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All The Wrong Reasons

23 Thursday Jul 2020

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Orange Man and millions of semi-conscious Amerikans are eager to ship their children back to the concentration camps. Yet the masses sense something is wrong. A poll, as reported by the ASSociated press, finds a majority are not comfortable with reopenings this fall.

Patty Kasbek, of Bartlesville, Oklahoma, said she desperately wants her two children, ages 5 and 10, to return to school. After months at home, the family is stressed and anxious. But with the virus surging, she doesn’t see a safe way to reopen.

“School shouldn’t even be considered right now,” said Kasbek, 40. “We need to get this under control before we play with the virus. It’s just too dangerous to put our kids out there like guinea pigs.”

Her local school district is planning to reopen with new safety measures, she said, but she’s opting to enroll her children in a virtual school. She isn’t as worried about her own health but fears that reopening schools could spread the virus to others.

The virus. Virtual school is an infinitely better alternative than forcing children into the company of thugs, pedophiles, and luciferian communists. But, since they’re at home, why not homeschool them? The probable answer is something like “conformity.”

As for the universities, or the sad proxies thereof, Lew Rockwell ponders if they are finished? Dear Lord, let’s hope so.

Ending this on an optimistic note: Anthony Esolen’s weekly column focuses on the discovery of tradition, culture, and knowledge – something alien to the schools. Those failed institutions are indeed infected with a virus. Socially-distance yourselves from it.

Get Out! Or else…

21 Tuesday Jul 2020

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I’m about to start the depressing final post in my series on why intelligent young Americans might want to evacuate. This is the one I’ve been promising and which will feature the likely outcome of our near future here in the land of the mask and the home of the riot. You’ll want to read it, even as I dread writing it. Soon. Then, the whole series will go into a book of one format or another. Soon…

EURO MICROS (and Others)

15 Wednesday Jul 2020

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EURO MICROS (and Others)

Welcome, intrepid travelers, to part nine, the final segment in our course on European escapism. Remember to review the following in order to come up to speed:

PART I: Poland

PART II: Slovakia

PART III: Hungary

PART IV: Poland 2.0

PART V: Romania (and Moldova)

PART VI: Austria, Slovenia, Croatia (with Czechia)

PART VII: Estonia and the Baltics

PART VIII: Ukraine, Russia, and More

 

Let’s think small, for a moment, shall we?

Sometimes big, good things come in smaller packages. Here’s a quick look at the Microstates of Europe. These are postage-stamp-sized places in out of the way locations, some you’ve heard of, others you haven’t. In the end, I’ll add in a few nations outside Europe that are still worth a cursory investigation – a bonus for you!

Herein, I will concentrate on two quaint little nations, both mountainous, with a shortlist of others to follow.

ANDORA

Who else can say they harassed Hannibal with mountain guerilla warfare, fought the Moors with Charlemagne, and took an active “neutral” role in defeating the Axis Powers during World War Two? I have no idea who else could, but the Andorrans can. 

Welcome to the zany, happy little mountain hideaway no one knows exists. Andora is real. She sits high on the hills (the Pyrenees) between Spain and France, a nation the size of a small US county. 75,000+ Andorrans happily share their prosperity, history, and traditions a world away from, though only a short drive to, the rest of the EU.

Of that 75,000 (and, due to rampant tourism, there are generally more folks than that about), a third are literal Andorrans. Another 60% come from Spain, France, and Portugal. We’ll say it’s 97% Euro homogeneous, with the bulk of the minority composed of seasonal and resort workers, generally from Arabic states. The people are roughly 94% Christian, with a full 90% belonging to the Roman Catholic Church. The national average IQ is roughly center-average, around 100. 

All of these good people do something right because they hold the record for the highest life expectancy in the world! They’re as healthy as we can get, and they like it that way. They also enjoy decent novelty in their civic lives. The national postage stamp is governed by what amounts to a town council. And, they have a Prince for a chief executive. However! Unlike anywhere else in the world, the Monarch is … appointed! That’s right. It’s a strange deal, but when the time comes to meet the new boss, a leader is selected by a two-man committee composed of the President of France and the Catholic Bishop of some town (I forget which) in Spain. No hanging chads and no stupid fads; wrap your heads around that at your leisure.

