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.
On 8/21/21, I wrote, "The last American politician with any integrity was Cynthia McKinney, and they’ve chased her all the way to Bangladesh. Once disappeared, she’s never mentioned by any former colleague, such is their collective cowardice."
You're right, the US is a defeated population. Those who are not brainwashed into abject obedience censor themselves. All public figures lie, doctors kill and intellectuals don't make sense. They're all damn good actors, though, except for Biden!
She's wonderful and I'm not sure how much of the time she's in Bangladesh. Yes, she's a professor there, but you can do a lot these days via computer. She was recently interviewed (I'm sorry! I can't remember where!) and is still as sharp as ever.
Thanks for the link, Aimee. I abhor Democracy Now! and was glad to see it on Graeme MacQueen's list of "compliant leftists." It is of course the funding, it's always the funding. Just like every other institution, the money talks and the dimwits like Amy Goodman salute.
I personally think she is ideological. I think she is caught up to some degree in Jewish supremacy. I think Noam Chomsky is as well. I know him personally. I used to think he was a very principled critic of his own society, the US, but then I realized he has a very soft spot for Israel as does Amy and that his principles shifted when Jewish interests were at play. You should have seen Amy Goodman glow when she asked Noam where he would live if he didn't live in the US many years after the start of the BDS movement. He didn't need to think for a second to say Israel and then heap praise on that wonderful society.
I haven't finished the article you linked to, but now I know where at least some of the money came from! I have heard that Goodman grew up Orthodox and you don't shed that easily if it is true. And Orthodox homes are supremely anti-intellectual / anti-culture except when it comes to the Hebrew Scriptures.
Once upon a time I listened to Chomsky drone on and on, and thought I learned something. He, too, is on the list of "compliant leftists" (this term came from an FBI agent if I remember correctly), and when I read his nonsense about Russia and Ukraine I figured he had lost whatever brain power he ever had. But if one slots in the Jewish aspect it would make sense, as Ukrainian oligarchs mostly appear to be Jewish and holding dual passports. Reading Whitney Webb is making many things clear to me! As she points out, Israel is the only state to have organized crime baked into its very foundation.
I was raised wrong with no church by boomer brats. So my religion is quite catch as catch can. I do admire the Catholic Church in some ways. I don’t understand how the current Pope was chosen. Is the American CC more Catholic than the Vatican now? Did the American bishops push back against the Covid restrictions?
A Catholic layman, the late Patrick Henry Omlor, began publishing in the late '60s a series of books regarding the decimation of the Church. The books are collected in a volume entitled "The Robber Church" which can be read online. It would be futile for me to attempt to summarize it. If you, or anyone of course, has a genuine interest in why the "Catholic" church of our time is so unlike the Catholic Church prior to the '60s, Omlor's book is a very, VERY detailed resource of information. It is not an "easy" read and his intended readership was educated Catholics. But it will most certainly, in great detail, answer any questions
Very few did. The most prominent member of the clergy who pushed backed against the scam was the Italian Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, who has now been labelled a crank by the media. Quelle soooopreeze!
As for Bergoglio, he is bad news and should be dealt with in a manner befitting his malfeasance.
Protestanism has the largest following in the USA according to that bastion of accuracy Wikipedia:
With 23 percent of the United States' population as of 2018, the Catholic Church is the country's second largest religious grouping, after Protestantism, and the country's largest single church or Christian denomination where Protestantism is divided into separate denominations.[2] In a 2020 Gallup poll, 25% of Americans said they were Catholic.[3] The United States has the fourth largest Catholic population in the world, after Brazil, Mexico, and the Philippines.[4]
True, but the biggest church continues to be the Catholic one because the Protestant's have a penchant for splitting. currently, the Methodists are splitting over the rainbow religion. They are splitting down to splinters, just like the socialist groups have done. The Catholic Church remains large because part of Catholic teaching is charity. Regardless of the many problems, we are called to have humility about our own fallen state and flawed perception and to work to make change without it being at the expense of the unity of the whole Church. It is a great protection against cancel culture, but Protestantism and Judaism are both short on humility, so even as they morph into atheism, they continue to facilitate cancel culture. I think the only chance to save Western Civilization is to return to the Church and bring the Church back to its longstanding teachings.
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.
