Seldom Read a Book

18 Tuesday Oct 2022

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Alexander Zubatov offers a very good essay on the decline of US colleges and universities. Find it at The American Conservative.

Why is American higher education such an abject failure? Our system of higher education simultaneously and confusingly aims at two entirely distinct goals—and, as such, is discharging neither of them especially well. It is, on the one hand, supposed to prepare us for the labor market by arming us with practical skills, and on the other hand, supposed to turn us into Renaissance men and women, who have a deeper understanding of our world. But the most popular major in college today is “business”—a nonsense major that neither educates anyone in the broad sense nor prepares them for anything in particular in the narrow sense of the workaday world. Christopher Lasch observed that most college students “get little training in writing (unless ‘Commercial English’ is an acceptable substitute), seldom read a book, and graduate without exposure to history, philosophy, or literature.”

Read the whole thing. Note that the T.S. Eliot quote came from a work from the era immediately after World War II and was not limited to “higher” education, at least as it exists today. It was bad then. It’s worse now.

Also, he’s 100% correct – “business” is a nonsense major almost completely devoid of education. And what a shame to wait until college to become acquainted with (or not) history, philosophy, and literature. It’s not an accident that those three subjects, and many others, have been erased from nearly all levels of modern/post-modern education.

All Quiet, And Then…

17 Monday Oct 2022

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It’s almost all quiet on the Werewestern front. If one looks at the Sludge Report (don’t), one will notice a sudden and total lack of any headlines, even of the idiotic, hysterical sort, about Russia and mighty Ukraine. Odd.

It appears that Russia is preparing to ramp things up, considerably.

So much so, that Russia’s allies are now evacuating their diplomatic staffs from the 404. Something is coming. The $64 billion question is whether whatever it is will be limited to Ukraine.

 

Rent Too Damn High

17 Monday Oct 2022

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Is there any part of post-modern life that cannot be improved by computers?! Meet the new AI landlord.

On a summer day last year, a group of real estate tech executives gathered at a conference hall in Nashville to boast about one of their company’s signature products: software that uses a mysterious algorithm to help landlords push the highest possible rents on tenants.

“Never before have we seen these numbers,” said Jay Parsons, a vice president of RealPage, as conventiongoers wandered by. Apartment rents had recently shot up by as much as 14.5%, he said in a video touting the company’s services. Turning to his colleague, Parsons asked: What role had the software played?

I’m sure there’s absolutely no danger of price collusion or anything. And, at a time when Americans are simply swimming in cash, why not?

As the price of everything soars due to the terminal effects of an economy based on usury and black magic, it would be nice if there was a similar program aimed at increasing wages. Gold-Silver-1952 Housing-PayStar! Maybe just PayStar. Right now, the minimum anyone should be paid anywhere in the US is about $75,000, or $37.50 per hour. The average should be closer to $300K. But something tells me that someone would find collusion in doing that.

Time Is Running Out

16 Sunday Oct 2022

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This is a kind of update to my week’s column. Russia, “they” said, was all out of missiles. The barrage of missiles last week only proved that Russia was out of missiles, they said. Now?

Needless to say, that massive missile strikes by Russia continue all over 404 and there are reports of massive explosions and power outages in Nikolaev and other places, plus Kiev remains to be targeted. And, as was expected, all VSU attempts to perform “offensives” have been repelled with massive losses for VSU, including at Kremennaya and Svatovo (in Russian), but NATO–let’s drop the pretense here–will try to throw as much cannon fodder at Russian formations as possible because they need something, like “breakthrough” in some sectors, because the Midterms are coming and Russians are amassing troops for obvious things. Time is running out.

I suppose they will now say this means Russia is REALLY out of missiles. The usual suspects are desperate, crazy, and evil. And their time really is running out.

Winter is going to be many things, but boring isn’t one of them.

Move Over, Ye

16 Sunday Oct 2022

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The Donald has grabbed hold of the thirdest of rails.

