then killing kids and stealing money from the most militarily powerful country in the world probably isn’t a good idea. And Ukraine will be a defeat for the Clowns, possibly the worst in their miserable history. These latest attacks will only add fuel to the Werewestern pyre.

New Year, New Calendar

31 Sunday Dec 2023

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A reminder from the wonderful Anne Wilson Smith that 2024 is tomorrow(!) and proud Americans need a new calendar. Shotwell Publishing obliges with 365 Days of Dixie! Read all about it:

We’re on the cusp of 2024. Based on the trajectory of the past few years, there doesn’t seem to be much cause for optimism, and I haven’t heard much hopeful chatter in real life or on the interwebs. It’s my philosophy that at the global level, what will happen will happen, and you or I can’t do much to change that. However, what we CAN do is engage in small, purposeful actions with the goal of edifying ourselves, preserving things that are valuable, and savoring moments of joy and meaning in our everyday lives.

One way to do this is to cultivate the habit of keeping alive our Southern culture and traditions. Those of us who value the old and contemporary South have a wonderful new resource for incorporating it into our daily lives. Our friends at Shotwell Publishing (“Southern Books. No Apologies.”) are offering their first edition of the 365 Days of Dixie calendar for 2024.

Order one today! If I’m right, by a repetitive temporal fluke 2024 is the same calendar as 1607. So if you’re a time-traveler, this might be the only calendar you’ll ever need!

*My 2023 review is coming this afternoon!

The “D” Factor

30 Saturday Dec 2023

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One wonders if this stunning-sounding new science is real.

Meet D, the newly identified Dark Factor of Personality.

The theoretical framework of the D factor has its underpinnings in what’s known as the g factor: a construct proposed by English psychologist Charles Spearman over a century ago when he observed that individuals who performed well on one kind of cognitive test were more likely to score well on other kinds of intelligence tests, too.

In other words, a ‘general intelligence factor’ could be measured. But it turns out that’s not all scientists are able to detect.

“In the same way, the dark aspects of human personality also have a common denominator, which means that – similar to intelligence – one can say that they are all an expression of the same dispositional tendency,” explained psychologist Ingo Zettler from the University of Copenhagen in Denmark back in September 2018.

If D turns out to be as real as G, then look for the same people who deny that IQ exists or is relevant to disclaim any attempt to measure darkness. In a way, doing so will be much more imperative for them than crudely dismissing general intelligence. That is because while IQ is helpful a propensity for morality over darkness is critical. And most of the deniers themselves are probably “dark” at best. It will be very interesting to see whether G is correlated with religious belief and acceptance, particularly of the Christian variety. One suspects it is.

The Parameters of Normality

30 Saturday Dec 2023

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The Valdai Club released a review of 2023 and more which hones in on the total and likely permanent rupture of relations between the Clown West and Russia and the civilized world.

Cracks began to appear in the late 1990s, and since 2014 the rupture has become increasingly irreversible. But as it often happens, it is difficult to believe in the possibility of big changes precisely because the inertia of everyday life hides the signs of tectonic shifts. Now they are clearly visible and seem as natural as the past. But in the past, few could have believed in their onset. Last year, 2022, was a year of dynamic chaos – Russia’s transition to a new reality both in politics and everyday life. The nerve of change was the emergence of contradictions in relations with the “collective West.” The concentrated expression of the crisis was the Special Military Operation (SVO) in Ukraine and the subsequent chain of confrontational events: the acceleration of the arms race, NATO expansion, large-scale sanctions, attempts to isolate Russia, military and financial assistance to Ukraine, etc. The stake for 2022 was the question of whether Russia survives the turning point – will it keep the economy from collapsing against the backdrop of unprecedented sanctions, will it conduct large-scale military operations that are incapable of gaining the support of both the elites and society at large? Last year ended with unanswered answers to these questions; 2023 added certainty. The turning point is behind us, Russia is living with its new conditions of confrontation and is coping with them. Russian politics has moved from crisis mode to the new normal. What are the parameters of this normality?

Read on. Russia is moving on, taking 80% of humanity with them. For those left in the dying West, things will be far less pleasant than most realize or can imagine. If you stupidly think places like the former US are democracies or republics and that the people are in charge of affairs, then pat yourself on the back. You have made a fine mess.

The Seismic Checkmate

29 Friday Dec 2023

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While I suppose most ‘Muricans would struggle mightily to find Yemen on a map, the rest of the world knows exactly where it is and what it’s done to the Clowns.

Yes, a pawn can impose a seismic checkmate. That’s where we are, geopolitically, right now.

The cascading effects of a single move on the chessboard – Yemen’s Ansarallah stunning and carefully targeted blockade of the Red Sea – reach way beyond global shipping, supply chains, and The War of Economic Corridors. Not to mention the reduction of the much lauded US Navy force projection to irrelevancy.

