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COLUMN: Drawing Blood: The Attempted Assassination Of Donald Trump

15 Monday Jul 2024

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Drawing Blood: The Attempted Assassination Of Donald Trump

*I updated last Friday’s column in light of the Trump attempt. This may stand for this week’s (early) column.

I had just written an ordinary article about several elections, including that of the coming US spectacle this fall—of which I remain characteristically dismissive. Then, on Saturday, all hell broke loose in Pennsylvania. I still stand by my previous observations, which are appended hereto. But something changed at Trump’s ill-fated rally.

I’m unsure if trying to impress Jodie Foster is still a thing, though I suppose the lone wolf nut explanation is possible if unlikely. There’s the sense of a flag at work. If the shooter, commercial actor Thomas Matthew Crooks, really did act independently, then it is highly likely someone jumped on his organic actions for nefarious purposes, a “green” flag. It’s far more likely the event was some form of a false flag, and while certain parties stand out, their exact motives do not. Part of me was expecting something like a statement that the shooter was an Iranian terrorist, financed by China, trained by Russia, and let’s get your sons and daughters to the draft office. That might have been too obvious.

The US media machine immediately swung into action, stoking fear, uncertainty, and falsehoods. Vox ran a Zack Beauchamp article subtitled: “The attempt on Donald Trump’s life has put the republic in peril.” He also wrote, “We should all be terrified about what comes next.” Of course, we should. Fear, fear, fear. Representing American “democracy” or “the republic” as being at risk is popular, but misplaced. The last vestige of Republican America (United or Confederate) ended when Commander Waddell surrendered the CSS Shenandoah at Liverpool on November 6, 1865. The American Empire was, around that time, ushered into being, at first dedicated mostly to domestic oppression, though, in time, spreading its evil globally. However one looks at the monstrosity, one should admit it is near its absolute end, which might explain why the wicked elites who control the US are now utterly desperate. 

Outside perspectives on US affairs are oftentimes helpful. Professor Alexander Dugin correctly called the probable designs behind this latest lethal atrocity:

The assassination attempt on Trump was quite predictable. There is no doubt that everything is organized by the globalists with the backing of the part of the Deep State that supports them. The only way to keep the mad grandfather in power is to kill Trump, who otherwise would almost certainly win under the circumstances. The shooter was eliminated just after finishing his shoots by a secret service sniper to make ends meet. Essentially, there was an attempted coup d’état in the US. 

Dugin is a bit more optimistic about Trump than I am, but he is right that the liberal globalists hate Trump. And it is possible a second Trump presidency, if possible, could be a painful thorn in their collective side. I also suggest this was the latest in a series of attempted or realized coups in the US, the last one happening during and after the 2020 election. 

America is a terminally broken nation with a broken political system. Chairman of the Russian Duma, Vyacheslav Volodin, commented on the long-standing turmoil behind the attempt on Trump’s life. Previously, Volodin came right out and said, “The American political system is literally dead.”

It is, in fact, dead, but the “dead souls” who killed it are still running the corpse around, pretending they still rule over a viable state capable of dominating the world. They are evil and crazy enough to do something like attempt to wage war on Russia, China, and Iran at the same time. At some level, they know that’s a war they could never win, but they don’t care. They’d be content to burn it all down. So any hope that Trump might slow, temper, or defeat their plans is admirable. The problem, again, is that we do not know their exact plans. The prevailing wisdom is that whether he’s alive and competent or not, they can use Sleepy, Creepy Joe to do their bidding. At the same time, everyone on Earth knows Joe isn’t even 5% mentally present. 

With the underlying system collapsed and smoking, actual leadership from the politicians probably doesn’t matter, though it appears the presentation or image (or mirage) does. They could have a scheme to let Trump return to office, riding a wave of angry popular support. Then, they could sideline or ignore him (or try) and proceed with their wickedness. Think about how Trump ordered imperial troops out of Syria, only for them to remain and grow in number and misdeed. And a population whipped into a frenzy might be easier to lure into that final unwinnable war; Trump could potentially be forced to go along to support the perceived desires of the people. That scenario could backfire horribly on the elites, and, if it ever happened, then let’s hope it does.

Little is known for certain at the moment, and that is unlikely to change in the near future. Regardless, some great gamble is in play. I have the feeling someone is, one way or another, trying to galvanize the American public for some purpose. Whether or not, and whether there’s any base steel left to galvanize, remains to be seen. What we can do now is wait, watch, pray, hope for the best, and prepare for the worst.

And, do recall…

 

The House Always Wins At The Neoliberal Casino

 

Several people I know like casinos and allege that gambling houses are fun. If so, then I question why the management of such places relies on free or low-cost intoxicants, constant noise, flashing lights, and shiny, moving objects. It’s almost like they’ve created an immersive experience, akin to being inside a television, designed to hypnotize patrons and trick them into parting with large sums of money. Personally, I’d rather be locked in a cookie jar with Victoria Nuland. There’s no doubt that large sums of money are parted with. Gamblers score here and there, but overall, the owners of the casinos win most of the time. Otherwise, they’d go out of business. Politics, especially as played in the neoliberal, globalist, pagan West, is much the same.

