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Unheard of but Predictable

17 Monday Mar 2025

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Columbia University, previously King’s College, predates the US Dept. of “Education”. In fact, the school predates the local freemasonic rebellion against the freemasonic King of England. Things were well before, and it is the school’s fault for falling into the trap set by the GAE. Now, in addition to losing imperial funding, Columbia is starting to lose academic autonomy.

A report by the Associated Press (AP) on Friday reveals that the Trump administration disregarded longstanding precedent by ordering Columbia University to remove the leadership of an academic department—a move widely viewed as a direct assault on academic freedom and a warning to other universities under federal scrutiny.

Government officials instructed the university to place its Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies Department under “academic receivership” for at least five years. This directive was one of several conditions tied to federal funding, including the $400 million withdrawn over accusations of antisemitism.

“It’s an escalation of a kind that is unheard of,” said Joan Scott, a historian and member of the academic freedom committee of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), “Even during the McCarthy period in the United States, this was not done.”

Why??? “Israel”, of course! Again, Philip Giraldi has more on the real control over the dying, illiterate empire.

The Decline in Reading

16 Sunday Mar 2025

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This is a follow-up to Friday’s column. The FT cannot quite admit that IQ is real. But they nonetheless observe some of the problems attendant to its decline.

This inflection point is noteworthy not only for being similar to performance on tests of intelligence and reasoning but because it coincides with another broader development: our changing relationship with information, available constantly online.

Part of what we’re looking at here is likely a result of the ongoing transition away from text and towards visual media — the shift towards a “post-literate” society spent obsessively on our screens.

The decline of reading is certainly real — in 2022 the share of Americans who reported reading a book in the past year fell below half.

That last part goes along precisely with what Tom Moore observed years ago. And from the perspective of the highly intelligent, digital media makes reading easier not harder. All of this is, of course, such lovely rosy news for an author.

Digging Holes, Filling Holes

12 Wednesday Feb 2025

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W.M. Peterson wrote what might be a very honest and helpful explanation for the Trumpening 2.0.

In his 1987 book The Art of the Deal, Donald Trump describes a stunt he pulled a few years earlier that involved deceiving Holiday Inn executives into partnering with him on the construction of a casino. Trump, who owned a strip of land along the Atlantic City boardwalk, lied when he told the hotel chain’s top brass that construction was already underway and that encouraging progress was being made. In reality ground had barely been broken at Trump’s site which, at that time, was little more than a plot of empty land. On the day the executives were scheduled to appear on-site, Trump “directed his construction manager to hire dozens of pieces of heavy equipment to move dirt around the site, digging holes and filling them back up if necessary.” “What the bulldozers and dump trucks did wasn’t important…so long as they did a lot of it,” Trump said. [Source: Business Insider, Apr. 20, 2017]

The hoodwink worked just as Trump expected, for he knew that the mere appearance of activity would be enough to persuade the hotel executives to invest in his project.

A similar trick is being played on the American people today.

Read the whole thing. As soon as he mentioned the fake construction site, I remembered the lesson from the book. Whether Peterson is right, time will tell. And whether or not, if there is a lesson to be learned here, then the ‘Murikan people will not learn whatever it is.

Brace Yourselves for Disappointment

29 Wednesday Jan 2025

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José Niño provides an unfiltered assessment of the original Trumpening and Trump 2.0.

Donald Trump vowed to end the NATO-funded proxy war in Ukraine in 24 hours. However, after threatening to further sanction Russia if it did not enter a negotiated settlement with Ukraine, Trump appears to be fine with continuing to escalate tensions with Russia. As I’ve previously documented, Trump’s track record on Russia is quite hawkish, contrary to media depictions of him as a Russian puppet. All things considered, Russo-American relations will likely remain tense.

With respect to the Middle East, Trump remains committed to defending Israel. Despite a ceasefire reached between the Israelis and Hamas, Trump has already given the green light to sending Israel thousands of 2,000-pound bombs and has apparently been in talks with Israel to resettle Palestinians into other countries such as Egypt and Jordan — ethnic cleansing by another name.

Trump’s team has also been in talks to expand the Abraham Accords, with a particular focus on normalizing relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia. Seeing through the rosy talk about heightened cooperation and moving towards a bright future, the Abraham Accords are merely a scheme to build an anti-Iran balancing coalition. Though Israel’s live-streamed genocide of the Palestinians since October 7 has horrified the Arab Street, thus making Gulf Arab leaders leery of deepening ties with the Jewish State. Nevertheless, the gaggle of neocons and Israel Firsters surrounding Trump makes a potential conflict with Iran a not-so far-fetched prospect in the next few years.

On immigration, Trump has been a mixed bag. On Day 1 he issued an executive order to get rid of birthright citizenship. Unfortunately, this measure will be tied up in the courts as a federal judge in Washington state recently blocked Trump’s order. This issue will be litigated in the courts for some time before the Supreme Court finally rules on the matter.

Read the whole thing. While it’s good to keep the hope alive, there comes a time when realism trumps fantasy and hype. Trump might be the best ‘Murica has left, but he would have been better suited for the America of 1960 or 1980. Time will tell but it looks like the writing is on the wall.

Polish Power Dive

30 Saturday Nov 2024

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Just five years ago it looked like Poland was going to break the globalist death cult. Now, under the judgment of a Sanhedrin and stupidly giving it all away, things look bleaker. I saw an article about a trial run into replacement via foreign invasion, but I didn’t have the heart to comment on it. Here’s a story about queers attacking Polish children and families in elementary schools.