When they’re not living forever, they like to socialize and talk, officially speaking Catalan (a Spanish-ish Romance language). And, given their geography, resorts, ultra-high-tech and modern everything, and status as a duty-free TAX HAVEN, they frequently entertain French, Spanish, Portuguese, and even English.

Being located between and sheltered by two larger nations, they have little need for any military or associated spending. They have police, of course, and a part-time, kinda-sorta might-show-up militia, not that it is regularly called on. Mountains are easy to defend and it’s all the simpler when an enemy would have to march through or fly over a larger country with a standing army. Of course, should France or Spain turn on them (you), it might go poorly – be nice to your neighbors! (This has rarely ever been more than an administrative issue).

Here’s a more common dilemma: how to get home from France. Assuming you drive back, you have to make this terrible choice upon reaching the border. Do you zip through the new freeway tunnel and arrive in minutes? Or, do you meander down the old highway, taking in all the gorgeous scenery and eating up a few more minutes? Well??? Així és la vida, as the Catalonians say.

All this perfection does not come cheap. Things can be a little pricey (and, it’s all priced in Euros). One popular local trick for beating the higher costs is to be rich. If you’re not, then there is work and, I suppose, some discounts here and there. Shop around if you’re interested. They’ve got it all if it’s a tad small. Geesh … now, to a similar story in,

LIECHTENSTEIN

After Andora, you’ll feel like a minnow in the tub with some other minnows in Liechtenstein. There, one finds only half the population, spread throughout the valleys of a nation the size of a medium-sized American county. Of course, there may be more tourists and passers-by than citizens, but you’ve still got a whopping 62 square miles of space. 

Oh, and the natives are rather wealthy, hosting a per capita GDP somewhere between two and three times that of the US. Yes, it’s another very small and pretty expensive, but physically pretty, place.

Scenery everywhere! The little nation that can is situated smack-dab in the middle of Switzerland and Austria, in the Alps. If you need a job, you’re in luck, as Liechtenstein has more companies than people. And, the taxes are so low as to flirt with the ridiculous. Again, as things are priced, you’ll need the money.

And, you’ll like the people, 95% of whom are ethnically European, with a few “others” mixed in, usually for cheap labor, which – keep an eye on it – usually doesn’t turn out cheap in the end. The people are 85% Christian, and 75% Catholic. And, they all clock in with an above normative average IQ! The people are smart enough to warrant a rare direct democracy, though they are checked by the soothing influence of another kindly Prince, this one of the more common hereditary kind.

They all, officially, speak German, though one will hear the occasional French, Italian, or English conversation. Business is conducted in the Swiss Franc. If you must be doubly-landlocked, this might be the place to do it.

Now, for a brief naming of the other little-bitty city-states of Europe:

Malta – an island with some recent arrivals, but with a higher IQ.

Monaco – Another Prince’s wealthy backyard where Roman Catholicism is the official religion, the people are homogenous, and on average, brighter than Amerikans.

San Marino – It’s ancient and it’s essentially Italy. Home to some of the smartest people in the world. 

Luxembourg – Pricey Monarchy where people are smart, look the same,  are mostly Christian.

And now, for another bonus, I’ll throw out the names – and not much more – of some viable places of potential located elsewhere:

ELSEWHERE

New Zealand,

Chile.

Argentina,

Uruguay,

The far north of Canada (for the cold and hearty who require little companionship), and there are more, but you’ll have to do your homework. Anywhere will have pros and cons. I’d suggest perhaps avoiding the places already popular with American (Boomer) Expats, ie: Costa Rica, Belize, etc.

When you go, wherever it is, remember why you’re going. And remember that the evil never sleeps; we must resist the siren-songs of the globalist everywhere and all the time. Postcards, etc.

And, next time, we finally get around to those of us who remain in place.

Okay, I Think It’s Poland (Poland 3.0?)

13 Monday Jul 2020

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This installment will be appended to Poland 2.0. Congratulations, President Duda! Keep the Faith, keep the freedom!