United Kingdom

If I’m not mistaken, the UK recently had four Prime Ministers in as many years, but with no elections. I suppose this reflects on the wondrous virtues of the rule of law, the rules-based order of a great democracy. All four forgettable PMs were Tories who maintained a near-continuous policy of wrecking what’s left of England. Now, finally getting a chance to vote, and reasonably kicking the idiot conservatives out of power, Britons will likely see no substantial positive changes. Concerning NATO’s war of aggression against Russia, there is a detectable current of thought that the ordinary English want nothing to do with it. Accordingly, their latest Labour loser wasted no time in vowing to stay the disastrous course regarding Ukraine, Russia, and slavish obedience to Washington. A small bone was given to Britons of conscience when Mr. Starmer alluded he would terminate the standing Tory objections to the ICC issuing an arrest warrant for a certain war criminal who likes to make short, angry videos where he repeatedly, indignantly huffs, “outrageous!” and “inconceivable!” 

Overall, the UK will continue to slide deeper into irrelevance and oblivion. No party anywhere near the wheels of power in London cares much for the troubles of the English people. Almost the entire government is corrupt and beholden to forces that hate the English as much as they hate the Russians. Maybe some British voters still claim the process is fun, but one wonders if they really want to survive as a people.

France

Like the UK, France is in dire straits. For a day or a week, it looked like the French were about to rise up and attempt to reclaim their country. On the heels of losing EU Parliamentary elections to the populist right, Macron took his own gamble with snap national elections. He also used every Machiallevian machination at his disposal to tilt as many individual contests as possible away from National Rally/Le Pen victories. It worked, at least, at the polls. He bargained hard for a loose coalition between his center-left and the further left. It remains to be seen if Paris is governable with the resulting three-ish-way hodgepodge in the Assemblée Nationale. The harder left has demanded France recognize Palestine as a sovereign and independent state. That’s good, but one wonders if they really mean it and if they happen to feel the same way about France. They might, as they’re also demanding an end to France’s potentially suicidal position behind the US against Russia. Of course, at the moment these are just words. Most politicians, left, right, and center, are always full of words … and something else.

On closer inspection, one might notice that despite being left-leaning, as opposed to the UK’s previous conservative stance, France has essentially had the same kinds of insane policies as the UK. In truth, the false left-right divide is and has been just another factional trap. And it appears that like everything else arising from the Enlightenment, the very idea of modern/postmodern democracy is a malicious hoax. The people keep voting, gambling, and having fun, but the policies of the governments never change for the better. In the long run, the people almost always get the opposite of what they want and need. Practical politics aside, the same powers that control London control Paris and all other Western capitals. The last thing those powers want is anything that will benefit their captive hosts.

United States

Nowhere is the fake left-right paradigm more evident than in Washington. The US is nominally ruled by a uniparty, the protestations of some politicians and their supporters notwithstanding. They might as well revert to the 18th Century’s Democratic-Republican party. It’s not a perfect assessment, but one can imagine they divided into a duopoly just to fend off competition with the false premise of two separate, competing parties. The duopoly exists, and it does squelch all opposition. And since around 1980, or 1963, maybe even earlier, the whole show has been just that—an entertaining game designed to conceal the fact that Americans are ruled over by an unelected, hostile, satanic elite. 

Americans, most of them, still have problems with that reality. John F. Kennedy was the last President who acted like he was truly in charge of the executive office. Jimmy Carter may have been the last man who truly cared about the people. All the while, from the tenures of Johnson to Brandon, the people never seem to notice that regardless of how many times they switch sides of the duopoly, in the White House or Congress, nothing changes. 

In his 1971 essay, American Civilization, Julius Evola wrote, “The Americans are the living refutation of the Cartesian axiom, ‘l think, therefore I am’: Americans do not think, yet they are. The American ‘mind’, puerile and primitive, lacks characteristic form and is therefore open to every kind of standardization.” Such people were made for the self-defeating charade of democracy. Right now, they’re gearing up for another fake, rigged election between two of the worst possible non-choices imaginable. Maybe they’re having fun, but I’m with Russian President Putin and his well-founded idea that American Presidents do not control anything and that their selection is essentially immaterial. 

Americans also cannot bear the notion that someone rules over them or that anyone in any capacity controls their thoughts, beliefs, and actions. Yet many of them literally live in mortal fear of certain words and the wicked, retarded thoughts of people who hate them. Americans are brainwashed, governed, and censored by, and, in some cases, self-censored because of third-rate lies and weak rhetorical word spells like those in this 2009 guide. (Before Killary denigrated the “deplorables,” someone had it out for the “persuadables”.) I was tempted to refute some of the core principles from the guide, or, at least, demonstrate how the past 15 years have utterly disproven them, but there’s no point. In general, Americans are like flies determined to get to that beautiful, humming, glowing bug zapper. Who am I to try stopping them?

Iran

Finally, we come to a country with a government that works and works for the people. It occurred to me that Iran is the Islamic version of the Venetian Republic, a sensible balance of noble monarchy and curated democracy, but without the major pitfalls that ultimately doomed Venice, namely the desire for an empire and a privatized central bank. Congratulations to President-elect Pezeshkian. 

