Beyond the Statistical Discrepancy

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Russian President Vladimir Putin gave an interview to the Xinhua News Agency about the Sino-Russian alliance. Read the whole thing.

Question: In recent years, practical cooperation between China and Russia in areas such as energy, agriculture, automotive manufacturing and infrastructure has produced positive results and brought about new breakthroughs, while bilateral trade has reached record levels. How do you assess the current state of Chinese-Russian practical cooperation? What are your plans for further promoting high-quality, mutually beneficial cooperation between China and Russia?

V. Putin: Economic relations between Russia and China have reached an unprecedented level. Since 2021, bilateral trade has grown by about 100 billion dollars. In terms of trade volume, China is by far Russia’s leading partner, while last year Russia ranked fifth among China’s foreign trade partners. I would stress that while trade figures are denominated in US dollar equivalents, transactions between Russia and China are carried out in rubles and yuan, with the dollar or euro share reduced to a statistical discrepancy.

The circus clown-in-chief, the neocons, and the boomers can babble all they like, but the world has shifted. Ain’t no going back.

Bad Boys (and Girls) of the 1980s

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Gen X, please mark the calendars. January 20, 2026 is going down in history as a very important day, our day.* That’s when Bad Boy, the first episode of Chris Orcutt’s EPIC ’80s novel, Bodaciously True & Totally Awesome, hits the shelves. My short little pre-review:

For such an incredibly rich literary experience, Bodaciously True & Totally Awesome, Episode I: Bad Boy, reads easily and beautifully. The book isn’t just a glimpse of the 1980s; it IS the 1980s. Readers from all adult generations (Gen X, especially!) will love every word, scene, and thought.

There is something (well, many things) distinctive and remarkable about Chris Orcutt’s magnum opus. He reaches the heart and mind in a way so natural that the reading process comes off like seeing one’s own original thoughts and emotions in print—this is very rare territory. He does things with Bad Boy that I cannot recall any other author doing, or doing nearly so well. Many of the 1980s period references are presented in novel ways that both explain the referenced elements and add ultra-realistic life to the story. Orcutt’s use of music is mind-blowing. All of his techniques, and his utter mastery of imaginative writing, add a relatability and “cannot put it down” fondness to his already fantastic plot and theme.

The plot, an introduction to the life and times of young hero Avery “Ace” Craig, flows like a roller coaster with action, drama, romance, humor, suspense, thrills, and more. It is all bound together in a simply mesmerizing fashion. There is a deep philosophy at work, magnified by a grounded psychology, an understanding of how men and women relate to each other, and a resonating dose of faith. In the end, readers are left with several concurrent cliffhangers: adventurous, potentially dangerous, and frantically passionate. All of it will leave readers predicting, picking sides, hoping, fearing, laughing, and holding on tight. Hurry up, Episode II!

Bad Boy is a genuinely encompassing and immersive adventure, one that will have the mind and heart buzzing, on multiple levels, and for some time once the reading stops. The book is fun, engaging, and staggeringly impactful. I suspect it will cement Orcutt’s place in the echelons of timeless literature. I cannot recommend this book strongly enough.

My much more detailed review is coming along at the right time. And more! Just wait. In the meantime, kindly check out Goodreads and Orcutt’s Site (and Media Page) for more information.

Got that? 1/20/26. We’re going back to 1986!

(Cover image appropriated from Orcutt.net.)

*All other adult generations will be welcome too. (Yes, even “good” Boomers.)

Major Gen X Salute

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I had forgotten about little Samantha Smith, the sweetheart who helped thaw relations between the USA and the USSR. Gazeta Russia has a great pictorial tribute to the young lady, who died 40 years ago today in a travel accident.

40 лет назад, 25 августа 1985 года, в авиакатастрофе погибла 13-летняя американка Саманта Смит, прославившаяся своей борьбой за мир в разгар Холодной войны, перепиской с руководством СССР и поездкой в Советский Союз. Считалось, что она приоткрыла существовавший между странами «железный занавес» и смогла показать жителям СССР и США, что «с той стороны» есть обычные семьи и дети, а ядерной войны никто не хочет.