UPDATE (7/13/20): Okay, I Think It’s Poland

We interrupt this continuing exploration of the rest of civilization to bring you more astounding news and facts about Polska. This is subpart four-A, or Poland 3.0, or … Even More Poland!

One, who knows the lying Western media, can generally tell when they’re lying by the way they couch news of events. Anything they say is bad tends to be good and vice versa. So it was with the quick snippet of nonsense I caught on CNBC announcing the re-election of Polish President Andrzej Duda. Congratulations, Mr. President! Keep given’ em hell!

Here’s how Pawel Knut reported the victory at CNBC’s sister outlet, NBC “News:” Poland exit polls mean victory for homophobic Andrzej Duda — and misery for LGBTQ people. I always refer to NBC “News” with the “News” in quotation marks for a reason. These are the people who brought you George Zimmerman’s 911 call, with a few minor edits. They also had a correspondent who made a fuss out of his harrowing illness with the CoronaHoax – except that he never had it. Now, they slander a very good man because he dares to defend and promote his people. They are especially pissed-off that, for all the homopedo propaganda, the Polish People, praise them, kept the Faith. There’s no need to quote anything from the virulently anti-Polish, anti-Christian, anti-White, anti-traditional tirade of a sad man who makes his living debasing human existence. However, as is frequently the case, his lies have some basis in truth. 

He is correct about communism and the mighty Catholic Church keeping Poland united and traditional. He uses the word “homogenic” as a slur. Visit Poland, and you’ll see it is a Blessing, and that it is endorsed by one of the few uncucked branches of the Church. And, for all its failings, this does demonstrate again that communism is preferable to globalism, in that the aim of the communists is to control a nation, not destroy it. 

He is also correct, though his anger is misplaced, that Duda and the Polish People rightly equate LGBTP with pedophilia. That’s what the “P” stands for! And, yes, they did infiltrate the P’s nascent camp, finding exactly what one would find in a den of satanic debauchery. It’s not a smear campaign, it’s the horrible truth.

Poland is, always has been, and will continue to be a place for sane, peaceful, traditional, and Faithful Europeans of the highest order. It’s a place where ordinary family men, burly football fans, and nothing-like-those-in-Minneapolis police unite to protect women, children, and civic order from insane criminals. That’s why I can safely say that, as the NAWA program suggests, Poland would be my first choice. It’s a place for us. If anyone finds it miserable, then they should leave and never return.

Learn more about this wonderful way of life by reading Jack Krak’s (I’m betting that’s a pseudonym) five-part series on Poland and life in happy Krakow at AmRen. Start with Part One. 

In Part Three, Jack gets into the Polish school system. Those who know me, know that I still suffer from the education bug despite Dr. Ironsides’s success in closing down Amerika’s public skoole cisdem, at least for a few months (yes, we’re claiming victory!). If you’re young and you move to Polska, then you should contemplate marriage and a family as soon as possible. That means kids and kids mean learning. I still favor a home approach, including unschooling – all of which is legal, accepted, and practiced in Poland. Just know that, if you send the tykes to the local schoolhouse, they’ll get a real education there. 

Earlier, I noted that the Poles practice a variant of the classical model. Jack goes into some detail about the curriculum. Suffice to say, it differs radically from that in the States. The short summary is that Polish schools work, while Amerikan skooles do not. (Polish kids can tell time on a clock, for instance).

Poland only spends about 40% of the US average expenditure per pupil. Yet, somehow – and this is so strange given what we’re constantly lectured to about “need mo’ money!” – Poland outranks and outclasses the Empire in every measurable category. Poland pecks around the top ten in reading, math, and science, which features very stiff competitive ground because all of the top performers are, what’s the word? They’re all homogenic societies as Herr Nut would call them. (Some of the other high competitors are also covered in this series!) The US hits in the twenties and the forties. Yeah… 

Poland does not have school buses, and yet, somehow the kids all make it to school every day. While there, no one gives them a free lunch. Somehow they avoid starvation. The sweet children do not suffer from stormtrooper resource officers, dogs, metal detectors, etc, because their schools don’t use them or need to. In Polish schools, when not studying multiple foreign languages, simultaneously, the kids speak Polish. They don’t waste money on big team sports and other non-educational activities, viewing such as the province of the individual’s free time and proclivities. By the way, while Amerika is the most obese of the larger countries, Poland ranks a slim 69th, so obviously they’re approach works.

