[Stung Treng, 3/20/23] In Hanoi’s Old Quarter, there are streets named Hat, Fan, Pen, Cotton, Comb and Coffin, etc. As their names indicate, each sells a particular merchandise, though much less so now, to make room for hotels, restaurants, bars and cafes.
You hurt me with laughter this time, Linh. Amy Goodman, the exceptional war propagandist certainly should be in the "Earnest Hall of Fame!" It is very nice to get your anti-Russian propaganda from someone who claims to take exception to the rulers. It is confusing. You can't be sure why you are supposed to hate the Orthodox Church in Russia after her Jewish community has been making war on it for more than a century, but how can you think to ask such a sincere looking lady any questions!! If you haven't seen Helen Buyniski's investigative piece on the rise of Democracy Now! on the backs of others at Pacifica, you might want to consider. http://helenofdestroy.com/index.php/167-what-happened-to-pacifica-the-decline-fall-of-the-people-s-radio
As for the commenters on Unz, how many are hired to be sociopaths on line? You have a target on your back as does anyone who doesn't submit to Jewish rule, so why would you think they wouldn't target your works with soulless employees of the Israel Defense Forces Unit 8200? I am not saying that Americans don't lack empathy, but most of them don't realize it in my experience. The ability to question any policy is very limited here. The speed with which the online mind controllers got the US population to claim to put concern for the people of Ukraine over their own families was lightening quick. Between the drug addiction, porn addiction, online gaming addictions and just plain social media addictions, Americans are a completely defeated people. COVID was used for the largest upward transfer of wealth ever and how many billions have gone to Ukraine with no accounting? How many for Israel every year and how many for the wars for Israel in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Sudan, Yemen...? And how many billions have Israelis been allowed to straight steal from the US? Cynthia McKinney was a lone voice calling for auditing of the Pentagon losses of trillions of dollars under comptroller Dov Zakheim just before 9/11, but those "hi]ackers" from Israel managed to change the subject with that very dramatic false flag that was used to justify universal spying and endless wars for Israel. It is pretty broken and I don't see how there is any movement on the horizon that can turn it around. It is just a question of seeking God now. When the Roman empire fell, the Church remained as an archipelago of order across an uncertain continent. The Church is much weaker and probably more compromised this time around, but it looks like they are holding it together well in the East. Now it is time for us in the West to get serious about protecting it here. Protestantism was an interesting idea, but no, man cannot be trusted to make a Church better than God can. It leads to hubris and as much splitting as with the Marxists. That is why after centuries of Protestantism, the Catholic Church is still the largest Church in the US. Time to go back to the original. God Bless, Linh. It is all we have when the mammon worshipers and degeneracy promoters bring it all down. E Michael Jones is cheerful because he knows God has it in hand. I believe he is right on this. And for every person anywhere in the world who refuses to surrender their humanity and dignity and soul, it is a victory for all of us. God Bless.
I really liked this column. As American veteran, I know I’m supposed to be bloodthirsty. But over 30 years since I got out of the army, I have become less so. I read Smedley Butler‘s book “war is a racket“. If I would’ve read that, as a young man, I would have never enlisted. he knew war, and won the medal of honor twice. Then he wrote a scathing expose and how it really is just about money. I have the bumper sticker on my vehicle, right below my veterans license plate! It’s quite a contrast, kind of like the Ying and the yang.
I rarely frequent Unz these days. I constantly add and delete websites from my “favorites” list, but Unz Review is the only one with a Comments section bad enough to cancel out whatever good there was in the content. I’d say I’m not alone there--the site’s content has slowly morphed into something that now more closely resembles the character of the Comments section, rather than attracting content that raises the level of discourse. I used to dismiss the occasional off-putting comment as an aberration, until I finally had to admit that it wasn’t as much an aberration as I thought.
So funny the way you hit the nail on the head about the “earnest” look of Rochelle Wallensky. I still cannot decide whether she is a consummate actor, or just a brain-dead and clueless member of the Donor class that really believes all this tripe and is in over her head.