As with all things Persia, the Western media and intel agencies did not know what to make of Iran’s latest election. So, as with all things, they issued a series of nearly incomprehensible babblings. I read exactly one of their appraisals, which isn’t worth citing or quoting. It cautiously, fantastically hailed Pezeshkian as the reformer who might usher in a golden age of Iran being dominated by the West. The author gibbered about Iran’s broken economy, which I suppose means its relative lack of usury for profit (riba), its integration into the BRICS+ juggernaut, and its positioning to become the industrial powerhouse of West Asia. He also mentioned Iran’s nuclear program, which he doesn’t understand, and which will not be affected by the change of any single politician. Okay, one quote: Iran’s “hated morality police.” If my information is accurate, then this is very similar to Iran’s “hated purple unicorn,” i.e., it’s a boogeyman that does not exist. There was also a palpable sense that the West, via the one author, deeply fears Iran won’t embrace Western degeneracy and that it will keep embracing its proud traditions and multipolar sovereignty. Judging by preliminary statements from and well-wishes to Dr. Pezeshkian, those fears are well grounded. هورا!

Moving On

The Great Bifurcation is happening and there appears to be no stopping it. That is excellent news for the global majority who now live or who will soon live in a cordial interlinked but independent series of nations not controlled by lunatics, morons, and devil worshipers. Those who remain trapped in dying Western countries will increasingly be viewed by their elites as slaves, cannon fodder, and persuadable useful idiots whose only purpose is to serve and be hated by the elites. As time passes, and the slaves have it harder, they will slowly awaken, with Americans probably being the last to do so. 

Going forward, it is critical to rethink, discuss, and dismiss counterfeit concepts like democracy, free speech, free lunches, empire, exceptionalism, financial capitalism, and anything that is anti-traditional, anti-human, and, especially, anti-God. The conventional solutions for all such forgeries are as plentiful as the number of nations around the world—the beauty of multipolarity. As for overarching concepts of state and politics, if one’s government isn’t routinely attacked by the clown West as an authoritarian dictatorship or some similar derision, then one may have a problem. If so, then let the owners go out of business. In fact, help them when possible. Playing games in a rigged casino, voting in a rigged system, and magic word games will not solve this potential problem. Faith, intelligence, and action will. 

Deo vindice.

COLUMN: The House Always Wins At The Neoliberal Casino

12 Friday Jul 2024

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The House Always Wins At The Neoliberal Casino

 

Several people I know like casinos and allege that gambling houses are fun. If so, then I question why the management of such places relies on free or low-cost intoxicants, constant noise, flashing lights, and shiny, moving objects. It’s almost like they’ve created an immersive experience, akin to being inside a television, designed to hypnotize patrons and trick them into parting with large sums of money. Personally, I’d rather be locked in a cookie jar with Victoria Nuland. There’s no doubt that large sums of money are parted with. Gamblers score here and there, but overall, the owners of the casinos win most of the time. Otherwise, they’d go out of business. Politics, especially as played in the neoliberal, globalist, pagan West, is much the same.

United Kingdom

If I’m not mistaken, the UK recently had four Prime Ministers in as many years, but with no elections. I suppose this reflects on the wondrous virtues of the rule of law, the rules-based order of a great democracy. All four forgettable PMs were Tories who maintained a near-continuous policy of wrecking what’s left of England. Now, finally getting a chance to vote, and reasonably kicking the idiot conservatives out of power, Britons will likely see no substantial positive changes. Concerning NATO’s war of aggression against Russia, there is a detectable current of thought that the ordinary English want nothing to do with it. Accordingly, their latest Labour loser wasted no time in vowing to stay the disastrous course regarding Ukraine, Russia, and slavish obedience to Washington. A small bone was given to Britons of conscience when Mr. Starmer alluded he would terminate the standing Tory objections to the ICC issuing an arrest warrant for a certain war criminal who likes to make short, angry videos where he repeatedly, indignantly huffs, “outrageous!” and “inconceivable!” 

Overall, the UK will continue to slide deeper into irrelevance and oblivion. No party anywhere near the wheels of power in London cares much for the troubles of the English people. Almost the entire government is corrupt and beholden to forces that hate the English as much as they hate the Russians. Maybe some British voters still claim the process is fun, but one wonders if they really want to survive as a people.

France

Like the UK, France is in dire straits. For a day or a week, it looked like the French were about to rise up and attempt to reclaim their country. On the heels of losing EU Parliamentary elections to the populist right, Macron took his own gamble with snap national elections. He also used every Machiallevian machination at his disposal to tilt as many individual contests as possible away from National Rally/Le Pen victories. It worked, at least, at the polls. He bargained hard for a loose coalition between his center-left and the further left. It remains to be seen if Paris is governable with the resulting three-ish-way hodgepodge in the Assemblée Nationale. The harder left has demanded France recognize Palestine as a sovereign and independent state. That’s good, but one wonders if they really mean it and if they happen to feel the same way about France. They might, as they’re also demanding an end to France’s potentially suicidal position behind the US against Russia. Of course, at the moment these are just words. Most politicians, left, right, and center, are always full of words … and something else.

On closer inspection, one might notice that despite being left-leaning, as opposed to the UK’s previous conservative stance, France has essentially had the same kinds of insane policies as the UK. In truth, the false left-right divide is and has been just another factional trap. And it appears that like everything else arising from the Enlightenment, the very idea of modern/postmodern democracy is a malicious hoax. The people keep voting, gambling, and having fun, but the policies of the governments never change for the better. In the long run, the people almost always get the opposite of what they want and need. Practical politics aside, the same powers that control London control Paris and all other Western capitals. The last thing those powers want is anything that will benefit their captive hosts.