There is no “diversity” amongst the studentry, and thus, there is no associated distraction, slowing, coddling, or crime. Few problems, and many benefits. Jack reports that a recent education scandal revolved around an ill-fated plot to introduce soft drinks and candy into the schools. Less sugar = better health = more learning. I’ll take scandals like that.

I think I hinted, earlier, that the Polish system was somewhat like the French. It is. The students, upon reaching a certain advanced age, take something akin to le Bac, through the results of which they sorted by interests and abilities. They leave the one-size-fits-none approach to the diverse, money-obsessed, and failure-prone countries like Amerika. 

Read all five of his installments. Poland isn’t perfect, being the abode of humans, but its imperfections are manageable, microscopic by comparison, and appear to blend with the overall charm of the place.

I’ve been asked about residency applications, and I think I’ve covered that, at least as to starting the process. Now, some of you want to jump the pistolet and know about obtaining citizenship. That’s great. Find updated information about the requirements and routes, HERE. You can also utilize services like this one to ease the process along. The main barrier is compatibility, which I assume will not be a terminal problem for anyone who has made it this deep into the series. The second issue is paperwork, which I sincerely hope you like. Remember to get it certified and officially translated! As a reminder, consider hiring an attorney like Mr. Sawicki. 

You likely were not born there and I don’t think any of you will be admitted by way of minor adoption (of you), so let’s look at the feasible routes.

Polish Descent: If you have Polish blood, you’re in! Provided, of course, you submit the reams of necessary papers.

Marriage: Marry a lovely Pole and it will help with the process of,

Naturalization: Speak convincing Polish, don’t be a criminal, keep a job, own or rent a house, kill many trees en route to certification. Time requirements apply. I expect that being a student or an English instructor would greatly assist with this process.

There’s also the miraculous provision of Article 18, which I will leave alone for now – I’ll keep my private plans private, thank you.

Another cool and patriotic development of late is the reconstitution of the Polish Territorial Defence Force. This is the Polish National Guard, reserve force, or militia. In a year or so, they aim to host, in addition to their regular armed forces, a 54,000-man “home guard.” Such is part-time and voluntary, armed and organized, and will allegedly provide backup or auxiliary support to the army or police if needed. I think I know why they’re arming up: Soros, you and your trash just ain’t coming in! If you go, consider volunteering. It may be possible to do so as a resident and not yet a citizen. What better what to ingratiate yourself with your new compatriots – which I mentioned elsewhere is critical – than to stand with them in defense of everything they (and you) hold dear?

Again, I started with the first three recommended nations for a reason, with Poland the very first and foremost. These sections were originally published piecemeal. If you’re reading straight through, then, yes, I do believe I am trying to sell Poland. Maybe buy it while you can. Postcard, etc.

 

*Now, I return to the final, scheduled parts of the series. Up next: The Microstates!

UKRAINE, RUSSIA, and THE REST

12 Sunday Jul 2020

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UKRAINE, RUSSIA, and THE REST

We’re nearing the end of the tour-of-Europe, with a quick glance at two final Eastern nations and a cursory glimpse at the Rest of the European West. Welcome to part eight. 

PART I: Poland

PART II: Slovakia

PART III: Hungary

PART IV: Poland 2.0

PART V: Romania (and Moldova)

PART VI: Austria, Slovenia, Croatia (with Czechia)

PART VII: Estonia and the Baltics

No apologies, young friends, but I really have to speed this along. Our first two destinations you have heard of, though they are somewhat historically, politically, and economically different than those we’ve covered. Both still fit within my tripartite matrix. The list that follows them is, well, a list. Here are the two final Eastern Euro nations of the great tour:

UKRAINE

It’s, as might be guessed, majority (78%) Ukrainian. The remainder is mostly Russian and the total demographic composition is roughly 98-99% similar, if not utterly homogeneous. 80% are Christians, with 60% belonging to the Eastern Orthodox Church; 95% are “believers.” As such, they tend to be intelligent, solidly “average” on average, and ahead of the declining US.