Yemen’s resistance movement, Ansarallah, has made it very clear that any Israel-affiliated or Israel-destined vessel will be intercepted. While the west bristles at this, and imagines itself a target, the rest of the world fully understands that all other shipping is free to pass. Russian tankers – as well as Chinese, Iranian, and Global South ships – continue to move undisturbed across the Bab al-Mandeb (narrowest point: 33 km) and the Red Sea.

Only the Hegemon is disturbed by this challenge to its ‘rules-based order.’ It is outraged that western vessels delivering energy or goods to law-breaking Israel can be impeded, and that the supply chain has been severed and plunged into deep crisis. The pinpointed target is the Israeli economy, which is already bleeding heavily. A single Yemeni move proves to be more efficient than a torrent of imperial sanctions.

Read the whole thing. Look at the shipping route map. That map and the suggested routes are already being laughingly thrown in Uncle Samuel’s face. Tolkien used Hobbits to remind us that sometimes it takes the little guy to finish off the dark lord. The valiant Houthis remind us again. 07, gents.

Ignoring the Genocide in the Room

28 Thursday Dec 2023

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Read this column, “Why does the Christian West ignore Palestinian Christians’ plight?”, about the pathetic silence from the “Christian” West concerning Palestine, and especially Palestinian Christians.

Since October 7, Israel and its allies have tried to put the war in Gaza within the “war on terror” framework, actively comparing Hamas to ISIS. Many who instinctively equate Palestinians with Muslims have indeed fallen for this false narrative.

But the brutal war Israel has waged on Gaza has not targeted “only terrorists” as it has claimed. Instead, it has massacred Palestinian Muslims as well as Palestinian Christians in what legal scholars agree amounts to genocide.

The Christian community in Gaza has lost at least 21 members so far. This may sound like a small number, but given they were only 1,000 before the war, these massacres threaten to eliminate the Christian presence in the strip for the first time in almost 2,000 years. Proportionally speaking, the death rate of Palestinian Christians is double that of the entire Palestinian population in Gaza.

And yet, the leaders of Christian-majority countries in the West have remained shockingly silent on the plight of Palestinian Christians. United States President Joe Biden, a devout Catholic, has said and done nothing to protect fellow Catholics in Gaza, who have also been targeted by the Israeli army.

Read the whole thing. Read it to any retarded Churchian-Zionists you know.

I wouldn’t call Brandon a devout Catholic, even by Novus Ordo standards. But the gist and horror of the story is clear. Maybe the answer is that there are few Christians anymore in the West, and virtually none among the fake leaders of the West. But most of the rest of the world stands with the Muslims and Christians of Palestine as does God the Almighty.

COLUMN: The Last Letter: Beware Of Scripted Performances

27 Wednesday Dec 2023

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The Last Letter: Beware Of Scripted Performances

 

Most intelligent Americans have, I think, accepted that the mainstream corporate media of the West, a tiny yapping lapdog of the controlling Matrix, is only a haven of lies, propaganda, and falsified hysteria. Now at the end of 2023, I have essentially purged all MSM news sources from my daily reading. I have no further need for lies and fairy tale foolishness.

It has been somewhat fun calling out or merely observing the lies as they flow forth. Right now, the general press is turning somersaults to conceal the truth about the genocide in Gaza and the nature of the rather successful Houthi blockade of the Red Sea. Back in the summer of 2021, at Freedom Prepper, I had a good time using reading skills and math to pick apart narrative nonsense about the fake pandemic and the real bioweapons war. I recall a particular headline that proclaimed the vast majority of one US state’s C-hoax cases and deaths were among the DNA unpoisoned. Adding only the state’s population to the numbers provided in the story, I was able to determine the truth was the exact opposite—93.58% of state X’s C-hoax hospitalizations and deaths were among the fully poisoned. So it goes.

Until recently, even as I began to shun WereWestern reporting, I did somewhat enjoy reading assorted letters to the editors of various American newspapers large and small. That habit too I now lay to rest. I simply do not need the input of most Americans. And I have noticed a disturbing trend in and among all those letters.

Udo Ulfkotte in no uncertain terms showed us how the MSM generates or repeats propaganda on behalf of the intel agencies of the Dark State. We’ve also caught detailed glimpses of how various disinformation or “troll” campaigns work regarding matters domestic and geopolitical. I think I see something very similar at work at the local papers of America via so many letters of concern written over the years. I was moved to write about this phenomenon by one last letter from a paper in a Southern state. It’s not worth directly linking to, quoting, or fully addressing. But it makes or helps make my point.