‘No President has done more for Israel than I have. Somewhat surprisingly, however, our wonderful Evangelicals are far more appreciative of this than the people of the Jewish faith, especially those living in the U.S,’ Trump said on his Truth Social app.

‘Those living in Israel, though, are a different story – Highest approval rating in the World, could easily be P.M.!’

Trump concluded: ‘U.S. Jews have to get their act together and appreciate what they have in Israel – Before it is too late!‘

I imagine this received a warm reception from those who have spent the past six years arguing Trump is a literal clone of Hitler. Note that one thing US Jews do not have in Israel is themselves.

About What We Expected

16 Sunday Oct 2022

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And warned against. Infertility + miscarriage + cervical malignancy = depopulation.

Dr. Kimberly Biss is an obstetrician-gynecologist in Saint Petersburg, Florida and is affiliated with Bayfront Health St. Petersburg. She received her medical degree from Tufts University School of Medicine and has been in practice for more than 20 years. She’s now gone on the record about what she’s observing in her practice post-vaxx:

I’m Kimberly Biss. I’m an OBGYN that practices in St. Pete’s, Florida. I can definitely say since the vaccine rollout started we have seen in our practice a decrease in new OB numbers, which would be infertility, by about 50 percent. We’ve also seen an increase in miscarriage rate by about 50 percent. And I would say there’s probably about a 25 percent increase in abnormal pap smears as well as cervical malignancies in our area.

Don’t forget that the government-medical complex pushed the HPV vaccine for girls to reduce a much smaller risk of cervical malignancies than is apparently being produced by the Covid vaxxes.

https://gab.com/stkirsch/posts/109174783112334243

“Strategy” Breakdown

15 Saturday Oct 2022

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Andrei Martyanov offers some analysis of Brandon’s grand scheme:

Note the differences, even from decades ago, between Russian strategic/tactical capability (massive) and, say, the Taliban’s (zero). Also note the lack (in RUS or AFGH) of diversity, inclusion, climate hoaxing, etc. It’s really a different game. One wonders who, really, put the US NSS together. Odds are, it was not any of the remaining handful of competent military officers. It was also not anyone with honesty and triple-digit intelligence regarding “unrestricted warfare”, as the US no longer employs men like that.

The Real Tony Fauci: Illiterate Edition

14 Friday Oct 2022

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More news reaches the alternative media about the hoax, DARPA matters that I’ve covered here and on the PPN months and years ago. Of course, it’s only news if one can read. What then is there for the majority?

Well, how about a documentary? According to Tom Woods, the movie version of RFK, Jr.’s book will be released as a film on or about October 18th. HERE IS THE LINK. If it encompasses only 10% of the book you won’t or can’t read, then it will be well worth watching.

Serial Illegality

14 Friday Oct 2022

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A federal judge has correctly held the FEDGOV’s scheme of criminalizing guns without serial numbers unconstitutional.

A federal judge in West Virginia has ruled that a federal ban on possessing a gun with its serial number removed is unconstitutional, the first such ruling since the U.S. Supreme Court dramatically expanded gun rights in June.

Now do the entire NFA and GCA.

Just in Time for Winter!

14 Friday Oct 2022

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Entering into a season when there probably won’t be enough food, fuel, heat, and electricity for actual Europeans, the Euros stupidly tolerate a new, record-breaking invasion from the third world.

The number of irregular crossings into the EU grew sharply in the first nine months of 2022 compared to the previous year, reaching its highest level since 2016, the bloc’s border agency Frontex said Thursday.

“In the first nine months of this year, nearly 228,240 irregular entries were detected at the external borders of the European Union, according to preliminary calculations. This represents an increase of 70% compared with the same period last year and is the highest total recorded for the first three quarters of the year since 2016,” the agency stated.

Note that any horde(s) of foreigners who migrate into an area that is literally collapsing by any and all metrics, cannot be that intelligent, nor will they offer much except for a large, boisterous, probably violent, and Lord knows ungrateful burden. Not that Frontex was ever worth anything, but perhaps it was a mistake to send all EU ammunition to the Ukranazis.