The languages are, again, as might be expected, Ukrainian and Russian. The currency is the Hryvnia, one of which roughly equals .04 USD. There’s is a wide-open, beautiful country, with a rapidly developing, increasingly sophisticated economy. They are a proud people of tradition. One of the traditions is intermittent disagreement with,

RUSSIA

Okay, here’s a brief slow-down. When I was a boy, we were reliably told that Russia (then, the USSR) was the “evil empire.” They were our “cold” adversaries and their people suffered miserably under communism. And, now, today… Today, we have completely flipped the equation around. The land of the free is dying from a million self-inflicted wounds. Meanwhile, in Russia, they have flat taxes, superhighways, skyscrapers going up at an Arab or Asian rate, as long as you’re not subversive, you’re as free as a lark, AKs are everywhere, and they have a government that appears to govern for (not against) the benefit of the people.

Those people are, nationwide, 80% ethnically Russian, and about 90% European. The country is huge, truly continent-spanning; in the Euro West, the demographics are closer to 99% homogenous. 75% are “spiritual” and 50% are Eastern Orthodox Christians. They have the fair share of atheists, likely holdovers from the terrors of the past, but the overall situation is better than much of the West. They’re smart too, with an average IQ a hair under a straight normative SB/WAIS average – nearly half an SD above that in Amerika.

You guessed it! They speak Russian. Their currency is the Ruble. And, they are a powerful, nuclear-armed nation, the most dominant one of the two countries that need not bow to the new evil empire. While known best for their vodka, they also produce some of the best local, craft beer – generally made on small farms by older women – in Europe.

These are two great and proud countries. They are not without issues. Think of it as trading one form of uncertainty for another, but in two places where the people and their lands will outlast the problems they face.

Now, for a very quick look at the rest of the larger nations of Europe. If they taught you anything in your school classes (a large if, I know), then you probably know a little already. SP, the Duck, and InfoGalactic can fill in the gaps. Many of these are the secondary lines of the real “Camp of the Saints” struggle, somewhat behind the leading descender, the US Empire. Beyond noting that the first two are nuclear powers, I’m just going to rattle off:

The UK,

France,

Germany,

Belgium,

Netherlands,

Spain,

Portugal,

Italy,

Switzerland,

Denmark and the Scandinavians, 

Iceland, and

“Etc.” for anyone else I overlooked.

Some of them are worse off than others, but all are salvageable and all are (for now) better off than the dead USA. Make of it what you will. Watch the rest of Europe! The right is rising and the people are getting tired of being lied to and dominated by (decimated by) the globalists. There will be positive changes! If you’re part of it, I’d appreciate that postcard. 

With regard to any of these alternatives, it is important to put aside any of the mainstream lies you have been told by the corporate-CIA media and your “schools.” Also, kindly discount or take with a grain of salt the “advice” you may have received from most Gen Xers and nearly all older generations about everything political and economic in these nations. Their pitiful obsession with taxes, rights, equality, and the rest of it blinded them to the destruction of their own nation; who really cares what they say about other lands? Yes, things are different elsewhere, but they work. And again, they’ll keep working while America fights her last wars and afterward, regardless of what happens in North America.

And! We’re not quite done with Europe yet. Next, we’ll investigate a few “smaller” options out of a medium-sized collection of tiny nations. After that? Well, there are more places outside of the US and Europe to consider. We’ll name a few at least. And then, finally, the time will come to discuss the potential and likely future of America and the United States.

“Catholic” and “College” in Name Only

11 Saturday Jul 2020

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A future college racket victim happily TikTok’d about something that obviously upset the professionally-agitated and mentally-ill rabble of the digital divide.

A petition on Instagram also encouraged others to copy and paste a template and send it to the university urging them not to admit Pfefferle. It reads:

Ms. Pfefferle has been very vocal on social media (TikTok, Instagram) about how she is enthusiastic about coming to Marquette in the Fall. As a Marquette student who is passionate for the University’s core values, such as Cura Personalis, and recognizing everyone’s human dignity, these transphobic, racist, and xenophobic comments should not be tolerated.