United States

Nowhere is the fake left-right paradigm more evident than in Washington. The US is nominally ruled by a uniparty, the protestations of some politicians and their supporters notwithstanding. They might as well revert to the 18th Century’s Democratic-Republican party. It’s not a perfect assessment, but one can imagine they divided into a duopoly just to fend off competition with the false premise of two separate, competing parties. The duopoly exists, and it does squelch all opposition. And since around 1980, or 1963, maybe even earlier, the whole show has been just that—an entertaining game designed to conceal the fact that Americans are ruled over by an unelected, hostile, satanic elite. 

Americans, most of them, still have problems with that reality. John F. Kennedy was the last President who acted like he was truly in charge of the executive office. Jimmy Carter may have been the last man who truly cared about the people. All the while, from the tenures of Johnson to Brandon, the people never seem to notice that regardless of how many times they switch sides of the duopoly, in the White House or Congress, nothing changes. 

In his 1971 essay, American Civilization, Julius Evola wrote, “The Americans are the living refutation of the Cartesian axiom, ‘l think, therefore I am’: Americans do not think, yet they are. The American ‘mind’, puerile and primitive, lacks characteristic form and is therefore open to every kind of standardization.” Such people were made for the self-defeating charade of democracy. Right now, they’re gearing up for another fake, rigged election between two of the worst possible non-choices imaginable. Maybe they’re having fun, but I’m with Russian President Putin and his well-founded idea that American Presidents do not control anything and that their selection is essentially immaterial. 

Americans also cannot bear the notion that someone rules over them or that anyone in any capacity controls their thoughts, beliefs, and actions. Yet many of them literally live in mortal fear of certain words and the wicked, retarded thoughts of people who hate them. Americans are brainwashed, governed, and censored by, and, in some cases, self-censored because of third-rate lies and weak rhetorical word spells like those in this 2009 guide. (Before Killary denigrated the “deplorables,” someone had it out for the “persuadables”.) I was tempted to refute some of the core principles from the guide, or, at least, demonstrate how the past 15 years have utterly disproven them, but there’s no point. In general, Americans are like flies determined to get to that beautiful, humming, glowing bug zapper. Who am I to try stopping them?

Iran

Finally, we come to a country with a government that works and works for the people. It occurred to me that Iran is the Islamic version of the Venetian Republic, a sensible balance of noble monarchy and curated democracy, but without the major pitfalls that ultimately doomed Venice, namely the desire for an empire and a privatized central bank. Congratulations to President-elect Pezeshkian. 

As with all things Persia, the Western media and intel agencies did not know what to make of Iran’s latest election. So, as with all things, they issued a series of nearly incomprehensible babblings. I read exactly one of their appraisals, which isn’t worth citing or quoting. It cautiously, fantastically hailed Pezeshkian as the reformer who might usher in a golden age of Iran being dominated by the West. The author gibbered about Iran’s broken economy, which I suppose means its relative lack of usury for profit (riba), its integration into the BRICS+ juggernaut, and its positioning to become the industrial powerhouse of West Asia. He also mentioned Iran’s nuclear program, which he doesn’t understand, and which will not be affected by the change of any single politician. Okay, one quote: Iran’s “hated morality police.” If my information is accurate, then this is very similar to Iran’s “hated purple unicorn,” i.e., it’s a boogeyman that does not exist. There was also a palpable sense that the West, via the one author, deeply fears Iran won’t embrace Western degeneracy and that it will keep embracing its proud traditions and multipolar sovereignty. Judging by preliminary statements from and well-wishes to Dr. Pezeshkian, those fears are well grounded. هورا!

Moving On

The Great Bifurcation is happening and there appears to be no stopping it. That is excellent news for the global majority who now live or who will soon live in a cordial interlinked but independent series of nations not controlled by lunatics, morons, and devil worshipers. Those who remain trapped in dying Western countries will increasingly be viewed by their elites as slaves, cannon fodder, and persuadable useful idiots whose only purpose is to serve and be hated by the elites. As time passes, and the slaves have it harder, they will slowly awaken, with Americans probably being the last to do so. 

Going forward, it is critical to rethink, discuss, and dismiss counterfeit concepts like democracy, free speech, free lunches, empire, exceptionalism, financial capitalism, and anything that is anti-traditional, anti-human, and, especially, anti-God. The conventional solutions for all such forgeries are as plentiful as the number of nations around the world—the beauty of multipolarity. As for overarching concepts of state and politics, if one’s government isn’t routinely attacked by the clown West as an authoritarian dictatorship or some similar derision, then one may have a problem. If so, then let the owners go out of business. In fact, help them when possible. Playing games in a rigged casino, voting in a rigged system, and magic word games will not solve this potential problem. Faith, intelligence, and action will. 

Deo vindice.

Scholasticide Encore+

05 Friday Jul 2024

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Geopolitika and Katehon ran my last Gaza piece this week.

As for the ongoing destruction of schools and interruption of formal learning in Gaza, I’ve come across more than a few articles explaining the disaster, both in terms of numerical count and personal tragedy. I’ve also come across a term that perfectly describes what the Zionists are doing: ”Scholasticide.”