История началась в 1982 году со статьи в журнале Time, посвященной Юрию Андропову, который пришел к власти в СССР после кончины Леонида Брежнева. В статье говорилось, что новый генсек может быть опасен для США, а в его правление не исключена новая война. Обсудив это с мамой, Саманта по собственной инициативе написала Андропову письмо.

«Уважаемый господин Андропов! Меня зовут Саманта Смит. Мне десять лет. Поздравляю Вас с Вашим новым назначением. Я очень беспокоюсь, не начнется ли ядерная война между Советским Союзом и Соединенными Штатами. Вы за войну или нет? Если Вы против, пожалуйста, скажите, как Вы собираетесь не допустить войну?» — писала она.

В Советском Союзе письмо заметили и даже опубликовали в газете «Правда» — но без ответа со стороны адресата. Это побудило Саманту написать второе письмо (на этот раз советскому послу в США Анатолию Добрынину). В итоге в апреле 1983 года Андропов ей все-таки ответил, заверив, что в СССР тоже никто не хочет никакой войны. И пригласил девочку приехать в Советский Союз. Она согласилась.

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40 years ago, on August 25, 1985, 13-year-old American Samantha Smith, famous for her struggle for peace at the height of the Cold War, correspondence with the leadership of the USSR and a trip to the Soviet Union, died in a plane crash. It was believed that she opened the Iron Curtain that existed between the countries «and was able to show the residents of the USSR and the USA that »on the other side«there are ordinary families and children, and no one wants a nuclear war.

The story began in 1982 with an article in Time magazine dedicated to Yuri Andropov, who came to power in the USSR after the death of Leonid Brezhnev. The article said that the new Secretary General could be dangerous for the United States, and a new war could not be ruled out during his reign. After discussing this with her mother, Samantha wrote a letter to Andropov on her own initiative.

«Dear Mr. Andropov! My name is Samantha Smith. I’m ten years old. Congratulations on your new appointment. I am very worried whether a nuclear war will break out between the Soviet Union and the United States. Are you for war or not? If you are against it, please tell me how you are going to prevent war?» — she wrote.

In the Soviet Union, the letter was noticed and even published in the newspaper «Pravda» —, but without a response from the addressee. This prompted Samantha to write a second letter (this time to the Soviet ambassador to the United States, Anatoly Dobrynin). As a result, in April 1983, Andropov nevertheless answered her, assuring her that no one in the USSR wanted any war either. And he invited the girl to come to the Soviet Union. She agreed.

She made us proud!

COLUMN: The United States of Genocide

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The United States of Genocide

 

Having covered the luciferian American “values” of usury and sodomy, herein I now briefly examine their companion principle, genocide. This one was the most difficult to write because it is hideous, because I am disgusted by the Satanic States and its retarded heathen population, and because I’m plain tired.

The term “genocide” was coined during the early 1940s by a Jewish attorney from Poland, Raphael Lemkin. Lemkin spent a great deal of his life campaigning against genocide, drafting the treaty against genocide, and generally hating the wanton mass slaughter of people. Genocide Watch and other organizations continue his work. Genocide Watch lists ten stages of a pogrom. Frequently, multiple stages are in play at the same time. Number nine is the active extermination phase. The key to the formula and the title, the hallmark of a literal genocide, is the numerical reduction of the targeted people. Number ten, by the way, is denial. 

As an example of observing multiple stages in action at the same time, as the people of Gaza starve to death, during the Gaza Genocide, the fat sack of shit, Randy Fine publicly told the Gazans to “starve away.” [Stage Nine.] He added, “This is all a lie anyway.” [Stage Ten.] 

America, during and before the era of the United States, has a long history of genocide. I recently read an estimate that 150 million Native American Indians were exterminated during the European colonization of America. While I find this number speculative, and it is, if it were close to accurate, it would not surprise me. Of course, in that sad regard, the Anglo-Americans had copious help from the Spanish, French, Dutch, and—few like to lump them in—but, in part, from the Indians themselves. On the U.S.’s watch, once about 95% of the Tribes were eradicated, the program turned from murder into patronization. Indians were then expected to ditch their savage ways and become good little (third-class) White Americans. Yankee General Richard Henry Pratt had a term for those proud Indians who refused to submit: “racists.” (That one came back to bite you, eh?)