And now, most kids who could enlist, will not. See what MMA fighter Bryce Mitchell said about Ukraine. Kid has a rough Ozarks accent but speaks brilliantly to the point. And even with enlistment standards for physical fitness, IQ, and criminal records lower than they have been since Vietnam (if not ever) only one out of ten are eligible. The army was 25 thousand short of their 2022 goal for recruitment. In Ancient Rome, for the elites not to serve and eventually lead the legions, was unthinkable. For Consuls, Magistrates, and Emperors not to be military veterans, was impossible. We have a political elite of Chicken Hawks. Many with dual citizenship.
First the US introduced the mercenary army of Blackwater and the like. Now serious consideration is being given to allowing non-citizens (even the "undocumented") to enlist. Seems like we may be heading down the same road as the Romans, with the army largely populated with foreign mercenaries.
And we have the “barbarian” invasion already. Which parallels the Romans, because at first they invited in some of the Gothic tribes. Could work, as far as taking any migrants into the army, except that we have already watered down the standards, and the ethics and principles of what used to be a Republic. I imagine the training for new recruits, specifically, the absurdity of a translator trying to explain to the recruits from Central America about DEI, or about how the female soldiers who can’t literally “pull their own weight” are “contributing equally” and must be respected.
In California, these people are also being allowed to join law enforcement. As we move further into authoritarianism, groups that are poorly assimilated into the nation's society will be much more useful when the time comes to turn them loose against the general population.
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
A great set of comments! Also (see #6) the most entertaining example of dangling modifiers I've seen in a long time--it must have been a long talk indeed if he wrote a book for you during the presentation... :-)
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:
I spent eight months in black Africa during Covid, including the breakout of Omicron. There, I saw firsthand people's indifference to Jewjabs, and life was mostly normal. There was no social distancing. In Cape Town, blacks got around in tightly packed vans, and in Namibia, it was common to share your glass of homebrew with complete strangers.
In an article at Unz, I said the rest of the world could learn much from black Africans regarding Covid. This enraged Unz' Angry White Pussies, of course. They prefer to hear Anglin's joke that you can't rape a black woman because she's always ready to roll. Actually, they may not think it's a joke.
Since their behavior wasn't just repulsive but self-destructive, I had to wonder if Angry White Pussies were crypto Jews:
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.
I'm heading to Laos and will be there roughly a month. If I come back to Vietnam after that, I'll pass through Khe Sanh, where I might just linger. Had a glimpse of it 3 years ago.
Roads and food in Cambodia have improved much in the last four years, so it's not rough at all. Even in goofy Stung Treng, I've had pretty good meals, with decent breakfasts that cost just a buck. A plate of fried chicken strips with lots of mashed potato is $5. There's Beer Lao for cheap enough.
Good stuff, Linh. Nice to hear about the infrastructure improvement there. Aside from city trips to Phnom Penh and Sianoukville my last journey there was in 2010. Vung Tau is doing well. Fresh fruit and vegetables every day. I eat trứng vịt lộn a lot at lunch - my wife puts them in a healthy soup accompanied by brown rice. Take care!
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.
I’m astonished. You were teaching about our second war with Iraq? I’m a veteran. I remember the horror I felt during the long build up to the invasion. I never knew if I was talking to a rational person or not, regarding the hyped reasons for the invasion. “WMD” and “mushroom cloud”…ugh. And when were you teaching? I was in intelligence and was in the states. I had to stop reading the Army Times, as I couldn’t face the photos of our weekly casualties during our long incompetent occupation. I tried to stay busy and I tried to avoid any work involved with Iraq or Afghanistan. I know, it’s a bit cowardly, but I didn’t know how to make a proper living. (!) But where were you teaching, and what drove you away from the work?
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.
It's back breaking work, but on evenings like this as the wind howls in the chimney and the rain batters in off the North Atlantic i just go and throw some more dry turf on the fire, the fire heats the radiators, it warms the water to boiling, it dries / airs my clothes and it cooks my food. A 40kg bag of coal is now €40 euro. You can buy the same bag of coal in the North of Ireland (UK) for €20. All because of the Climate Scammers.
Man! Oh man! The world is going to hell in a fucking handcart.
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.
Hi Aimee,
On 8/21/21, I wrote, "The last American politician with any integrity was Cynthia McKinney, and they’ve chased her all the way to Bangladesh. Once disappeared, she’s never mentioned by any former colleague, such is their collective cowardice."
You're right, the US is a defeated population. Those who are not brainwashed into abject obedience censor themselves. All public figures lie, doctors kill and intellectuals don't make sense. They're all damn good actors, though, except for Biden!