These comments made by Ms. Pfefferle were shared publicly, and were clearly presented as mocking jokes. Ms. Pfefferle is obviously proud of her statements, as she stands behind her words in every post.

These comments create and perpetuate an unsafe space for the LGBTQ+ community, first generation students, and Dreamers at Marquette.

Samantha Pfefferle is proud of her transphobic and xenophobic opinions, which under no circumstances should be allowed at Marquette. The University can and should make it their priority to ensure students (specifically LGBTQ+, immigrants, first gen, and POC) feel safe, valued, and appreciated on campus.

Eventually, Pfefferle was contacted by the dean of Marquette University’s undergraduate admissions, who warned her she was not yet a student.

“[He] had the heart to tell me I wasn’t a student,” Pfefferle said, describing the interaction to the Fix. “This means that my classification is still in limbo and is currently being decided by the administration. I have been accepted, I paid for my housing, I have my roommates, I even have a complete class schedule. If that doesn’t make me a student, what does?”

Pfefferle says she was also quizzed on a number of things by other Marquette officials, including her views on “Dreamers.”

What makes you a student? Sitting through four to six years of psycho-babble and racking up six-figures of void Shylock debt. She should have told them that her view on invaders (Dreamers) is that one can dream better in one’s own country than in ours. Dreaming, being, and bitching elsewhere also goes best for other invaders, even more invaders, pedophiles, and not-Americans. Of course, telling these “Jesuit” termites anything is a waste of time, as it attending their failed, useless, and sinful college. Communicating with the academic pharisees is akin to communicating with anonymous petitioners who see external Cura Personalis for thee but not for xhem. Shun the wicked; don’t talk to them. Or give them money.

Marquette, like almost all the others, is out. I think we’re down to two schools in the US – Magdalen College and Thomas More, both in NH and both literally, Biblically Catholic. If she could part with the idiocy of anti-social media, this young lady might do well in Poland.

As for the Instagerm losers and the Marquette inquisitors, if they’re this upset by an eighteen-year-old’s online song and dance, they’re in the wrong kind of “institution.”

ESTONIA and the BALTIC STATES

10 Friday Jul 2020

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ESTONIA and the BALTICS

“Estonia and the Baltics” isn’t a band, but I guess it could be. Welcome to Part Seven: Estonia, and the Baltic States!

PART I: Poland

PART II: Slovakia

PART III: Hungary

PART IV: Poland 2.0

PART V: Romania (and Moldova)

PART VI: Austria, Slovenia, Croatia (with Czechia)

Pack your parka, because today we’re off to the lands beside the Baltic Sea. It can get just a wee bit cold there. We’re also straying deeper into territory that I honestly know little about, other than what I have (briefly) researched. I will say that a good friend vacationed in Estonia a few years ago and almost didn’t come back, saying he’d found the prettiest women on Earth. Above the pleasant aesthetics, note that I’m still running off of my three primary civilizational demographic requirements. 

We’re moving very fast, and a little loose now, but I am more convinced than ever that this series is not a good, but a great idea for the right young people. It has come to my wandering attention that the Sanders camp, having been robbed once again by the DNC, has been given a consolation prize, a chance to forge potential policies with Team Biden. Buried somewhere very deep within THIS RELEASE (like page 107), after hundreds of lies, fantasies, and luciferian drivel, is the beginning of the implementation of an old UN plan to flood the US (and, if permitted, Europe) with the third world. They literally envision moving the entire population of refugees and/or people who just want to move, from everywhere else into the United States. Imagine 500 million to 1 billion new incompatible arrivals. Then, imagine the Rwanda Genocide times 10,000. This is a pipe dream and obviously a back-burner issue for progressives. However, the fact that they have put it in writing tells us something, or it should. This potential nightmare is posited in addition to the rapidly approaching cataclysm already beginning to boil over. The deadly-serious joke these days goes, “don’t worry about reading ‘The Camp of the Saints,’ you’re living it.” If that’s true, then it’s the light version. The Sanders-Biden plan would be the extreme edition.