Zgodnie z podstawą programową edukacji zdrowotnej już czwartoklasiści będą przekonywani w szkołach, że masturbacja jest normą w okresie dojrzewania na równi z miesiączkowaniem. Ministerstwo Edukacji Narodowej chce, żeby uczniowie szkół podstawowych uczyli się m.in. o homoseksualizmie, biseksualizmie czy transpłciowości. – To wszystko zwiększy zyski koncernów od pornograficznych po farmaceutyczne. Najwyraźniej obecny rząd będzie im bardzo użyteczny. Politycy rządzącej koalicji są zapatrzeni w te ideologie, tym samym popierając bogacenie się gigantycznego biznesu. Nie temu powinna służyć szkoła, nie na tym polega wychowanie – mówi prof. Ryszard Legutko.

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According to the core curriculum of health education, 4th graders will be convinced in schools that masturbation is the norm during puberty on an equal footing with menstruation. The Ministry of National Education wants primary school students to learn, among others on homosexuality, bisexuality or transgenderism. – This will all increase the profits of corporations from pornographic to pharmaceutical. Apparently, the current government will be very useful to them. Politicians of the ruling coalition are focused on these ideologies, thus supporting the enrichment of giant business. This is not what the school should do, this is not the education – says prof. Ryszard Legutko.

Sound familiar? The Poles are still in better shape than any Western Euro country, being roughly where the US was around 1950 – with the added terror of the devil’s rainbow. There’s still time for them to turn it around, kill their internal enemies, and resume civilized prosperity. Will they?

My Students Don’t Read

10 Thursday Oct 2024

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Vox found yet another ‘Murikan college professor who has noticed a decline in the quality of his students.

I work as a professor for a uni on the east coast of the USA. What strikes me the most is the decline in student writing and comprehension skills that is among the worst I’ve ever encountered. These are SHARP declines; I recently assigned a reading exam and I had numerous students inquire if it’s open book (?!), and I had to tell them that no, it isn’t…

My students don’t read. They expect to be able to submit assignments more than once. They were shocked at essay grades and asked if they could resubmit for higher grades. I told them, also, no. They were very surprised.

To all K-12 teachers who have gone through unfair admin demanding for higher grades, who have suffered parents screaming and yelling at them because their student didn’t perform well on an exam: I’m sorry. I work on the university level so that I wouldn’t have to deal with parents and I don’t. If students fail– and they do– I simply don’t care. At all. I don’t feel a pang of disappointment when they perform at a lower level and I keep the standard high because I expect them to rise to the occasion. What’s mind-boggling is that students DON’T EVEN TRY. At this, I also don’t care– I don’t get paid that great– but it still saddens me. Students used to be determined and the standard of learning used to be much higher. I’m sorry if you were punished for keeping your standards high. None of this is fair and the students are suffering tremendously for it.

Read Vox’s commentary too. The “old college try” must be retooled even if it means dispensing with the college part. The lower the grades, the later the hour.

To The Third World And Beyond!

12 Monday Aug 2024

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America’s engineering and general collapse woes proceed apace. No ‘Murican will go “back” to the Moon.

NASA’s inspector general has issued a damning report on Boeing’s rocket division, stating that the aerospace giant’s next-generation spacecraft is years behind schedule, significantly over budget, and built by “inexperienced technicians” led by ineffective managers.

In development since 2014, the Block 1B variant of NASA’s Space Launch System was originally scheduled to lift off as part of the agency’s Artemis II lunar flyby mission next year. The rocket’s debut has since been pushed back to the 2028 Artemis IV moon landing mission, which NASA’s Office of Inspector General warned on Thursday could be delayed even further.

Ima hazard a guess that teams who can’t weld rocket hulls together probably do no better with water treatment plants, power transmission lines, and fuel pipes.

“Inexperienced technicians led by ineffective managers” is the new slogan for ‘Murican industry! Regarding transportation in the dying GAE, it’s time to forget about rocket ships. The new focus ought to be on shoeing horses.

Usury = Murder

22 Monday Jul 2024

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Usury and the hyper-usury of Western financial capitalism kills individuals and entire societies. There is a reason why every single civilizational state that failed to periodically clear the debts and reset the economy (and to a degree, the culture) ceased to exist or fell into irrelevant decay.

Keith Woods just wrote a not-bad article about the GAE’s dollar dominance of the world. I was pleased to see he found the BOE’s 2014 paper on how fake money is magically created from nothing. He misses the point that at least half of the world has already broken with Uncle Samuel’s satanic $ystem, and how they are already doing that which he says can’t be accomplished for a long time. He is correct in that the fake, gay USD will remain a currency and it will be used in that shrinking realm of GAE control. But time is rapidly running out for that realm, especially in the GAE homeland itself.

Americans are ceasing to exist. The WSJ, which used to be a real newspaper, noticed that Americans simply do not have children anymore. One of the main reasons is that the mass financialization of the GAE economy has killed the economy and is now predictably killing the underlying society. There are other reason, most of which are related to the monetary, economic collapse, and all of them have to do with the wholesale adoption of decadent evil by the remaining ‘Muricans. Being blissfully and purposelessly unaware of reality, these failed, dying people will continue to indulge their “fur babies,” take yoga classes, get fatted, and ink on more idiotic tattoos.

The loss of dollar dominance will be and already is a very good thing for the independent traditional peoples of the world. The loss of the moronic population that tolerated the rise and murderous rampage of the failed system may, in fact, be a good thing too.

Funny Math

01 Wednesday May 2024

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I just noticed something that invalidates some figures I came out, part of a minor premise, with in February. I know what I saw then, and now, it has changed. It appears that like most other official US numbers, census metrics can no longer be trusted.

That is all. Happy Labor Day to the civilized world. Happy “Law Day” to the US captives of the money powers.