The U.S. also ran genocidal programs against Blacks, Southerners, Irish, Catholics, Chinese, the poor, Mexicans, and just about anyone else who ever got in the way of ruling elites. It’s still a work in progress. Currently, we’re in year ten of the stage nine elimination of White “posterity” Americans, though theirs is largely (and inexplicably) an auto-genocide. Before any other groups in America start feeling smug about that last part, know that you’re all on the “get-to” list. Everyone is. 

Since the end of World War II, the U.S. has murdered an estimated 30 million people abroad. And I don’t think that includes the death toll from the COVID-19 attack, a U.S. biowarfare genocide attempt on mankind. Including the modified nCoV bug and the fake vaccines could double the previous number. 

Let’s not overlook America’s abortion genocide, with around 70 million American babies murdered during the past fifty years. The U.S. atrocity matches the greater calamity worldwide; over 1 billion babies have been slaughtered globally during the same time period. One could ask Americans, especially American women, if everyone else was throwing their children off a cliff, would they do it too? Of course, there is no need to ask, is there? Despite the repeal of the idiotic and reprehensible Roe v. Wade, the killings continue. 

The two primary foreign projects at the moment are in Ukraine (with ~1.7 million dead Ukrainian soldiers alone) and Gaza (~400-600,000 dead, as estimated by outside academic groups). Survivors of other recent wars and genocides have almost unanimously described what is happening in Gaza as far worse than what anyone else has experienced. There are three reasons for that: 1) the extreme disparity between Hamas and the Occupiers backed by their superpower pet; 2) the fact Gazans are locked in a damned cage with no escape; and, 3) the whole world is watching, for the first time in high definition, and doing little to nothing. There is a scene early in The Thorn and the Carnation where several families take refuge in a makeshift bunker during the 1967 Setback. Their trauma is limited, non-lethal, and over in a few days. Imagine it being unlimited, overly lethal, and unending. Thanks to thousands of pictures and videos flooding Telegram, one need not imagine.

Icing on the devil’s cake! A very few children from Gaza, horribly injured by the Zio-Yankee satanism, were lucky enough to get Visas for medical treatment in America. Thanks to a vile-looking witch named Laura Loon(er), Secretary Foamio, and the orange circus clown-in-chief, their appointments have been canceled. 

There’s more, of course, but I’m stopping here.Thus ends the late trilogy. 

Deo vindice.

“Dasha” Three Years Later

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Statement by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova:

Three years ago, a terrorist act orchestrated by Ukrainian intelligence agencies cut short the life of Russian journalist, political commentator, and public figure Darya Dugina (Platonova).

Neither Western pseudo-democracies nor the international organisations obedient to them deigned to react to this treacherous murder, just as they turned a blind eye to other bloody crimes committed by Ukrainian neo-Nazis against journalists and war correspondents. Under the patronage of their handlers, the Kiev regime continues to methodically eradicate any dissent, waging nothing short of a hunt against representatives of the Russian media sphere. We honour the sacrifice of all media workers who have perished in the line of duty, and we will do everything in our power to hold those responsible for these atrocities to account.

The tragic fate of Darya Dugina has become, for millions, a symbol of selfless devotion to the Motherland, unwavering dedication, and loyalty to one’s ideals. In Russia and far beyond its borders, Darya’s memory and her creative legacy endure: her books are published in large print runs, and numerous initiatives and projects are implemented, including the Russian Frontier International Youth Award and the public medal For Fidelity to the Russian World and Traditional Values. Streets in Russian cities have been named after Darya Dugina, and her likeness has been immortalised in commemorative murals and memorial plaques. This year, a monument to the courageous journalist, sculpted by Dmitry Alexandrov, was unveiled in Zakharovo Park in the Odintsovo District of the Moscow Region.

The crime against Darya Dugina knows no statute of limitations. Those guilty of committing it will be found and will face inevitable punishment.