Linh
I had not heard of McKinney until you wrote of her.
She's wonderful and I'm not sure how much of the time she's in Bangladesh. Yes, she's a professor there, but you can do a lot these days via computer. She was recently interviewed (I'm sorry! I can't remember where!) and is still as sharp as ever.
Thanks for the link, Aimee. I abhor Democracy Now! and was glad to see it on Graeme MacQueen's list of "compliant leftists." It is of course the funding, it's always the funding. Just like every other institution, the money talks and the dimwits like Amy Goodman salute.
I personally think she is ideological. I think she is caught up to some degree in Jewish supremacy. I think Noam Chomsky is as well. I know him personally. I used to think he was a very principled critic of his own society, the US, but then I realized he has a very soft spot for Israel as does Amy and that his principles shifted when Jewish interests were at play. You should have seen Amy Goodman glow when she asked Noam where he would live if he didn't live in the US many years after the start of the BDS movement. He didn't need to think for a second to say Israel and then heap praise on that wonderful society.
I haven't finished the article you linked to, but now I know where at least some of the money came from! I have heard that Goodman grew up Orthodox and you don't shed that easily if it is true. And Orthodox homes are supremely anti-intellectual / anti-culture except when it comes to the Hebrew Scriptures.
Once upon a time I listened to Chomsky drone on and on, and thought I learned something. He, too, is on the list of "compliant leftists" (this term came from an FBI agent if I remember correctly), and when I read his nonsense about Russia and Ukraine I figured he had lost whatever brain power he ever had. But if one slots in the Jewish aspect it would make sense, as Ukrainian oligarchs mostly appear to be Jewish and holding dual passports. Reading Whitney Webb is making many things clear to me! As she points out, Israel is the only state to have organized crime baked into its very foundation.
I was raised wrong with no church by boomer brats. So my religion is quite catch as catch can. I do admire the Catholic Church in some ways. I don’t understand how the current Pope was chosen. Is the American CC more Catholic than the Vatican now? Did the American bishops push back against the Covid restrictions?
A Catholic layman, the late Patrick Henry Omlor, began publishing in the late '60s a series of books regarding the decimation of the Church. The books are collected in a volume entitled "The Robber Church" which can be read online. It would be futile for me to attempt to summarize it. If you, or anyone of course, has a genuine interest in why the "Catholic" church of our time is so unlike the Catholic Church prior to the '60s, Omlor's book is a very, VERY detailed resource of information. It is not an "easy" read and his intended readership was educated Catholics. But it will most certainly, in great detail, answer any questions
Very few did. The most prominent member of the clergy who pushed backed against the scam was the Italian Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, who has now been labelled a crank by the media. Quelle soooopreeze!
As for Bergoglio, he is bad news and should be dealt with in a manner befitting his malfeasance.
Protestanism has the largest following in the USA according to that bastion of accuracy Wikipedia:
With 23 percent of the United States' population as of 2018, the Catholic Church is the country's second largest religious grouping, after Protestantism, and the country's largest single church or Christian denomination where Protestantism is divided into separate denominations.[2] In a 2020 Gallup poll, 25% of Americans said they were Catholic.[3] The United States has the fourth largest Catholic population in the world, after Brazil, Mexico, and the Philippines.[4]
True, but the biggest church continues to be the Catholic one because the Protestant's have a penchant for splitting. currently, the Methodists are splitting over the rainbow religion. They are splitting down to splinters, just like the socialist groups have done. The Catholic Church remains large because part of Catholic teaching is charity. Regardless of the many problems, we are called to have humility about our own fallen state and flawed perception and to work to make change without it being at the expense of the unity of the whole Church. It is a great protection against cancel culture, but Protestantism and Judaism are both short on humility, so even as they morph into atheism, they continue to facilitate cancel culture. I think the only chance to save Western Civilization is to return to the Church and bring the Church back to its longstanding teachings.
All the comments about churches: It was NEVER about God.
believe in God, NOT the church.
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.
And now, most kids who could enlist, will not. See what MMA fighter Bryce Mitchell said about Ukraine. Kid has a rough Ozarks accent but speaks brilliantly to the point. And even with enlistment standards for physical fitness, IQ, and criminal records lower than they have been since Vietnam (if not ever) only one out of ten are eligible. The army was 25 thousand short of their 2022 goal for recruitment. In Ancient Rome, for the elites not to serve and eventually lead the legions, was unthinkable. For Consuls, Magistrates, and Emperors not to be military veterans, was impossible. We have a political elite of Chicken Hawks. Many with dual citizenship.