Award-winning Gaza journalist Maha Hussaini wrote a must-read column about the effects of the Zionist’s scholasticide at Middle East Eye. She describes the new-to-Palestinian parents phenomenon of homeschooling their children. So far as it goes in the US and much of the greater West, I am ordinarily a strong proponent of homeschooling. That is primarily due to the hard fact that most of the public schools in places like the US, and many private academies, are worse than useless. Mine is not the experience with good schools that actually educate and nurture children and which parents and students enjoy. Evidently, that was the condition of the schools in Gaza. Thus, the new and unexpected imposition of home education is, to say the least, trying on all parties involved. I’m also aware, based on the accounts of homeschoolers in the US, Canada, and Russia, that while homeschooling is rewarding, it can be, at least initially, a somewhat intimidating challenge. Imagine that challenge magnified by the daily dropping of American-made bombs, a lack of food and utilities, and the general horrific conditions of war. That is what Palestinian families now face each day. But, temporarily daunted or not, they are carrying on.

Maybe show that to your local “Christian” Zionist to get a rise out of it. More coming asap, friends.

Also, my fellow GEO writer, Filip Martens, has an interesting article about (just a few of) the fallacies “free and democratic” and mindless Westerners repeat about Islam.

And in an effort to smash more fallacies and lies, and in the interests of truth, Larry Johnson interviewed the one and only Zeinab Al Saffar in a must-watch Counter Currents episode:

Happy Independence Day!

04 Thursday Jul 2024

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Happy Independence Day!

 

Today, July 4th, is another great day in the age of growing independence for most of mankind. Led by Russia, China, Iran, and the expanding BRICS+ coalition, nations large and small are breaking with the failed, wicked neocolonial oppression of the corrupted, ruined, postmodern, post-Enlightenment West and boldly entering a new era of multipolar sovereignty. This is the Great Awakening in answer to the luciferian Great Reset. Even now, in times of global turmoil, battling against the devil’s hordes, the free, good, and intelligent peoples of the world have already begun to enjoy prosperity and harmony. The movement is spreading like wildfire. Even the French might get involved sooner or later! I love you, my friends, and Godspeed. Enjoy your day!

Americans, uh, please have fun with your upcoming rigged fake election, freedom fries, etc. 

Deo vindice. 

*Note: For reasons, this will likely suffice for a column this week, at least for my domestic CWA outlets.

COLUMN: Julian Assange, Repetition, And Democracy

28 Friday Jun 2024

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Julian Assange, Repetition, And Democracy

 

For technical reasons, partly related to a semi-inoperable computer, this one is a little shorter than my average. Pardon. Or you’re welcome.

On June 24, 2024, Julian Assange was finally freed after twelve years of torture and confinement. His ordeal began when he and his Wikileaks media organization made public in 2010 various war crimes committed by the US Empire in Iraq in 2007, including against unarmed civilians. In 2012, he was forced into the Ecuadorian embassy in London. In 2019, he was removed to the dreary Belmarsh prison where he fought trumped-up US criminal charges. As of 2024, the US’s superseding indictment involves one of those insane government conspiracy theories, namely “conspiracy to obtain and disclose national defense information.” The case against Assange is and has been, in legal terms, pure bullshit. If he is afforded First Amendment press protection pursuant to the 1971 Pentagon Papers case (New York Times v. US Empire), then the US has no case. If, as alleged by the US, he enjoys no such protection because he is not a US citizen, then because he was never within the jurisdiction of the US, the US has no case. Of course, as law no longer matters in the rapidly collapsing US, these points are moot. And in Assange’s particular case, a plea deal to cut the losses of all parties is, while not exactly the right thing, an acceptable thing to put an end to this ridiculous charade. 

If one listens for a minute or three, one will invariably hear some US officer, agent, or apologist mumble something about “democracy,” “free and democratic,” “rules-base,” “rules-based democracy,” or some other nonsense. One will also note, in addition to the aforementioned legal impossibility, that Assange’s persecution spans the tenure of three US presidents representing both sides of the uniparty. It might be that all that talk about rules and democracy is a lie. 

As President Vladimir noted not too long ago, no one knows what those rules are or who empowered the rule-makers. As for democracy, there are different definitions of the concept. Here, I’ll just state H.L. Mencken’s: “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.” Why so many otherwise good and decent people continue to fall for the sham is a great unknown. But fall for it they do. This might lead me into another discussion that I lack the time and computing power for this week.

But democracy, like all trappings of the Enlightenment, is a hoax. In discussing something James Delingpole wrote about Nigel Farage, Vox Day recently opined, “Democracy, particularly in its limited representative form, is nothing more than a sham meant to prevent the volatile public from knowing who truly rules over them. The whole point of the political systems of the modern ‘democracies’ is not to express the will of the people, but rather, prevent it from being realized.”

This is why three US politicians, from both sides of the uniparty, pursue a wicked legal strategy not in the interests of the American people nor of much concern to them. It is also why the American people are gearing up for another fake election involving two of those three puppet politicians, one of whom has demonstrated an inability to deal with the true rulers of the US, and the other an inability to do much more than follow orders from them. 

The real rulers keep getting their way and they keep doing the same evil things. Just a few days before Assange’s release, the US abetted more war crimes against unarmed civilians. In 2007, it was an Apache airstrike on a family van in Baghdad. Lately, beach-goers in Sevastopol have been hit with ATACMS cluster munitions. 

Assange’s case proves that what truth and justice resided within the US has departed. Most of the history of the US and its clownworld empire disprove the merits of democracy. Evil genocidal maniacs commit war crimes. It’s not so much a matter of “the more things change…” but rather, a case of no one forcing changes until relatively recently. I wish Mr. Assange Godspeed, peace, and a restful recovery from his crucible. And instead of continuing to self-crucify, I wish the American people would watch how Russia deals with the crimes of the satanic rules-based democratic disorder. Maybe that last part is too much to ask for now.