The investment class always sees opportunity in new wars, and seems not to care if the US loses, since (as you say) cash will be aflowin’. That has been a reliable profit formula here in the US, especially in the modern era, given that since WWII the US has always warred against much smaller and less capable opponents. In that scenario, losing never matters, since the US just packs up and go home, leaving the hapless natives to pick up the pieces while the investment class retires to the halls of the moneychangers to count its chips. But if these people succeed in picking a modern war with Russia and/or China, that formula may no longer work so well.
And now, unrecognized by many, the US government is picking perhaps its greatest and most unusual undeclared war—this time against its own citizens. One can only hope that it loses this war just like it did so many others. But this time the losers will not be able to pack up and go home.
it was interesting to see the little boy's shirt with "louisiania" on it
2/
speaking of louises, i have been thinking recently about robert louis stevenson - author of several novels which were read by english speaking children when i was a child in the 1950s, and also of "a child's garden of verses" - he wrote in that volume
Happy Thought
The world is so full of a number of things
I am sure we should all be as happy as kings.
i say he was read by english speaking children, but wikipedia asserts that in 2018 he was ranked as the 26th most translated author in the world, just behind charles dickens, according to unesco data
the top 10
agatha christie
jules verne
william shakespeare
enid blyton
barbara cartland
danielle steel
vladimir lenin
hans christian andersen
jacob grimm
3/
in his last years living in samoa stevenson shocked his readers by his faithful depiction of imperialism in action
4/
we think of trickery, theft, and mass murder as unpleasant, of course, yet i wonder if we fully appreciate how much they are a necessary part of the processes of history - as paleontologist and jesuit priest pierre teilhard de chardin put it, "human evolution is like the way of the cross" - it is a lucky person who escapes torture, and no one here gets out alive
5/
i have read that there is such a thing as destiny - but continue with your own plans, and if they are in accordance with destiny you may reap a rich reward
i have also read - you really own only those things which would be safe in a shipwreck
6/
you write of "jewjabs" - i had the occasion to attend a speech by jonas salk, developer of the first polio vaccine, and he inscribed a book he had written for me at the talk - this was on may 5, 1984 - the book was "Anatomy of Reality: Merging of Intuition and Reason" - the inscription was "Another view of reality - with hopes" - he was 69 at that time, and died 11 years later - a revised and updated book with his son, published in 2018, is titled "A New Reality: Human Evolution for a Sustainable Future" - i hope to read it soon, and perhaps be less pessimistic if possible
Commenters at UR, in particular at Sailer's and Derbyshire's blogs, like to make fun of Black people as dumb, but this black brother below confronting Fauci seems smarter than both Sailer and Derb, who took all boosters and even recommended them to their commenters, because they were afraid of Covid:
Hi Linh, I'm pleased you are so prolific with the articles these days. I confess I can't keep up. The theme of war is presented in this essay and it has become clear that war today is between the very rich and the rest of us. How should we feel when our friends and family struggle to build their lives in service to an evil system designed to enslave them? Are they responsible for perpetuating that evil when they don't realize its nature? Will they ever realize its nature, or are they permanently indoctrinated?
I hope you can get back to Vietnam soon and we can resume this discussion in person. I live vicariously through your views and through the various articles, podcasts, videos of people who see current events clearly. I don't know anyone in person who admits to the evil of the system.
Take care of your health and diet, Linh. Cambodia is not an easy place to travel.
When I was still permitted to teach in the US, I'd tell the students about the Iraq “war” - that is, the illegal invasion, as if any international law means a thing to the US. Hopefully there would be a veteran among the students because the young ones hadn't a clue. They thought the war was being fought by two opposing militaries and the battles fought out in some unpopulated hillside, away from the citizens, like the US Revolutionary war reenactments. If not for the veterans, they would not have believed me.
This is a George Galloway interviewing LowKey the Iraqi Rapper. Man, this man has the details of American crimes along with all the others that profited.
i remember the little boy who lost his arms and legs and think about him often. I would like to know his name but it is difficult to find. i wonder what happened to him. how and where does the karma attached to this resolve.