That last letter concerned economics, basically asserting that any increase in the minimum wage causes price (and possibly general) inflation. It was a local yokel regurgitation of idiocy I have read before. Regarding monetary, fiscal, and financial matters, there are paid experts at the top, in the commercial banks, the Fed, the BOE, and the BIS, who know what’s going on. They know because they’re the ones doing it. And reporting the truth simply won’t do. Therefore, they craft all manner of lies and deceptions in a way similar to how the intel agencies spin geopolitical issues. They pass these on to the worthless degree factory schools of economics where the ideas are further falsified by other, lower experts. These experts pass the “news” to the MSM. The MSM duly misinforms the gullible public. A select minority of the public recycle the garbage into letters to editors of dying papers of little value.

As with the C-hoax story before it, the last letter’s own figures disproved the author’s hypothesis. If state Y raises its minimum wage by 10% over a period, and during that time, food prices increase by 50% and housing prices double, then something else is obviously at work—something like the final effects of mass financialization. 

I don’t doubt the author’s sincerity in wanting to help. Nor do I overlook the possibility that his and other such letters may grow organically. Awash in disinformation and wanting to do something benevolent, it is possible letter writers may repeat the lies they’ve been told as purely independent and individual courses of action.

However, what suggests something deeper at work is the constant recitation of the exact same words and phrases in all the letters concerning any given topic. To me, it looks like someone devises scripts and somehow disseminates them to the writers. It could be a paid project like the intel agencies’ oversight of the MSM. Or there could be dedicated public interest groups who trot around giving lectures and talking points to civic organizations. The talking points invariably conceal the truth and act as diversions from genuine issues of concern. However this process happens, it works and it is not good. Maybe you’ve noticed something similar. If you continue to read local, regional, or national papers, please be on the lookout for any and all scripted performances. Keep in mind that even if they are entertaining, this is real life and not a movie or a play.

Next time, in the Happy New Year(!) perhaps, we’ll address a few structural issues soon to visit heavily upon American society. A good time will be had by some.

Deo vindice!

Russia Has Cornered The Rats

27 Wednesday Dec 2023

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Simplicius reviews a few startlingly honest Clown think tank panic reports. Towards the end, he catches them essentially giving up the great lie that America is and was some nebulous idea or proposition.

Now let’s see Kagan and cohort’s exegesis one more time, side by side:

Altering America’s will is no small thing. America is an idea. America is a choice. America is a belief in the value of action. US domestic resilience and global power come in no small part from people and countries choosing the United States and from Americans preserving their agency to act with intent. An adversary learning how to alter these realities is an existential threat — especially when ideas are that adversary’s core weapon.

Ah….so there it is. You see, American power is enshrined in nothing more than a Myth of supremacy and entitlement, one itself cloaked in various euphemistic coys and vapory misdirections like “the rules based order.”

What the neocons have revealed here is the master key to everything: Russia stands to shatter the Myth, or rather the Grand Lie, which enshrines not the true America that once was, but the pedestaled neocon distortion of it—what it has become, the warped behemoth, the ungainly Leviathan thrashing the entire world with its spurred tail and noxious breath.

These freaks, which have co-opted the country and its foreign policy, have in fact turned America into nothing more than a shambling golem, one without clothes like its shadow emperor. They now fear nothing more than for Russia to shatter this displaced “idea”, this fraudulent, barnacled ‘dream’ which exists only in the blood-addled minds of the neocon usurpers. This would shatter the illusion once and for all, not only freeing the globe from the Leviathan’s grasp, but destroying the age old neocon pursuit.

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Russia has cornered the rats and they’re panicking.

Yes, these admissions and more will factor heavily into America’s terminal decline, its civil war, and its place in the global war. But if you like your rats cornered and panicked, thank a Russian.

Patriarch Kirill on Demographics

26 Tuesday Dec 2023

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The Russian Orthodox Church is, as usual, in-line with the geopolitical mainstream of Russia.

Speaking during an annual Eparchial meeting in Moscow earlier this week, the Patriarch described boosting the country’s birth rates as an “imperative” for its survival.

“The well-being of the family, this small Church, and the proliferation of our people is an absolute imperative for the survival of our Fatherland,” Patriarch Kirill stated in his speech, which was carried by the Russian Orthodox Church press service.

“I’ll put it straight: if extraordinary and effective measures are not taken, then not during the lifetime of this generation, but during the next generations already, Russia may cease to be a great power, which means a potential loss of territories and, possibly, its disappearance as a single country,” he added.

Also, evidently having seen what has happened to the US and Europe, the Patriarch wants more real Russians, not generic stand-ins:

At the same time, the Patriarch warned against attracting more migrants into the country, which some might see as a quick way to alleviate the demographics issues. Should the current immigration trends continue, the country might ultimately lose its identity, he warned.

“The situation has worsened compared to last year,” the patriarch said. “The desire to obtain cheap labor for the sake of mainly short-term economic benefits should not attract to our motherland a huge number of people belonging to a different culture, who often do not speak Russian and have no respect for Russia and the peoples who live here,” he added.

Russia is not the EU and there is a very good reason to hope they’re about to right the ship of their great nation. SMO baby boom, now, please.