Two Nations, One Future

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In Chicago, Loyola Catholic University hosted a sodomite child abuse show. In response a group of Christian men publicly prayed for atonement. They were attacked by an unruly mob of lesbians, fembots, soy boys, lunatics, and criminals. One suspects that if any arrests follow, they will be of the young men.

In Moscow, three college girls decided to become social media famous by “twerking” in front of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior. They got attention, if not the kind they wanted. They were expelled from their schools and criminally prosecuted for offending Christians.

Russia has a future. America is already dead. Third-party countries should study these two cultural examples closely.

The Alaska Summit

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I think Presidents Putin and Trump will kick off this show around, well, now, 11:30 AM, Anchorage time. I am not looking for much out of it other than more theater, some yankee gibbering, and the eventual Russian victory.

More as the story develops.

UPDATE, 08/16/25:

I covered the event pretty heavily on Telegram. Larry Johnson’s take. Medvedev’s. And the SMO marches on.

COLUMN: The United States of Sodomy

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The United States of Sodomy

 

Here follows a cursory look at the second of America’s faux Western “values” (usury, sodomy, and genocide). But first, some semi-related news about an alleged Washingtonian misunderstanding over the fate of Gaza. According to sources, no sooner had Lindsey Graham lisped, “Level the place,” than Randy Fine asked, “What? Like me sit on it?” And now…

Sodomy, in the American or Enlightenment context, is not limited to mere homosexuality. It may be considered a catch-all category for all manner of deviance and sexual immorality. Perhaps the worst of the associated wanton licentious behaviors is divorce and the breaking of the nuclear family unit. Unchecked usury, as noted by Michael Hudson and David Graeber, can and will wreck a culture. However, to ensure that a society is utterly destroyed, and destroyed as fast as possible, nothing works like abolishing morality and family structures. See J.D. Unwin’s exhaustive 1934 book on the subject, Sex and Culture

Usury and sodomy usually come along together as if parts of the same nefarious plan. America’s plight for the past sixty years or so is nothing new. Michael Hoffman described the tandem nature of the two “values” as they affected fifteenth-century Florence: “By the time usury was in the ascendant in Florence, sodomy was too. …  [once usury was essentially deregulated] [i]t was reported that an elated city official declared, ‘Thank God, now we can sodomize!’” See Usury in Christendom, p. 93. (Note: the blasphemous official was a Renaissance Italian, not an American Republican.) 

American Republicans and conservatives generally are constantly thwarted by their allegiance to legalism, regardless of the nature of the particular legality. The only law it appears they don’t care to follow, or to tremble over, is God’s Law. In this short, concise, and stirring VIDEO, Father Josiah Trenham looks at what ten years’ worth of legalized homosexual “marriage” has done to America. It is not pretty, and it represents only one small pane in the great broken window. My only quibble with Father Josiah’s otherwise deft reflection is that America was only ever at best pseudo-Christian. Or, rather, while there were always many Christians in America, theirs was never the prevailing religion. Friends, there is a reason why Washington, D.C. (Devil’s Coven) is physically a giant freemasonic-satanic temple. 

Conservatives (and all others) can safely forget the poor rhetoric about freedom of religion. Only one religion is freely allowed and protected. Likewise, the so-called “wall of separation” only exists to protect satanists from Christians. In fact, at this late hour, pretty much all American law may be dismissed as null and absurd. Rhetoric and the “law” notwithstanding, consider the late case of the Little Sisters of the Poor, wherein luciferian federal nazis order Catholic nuns to pay for abortions. Got that? Catholics, the Orthodox, Lutherans, or any other Christians who pray to end abortion can and will be imprisoned for felonies. Pay, not pray, is the sodomite yankee way.

Anything deviant and destructive is celebrated, promoted, and practically mandated in American sociosexual life today. Divorce, adultery, fornication, homosexuality, pedophilia, cannibalism, vampirism, child sacrifice, contraception, abortion, asexuality, transvestitism, promiscuity, feminism, and more are “good.” Pay no attention to their lethal effects on society. Pay no attention to the relationship between these evils and the financial class’s profit motives.