Deo vindice.

COLUMN: “Scholasticide” While The World Watches

21 Friday Jun 2024

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“Scholasticide” While The World Watches

 

When they’re not wiping out entire families, and when they’re not murdering journalists, food aid workers, and doctors, and when they’re not cutting little girls in half with American-made munitions, possibly those marked “Finish Them!” and autographed by the sociopathic witch Nimarata, the Zionist occupiers of Palestine appear to delight in exterminating literacy and educational opportunities. The destruction of learning in Gaza is a sub-war in the greater genocide. And just like the attendant murder, maiming, displacement, torture, terrorism, impoverishment, and starvation, it is designed to have and is having a terrible effect on its victims.

Samir Mansour’s bookstore, the largest in Gaza, was a bibliophile’s dream. In addition to carrying hundreds of thousands of books, the shop also served as a community center, a haven for readers, students, and happy families. The Zionists bombed it to rubble in May 2021. Mansour reopened the outlet, bigger and better, in 2022. Last fall, the IGF (Israeli Genocide Force) destroyed it again. One may have heard that the Zionists are still defending themselves from a surprise attack that happened eight months ago. The incident was so much of a surprise that no one knew or warned about it three weeks in advance … except for Egyptian Intelligence and the Zionist’s 8200 ISNU Command. Many overlook the fact the incident was a byproduct of the Zionist’s violent occupation and dehumanization of Palestine for most of the past century. Of course, these minor details are part of history, a subject studied in books and schools, and, thus, something for the IGF to eradicate.

As for the ongoing destruction of schools and interruption of formal learning in Gaza, I’ve come across more than a few articles explaining the disaster, both in terms of numerical count and personal tragedy. I’ve also come across a term that perfectly describes what the Zionists are doing: ”Scholasticide.”

Award-winning Gaza journalist Maha Hussaini wrote a must-read column about the effects of the Zionist’s scholasticide at Middle East Eye. She describes the new-to-Palestinian parents phenomenon of homeschooling their children. So far as it goes in the US and much of the greater West, I am ordinarily a strong proponent of homeschooling. That is primarily due to the hard fact that most of the public schools in places like the US, and many private academies, are worse than useless. Mine is not the experience with good schools that actually educate and nurture children and which parents and students enjoy. Evidently, that was the condition of the schools in Gaza. Thus, the new and unexpected imposition of home education is, to say the least, trying on all parties involved. I’m also aware, based on the accounts of homeschoolers in the US, Canada, and Russia, that while homeschooling is rewarding, it can be, at least initially, a somewhat intimidating challenge. Imagine that challenge magnified by the daily dropping of American-made bombs, a lack of food and utilities, and the general horrific conditions of war. That is what Palestinian families now face each day. But, temporarily daunted or not, they are carrying on.

Ms. Hussaini also provided updated numbers and information on the scope of the anti-erudition calamity:

Before the war, there were 796 schools in the Gaza Strip, including 442 public schools, 70 private schools and 284 run by the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, Unrwa. 

There were 12 universities and higher education institutions. 

Gaza had one of the lowest illiteracy rates in the world, with the percentage decreasing from 13.7 percent in 1997 to 1.8 percent in 2022.

Around 700,000 children and young people were enrolled in schools and universities out of the strip’s 2.2 million population. 

In its ongoing bombardment, Israel has damaged or completely destroyed all universities and more than 80 percent of all schools in Gaza. 

They have killed and wounded thousands of students and hundreds of teachers, including at least 100 professors.

This total devastation of education is a war crime within a war crime, one that will inconvenience and afflict the population for years. I remain, however, cautiously optimistic that those years will be relatively short in number because of the extreme patience, intelligence, dedication, and determination exhibited by Gazans—a people who seemingly cannot be subdued. 

Still, many of them are understandably filled with grief, fearing their “future is stolen by the war.” That quote is taken from the title of another article by one of those students, Mrs. Noor Alyacoubi, written for the Palestine Chronicle. In another must-read, she tells the stories of two Gaza university students who, like all of the others, have had their lives completely turned upside down. As Alyacoubi surmises, “Their stories reflect the broader tragedy of a generation whose education, ambitions, and futures have been stolen by war. Amid the chaos and uncertainty, their resilience and hope stand as a testament to the enduring human spirit.” Alyacoubi knows about the chaos and testament personally as she is studying English literature at Al-Azhar University. Or, rather, she was before the school was bombed by the IGF.

Mrs. Alyacoubi is also a young mother. In March, she relayed her experience trying to safeguard and raise her precious baby girl under violent occupation in a story at the We Are Not Numbers forum. “My baby is now 12 months old. Her name is Lya and she has spent 155 days of her life in fear, evacuation, and starvation. I know she is so young and she might be unaware of what is happening around her, but I am sure she feels everything.” In closing, she asks that we on the outside keep her family and her people in our prayers. If we possess any humanity at all, then we must do that if nothing else. We should also listen to some of the voices from the inside. Accordingly, I recommend readers pay attention to the many young people speaking to us through assorted personal reports, stories, and poems at We Are Not Numbers. 

After all, understanding, resisting, and resolving these matters is a process up to all of us. As the bold and brilliant Al-Mayadeen network anchor Zeinab Al Saffar said the other day at SPIEF24, quoting professor Alexander Dugin and speaking to him on-stage, “Humanity is us, not them.” It’s time we did something other than just watch things like scholasticide and genocide. How about we resist them? And stop them?