I live in Sweden and we rent our appartment and luckily that means districtic heating and not having to worry over loans so we havent been as screwed as people i know who live in houses. I'm on top for once.
You hurt me with laughter this time, Linh. Amy Goodman, the exceptional war propagandist certainly should be in the "Earnest Hall of Fame!" It is very nice to get your anti-Russian propaganda from someone who claims to take exception to the rulers. It is confusing. You can't be sure why you are supposed to hate the Orthodox Church in Russia after her Jewish community has been making war on it for more than a century, but how can you think to ask such a sincere looking lady any questions!! If you haven't seen Helen Buyniski's investigative piece on the rise of Democracy Now! on the backs of others at Pacifica, you might want to consider. http://helenofdestroy.com/index.php/167-what-happened-to-pacifica-the-decline-fall-of-the-people-s-radio
As for the commenters on Unz, how many are hired to be sociopaths on line? You have a target on your back as does anyone who doesn't submit to Jewish rule, so why would you think they wouldn't target your works with soulless employees of the Israel Defense Forces Unit 8200? I am not saying that Americans don't lack empathy, but most of them don't realize it in my experience. The ability to question any policy is very limited here. The speed with which the online mind controllers got the US population to claim to put concern for the people of Ukraine over their own families was lightening quick. Between the drug addiction, porn addiction, online gaming addictions and just plain social media addictions, Americans are a completely defeated people. COVID was used for the largest upward transfer of wealth ever and how many billions have gone to Ukraine with no accounting? How many for Israel every year and how many for the wars for Israel in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Sudan, Yemen...? And how many billions have Israelis been allowed to straight steal from the US? Cynthia McKinney was a lone voice calling for auditing of the Pentagon losses of trillions of dollars under comptroller Dov Zakheim just before 9/11, but those "hi]ackers" from Israel managed to change the subject with that very dramatic false flag that was used to justify universal spying and endless wars for Israel. It is pretty broken and I don't see how there is any movement on the horizon that can turn it around. It is just a question of seeking God now. When the Roman empire fell, the Church remained as an archipelago of order across an uncertain continent. The Church is much weaker and probably more compromised this time around, but it looks like they are holding it together well in the East. Now it is time for us in the West to get serious about protecting it here. Protestantism was an interesting idea, but no, man cannot be trusted to make a Church better than God can. It leads to hubris and as much splitting as with the Marxists. That is why after centuries of Protestantism, the Catholic Church is still the largest Church in the US. Time to go back to the original. God Bless, Linh. It is all we have when the mammon worshipers and degeneracy promoters bring it all down. E Michael Jones is cheerful because he knows God has it in hand. I believe he is right on this. And for every person anywhere in the world who refuses to surrender their humanity and dignity and soul, it is a victory for all of us. God Bless.
I really liked this column. As American veteran, I know I’m supposed to be bloodthirsty. But over 30 years since I got out of the army, I have become less so. I read Smedley Butler‘s book “war is a racket“. If I would’ve read that, as a young man, I would have never enlisted. he knew war, and won the medal of honor twice. Then he wrote a scathing expose and how it really is just about money. I have the bumper sticker on my vehicle, right below my veterans license plate! It’s quite a contrast, kind of like the Ying and the yang.
I rarely frequent Unz these days. I constantly add and delete websites from my “favorites” list, but Unz Review is the only one with a Comments section bad enough to cancel out whatever good there was in the content. I’d say I’m not alone there--the site’s content has slowly morphed into something that now more closely resembles the character of the Comments section, rather than attracting content that raises the level of discourse. I used to dismiss the occasional off-putting comment as an aberration, until I finally had to admit that it wasn’t as much an aberration as I thought.
So funny the way you hit the nail on the head about the “earnest” look of Rochelle Wallensky. I still cannot decide whether she is a consummate actor, or just a brain-dead and clueless member of the Donor class that really believes all this tripe and is in over her head.
The investment class always sees opportunity in new wars, and seems not to care if the US loses, since (as you say) cash will be aflowin’. That has been a reliable profit formula here in the US, especially in the modern era, given that since WWII the US has always warred against much smaller and less capable opponents. In that scenario, losing never matters, since the US just packs up and go home, leaving the hapless natives to pick up the pieces while the investment class retires to the halls of the moneychangers to count its chips. But if these people succeed in picking a modern war with Russia and/or China, that formula may no longer work so well.