Again, if you are not responsible for the mess and do not wish to participate in its conclusion, then this advice is for you. You have your search engine of choice for the in-depth research, so I’m going to keep this as succinct as possible, starting with,

ESTONIA

This nation is on the list, along with the others, because of cohesiveness. In Estonia, Estonians and Russians account for some 93% of the population, and virtually everyone, 100%, is European! The Russians came from a USSR immigration program and were originally viewed as problematic. However, assimilation over the passing decades has largely been a success, a successful mixing of cousins, so to speak. 

Not dissimilar to the Czech Republic, the Estonians lack a definitive Christian majority (roughly a third identify as Christian, mostly Eastern Orthodox and Lutheran). However, unlike in Czechia, a great majority are “believers” to one degree or another and the number of outright atheists is small. Before World War II, the country was 80% Lutheran. Thanks, commies.

The national average hovers around, or just over the normative, Northwestern European average – high above the falling US.

The language is Estonian, which is related to Finnish.

Recently, they have tilted a little to the left, though not nearly as far or as fast as other Western countries. The great majority of the people still take pride in traditions – now coupled with ultra-modern living and convenience. Estonia holds full EU membership. 

It is one of the most advanced of countries, fully “developed,” free, though – perhaps because of the full advancement – a little expensive. It’s a coastal nation, with low hills, and it’s cool. Summer days generally hover around room temperature, and winter nights can be thirty or more degrees (F) below zero. But, they host four, full and lovely seasons. 

LATVIA

Rolling a little faster, now: Here, one finds 99% homogeneity, very similar to Estonia. However, the nation is 80%+ Christian, Lutheran, Roman Catholic, and Russian Orthodox. The intelligence quotient is high. The language is called Latvian. The geography and climate are quite similar to Estonia. Full Euro, with high GDP growth rates.

LITHUANIA

(Really moving along).

84% Lithuanian, 16% other Europeans. 80% or more Roman Catholic. IQ? Several points higher than the US. A climate and geography that are similar to Estonia and Latvia. Speak Lithuanian in a high income, developed environment. 

BELARUS

A little larger and inland, landlocked. Ethnically Belarusian and other Euros. 80% Eastern Orthodox, with more Roman Catholic, Greek Catholic, and various Protestants. An IQ like Lithuanian. Flat and cool. A developed economy where privatization is still in progress. They’re not on the Euro, using the “new” Ruble – theirs, not the Russians. They speak Russian and Belarusian, officially. 

Yes, these are now only glimpses. But, again, they’re presented for a reason. Duck and SP. If it works, great; don’t forget my postcard, perhaps with something about our new band? 

*I keep mentioning the postcard like the US will have mail delivery in a few years. Silly old Mr. Lovett…

An “Alarming Pattern” In The Schools

09 Thursday Jul 2020

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In the PRIVATE schools. I’ve made scant mention of this problem before – as bad as the public schools are, many (most?) privates are not necessarily the answer. A billionaire calls out an agenda:

Billionaire hedge funder John Paulson protested against ultra-elite Manhattan school Spence for what he claims was an “alarming pattern” of “anti-white indoctrination” in its curriculum.

Paulson, 64, who famously made millions betting against the American housing market prior to the 2008 financial crisis and was an economic adviser to President Trump, wrote a 2017 letter to prestigious all-girls school Spence, attended by his two daughters. Famous Spence alums include Gwyneth Paltrow, Kerry Washington, Emmy Rossum, Bee Shaffer and Jade Jagger.

It reads, “In recent years we have reached out on several occasions to discuss a disturbing trend in one area of the curriculum that we believe is having a negative impact on our daughters’ education. As we’ve noted before, there appears to be an anti-white indoctrination that permeates many parts of the Spence curriculum.”

I would imagine that whatever he’s noticed is only the tip of the iceberg. There’s a narrative that has infected Amerika, all parts, including public and many (most?) private schools. It’s not just anti-white, though that is, for now, the main visible conduit. It’s also anti-American, anti-Western, anti-family, anti-traditional, anti-learning, anti-normal, anti-sane, anti-Christian, and anti-God. By their works, we know them.