First the US introduced the mercenary army of Blackwater and the like. Now serious consideration is being given to allowing non-citizens (even the "undocumented") to enlist. Seems like we may be heading down the same road as the Romans, with the army largely populated with foreign mercenaries.
And we have the “barbarian” invasion already. Which parallels the Romans, because at first they invited in some of the Gothic tribes. Could work, as far as taking any migrants into the army, except that we have already watered down the standards, and the ethics and principles of what used to be a Republic. I imagine the training for new recruits, specifically, the absurdity of a translator trying to explain to the recruits from Central America about DEI, or about how the female soldiers who can’t literally “pull their own weight” are “contributing equally” and must be respected.
In California, these people are also being allowed to join law enforcement. As we move further into authoritarianism, groups that are poorly assimilated into the nation's society will be much more useful when the time comes to turn them loose against the general population.
Enemies Trilogy of novels by Matt Bracken illustrates this phenomenon well.
Thanks for the cause for optimism, JustPlainBill. I'd overlooked the fact that the wars never end in victory.
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
A great set of comments! Also (see #6) the most entertaining example of dangling modifiers I've seen in a long time--it must have been a long talk indeed if he wrote a book for you during the presentation... :-)
I wish the rest of the world would stop wearing clothes that harken to US Mickey Mouse Kulture.
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 Tom,
I spent eight months in black Africa during Covid, including the breakout of Omicron. There, I saw firsthand people's indifference to Jewjabs, and life was mostly normal. There was no social distancing. In Cape Town, blacks got around in tightly packed vans, and in Namibia, it was common to share your glass of homebrew with complete strangers.
In an article at Unz, I said the rest of the world could learn much from black Africans regarding Covid. This enraged Unz' Angry White Pussies, of course. They prefer to hear Anglin's joke that you can't rape a black woman because she's always ready to roll. Actually, they may not think it's a joke.
Since their behavior wasn't just repulsive but self-destructive, I had to wonder if Angry White Pussies were crypto Jews:
https://www.unz.com/ldinh/are-angry-white-pussies-crypto-jews/
Linh
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.
Hi Matthew,
I'm heading to Laos and will be there roughly a month. If I come back to Vietnam after that, I'll pass through Khe Sanh, where I might just linger. Had a glimpse of it 3 years ago.
Roads and food in Cambodia have improved much in the last four years, so it's not rough at all. Even in goofy Stung Treng, I've had pretty good meals, with decent breakfasts that cost just a buck. A plate of fried chicken strips with lots of mashed potato is $5. There's Beer Lao for cheap enough.
Linh
Good stuff, Linh. Nice to hear about the infrastructure improvement there. Aside from city trips to Phnom Penh and Sianoukville my last journey there was in 2010. Vung Tau is doing well. Fresh fruit and vegetables every day. I eat trứng vịt lộn a lot at lunch - my wife puts them in a healthy soup accompanied by brown rice. Take care!
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.
I’m astonished. You were teaching about our second war with Iraq? I’m a veteran. I remember the horror I felt during the long build up to the invasion. I never knew if I was talking to a rational person or not, regarding the hyped reasons for the invasion. “WMD” and “mushroom cloud”…ugh. And when were you teaching? I was in intelligence and was in the states. I had to stop reading the Army Times, as I couldn’t face the photos of our weekly casualties during our long incompetent occupation. I tried to stay busy and I tried to avoid any work involved with Iraq or Afghanistan. I know, it’s a bit cowardly, but I didn’t know how to make a proper living. (!) But where were you teaching, and what drove you away from the work?
Also, if the indictment against Putin has legitimacy, then Bush, Cheney and Obama all need to be indicted!
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.
Sweden has gone to the dogs.
True. I am one of the last few who cuts and dries peat in Ireland for fuel. Lasts me one year and costs me €600.
It's back breaking work, but on evenings like this as the wind howls in the chimney and the rain batters in off the North Atlantic i just go and throw some more dry turf on the fire, the fire heats the radiators, it warms the water to boiling, it dries / airs my clothes and it cooks my food. A 40kg bag of coal is now €40 euro. You can buy the same bag of coal in the North of Ireland (UK) for €20. All because of the Climate Scammers.
Man! Oh man! The world is going to hell in a fucking handcart.