And now, unrecognized by many, the US government is picking perhaps its greatest and most unusual undeclared war—this time against its own citizens. One can only hope that it loses this war just like it did so many others. But this time the losers will not be able to pack up and go home.
1/
it was interesting to see the little boy's shirt with "louisiania" on it
2/
speaking of louises, i have been thinking recently about robert louis stevenson - author of several novels which were read by english speaking children when i was a child in the 1950s, and also of "a child's garden of verses" - he wrote in that volume
Happy Thought
The world is so full of a number of things
I am sure we should all be as happy as kings.
i say he was read by english speaking children, but wikipedia asserts that in 2018 he was ranked as the 26th most translated author in the world, just behind charles dickens, according to unesco data
the top 10
agatha christie
jules verne
william shakespeare
enid blyton
barbara cartland
danielle steel
vladimir lenin
hans christian andersen
jacob grimm
3/
in his last years living in samoa stevenson shocked his readers by his faithful depiction of imperialism in action
4/
we think of trickery, theft, and mass murder as unpleasant, of course, yet i wonder if we fully appreciate how much they are a necessary part of the processes of history - as paleontologist and jesuit priest pierre teilhard de chardin put it, "human evolution is like the way of the cross" - it is a lucky person who escapes torture, and no one here gets out alive
5/
i have read that there is such a thing as destiny - but continue with your own plans, and if they are in accordance with destiny you may reap a rich reward
i have also read - you really own only those things which would be safe in a shipwreck
6/
you write of "jewjabs" - i had the occasion to attend a speech by jonas salk, developer of the first polio vaccine, and he inscribed a book he had written for me at the talk - this was on may 5, 1984 - the book was "Anatomy of Reality: Merging of Intuition and Reason" - the inscription was "Another view of reality - with hopes" - he was 69 at that time, and died 11 years later - a revised and updated book with his son, published in 2018, is titled "A New Reality: Human Evolution for a Sustainable Future" - i hope to read it soon, and perhaps be less pessimistic if possible
Commenters at UR, in particular at Sailer's and Derbyshire's blogs, like to make fun of Black people as dumb, but this black brother below confronting Fauci seems smarter than both Sailer and Derb, who took all boosters and even recommended them to their commenters, because they were afraid of Covid:
https://twitter.com/WorldWarWang/status/1638217900258639872
Hi Linh, I'm pleased you are so prolific with the articles these days. I confess I can't keep up. The theme of war is presented in this essay and it has become clear that war today is between the very rich and the rest of us. How should we feel when our friends and family struggle to build their lives in service to an evil system designed to enslave them? Are they responsible for perpetuating that evil when they don't realize its nature? Will they ever realize its nature, or are they permanently indoctrinated?
I hope you can get back to Vietnam soon and we can resume this discussion in person. I live vicariously through your views and through the various articles, podcasts, videos of people who see current events clearly. I don't know anyone in person who admits to the evil of the system.
Take care of your health and diet, Linh. Cambodia is not an easy place to travel.
When I was still permitted to teach in the US, I'd tell the students about the Iraq “war” - that is, the illegal invasion, as if any international law means a thing to the US. Hopefully there would be a veteran among the students because the young ones hadn't a clue. They thought the war was being fought by two opposing militaries and the battles fought out in some unpopulated hillside, away from the citizens, like the US Revolutionary war reenactments. If not for the veterans, they would not have believed me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLBe1rHtI5s
This is a George Galloway interviewing LowKey the Iraqi Rapper. Man, this man has the details of American crimes along with all the others that profited.
i remember the little boy who lost his arms and legs and think about him often. I would like to know his name but it is difficult to find. i wonder what happened to him. how and where does the karma attached to this resolve.
I live in Sweden and we rent our appartment and luckily that means districtic heating and not having to worry over loans so we havent been as screwed as people i know who live in houses. I'm on top for once.