Deo vindice.

COLUMN: The Petrodollar: The Devil In The Western Details

14 Friday Jun 2024

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The Petrodollar: The Devil In The Western Details

 

In the appendices of The Lord of the Rings, the reader learns a little about Thorongil, the traveling name of young Aragorn, the future King Elessar. Over some thirty years, Aragorn wandered through the lands of men in order to gauge their worthiness in the coming war against Sauron. Little is known about his journeys into distant lands where “the stars are strange;” however, in Gondor and Rohan, he found sufficient faith, fight, and spirit to resist and endure to warrant his camaraderie and allegiance. I suppose it is well he never visited the remains of the United States, where very few have faith, intelligence, identity, or even interest in surviving as anything more than thralls. To one degree or another, the US condition explains the greater West. Elsewhere, thankfully, things are very different. Elsewhere, people are moving on from the lecherous, ruinous ways of American hegemony.

That hegemony was largely the product of two things: the perceived might of American and NATO military power, and the US dollar as world reserve currency. The former has been shown to be overstretched, poorly wielded, and materially deficient. The latter, revealed as a malicious illusion of neocolonial wizardry, is fading away in real time. A few days ago, strange rumors surfaced, from strange sources, that as of June 9, 2024, the US petrodollar would officially become a thing of the past. As far as I can tell, these rumors may not be exactly correct, though they point, like good rhetoric, towards the undeniable truth. 

The petrodollar was a terrible 1970s solution to the then-pending collapse of the dollar, de-linked from gold and wrecked via mass financialization of the American economy and monetary system. In a scheme perhaps unique in world history, the Saudis agreed to back the dollar with their oil reserves. This allowed the dollar to temporarily remain the most popular international trading currency. It allowed the US government to temporarily spend with abandon. And it allowed the private monied elite of the West to further enslave mankind and usuriously accumulate unto themselves unearned wealth. But the arrangement defied the laws of economic physics and was destined to eventually crash down. Rumors and exact dates aside, the crash is happening now.

As Alexander Macris noted in the introduction of his 2023 book Running on Empty, “When the US established the petrodollar system, it signed a deal with the Devil. When it ends, there will be Hell to pay.” While this statement may shock the consciousness of the conscionable, it is not that surprising to those familiar with the religious psyche of America’s ruling elites. But it is an accurate statement. As the American people begin to wrestle with declining living standards, among many other growing problems, and as the American elite begin to uncomfortably deal with the looming demands of their master, the rest of the world, the multipolar world, begins to experience a boon of prosperity, independence, and genuine order. 

The American empire is still dangerous, as any large mortally wounded predator can be. In its dying rage, it is violently thrashing about seeking to steal, dominate, or destroy anything in reach. Lindsey Graham, wicked US SINator from South Carolina, and wanted terrorist number 3967 in Russia, lately let one cat out of the bag about the US seeking to loot trillions of dollars worth of minerals and elements from Project Ukraine (…and something, something democracy, and Putin’s aggression, etc.). I suppose the shame of the Upstate never read Saadi’s Pand Namah and the warning, “Beware! thou that art snared in the net of avarice…” (Or, supposing further, Romans 1:29.) Graham’s conniving blather represents a micro example of the kind of chaos Konstantin Malofeev warned about at a SPIEF 2024 panel discussion last week. Malofeev described the chaos as engineered, and to a degree, it certainly was, previously. The enemies of mankind had a plan. Or plans—too many of them to keep track of and make work, and now they are entangled and failing. Today, I think what is displayed is genuine mayhem completely out of control. Malofeev is completely correct, however, that the solution to the chaos is the sovereign, multipolar concept represented by the BRICS+ alliance. And he’s not just theoretically correct; the solution is playing out before our eyes.

As for ending (petro)dollar dominance, last year, Olga Samofalova explored a variety of options available to Saudi Arabia to break free from America’s deal with the devil, namely dealing in national currencies, withdrawing investments in the US, and joining BRICS+. Right now, Riyadh is exercising the first and third options and is, along with other countries, monitoring and considering the second. One of those other countries, of course, is Russia, which, as Gleb Prostakov wrote in February 2023, is leading the charge to break what’s left of US dominance of the global energy market (and the US’s attendant indirect dominance of global affairs). 

One year later, the world is already a different place. The US dollar, while still powerful, is no longer the exclusive go-to currency for international settlements and trade. The US-led G7 has lost its primacy to BRICS+. Russia just pushed Japan aside to become the world’s fourth-largest economy as measured by PPP. Three of the top four world economies, China, India, and Russia, are BRICS+ members. There is a real struggle amidst all this change. As President Vladimir Putin said in his speech at the SPIEF plenary session, “We see a real race between countries to strengthen their sovereignty. And over three key levels—state, value-cultural and economic. At the same time, the countries that have recently been the leaders of global development are trying by all means, by hook or by crook, to preserve their elusive role of hegemony.” 

As others have said again and again, the current global conflict is truly a battle between the Believers in Almighty God and the minions of satan. On God’s side are Christians, Muslims, and their goodly allies. Theirs is the side of the multipolar, sovereign world. In time, victory will be theirs. And, as they watch the other side pay the devil his due, may they learn a lesson on how to never conduct business going forward. In this war, there is no Ring of Power. Still, the war must be won, and it will be. Let the wanton leaders of America and the West pay hell. All others, thank and praise Heaven.