One of the main reasons women are heavily favored in ruinous divorce settlements and child custody proceedings is that such favoritism radically increases all manner of social instability, which, in turn, cycles and expands the fake credit substitute money through the system faster and harder. Families die, vampires benefit. It is now a certainty that, along with SIDS and autism, the incredible increase in homosexuality and other deviant afflictions over the past several generations is driven by the chemical, neurological, and physical effects of so many dangerous and useless (yet mandatory) childhood vaccines. There is a reason why corporations, banks, and the U.S. State Department place so much faith in and attention on the devil’s rainbow. There is a reason why no Democrat or Republican appears to care about the Epstein files anymore. And on and on and on it goes.

When anything and everything goes, generally going for illicit profit, except for traditional morality, it is safe to assume that the culture and its laws are completely broken. As I will cover in my next installment, this collapse fosters a craven societal acceptance of any and all maladies, no matter how unconscionable—even genocide. Just about all of the aforementioned wicked behaviors were illegal in America in the not-too-distant past. They are still illegal in civilized countries. In America, Christians go to prison for praying to end abortion or refusing to bow to sodomite supremacy; in Russia, simple promotion of degeneracy leads to confinement. In America, abjection leads to fame or elected office; in Iran, it leads to psychiatric treatment. There are many reasons why Americans are always told to hate traditional nations.

Voting will not solve these problems. Court challenges will not solve these problems. Protests, witty memes, and letters to the editor won’t help either. In many ways, democracy is the problem. Trusting, tolerating, and supporting any of the idiotic malevolent monsters who created this mess will only make it worse. What will work—really, the only thing that will—is a complete renunciation of this wickedness and a return to Christian law and civilization. I might add that those directly responsible deserve to get a full introduction to the lex talionis via so many tight ropes, crackling fires, and dull blades. Thank God, now we can avenge!

Deo vindice.

My JUDGING ATHENA Interview with ACFW’s Fiction Finder

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This is a really, really good one! Many thanks to Jessica, Kathy, and everyone at ACFW.

Interview with Perrin Lovett 2025

Is there a message you hope readers will take away from this book?

Yes, in fact, there are several, all of them related to various facets of Christian salvation. The first is general salvation: Deference and surrender to God, and the redemption of the soul through the supreme sacrifice of Jesus. My extremely unusual plot device involves the speculative use of a second, very different kind of salvation, the understanding of which requires a high degree of trust, faith, and imagination. In her gracious review, Emma Cazabonne of Words & Peace called it, “…a neat use of Genesis 6 and 1 Corinthians 6—a Pauline statement mysterious enough to offer a lot of leeway to novelists!” Walt Garlington, reviewing Judging Athena at Confiteri, said, “Mr. Lovett’s use of this device elevates it to new heights at the end of his story: The tragic beauty of those scenes sears the heart with descriptions that the reader will not soon forget.”

Within the story, and in large part dependent on the Pauline mystery and a few assorted metaphors, the primary focus is on a third concept, that of joint marital salvation, the quest of a man and his wife to mirror the marriage of Christ and His Church and to thereby assist each other in reaching Heaven. In so many ways, the book is a celebration of marriage, love, and family. It is a portrayal of the glorified Christian replication of the original marriage in Eden. The coupling of Adam and Eve speaks to the supremely important nature of matrimony: man and woman are literal parts of Divine Creation, and they were literally made for each other by God. As we know too well, since those first days, things have gone awry due to continuing human temptation, error, hubris, and sin. The commitment of marriage, as exemplified by and through its three primary tenets, is one of mankind’s great, wholly unearned paths towards ameliorating original sin.

In the postmodern West, even under the guise of Christianity, we have faltered anew. I, unfortunately, know this from experience, as I suspect many who read this interview do as well. Here and there, marriage and families have sadly descended into the unserious throw-away status that afflicts our age. But we are not lost so long as we continue to maintain faith, discipleship, contrition, and humility. I hope all readers enjoy Judging Athena. Yet my primary hope is that young Christian men and women are inspired by my gentle little story and assured that they are, indeed, worthy. In defiance of the world, they can join together as one, be fruitful, be happy, and be righteous. I hope and pray that there will be many, many more Josh and Athena couples joined at so many altars.

Reflecting back, what do you see as most significant to your publication journey?

The neat, short answer is…….

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