This example is in NYC, where one might expect to find it and, in fact, be surprised had the opposite been alleged. In North Carolina, an “elite” classical private school openly, if crookedly, avows a “Judeo-Christian worldview.” Classical learning and reason, under a worldview of inherent contradiction and falsehood, is impossible. In Georgia, an “elite” prep school openly, and unashamedly, pushes the globohomo agenda, especially regarding the superiority of secular Islam – surely sanitized to any reverence for Allah. Both of these Southern schools cater predominantly to White Christian families.

Why? Why is it that the alternative to the pagan idiot factories of the state offers the same debasement, if at a slower rate (and higher price)? It’s because of the fallen nature of the entire society and because the concept of schools is unnatural. There are, here, and there, good private academies run by decent people, where learning happens without resort to the satanic. They’re getting hard to find, diamonds in the dung heaps. The sure-fire solution: Homeschool, or better yet, unschool.

Defund the Skoolz

08 Wednesday Jul 2020

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For months this year, Amerika’s youth have had a needed reprieve from the hell that is their government-dulled “education.” Sadly, many (most) parents tire of pseudo-homeschooling and are so happy about the idea of shipping off the kids they don’t enjoy raising. And, what do the skoolz have to offer now? 2 + 2 = Racist!

A Black Lives Matter-supporting teacher took to Twitter to assert that 2+2 only = 4 because of “western imperialism.”

Yes, really.

Brittany Marshall’s tweet went viral after she claimed during the course of a discussion about racism, “Nope the idea of 2 + 2 equaling 4 is cultural and because of western imperialism/colonization, we think of it as the only way of knowing.”

Marshall, who includes her pronouns in her bio, lists her occupation as “teacher, scholar, social justice change agent” and apparently is studying for a PhD at Rutgers.

Yes, really. Amerika’s skoolz are ruined from kindergarten to grad skool. Though this woman(??) lists her “pronouns,” she probably doesn’t know what pronouns are – aside from being vestiges of colonialism or something.

Yet and still, like the dim-witted parents, the dim-witted Orange Man says it’s time for skoolz again!

President Donald Trump ramped up his pressure campaign to get public schools to fully reopen amid the coronavirus pandemic, tweeting Wednesday that he may withhold federal funding from schools that do not resume in-person classes this fall.

The tweet was the latest step in an administration-wide effort to convince schools nationwide that the risks of not reopening for in-person classes outweigh those posed by the coronavirus pandemic, which has reached new record levels across the country in recent weeks.

Wait a minute! Tweety Bird has a point, there. Cut all of the funding to all of the schools. Then, make it a felony to operate them. Make Let Kids Learn Again!

School “Choice” in FLA

07 Tuesday Jul 2020

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The usual stupid suspects are anxious to re-start the child abuse.

The emergency order acknowledged differing scenarios in different parts of the state. It also recognized that not all parents intend to send their children back to school buildings come August. Chancellor Jacob Oliva said flexibility in education options and funding will be key — along with plenty of progress monitoring — to keeping students moving ahead with their lessons. • Some district officials said the state order upends their reopening plans, the Herald-Tribune reports. • Others contended the order doesn’t undermine their local authority, the Palm Beach Post reports.

With uncertainty still looming, it’s no wonder some families are balking at stating their preferences right now. The Hillsborough County school district gave everyone an extra week to think about their first semester choices. Some parents are demanding mandatory masks. Many are giving full-time virtual education a closer look.

The three options are regular school, limited days/capacity regular school, or online school. Keeping the kids as far away from the madness should be the only option, but these are Amerikan parents we’re talking about.

A side story from the Times highlighted (or lowlighted) the increasing suspension of student speech and freedom in Pasco County. That’s the same county where the titular highs school boasts a 39% student test score average and a, what? 90% graduation rate? Priorities.

In other news, I made the mistake of recently visiting a Georgia business where the HOAXID rules are enforced with zeal. In the state where the savages attack and burn the state police headquarters and get away with it, the normies are afraid of offending the local CDC commissars, stepping and fetching like slaves. On that note, a little later in the week, I’ll have more on my civilization escape options, a series limping towards completion.