Deo vindice.

Mr. Poe Goes To Greece

11 Tuesday Jun 2024

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Courtesy of Geopolitika and an unknown (but greatly appreciated) translator. Διαβάστε στα ελληνικά. I think that’s 4 or 5 languages now, and the essay has quickly become one of my most popular writings to date – if not the most widely read.

Also, I just learned my review of Daria Dugina’s Radical Life is at her dad’s Fourth Political Theory site.

Thank you, my many and great international friends.

COLUMN: Families, Children, And Legitimate Higher Education

07 Friday Jun 2024

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Families, Children, And Legitimate Higher Education

 

In the fading remains of the United States, there really are dark forces at work against the American people. A new study from Illinois uncovered mixed benefits and drawbacks associated with men becoming fathers. However, the popular US media spin was: “Having kids may shorten a man’s life, groundbreaking study reveals.” In other words, “Kids are messy, you can’t afford them, and they’ll just kill you anyway”. That might as well be America’s family planning mantra. Societies do not survive this way. Populations like America’s, that do not exceed two children per family, do not last. 

Elsewhere, more decent and intelligent people understand the importance of forming, promoting, and protecting families. Some countries are encouraging men to become fathers and women mothers. Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin recently stated that families with three or more children should become the norm. He also reassured families that the Russian government would be there to assist them as they perpetuate the existence of Russia. “Families with children” is the mantra of Russia. 

Part of assisting families and their children is maintaining excellent education at all levels. As for elementary and lower schools in Russia, I am not as familiar with the processes as I’d like. The consensus of those I’ve asked or read is that the learning afforded is good and better than the equivalent in America. At the college and university level, I trust things are also better in Russia. That’s because I trust the people in charge, from President Putin right down the line. I also know there is a necessary movement to separate Russian education from Western standards, a part of the larger bifurcation and liberation associated with Russia’s multipolar quest. 

Another man I trust, Leonid Savin, wrote a heckuva good article on intellectual standards and the need for Russian sovereign refinement. He noted that 1990s Western interference “led both to the meaninglessness of deep meanings and their replacement with surrogate terms, which began to be used at the reflex level, and to a constant movement to Western theories and concepts, instead of developing our own.” This is exactly what happened to American schools over the past century and a half. Whatever lingered from the Soviet system, even if deficient in some areas, was better than and preferable to the foisted alternative. The movement to reflexive surrogacy would have quickly given way to the total abandonment of literacy, numeracy, and public morality. The fact this progression was stopped or is being stopped is a miracle in and of itself.

Savin goes on to discuss the pro-Russian transformation of college social sciences by keeping cherished traditions alive though updated to reflect the complexities of the evolving world. Call it “whole process” social science education, something in scholastic keeping, on Russian terms, with Professor Alexander Dugin’s Fourth Political Theory. Savin mentions Dugin’s work as the leader of the new Political Training and Scientific Center at Moscow’s Russian State University for the Humanities (RSUH). The Center’s purpose is “the development and implementation of a new approach (a new socio-humanitarian paradigm) to the domestic teaching of humanitarian and social disciplines, aimed at the formation of the worldview of students based on the Russian civilizational identity and traditional Russian spiritual and moral values.”

In January, Dugin said at RSUH’s Transformation of Humanitarian Education seminar, “There has been a catastrophic degradation in Western historical science. …. This is evidenced by gender problems, postmodernism, and ultra-liberalism. We can study the West, but not as the ultimate universal truth. We need to focus on our own Russian development model.” Dugin’s program leadership earned the ire of the CIA Washington Post and some CIA pro-Western Telegram bots, so he must be off to a good start. (I suppose they were taken aback, like vampires offered Holy Water, by mention of spiritual and moral values.) I’m unsure when Dugin last visited an American university, but his first observation of catastrophe is an understatement. About the only courses of study in America that retain any semblance of excellence are those in mathematics and the hard science programs at certain elite engineering schools—and they are under heavy attack. However, he is correct that Western schools should be studied. They should be studied in two ways. First, they should be scanned for any useful remnants from the time when the West represented an actual Christian civilization. Second, they can be forensically studied like a cadaver in a postmortem examination in an attempt to find out what killed them. 

As part of its Western and non-Western integration, RSUH’s website asserts: “International cooperation is an important part of the internationalization strategy at RSUH. It is aimed at strengthening the university’s competitive ability in Russia and abroad and its integration into the global education and research space.” This is, as stated, very important, yet the manner of execution might be even more important. My advice, should anyone want it, is to keep studying the cadavers while also selectively affiliating with the wider world. This could and probably will mean making adjustments to things like Russian participation in the Bologna Process and looking deeper into connections with BRICS+ countries and the Global South in general. Without my advice, they appear to be doing fine as-is, with RSUH being one of four Russian universities in a pilot program to monitor international cooperation.

Russia’s societal heritage is the envy of much of the world because it has survived and built upon its ancient traditions. Those traditions, having yielded beauty, strength, and prosperity, obviously work. So does Russian innovation, in technology, economics, and other facets of (post)modern existence. Russians must continue to cling affectionately to the positive, purposefully abandon the negative, and embrace any helpful new processes or ideas in keeping with Russian customs regarding what is good, true, and beautiful. And, of course, it all starts with the Russian people themselves, with strong families and many wonderful children.

Deo vindice.